It takes a lifetime to surpass one's master

Mormo got kind of scared as he jumped back and tried to find the two purple masses inside of his body.

He quickly found them as they went back to their snake form, moving around his own heart, both of them looked quite aggressive which made Mormo nervous.

On the other hand, Moshe and Yaacov lost consciousness.

"Hhhaaaaa …" Mormo sighed in relief.

"Aren't they like to lose their awareness?" Mormo thought as he checked for any difference between their current state and their previous state.

For once, he was very happy with the results, because he could detect them via the snakes, he could feel their life force, from inside of him! It was a bizarre feeling, that he never felt before as if he could actually control them to some extent!

"But there is no way returning someone from the grave …" Mormo thought.

SLASH!

Both of the snakes to his horror bit his heart immediately.

An abnormal pain, even for Mormo's standards, rushed from all over his body! The snakes extended their tails to circle over all of Mormo's internal organs including his brain, and at once they applied pressure trying to crush him alive!

Mormo's face distorted painfully as blood rushed out from every possible place in his body.

"STOP IT!!! STOP IT!!!!" Mormo screamed inside of his head!

"I WILL DO ANYTHING" he screamed internally.

The snakes as if they could understand him, stopped their struggles, shrank back to their miniature size, and kept moving around his heart as if nothing happened.

"Fuck!" Mormo cursed as he inhaled and exhaled air, lying inside a pool of his own blood, tears, and a little bit of vomit.

"I hope I didn't fuck myself again…" Mormo said helplessly.

…

He could somehow feel that even if Yaacov and Moshe will die, the snakes will keep living inside of him.

…

Moshe and Yaacov eventually woke up, Mormo to keep his dignity and self-respect, clean the mess that he found himself in before that.

To his relief, at least no real damage happened to him because of the two snakes, except for unimaginable pain.

As both Yaacov and Moshe looked at Mormo, a very confused reaction was written all over their faces.

"What just happened? What ... what is ?!?!?!" Moshe pointed at Mormo while his hand shook uncontrollably.

Moshe looked at himself, but nothing looked out of the ordinary.

"What are you?" Yaacov asked while gaping.

Mormo looked at them and said, "Spit it out".

"You are surrounded by an enormous amount of weird particles!" Moshe said.

"Could it be … " Moshe tried to say excitedly.

"Essence! How can I feel them?!?! I should be crippled! Why are you surrounded by them?? And why are they looking so much different from the essence that I know?" Yaacov said in a confused but astonished tone.

"What?" Mormo said, trying to scan his surrounding as strong as he could with his own essences, but he could detect nothing!

"Could you detect any of the essences that are floating around us?" at any moment an infinite number of essences are surrounding anything in this world.

"No" said Yaacov.

"Try to take one of the essences that are floating around me and insert it into your body" Mormo said slowly to Yaacov.

Yaacov was a little bit afraid but after he hesitated a little bit, he was full of determination.

Mormo tried to scan as surrounding as strong as he could to try and detect anything, while Moshe locked into the essence that Yaacov pulled toward himself, he tried to learn something, it was the first time in his life that he could detect any of the essences.

Mormo couldn't feel anything when one of the particles flew into Yaacov.

As it entered into Yaacov's body, Mormo could finally see it!

The article was black and dirty, it was ugly to an extreme extent, while the essence that flew from Mormo's own body was elegant and shiny which quite confused Mormo, what exactly was this particle, what did they take from Mormo?

"Could it be that they are extracting my own life force?" Mormo thought while considering that none of his real life force actually existed in his body, everything was quite confusing for him, and it was merely a calculated guess.

Yaacov started to circulate the essence inside his bloodstream. Every cycle the essence turned whiter, as the muddy color flew out of the particle and blended into Yaacov's blood.

The process wasn't hard or painful, it just took a lot of time, he needed to perform 50 whole cycles until the particle looked like it should have been, it wasn't hard for Yaacov because he already had years of experience with cultivating.

He tried to insert the essence into his small intestine, but Mormo stopped him.

"When you are following me, you are cultivating your emotions, what you should conquer is not only yourself but your desires, your heart" Mormo said while he pointed his finger into Yaacov's heart.

Yaacov didn't think much as he inserted the essence right into his heart.

Nothing happened, the results will only be visible when he will enter into the first-god-level.

Moshe said hesitantly to Mormo "How do you feel? Can you detect anything wrong with your body?".

"Everything fine for now, you can try to do it as well" Mormo said to Moshe.

Mormo monitored his own body constantly while both Yaacov and Moshe pulled the strange particle that surrounded him.

He could detect the particles only when they entered Yaacov's and Moshe's bodies.

It took Moshe 10 times longer to perform around 50 cycles than it took for Yaacov.

It was understandable, and as time flew Moshe became better at the process so his cycle became faster.

After an hour or so that Mormo only scan his body, he could detect absolutely no changes in his body, he went hunting rats from the cave so he could cultivate as well, he was already at the second-god-level, and he didn't cultivate much for the past half a year, so he had a lot of empty space to fill in his heart with essences.

Mormo needed to get stronger so all of them would be able to leave the middle region.

The cave had other life forms in it, but Mormo couldn't insert the converted life force into essence into his heart, the same as it was when he was in the first-god-level, so he only hunted the rats-like creature after some experiments.

After only one day Yaacov entered into the first-god-level which took Mormo by surprise.

After only two more days, he entered into the seconds-god-level which made Mormo quite angry at him, he didn't show it but he cursed him a lot in his heart.

It took Mormo more than a year to get to the second-god-level!

Moshe was still struggling to insert more essence into his body, so he was now even more favorable than he was before.

He actually had the impulse to beat Yaacov senselessly.

Mormo swallow his saliva while watching Yaacov keep collecting essence into him, he told himself that a real innovator is not afraid of the consequences of his experiments, he was in a very gloomy mood as he could detect that Yaacov already had more essence than he did in his heart!

But eventually, after a week, Yaacov came into a barrier, he couldn't insert any more essence into his heart, for some reason, his heart rejected new essence into it.

He was on the verge of entering into the 3-god-level with disturbed him quite a bit.

Mormo sighed a sigh of relief, he would actually cry himself to sleep if Yaacov could surpass his god-level just like that.

"This fucker …" Mormo thought to himself.

Yaacov tried everything that he could think of to enter into the third-god-level but nothing that he came up with worked, Mormo got much more happier about the situation in his heart as he kept cursing him none stop.

After another week Moshe managed to enter into the first-god-level, Mormo told him to keep collecting essence until he will get into Yaacov's level.

He didn't want to teach them about their new power separately, and he enjoyed looking at Yaacov finally struggling.

It took Moshe around a month and a half to climb to the same state of Yaacov, both of them were only a small step away from the third-god-level, while Mormo had a long way to go before he could be in any way close to them.

The conversion of life force into essence was much harder than what they had to do, it was a tedious and somewhat nerve-wracking experience.

What made Mormo even more irritated was that their essence was stronger than his, he couldn't understand any of that! And he actually got somewhat envious of them.

If not for the fact that he could control them from their unique connection, he would probably beat the two of them senseless.