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There was three techniques in front of him.
The first one was the Elemental Sense technique, it was quite good, the only problem is that it was more focused on the human's soul, Krune could still cultivate it, but it wouldn't be as effective as if a human did so.
The second one was the Soul Protection technique, it wasn't focused in any race in specific, but it was used mainly on defence against all type of elements Divine Sense attacks, other than that it was quite weak in other areas.
The last one was called All Encompassing Soul Technique, it wasn't an attack or defence focused technique, but a miscellaneous one, its attack and defence weren't bad but couldn't compare with a real attack or defence technique, it's main focus was in the other uses of the Divine Sense like Formation Penetration or Elements Changing, simply put, it was an excellent technique for those who had side occupations, Krune didn't need to think much to choose this one, his soul is already extremely powerful due to his tribulation lightning tempering, it should make up for the techniques deficiency in attack and defence, not to mention that he had a side occupation which is alchemy.
'I wonder if I will be able to sync the elements in the pills I make over 30% if I master this technique.'
Soul cultivation techniques don't have realms like spiritual energy cultivation, their focus is in the possibility of a much better use of the Soul and Divine Sense other than just observe things, the limit of the technique lies in the user himself, how much he can learn and adapt to it is the key of the Soul and Divine Sense cultivation.
Krune didn't waste time, although he already got a cultivation technique that he should only be able to get after becoming a Legacy Disciple, there is still another things to be gain by formally becoming one, like the control over the Secret Realm and the resources available after it.
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Time passed and Krune's group had stayed inside the Mohie Sect Secret realm for over ten months already, just as Krune expected, Yusa and the others still haven't passed the ten levels of the soul endurance test, but Shinja was very close, she could already endure all the way to the last five Divine Sense attacks in the tenth level, it wouldn't take more than one or at most two months for her to finish the test.
Yusa and Ao had just reached the tenth level, but they haven't tried to endure any attack yet, it was already their limit to simply resist the ninth level entirely, Krune recognized that it should still take over four to five months before they get to finish the endurance test, but that is already an amazing progress.
It also shows how much higher graded the tempering power of the tribulation lightning is, even though their souls have been tempered through the Divine Sense attacks from the endurance test every single day, they are still a far cry from Krune's speed.
Everyone cultivation had also improved, with all the spirit stone that they got from the previous test, it would be surprising if they hadn't, not to mention that most of the time that Yusa and the others spent was meditating to recover their soul for another round of endurance test, so they could use that time for cultivating instead.
Yusa and Ao had already broken through the 6th level of the Foundation Establishment and had already stabilized their cultivations at the peak of the 6th stage, they should be able to breakthrough into the 7th stage in no time, Shinja didn't break through the Core Formation Stage, but her soul had become much stronger, which would be crucial for the Core Formation, she was confident that once she finished her soul tempering, she would be able to enter the Core Formation Stage even if she didn't have any special item to help with it. That was also her main reason for wanting to enter the Furiu Realm, but now there was no reason anymore, not to mention that being able to achieve the Core Formation Realm without the help of any items would be much better for the cultivator's future.
Krune had also achieved a breakthrough into the 5th stage of the Foundation Establishment, and he could have forced his way into the 6th Stage already if he wanted, but he opted for not doing so, he had been breaking through the stages way too fast, he could already feel some instability in his planet inside his foundation, so he opted for giving some time for his foundation to adapt to his current level naturally, although he doesn't have a long life span, he still have over 14 years before his time is over, there is no need to rush it to the point of prejudicing his future.
He had also opened his eighth Spiritual Energy Meridian, when he was opening the eighth one, he called the others over to take a look, especially Shinja who hadn't seen it before, she had also started to cultivate the Myriad Energies Technique, but just like Ao, she hadn't cultivated it in the past when her cultivation path started, so she had to start from zero as well.
Krune was in a training room trying out the Formation Penetration Divine Sense skill when he suddenly received a call from Yusa, not only him, but Ao and Shinja as well.
When they gathered, Yusa gave the news.
"I finally finished creating my last Pseudo Energy Meridian."
