Chapter 151
"Alexander..." Michelle kept staring at the deepest hole she had dug as she spoke. Her voice was quieter than usual, and she dragged it slowly. "You are a Shadow Master too?" she asked, her back turned to Alexander.
Alexander didn’t answer. His smile just widened.
So Michelle continued: "The power affecting the soil is nearly the same as the power coming from the thread..." She lifted up the shovel she had used for the second digging. The thread of Alexander’s power was still tied around its handle.
Staring at Michelle’s back, Alexander’s black eyes gleamed with something sinister. "What do you want to know?" he asked from behind.
Though Alexander was standing behind Michelle, so she couldn’t see his expression and the glint in his eyes, she could perfectly feel the change in the atmosphere. But she didn’t mind it. "Before, you said that your power comes from darkness. So, can you now tell me about Shadow Masters?" she asked placidly, still fiddling with the shovel in her hand, repetitively trying to stab it into the dirt, but to no avail. But she was expecting that, so she was just doing all that subconsciously while thinking.
Alexander watched Michelle silently for a while longer before opening his mouth to explain the basics about Shadow Masters.
Shadow Masters were people who cultivated shadow essence, which was the root element of darkness and shadows. Without shadow essence, not a millimeter of shade would have existed. Shadow essence was even present in the dark element spirit energy which Michelle was cultivating.
And that brought about two ways for someone to become a Shadow Master. One was for a dark element Spirit Master to stay or cultivate in a place rich with shadow essence for a long time, and once enough shadow essence accumulated within them, their dantian would change a bit so it could store and control it.
But most of the time, Spirit Masters wouldn’t notice it, and even if they did notice it, they wouldn’t know how or want to become Shadow Masters, so they would just continue living as Spirit Masters. And when the altered shadow dantian wasn’t used, it would revert to its original state, and the shadow essence within it would seep out of the carrier’s body. Just like that, they would lose the chance to become Shadow Masters.