"Heh"
Asura smirked coldly as he looked at the ghosts and a cold glint flashed in his eyes.
When I master the offensive skills, I will destroy your souls and collect all the karma. Asura thought to himself as he sat back in the chair.
"Meowwwww"
Just as he was about to sit down, a loud meowing stopped him in his tracks. He lifted his gaze and saw a cat's soul floating towards the reception desk. It really is a soul, not a ghost, as souls and ghosts are different. The soul floated towards the desk swiftly and stood on it, looking confused about how to proceed forward.
Asura smiled faintly looking at the soul and utilized his newfound powers and mouthed the mantra 'Sivaya Namaha'. A faint golden glow appeared on his palm and a small mystical rune surfaced from the palm. Like a snake, they traveled towards the soul and swiftly coiled around the soul and brought them inside the protective curtain and coiled around the soul.
The cat didn't fight back and it seemed to be enjoying the golden chains around it. Asura chanted the mantra continuously and pushed the power in him towards the chain. It glowed brighter and brighter and coiled around the soul, which was around the size of a tennis ball. After completely covering the soul, the chain flashed intensely for a second and retracted back towards his hand, bringing along with it a tiny golden ball. The size of a penny.
Asura smiled in satisfaction as he looked at the golden coin. He held the coin in his fingers and stared at it. The front of the coin was branded with mysterious symbols and a stairway in the middle. He flipped the coin and saw a lifelike etching of the cat on it.
"You will get moksha little cat," Asura mumbled to the coin and let it rest on his right palm, which sucked it inside the palm.
What he did was give moksha to the lost souls that got trapped between the two worlds. He utilized a skill in inheritance which gives moksha to the souls, by taking a tiny part of their souls in return for sending them to the other side. The coin is the soul asura got from giving moksha to the soul.
In the inheritance, it says there are many uses for these soul coins. They can be used to cultivate the techniques and improve the efficiency of one's own soul, and they are also used as a type of currency among them.
All animals will have neutral white-colored souls when they die, and most animals can't retain souls to live on after death. As they just dissipate after death, the only exceptions to this are like the cat that just stumbled into the hotel.
Ghostly places like this hotel attract nearby ghosts to enter them, as these hotels also work as a transit line between the human world and the ghost realm.
Right, the Ghost realm. The land where ghosts reside.
Ghosts can use these mysterious buildings to travel back and forth between realms. As for how these buildings allow the transit and why they were even chosen is a mystery. The inheritance didn't specify anything about these matters, or maybe due to the limited inheritance, the amount of information I received did not dwell on the deeper mystical things.
"Anyway, I should be lucky to have gotten the inheritance and have superpowers. If the truth of the world was out for everyone to see, the whole world would go crazy. As I know, this world is not as simple as it seems. Now that I have proof and power to back it up, it seems every myth and legend seems to be real. "
After going back to the room, I will start the cultivation technique in the inheritance that teaches how to use the soul coins and soul power of the world to level up my soul power.
Feeling pretty pleased with the gains, Asura's mood lightened considerably and he relaxed on the chair, looking at the inheritance in his mind and understanding all the info in it as he waited for any other customer to enter the hotel.
But even until the end of the time, no other customer arrived and when the clock struck 3:00 am, his sight darkened for a second and he was back on the bed lying down in the same position as he was before. As the inheritance says, my soul was being transferred to the hotel, not my entire body.
"Okay, now it's time to check the cultivation technique and see what it does." Asura jumped out of bed as he was feeling very energetic and excited about everything that had happened today.
He quickly sat down on the ground and felt the cold seeping from the ground, but he adjusted himself and placed his legs and hands in a padmasana position(Lotus position), and closed his eyes. Then he started chanting a mantra in a low voice...
Author's Notes:
Padmasana: Lotus position or Padmasana is a cross-legged sitting meditation pose from ancient India, in which each foot is placed on the opposite thigh. It is an ancient asana in yoga, predating hatha yoga, and is widely used for meditation
Moksha: Moksha, also spelled mokṣa, meant Liberation from the cycle of life and death. But, for better understanding In here, Moksha refers to the liberation of a trapped soul onto the afterlife.