Spiritual Seed Awakening 18 Chapter 18: Risk, And Reward

" You are my inheritor. I could sense your soul was strong enough to carry my will the moment you entered my dwelling. I leave you with my remaining possessions, as well as two secret arts. You now know my life and situation. I will not mince words, I have left a seal on your soul. It will not cause you any harm unless you betray your promise to me. You must get revenge for me. I care nothing for the possible remains of my clan. You must feed the seal dragon blood to quell it. In return, it will grant you to my mother's clan spells. I know you are weak now, but in time you must kill the dragon king. When you accomplish my goal, the final seal in the on ring will break. My final two gifts to you are one are "trust no one", and "a smart warrior knows when to bow, and when to strike". The seal on your soul will become dormant when you accomplish your goal, but to be truly free, find one worthy to inherit my bloodline. I leave you one warning, practice well, the weak to do not live long."

The message was rather short but I think that was just how she was. I understand her I think. The remains of her clan are all traitors, but she only wants restart her clan when the dragon king is dead. So they will they be safe.

So she was strong enough to know I could carry her will? Why did I take the risk in the first place? Maybe it was her doing since she was strong enough to place this soul binding mark. I think back and feel odd about the entire experience.

I think I normally would have waited, but I did not lose out in this exchange. I have learned the blood ceremony, the dance that should teach me footwork when I get some feet, the ring, the fan, the hairpin, robe, and two secret arts. What do the dead need for clothes?

I head over to the bones. They are mostly why I came here. I try biting bound on a leg bone with my second body. It's harder than steel. Extracting the poison is not going to happen anytime soon if I can't simply break them. I have ways of extracting the poison though.

I head over to the ring. I remember breaking the blood binding on it, and that's how she got access to it. That was broken long ago. She placed her own seals in it. She gave me access to it, but I can feel the blood binding. I now know she did not break it but receive its recognition.

I use my soul to place down a marker on it as she had done. She did this before when she broke blood binding seal. I use my soul threads to form the same seal she did. I start drawing the seal she made. My soul threads bending at all kinds of angles. Always making sure not to mess up. The seal is complex and pushed my soul to its limit. It's similar to painting with only one brush stroke.

I know she would not have struggled this hard, but she had the key already with her being her bloodline. While I have to struggle to draw a masterpiece from memory. Of course, I mess up right before I finish, and keep messing up fifteen more times. I figure out after doing the process many times it would be much harder if I did not have the seal on my soul.

It's like the ring recognizes me as her student. The difficulty setting is hard, but not impossible. She must have left this behind to teach me about soul manipulation. The process was long but taught me a lot. I increased my control by a good amount. After the seal is placed on the ring. It becomes an extension of my body. I remember her pulling things from her ring. She only had to focus, and then she could see the inside of the ring. I use my soul to look inside of the ring and am met with thirteen layers of seals. I can only access the first layer after leaving my own mark.

It looks rather crude in comparison to her seals. I must further refine this ring after I leave this place, and work on my own seals. I was thinking this would look like the empty s.p.a.ce like voids I read about where things just float. I never saw her look inside the ring, she just thought and it apeared. I am nkg at her level. what I do see shocks me. This is like some waiting room in an alternative medicine store.

There are shelves lining the walls. The floor is jet black. There is only a prayer mat on the floor. s.p.a.ce is small but does not leave one feeling claustrophobic. I check a few shelves, but they are all empty. I do manage to find a few seeds after what feels like an hour of searching. I read the labels, and the names seem to suggest this place was used as herb storage. I guess her doctor ancestor would need herbs more often them money. In two of the shelves, I find more seeds. They seem to have little vitality left.

I look around and find a scroll in a larger shelf. I unroll the scroll, and see the t.i.tle of the writing is "The low tier herb encyclopedia ". It has a list of plants, their trait, growing requirements, preferred environments, and their uses. The scroll even has a few potions that how beginner alchemist can make. I give the catalog a short over look. It is good to know, but useless at the moment.

I shelve it for now. I need to find those two secret arts. I keep looking through shelves. There are hundreds of varying sizes. Some shelves the size of a fist, other the size of a person, but these are few in number. I manage to find what I was looking for after going through most of them.

There are two crystals shards that seem to look ordinary unless I use my soul to exam them closer. The crystal shards are similar to memory flowers I read about them in the low-grade plant encyclopedia. They can show a moment in time, the only difference is the shards do not die without moonlight.

The shards also not require blood to activate, but they are similar to the memory flower in these shards can only record one moment in time once. These two shards each hold a secret art. I use my soul to examine the first shard, and I am met with a scene of hemlock practicing The Night Lotus Mantra.

It's unlike any cultivation art I have found. This does not only draw qi towards me, but it allows me to use it externally. I learn a lot. I have since learned it's not called manna but qi. I don't care though, manna is manna to me. I'm excited to finally have a teacher, I've been wondering in the dark for so long. Now I have a proper way to make myself stronger.

