Chapter 155 - A way ahead and an opportunity

Aile looked around, indirectly telling him that if he is not planning to be hostile, why is there a need of this dark dome-like thing.

"I am sorry this is necessary due to a reason that I cannot divulge." The humanoid figure replied with the same voice that could not be identified as male or female, neither was it possible to know its emotion from his tone. But since he was called Uncle Blacky by the spirit, Aile concluded that at least the gender was male.

"Ok, can you tell me if there is any soul preservation or grounding item or consumable that could prevent souls from displacing here?"

The humanoid figure looked deep into Aile peering into him. After a second, the two visible eyes scanned Hazel. Immediately after, it disappeared, and the next instant, it was in front of Hazel and touched her forehead with one finger. The speed was so fast that Aile could not detect it.

One thing was certain there is no way they could compete in speed. The next instant, it disappeared again, reappearing on his original place.

"I can see that your partner has used the Soul Regrowth Art and she managed to cleanse its negative essence. So my guess is you have divided your partner's soul, and you want the fake one to grow more before her essence is absorbed back. I have a way to help the false body and soul not dissipate temporarily, so it can grow more before she is absorbed back into your partner."

"Oh, so you know about Soul Regrowth Art?"

The dark humanoid figure nodded.

"Is there a way to keep both body's alive?"

The dark humanoid said confusedly, "Why would you want that?"

"I just do, is there a way?"

The dark humanoid thought for a bit and said, "There are many treasures... but you will not be able to find it down here. So if you really want to preserve the soul you need to get much stronger and head to upper realms.. upper realms are..."

Aile cut its explanation, "I know different worlds and planes with more resources. What about that thing you said that will temporarily stop the soul and body from dissipating?"

"Well... It is a method to slow down the absorption. But it is still very damaging to the false soul and body and removes its consciousness. I doubt that you would want that."

Aile agreed he did not want it. He asked more about it or anything that could help. But the humanoid figure said no one has ever tried to keep the other one alive. As it is a method of cultivation and the absorption of the false self brings a big boon, so few people would know of a way to stop such a beneficial thing from happening.

In the upper world, soul type artefacts could change the nature of the soul, that could be of a possible help or at least extend the time of the false soul's life.

He said only people with soul mastery could find a more appropriate solution. He also pointed out that it was not an area he specialized in, and many other methods could possibly be a solution to the problem. But as he did not encounter such a situation before, he had no answer.

After all, in the division, Hazel's talent and future progression were reduced. No one would want to go through the problem of dividing everything and weakening one's own future and not merging back. So he was unaware of a means to keep one weakened.

With this Aile had some clue for a possible cure, soul type artefacts or people with mastery of soul could help. So he could search for those, at least he had a path and a possible route to a solution. With that, he thanked the dark humanoid.

"There is no need for that you helped her, I will be forever grateful. I also heard that you have a problem with the dark element?"

Aile was a bit embarrassed explaining his situation, but he did.

Hahaha

"Did your elders not tell you about this?"

Aile shook his head.

Hahaha, "Well, you do not have a problem, this is normal. So there is no need to worry about it."

Seeing Aile's confusion, he decided to explain, "Do you know that the concept of Light and Dark element is very complex. When one cultivates them, they are physically and emotionally changed by them.

Light is suppression and equality. If you cultivate the light element, your emotions will be suppressed, and the result of advancing is a focused mind and lack of attachments making one free.

This allows fast progression in cultivation, a clear head, and a mind devoid of emotion, only the logical side of thinking prevails. However, to avoid totally being numb, and start to feel, light cultivators will use one or two emotions as anchors to keep their sanity. As logical thinking without empathy and love could be very deadly. This is why those pompous holy people can claim to remove the whole dark element cultivators because they lack empathy and are brain dead.

The Dark Element brings the opposite, it intensifies the emotions. If they are not under control, one turns mindless. In anger, killing people, in greed, stealing and in lust, raping. To control themselves, dark cultivators choose a few seeds to vent their emotions often.

If you choose greed as your seed. Then stealing or collecting things will fill the greed seed and calm the other emotions from acting up.

The seeds will allow you to vent the desires in a controlled manner, so you do not fall into depravity. The hardest part of being a dark cultivator is when you are young and emotionally unstable, due to the imbalance of hormones in your body.

For normal cultivators, it will only take some meditation to restore your mind. But for dark cultivators, all emotions are multiplied so you will need to vent in one of your seeded-emotions and control yourself until you are ready. What seeds have you chosen."

"Lust and Greed."

Aile then felt a pressure scanning him. Aile had covered his light element behind the barrier created by space and time seal.

Aile only allowed the dark humanoid to peer into the dark-element and his dark seeds. Of course, he did not leave his soul vulnerable, he just made it so that his dark soul is visible, while the barrier remained. "Hmmm, your situation is a bit different, and I am not sure why it is so. There might be some other things at play here. But I think the same solution as others will work."

"What is that?"

"That is simple since you chose lust and greed as one of your seeds visiting some 'establishments' on regular bases will keep your emotion in check. You can calculate the time, each visit will keep you in control of yourself..."

Seeing the angry expression on Hazel's face, the dark humanoid said, "Or the much better option is spending some extra alone time with your partner."

So Aile figured out that his behaviour is, or at least, will be normal. He needs to take extra steps with his lovers to keep himself sane. However, it seems Hazel was unhappy. Based on this person's explanation, he was at fault for flirting with Ellie and Violet.

Hazel understood his excited state as extra lustful and blamed him for not keeping himself in check. He had managed to stop himself from doing anything too extreme while they were riding the same mount. So she was angry at Aile and rightly so, he could maintain his emotions in check with her and not do the same with Ellie and Violet.

Seeing the constant angry glares he was getting from Hazel, Aile wanted to change the topic. The dark humanoid came to the rescue immediately.

"Can you tell me how many people have entered the tomb, and what is their level of cultivation?"

"Over 100, a few at the 6th stage, around 20 at the 5th stage and the rest at 4th stage." Aile was sure that those 3rd stage cultivators will not dream of entering. After all, they were all lumped at the end of the line, and it is not like they can get anything under the nose of more powerful people.

The dark humanoid figure thought about something and then said, "Are you interested in getting my inheritance and a powerful artefact?"

Aile looked at it, confusedly.

"You see, I am not here voluntarily if you help me, and the little girl. Then I am willing to teach you everything I know and also give you a powerful tool."

Aile thought about it and then asked, "What kind of help?"

"You know, I am not a righteous cultivator, are you sure you will help? You have helped the young lady already. So do not feel obliged to help me as a result of the information I gave you. My request is not for the faint of heart."

Aile replied, "I am not necessarily a righteous cultivator, myself."

The dark humanoid did not beat around the bush, "I require you to slaughter everyone here."

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