Krune and the others were surprised, it had taken a long time, but finally someone other than a wisp had achieved it, Krune and the others have been wondering if other races could create Spiritual Energy Meridians, but without anyone with all nine pseudo meridians created, it was impossible to test it out.
It was normal for Yusa to be the first to finish creating all nine pseudo energy meridians, after all, when she started cultivating, she had used the Myriad Energy Techniques to gather spiritual energy to open her normal meridians, so she already had the experience to form four meridians straight away.
"That's great, can you start straight away?"
Yusa nodded, she waited to recover to her peak before calling everyone.
"That's good, remember what I said before, even I took a long time and failed who knows how many times before being able to finally create the very first one, my disciple took even longer, so don't get dispirited just because you aren't able to get things done at first."
Yusa nodded again.
"Also, I still think that wisps have an easier time during the creation of the Spiritual Energy Meridian, you can see that when you think that you took longer than me or even my disciple who started from zero, but it might be because of the much higher life spans that you all have, unfortunately, we don't have enough information to prove this theory yet."
Krune looked at everyone and said.
"I will stay nearby just in case, this is an individual process and at most I can give you some pointers, this is bound to take a lot of time, so the rest of us will continue to do our own things, I doubt you will finish creating your first one in a months' time anyway, even for me it took over two weeks to get over with it, so take your time and don't rush things, if anything happens, just give me a call."
Everyone exited the room and gave space for Yusa to work, it was something that depended on her own comprehension ability after all.
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While everyone was doing their best to train in the Mohie Secret Realm, the mercenary and alchemist guild of Kaley City were in chaos, Krune had disappeared ever since he got the last mission for the Raskie Danger Zone, no one saw him or his companions as well, the mercenary guild was in an even worse state since Shinja was gone with him, both Krune and Shinja are extremely important for them.
Go Gao, the Kaley City Alchemist Guild supervisor and Lu Ganan, the Kaley City Mercenary Guild supervisor were talking in a private room about this issue, on one side, Go Gao seemed furious.
"I told you to give Krune to us, didn't I? Look at it now, he might as well be dead at moment!"
Lu Ganan retorted.
"Who the hell would give him to you? Besides, I told you a million times, he isn't dead, we still have a sliver of his spiritual energy in the mercenary guild, if he was dead it would have disappeared already."
"It doesn't change the fact that if you hadn't let him take that stupid mission, he wouldn't have disappeared!"
Go Gao simply didn't care anymore.
Lu Ganan, of course, wouldn't give a damn for what the alchemist said.
"I have sent people to look for him, but no trace was found, Raskie Danger zone is a fog forest with the power to hinder the spiritual sense, so there is little we can do about that, but the mission that Krune and the others had taken wasn't a dangerous one to start with, it would at most take some time to finish, but we went to the area where they could hunt the fog beasts necessary for that mission, but no one saw them at all."
Go Gao gave a helpless sigh.
"Could it be that the guilds from the other continents came to take him away? They might have convinced him that they have better resources to make him join them."
Lu Ganan went silent for a second.
"Although I consider it improbable, I can't guarantee that that isn't the case, but Krune doesn't strike me as someone who would give his back to those who extended a helping hand without at least giving a reason."
This time it was Go Gao who went silent.
"All we know is that he is still alive and so does Shinja and the others, if calamity really had struck them, at least one or two would have died, right? But they are all alive and kicking, I don't think anything bad happened to them, who knows, they might be training inside Raskie Danger Zone and lost the sense of time."
Lu Ganan was partially right, he was right that Krune and the other were training, but he was wrong in thinking that they lost the sense of time, they knew very well how long they were inside of the Mohie Sect Secret Realm, it's just that they didn't care about what both guilds thought about their disappearance.
Why would they care anyway? Krune's group never thought of themselves as some big shoot, Krune might have very big talents, but that was that, geniuses appeared and disappeared all the time, it was normal, in their minds, the guild wouldn't care much if he came back or not. The problem is that they didn't know that the Mercenary Guild put a lot of importance on Krune because of the Martial Gathering, they hadn't commented about that with Krune even once until now, so Krune's group can't be blamed.
