The next day Bu Fan came and picked up Xing Jun as promised and secretly brought him to a cave in the Demon Hill Valley. The cave was originally hidden with an illusion array covering it but Bu Fan knows the location and holds the array code to open the entrance."Remember protect her," Jun said as he walks toward the cave.
"I will Young master," Bu Fan respectfully.
As Jun got closer and closer to the cave he felt his blood boil. Every cell in his body felt an indescribable excitement. He pa.s.sed through the forcefield formation placed in the doorway. Immediately he disappeared from the location and reappears in a dark cold room.
Whoosh!
A blast of light flashed through the cave and the whole room lit up. In the room stood a two statues. One was a humanoid dragon and the other was a heroic looking male. The dragon"s eyes were closed but his powerful body made him look like heaven wreaking individual. While the felt invisible like was a observer. Jun thought that the man resembled his father a bit. Between them was a laptop.
"…" Jun thought. Cultivation manual in laptop? Jun thought to himself. He felt a little dumb because he was expecting a book or a manual looking object and maybe even a talisman like object but no its a laptop. From where he stood to the laptop was about 100 to 150 steps.
Jun placed the backpack he was wearing onto the ground then walked towards the laptop. As he walked over he felt a weak pressure being pressed all over his body. Every step he took the pressure grew stronger and stronger. Is this pressure on my soul or physical body? Jun wondered.
At the 50th step he felt like gravity increased by 10 times on his body.
51st step the pressure increases.
At the 80th step he felt like gravity was 20 times what it was usually was. Not only that but the pressure on his soul was just as great if not greater.
Taking this pressure in Jun set down to meditate. Using the pressure from the cave he began to temper his King realm soul. The pressure were like hammers wailing down on his body. Sharp pain stretched throughout his soul that even reached his physical body as sweat pours down.
His teeth clinched together hard as his body was in an extremely stressful and tense situation. HIs soul continued to get hammered and hammered. 1 minute felt like a year, but Jun persisted on. His mind kept saying 1 more minute. I"ll hold on for 1 more minute. That one minute turn into 2 then 3, then 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and as time when on the pressure decreased. He even felt that his body which has lose all his cultivation was getting stronger.
Jun opens his eyes and there was a huge puddle of sweat around him. His body and mind both felt tired. He decided to take take break and back toward the entrance. He picked up his backpack and brought out a bottle of water and some food. Taking a couple minutes to chew down an energy bar and chug a gallon on water he set back down to meditate what just happened.
"ARGH!" Jun screamed as he felt his meridians points sent a scorching hot pain through his body. While he meditated he accidentally activated his some qi and that caused a scorching pain across his chest and broken dantian.
After resting for a bit Jun got up and continued towards the laptop. This time he managed to reach 115 steps because consolidating and training his soul again. This process was repeated over and over until he reached the laptop. Normally a person would not have been able to repeatedly temper his soul like that even if he or she was in the King"s realm never mind Jun who lost his cultivation base and can"t use qi to help his soul. But for some reason as he cultivated the Enlightened Soul Manual given to him by Xintong his soul was being constantly reinforced as the pressure pounded at him. It can only be said that this Soul cultivation manual was heaven defying. His King realm soul that was 10 feet tall before was reduced to 6 feet. It"s strength and power however tripled without even raising in rank.
Souls strength in each tier is divided into lower, middle, upper, and pinnacle. Jun"s soul was still at the lower rank but was comparable to middle rank as of now. This is because his soul energy didn"t increase in size but rather condensed for it to become even stronger.
Once Jun reached the laptop he was drenched from head to toe but he had a stupidly wide smile on his face because he could feel that his strength has increased substantially. It might not be as strong as before but it was definitely two to three times stronger than 3 hours ago. If other cultivators were to learn that he double to triple his strength in three hours they would definitely cry or kill themselves on the spot.
When he reached the laptop the two statues eyes opened. The dragon opens his eyes and it was very similar to Jun"s Heaven and Earth eyes except for the pupil it was a double layered triangle that looked like a clenched claw with a circle in the middle. Also there were pupil like circle on each of its" three sides. The moment he open his eyes Jun felt like the world was ending. Not only that but he also felt like a primordial beast staring down at him and see through him like he was naked.
When the man opened his eyes opens his eyes his eye shape were normal but it gave off a warmth like kindness that combated the intense pressure from the dragon. While it gave off that warmth Jun still felt naked before the two statues.
"Welcome my descendent," the two spoke in unison. Then the man spoke, "if you pa.s.sed the first test on soul strength then that means you have the ability to cultivate in the Black Empyrean and White Fiend-G.o.d technique. It is a training method or cultivation manual that was made through the combined efforts of Brother Long and I. Only those with brother dragon"s, and my blood can train in it. We originally created this manual for our descendants to train but alas due to the strength and difficulties of this manual not everyone can train in it. Even for those who can they might not be able to overcome some of the difficulties."
"Your human bloodline is way too weak to cultivate this technique if not for my dragon clan having such a low birth rate I wouldn"t even bother with this," the dragon grunts.
"Brother Long we human are not the same as you," the man laughed heartily.
"So elders may I know who you two are?" Jun asks.
"You can call me Tian Huang," Tian Huang smiles.
"Long Bai," the dragon grunts again.
"Descendent Xing Jun greets ancestor Tian and ancestor Long," Jun said respectfully and knelt down on knee to show his respect.
"Good boy," laughs Tian Huang heartily. "I won"t say anymore more about this technique until you pa.s.s my final test."
The dragon gave a slight smirk. "His body"s cultivation is gone. His soul might be strong but his cultivation is gone. He is bound to be plagued with inner demons do you really believe he will pa.s.s this test? If it goes wrong he will be traumatized for life." Long Bai warns.
Jun was taken aback because while the dragon appears cold on the outside he was quite warm on the inside to have said all that.
"All life under the heaven has its" destiny. We cultivator train to severe that destiny. Whether he pa.s.s or fails that will depend on him. He has come this far thus he must have goal in mind. We are but fragments of souls here."
"Ancestor Tian and Ancestor Long I descendent Xing Jun am willing to take the test if it means being able to defy the heavens again."
"Very well we shall begin," he said with a smile and snaps his fingers.
Jun began to feel dizzy and confused. The world began spinning and he can"t even look straight ahead.
He felt like puking all over but then he blacked out.
Jun woke up the next day in his bed. His original room with his memories intact.
"Why am I here? I thought I stormed out angrily," Jun mutters to himself. My cultivation is still gone. "Does that mean I failed the test and my memories from that event got erased?"