True to the director's words Hong Meng who now goes by Luo Yun became one the top students in the facility where he excelled at hiding and tracking skills but most importantly strategy and mind games to the point many of the instructors gave up trying to read expression or body language which he had perfected himself to the extreme that he became obsessing with hiding his emotions and changing his body language to changing into a suitable body refining technique and modify it to his goals.
After his training was over instead of working for the fireflies he was transferred to the ears of the organization as they called them and sent to one of the biggest trading cities in the content and stationed at the high-end restaurants for cultivators to gather any information that could be sold.
Within a few short months, he became one of the best Intel gatherers and even earned the nickname the Ice Man for his indifferent facial expression when not at work.
Lou Yun at that time was having the time of his life because he never had this kind of freedom with this freedom he realized his dream was too small and wanted more but the only way to have more was to become stronger which at that time he completed his growth at 6 foot 2 height with a lean and athletic body.
After this, he began to research many ways to come to dead ends but his patience paid off one day in the form of a drinking gossip where he heard a master dug out his disciple's meridians in the form of punishment.
After a little bit of digging even found the man who did it and the technique which was called demonic devouring claw.
Using his connections in the city he acquired the technique used after practicing the technique he knew the perfect way to do it.
He knew cultivation needed the trinity of the spirit, mind, and body. This is represented by the spiritual root, the soul sea, and the Dantian but after some research, he found that he could use spiritual meridians to replace the function of his spiritual root.
These spiritual meridians were special constitutions that helped with converting pure qi to your own by adding your essence to it.
By combining different procedures he came up with a way to take, store, and plant these meridians with the help of techniques, formation, and pills.
After finishing his preparations in secret from his peers to make his getaway after only 7 months of work he began to see a pattern after the end of the contract, many of his colleagues stayed working but those who were very good or knew too much would find themselves in accidents that took their lives.
Lou Yun didn't want to end up like them so he needed to prepare for departure.
Lou Yun's plan went very easily because of his choice to change his real name with advice from the director and Luo Yun became more thankful as time passed.
But like the director taught him
"Everything that can go wrong will go wrong"
Things started to get sideways from the start when he wanted to use the devouring demonic claw on a poor fellow with false Dantian that no one cared about.
As he was starting to carefully extract the meridians in the form of essence his body instinctively reacted and started to extract the essence of the man's spiritual root which was impossible as far as the cultivation world knew but it was happening in front of him.
He didn't want to find out so he forcefully stopped the technique which killed the poor fellow that became his Ginny pig.
Lou Yun was in shock that he couldn't think straight for a few minutes. But after calming his heart Luo Yun like always started to analyze what caused this phenomenon and how this new variable.
Because of this delay, he had to start over and tried to find cases of people whose spiritual roots had been taken but to no result instead, he found an answer in a book written by a demonic cultivator about transplanting whole physiques.
And mentioned in passing that a void spiritual root can be changed if it finds the ideal environment but didn't go into detail about it because of the main goal of the experiment.
The other came from the famous story of the profound yin sect's genius experiment and as Luo Yun searched for the true story he found that the heavenly genius wasn't in love but seduced the woman to do his bidding and experimented and found the ideal spiritual root and physique that could cultivate with anyone and made his cultivation scripture derived from the yin-yang sect and profound yin sect's scriptures.
However, the sects found out about this experiment and wanted to obtain the end product. The heavenly genius knew that he couldn't keep all of this for himself when he was this famous.
So wanted to hide before the experiment was finished and killed the woman and ran but didn't get too far before the profound yin sect caught up to him and snatched his full experiment before he committed suicide.
The profound yin sect had been dealt a major blow but they recovered their profound yin scripture when they tried to learn this new scripture they released it contained a major flaw in that this scripture could only be learned by a man that has a complete yin-yang spiritual root.
They tried to find and create this physique through breeding but they realized this kind of physique couldn't be produced naturally so they gave up on it and sold it to the yin-yang sect who did the same thing until they abandoned it.
But Luo Yun could practice this scripture because he could create his specific spiritual root.
Based on the book Luo Yun started to experiment and wanted to find the ideal conditions. After another 8 months of experiments later in which time he passed the two-year mark of his contract and had to sign another one.