As for Shinja, she had always been alone, those at the Foundation Establishment knew that she didn't care about what the others said, in her eyes, even if she disappears, at most they will think that se secluded herself somewhere and would eventually appear, some would even wish that she was dead, what she forgot is that by this time the Furiu Realm had already closed, so she doesn't have any reason to stay with Krune anymore, but since she disappeared together with Krune and kept at that even after the Furiu Realm closed, people started to think that perhaps she joined Krunes group, two super genius of the foundation establishment, how could the other teams in the sky rank not be preoccupied after hearing about it?
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Unaware of the ruckus outside, another month passed since Yusa started to create her own Spiritual Energy Meridian, just as Krune had explained to her before, it really took a lot of time, it seemed like wisps really had much easier time doing its creation, but then again, she couldn't complain, when she thought about how wisps lived and even their life spans, she understood that she had absolute no rights to say anything.
Everyone were gathered in the room where Yusa was resting after another few days of failures, they were having a chat to help her alleviate some of the stress, Krune knows better than anyone else how hard it on owns mind the process is.
After some time, Krune looked at everyone and then said.
"Alright everyone, let's go, Yusa is very close to succeed from what I saw last time, she just need a final push now."
Shinja and Ao nodded and were just about to leave with Krune when Yusa remembered something, she showed an evil smile and looked at Krune.
Krune felt a chill on his back when he saw that, Yusa licked her lips and said.
"If I'm successful, let me have a good time with you, I promise it won't hurt… much."
Krune immediately covered his crotch, his face showing fear!
"Wha- whatt will you try to do with me? I'm Feifei's only, I can't give my first time to anyone else, and I'm a loyal wisp!"
Yusa's face immediately darkened. Who the hell wants to do 'that' with you? That wasn't what she meant at all!
Ao and Shinja looked at Yusa with their jaws dropped.
"Yusa, we didn't know that you had those kind of feelings for Krune."
Shinja and Ao put a hand on one of her shoulders each.
"But we will help you if this is really what you want."
Yusa almost fainted right there and then, this was the first time she felt like beating Shinja as well.
"Feelings your head! Don't you remember how many times he laughed when he saw our pale faces because of the soul tempering? I want to get my revenge for that!"
Shinja and Ao finally understood what she meant, so that's what she was talking about.
Krune also let out a sigh of relief and shook his head.
"Why must you say such easy to misunderstand thing? For a second I thought that I would be forced to give you a child. Do you know how terrifying would it be for me to raise a child of yours? Stop frightening others."
Yusa heard that and smiled brightly at Krune.
Ao and Shinja backs started to sweat, without Krune noticing, they left the room and closed the door without any sound.
Ao turned to Shinja and said.
"I'll go outside find some incense to burn for Krune, would you like to come?"
Shinja nodded.
"We better get some extras in case he survives and we burn those ones by mistake, we can use them in the future."
Ao agreed with her, that it was a very good idea.
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There was three techniques in front of him.
The first one was the Elemental Sense technique, it was quite good, the only problem is that it was more focused on the human's soul, Krune could still cultivate it, but it wouldn't be as effective as if a human did so.
The second one was the Soul Protection technique, it wasn't focused in any race in specific, but it was used mainly on defence against all type of elements Divine Sense attacks, other than that it was quite weak in other areas.
The last one was called All Encompassing Soul Technique, it wasn't an attack or defence focused technique, but a miscellaneous one, its attack and defence weren't bad but couldn't compare with a real attack or defence technique, it's main focus was in the other uses of the Divine Sense like Formation Penetration or Elements Changing, simply put, it was an excellent technique for those who had side occupations, Krune didn't need to think much to choose this one, his soul is already extremely powerful due to his tribulation lightning tempering, it should make up for the techniques deficiency in attack and defence, not to mention that he had a side occupation which is alchemy.
'I wonder if I will be able to sync the elements in the pills I make over 30% if I master this technique.'
Soul cultivation techniques don't have realms like spiritual energy cultivation, their focus is in the possibility of a much better use of the Soul and Divine Sense other than just observe things, the limit of the technique lies in the user himself, how much he can learn and adapt to it is the key of the Soul and Divine Sense cultivation.
