I recall the instructions from my memory on the cultivation technique for the procedure of soul splitting. The procedure after entering the Soul Realm is to observe and estimate the condition of the Soul. The next step is to integrate the consciousness with the refined energy in the body. Since the soul splitting process is a risky process, safe guards have to be placed to protect the fragility of the soul in case the Soul cannot handle the splitting process.

Accumulate the energy in to the consciousness and form a protective barrier around the Soul to increase the stability. Even though the splitting can be done through brute force, energy guided splitting will provide maximum efficiency but it will be a huge burden on the body. The two safe guards to protect the fragile Soul from harm during the process of splitting are as above.

I immediately erect a barrier around my Soul and guide my energy to split a part of Soul from the original. The instant the energy try to split my Soul, an intense wave of pain rush through my body. But I was prepared for it and somehow bore through it. Finally the tear shaped soul split into 2 parts. The smaller part started rotating around itself and revolving around the bigger part. They looked just like Earth and Moon.

Azalon stayed in the Soul Realm for a complete before his body finally reached its limits. Even though his Soul was strong, it could not stand the burden of being split continuously. After a day, he has split the Soul into 15 parts, with 43 times remaining. He could sense the increase in his absorption of the energy as well as the speed of refining the energy. But he did not start cultivating immediately because the stability of the soul is linked with the cultivation level.

If he starts cultivating with the current 15 soul fragments, he can break through the lower Realms easily. But once he reaches the higher Realms, he cannot advance in the soul fragmentation that easily because the soul will become extremely stable which makes it hard to split. So he decided to first reach the decided number of soul fragments. Even though with his current strength, he cannot completely stabilize the large number of soul fragments, but once he reaches the higher Realms, all the soul fragments can be stabilized easily.

This way is safer as well as fast. I immediately fall asleep again, but this time it is due to mental fatigue instead of physical exhaustion. I wake up after 8 hours with a light head ache. I immediately enter the Soul Realm again and start splitting the soul. This time it went a little fast and smooth as I understood the procedure on the splitting of the soul. I managed to increase the number of soul fragments to 40 before I fell unconscious due to the mental strain.

After 3 days, I finally divided the soul into 57 fragments. A cluster of soul fragments are moving around in the Soul Realm. As the 57th fragment appeared, the Soul started showing signs of instability. But I had confidence that I can divide the soul once more, before reaching the limit. I strengthen the barrier around the Soul and even feed the soul with energy before taking the final step.

After somewhat stabilizing the Soul. I guided the energy to divide it again. This time, the Soul quivered violently ass it was split. Even the fragments started behaving radically. I grit my teeth pushing the exhaustion aside and guide all the energy remaining in my body to the Soul Realm. After absorbing the energy, the soul fragments somewhat stabilize themselves as I fall unconscious again.

Because of that I could not see the changes appearing in the Soul Realm. The main soul in the middle of the soul fragments stopped moving. 9 different colors appeared on it and of which 8 of them started pulsing in different rhythms. In response to those pulses, the fragments divided into 7 groups of 8 soul fragments each and the remaining somewhat bigger soul fragment stood individually.

8 lights brightly flashed from the main Soul. 7 lights divided among the 7 groups of soul fragments and the remaining light integrated into the lone soul fragment. The bigger lone fragment moved towards the main Soul which flashed with a silvery gold light and both started revolving around each other. The 7 groups of soul fragments arranged themselves into 7 circles and they started revolving around the pair of bigger soul and main soul in 7 different directions. The resulting arrangement is like a big gyroscope with 7 different axes.

If Azalon could see this arrangement, he would have understood the answer to where the energy was disappearing to. But since the soul has been stretched to the limit, he cannot access the Soul Realm until he stabilizes all the soul fragments. That will take more time than expected and the reason is the same as above. The soul has been stretched to the limit and the recovery of the Soul is not something that can be achieved in day or two. It is a very slow process and the energy requirement is large as the damage is large too.

I realize this only after a long time and by then I would have figured out most of the answers too. That is for another time.

I wake up with a heavy head as if it is filled with lead. I try to check the condition of the Soul, but no matter how much I concentrate, I can’t enter the Soul Realm. I could not think of a reason as to why I cannot do it. So I give up on thinking about it as it is something that cannot be answered with the modern scientific knowledge.

But I knew I have succeeded in splitting the Soul into the maximum number of fragments achievable. That should speed up my cultivation capacity and refining speed by leaps and bounds. I immediately enter the state of cultivation and absorb the energy into my body.

This time something unexpected happened. All these days, every time I absorb the energy into my body, it divides in to 10 parts and 9 parts used to disappear. I finally found out about LILY but no matter what, I could do nothing about the 8 parts that disappear. But this time, the energy did not disappear. The entire energy which I absorbed stayed within my body.

I was once again dumbstruck. Just what the F*** is going on in my body? I calm down with some effort. If the energy is not absorbed, maybe a change has happened in my body. If I can find it, I could understand the reason behind why the energy used to disappear all these days. I explore every part of my body inside out, but nothing has changed aside from a small red flower tattoo at the base of my Spinal cord. I ruled out that as the reason, as the disappearance started way back to when my father first injected me with his energy, when I was 5 months old.

I checked and re checked. But nothing appeared different. I could only sigh hopelessly and fell somewhat happy that I now have more than enough energy to break through to the First Realm of Spirit Cultivation.

I quickly try to refine that energy. I was astonished at the speed and capacity of the technique. It used to take around 1 hour to refine the energy which used to remain in my body, but using this Soul Resonance technique, it took just 15 minutes and that too not a part of energy, but my complete capacity of energy. A high level technique indeed…

I rotate the refined energy along my Spirit veins for a complete rotation all over the body, before finally guiding to my Dantian for storing instead of recharging LILY. I decided to reach the first level of Spirit cultivation within these 10 days, after which I will divide the energy between LILY and my cultivation so as to slowly advance through the Realms.

The energy started moving towards my Dantian and started forming a small whirlpool. More and more energy got accumulated into the whirlpool, and at a point it reached its capacity. I felt I was on the verge of breakthrough…