Listening to her, Yang Ze couldn’t help but nod subconsciously. When he first asked her this question, she just scoffed at him, but now... now she seed more than willing to tell him. Though the price he paid was the lting of his eyes, Yang Ze felt it was worth it to know more about the realms that truly rule over this world.
"Let’s co to the soul tempering realm first." Speaking till here, Lin ilin’s eyes had a solemn expression as she continued speaking.
"To understand the difference between a Core Condensation realm powerhouse and a Soul Tempering realm expert is like asking for the difference between an ant and a cultivator."
"There is just no comparison."
Lin ilin paused for a mont before speaking slowly.
"The realm of Core Condensation is all about Elental energy."
"But the realm of Soul Tempering is all about a person’s soul."
"When a Core Condensation cultivator masters all five elents, they have to create an elental bridge in their dantian, connecting it to their soul."
"It is only then... they could truly tap into the strength of soul."
"Rember... Internal energy is the foundation, Elental energy is the material to build upon it."
"And soul... soul is the result."
"Do you understand?" Speaking till here, she turned to ask Yang Ze, who nodded subconsciously.
"Of course, you don’t understand."
Seeing him nod, she couldn’t help but let out a cold snort.
"But you will... Just rember what I told you."
Although Yang Ze dind’t know what those words ant, he still kept them in his heart. Just as Lin ilin said, he couldn’t understand them now, but he will surely in the future.
"What do Soul Tempering realm experts practise?" Yang Ze finally asked his first question. "I an, what is their strength? How powerful they are compared to the Core Condensation realms expert?"
Initially, he rely wanted to know what he saw using his All-seeing eyes, but he held back that thought for now. Lin ilin must have her own reasons to teach him this.
What he needed to do was to keep quiet and listen to her.
"What do they practise?" Lin ilin simply exhaled a mouthful of air before answering him.
"They practise the way of the soul."
"As for how strong they are..." She rely raised her finger before tapping it on the air in front of her, and in that instant, Yang Ze’s body froze.
He felt like he was under so kind of restriction. He could see, he could hear, he could sll, but he couldn’t move. It was as if he had turned into a statue.
"This is the strength of Soul Tempering." Lin ilin spoke in a leisurely tone.
"It doesn’t matter how strong a person is. It doesn’t matter how strong their internal energy or elental energy is."
"What a soul tempering expert controls is the strength of soul."
"Just a flick of their finger is enough to instantly kill tens of thousands of Core Condensation realm experts."
"Controlling others’ bodies, controlling others’ souls... these are just the basic things that a Soul Tempering expert can do."
"You experienced it firsthand, didn’t you?"
The more Yang Ze listened to her, the more he felt his heartbeat hasten.
Just as Lin ilin said, he clearly rembered the first ti he ca across the old monster in the Soul Tempering realm.
At that ti, he, along with Lin Yue and Xiao Ruolan, was trying to infiltrate the Duality Sect when they were caught by an old woman who, with a simple tap of her finger, made them incapacitated.
That feeling of helplessness and powerlessness was still fresh in his mind.
"Even if you manage to step into the Core Condensation realm and have a number of skills, you wouldn’t be able to reach near a Soul Tempering realm expert, much less fight them. Just a simple flick of their finger is enough to kill you a million tis over."
"There is a reason why Soul Tempering powerhouses rule over the continent."
Speaking till here, Lin ilin went silent for a long ti. There were still a lot of things that she didn’t tell Yang Ze. And for the ti being, she didn’t think he needed to know. She was rely teaching him about the knowledge so that he clearly understood his current position in this world. So in the future, he would refrain from doing sothing as stupid as using his observation skills on random people.
"And then... there’s the realm after the Soul Tempering realm."
"Heaven Step."
"Heaven Step."
Both Lin ilin and Yang Ze spoke at the sa ti.
"Do you know what a Heaven Step is?" Lin ilin didn’t tell him imdiately, but asked him a simple question.
"...." Yang Ze thought for a long ti, but other than the fact that the Heaven Step was a myth and the only person who managed to reach this realm was Yun Ning, he didn’t know anything else.
Watching his silence, Lin ilin wasn’t disappointed. On the contrary, she would have been more surprised if Yang Ze knew the answer.
Taking a deep breath, she slowly reached out to ruffle Yang Ze’s hair before speaking in a soft tone.
"Heaven Step ans carving one’s own piece of heaven."
Her words instantly made Yang Ze’s breathing stop. Although he didn’t understand what those words ant, he had a feeling that the aning in those words was astounding.
"Just rember that an expert in Heaven Step is akin to a part of this world’s heaven."
"Observing them is akin to observing the heaven of this world..."
"And trust ... it is not a thing that the likes of you can look."
