Terms & Conditions.

Harry left the Star Association to meet his mother.

Before meeting her, Liam's father invited him over.

Currently, Harry is sitting with Liam's father, Daniel, in a garden, admiring the beautiful scenery. Despite his nervousness, he tried not to show it.

Daniel, the king, poured tea and served Harry. "Thank you for saving my son. I am grateful," Daniel said.

"No.. he is my friend. I just helped him as a friend," Harry replied with a nervous smile.

"You can ask me for anything you want," Daniel said with interest.

Harry initially didn't want anything, but then he remembered why Liam had brought him here to meet his father. He then said, "Can I get information about a person?"

"Of course, if it's within our reach," Daniel replied.

"It's nothing major. I just want to know if someone named Jason Smith entered the domain 17-18 years ago," Harry explained.

"I think that's a fair request. It'll be easy to find out. You can ask me for anything else," Daniel said with a gentle smile.

"Just protect my mother," Harry asked.

"She can stay here as long as she wants. This is the safest place in this city, and I will ensure her safety," Daniel assured him.

"Thank you," Harry said with a slight bow, showing his sincerity.

"Give me five minutes. I will ask someone to gather the information." Daniel stood up and gave instructions to a servant.

The servant returned in five minutes and spoke with Daniel.

"I don't know if this is good news or bad news. We couldn't find any information about a person named 'Jason Smith,' but something is wrong with the time you mentioned. All the data from a certain month has been deleted," Daniel said.

"Can you tell me which month it was?" Harry asked.

"I believe it was September," Daniel replied.

'Is it a coincidence that my dad also left for domain in September? No, it can't be,' Harry thought.

"If this person can delete information from the Star Association, then you should stay away from him. He must be at the top of the ladder," Daniel said, sizing up Harry.

He couldn't understand why Harry wanted to know about someone who had the power to erase data from the Star Association database.

"Thank you for the information," Harry said, and then went to see his mother.

His mother was cultivating her Qi.

"I got selected for the Philosopher's Academy. I'll be leaving for it tomorrow," Harry said, sitting beside Samantha.

Samantha opened her eyes. "I'm happy for you. Just don't do anything dangerous," Samantha said, patting Harry's head. "I don't want to lose you," she added, hugging Harry.

Harry nodded in response.

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That night, sitting in one of the training rooms, Harry went through all the books he had obtained from the ring. He found three books and some notes.

One of them was titled "Shadow Punch." After reading all the information in the book, he was amazed by the technique. There were detailed notes on how to master it.

In this technique, you can disguise a surprise soul attack within your physical attacks. The person you are fighting will be ready to defend against the physical attack, but when it connects, they will suffer injuries to their soul.

Although there aren't many soul cultivators, but people usually learn how to defend against soul attacks. With this technique, they will be unable to defend against the soul attack.

The next book was titled "Soul Eater." It was a skill that involved devouring souls to increase one's soul cultivation, and it had a sub-skill called "Soul Search." Once he devoured a soul, he could access its memories to some extent, depending on his level compared to the devoured soul's.

Although he wouldn't kill someone to devour souls, if he somehow got the chance without doing anything immoral, he wouldn't hesitate to become stronger.

The last book detailed a technique called "Soul Refinement." According to it, this technique was created by the founder of the Soul Clan.

It had many technical terms about purifying soul energy and condensing it to its limits. With the help of the notes, Harry was able to understand a few concepts.

In the end, there were some notes related to how someone could transfer their soul. Harry learned that every time someone transferred their soul, they would lose their soul cultivation.

Despite this downside, there was a reason people did this: normal soul cultivators can't enhance their Qi cultivation quickly, and many have minimal Qi.

So, they transfer their soul to someone with high Qi cultivation. That's how they gain the best Qi cultivation along with their soul cultivation. They can always increase their soul cultivation later after a soul transfer.

However, this wasn't useful for Harry since he wouldn't do anything like that, and he already had a system that could enhance his Qi cultivation, unlike others.

He held a black sword in his hand. cutting his finger,he let the blood drop onto the sword.

The sword started shining and then began to float in mid-air. He grabbed it and suddenly felt a slight surge of power. It wasn't significant, but he swung it left and right, and there were no side effects as noted.

The notes provided information about the sword.

According to them, the sword reacts to someone's desires, most likely dark desires. The more dark desires someone has, the more power they can wield, but with that power, the sword tries to take control of the user.

It is more likely to provide power in desperate situations, such as when you want to protect someone or desire someone's death, and then take advantage of that situation to take control over the user's body.

Additionally, the soul of the dead person will be sealed in this sword, and the user can increase their soul cultivation with it.

They also mentioned that conditions can vary for different users.

"I think I don't have any dark desires, but I should refrain from using it frequently," Harry thought.

Harry shifted his attention to the other two books. There were detailed notes, possibly written by the leader, so he started going through them and practicing.

The Soul Eater skill was easy to learn, but he found out a downside of it. The user would suffer the pain that the person endured while dying.

Sometimes, a skill user could lose their mind if the soul's owner had suffered intense pain for days before dying.

"It seems I should be careful using this skill. I don't want to suffer pain," Harry thought while practicing Shadow Punch.

Shadow Punch was more complicated because he had to hide every bit of soul energy in his punch. If he failed to conceal the soul energy while punching, the opponent could defend against it.

He practiced for two hours straight but was only successful in hiding a tiny amount of energy. At this rate, it would take years to learn even the basic level of Shadow Punch.

If he could hide the soul energy to some extent, it would be undetectable until the opponent came closer. By then, it would be too late for most to defend, but not for experts.

For experts, 0.1 seconds is more than enough to react. But what could he do about it? So he continued to practice.

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