Chapter 155: Life 68, Age 25, Martial Master 1
While the morning class about teaching was helpful, it was the afternoon class that I had been looking forward to with both anticipation and dread: Soul Cultivation.
I needed a stronger soul. I needed a way to defend my soul. The strength of my soul was the only strength that I could bring back with me, so I needed it to be as powerful as possible. However, if soul cultivation caused a shift in my personality akin to that of qi cultivation, I didn’t want to risk it.
The potential pitfalls associated with cultivating my soul were very real, but I couldn’t continue just ignoring the problem.
At the appointed time, all five of us arrived in the classroom together for a short lecture from Instructor Yuan.
“The soul is one of the most important aspects of what it means to be a cultivator. Outside the walls of this Academy, people have strange and misguided notions of what it means to cultivate the soul and how to go about it. Their information comes third or fourth hand from failed students, and most of the important details have been lost.”
She looked at each of us to ensure we were paying attention. “The Yellow Orchid Academy has the best information on soul cultivation from the brightest minds of the Central Continent, but it’s only available to a select few. You haven’t been taught anything about soul cultivation until now because we first needed to ensure that you are both capable and mature enough to make the right decisions.”
She took out four cultivation manuals and set them down in front of us.
“These are considered the best soul cultivation techniques in the world. They are freely available on the Central Continent, but their distribution has been intentionally limited on Nine Rivers to prevent them from causing more harm than good. Those who are blessed with the ability to evaluate such things say that they can be considered Peak-Yellow techniques. This may seem low, but no one has been able to develop anything better, and many have tried.”
She picked up one of the manuals and showed it to us. Then, she set it down and arranged all four so that everyone could see them.