Death… And Me

Chapter 129 - Bending More Than Light

Rean pondered a bit before saying.

ʼShould we go to the mission hall or the Blue Orchid District?ʼ

Roan also thought a bit about the two options.

ʼThe Blue Orchid District has the least amount of people. So, in theory, the orchid District would also have the least amount of security. However, it might be one more reason for them to reinforce the vigilance. I would say that we should check the Mission Hall first. If there is really a mission issued to be done in the Sect, we should find the information there. In that case, the fact that Malaka is in a mission wouldnʼt be a lie.ʼ

Rean nodded, and the twins left sometime later. The Sect had disciples coming and going all the time. You never know when a group would be coming back from a mission. Because of that, the Mission Hall was always open. That being said, it wasnʼt hard for them to sneak inside.

Ever since Rean used his camouflage ability for the first time back in the Hyenasʼ Territory, he had been improving it nonstop. His ability to bend Light simply couldnʼt be compared anymore. That being said, it wouldnʼt be easy to see him with the naked eye.

However, if Spiritual Sense was used, he would be discovered straight away.

Going four years back in time, Rean had just started to think about Spiritual Sense when it came to his camouflage skill.

In a certain sense, Spiritual Sense is just like Light. It has a source, and it would spread outwards. Since Light can be bent, why canʼt Spiritual Sense? The question is. Would a Spiritual Sense owner notice if his Spiritual Sense bent as Rean does with Light? Would he think that his Spiritual Sense is being interfered with by something or someone?

Rean, with Sister Orb, Roan, and othersʼ help, had been testing his theory. It turned out that it depended on how significant the interference was and how far both partiesʼ cultivation was apart.

How did Rean reach this conclusion? Thatʼs because of a rule that Juri explained to him in the past.

”When a strong cultivator, letʼs say a Core Formation one, enters the Spiritual Sense area of an Energy Gathering Realm one, the Energy Gathering Realm cultivator canʼt sense him.”

Rean couldnