A Ka was floating in the air. This Ka was about three inches big in size and was circular. Its skin texture was rocky and the Ka was red in color. It had four legs and a horn on its head. This was Rank 2 "The Strength Ka", that Yang Zhai had just refined.
This Refinement of the Strength Ka took several hours to complete.
Yang Zhai looked at the Ka and examined it carefully. After confirming that the Strength Ka was fine and there were no problems, he ordered it to enter his aperture. Yang Zhai did not need to enslave it, as he himself had refined it. The thoughts that were stored in its mind(its memory) were given by Yang Zhai himself. He didn't need to contaminate its will, as its will was created by Yang Zhai.
After storing the Strength Ka, Yang Zhai looked around himself and saw that nothing was wrong and the cave was completely quiet. He then stored the leftover materials from the refinement process in the Bloody-Storage Ka.
After doing that, he activated the Dug-Worm's second ability and restored the two pits to a condition that didn't differ from the surrounding ground. After the pits were filled, they looked no different from the ground surrounding them because of The Dug Worm's second ability.
Dug Worm had two abilities, one was to dig a pit and the second was to refill the pit that was dug by it to its original condition. And because Yang Zhai had refilled both of the pits with Ka's ability, it looked no different from the surroundings.
Then Yang Zhai pulled out a lot of Hell-Wood vines from the Bloody-Storage Ka, they were all Rank 1 Hell Woods. Then Yang Zhai started to spread the Hell Wood in the cave. He spread it in all directions. He even placed it in the tunnel that connected the outside with the inside of the cave.
After an hour, Yang Zhai was standing outside the cave entrance. He looked at the cave and then at the Hell Wood vine that was placed on the ground. This Hell Wood extended into the cave.
Yang Zhai activated a fire path Rank 1 technique and then ignited the Hell Wood vine. After he did that, he ran with all the speed he had. But he was only a little faster than a normal mortal and it was because he had been training for 2 years. If he wanted to increase his speed, he would need to use a cultivation method.
Yang Zhai kept on running and after a minute or so, he heard a loud explosion from behind. Even after he heard the explosion, he did not look back and maintained his speed. Yang Zhai reached a place where the Ice-Fire trees were in abundance and hid among them.
He hid around this place because of the mist that was covering this area. Because of the properties of Ice-Fire trees, the places that surrounded these trees were covered in mist all year around.
Yang Zhai hid there because he was sure that the elders would surely come to see the explosion site and what had caused it. As the cave was in rocky terrain, nothing happened to the forest.
Yang Zhai had made the cave explode because he wanted to be cautious. There were many methods in the cultivation world that could trace what had occurred in the cave and also because he was worried that he may have left some evidence behind. So, to be cautious, he made the whole cave explode.
Yang Zhai hid near the Ice-Fire trees for a few hours. After he was sure that no one was around, he left the place and started to walk toward the village carefully.
A few minutes later,
Yang Zhai was sitting on his bed in his room. He had already closed the door carefully. He pulled out the Strength Ka and looked at it again.
Then he pulled out two low-grade Essence stones. He knew that this Strength Ka would require him to use the Essence Stones for it to activate, because his essence water was only 59 percent and he was trying to activate a rank 2 Ka.
Yang Zhai summoned the Strength Ka in front of him and activated his Essence water. His Essence water started to decrease. After a few seconds, he was stunned inwardly but his expression remained the same. It was because the ability of the Strength Ka had been activated with only half of his essence water.
Yang Zhai was not expecting it. He had thought that he would need to consume the Spiritual Energy from the essence stone. This was a pleasant surprise for him.
"Could it be because of the Aurora's aura that I mixed in during the refinement process? I think so, because I know the exact refinement method to refine The Strength Ka. Even though I made some changes in the method because of some of the resources being unavailable, I am sure that nothing like this was possible. It can only be because of the Aurora, which was an unknown element I added." Yang Zhai contemplated.
Even though Yang Zhai had modified the method to refine the Strength Ka, he knew that it was not possible to reduce the consumption of the essence water needed by the Strength Ka.
Strength was floating above Yang Zhai's body. After the Strength Ka was activated, a gentle white glow covered Yang Zhai's entire body. Yang Zhai could feel that his body was becoming stronger. Not just that but even his essence water's strength was becoming stronger. But Yang Zhai could feel that his aperture wall was the same; there was no increase in his aperture wall, which meant that he was not advancing. That could only mean one thing and that was that only his essence water was becoming stronger but not his aperture. Even his body was becoming stronger, as the Strength Ka was made for making a person's body stronger.
However, this was also out of Yang Zhai's expectations. He had also used this Ka in his previous life and he knew everything about it, so much so that he was even able to modify the Ka's refinement method. Strength Ka's purpose was only to make a person's body stronger and nothing else, because it had only one ability.
Despite that, the Strength Ka Yang Zhai refined was able to make even his essence water stronger. Meaning, that it was a Ka with two abilities.
There were mostly two kinds of Kas with more than one ability: One kind was where the Ka activated the other abilities by itself if any ability of the Ka was activated. And the second kind was where a person could activate different abilities differently, like a Dug Worm Ka.
And the Strength Ka that Yang Zhai refined right now was of the first kind, as the second ability was activated by itself when he activated the first ability. Yang Zhai knew after the Strength Ka was activated that its first ability was to make his body stronger and the second ability was to make his essence water stronger.
Not just that, Yang Zhai could even feel from the aura of the Strength Ka that even though the Strength Ka was releasing the aura of a strength path, it was not a strength path Ka. It was also not on the blood path.
"It is quite strange, I am unable to grasp the path of this Strength Ka. A Strength Ka definitely a Strength Path Ka. But the Strength Ka that I refined is different. Despite that, the aura that this Strength Ka is releasing does look like the aura of the strength path, but I can feel that it is not." Yang Zhai thought and looked at the Aurora in his aperture. The Aurora was still floating at the bottom of the aperture and it looked normal. It was still around one foot in size and contained all kinds of colors.
"Interesting," Yang Zhai smiled and retrieved his gaze back to his room from his aperture. It was no point thinking about the Aurora for now. He would eventually discover everything about it with the passage of time.
Then Yang Zhai pulled out the Second-Life Ka and contemplated,
"I am sure that the boy that I used as a refinement material was poor. How could his parents find the Second Life Ka? Even if they somehow luckily obtained it, how did they know the use of this Ka? And there is no Rank 2 cultivator in his family as well and this Second-Life Ka cannot be activated by a rank 1 cultivator, how did the boy manage to activate this Ka?"
"There can only be two ways:First is that the boy obtained some kind of inheritance, but even with the inheritance, there is no way to activate a Rank 3 Ka with just a rank 1 cultivation. The second is that someone may have helped him. And nobody helps someone for free, there are always many things behind helping someone:Like wealth, love, riches, and many more." These were Yang Zhai's thoughts. This was a new thing even to him.
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