Tainted will

Chapter 25 Attainment

?From the basic guide that he had gotten from the panel, Bai Ming knew that every time he would breakthrough a major realm, he would get two opportunities to spin the wheel.

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"Yes!" Bai Ming confirmed with much anticipation in his heart, last time he had gotten the rotten blood art form the lucky spin, hence he naturally held huge expectations this time.

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MADNESS!! MOTHER FUCKING MADNESS!!!

Bai Ming's eyes were wider than full moons, his heart trembling in pure excitement. The spiritual qi in his body was at unrest, Bai Ming took a few calming breaths and forcefully managed to calm himself down, But his eyes shone with a tint of insanity.

He once again read the description before laughing in a crazed manner.

"Huhuhu...Hehehe..Hahahaha marvelous, truly marvelous, hahahaha..." Unprecedented joy filled Bai Ming's heart.

The immense joy he felt did not overcome his mind, he quickly calmed down his face returning to his usual cold indifference, "Accept"

An enormous amount of information was directly transferred into him mystically, his previously sharp gaze turned completely void, he was in this state of blankness for nearly four hours. Only then did his eyes regain their clarity, but unlike before his eyes exhibited boundless depth and heavenly wisdom shone in his eyes, they resembled the eyes of a great sage who had meditated for thousands of years.

"How refreshing." Bai Ming stood up as he stretched out both of his hands, taking in a deep breath "Who would have thought I would become a formation path grandmaster in a blink of an eye."

Attainment represented the an individuals understanding of Great Dao! one's formation path realm was that said individuals understanding of the Dao of formation. Attainment was generally divided into ordinary, master, great master, Supreme master, grandmaster, great grandmaster, supreme grandmaster, origin saint, Truth seeker, All knowing.

Most cultivators would only have ordinary attainment in their whole lives. Masters were geniuses or old, experienced individuals.

Masters were incomparably rare! For instance, in the Ye clan currently only the Ye clan head was a sword path master.

Every advancement of a Attainment meant an astonishing upgrade in one's battle strength!

It was because higher attainment meant deeper understanding of the fragments and laws of heavenly dao. It allowed martial artists to create techniques and display greater dominance of their paths.

Let's take an example, imagine there are two swordsmen, they both have the same cultivation level and have studied the same technique, but one of the swordsman has ordinary attainment and the other has master attainment in the sword path, now when both of them compete using the same technique Or even normal sword strikes, the person with master attainment will be able to display twice amount of strength than the person with ordinary attainment. Of course higher one's attainment, higher the increase in one's strength.

"Even if I had gotten a formation path inheritance from a great grandmaster I wouldn't have been this happy, The value of an inheritance pales in comparison to attainment. As for the sword path insights from a great grandmaster it will allow me to improve my understanding of the sword path, along with my sword path talent raising my sword path attainment will be much smoother."

"I have achieved another qualitative change in my overall strength, Hmm..oh shit, I have to get to the clans scripture hall"

Bai Ming rushed to the clans scripture hall which was located in the clans central pavilion, he was nearly an hour late.

He quickly reached the entrance of the hall, there he saw an bald and muscular old man digging his nose, this was the elder who was responsible for guarding the scripture hall, he glanced at Bai Ming indifferently, then the elder very slowly moved his body as he led Bai Ming into the hall.

There were already four other students here they didn't notice Bai Ming's arrival they were too focused on comprehending their respective martial techniques, Bai Ming quickly moved towards the huge stone tablet in the center. The 3rd and 4th layer of the the primeval sword art was recorded in it. Bai Ming spent a total of four days on comprehending it, but to execute these techniques he would have to physically train in them, but now that he had comprehend them he could practice them later, next he similarly choose a mid grade movement technique. He spent nearly 3 days comprehending it, Bai Ming still had eight days of time remaining to spend inside the scripture hall, but he had no interest in learning any other techniques for the time being, he wanted to go through the sword path insights he had gotten, the contents were already stored in his mind he began to go through them, completely immersing himself. For the next eight days he was completely oblivious to the outside. His mind was completely absorbed in the way of the sword.

Only when the elder incharge ordered the students to leave did Bai Ming finally woke up from his trance.

"Boundless indeed... but I am still far from reaching the master realm. But my gains were tremendous this time. These insights have broaden my horizons, but I have only managed to scratch the surface of the meaning of that great expert's words. But if there is one thing that I have understood; one should not be blindly dependent on the techniques created by others, instead I should walk my own path, create my own technique. Even if I have great understanding of someone else's technique against the creator of that technique I will be a step behind. But creating my own technique is the right way, the created technique will evolve as my understanding of the sword increases, but creation is a very lengthy process, if I can raise my sword path attainment to atleast master realm, I can consider developing my own sword technique. But as of now I lack the foundation to create my own technique. There is no need to rush I should take my time in this aspect. Having guidance from a great expert is indeed the best way for one to improve ones strength." Bai Ming evaluated his gains and quickly came to a conclusion.

"All of you quickly get lost" the bald old man spoke before he pointed towards Bai Ming " You stay here, an elder will come and take you to the spirit pool" As the elder finished speaking he resumed the excavation of his nose.

The children heard this and cast their gazes on Bai Ming has they left, they looked at him with envy and jealousy, But one child stared at Bai Ming with much hatred, who else could it be but Su Ming. After their competition his hatred towards Bai Ming was immense.

Bai Ming didn't even spare them a glance, he treated them like air. He was busy consolidating his gains.

After waiting for a few more minutes, an middle aged woman came and led Bai Ming towards the spirit pool.