*Bang
With a click, Yang Ze’s thoughts beca clear as he finally understood what happened when he used his All-seeing eyes to look at Lin ilin.
"This... this..." Swallowing a mouthful of saliva with so difficulty, Yang Ze’s body trembled for an instant before he let out a mouthful of turbid air.
He wanted to ask more... Since the Soul Tempering realm expert was already this strong, how strong a Heaven Step powerhouse must be?
He wanted to know the difference between them... he wanted to know what was so special about Heaven Step and what kind of power they controlled, but looking at Lin ilin’s expressionless face, which clearly didn’t want to answer him, he swallowed back the questions before giving her a simple nod.
"Good." Patting her hands in satisfaction, Lin ilin raised her soft hand to poke Yang Ze’s nose.
"Rember... do not use your skill recklessly. Even a Soul Tempering realm expert could feel your gaze, much less those in the Heaven Step."
"Besides... everyone’s essence is different."
"If you accidentally look at those mindless creatures roaming the fog with this skill, you will turn into one of them."
"So..." With a smile that wasn’t quite the smile, Lin ilin brought her face directly in front of Yang Ze, gazing deep in his eyes as her heavy voice reached his ears.
"DO NOT USE THIS STUPID SKILL RECKLESSLY."
"Or even better... DO NOT USE IT AT ALL."
*Gulp
Swallowing a mouthful of saliva, Yang Ze nodded subconsciously.
"Good." With a gentle pat on his cheeks, Lin ilin rested leisurely in the chair, letting Yang Ze digest everything that she just told him.
It wasn’t until an hour passed that she finally broke the silence.
"Besides that stupid skill, what other skill do you have?"
"Oh!" Yang Ze imdiately stood up, wanting to demonstrate it to her, but before he could move, Lin ilin grabbed him by the wrist before pulling him down, making him sit on the chair once again.
"No need to demonstrate. A detailed introduction would be nice."
Feeling the soft hand on her wrist and the warmth of her skin, Yang Ze nodded in response before thinking about what he should tell her.
It wasn’t until a few monts passed that he finally began to speak.
"There is a skill called Windborne."
"It lets fly in the air."
Yang Ze’s voice was filled with pride when he ntioned the skill.
Even those in the Soul Tempering realm couldn’t fly. But he... who was in the Vein Expansion could.
For a mont, he wanted to see the shocked expression on Lin ilin’s face; he wanted to see her mouth open in surprise.
But to his dismay, she rely nodded in response.
Even in his wildest imagination, he wouldn’t have thought that she had known about the fact that he could fly for quite a while.
After all, she saw him flying on the mountaincliff when he displayed it for the first ti, thinking he was alone.
Although Yang Ze was a bit disappointed by this lack of reaction, he didn’t put it in his heart. He didn’t know how strong Lin ilin truly was. Perhaps for her, sothing like flying was a re child’s play... nothing to be proud about.
Scratching his nose in embarrassnt, Yang Ze’s eyes darted to the ground below him before he spoke further.
"The next skill is illusion master."
"I can create illusions."
Speaking till here, he waved his hand as his figure instantly disappeared from the chair.
Lin ilin’s expression didn’t change as she simply nodded in response. She had known about this ability of his for quite a while now.
"It’s a good technique." This was the first ti Lin ilin practised any of his techniques. And just when Yang Ze was beaming with smiles, Lin ilin’s next words were akin to pouring cold water upon his head.
"Unfortunately, it is useless against Core Condensation experts and above."
"Let’s not even talk about the Soul Tempering realm experts; even a Core Condensation realm expert could use the wind to scan the area."
"Although your illusion is good, it can’t hide the sll, and most importantly, it can not block the elental energy.
Just a casual swoop of the area with wind energy, and anyone could find your location, regardless of how realistic and good your illusions are.
"I see." Yang Ze couldn’t help but nod absent-mindedly. When he fought against Lin ilin in the Blue-Faced Tribe, he tried to hide himself and Cang Yue using the illusion technique.
At that ti, Lin ilin found their location in an instant.
After that, he thought about it for an extrely long period of ti, but never found an answer.
And now that he finally had his answer, he couldn’t help but draw in a sharp breath.
The illusion talent still had many shortcomings. In the future, he needed to improve it even further.
"What else?" With this out of the way, Lin ilin’s voice sounded in Yang Ze’s ears.
’Umm...’ Yang Ze hesitated for a long ti, wondering if he should tell her about the Mystic Nether Art or not.
And in the end, he simply gritted his teeth and decided to tell her.
"I... I have the skill called Mystic Nether Art that I had managed to practise till the Earth Realm."
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"HUUUUUUUUUUUUUH!?"
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