Krune didn't waste time, although he already got a cultivation technique that he should only be able to get after becoming a Legacy Disciple, there is still another things to be gain by formally becoming one, like the control over the Secret Realm and the resources available after it.
---
Time passed and Krune's group had stayed inside the Mohie Sect Secret realm for over ten months already, just as Krune expected, Yusa and the others still haven't passed the ten levels of the soul endurance test, but Shinja was very close, she could already endure all the way to the last five Divine Sense attacks in the tenth level, it wouldn't take more than one or at most two months for her to finish the test.
Yusa and Ao had just reached the tenth level, but they haven't tried to endure any attack yet, it was already their limit to simply resist the ninth level entirely, Krune recognized that it should still take over four to five months before they get to finish the endurance test, but that is already an amazing progress.
It also shows how much higher graded the tempering power of the tribulation lightning is, even though their souls have been tempered through the Divine Sense attacks from the endurance test every single day, they are still a far cry from Krune's speed.
Everyone cultivation had also improved, with all the spirit stone that they got from the previous test, it would be surprising if they hadn't, not to mention that most of the time that Yusa and the others spent was meditating to recover their soul for another round of endurance test, so they could use that time for cultivating instead.
Yusa and Ao had already broken through the 6th level of the Foundation Establishment and had already stabilized their cultivations at the peak of the 6th stage, they should be able to breakthrough into the 7th stage in no time, Shinja didn't break through the Core Formation Stage, but her soul had become much stronger, which would be crucial for the Core Formation, she was confident that once she finished her soul tempering, she would be able to enter the Core Formation Stage even if she didn't have any special item to help with it. That was also her main reason for wanting to enter the Furiu Realm, but now there was no reason anymore, not to mention that being able to achieve the Core Formation Realm without the help of any items would be much better for the cultivator's future.
Krune had also achieved a breakthrough into the 5th stage of the Foundation Establishment, and he could have forced his way into the 6th Stage already if he wanted, but he opted for not doing so, he had been breaking through the stages way too fast, he could already feel some instability in his planet inside his foundation, so he opted for giving some time for his foundation to adapt to his current level naturally, although he doesn't have a long life span, he still have over 14 years before his time is over, there is no need to rush it to the point of prejudicing his future.
He had also opened his eighth Spiritual Energy Meridian, when he was opening the eighth one, he called the others over to take a look, especially Shinja who hadn't seen it before, she had also started to cultivate the Myriad Energies Technique, but just like Ao, she hadn't cultivated it in the past when her cultivation path started, so she had to start from zero as well.
Krune was in a training room trying out the Formation Penetration Divine Sense skill when he suddenly received a call from Yusa, not only him, but Ao and Shinja as well.
When they gathered, Yusa gave the news.
"I finally finished creating my last Pseudo Energy Meridian."
Krune and the others were surprised, it had taken a long time, but finally someone other than a wisp had achieved it, Krune and the others have been wondering if other races could create Spiritual Energy Meridians, but without anyone with all nine pseudo meridians created, it was impossible to test it out.
It was normal for Yusa to be the first to finish creating all nine pseudo energy meridians, after all, when she started cultivating, she had used the Myriad Energy Techniques to gather spiritual energy to open her normal meridians, so she already had the experience to form four meridians straight away.
"That's great, can you start straight away?"
Yusa nodded, she waited to recover to her peak before calling everyone.
"That's good, remember what I said before, even I took a long time and failed who knows how many times before being able to finally create the very first one, my disciple took even longer, so don't get dispirited just because you aren't able to get things done at first."
Yusa nodded again.
"Also, I still think that wisps have an easier time during the creation of the Spiritual Energy Meridian, you can see that when you think that you took longer than me or even my disciple who started from zero, but it might be because of the much higher life spans that you all have, unfortunately, we don't have enough information to prove this theory yet."
Krune looked at everyone and said.
"I will stay nearby just in case, this is an individual process and at most I can give you some pointers, this is bound to take a lot of time, so the rest of us will continue to do our own things, I doubt you will finish creating your first one in a months' time anyway, even for me it took over two weeks to get over with it, so take your time and don't rush things, if anything happens, just give me a call."
