Chapter 77
Failing to make any real difference in the twisted space of the spatial bracelet, Michelle huffed in annoyance and opened her eyes. Her forehead was soaked in sweat from concentration, and her spirit energy was nearly drained. That wouldn’t be so much of a problem, but she felt like she might have overused her soul energy again, but she didn’t want to sleep for over a month again, so she forced herself to stay awake and started cultivating.
Well... cultivating. Her level of spirit energy was already at the peak of reachability in the Land of Exile, but since she had drained her soul energy, she could cultivate for a short while to restore it. And she was hoping that could even help her recover some soul energy, so she wouldn’t need to sleep.
When Michelle started cultivating, the sun was nearing the horizon, but when she stopped and opened her eyes, the moon was high in the sky. Her beasts were nowhere to be seen by the fountain. They left because they didn’t want to accidentally disturb her cultivation.
Michelle stood up and went to her room. As always, she found Cold Flame in the shape of a small white bird sleeping on her pillow. She didn’t know why, but out of all her beasts, he was the only one who insisted on sleeping in her room. She thought he would stop doing it after maturing, but she was wrong. Maybe it had something to do with his Vermilion Bird bloodline, or it was just a habit of his, so she didn’t think anything about it.
After changing her clothes in the bathroom connected to her room, Michelle laid down on the bed, but she didn’t go to sleep. She was feeling better after cultivating, but she was still worried she would sleep for a long time, so she just stared at the ceiling. Also, after cultivating, she didn’t feel sleepy.
Since she couldn’t sleep, she decided to try reshaping and sorting the space in the bracelet again. She closed her eyes and sent a wisp of her consciousness into the bracelet. Before, she had coated the wisp in quite a big amount of both soul and spirit energy, and the result was very small after she pulled on the twist in space, so it made her think that maybe, since the bracelet was also connected to her, she didn’t need to use force but harmony to sort out the space.
So she coated the wisp in a tiny amount of soul and spirit energy and stuck it to a twist. Then, she gently pulled on the twist. To her pleasant surprise, though still very slowly, the twist started straightening much faster than when she used force. But the speed was still quite hopeless, so pulling on the twists probably wasn’t the best way. It was the best of what she had tried, but she knew there was an even better way, which she just hadn’t discovered yet.
Staring into the ceiling above her, a thought struck her. She sat up and started gathering her spirit energy around her and her soul energy in her hands as she closed her eyes. Her soul energy wasn’t in the shape of chains or anything else, because after finishing the training with the Archduke, she could use the soul energy as a translucent power similar to spirit energy. The biggest difference was that spirit energy was highly explosive, while soul energy was more like a gentle flow.
But even a gentle flow could be deadly for enemies if used by the right person. It could sometimes be even deadlier than spirit energy, and not many could use it. And since people could rarely use it, it was harder for them to defend against it.