As Xue Fang teleported home, the first place he went was the secret basement of Old Li, his guardian.
During the dark times when the human world was besieged by Supernaturals, many lives were lost, even to date, the human world hasn't been free from supernaturals, especially in less influential regions of human-colonized planets.
Unfortunately, Xue Fang's parents' lives were among, according to Old Li, he was just a baby when he was found in a trash bin, perhaps that was the only way his parents could protect him, however, unlike many other orphans, Xue Fang found it hard to harbor feelings of revenge against Supernaturals, and since he was one of the many who couldn't harness the ability of a Soul Will, he had long since played the role of a normal citizen and followed the flow of reality.
Inside the basement, in front of Xue Fang, was a dusty old shelf, piled with old dusty books.
A few days ago, Xue Fang had actually practiced The Perching Phoenix, a cosmic body art.
Cosmic body arts are martial techniques created to refine one's body to a higher level of purity, they are techniques that make the body embody a cosmic egg, feeding it with the spiritual energy of Heaven and Earth while the egg starts its journey of hatching into a universe.
Practicing Cosmic body arts comes with benefits, it allows practitioners to break through levels of body enhancement without having to enter the HighRealms, unlocking skills steadily after reaching the required levels.
Old Li was a professor in a military academy and part of the team that developed Cosmic body arts.
However, none of his created techniques was acceptable since most of them do more harm than good, in the worst case, disabling the practitioners, hence he was banned from creating any cosmic body arts
Since Old Li's main reason for becoming a professor was to create his own Cosmic body arts, he felt there wasn't any reason to stay any longer, so he left the academy and went into Yang Spirit tea farm.
Old Li had died as a result of practicing one of his latest Cosmic body arts which was no rare occurrence for anyone who dared to practice them.
Xue Fang could see the refining technique books but dared not practice the techniques, looking at them, a feeling of dread washed over him, even last time, he had only practiced The Perching Phoenix for a few seconds because of fear of disability or even death.
Normally, when a Cosmic body art is to be released for use, it is encrypted in chips with passwords that can be changed according to the user's preference.
However, since Old Li had been banned and all his created Cosmic body arts had been destroyed, these were the only ones described in book formats.
Another thing Xue Fang was pleased about was that, to obtain a Cosmic Body Art, one had to come from an elite family. Because of this, elite kids—whether or not they chose to enter the HighRealms—achieved a higher level of enhancement than some hunters, thanks to the Cosmic body arts.
Even without claiming Soul Coins, Cosmic body arts act as hacks for one's Soul Will.
Xue Fang was so hasty to practice, how he was able to sense a Common-grade Soul Avatar that didn't exude aura and most especially, that Hunters with high levels of enhancement couldn't noticed
This was still a mystery to him, normally, a level-one body enhancement could only enhance the skin into smoothness, level two to three would enhance certain body attributes like antibodies and may let the body be immune to certain common illnesses according to the world medical record on Hunters.
Although this could be considered a super enhancement, it was still trivial compared to the enhancement of certain levels. Up to some levels, a hunter would start unlocking certain skills and bloodlines.
Up to level ten, the body parts of a hunter would have been enhanced to certain extents one after the other before collective enhancements continued thereafter.
After level ten, a hunter could start awakening their heightened senses to some extent.
However, in Xue Fang's case, he knew his Soul Will power was unharnessable but after practicing The Perching Phoenix for some seconds, he could somehow harness it, but the specific level of his enhancement was unknown.
"Did I just pull Sixth Sense off back there?"
Xue Fang's mouth was agape, his mind wandered to how he had detected the energy-sucking leech.
Although it was a Common-grade Soul Avatar, however, it was still a great feat for him, after all, the contestants with enhancement levels of over 50 were unable to pull it off.
"I shouldn't blame them, it wasn't that they were incompetent, even though there is much power difference between two Common-grade Soul Avatars if the slain Common-Level Supernatural had earned some Noble Soul Coins"
This was the most plausible answer,
There were levels of Soul Coins,
Common Soul Coin From Baron to KingLevel are called Noble Soul Coins while from Saint to Holy are called Sacred Soul Coins with each level having some level at which they enhanced the body. However, only a few in all humanity have been able to gain the Saint Soul Coins, while none was known about Holy Soul Coins, perhaps, those having it would be some Godlevel creatures since sacred soul coins could unlock some Holy Skills and powerful bloodlines "Hmmm, is that really a Sixth sense?" Xue Fang wondered as he reminisced about the incident, during that time, he had actually seen some sort of value atop the energy-sucking leeches, at first, Xue Fang didn't give it any thought, but after seeing some sort of value floating around the contestants at random places in their body, that was when he alerted the next one after giving it some serious thought "That wasn't a Sixth sense, it was like I could see enhancement levels although not of the contestants" Xue Fang gave it some serious thought. "Have I unlocked a skill without even harnessing my Soul Will power?" "I can't even enhance my body" Xue Fang then started practicing The Perching Phoenix. Practicing The Perching Phoenix for several seconds was straining, Xue Fang could feel every fiber of his being shrinking, or in a more correct term, they were compacting as if limiting each other's space. Xue Fang felt as if his life force was condensing, and the more it condensed, the more every muscle, cell, and organ twitched firmly against each other as if limiting the space between each other. Xue Fang felt he was being subdued by an invisible force, the technique was so straining that every pore in his body opened and was perspirating. After a while he stopped, almost breathless, his body crumbled and he fell on the cold bare floor, lying down sprawled like a starfish. Then Xue Fang started feeling a soothing sensation within his muscles. The sensation was so specific that he could feel it up to his cells, like a cold soothing energy was being kindled in every cell, muscle, bone, and organ, energizing the fiber of his being. "It is like a calm after the storm" Xue Fang felt his body calm down, when practicing the technique, he felt as if a storm was raging inside his body, every fiber of his being shook with intensity under some unknown subduing force at that time, like he was commanded by a god to carry the weight of the heavens. Xue Fang hoped he could unlock another skill with this practice, although it was based on luck, according to statistics, the lowest enhancement level a hunter could unlock a skill was level 20, while Xue Fang was at level one, he couldn't even harness the power of his Soul Will, and most especially, some cosmic body arts needed a required level to practice to prevent risk of body disability. Now what Xue Fang felt was calmness, he calmed himself down and listened to his body sensation, how energy weaved its way into every fiber, most of all, he felt every fiber of his being becoming denser, as if dense energy was entering every cell, as if the powerhouse of the cell was being overloaded with dense energy. After a while, a pain erupted and Xue Fang cried out. "Old Li's technique is too potent! It seemed my body cells are filled with dense energy and they are unable to contain it" After a while, a massive sweat broke out on his face and Xue Fang dozed off on the bare floor.