Four months after Asta broke through.
Asta was in his room, looking at the night sky, today he turned 13 and also reached the Peak of Spirit Expanding Realm.
His next step is to break thru to Spirit Forming.
A very unique and important step in cultivation.
Spirit Forming, a stage that gives birth to your Spirit, something that will stay with you, each Spirit is different. Some take the form of a beast, some a weapon, some an object and each have their unique abilities.
Forming your Spirit, not only requires to have a solid foundation, but the power and the kind of spirit that develops is something that depends on a persons talent.
Other than talent, significant aspect in the formation of a Spirit is the Arts, techniques and the quality of Spirit Energy.
All this factor in to create a Spirit, the created Spirit is something that requires attuning to it and raising it as a part of yourself.
Failure will lead to the Spirit taking over them, and the person himself will become a Spirit. A beast Spirit will become a Beast a weapon Spirit will become a Spirit Weapon, and so on.
A Spirit Weapon is a weapon with spirituality.
So, a Spirit is essential in the cultivator's strength and growth. A powerful Spirit will lead to a magnificent increase in power, a better chance of reaching transcendence.
In these four months, Asta had not only raised his cultivation but also fought against multiple people, against Peak Spirit Awakening Realm, Foundation Realm and also Severing Realm experts.
Properly making him secure his cultivation and also gave him great insights into his battle techniques, and he had advanced his battle arts.
Asta's battle techniques have reached advanced stage apart from one.
'Swift Wind Art' reached, advanced stage.
'Void Barrier' reached, advanced stage.
'Nine Sword Secret Art' reached, advanced stage.
'Myriad Secret Art' reached, initial stage.
The mastery of arts, divided into three stages, Initial, Advanced, and Peak stage, but there is something above it.
Transcendent Stage.
Transcendent Stage is when the technique, evolved by the practitioner to become unique. And then, this art will belong exclusively to themself.
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Asta walked to his father's room.
Inside a room, Asta's father seen looking thru a letter.
As he finished reading the letter, he furrowed his brows and sighed.
'The issue regarding the domain is getting bigger and bigger.' He thought.
He then saw his son near the door and immediately smiled.
Whatever worries he had, his son always produced a smile to his face, he had only one wife, and he cherished her enormously.
So much so that he did not marry again and entirely focused on raising Asta, as she had left Asta to him before passing away. A voice interrupted his thoughts.
"Father... Father. Hello." Asta said.
"Hmm... Ah, yes, tell me, what is it?" He asked, breaking out of his thoughts.
"I am going to attempt my break thru to Spirit Forming." Asta smiled.
"Are you sure?." His father inquired.
"Yes, Father. I feel like I have reached my limit and the natural course now is to Breakthru." Asta stated with confidence.
"Hm... Just be careful." His father stated. He had trust in him, and if he fails, even then it's fine as he can learn from his failure.
"And I want to leave the family and travel after I achieve Spirit Forming, is that okay?" Asta spoke hesitantly.
His father furrowed his brows, buried in his thoughts.
It's excellent for Asta to travel and improve. His strength will be adequate to protect himself. But he's still a bit reluctant.
After thinking for a while, he decided to let him go. As he wanted him to explore the world and grow strong enough to participate when the Flaring Secret Domain opens, and he can let him go in without worrying about him.
"Okay, fine, you can go but remember that you have to be back before two years." He sternly stated.
"Why?" Asta asked.
"Flaring Secret Domain will open." His father stated.
Asta nodded.
"Also, take Elise with you." His father continued.
"Why?" Asta asked.
"You need someone by your side, and she had already reached the peak of Spirit Expanding. She may even Breakthru to Spirit Forming." His father smiled.
"WHAT?" Asta was stunned.
"Hehe.. She did not say everything, just explained that she met someone who helped her in cultivation." He said. He enjoyed whenever his son was dumbfounded by something because he always had the funniest faces.
He stretched out his hands and ruffled Asta's head.
"Be careful and don't cause trouble." He said with a proud smile.
"Now, go and Breakthru, and leave, become stronger, but never forget, do not lose yourself, and remember to enjoy life to the fullest." He said as he waved his arms.
"Yes, Father." Asta beamed.
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In a room, Asta entered his Spirit Sea.