Everyone exited the room and gave space for Yusa to work, it was something that depended on her own comprehension ability after all.
---
While everyone was doing their best to train in the Mohie Secret Realm, the mercenary and alchemist guild of Kaley City were in chaos, Krune had disappeared ever since he got the last mission for the Raskie Danger Zone, no one saw him or his companions as well, the mercenary guild was in an even worse state since Shinja was gone with him, both Krune and Shinja are extremely important for them.
Go Gao, the Kaley City Alchemist Guild supervisor and Lu Ganan, the Kaley City Mercenary Guild supervisor were talking in a private room about this issue, on one side, Go Gao seemed furious.
"I told you to give Krune to us, didn't I? Look at it now, he might as well be dead at moment!"
Lu Ganan retorted.
"Who the hell would give him to you? Besides, I told you a million times, he isn't dead, we still have a sliver of his spiritual energy in the mercenary guild, if he was dead it would have disappeared already."
"It doesn't change the fact that if you hadn't let him take that stupid mission, he wouldn't have disappeared!"
Go Gao simply didn't care anymore.
Lu Ganan, of course, wouldn't give a damn for what the alchemist said.
"I have sent people to look for him, but no trace was found, Raskie Danger zone is a fog forest with the power to hinder the spiritual sense, so there is little we can do about that, but the mission that Krune and the others had taken wasn't a dangerous one to start with, it would at most take some time to finish, but we went to the area where they could hunt the fog beasts necessary for that mission, but no one saw them at all."
Go Gao gave a helpless sigh.
"Could it be that the guilds from the other continents came to take him away? They might have convinced him that they have better resources to make him join them."
Lu Ganan went silent for a second.
"Although I consider it improbable, I can't guarantee that that isn't the case, but Krune doesn't strike me as someone who would give his back to those who extended a helping hand without at least giving a reason."
This time it was Go Gao who went silent.
"All we know is that he is still alive and so does Shinja and the others, if calamity really had struck them, at least one or two would have died, right? But they are all alive and kicking, I don't think anything bad happened to them, who knows, they might be training inside Raskie Danger Zone and lost the sense of time."
Lu Ganan was partially right, he was right that Krune and the other were training, but he was wrong in thinking that they lost the sense of time, they knew very well how long they were inside of the Mohie Sect Secret Realm, it's just that they didn't care about what both guilds thought about their disappearance.
Why would they care anyway? Krune's group never thought of themselves as some big shoot, Krune might have very big talents, but that was that, geniuses appeared and disappeared all the time, it was normal, in their minds, the guild wouldn't care much if he came back or not. The problem is that they didn't know that the Mercenary Guild put a lot of importance on Krune because of the Martial Gathering, they hadn't commented about that with Krune even once until now, so Krune's group can't be blamed.
As for Shinja, she had always been alone, those at the Foundation Establishment knew that she didn't care about what the others said, in her eyes, even if she disappears, at most they will think that se secluded herself somewhere and would eventually appear, some would even wish that she was dead, what she forgot is that by this time the Furiu Realm had already closed, so she doesn't have any reason to stay with Krune anymore, but since she disappeared together with Krune and kept at that even after the Furiu Realm closed, people started to think that perhaps she joined Krunes group, two super genius of the foundation establishment, how could the other teams in the sky rank not be preoccupied after hearing about it?
---
Unaware of the ruckus outside, another month passed since Yusa started to create her own Spiritual Energy Meridian, just as Krune had explained to her before, it really took a lot of time, it seemed like wisps really had much easier time doing its creation, but then again, she couldn't complain, when she thought about how wisps lived and even their life spans, she understood that she had absolute no rights to say anything.
Everyone were gathered in the room where Yusa was resting after another few days of failures, they were having a chat to help her alleviate some of the stress, Krune knows better than anyone else how hard it on owns mind the process is.
After some time, Krune looked at everyone and then said.
"Alright everyone, let's go, Yusa is very close to succeed from what I saw last time, she just need a final push now."
Shinja and Ao nodded and were just about to leave with Krune when Yusa remembered something, she showed an evil smile and looked at Krune.
Krune felt a chill on his back when he saw that, Yusa licked her lips and said.
