Chapter 184
Soul Jamming
For the next three hours, Chu Shen practiced looking at fine threads of soul power. He did this by having Aslo create small amounts of fire such as the fireball or a tiny flame. It was similar to trying to watch a fly when it flew past.
The soul threads whizzed through the body. Chu Shen had to concentrate intensely in order to see the soul power. They were also very small. Before, Chu Shen had likened it to a rope. However, their real size was more like a hair. It was exceedingly tedious to look for the hairs without stopping and staring.
Unfortunately, Master Ti Wu didn’t give him time to stop and look. Instead, Chu Shen had to find the threads while running or sparring with Aslo. “The point of this is to train you to find the soul threads even while fighting. Otherwise it’s meaningless to teach you anything else.”
Finally, Chu Shen had learned how to find even the smallest thread of soul power while fighting Aslo. When that happened, Master Ti Wu decided to move to the second part of the training. “Now you need to learn how to disrupt the flow of soul energy. First, bring out your soul domain. Find the soul energy inside it.”
Ch Shen concentrated before a galaxy appeared in front of him. Now that he knew what he was looking for, Chu Shen attempted to find it. What he saw astonished him. Each star was filled with soul power! “This, this is incredible!” Chu Shen exclaimed as he came to this realization.
Master Ti Wu nodded. “That is why I had you form so many stars. Each star is a condensed form of soul energy. Only Universe realm cultivators can temper their soul energy in this manner. Now, try and use your soul energy to interfere with Aslo’s. Aslo, go ahead and form a fireball.”
Aslo nodded as he started creating one. The soul energy collected his mana and flowed to his palms. The soul energy created a spherical cage with the mana inside.
Chu Shen didn’t know what to do and panicked. Remembering that the stars were bundles of spirit energy, Chu Shen tried to move one towards Lucas. The star blew up and turned into gray mist that he had first created the star out of.
Using the gray mist like he used his Qi, Chu Shen created a hammer out of the energy. Manipulating the hammer, Chu Shen was able to fling it at the spherical cage right as it was forming. The spherical cage broke and the mana inside flew out of control.
Aslo had a grin on his face as he started to create a fireball. He could feel the warmth of his mana surge on his hand. For a brief instant, his fire flickered into being. Then, it all went wrong.
The fireball had just formed when Aslo felt his control suddenly slip. The entire ma.s.s of energy exploded right above his hand. If it wasn’t because of his strong body from being a fighter, he would have burned his hand off. Such a weak spell such as this fireball wasn’t capable of hurting him but it did scare him.
He stared at Chu Shen. “Just how did you do that?”
Chu Shen stared back. “Haven’t you been listening? This is the whole point of my training, to interfere with other people’s abilities.”
Aslo shook his head. “I’ve been admiring the view honestly. You two have been talking for so long and it’s been so boring. I just tuned you both out.”
Chu Shen facepalmed. “Well I’m not going to explain it. Just do what Master Ti Wu tells you alright?”
“Fine.”
Master Ti Wu shook his head. “Listen brat. You are on the right track but you’re wrong. The soul energy emitted by your entire galaxy is enough to disrupt any low level attack. If you concentrate that soul energy you can disperse some strong attacks. Blowing up a star isn’t the answer. It’ll be important later but not now. ”
Chu Shen looked down ashamed. Master Ti Wu sighed. “Use the energy from the star to recreate it. This should be fairly easy.” Chu Shen did as he was told and the star soon flared to life.
Chu Shen went back to his training. This time he tried to sense the energy being emitted from his galaxy. When Aslo tried to form his fireball, he moved his galaxy over Aslo. The mere presence of his soul energy disrupted Aslo’s own. It was like trying to use a squirt gun while being in a whirlpool. It would simply dissolve into the whirlpool’s power.
For the next four hours, Chu Shen constantly disrupted various level spells as Lucas went to cast them. Chu Shen learned how to manipulate his galaxy’s energy into concentrated fields that disrupted stronger spells.
By the end of the training, Aslo looked like a mess. His clothes had holes in it, his hair was smoldering and charred. The constant explosions of his spells backfiring had taken a toll on him.
Aslo threw up his hands. “That’s it! I’m not doing this anymore! If you wanted a punching bag then ask Lucas. He can’t feel anything anyways!”
Chu Shen shook his head. “Lucas can feel things. Besides, you already helped me this much. The next thing is me disrupting your domain. When I’ve done that, then Master Ti Wu said I’ll have accomplished my training for today.”
Aslo sighed. “Fine, but you owe me.”
Aslo concentrated before releasing a surge of heat from his body. The air around him shimmered as flames appeared around him. From all appearances, Aslo had turned into a giant fireball.
To Chu Shen, there was a different look. Like an explosion, threads of soul energy shot out of Aslo’s body. They carried with them the fire attribute Qi of Aslo. These threads criss-crossed throughout the entire domain before seeming to hit an invisible barrier.
Upon hitting this barrier, the threads spread out before creating a wall of threads. An insane amount of soul threads densely packed the inside of the barrier. Chu Shen didn’t even know where to begin. Before, he had merely destroyed the containment of Aslo’s spells. This time, he wasn’t sure if it would work.
Chu Shen attempted to use his soul energy to disrupt Lucas’ domain like before. Unfortunately, it didn’t have the desired effect. The soul energy dimmed and lost control over some of the fire Qi. The flames that composed Aslo’s domain light up for a second before dimming. It was obvious that
Chu Shen then recalled what Master Ti Wu had said before. Taking another approach, Chu Shen manipulated the entire galaxy into the middle of Aslo’s domain. He immediately blew up over a million stars at once, causing a ma.s.sive explosion. This explosion only affected the soul threads and the explosion ripped through them like wooden boards in front of a black belt.
An invisible wind seemed to originate around Aslo. The flames comprising his domain disappeared in small circle around him. The circle grew rapidly until his entire domain was gone. Chu Shen then reformed his million stars.
Master Ti Wu shook his head. “Using the energy from your destroyed stars is the only way to break a domain. However, only using ten thousand stars would have been enough. You wasted a lot of energy from that move.”
“It appears, as though you still need more training.”