As Zhou Fan sank into his soul space, he got a weird feeling. It almost felt as if his soul could leave his body, but he knew that such a thing was impossible for him.
After all, he had the decision during his ascension to nascent soul but chose to have it fused. The thought didn't stop Zhou Fan from acting on the feeling as he let the feeling out of his body.
As he did so, a dome shaped and invisible sensation swept out of his body and covered the house. It felt as though his eyes were focusing on every single inch of the area. Without even opening his eyes, he could tell every detail around him.
As per usual, Zhou Fan quickly made up a name for this action.
Divine Sense.
He named it divine sense due to the fact that he felt like a divine being overseeing the area around him. He pushed his divine sense to the limit and it covered the entire house. Even though he was in his room, he knew that there were 4 ants on the table, 3 mosquitos around the house and a singular grasshopper under the cabinet.
As he saw them, an idea came to Zhou Fan's mind. He attempted to control his divine sense to attack one of the ants. As he tried, the invisible and non-existent divine sense seemed to congeal and push a pressure onto the ant.
Without resistance, the ant was smashed and died. The pressure that he could release through his divine sense wasn't much, but it was more than enough to kill an ant.
Zhou Fan didn't stop with the ant as he killed every pest in the house in order to learn how to better control his divine sense.
After the last kill, Zhou Fan was much better at controlling it. It was nearly effortless to control his divine sense now.
Even so, Zhou Fan was able to estimate that his divine sense could only exert 10 pounds of pressure. Although he could perhaps focus that pressure on someone's eye, he still felt that it was too weak to use.
Hopefully it would improve as he continued to cultivate.
After making sure that he wasn't missing out on any other new features, Zhou Fan started to focus on the next order of business.
He remembered mentioning that he would find a way to produce absorbable Qi without having to be there personally to Cao Lin. Zhou Fan had to sit there and ponder for a while in order to figure out how he could possibly do that.
After an hour of thinking, Zhou Fan came up with an idea. Zhou Fan walked out of his house and went to one of the edges of the cave. As he touched the wall, he sensed the area using metal Qi and soon found a fairly big piece of ore.
As soon as he felt it, he dragged it towards him by manipulating the earth and was able to see it. It was the size of a house and Zhou Fan used Wind Qi to keep it floating in the air. With the ore in hand, he compressed into a ball no bigger than his head.
He then squished it like dough and formed a square metal sheet with a thickness of 2 inches.
As he theorized earlier, Zhou Fan infused the metal with a fair amount of Qi and made it much stronger than before.
He proceeded to infuse Fire Qi on his finger and draw a horizontal line on the plate, which was infused with the Qi.
As he watched the line and waited for it to settle within the plate, Zhou Fan was feeling a bit worried. He had no idea if this would work and didn't know what to try next if it failed.
As he watched on nervously, the line soon settled and became a part of the plate.
When Zhou Fan saw this, he was ecstatic.
'It worked!'
Or at the very least, the first part worked. Moving onto the second step, Zhou Fan infused some Qi into the dormant metal plate that instantly lit up.
The metal plate acted as a conduit that transferred the Qi to the line which also lit up. When the line lit up, a horizontal flame appeared on the plate. The flame was hot and would have melted the plate if Zhou Fan didn't enhance it.
What was surprising was that the fire that lit up on the plate contained miniscule amounts of Fire Qi that was slightly released into the world. Although it wasn't even one thousandth of what Zhou Fan could produce, it still marked a major point of success.
Looking at it, Zhou Fan named it 'Formations'. He had a feeling that creating a fire wasn't all it could be used for.
As he watched on, the plate burned for 5 minutes before the Qi Zhou Fan put in was used up. Zhou Fan wasn't disheartened since he put an extremely small amount of Qi into the plate previously.
Since he used one ten-thousandth of his Qi the first time, he attempted to activate it with one hundredth this time. As soon as the Qi touched the metal plate, the plate exploded and sent out a burst of flame with it.
As Zhou Fan stood there with ash on his face, he shrugged his shoulders.
"At least it can be used as a bomb." He said optimistically.
Zhou Fan once again found a big ore and repeated the process, this time with Demon Qi. As he tested it with one thousandth of his Qi, the plate trembled, but didn't explode.
Once the line made with Demon Qi was activated, it released a sinister aura that would send a chill through any mortal's body. Although nothing materialized like the flame, he could sense the invisible existence of the Qi being released. If someone touched the line, they would be slowly drained of their life energy.
Now that he knew that both Demon Qi and Fire Qi worked, he needed to try it on a bigger scale and in different ways.