I examine the art and notice it's much easier for me than the corpse snake cultivation or corpse worm cultivation in my second body. I have my second body practice while I have my main body observe in case this is some kind of trick.
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The soul binding should be enough in case she tries posing that body. After looking it over, I think the secret arts should be fine. The unique aspect of this art is that's it's not creature specific. What I mean by this is a human could not use the worm cultivation art. It would cause much more than good. My worm body could cultivate the snake cultivation but a side effect was receiving snake features. I a.s.sume the same would happen if a human were to use my cultivation methods.

My main body draws qi into its body just like hemlock. Plant, human, or bear person drawing qi seems universal. This method feels so natural while using it in a different body. l only just started the Night Lotus Mantra, yet it does not feel any different than using the worm cultivation method in smoothness. It does not feel odd. Once I start it's almost like the art is on autopilot. The Night Lotus Mantra secret art is a technique to restrain both souls and qi of the user. It also had the added benefit of allowing me to mimic night lotus qi. It's a wood yin secret art. I learned about the five basic elements when reading the plant encyclopedia introduction, but it did not seem that relevant since I was not going to be exploring for a while. There are four basic Elements in this world. There is water, fire, wind, and ground. They create a balance in this world. I think I am a yin wood plant seed. The encyclopedia says that the wood elements are a combination of water and ground. There is also yin and yang. I am not a yang plant since they seem reliant on solar energy. Thus giving them more yang or heat energy. I have never seen the sun in this world, so I must be yin, or have colder nature.

The night lotus is also a yin wood plant. It grows absorbing moonlight, and its natural defense is camouflage. My seed coat seems to have some of the camouflage capability, but it's nothing compared to the night lotus. There seem to be alot of moonlight based dependent plants in this scroll, but I think that's be because her ancestors were moonlight bears. They had more need for moonlight based plants.

Anyway, I can make myself invisible if I keep practicing it from sight, and soul. I can also pretend to be a night lotus is necessary. It also has a set of needle attacks that accompany it I discover. The set of needle attacks mimic the needle stikes of the moon lotus.

I can see a moonlight lotus in the crystal. It's a small lotus that floats above the water of a lake high in the mountains close to the sky. it's hard to see with normal sight or soul, but I have memories of hemlock's true sight third eye ability. I don't know it's name, but that's what I'll call it. It is able to absorb yin energy from the snow and ice. It then uses that enery to fire off qi needles that are filled with cold energy.

she teaches me to throw needles in at vitals, and how to be discreet while doing so. The other secret art is called Cloud Blocking Moon. It's a water-based fan secret art. It seems to work well with night lotus mantra. It allows the user to conceal themselves as well. When the user reaches mastery they can seal themselves, and the enemy if they wany in a separate s.p.a.ce. They can gain control of wind, and water in the early stages. Then s.p.a.ce in the later stages. The fan art seems to begin with wind type strikes. I think I can improve the basics of this art with poison, but first I need to bind a fan.

I split my will. my main body is able to focus on learning the two secret arts at the same time. I slither over to the fan and scan it with my soul. The fan looks as ordinary as when I first saw it, but after looking at Cyanotis' memories, I no longer doubt it's might. That poor girl turned into a monster. I mental s.h.i.+ver at the thought of her ability to kill. I am excited to bind this weapon. I also am curious about its soul housing capabilities. I only have known bodies capable of holding a soul. This fan has helped house her soul for who knows how long. I use a small portion of my soul exam the fan again. I won't let that old bear steal my body or soul. She could be faking her dead. I scan the ring, and can't find anything wrong with it. I place the fan in the ring just as she did so many times. I leave the fan on the floor.

I take the bones, clothes, and surrounding soil. It seems special, why so not. I dig around the area. I collect the soil into a pile. I focus on and activate the ring. I lost some manna each time, but it's worth it to active such a usefull tool. I take all the special soil, then do my best to hide traces of anything being here.

I destroy the underground cave and any remaining traces. Treasures like these would likely draw greed towards me. I make sure to double check with my soul. I then study the new secret arts. Just memorizing them would be useless. I study them and do my best to understand their true meaning. The night lotus mantra has twelve steps to mastery. The first manta contains only a few sentences.

A night lotus floats, water it does not bother, to take flight, one must be light. I guess it's a body lightening art as well. I try and practice with my second body. It does not seem limited to humans or bears either. The mantra is the easy part, the focus on control of manna is is the difficult step.

I guess this is the beginners step to help one learn control of their body's Qi. I channel the qi from my pseudo-serpent core through my body just like it shows. It flows through my body as if I was a real night lotus. I guess having a plant cultivator for a main body is rather useful for this art.

I keep cultivating, but the results seem rather disappointing. There is not a lot of the necessary qi here. There is mostly death, and poison qi around here. There is no pure qi. Which is why I had to refine all the qi/manna I absorbed. I guess if the secret art calls it qi. I will do the same, but it's still manna to me. I stop practicing the mantra and s.h.i.+ft my focus to the moon blocking cloud. I have not personally seen water, but I know the toad lived a near ungrounded source of water.

I will travel there next to the practice. I focus my soul on the ring, and it stores all the things I have gathered from Hemlock. I store them in shelves. I need rest though before I go on this journey. I begin to rest and leave my "eyes" open around a small area.