chapter 98

Araxis was the first to answer Hou,

"To me, this is simple. Create the Spirit Sone Soul, absorb laws and improve your consciousness. Then later on with all those laws you might be able to break the soul and create the Nascent Soul. Right now you don't have enough information on the Nascent Soul to be sure in its superiority. If the Nascent Soul is better, why does the Nine Clouds Sovereign Sect use the Spirit Stone Soul?"

Yue then also added on to this,

"I think the Nascent Soul has more than what you saw. All we know about it, is that the first ancestor rejected Yao Tian's Spirit Stone Soul to form an embryonic soul. We do not know why or what this does, and what does it turn into?"

"But to create the Spirit Stone Soul it seems like I will be more susceptible to damage. My soul and body will be completely unified, whereas the Nascent Soul disregards the body." Hou explained what he thought.

For a while the three were silent until Araxis thought it something,

"The reason the Spirit Stone Soul is needed is to hold laws and strengthen the consciousness through their innate connection?"

Hou nodded and agreed, to which Araxis said,

"Celestial Ink causes laws to become physical, what if instead of the spirit stone you treat Celestial Ink as a second soul! One soul will cultivate Spirit Stone Soul and the other will form a Nascent Soul!"

Yue instantly recognised the logic and said,

"Yes it makes sense, the soul holds the consciousness. Celestial Ink holds mine and True Sage of Celestial Ink's remnant consciousness and one. In a way, Celestial Ink is not body and soul unification but soul and consciousness unification! This should be an even more improved cultivation method than the normal Spirit Stone Soul!"

Hou thought for a bit and concluded,

"Yes! This is it, while I cultivate Nascent Soul, Celestial Ink will cultivate Spirit Stone Soul. But I think we can take it further. I will use my soul and consciousness for my cultivation, Yue take my body!"

"Your body!? I cannot, you are my disciple this will be like taking over!"

"No master, you are in my treasure, you obey my orders it is more like you are a part of me. Don't think of you and I separate. Araxis, you too, all of us are really one part split into three."

Araxis thought for a second and spoke to Yue,

"As Hou said, we are in a way one. I am merely memories in Hou and you merely a treasure bound to him. As a master, you would be correct, but you are the master and student to yourself. We can already communicate perfectly, we are one person split into three."

Araxis then spoke directly to Hou,

"You and I are already one in many ways. When I transplanted myself into your memories, I could only do a portion. In reality I am no longer Araxis the Archmage but the mage you. We should not splinter, as you say we are all together!"

Yue thought of what Araxis was saying and after a tense few minutes he spoke up,

"Let's do it. I will become your body and cultivate a new path. Not Spirit Stone Soul. Instead Three Path Unification Soul. Showing that the consciousness, soul and body will all be unified into one. At the same time we will nurture a Nascent Soul in your Soul with your consciousness!"

Hou placed a few tea leaves into his jade cup. Then he poured boiling water into he cup, steeping the tea. He lifted the small cup into the air and said aloud,

"Here we unify as one and begin our two paths!"

With that said, Hou drunk the tea and inwardly told Yue to take his body and unify it with the Celestial Ink. Hou withdrew his soul and watched Yue move. The Celestial Ink spread throughout Hou's body and became thinner and thinner. Once it covered the whole body Yue used Flowing Divine Script with blood to start the unification. While Flowing Divine Script only created temporary resonance in laws, those temporary laws could start a chain reaction to form permanence.

When Yue was absorbed into the Celestial Ink he had merged with the True Sage and gained intuitive knowledge of Flowing Divine Script. To start his body, soul (and consciousness) unification, Yue had used blood to form the Flowing Divine Script and cause the laws to merge which started the process of unification. After a gruelling few hours, Hou was sweating. He was back in his body but it was changed. His skin became slightly translucent and showed a vague galaxy underneath. This was the influence of the Celestial Ink.

Hou stood up in the room and tried to test his new physique. If the theory was correct, his body cultivation should be enhanced by the presence of Celestial Ink. He found his sun laws and put them from his soul into his body. Then he started to body cultivate the sun laws, he thought of the impression he needed.

Thinking of the sun, Hou focused on the light it produced. The sun was the primordial light of the world, without it there would only be darkness. The. Hou expressed the laws through body cultivation. His whole body started to glow and shine vividly. The sun laws were expressed as strong as when Hou first entered Sword City by coincidence. But now this was his usual, without chance.

Yue then spoke,

"That is not all, let me show you Flowing Divine Script. Using sun laws with the script should be able to resonate further. Let me show you..."

Hou let go of his control and Yue took over. He used the sun laws in his body and wrote out a sequence in Flowing Divine Script, then he held out his hand. Yue pointed at the paper that the Celestial Ink was within. Then the Flowing Divine Script was activated, instead of Hou glowing the paper begun to let out light.

"This is the power of Flowing Divine Script to resonate laws and make them change temporarily. However right now I can only maintain this light for an hour and other expressions less so."

Hou then spoke,

"Is it because of the mental energy needed?"

"Exactly, it uses a lot of mental energy but can cause extraordinary effects with little."

"I see, this new body is truly amazing though. What should it be called?"

Araxis had been listening for a while but then he spoke,

"...Celestial Amplifying Law Physique."