Origin Soul

The sun's beautiful rays of golden warmth covered Zhuyan valley inside QingSu city, where the Zhou sect was situated. A young girl was slicing through stacks of bamboo while the man was sitting cross legged on top of a tree giving her pointers.

"Qiu'er, I've seen enough of the first stances of the nine sword dance art. If it is really how you said, show me the highest one you are able to do and we will go from there." Zhou Ye raised his voice slightly.

"En, ok" she nodded her head and sat down on a rock with her eyes closed.

"Nine Sword Dance Art!" The pure Qi within her body began to rumble and shoot towards the tiny formation in her palm which converted it into sword Qi. Her eyes abruptly opened and a sharp aura gushed out of her. She soared up into the air and her gaze fell towards the field of tall bamboo. A sharp glint appeared in her eyes as every stance from the first to seventh stance was displayed all at the same time through illusory versions of herself while she stood still in the middle of it all.

"Eighth Stance - Heaven Breaking Sword" Her lips curved upward and all of the sword Qi condensed into a jade colored light sword decorated with lotus petals around its handle. An enormous roar rang out and when she swung the sword slicing the first wave of bamboo stacks. A gigantic sword arc swept through the field and the every stock of bamboo In the field was cut in half.

"How was that?" She asked Zhou Ye and laughed when she saw his reaction.

"Holy Emperor, this girl... she reached the 8th stance at the 7th level of body tempering.." He muttered before he regained his neutral face and spoke out, "What a showoff"

"Hahaha, how is it showing off? I am just showing you what I learned" Zhou Xinqiu teased Zhou Ye while her eyes curved into crescents and her smile radiated pure mischievousness.

"You didn't have to destroy the whole bamboo field. Now that pesky scenery keeper is going to kill me." Zhou Ye muttered while still having a slightly shocked reaction on his face.

"oops" she awkwardly smiled and looked down as if she was ashamed but in reality she was really excited. Even she didn't know that the eight stance of the nine sword dance art was this strong.

"Well, that's enough on this Nine Sword Dance Art for now. Take a look at the last scroll next." Zhou Ye handed the last wooden scroll to her which also looked like an ordinary scroll but on a second glance one could see that it was a bit abnormal.

"Thousand Heavenly soul imprint - Man Tier, High Level" When she opened the scroll all the information suddenly flooded her mind. "First scripture, Ten Bronze soul imprint. After the mortal body is created, a tiny soul is embedded into it inside the mother's womb, the origin soul. As the child grows, the origin soul does as well, both in strength and intellect. This soul, not the mortal body, is the child. When the soul grows to a certain point(Soul transformation realm), it no longer needs the shelter of the mortal body and can unlock its true power indulging itself into every attack and thought making the might and speed of each attack exponentially stronger and faster. The soul is the man while the mortal fleshy body is his weapon." She read each word on the scroll many times before continuing to the next piece

"The Thousand Heavenly soul imprint is a technique which in its peak form is able to rival a technique above the Qifu Palace Realm, above the sky tier. This technique is a strenuous and pain filled path, it requires separating pieces of one's origin soul before they reach the Soul Transformation Realm. (realm after Qifu Palace) One must use these origin soul pieces (Soul essence fragments) to manifest palm imprints and stack them on top of each other to make them stronger and have more power. The first ten imprints would make up the first level encompassing the Body Tempering stage." The scroll continued on talking about how to pinch off pieces of the origin soul and how much was fine to separate before the soul would become damaged and have no way to return back to its previous state.

When she awoke from the comprehension state, Zhou Ye was sitting in front of her cultivating as well before he opened his eyes when he sensed her gaze.

"Uncle, I have read the scroll" she put the scroll down and conversed with Zhou Ye

"This technique is very powerful but what a shame, we only have the incomplete version, the one we have only goes to the second page which is for the Qi Circulation realm."

"Ah, its ok, after all I am only at the body tempering stage, something that high wouldn't benefit me currently anyway"

"Hm, well firstly you should try to successfully create one imprint and then continue from there" Zhou Ye explained before he left Zhou Xinqiu to cultivate in the valley.

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After trying to create a soul essence fragment for many hours and continuously failing, Zhou xinqiu stood up in despair and tried reading the scroll again. However, no matter how many times she read it , there wouldn't be anything new that could help her.

"Grandmaster Qin" Zhou Xinqiu called out waiting for a response but it was to no avail and so she took a strand of qi and smashed it into the Heaven Defying blood hammer residing in her core.

"ARGHH, WHAT IS SO IMPORTANT THAT YOU ARE DISTURBING GRANDMASTER!?" the ancient voice rang out once again in her mind before Qin Gong's illusory figure appeared in front of her.

"Ah, it seems like you were asleep" she awkwardly stared at the figure and smiled.

"It is fine it is fine I am just a bit cranky after that stupid hammer wouldn't let me sleep all night, what do you inquire?" Qin Gong yawned and looked at her

"Have you heard of the Thousand Heavenly Soul imprint?" She furrowed her brows and asked.

"What? Say that again?"