CHAPTER 15
"This is millennium soul fruit and it comes from the Spirit Tree, one of the variants of Tree of Life. Although it is called a millennium fruit, if you combine the years from when the fruit blooms until if ripens, it would sum up to a total of 20,000 years. 10,000 years to bear a flower, 2,000 years to bear a fruit and another 8,000 years to ripen. And the Spirit Tree can only bear 100 fruits for every 100,000 years," Er Xie explained. This shocks Xie, wouldn't he explode if he tried to consume that?
"Your body will not explode but the mental strength will. After that your mental strength will transform into Mana. Mana is the second stage of the mental strength. Not many people knows about this because the only way for mental strength to transform is to have a 500 mental strength before reaching Soul Master. However, I did not expect that it will happen to us, the first person to have mana after million years." Er Xie added.
"Won't I be an experimental subject if powerhouses notice that I do not use mental strength but instead mana?" Xie worriedly asked. As of now, he has no power to protect himself or the Martial Soul Hall will do anything to an unripe fruit like him.
"Worry not, even super powerhouses will not be able to tell that you are using mana unless you tell them. Powerhouses may be more sensitive to soul power and mental strength but they cannot tell the difference between it and mana since mental strength and mana has the same source as it transforms from it." Er Xie explained. With this explanation, Xie sighed in relief. He could not let anything happen to him before he was able to know the secret behind his identity.
After everything was set, Xie ate the Spirit Fruit, with the guidance of Er Xie he was able to direct the energy of Spirit fruit to his body. However, after that he felt the most painful thing he had never experience in his life. His Sea of Consciousness was exploding. After an hour, his Sea of Consciousness was shattered to nothingness, but together with this was the extreme coldness that Xie was feeling.
Er Xie told him to hold on not to lose his consciousness because the next step needs him to be fully aware of what will happen since this can help him in the future.
Xie tried his best to remain conscious like Er Xie said and moments later his shattered Sea of Consciousness was seems like taking into shape. Guiding the shattered pieces to form was a gentle and calm blue light. Er Xie said that it was the mana that was helping him redo the Sea of Consciousness.
Moments later, the Sea of Consciousness came to form and it became much smaller but more stable. Aside from that he felt something on his right chest, he asked Er Xie what is that thing on his right chest, Er Xie said that it was his Mana Heart.
Er Xie explained that the Mana Heart has the same concept as martial soul, the more ring it has, the stronger it becomes. However, martial soul needs to absorb rings but Mana Heart form it. After reaching a specific level a ring will voluntarily form in the Mana Heart.
"Wait, since I have now mana, can I still open the other chapters?" Xie worriedly asked again.
"Mana is the second stage of mental strength and also the combination with your soul power. If you understand how mana works, you can use it to convert mana to mental strength or soul power or vice-verse." Er Xie explained. Then Xie tried to analyze how can he disintegrate his mana. While he was doing his thing, Er Xie went to the Phoenix blood that are cultivating.
After 4 days, Er Xie was now forming the Phoenix Eggs, out of the 30 phoenix drops of blood, 10 are from the Fire Phoenix, 10 from Ice Phoenix, 5 from Demon Flame Phoenix and 5 from Golden Crow. Since Bing Chuan has a Fire and Ice dual Elements, he fuse 5 drops from Fire Phoenix and Ice Phoenix.
Since there is no possibility that he can make a pure phoenix, he risked chances to make hybrid phoenix. He fused the remaining 5 drops of Fire Phoenix and the 5 drops of Golden Crow, while the remaining 5 drops of Ice Phoenix are fuse together with the Demon Flame Phoenix. Er Xie was not sure whether the forming of the Phoenix Egg will be successful but if it does not, there will be still benefits.
After that, Xie woke up, Er Xie gave the fused Ice and Fire Phoenix essence to Xie and told him the made up story, then Xie went out of his room.
To complete his acting, he went out of his room looking tired as if he was drained. He was seen by San Tong and asked him what happened but instead of answering, he told him that he should meet Bing Chuan. San Tong felt the urge of Xie to meet Bing Chuan so he called for him.
When Xie saw Bing Chuan, he run towards him and fed him the essence. After that, Xie stood up straight and explained what is happening.
"After several attempts, this is the only success. I fed the impure phoenix blood with my soul power and mental strength but the previous attempts failed because I will be drained before the blood even gets enough. However, thanks to that my level increase and I am now at level 14. As for the reason why I looked like that when I went out of my room was because I am feeding the blood and it is almost draining me. Thankfully, I successfully fed it to Bing Chuan before I got drained and failed again." Xie explains. Inside his heart, Bing Chuan was really thankful to Xie, even if he only manages to gave him one of thirty he was still extremely grateful. Inside Bing Chuan's body, he felt something that he had never felt before. Seconds later he was screaming in extreme pain as if he was being tore up. His body was heating but at the same time it was cold.