Chapter 5: Transformation

My realm began to climb and broke through 5th level bronze soul easily easily climbing to peak with the refined soul force I was suppressing before and after a day of stabilizing and refining the excess elixirs intake, my soul force went from 600 to 1000.I have successfully broken into silver soul level.

..MC PoV end..

The moment he broke through silver level, his body began its transformation, it became a lot stronger with soul force reinforcing his meridians and control have returned. But the changes doesn't stop there.

A profound transformation took place. His once masculine form began to shift, his body transcending the boundaries of gender. The change was seamless, his male essence retracting into his body as if it had never existed. Even the passage used for biological waste vanished, his physiology now perfectly refining any food through the power of his soul force, leaving no impurities behind. Should his body ever require adjustment, it will responded instantly, maintaining balance and perfection meeting practicality.

Yet, with the sudden withdrawal of his male root, his yang qi, which had always dominated his body, surged out of control. The fiery energy clashed with his now- unbalanced yin qi, causing his body to heat up. It was an intense moment, but his newly perfected body responded instinctively. A new root meridian formed inside his body , stabilizing the equilibrium of his yang and yin qi, cooling the inner fire and calming the storm within.

When he chose to shift into his female form, the transformation was breathtaking. Her skin shimmered like the moon, flawless and smooth. Her features were ethereal, more beautiful than any goddess, with eyes that sparkled with both wisdom and mystery. Her lips, full and soft, curved naturally into a gentle, inviting smile.

Her hair, once cut to fit a warrior, began to grow longer, cascading down like silken threads, framing her delicate face. It adjusted to her form, thick and lustrous, accentuating her graceful curves and the newfound softness in her stance. Her body, perfectly proportioned, was a living masterpiece, every detail sculpted by the laws of heaven and earth themselves.

As she stood there, radiating power and beauty in equal measure, her presence was captivating. She was neither man nor woman, yet both at once—a being of perfection, transcending all limits and expectations.

MC PoV

'....Well this is something.. I only feel joy but no embarassment. My mind is also becoming more rational. But I must keep maintaining my male appearance outside as I get used to it.'

With a thought, I changed back but I could feel that my body prefers a balanced yin and yang qi so the newly formed meridian still remained along with the older yang meridian which shifted my appearance to more male appearance.

And this also means I must update my cultivation scripture to accommodate new qi channels.

It went for about 2 months. Because I found flaws in qi channels and soul force transmission by LoHP and through trial and error, body was able to form new pathways that facilitate seamless transition of my body without any qi conflicts. Cultivation scripture was also updated with new changes from my understanding of meridian pathways.

My soul realm turned azure from cyan before. My body absorbs soul force and aura like a sponge from surrounding via passive cultivation by my soul form.

My application to orchid academy was also approved. Now 3 months left to start.

My elders got worried about me, not being able to hide cultivation base from those academic staff during admission where my soul realm and rank will be published. I assured them I have it considered. After sorting out the business ideas and reports on current family affairs I made it easier for transferring to the new one who will take over my assigned duties at home.

I then visited the inscription guild at the heart of the city. It's long overdue. It is run by snow wind family's Xue yin, a peak silver ranked spiritualist. Inscription guild is relatively unoccupied. Yet there are also people enchanting weapons but there work is very crude which I could tell at a glance. Sacred family has several inscriptions and people buying those are paying a premium for such enchantments, more like talisman I would say.

Anyway, there many free books to read, but before that, seeing the masters section, I went to the restricted section feigning ignorance since there was no one to guard the door and slides my finger over those book covers by the side. A little later, I could see a guard coming to me shouting to go back. I apologized after getting scolded and stated my entry was absolutely unintentional. Meanwhile I used my time to copy information from books as memory fragments to be absorbed using my creation power to create that as a concept. It resulted in some mental exhaustion as there were more than 2700 books of which 1100 are untranslated. After the memory obtained, I absorbed it while having LoHP compile it.

I went back to beginners' section to read a book about introduction to inscriptions while handling the headaches from that information and it went away within a few minutes. From the experiences of inscription masters mentioned and rule books present there, my already flawless inscription for dummies book I compiled before became flawless inscription book for normies. It was a bit more advanced. And there are many inscriptions for conducting soul force rituals and sealing soul realms and even techniques for soul shackles. I was fined for 100 demon spirit coins only, since I was a child and my good looks and mature behavior. Well 100 coins if for a commoner means he will have no way to pay and in a difficult situation, while I am an aristocratic child, and have no problem in doing so. I apologized to Xuē yin and went back.

I was followed by few silver ranks at a distance to confirm that I was not having any dealings with a third party. Meanwhile I was lamenting about those protagonists and villains who like me, got a chance in the other worlds acting like the main character announcing their arrogance and treating others like idiots, yet the luck or plot armor intentionally lowers others intelligence, and I have no such thing, I mean look at these people's vigilance.

Anyway, I went back to home, after which I read those compiled books in the inscription and those that I have missed before. Even with perfect memory I went ahead to read them few more times as it was some sort of addictive for me. Inscriptioning materials were available to buy in the market like the pen which is used to carve soul force effectively onto the subject. A transforming inscription with concealing runes I prepared is carved on the underside of my arms and it sealed my overflowing soul force onto mild soul force as that of a person not yet reached green bronze soul realm. I kept the seal fixed on soul force of 70. Now about the soul realm, a sealing rune was placed over my soul form figure using my mind with help of flawless sealing ritual obtained using LoHP which effectively sealed my actual soul depth after which a small spherical cloud compared to green soul realm depth is attached to main one. The seal on my mind is drawn to the seal on my hands to. Now I could mobilize only 70 soul force. Since the sealing doesn't involve much biological characteristic other than soul conduits, there wasn't much of a response from my adaptive body. The physical force measuring is totally under my control so no need for any other precautions. A month was spent on keeping the pretense and meeting with my friends and relatives in the family and showing elders the result of sealing (after which they asked about my true cultivation base, I proceed to reveal 3rd bronze rank, since it was a year or two from my reveal) and after saying goodbye to everyone including my servants (Because I was keeping a 'cool guy to talk to' attitude always, life was pretty peaceful.), I boarded the horse drawn cart going to academy.