"If I'm successful, let me have a good time with you, I promise it won't hurt… much."
Krune immediately covered his crotch, his face showing fear!
"Wha- whatt will you try to do with me? I'm Feifei's only, I can't give my first time to anyone else, and I'm a loyal wisp!"
Yusa's face immediately darkened. Who the hell wants to do 'that' with you? That wasn't what she meant at all!
Ao and Shinja looked at Yusa with their jaws dropped.
"Yusa, we didn't know that you had those kind of feelings for Krune."
Shinja and Ao put a hand on one of her shoulders each.
"But we will help you if this is really what you want."
Yusa almost fainted right there and then, this was the first time she felt like beating Shinja as well.
"Feelings your head! Don't you remember how many times he laughed when he saw our pale faces because of the soul tempering? I want to get my revenge for that!"
Shinja and Ao finally understood what she meant, so that's what she was talking about.
Krune also let out a sigh of relief and shook his head.
"Why must you say such easy to misunderstand thing? For a second I thought that I would be forced to give you a child. Do you know how terrifying would it be for me to raise a child of yours? Stop frightening others."
Yusa heard that and smiled brightly at Krune.
Ao and Shinja backs started to sweat, without Krune noticing, they left the room and closed the door without any sound.
Ao turned to Shinja and said.
"I'll go outside find some incense to burn for Krune, would you like to come?"
Shinja nodded.
"We better get some extras in case he survives and we burn those ones by mistake, we can use them in the future."
Ao agreed with her, that it was a very good idea.
There was three techniques in front of him. The first one was the Elemental Sense technique, it was quite good, the only problem is that it was more focused on the human's soul, Krune could still cultivate it, but it wouldn't be as effective as if a human did so. The second one was the Soul Protection technique, it wasn't focused in any race in specific, but it was used mainly on defence against all type of elements Divine Sense attacks, other than that it was quite weak in other areas. The last one was called All Encompassing Soul Technique, it wasn't an attack or defence focused technique, but a miscellaneous one, its attack and defence weren't bad but couldn't compare with a real attack or defence technique, it's main focus was in the other uses of the Divine Sense like Formation Penetration or Elements Changing, simply put, it was an excellent technique for those who had side occupations, Krune didn't need to think much to choose this one, his soul is already extremely powerful due to his tribulation lightning tempering, it should make up for the techniques deficiency in attack and defence, not to mention that he had a side occupation which is alchemy. 'I wonder if I will be able to sync the elements in the pills I make over 30% if I master this technique.' Soul cultivation techniques don't have realms like spiritual energy cultivation, their focus is in the possibility of a much better use of the Soul and Divine Sense other than just observe things, the limit of the technique lies in the user himself, how much he can learn and adapt to it is the key of the Soul and Divine Sense cultivation. Krune didn't waste time, although he already got a cultivation technique that he should only be able to get after becoming a Legacy Disciple, there is still another things to be gain by formally becoming one, like the control over the Secret Realm and the resources available after it. --- Time passed and Krune's group had stayed inside the Mohie Sect Secret realm for over ten months already, just as Krune expected, Yusa and the others still haven't passed the ten levels of the soul endurance test, but Shinja was very close, she could already endure all the way to the last five Divine Sense attacks in the tenth level, it wouldn't take more than one or at most two months for her to finish the test. Yusa and Ao had just reached the tenth level, but they haven't tried to endure any attack yet, it was already their limit to simply resist the ninth level entirely, Krune recognized that it should still take over four to five months before they get to finish the endurance test, but that is already an amazing progress. It also shows how much higher graded the tempering power of the tribulation lightning is, even though their souls have been tempered through the Divine Sense attacks from the endurance test every single day, they are still a far cry from Krune's speed. Everyone cultivation had also improved, with all the spirit stone that they got from the previous test, it would be surprising if they hadn't, not to mention that most of the time that Yusa and the others spent was meditating to recover their soul for another round of endurance test, so they could use that time for cultivating instead. Yusa and Ao had already broken through the 6th level of the Foundation Establishment and had already stabilized their cultivations at the peak of the 6th stage, they should be able to breakthrough into the 7th stage in no time, Shinja didn't break through the