Chapter 187: Insights

After Cain spoke, Kali was even more eager to jump in while Amber let go of any slight inhibitions.

The trio didn't take their time anymore. At the same time, they sprung forward at incredible speeds, crossing the last meters of distance instantly.

With zero hesitation, Cain, Kali, and Amber dived right into the rainbow color pool. 

With one dive, Cain instantly reached several feet deep in the pool. And he promptly felt everything changed.

He poured his utmost focus into staying calm as he was struck with various potent sensations like whiplash. Streams energy rippled under the water and then soared straight into Cain's body.

These energies were incredibly potent, far beyond any pill, vicious beast core, or any other resources Cain purified with his Dragon Charm. 

These energies submerged Cain in an ocean-like sensation. He honestly felt like he was getting drowned! 

Throughout his entire internal body, these energies streams drilled into every inch. Even down to the smallest cells that connected his internal bodies had streams of energies flowing into it.

At the same time, an immeasurable pressure threatened to crush his entire internal body! 

Cain gritted his teeth, bearing the sudden pressure of these immense potent energies streams and recognizing just what these energies are. 

'This-this is the purest form of Qi, Spirit, and Astral! I have to absorb all that I can!' 

Determining his mind, Cain quickly discharged a massive wave of Soul Energy.

In this instance, his Soul Energy split off into two tasks. 

One trail of Soul Energy directly flooded his brain, linking to his Mental Psyche. With this Soul-linked form, all new Martial Perception properties from the pool's energy are gradually engraved into his Soul's Core and mental psyche.

Compared to Pills or any other kind of resources, this was far better for rapidly broadening his Mental Psyche. 

Everything that Cain perceives now is of his own understandings and will improve his base comprehensions.

As for the other waves of Soul Energy, it split through his internal body, helping to guide and refine the potent invasion of the Haven's Pool energy. 

Gradually, Cain became submerged with refining the energy and absorbing the Martial comprehension properties.

Seconds rolled, soon turning into minutes. 

During this duration, Cain began to slowly come upon new realizations concerning Qi, Spirit, and even Astral Energy. 

This Qi energy was of the purest form of essence, coming as close to Heaven and Earth Origin Energy. 

And there was a striking difference compared to this and the outside World.

This Qi Energy allowed Cain to peer into the true essence that makes up the foundational form of Heaven and Earth Origin Energy. His Spirit Sense was able to perceive the insights of the foundational form of Heaven and Earth Origin Energy, allowing it to gradually morph his Qi Seed foundation.

His already dense Qi Seed slowly turned even denser as he instantly perceived these new insights! 

Because Cain's Martial Perception is already insanely high, he didn't have to worry in the slightest of encountering a roadblock or even slowing down.

Furthermore, as he comprehended these insights, Cain gained a better understanding of the building blocks that makes the Spirit Opening, Nascent Formation, and Profound Soul Realm.

The Spirit Opening Realm requires a cultivator to perceive and absorb the impurest, surface level of Heaven and Earth Origin Energy and convert it into Spirit Qi.

When a Martial Cultivator is finally able to begin their Martial Road, their bodies already need to break the first shackle of Mortality. 

This would be ridding themselves of all accumulated impurities that come during the formation in the womb, upon birth, and after years.

No matter who it is, to a True God Beast, Divine Bloodline existence, God Galaxies cultivators, or just an ordinary Mortal from the Lower Realm, everyone can't escape impurities from gathering into them.

This was simply the natural order of the universe. 

A being with no cultivation will naturally attract all impurities scattered across the entire universe. Even with the most quality of environment and pills, it was an inescapable fate laid down by the rules of the Heaven Will.

And to break free from the first shackle of Mortality, one needs to enlighten themselves on the essence flowing through their World, eventually leading one to open up their Soul Sense.

Enlightenment can come in many forms. 

From pure Martial Talent, Quality Pills, or innate bloodline strength, there are many paths one can start their Martial Road.

At the start of anyone's Martial Road, Cain realized something that had blinded his mind for the past weeks.

If his eyes were open, one would be able to see a strange, hypnotic glow shimmering from them.

'Yes…both the mind and body are far too weak to grasp the true essence of Heaven and Earth Origin Energy. This is basically the underlying principle of everything. So when we do open up our Soul Senses, we're at the bare-bones form of everything. The absolute rudimentary form of Qi essence itself. But while the weakest, it's absolutely necessary for us to continually refine in Spirit Qi and crush the first shackle of Mortality. Then…the Nascent Formation realm…'

Similar to the Spirit Opening Realm, the Nascent Formation Realm is a building block stage that primarily focuses on understanding the very basic principles of Heaven and Earth Origin Energy.

That is perceiving how to fully manifest Qi energy for various powerful abilities. 

And this will also be the time where one develops the very foundation for all future cultivation.

The Qi Origin Seed. 

As one would have opened up their Qi Sense by now, their understanding of Heaven and Earth Origin Energy will reach a slight increase when comprehending Nascent Qi.

Spirit Qi could be called the very basic, rudimentary form of Heaven and Earth Origin Energy.

