chapter 44

Hou opened up his tent and let the two in, without a word they knew what to do and sat down on the floor with their eyes closed.

"We'll do the training with needles first and later we'll try without and see the results."

Hamar and Hafar did not move much but did a slight nod. Hou moved to his desk and picked up various needles, with his new will saturation technique he could do the acupuncture much quicker and efficiently. He showed his attention and used lots of wills to use his hands simultaneously, placing the needles on both people at the same time.

Hou looked at the two sitting in the floor and did the same, he would saturate himself with will while also absorbing qi.

After a few hours, Hou gently woke himself up from a trance and pulled out the needles from Hamar and Hafar, asking them to continue to try to sense their wills as the poison was weakened.

After Hou woke them both up properly, just before midnight, and asked if either of them sensed their will.

"No, still nothing for me" Hamar looked a bit disappointed.

"I...think I felt...something." Hafar however had a confused face.

"Okay that good, and fine not to, well keep on working on it. Once you can both sense it, we'll move to manipulating it and then the reason I want you to learn this."

Hafar and Hamar both nodded and left, they both were tired and stiff from sitting doing one thing for hours later at night.

Hou decided to go to sleep tonight after helping the two.

The next day Hou woke up and also seemed Yue had also awoken. They started their lessons and Yue finished it the modification and told Hou to test it out.

Hou broke the dome that was initially there and rebuilt it, with the new formation, in the centre being a false spirit will. Now, not only the spirits which Yue had before losing dao restrictions on, there was a new spirit will that gave new abilities and became the pillar for the formation. It was now, the spirits giving qi to the false spirit wills in exchange Yue had found that offering fresh meat will do.

Hou could now only use a small amount of qi and meat offerings, and in return the dome become solid and could block out attacks from the outside.

This allowed the Hou sect to move faster as they didn't need to slow down for animals. Still occasionally they would need food and sacrifices to the formation so every other animal/monster group they would hunt it down.

For the next few months, the Hou sect moved along, gaining new members and becoming stronger. Once most people gained at least one ability, Hou introduced tiers to the sect. Additionally everyone in the sect were given a weak false will created from his original so that if they encountered any danger they could warn their past self. It was the same will from before where a vision could be sent to the past.

Now for low tier disciples it went from 9 to 1 ranks, the lower number the better. The middle ranked also changed, splitting in two. There was the middle tier which included Hafar and Penn, the second tier was upper. This win upper tier were Armen and Hamar. Then finally elder Hou.

Everyone in middle and above had multiple abilities ranging from strength to more specific abilities. Armen had been given all the healing abilities, some were combined together and allowed him to heal much more, faster. Armen could also combine the abilities and create more miraculous effect like Da's eye being restored from nothing.

Hamar had refined his swordsmanship and attained a greater will control. Both Hamar and Hafar were close to skill Hou wanted to teach them but we're not quite there. They could sense their wills and even move them but they were not ready to saturate their wills in their blood and use that to move the formation Hou created to store their false spirit wills.

One night after gaining many new powers, Hou decided on something.

"Master, I think I am ready for my next dream realm."

"So be it, now that you have a reason to use your spirit wills, do you want to gain a new will or strengthen the one you have?When you break your inner world, you let in more spirits who's dream you shall conquer and absorb, but if you instead let out your own spirit will you will instead conquer a dream to strengthen that will and not absorbing a new spirit."

"... I want to gain a new ability, rushing to heal the spirit will would do nothing, we first need to make a ritual to send me back by sacrificing it, for now I should grow stronger otherwise."

"Resolute. I like it, do as I say. Absorb all the qi you have, all the miasma and sunlight you've been absorbing, send to l the blood formation in your body and refine it. Then take all the qi and compress it with the walls of your inner world until it breaks apart your inner world trying to hold it together. First move the blood dome protecting you out of your inner world, leave it purely in the physical. Then you can control your inner world to compress qi safely"

"I understand, I'll start now, see you soon." Hou took attention and followed Yue's instructions.

He moved the blood formation which protected the sect invisible from his inner world, and placed it into the physical one. From the outside, the sect saw blood floating in the air around them instantly appear but did not disrupt it.

Then Hou refined all his qi and compressed it with the walls of his inner world until it shattered. With a bright light, the world shattered and Hou let a spirit in, he then felt darkness come over him as he fell asleep.