Core Formation Stage, but her soul had become much stronger, which would be crucial for the Core Formation, she was confident that once she finished her soul tempering, she would be able to enter the Core Formation Stage even if she didn't have any special item to help with it. That was also her main reason for wanting to enter the Furiu Realm, but now there was no reason anymore, not to mention that being able to achieve the Core Formation Realm without the help of any items would be much better for the cultivator's future. Krune had also achieved a breakthrough into the 5th stage of the Foundation Establishment, and he could have forced his way into the 6th Stage already if he wanted, but he opted for not doing so, he had been breaking through the stages way too fast, he could already feel some instability in his planet inside his foundation, so he opted for giving some time for his foundation to adapt to his current level naturally, although he doesn't have a long life span, he still have over 14 years before his time is over, there is no need to rush it to the point of prejudicing his future. He had also opened his eighth Spiritual Energy Meridian, when he was opening the eighth one, he called the others over to take a look, especially Shinja who hadn't seen it before, she had also started to cultivate the Myriad Energies Technique, but just like Ao, she hadn't cultivated it in the past when her cultivation path started, so she had to start from zero as well. Krune was in a training room trying out the Formation Penetration Divine Sense skill when he suddenly received a call from Yusa, not only him, but Ao and Shinja as well. When they gathered, Yusa gave the news. "I finally finished creating my last Pseudo Energy Meridian." Krune and the others were surprised, it had taken a long time, but finally someone other than a wisp had achieved it, Krune and the others have been wondering if other races could create Spiritual Energy Meridians, but without anyone with all nine pseudo meridians created, it was impossible to test it out. It was normal for Yusa to be the first to finish creating all nine pseudo energy meridians, after all, when she started cultivating, she had used the Myriad Energy Techniques to gather spiritual energy to open her normal meridians, so she already had the experience to form four meridians straight away. "That's great, can you start straight away?" Yusa nodded, she waited to recover to her peak before calling everyone. "That's good, remember what I said before, even I took a long time and failed who knows how many times before being able to finally create the very first one, my disciple took even longer, so don't get dispirited just because you aren't able to get things done at first." Yusa nodded again. "Also, I still think that wisps have an easier time during the creation of the Spiritual Energy Meridian, you can see that when you think that you took longer than me or even my disciple who started from zero, but it might be because of the much higher life spans that you all have, unfortunately, we don't have enough information to prove this theory yet." Krune looked at everyone and said. "I will stay nearby just in case, this is an individual process and at most I can give you some pointers, this is bound to take a lot of time, so the rest of us will continue to do our own things, I doubt you will finish creating your first one in a months' time anyway, even for me it took over two weeks to get over with it, so take your time and don't rush things, if anything happens, just give me a call." Everyone exited the room and gave space for Yusa to work, it was something that depended on her own comprehension ability after all. --- While everyone was doing their best to train in the Mohie Secret Realm, the mercenary and alchemist guild of Kaley City were in chaos, Krune had disappeared ever since he got the last mission for the Raskie Danger Zone, no one saw him or his companions as well, the mercenary guild was in an even worse state since Shinja was gone with him, both Krune and Shinja are extremely important for them. Go Gao, the Kaley City Alchemist Guild supervisor and Lu Ganan, the Kaley City Mercenary Guild supervisor were talking in a private room about this issue, on one side, Go Gao seemed furious. "I told you to give Krune to us, didn't I? Look at it now, he might as well be dead at moment!" Lu Ganan retorted. "Who the hell would give him to you? Besides, I told you a million times, he isn't dead, we still have a sliver of his spiritual energy in the mercenary guild, if he was dead it would have disappeared already." "It doesn't change the fact that if you hadn't let him take that stupid mission, he wouldn't have disappeared!" Go Gao simply didn't care anymore. Lu Ganan, of course, wouldn't give a damn for what the alchemist said. "I have sent people to look for him, but no trace was found, Raskie Danger zone is a fog forest with the power to hinder the spiritual sense, so there is little we can do about that, but the mission that Krune and the others had taken wasn't a dangerous one to start with, it would at most take some time to finish, but we went to the area where