The Spirit Sea stretched to the extreme, entirely in blue giving off spiritual aura, as if filled with vitality, and above the sea was the golden script.
Asta sat in between the Golden Script and the Spirit Sea and started absorbing the energy from both of them.
He continued for a while to get the Spirit Energy accustomed to his body. Then started operating the 'Saint Spirit Divine Art', the fourth level of the art, and the Spirit Energy surged.
The fourth level of the 'Saint Spirit Divine Art'.
Raise the Spirit Energy and condense a core, then send your will to the Spirit Core. Lay down the Saint merit symbol, and connect the Spirit core to your body and mind.
As Asta did all this, suddenly his Spirit Sea shook and condensed into an enormous sphere, started condensing and became smaller in size. As the Sphere kept on shrinking, the aura rose, and finally, a desolate aura emanated.
The aura rose and gave off incomprehensible killing intent as if, it was born to kill everything in the world.
As this happened, the mysterious young man opened his eyes and looked into the void. Then, waved his arm, the space before him tore open and he stepped into it.
The space split open, and it was inside Asta's room, the mysterious young man looked at Asta sitting with his eyes closed.
He looked at him deeply, and as he was contemplating, a void opened, and a figure appeared.
She was a young lady with bright red hair. She did not say anything, just observed Asta.
After a while, the Spirit formed an amalgamation of his talent, techniques, strength and soul.
For the first time, Asta's soul came out and went into the Spirit Sea. A person's Soul is considerably significant to the cultivation.
A soul of a cultivator is quite weak, so, when entering the Spirit Forming, a cultivator sends the soul to his Spirit Sea.
Not only for the person's soul to be connected to the Spirit but also give the soul protection by hiding it in the Spirit Sea.
Finally, Asta's Spirit formed, it was a sword and was completely black as if, it's the void itself.
As soon as the mysterious young man and lady saw Asta's Spirit, they gasped out in shock.
"Ancient Chaotic Sword"
"Ancient Chaotic Sword"
Both stated at the same time.
"Unknown rank even in the upper realms, a bringer of chaos." The mysterious young man stated.
There was an anecdote written in his family, whoever awakens this Spirit will bring chaos, whether peace or destruction is unknown.
Surprisingly, Asta awakened this Spirit. As the mysterious young man was thinking, the whole area shook and a dreadful aura spread, as it did the sky turned, grey, the world rocked for a moment.
AHHHHHH!!!
Asta immediately screamed and passed out.
At the same time, all-powerful beings of the world, from the empires, organizations, and even secret establishment, hidden from the world, shivered and were amazed. They did not know where the aura came from and what it was, but they only felt danger from it, something they never felt in their lives.
The mysterious young man stunned, promptly raised his arms and formed a pattern, green, a circle with four symbols in the middle of it.
"SEAL!" He shouted.
Suddenly the entire room was covered in a barrier.
No more aura spread out the barrier.
Asta suddenly trembled and next to his Sword Spirit, an illusionary form. Then, the figure started to converge and formed a humanoid body, but it was impossible to see the face, it was blurry, and its entire body draped in a black aura.
The figure then stepped next to the Sword Spirit and picked it up. As if flawlessly in sync, the sword rushed to the illusionary body's hand and the aura doubled in an instant.
The duo floating in the air were stunned.
"Dual Spirits." The mysterious young man said, amazed.
"How many people have awakened Dual Spirits until now since ancient times?" He continued with a question.
"Seven." The young lady by his side replied.
"That's right, but some are dead, and some are missing. And currently, there is no one in the upper realm with Dual Spirits." He stated.
The young lady did not speak.
Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Hahahahahahahahahahaha!!! Ha!
"Worthily is a fate-defying existence." He laughed.
"Let's go." The mysterious young man ordered and left by opening a Void.
The young lady looked at Asta for a moment, smiled and left.
Time passed on, and Asta woke up.
As he did, he looked to his Spirit and when he looked at his Spirit Sea.
"WTF?"
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Note -
Spirit Awakening Realm
Spirit Opening - Opening the Spirit Sea.
Spirit Expanding - Expanding the Spirit Sea.
Spirit Forming - Forming the innate Spirit.
Just gave a basic overview of the Spirit Awakening Realm.