While Nascent Qi is the Elementary form of Heaven and Earth Origin Energy. 

With this essence, a cultivator mainly has to gather as much Nascent Qi they can to fully form their Qi Origin Seed.

The tenth level of the Nascent Formation is the final formation of one's Qi Origin Seed. At this level, one would experience another quantitative change, breaking off another shackle of Mortality. 

Then, if one's Martial Perception is decent enough, they would be able to feel out the essence that was only a hair-breadth away from the energy of the World. 

This would be the proper foundational form of Heaven and Earth Origin Energy.

As a cultivator now has sufficient enough bodily toughness and Martial Perception, they build the foundation to grasp the mysteries of the World's essence. 

And this will lead down the path to eventually grasping the mysterious various Law's essence! 

But before reaching this stage, the mental psyche, the body, and the soul must have reached a sufficient understanding and strength. 

If even one is lacking, it will be impossible to ever break off the third shackle of Mortality. 

Profound Qi creates a new foundation for the body, transforming every part of it down towards one's very soul's space. 

The stages of Profound Qi go from Early, Middle, Late, and Peak. 

With each proceeding stage, one's Martial Perception comes ever so close to breaching the mysteries of the World. While their soul and bodily toughness reach unprecedented levels. 

As Cain slowly comprehends these insights, he realizes he could actually rush his cultivation because of his Martial perception. 

In fact, he felt the breakthrough sensation rapidly formulating within his Mental Psyche once again.

But, Cain determinedly suppressed this, dispersing the breakthrough sensation. He wanted his Early Stage of Profound Qi to reach absolute perfection and turn his Qi Energy even denser!

If he could reach the absolute limit with each stage of Qi energy, even for future realms, his combat would only strengthen beyond belief. Moreover, it will also just make his Martial Road even smoother.

Just by being in this Haven Pool, Cain could detect his Qi foundation density gradually increasing. 

At the same time he was experiencing profound insights with Qi Energy, his perception about Spirit Energy also rapidly improved. 

Within his Spirit's Space, the Haven Pool's Spirit energy drilled inside, absorbing straight into his Spirit Core. 

Spirit Energy is entirely different from Qi Energy. It relied on a foundation that Cain sensed was similar to his the energy properties that emits from Soul's Core. 

As of now, Cain's perception wasn't enough to fully understand the connection here.

But he could understand that Spirit energy derives from the foundation of origin Spirit Source. 

Even before today, Cain learned about the origin of Spirit Source from Bellax's guidance. 

Origin Spirit Source could be said to be similar to Heaven and Earth Origin Energy. 

If essence from the Heaven and Earth makes up one part of the underlying foundation of the whole universe, then the origin Spirit Source could be considered as part of the second essence or the second essence itself!

When trying to perceive more about Spirit Energy, Cain found it challenging to go beyond this. 

But, with just this, he felt his Spirit Core rapidly strengthening. 

As Spirit Energy absorbed inside, his Spirit Core began to quickly change colors. 

From a standard green glow to a slightly darker hue, complete dark hue, finally an overt dark green glow!

In this instance, Cain's entire Spirit space was shrouded in a deep dark green Spirit Energy. 

If Bellax were to sense this phenomenon, she would be shocked silly. 

Cain had actually managed to use the understanding from the Qi Haven Pool to reach the Perfection Layer of 1st Class Spirit energy! 

And upon reaching the Perfection Layer, Cain's Spirit improvement didn't stop.

Within moments, large cracks made from an entirely new color split down his Spirit Core. These cracks were all in luminous light blue shine. 

The sign of a Spirit Core cracking for a new transformation…it was the cusps of 2nd Class blue Spirit energy!

Then, a few more moments, Cain's Spirit Core completely cracked open, discharging an explosion of blue Spirit energy! 

At the same time, Cain's Spirit Space linked to the Spiritual dimension and pulled out blue Spirit Energy.

The Spiritual dimension continually gushed blue Spirit energy straight into Cain's Spirit Space, simultaneously combining with the Haven Pool's Spirit Energy. 

At this moment, Cain's Spirit Space transformed. 

A miles-long sea of complete blue Spirit essence had formed! 

At 2nd class blue Spirit Energy, a World Spirit Master needs a far better capacity for containing the immense power of blue Spirit Energy. This is why the Spirit Space automatically transforms into a Spirit Essence Sea. 

The very moment Cain reached 2nd Class blue Spirit Energy, his entier being quivered.

The power flowing through him was immense! 

For a brief moment, his entire body was engulfed in a beautiful light blue shine. Afterward, the blue light converged into his new, transformed Spirit Space.

'So this is 2nd Class Spirit Energy! Incredible! I feel my Mental Psyche broadened even more from just this.' Cain nearly couldn't contain his joy. 

In just some unknown amount of time, he crossed over weeks of slow Spirit Energy practice.

And because the Qi Haven's energy was incomparably pure, there was zero effect on his Spirit Source foundation. 

With this, Cain's overall prowess was tremendously boosted by several degrees!