Future Path

"It's extremely similar" Mucheng clenched his teeth, his eyes showing longing, sadness, guilt and fury "If it were a sword instead of a saber, it would be the same."

Turning towards Xuequin, Mucheng found Xueqin at a corner, trembling in fright under his gaze, unconsciously, killing intent exuded from Mucheng. Mucheng quickly calmed down, his killing intent disappearing.

"Sorry, Xueqin" Mucheng apologized, truly sorry about letting his emotions free.

"Don't worry" Xueqin tried to appear brave now that Mucheng had calmed down "What happened to you, master?"

Mucheng gaze unfocused over the distance "The past" He fixed his gaze over Xueqin "Better not ask about it" Xueqin nodded. "Try to use your Sword Intent over it."

Xueqin focused over the sword, a golden glow surged from the sword, it radiated holiness and a sense of purification.

Having calmed down, Mucheng started examining the Angelic Saber "It's truly similar but much weaker" He whispered for himself. "Xueqin, this skill is highly related to your other spirit, while I won't ban you from using it, try not to."

"But it's truly strange" Mucheng made a thoughtful look "Xueqin, are you able to use them at the same time?"

Xueqin shook his head "Nop. Once I activate one, it's impossible to use the other."

"Like a thought" Mucheng nodded "To have two skills such different, it's truly strange. You must know that a good synergy between spirit skills is extremely important, for swordmaster they usually support their own sword path, and for other spirit masters, it made them improve, using compatibles skills at the same time. Only being able to use one is truly a waste."

"So, they are useless?" Xueqin asked "Might be better to focus over one of them?"

"The sword path is not an easy one. While thanks to your Pure Sword Intent, you are able to now use different intents for each of your swords forms, in the future when you advance, keeping this neutrality it would be much harder, almost impossible. Especially, with both intent so strong and disparate." Mucheng explained "In a normal case, I would recommend you to focus on one, making sure that your next spirit rings follow that lead, holiness if you choose the saber and a dragon if you choose the greatsword. However..."

Mucheng made a pause, pointing at Xueqin's forehead "You have the Myriad Colored Being. Meaning that these skills are the perfect ones for your spirit. Your best path should be developing them at the same time."

"It's possible to follow effectively different paths?" Xueqin asked with doubt.

"It's more normal than what you think to follow more than one path, but they must be highly related or it becomes inviable." Mucheng explained "However, there was one exemption before. He developed multiple intents at the same time, reaching the peak of every one of them. It didn't matter how opposite they were, he was able to join them all, forging a completely new path."

Xueqin's eyes shined with curiosity "Who was it?"

"Of course, it was the peak of the sword, the Sword God that had lived in the continent 20.000 years ago, Ning Bai." Mucheng named.

"Sword God? Like the lover of the Angel Goddess?" asked Xueqin.

"Exactly" Mucheng "Over normal people, the Angel Goddess might be much more famous, but it won't be long before you discovered the grandiosity and terror of the Sword God." He said with a mix of reverence and fury.

Xueqin looked at his sword "So, I'll need to follow the Sword God's path?"

"Not exactly" Mucheng shook his head "He used some secret and lost technique to be able to cultivate different paths at the same time. You don't have that advantage, but you have others. Your soul cultivation talent is far better than him, you have much time than him to focus on your sword."

"In the end, you have two options. Try a sure, easy and limited path, or choose for an extremely difficult, mostly unknown, but limitless one." Mucheng "Of course, this is in the case that my hypothesis is correct. It might be only your first two skills. For that, I would force another rule to you."

Xueqin was very thoughtful thinking about all that he learned, but he was quickly brought back from his trance with the last phrase "What it would be?"

"You might not know but the spirit rings that a spirit soul is able to create is related to its age. Younger than 100 years spirit souls are able to create one white spirit ring. 100-999 years spirit souls are able to create two yellow spirit rings. 1.000-9.999 years spirit souls are able to create three purple spirit rings. 10.000-99.999 years spirit souls are able to create four black rings. 100.000 years spirit souls are able to create four or five red rings. More than 200.000 years old beasts are able to also create four or five. For the mystical beasts over 1.000.000, it's unknown even if some exists, the only thing known is that the ring is golden, but it can change depending on the characteristics of the divine beasts."

"Xueqin, following that your third ring must also be from the Myriad Colored Being. Meaning that before you breakthrough to the spirit elder realm, you will need to age your spirit soul to 1.000 years olds" Mucheng explained.

"At the Spirit Pagoda they said that it's extremely difficult to age. How would I be able to do it?" asked worriedly Xueqin.

"Don't worry about it, your spirit soul will evolve with you, you must simply advance in your path. Follow the Sword way and it would naturally follow it" Mucheng explained.

"Okay, master. I promise it, I will wait. My third ring would be from the Myriad Colored Being" Xueqin said determinedly.

"Good" Mucheng nodded "Tomorrow, we will leave to our next location" Mucheng threw a bag towards Xueqin.

Xueqin opened finding some federation money in it. He looked with doubt as Mucheng.

"You can take the day off. Do whatever you want. I have my owns matters" Mucheng said before leaving the room without waiting for his answer.

Xueqin looked at the money with a thoughtful expression that quickly morphed into a big smile "It's food time!"