The manipulation of spiritual power

For the past everyday except the weekend, the Duchess trains Huo Yuhao mentally and physically. She has him run 10 laps without using a soul power and another 20 laps with it. Huo Yuhao never felt exhausted, but he could feel it for half a day. He was feeling very weak and showed a painful face when he went back home.

The group of elders saw this and thought the Duchess must have tortured the boy every day except for weekends to make sure Huo Yuhao's suffering continues for his entire life, and used this opportunity to spread the Duchess' actions towards outsiders.

And so began a rumour that whoever stood against the Duchess's action they may not live a good life. The Duchess never denied or made any action to correct the rumour, which lead to people's imagination grew wild and all sorts of detail coming out of their mind. But one thing was certain for them, the Duchess can hold the grudge for a very long time.

Back to the Duchess room, the Duchess was currently explaining what exactly the spiritual power was toward Huo Yuhao.

The spiritual power was a perception or observation that detected detailed information about a certain action, information, emotions, characteristics, traits and other differences that you can detect. Spiritual power allows those ordinary people to develop more higher intelligence and allow them to understand and use it to control soul power more fluidly than usual. But spiritual power required a lot of time to normally develop.

But there is a rare case like Huo Yuhao who has more spiritual power than average spiritual power while still being a baby. They have potential to develop skills earlier and can even master alchemy since they have photographic memory.

The Duchess showed Huo Yuhao how she normally developed her spiritual power by either consuming rare herbs or training in life or death. She nearly died while practicing spiritual power to nearly increase her control over nearly 20 percent of it. But she had to do it again since spiritual power will always continue to develop, which led to her only controlling about 1 percent of it currently.

Huo Yuhao now knew why she chose to make him a student or rather the Duchess wanted him to help her develop more safely way to increase spiritual power. He didn't mind being used by her, on the contrary they were using each other in their own goals.

Huo Yuhao was happy to know the reason and used his self created skills to deduce the Duchess action perfectly alligned with his prediction. All that hard work and years he saw to create a skill Caused and Effects work perfectly in his opinion.

The Duchess may have known most of it but she didn't have much spiritual power as himself to predict precisely like he did, but she can guess whichever of her decision can effect affects herself.

The Duchess knew that Huo Yuhao purposely didn't stop her for learning his self created skill, he wanted to trade it with one of her own. She thought carefully what skill were better for Huo Yuhao, his action that showed curiosity and naive were not fake but he seemed hiding something but what was more importantly his blues eyes seemed to show that he could effect the whole world just by his eyes.

Finally, she chose her personal skill which she often used when dealing with everyone in her life. The skill required a detailed observation while needing knowledge of behavior, characteristics, traits and desires to better judge a stranger.

Huo Yuhao agreed with the Duchess skill in judging someone and learn it in just a few days which make the Duchess spill her tea while having a private conversation with him. The Duchess need months to create this skill and years to master it, but Huo Yuhao just took a few days with asking and answered her theoretical knowledge about a certain situation while also having master it much faster than she is.

The Duchess remembered Huo Yuhao's spiritual power and his control over it were much better than hers and concluded it must have more effect than usual. Fortunately, Huo Yuhao's physical strength was worse than hers and his attack didn't do much damage to her.

But just a few later Huo Yuhao managed to create an exercises to increase spiritual power it required two people fight while using it only and the winner one if the opponent surrender or low on spiritual power. Which surprisingly well for both of themselves while also increasing the amount of rumour about both of them.

The Duchess was rumoured to have beaten Huo Yuhao until he was fainted since Huo Yuhao's body and clothes were damaged. But due to Huo Yuhao's higher mental strength, the Duchess was angered. The rumour seems to have spread to the entire household of Dai family and only Dai Hao doesn't know since the elders blocked it from reaching him and spreading outside of Dai family.

When the rumour reached Huo Yun'er, she stormed the Dai family mansion and even threatened the elder to tell everything they ask her to Dai Hao, which made the elder stop protecting the Duchess from meeting Huo Yun'er.

When Huo Yun'er arrived inside the Duchess room, she immediately interrogate the Duchess who seem to be exhausted from sparring with Huo Yuhao which make her unable to do anything except agreed with Huo Yun'er especially when she threaten about her recent action to Dai Hao.

The Duchess can't lose her image especially infront of Dai Hao which will trust everything Huo Yun'er said. Which undoubtedly will make Dai Hao doesn't trust herself. So in order to avoid it she must explain it in every detail of her action.

Huo Yun'er seemed to silently think about the Duchess' action and finally her furried gone in a moment. If you look at her current mood there was no trace of anger left which seemed to make the Duchess increase her danger level in her mind. Then like her previous action never happened she just left the room and mansion while smiling happily making everyone who could see her to shudder and make way.

Thus the legend of Huo Yun'er capable of silencing the elders reached the outside, which made the people confused and doubt it.

Now everyone knows about her being a rare gentle personality which seems to make everyone in the present of her feel healthy and touch, but who knows how Dai Hao convinced her to marry and live with him. Even her family was unable to keep her from being taken by Dai Hao to marry secretly and being a slave which makes them unable to do anything since Huo Yun'er is a very loyal person and Dai Hao has gained loyalty.

But the Dai family bullied while also taking advantage of her and Huo Yuhao's status. This made the commoner have a low impression of the Dai family, they can't say or do anything since the Dai family has a large influence and Dai Hao which has almost the same achievement as his ancestor. But when the rumour about Huo Yun'er storming the Dai family mansion for her child safety reached their ears many thoughts appear in their mind.

Her family were happy to finally have a good rumour appear. They even said that Huo Yun'er should do it from the start. But some just refute it as nonsense because they thought a slave can't be allowed to show emotions unless by their master.

