Divine Twin Soul Physique

"Special Physiques?" Shen Lei hummed in thought, crossing his arms, "But aren't they just a legend?" he asked, head tilting to the side.

He'd come across mentions of them before in a few books, but he'd never read about anything confirming that they were real.

"No, they're very real," Meng shook his head, "You can trust me on this. It's just that they're so incredibly rare on top of being hard to notice sometimes. Less than one in a million are born with a special physique and they tend to appear randomly."

"Okay, I'll take your word for it," Shen Lei hummed, "And going by your words, you think I have one?"

"Indeed," Meng nodded, "If I'm not wrong, this should be the Divine Twin Soul Physique and it explains your bottleneck. From what I know, it is a special physique that allows one to inherit an almost identical soul and have a body capable of housing them. The problem is, those with the physique won't inherit the full soul until they reach the exact same age and cannot go a full realm above the inherited soul until then."

Shen Lei's eyes widened in shock. That made so much sense now. His other self, the one he inherited the memories of, he had come from a place where cultivation was believed to be fictional, so of course he could not cultivate himself. And as such, because of that, Shen Lei himself could not ascend beyond the first realm into the second!

" ...It's a good thing my other self died at only fourteen then, if he lived a full life I would have been stuck at this realm for decades," Shen Lei breathed a sigh of relief, shaking his head, "And here I thought these kind of physiques were supposed to provide amazing benefits."

"It's a mere minor draw back, trust me," Meng snorted, "And you were just unlucky to inherit a soul that apparently had no cultivation. If you had inherited the soul of say an Immortal Ascension cultivator, the echoes of that soul would have quickly let you ascend to that level as well."

Unlucky indeed. If it was a soul like that, he may already be approaching that realm right now.

"But that is a minor thing in comparison to the real benefits this physique provides," Meng continued, "The Divine Twin Soul Physique doubles everything. The rate at which you recover, the rate at which you can absorb the energy, the rate at which you comprehend things and most of all allows you to gain a second element attribute which you can freely use."

Shen Lei's lips twitched into a smile, "So what you're saying is, this physique will let me grow twice as fast?" he asked, excited.

Meng shook his head and huffed, "You're thinking far too small you smelly brat," he admonished him, "It's far greater than that. Indeed cultivation wise, it will double the speed at which you cultivate. But not only that, it will double the amount of energy you can take in while cultivating, double the speed you adapt and take it in and process it into your own qi and even doubles the increases in power you receive upon ascending stages and realms."

Shen Lei gaped, "....That...."

"Seems you understand what I'm getting at, at least a bit," Meng snorted, "Everything is doubled, and thus culminative. The speed at which you cultivate compared to before, could easily reach five times, more even, possibly even ten times and you will see much more increases in your power than others would at the same realm.

The teenagers legs shook a bit beneath him, his body almost going numb as he processed the sheer amazingness of what he just heard. "....Truly worthy of being called a legendary physique."

Heaven defying talent? That was almost small time now compared to what he just heard.

"Hmph, your luck is something else you brat," Meng groaned and leaned back into his chair, "Even the soul you inherited is a boon, from what you told me, it has no attribute, so you'll be able to choose which attribute yourself by exposing it to one."

He could understand exactly why Meng considered the initial draw back of his physique a minor one. What were those small draw backs compared to the absurd benefits in the long run?

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Meng Wu Ya stroked his beard and stared at the entrance to the treasury building. Just a moment ago, that smelly little brat Shen Lei had just left and his mind was racing.

The boys talent could not be understated. He'd seen the two top disciples of the High Heaven Pavilion sect quite a few times, and in sheer talent, there was no doubt the boy was far superior to both.

The only one in this entire sect the boy lost out to in talent, even including himself, was his own apprentice Xia Ning Chang.

It was just a pity the boy apparently had something wrong with him completely blocking him from reaching through the first realm, otherwise not even the sky would have been his limit.

Only, that was not the case anymore. Divine Twin Soul. To think the boy had it. It explained perfectly why he was bottlenecked so thoroughly, before even with his more than five hundred years of living he'd had no idea what was wrong with him.

It was a physique that did not at all lose out to little Xia's Sacred Spirit Medicine Physique. It was possibly an even greater physique. Give the boy a decade or two at most and he would surpass Meng Wu Ya himself at his peak even without going up to the Tong Xuan realm.

Immortal Ascension? Hah, that level would be but a fly to that lad in the near future. If he wasn't cut down before he had enough time, that boy would stand atop this lower world and none could hope to overcome him.

And not only that, "...Such a powerful and dense yang qi," the old master stroked his chin, "That older guy is in the True Element realm and yet his own yang qi is much weaker."

That bottleneck the boy had went through, it in of itself was an amazing boon as well if thought through. All the efforts he went through in the last year to break through had allowed him to build up an incredibly power yang qi foundation. That little brat was probably capable of punching out fourth realm cultivators as he was right now in just pure physical ability.

"What do you think of him?" he asked to the empty room.

A moment later, his apprentice appeared at his side, she'd been here since Yang Kai had entered the building and hadn't left yet, "I don't really know him enough to form an opinion master," Xia Ning Chan pointed out, "Though, his talent cannot be denied, and his persistence and refusal to give up through that absurd bottleneck he had is admirable."

Meng stroked his beard once more, "Would you be fine with him?" he asked. Usually, he would not at all be happy with that smelly brat of all people helping his apprentice with that, but with his physique...it could vastly increase the benefits his own apprentice would get from the Building Dew Of Nine Yin.

Little Xia's own talent could not be underestimated. While she was 'merely' at the peak of the fourth realm, that was because he had sealed her cultivation partly and blocked her from ascending to the next realm. He wanted her to building her foundation more so that the benefits she received upon ascending realms would be much greater. If not for that, she could possibly be in the sixth realm right now, despite being so young.

The Building Dew Of nine Yin only appeared once a year though, on July seventh. Two months from now. And for little Xia to get it, she would need a man with a powerful Yang qi's help, whom had to ingest it orally and then pass it on to her. If the yang qi was too weak, the benefit would lower. But, Shen Lei had perhaps one of the most if not the densest Yang qi he'd ever felt. And with his physique....the benefits his apprentice would receive from it, he could scarcely imagine.

"....He's much preferable to the last one," she admitted, giving him a half hearted smile, "We still have two months, if we can't find a better candidate, I'll be fine with Shen Lei."

Meng sighed, shoulders slumping. He was afraid of that. Honestly, he might even prefer if it were Yang Kai, at least that little brat was still a virgin for the moment.