500 years

Back in the palace, the emperor was sitting on his chair with a calm face.

"I have decided, leave that man to himself... from the reports it seems he wants to be left alone, name it a forbidden area. We do not know the dangers that lie within there, if it is a seventh-grade door we may envoke a powerful enemy."

However, some of the ministers were not having it, they kept claiming other empires will ridicule them.

The emperor was fed up and got up while turning his back on the ministers and leaving the hall. He was tired, there was a larger problem at hand. His son, he disappeared the night his wife died and he took the fourth unit with him.

Only a few loyal ministers knew about this, also the fourth unit recently became the second strongest unit with a late-adult stage leader.

He was worried about rebellion, such strong backing can damage the foundation of the empire and give the surrounding empires a chance to increase the damage.

While these troubles were going on, Ivor got a notification.

*Ding

[The system has granted you a chance to cultivate for 500 years in a time formation]

"What? what does this mean?" Ivor was confused.

"Why am I granted 500 years... isn't that just 500 years... what is so special about it?" Ivor was baffled.

[Time Formation is an independent dimension created with the laws of space and time, it will be converted by 1 year = 100 years]

"Oh... this good."

"System let's begin."

[Activating Time Formation 3...2...1...0]

Ivor noticed he wasn't in his room but his equipment was still with him. Ivor decided to cultivate with Smiths Range method, which always doubles the Qi absorption rate and the Earth True Blacksmith was getting to its limits, he had to adapt.

Ivor took out all the beast's bones and feathers then decided to create more complex weapons with more powerful auras than a normal weapon.

50 years later...

Ivor had created 4 weapons Lions Dagger, Owls Needle, Dragons Shapeless Weapon, Feathered Dragon Lion Robe.

The Lion dagger was made of 4th-grade lions bones and it had the aura of a lion who was hunting for prey, it will keep its aura hidden until it strikes placing fear into the prey.

Owls Needle is densely formed feathers added together to create a needle stronger than iron and its aura can't be traced due to the uniqueness of an owls hidden aura.

The Dragons Shapeless Weapon is made out of flood dragon scales and this weapon is peak-earth grade, it will become the weapon you desire a spear, a sword, a hammer it will be decided by the cultivators choice.

The Feathered Dragon Lion Suit is made out of eagle feathers, the lion's aura that has been taken out of the lion's bones also it has the aura of the flood dragon's scales which was condensed into a Robe that fits the user automatically. The Robe is black with golden and dark blue lines embedded onto the suit.

Ivor was preparing to break through to Soul Formation Realm but he didn't need to worry about the heavenly tribulance since the place has a seal that evades the heavenly tribulance.

Ivor began to condense his adult soul then it expanded that his soul became physical, there were three projections a five-year-old boy, a 20-year-old man, and a 50-year-old man. The three souls gathered once again together to create a 30-year-old man, this was also Ivor's physical look now.

He had a mature temperament, neither young or old face also his physical was in peak condition. Ivor had officially become a Soul Formation Cultivator.

Ivor was once again gifted different animal bones, skins, and shells to scales also the system had granted him a new fighting technique.

Elephants Step was a technique that makes the cultivator's body 10 times the strength of its original strength also it would be used to oppress the enemy with just pure pressure of the qi manifested foot also it can act as a seal to seal the other on the spot for at least a thousand years.

Ivor was also given an improved Smithing Cultivation Technique, which has a higher absorption rate than his original cultivation technique also the objects he can craft would be more refined, and added together with smiths range, his cultivation speed would be at least four times as his original speed.

The Soul Formation Stage has Three Stages Physical Soul, Soul Intent, and Divine Soul.

The physical Soul is just as it says, the cultivator will keep refining the soul until it reaches a state that it is physical as a body.

The Soul Intent is a stage where the cultivator increases the Soul Pressure to a degree it can kill a person instantly or calm another's soul.

Divine Soul is a merger of Divine sense and the soul, so within the cultivator mind, the will be a sea of consciousness where the soul lives unless released to do the cultivator bidding.

Ivor got back to his cultivation and 300 years passed...

Ivor had reached the peak of Divine Soul, his divine sense had a small world inside, it contained a small hut with a chair and bed also there were trees and a river nothing else.

Ivor was preparing to break through into the Soul Transformation Realm, For Ivor to break through to the next realm, Ivor had been creating a weapon for himself.

The Weapon is called a Soul Weapon, they are special weapons that infuse to the cultivator's soul it can be anything a beast bone to a flower but Ivor had smithed a mallet it contained many engravings and formation, some of them were even added accidentally, so, to tell the truth, he doesn't know what he really created and the system said nothing about it.

All Ivor hopes is that it will not kill him.

Ivor started to fuse the mallet within his Divine Soul World, the mallet appeared in the world above the hut, then the hammer began to hit the sides of the small world adding runes around the walls, they were hidden inscriptions these were signs of the Ivor becoming a Soul Transformation cultivator.

The Runes dissapeared, the divine soul world expanded, the qi capacity increase and the understanding of blacksmithing increased.

Ivor had become a Soul Transformation cultivator, he felt the power difference between the formation realm and him now. The realm was atleast ten times stronger than a soul formation cultivator.

Ivor was rewarded once again with materials, animal parts and this time he was given 3 techniques a spear technique, a sword technique and a staff technique.

Ivor realising he had to comprehend more techniques he remebered that he had forgotten to look at the soul book, Ivor quickly took it out and look at it.

The book displayed 3 Soul techniques, these were techniques how to battle other with the soul and he noticed he could read the books cover a little bit... "Soul War..." he coudn't read the rest but from the three techniques he could begin to learn, were the most powerful techniques he has read.

The first technique was to use the soul to penetrate the others souls defence and be able to walk around the Divine Soul world.

The Second Technique was to be able to crack the Divine soul worlds runes, this would injure the opponent heavily.

The Third technique was to be able to comprehend the others understanding of techniques.

These were extremly complex techniques and this was what he understood from the techniques.

The Sword technqiue was a standard Space Sword Strike, the Spear was Space Sword Strike and the staff technique was named Void Staff.

Ivor wanted to at least reach small acomplishment with the soul techniques then move onto the physical weapon skills.

Ivor still had 150 years to go and he closed his eyes to begin his comprehension.