"Remember, I will come again after twelve days." she spoke before taking her leave.

"Thank you for the help elder"

The middle aged woman made a grunt of approval before she turned around and left, leaving Bai Ming alone in the spirit pool.

Bai Ming calmly watched her leave, after that he didn't immediately enter the pond. He walked circles around the pond as he observed the area carefully, making a few deductions in his brain.

"Done, I have already created a 2nd grade qi gathering array, But i can also create a 3rd grade array. Hmm.. But i only have elemental realm cultivation, using my formation path grandmaster attainment as a foundation i can at max create a 4th grade array but my soul force is only at elemental realm at most I can only place a 2nd grade array, but if I can create a 3rd grade array which doesn't require me to completely set it up instantly, I will be able to set it up by taking a break and after recovering my soul force I can still continue setting up the array. But wait, I don't have the required items to set up the 3rd grade formation, sigh. With the spirit stones and beast cores I have currently, it is already a great achievement that I have the ability to set up a 2nd grade formation. My formation path attainment is at grandmaster level allowing me to create arrays up to 3rd grade with much ease and 4th grade with some effort, now the only thing holding me back is my low cultivation realm or precisely my weak soul force."

A soul, relative to the human body, was one of the most fundamental parts of a human's life. The soul was basically a type of energy. It was the very core of one's being, without it a person would be no different than a empty shell.

When one's soul was powerful, there were all sorts of benefits. For instance, one's divine sense, alchemical ability, refining ability, formation ability– all of this was related to one's soul.

Soul force or mental energy was the basis of all martial intents, A martial artist's soul force was directly related to their divine sense.

Divine Sense or Spiritual sense refers to a manifestation of one's consciousness and spirit that's used by martial artists to scan their surroundings, far beyond the limits of their ordinary five senses. The divine sense could be used to probe a distance of a few meters, a dozen meters until one could probe the entirety of a city. At higher levels of cultivation, one's divine sense could be used to overlook an entire continent, the entire world, stars and the vast space itself.

Formations - Generally divided into arrays and restrictions. Arrays type formations are generally used for attack, defense, battlefield killer moves or continuous area effect purpose etc. Whereas restrictions are spells which form a barrier around a location or act to seal/suppress a person or object.

The formations are generally grade from 1st tier to the 9th grade. The higher the grade, better the effect of the formation, of course the higher grade formations have more requirements compared to a low tier formations.

A person with a master attainment in formations path will be able create 1st grade formations, a great master can create 2nd grade and below. As for Bai Ming who is a grandmaster realm attainment he can create 4th grade formations and below.

But even though he can create them, but laying down the formation requires equal amount of soul force. With his elemental realm soul strength he can only set up 2nd grade formations, if Bai Ming wants to set up higher grade formations he should either increase his soul force or make the formation such that it wouldn't require to complete the entire process in one go.

"I only have 12 days of time, I should begin now." Bai Ming thought to himself.

Bai Ming took out nearly two hundred spirit stones from his storage bag and a dozen tier 1 beast cores. Next he began to place them at different corners of the pond, then he began to circulate the spiritual energy in his body guiding them through particular channels, then he constantly tapped various parts of his body using his fingers, slowly his hands moved faster.

Spots of light appeared all over his body before they flew towards the air, Bai Ming constantly made hand signs and sent beams of spiritual energy towards every individual light specks, Next he used his mental energy to fuse certain specks of light.

Giant beads of sweat appeared on Bai Ming's body, His whole body was completely soaked in sweat. The consumption of his soul force was huge.

Next he gritted his teeth, as he slowly but steadily moved the specks of light to enter either the spirit stones or beast cores.

After managing to fuse all of the speck of lights, he let out a breath of relief. He quickly undressed as he jumped to the middle of the spirit pond. Next he sat cross legged and made one final hand sign with his left hand before pointing towards the beast core in his right hand.

Once he did that, a light yellow hemispherical barrier enveloped the entire pond, dense spiritual qi began to gather inside the formation. The spiritual energy in the pond was already five times that of the outside world, But after setting up the the 2nd grade formation the density increased to nearly 14 times.

"Such dense spiritual energy, this is really comfortable. Hehe, twelve days, in twelve days i can reach the fith layer of elemental realm or even the sixth layer." Bai Ming assessed, the next second he closed his eyes and began to cultivate.

Days continued to pass, four days later.

In a secluded place in the Xuan mountain. There were two Cultivators standing in front of a small cave. One was beautiful and sweet looking young woman, her skin as fair as the moon. She seemed to be only fourteen or fifteen, but already possessed an cultivation of false core formation realm. There was also an icy aura around her which was a sharp contrast to her cute looking face.

The other was a middle aged man, this person looked very ordinary. His face was very yellow and his complexion made him look weak, like he could die at any moment, but people wouldn't dare to take this person lightly with is peak spirit realm cultivation.

"Teacher congratulations, your four years of hard work has finally paid off. I am really happy for you." Li wei spoke in soft voice as a loving smile blossomed on her cute face.

"Don't be impatient, we still haven't subdued it." Li jun spoke in hoarse voice, ??????? ? ???? ????? ??, ????? ???????? ???? ???? ????? ????? ? ??? ?????? ???? ?????? ????. ?? ???'? ?? ???? ?????? ? ???????????? ??? ???-???? ???? ????? ??? ?? ???? ???? ?? ???? ???????? ??? ???? ?? ????? ?? ??? ?? ???????? ??????.

"Let's begin now" Li jun spoke as he stepped into the cave, the young woman quickly followed after him, disappearing in the darkness.