Which lead them to think the elders of Dai family has somehow anger Dai Hao. This statement further solidify by Huo Yun'er attitude towards Dai Hao. Regardless of these rumour one thing is certain, the Dai family will need to change their attitude towards Huo Yun'er and Huo Yuhao if they don't want to anger Dai Hao.

Inside of room a man with black hair and yellow eyes, he seemed to be working until someone came to him to tells him about the rumour of his wife action. This man is Dai Hao and he knows his wife personality to well. So her action must be on purpose, then another messenger came with the Duchess seal on it.

The content reveal Huo Yun'er action and her reason cause by being treated as an outcast by the elders, it also explained about Huo Yuhao action to wanting spar with herself which lead both of them look like got beaten.

After reading the content twice he understands why Huo Yun'er stormed the Dai family mansion and the elders were quiet about it. Although there's missing detail but he doesn't care, the elders deserves to be punish by Huo Yun'er since they have gone back behind his back. Only his wifes are the only one he can trust. Good things he ask Huo Yun'er to go see the Duchess for help.

He then order his subordinate not to anything and Huo Yun'er action will not be punish with that he continue working wondering how long will it take to return to the Dai family.

With all the chaos happen Huo Yuhao just return back to his home and began to experimenting with spiritual power, he want to create something that can grow and helping him.

He suddenly thought about martial souls, everyone has same but different martial souls they also have different innate soul power. Huo Yuhao want to try an idea to give his martial souls an awareness and companion in the future.

Right now he was building a system that can be used universally by anyone he tried using his previous dream as an example to calculate the difference power stages between everyone.

He used the system level of soul masters as a based and try to improve it further. What he discovered were shocking to himself, it turn out everyone has different soul state. The higher the level you get, the higher pure soul power you got.

There's some case which you have a pure soul power from birth but they can be corrupted if your soul power doesn't have much quantity.

Huo Yuhao stopped researching this idea, for now he didn't have enough understanding of soul power right now. So he want to see would it be possible to change someone spiritual perception.

Suddenly his body were hugged by his mother and she lead go after afew more minutes. Huo Yuhao silently listen to his mother sad and sobbing words never to do something without her knowledge. He just nod and tell Huo Yun'er what's currently he was going to do and subconsciously test his ideas on his mother.

Huo Yun'er action suddenly stop as Huo Yuhao spiritual power wrapped around her entire body. Then Huo Yuhao spiritual power then enter her body and slowly becoming her spiritual power as he suddenly collapsed and were catch by Huo Yun'er, but there something else in the entire gaze.

Huo Yuhao somehow managed to subconsciously create his spiritual body and watch as his physical body collapsed and trying to stop his body from falling. Only to sense his small body with his mother eyes, he was shocked and searching for his mother.

Finally he got a response within his being, her presence seems to be a star in the darkness. She ask worriedly if he was ok since he wasn't responding to her. Huo Yuhao tried another way and managed to transmit his message through his mother.

Huo Yun'er sigh in relief and doing nothing. Huo Yuhao was confused as to why she doesn't say anything to which she replied there's nothing better than being by his side to take care of him.

Huo Yuhao realised that he was experimenting on his mother and he felt ashamed for doing this without her permission. Which somehow his mother can detect and said you can do anything you want just don't hurt yourself in the process.

He was perplexed as to why his mother seemed more calm than him and could detect his emotional state. Huo Yuhao tried making his mother make an action she normally wouldn't do, which seemed to make her either follow or question him. Huo Yuhao replied this way I can't hurt myself while telling her what to expect, she seemed to drop her guard entirely and said okay but don't do anything improper to herself which he agrees. Huo Yuhao managed to explore the limits of his skill inside Huo Yun'er mind.

Huo Yuhao has somehow managed to enter her mind while also having two visions of himself sleeping at his mother's leg while rubbing his body with his mother's hand which make him feel more safer than usual. But when he tried to control both person it seemed to be disaster as he somehow put his body inside his mother's belly and her body seemed to enveloping himself.

He quickly managed to control both person by doing a simultaneously different action with each other, and making different movements and action at different intervals.

When he was proficient enough to make both person movements like original action and even feel like themselves his mother seemed to communicate expertly and he seems to be embarrassed to act like his mom and himself.

He tried to distrart himself for somehow to think and talk with both person. He seemed to notice his spiritual power were a slight of it gone, most remain inside of him and the rest transformed into his mother spiritual power.

He let both himself and his mother to sleep like they normally do, his mind also return to his original place.

The next day he saw his mother cuddling him and seem to not want to let go. Huo Yun'er seemed to retain her memory when Huo Yuhao was doing experiments and shows a lot more interested compared from her previous action. She said her son has fulfilled her wish to not let himself get hurt while also the first time he ask for help from her.

Huo Yun'er also ask is this what the Duchess teach which Huo Yuhao said a part of it is from the Duchess and the rest is his ability. She then went to hugged Huo Yuhao and say of how proud she felt that he can do it, but she ask him not to used it for selfish reason and have to ask permission first from other person you want to try it except when you're in danger.

Huo Yuhao agreed since he want to change the Whole world to be a better place, he need to became a figure that they can trust and lead them to fight against the injustice.

Huo Yun'er seemed to know his mind and tell him that she will support him in changing the whole world into a better place which shock him and he answer she just knows him to well.

Huo Yuhao feel embarrassed and ask her to go together to visit the Duchess and tell him about this new skill he have created. She can give him another perspective and besides he already trust her like a second mother. Huo Yun'er seemed to be angry, and he also said that my real mother is always you and no one can change it. Huo Yun'er seemed to feel more happy than before.

He has to be careful not to think something that can easily be misunderstood especially since his mother somehow has the ability to feel what I am thinking. And I also has the ability to understand her action.

We need more information and the Duchess was already expert maybe she can help us understand my new skill.