It took Yu Lingshe a bit but she finally picked out three arts that were somewhat domineering.
They are the [Soul-Demon Art], [Jade Soul Art] and [Evil Spirit Art].
The first is to become an existence similar to an inner demon, it had many mind-inflicting abilities and could attack the soul directly, but it weakened the body even further, to the point where abandoning the body would have a greater benefit than keeping it.
'No, although it's strong, it actually shrinks the all-rounder ability, and my jade heart sutra is wasted…'
Then she continued 'The jade soul art should be the origin soul art of our clan, it cultivates an extremely strong soul with a pure soul power, although it still has some focus on wisdom, this art instead focuses on making the soul cultivator even more of an all-rounder.
'This should be the default option, added with different techniques and spells, this art can be quite powerful… but it's not quite what I'm looking for…'
The third art was what got Lingshe's eye shining the moment she read the description. The evil spirit art sounds similar to the first one, but it's vastly different. Rather than mind control, it comes closer to the spiritual path, since it puts great attention on spiritual power besides the soul.
'Like the first art, it creates a strong and offensive soul that can act on its own, but instead of abandoning the body, it makes the body the anchor and spiritual reserves. In addition, the cultivated spiritual power strengthens offensive-type spells and techniques…
This combines the great all-rounder ability of the soul and the high reserves of the dantian… although the focus isn't on the body, if one decided to keep the evil soul in the body instead of taking it out, the body will be even stronger.
With this art, one basically has two bodies. As long as the soul isn't far away, it can move on it's own, while the body can use spells to become an artillery machine. This two-front battle will be difficult for any enemy to fight.
The ability to be strong in battle but still contain the advantage all souls have outside battles shouldn't be underestimated…'
As she thought of this, she thought it was suspicious this art was so strong. There should be a flaw when so many advantages are added upon themselves.
Sure enough, on the first page of the art, there was a notice. Lingshe read it and didn't know how to contain her smile.
'The evil spirit cultivation art's spiritual power is difficult to cultivate since it's a collection of evil thought mental power and normal spiritual power… the evil thought mental power also influences the soul that is cultivated… no wonder the ancestors added this art even though it sounds dangerous!'
Jade is definitely one of the purest elements, second only to the purity element itself. Below that, there was an additional note by an ancestor of the Yu clan:
| The evil thoughts can corrupt and infect the Heavenly Soul, high talent required. |
Yu Lingshe was sure now. Heaven must be helping her – no matter how many generations ago this cultivation art was found, it was meant to be with her! All the requirements fit her exactly! She can purify the spiritual power with her jade root, and with her growing heavenly soul, there is no way the evil souls can ever overpower her heavenly soul.
She will have to consume evil thoughts on the same stage as her, a soul cultivator has a natural stronger soul and can fight against them, but this not only delays the cultivation speed, as they become stronger, they will have to consume more and more thoughts, while the gap between them and other cultivator's souls becomes less and less.
Choosing this wasn't an impulse, and most importantly, before the foundation building stage, she could still change to a different cultivation art without having to worry about any flaws.
She pressed on the little button on the right bottom corner while reading the book about the cultivation art. In this way, her body, spirit and soul focused on the art fully. The book provided also had many illustrations and mantras she could chant together with the art.
The goal of this art was to change her whole soul into the form of an evil spirit. This was a long-lasting formation and would take a long time, while cultivating this art, one had to focus greatly while remaining calm. One couldn't cultivate in dangerous situations, which might be another flaw, but she didn't mind this and kept cultivating.
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This time, a whole month passed. At the beginning of the second week of seclusion, her grandfather passed by her yard to check. When he felt power gushing into her room, he didn't stay for long and left with a bright smile on his face.
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It was the fourth week of her seclusion, one months before she would leave. At this moment, another clan meeting started.
In the main hall, her first uncle, second uncle, third uncle and her father were sitting around a round table.
Her first uncle had bright and colourful clothes, with many ornaments and talismans hanging. It was boastful but no one at the table said anything about this. They all knew the character of their first brother – he liked money and power even more.
If it wasn't for his business abilities, he would never have been able to become the clan leader with his flawed personality. One can only say that regardless of how bad one's character is, the Yu clan knew how to educate their descendants.
He looked at his third brother, who was dressed humbly. His robe was of high quality, but of a mild temperament. He had the reputation of being a shadow in the political sphere – although the roles he took were never too high, he had great power and influence.
The one reason he didn't want high roles was because he learned that high positions had power but also risks. Rather than taking the risks, he reduced his power to the level of influencing.
He was siting on the left of his first brother, the right was respected in the ancient world, so this meant he wasn't even second in power, but all present brothers knew he might as well be sitting in the first seat. The first brother truly had no talent in politics and gave a lot of power to his third brother, in exchange, he could have the vanity he liked.
At this moment, the third brother looked at his fourth brother, Lingshe's father, and asked "Fourth brother, it has been a long time since your little girl entered seclusion. Could it be that she is avoiding her responsibility as the first lady?"
The fourth brother was annoyed about this rat-like brother of his. If he didn't have the same ancestor, he would curse him for three generations. He scoffed and answered "What is there to be surprised about? A month of seclusion is so little!
When grandfather was in power, he would go into seclusion every few weeks, and he still managed to bring great honour to our family! You are talking about little things and making them large problems!I heard your son has been kicked out of the capital just a few days ago, yet you dare to say such things to me!"