Chapter 20

It has been a week since his engagement and Nie Li is now cultivating in his room. He had to replenish his soul force and had to supply Asura constantly with a huge amount of soul force since he is testing his new abilities.

"Asura, it is advantageous to cultivate with a demon spirit. My cultivation that was stuck in 1 star Gold rank went to 2 star gold rank. It would have been even faster if you didn't eat half of my soul force." Nie Li said to Asura, who didn't even bother replying.

"Tch.. Now he has become completely silent. It is a good thing because he used to irritate me before." Nie Li said.

"I heard that" said Asura.

"I know, you hear insults clearly. What are you doing with that much Soul force everyday? Even if I fight with a black gold rank, I still don't use this much soul force." Nie Li asked.

"I am testing all my abilities. This is the first time using them so, I end up using more soul force." Asura said.

"Due to that training of yours, I am not even able to sleep properly. You are testing it out in my conscious realm and destroy everything." Nie Li said.

"It is strengthening your conscious realm right? So, don't complain. And the soul force you are supplying is decreasing every day." Asura said.

"I can't help it, we have absorbed almost all the soul force in the surroundings. Anymore and no one will be able to cultivate in this city." Nie Li said when sensed someone outside.

"Nie Li, are you free?" a voice came from outside. Nie Li recognised the voice.

He opened the door and said "Ning'er, come in. I wasn't doing anything. Just finished cultivating."

"I got permission to enter the Heavenly Sacred Border. I wanted to go there since my cultivation had slowed down recently. Do you want to come? Ziyun is also coming." Ning'er asked.

'Nie Li, in his previous life heard something about a sword in that place. Nice, I was itching to get a sword. It's been a while since I used a sword.' Nie Li thought and said "Sure, let's go."

They left to the school to ask for permission for Nie Li. He was a genius who would be easily granted permission.

After the vice principal agreed, Nie Li and Ning'er were led to the entrance of the heavenly sacred border. Ziyun was already waiting there when Nie Li and Ning'er got there.

Ziyun ran and hugged him. The vice principal just looked at them and said "It is good to be young."

Nie Li separated from Ziyun and said " We can meet later. For now, let's train." Nie Li said while he said in his head 'We have to enter there fast. I can feel the soul force inside. That idiot Asura is sucking all the soul force in my soul realm.'

So, all three went in and after they entered, they were in a tunnel and immediately after that, the scenery around them changed rapidly.

'An incredible amount of soul force is entering my soul realm. If my soul realm wasn't as big as it's now, the soul realm would have burst.' Nie Li thought.

Ning'er and Ziyun fell on their knees and were holding their heads with a pained expression.

"Ning'er, Ziyun, start cultivating your techniques now. That should help your soul realm expand and increase your cultivation." Nie Li said, but they didn't respond or do anything.

Nie Li understood that they can't hear him so, he went to them and channelled his soul force to their soul realm and absorbed a little of their soul force.

This eased their pain a little and were now able to listen. Nie Li said "Now quickly start cultivating."

They both nodded and took the lotus position. They both started chanting their techniques and their soul realm constantly kept growing.

That wasn't the case with Nie Li. His soul realm wasn't even full, much less expand.

He moved away from them so as to not absorb the soul force around them.

He was walking around looking at the surroundings. There were different types of plants and trees.

Nie Li then heard someone speak in his head "What do we have here? A kid who can walk casually in this ground even though he is still in gold rank and just entered the heavenly sacred border."

"Ho! I can't believe some soul has the balls to even enter my consciousness and try to talk to me." Nie Li said and entered his conscious realm.

His consciousness enters his conscious realm and his body stops moving.

In the conscious realm, a soul of a old man was floating in a white space. Nie Li's figure appears there and said "No wonder you are still alright. You only managed to reach the entrance of my conscious realm. If you had entered it, you might have died in Asura's hands. He is currently itching for a fight."

"You sure are arrogant for a kid who is wet behind his ears." the soul said.

"We will talk about me later. Now, who are you and what do you want?" Nie Li asked.

"During the age of darkness... " the soul started narrating some story when Nie Li stopped him in between and said "I don't want to hear that shit. I have read about it in many books. Just tell who you are and what you want before I get bored and kill you."

"What an arrogant brat. Doesn't even know how to respect elders. I am one of the five founders of Glory City Ye Yan. Now you know how great I am." Ye Yan said.

"I don't care. Tell me what you want before I run out of patience." Nie Li said in an angry tone.

"I wanted to know what cultivation technique you are using that you managed to get to gold rank in this age, but looking at your cocky attitude, I think you just used some underhanded method to raise to gold rank. " Ye Yan said.

"I don't care what you think. I heard that there is some sword in this place. Tell me where it is and don't even try to plan anything. I will kill you if I notice something weird." Nie Li said.