they could hunt the fog beasts necessary for that mission, but no one saw them at all." Go Gao gave a helpless sigh. "Could it be that the guilds from the other continents came to take him away? They might have convinced him that they have better resources to make him join them." Lu Ganan went silent for a second. "Although I consider it improbable, I can't guarantee that that isn't the case, but Krune doesn't strike me as someone who would give his back to those who extended a helping hand without at least giving a reason." This time it was Go Gao who went silent. "All we know is that he is still alive and so does Shinja and the others, if calamity really had struck them, at least one or two would have died, right? But they are all alive and kicking, I don't think anything bad happened to them, who knows, they might be training inside Raskie Danger Zone and lost the sense of time." Lu Ganan was partially right, he was right that Krune and the other were training, but he was wrong in thinking that they lost the sense of time, they knew very well how long they were inside of the Mohie Sect Secret Realm, it's just that they didn't care about what both guilds thought about their disappearance. Why would they care anyway? Krune's group never thought of themselves as some big shoot, Krune might have very big talents, but that was that, geniuses appeared and disappeared all the time, it was normal, in their minds, the guild wouldn't care much if he came back or not. The problem is that they didn't know that the Mercenary Guild put a lot of importance on Krune because of the Martial Gathering, they hadn't commented about that with Krune even once until now, so Krune's group can't be blamed. As for Shinja, she had always been alone, those at the Foundation Establishment knew that she didn't care about what the others said, in her eyes, even if she disappears, at most they will think that se secluded herself somewhere and would eventually appear, some would even wish that she was dead, what she forgot is that by this time the Furiu Realm had already closed, so she doesn't have any reason to stay with Krune anymore, but since she disappeared together with Krune and kept at that even after the Furiu Realm closed, people started to think that perhaps she joined Krunes group, two super genius of the foundation establishment, how could the other teams in the sky rank not be preoccupied after hearing about it? --- Unaware of the ruckus outside, another month passed since Yusa started to create her own Spiritual Energy Meridian, just as Krune had explained to her before, it really took a lot of time, it seemed like wisps really had much easier time doing its creation, but then again, she couldn't complain, when she thought about how wisps lived and even their life spans, she understood that she had absolute no rights to say anything. Everyone were gathered in the room where Yusa was resting after another few days of failures, they were having a chat to help her alleviate some of the stress, Krune knows better than anyone else how hard it on owns mind the process is. After some time, Krune looked at everyone and then said. "Alright everyone, let's go, Yusa is very close to succeed from what I saw last time, she just need a final push now." Shinja and Ao nodded and were just about to leave with Krune when Yusa remembered something, she showed an evil smile and looked at Krune. Krune felt a chill on his back when he saw that, Yusa licked her lips and said. "If I'm successful, let me have a good time with you, I promise it won't hurt much." Krune immediately covered his crotch, his face showing fear! "Wha- whatt will you try to do with me? I'm Feifei's only, I can't give my first time to anyone else, and I'm a loyal wisp!" Yusa's face immediately darkened. Who the hell wants to do 'that' with you? That wasn't what she meant at all! Ao and Shinja looked at Yusa with their jaws dropped. "Yusa, we didn't know that you had those kind of feelings for Krune." Shinja and Ao put a hand on one of her shoulders each. "But we will help you if this is really what you want." Yusa almost fainted right there and then, this was the first time she felt like beating Shinja as well. "Feelings your head! Don't you remember how many times he laughed when he saw our pale faces because of the soul tempering? I want to get my revenge for that!" Shinja and Ao finally understood what she meant, so that's what she was talking about. Krune also let out a sigh of relief and shook his head. "Why must you say such easy to misunderstand thing? For a second I thought that I would be forced to give you a child. Do you know how terrifying would it be for me to raise a child of yours? Stop frightening others." Yusa heard that and smiled brightly at Krune. Ao and Shinja backs started to sweat, without Krune noticing, they left the room and closed the door without any sound. Ao turned to Shinja and said. "I'll go outside find some incense to burn for Krune, would you like to come?" Shinja nodded. "We better get some extras in case he survives and we burn those ones by mistake, we can use them in the future." Ao agreed with her, that it was a very good idea.
