Star Luo Empire
At night.
On the way back to the Tang Sect.
Fan Lin was flying with Yun Ming. They were already very far from the delegation place due to them following Infernal King Harosha. He was a Quasi-god and his speed was really fast.
Fan Lin and Yun Ming were returning to the Tang Sect hideout in the Star Luo Empire.
"There's this one thing that I want to ask, my spirit power has been stuck at the same level for the past two years, there's this shield like thing that's stopping me to reach the higher level. Tell me what is wrong with me?" Fan Lin said to Yun Ming in his usual tone. It seemed like he wanted to ask but his words were like he wasn't asking but demanding for the answer.
"Well that's the boundary between the spirit Abyss realm and spirit domain realm. It is like a thin film around the spirit Abyss realm. It is the restriction placed by the planar ruler to the mortals as spirit domain realm is required to reach level 99 limit Douluo stage. It is the shedding of mortality and ascension to the path of reaching Godhood."
" When a person becomes a limit Douluo, the planer laws on them are eased as they have a passive resistance towards it and they are able to create their own laws in a limited space. That is their domain. A power similar to the planar ruler but on a really small scale."
" When a person becomes a God, then the restriction on him is completely erased as a God has immunity to this type of planar laws. They are free and they can even break the laws of the planes at their own will or create a new plane. That is the divine realm and also the only way to ascend to Godhood left now."
"Now onto your problem, it looks like the planer ruler is suppressing you. The rate at which you grew is something that is really unfair to others, and your personality is something that's... hard to describe, along with the fact that you possess a danger to anything you don't like. The planar ruler doesn't want you to grow stronger, that's why you have not reached the spirit domain realm. With your strength, you should have reached that realm a long time ago." Yun Ming said to Fan Lin.
"So that's why, and my cultivation speed is not something that I was given for free, I worked hard for it. During those five years, the amount of sleep I had were less than 100 hours. 100 hours! For whole five years, I was training, cultivating, learning and that's all I had done all those five years. I haven't enjoyed a single day in my life till now. There hasn't been a day, where I haven't done something that will benefit me later. I wasn't a freak of nature or something, I gained every bit of my strength with my own two hands. I didn't took any treasures nor did I had any shortcuts cut to reach higher level, I madly trained for this strength that I have now. It wasn't bestowed to me nor was it given and nor did I gain a lucky encounters or had a teacher to teach me everything I wanted to learn. I did all the things alone." Fan Lin said with his usual emotionless voice.
" You call my speed unfair, Wulin was not even a soul emperor one and a half years ago. Now he is a soul Douluo, has attained spirit domain realm and his body is slightly weaker than my past peak. He has everything he need and that is unfair. Not me."
" Well , do you want to kill him then?" Yun Ming asked in concern.
" Will you care for an ant that is slightly stronger that others?" Fan Lin replied.
He continued," because I don't."
Yun Ming asked," Well exactly how strong are you? You are level 85 Soul Douluo but your strength is between the hyper Douluo and Limit Douluo. It's is impossible to possess that kind of strength at your level."
Fan Lin said," My strength should be on the level of limit Douluo, well I can easily kill others limit Douluos but I don't know your strength, So if I fight you and find that my strength is weaker then I will just flee, you can't stop me even if you used every bit of your power, it's as simple as that. If I can kill you then you would be dead, if I can't then I will just flee."
Yun Ming continued," Then why is it that you didn't fear us when you met us last time, are you not afraid of death? But that contradicts the words you said last time. So why is it?"
Fan Lin replied," I am afraid of death but I am not a coward. I am afraid at those times when I can avoid death but at a cost... I am not scared if the death is in front of me. What's the point of being scared? It will not change anything, that is why I was not afraid of you guys, there was nothing to be afraid of because if you really wanted to kill me, then the outcome would not have changed even if I begged you guys to let me live. It's as simple as that."
He continued," and that was when I was weaker than you, thanks to you, my strength has risen a lot now and I can easily kill you guys, even if I can't kill then just like I said before, I can flee and you won't be able to stop me. All because of the advice you gave me, it opened a new path for me that I have not paid attention to."
" Let's stop talking now and try to reach Tang Sect fast. If there is an another attack then they will die a pointless death." Fan Lin said to Yun Ming.
They both arrived at the sect and Fan Lin bade him farewell.
Fan Lin returned to the vast ocean. He returned to his training place and started training.
The reason why his strength sky rocketed was because he layered his soul power.
In more easy to understand words, he re-cultivated but this time he filtered the soul power with his first and third soul skills and absorbed the purest form of soul power. The sea has enough for him to last a long time so he didn't need to worry about over usage and he can just move to another place if he thought that the energy was getting lower.
He absorbed the purest soul energy and then layered it above his previous soul energy. He kept repeating the steps just like placing bricks for a wall. The bricks above will press on the bricks below, making them set on their place.
He re-cultivated a total of 87 times in the past five months.
He even formed a new soul core when he re-cultivated for the 70th time. His old soul core was already damaged and was not able to hold all that power, hence the creation of another soul core. This time his soul core was far stronger than before.
If his previous soul core was a level 6 soul missile then his new soul core was a level 9 one. The disparity between the two was a lot.
His soul power was also enhanced quality wise. If a single point of his soul power was like a bullet from Beretta m9 then now a single point is like a missile from a rocket launcher. The disparity between them was once again a lot.
His physique also grew stronger, stronger then it originally was, even though he had not fully recovered his physical body was far stronger than his peak.