12 . Beginning

"First things first, I need to improve the king's cultivation technique as promised, if I had more time I could simply use the many different ways to break the oath but I can't afford to waste time breaking the oath when I can simply carry out things as promised. This will also help me reduce my karmic debt besides, being a prince will give me the stability necessary for my plans."

Xerxes muttered to himself as he got a scroll from a bag laying beside him.

He opened the scroll and carefully read its content.

The scroll contained King Ming's cultivation technique 'pure flame manual '.The technique aimed to achieve control over all fire energies but it was nothing more than a mortal cultivation technique, its grasp on fire control was rudimentary at best and outright laughable at worst.

The manual claimed that for one to achieve control over fire, one must become fire itself. The cultivator achieved this by absorbing fire energies into his body to temper so that it gradually becomes used to the energies.

" Hmmm, not a bad idea but it is too harmful to the weak human body, it would be more suitable for fire-attributed beasts. fixing it so that it suits humans will take about a quarter a day."

Xerxes continued scrutinizing the technique while fixing its flows. After some time, he finished fixing the flow of the technique. He then proceeded to add on the technique so that it can enable one to reach at least the soul ascension realm.

He made it to reach only the soul ascension realm because he believed that it was more than enough to fulfill his promise.

Xerxes then sent out a message using his soul power. The message was to inform the king to pick his cultivation technique from in front of the door to the cultivation chamber and to also inform him that no one was to come near the chamber for at least five years.

Xerxes after ensuring that he will have some peace, went on to put up sealing, defense, concealment, and bewildering formations in the chamber.

Xerxes then sat in a meditation position to start his seclusion.

"Now, the most urgent matter is my soul. This body is too weak to contain my soul, if I don't deal with this issue right now, this body will explode within five months. The only solution now is to seal about 99.6% of my soul. This will limit the techniques I can use and most of my memories will be sealed, sigh resurrection is no easy thing to achieve especially if one is as powerful as me."

" The only technique that can seal my soul is the nether sealing technique which I created long ago to seal the nether domain, it will take at least four months to finish ."

After carefully thinking through the entire plan, he started sealing his soul.

The chamber became extremely quiet.

After about one month, screams of tremendous pain could be heard from the chamber. This went on for months then the screams gradually stopped.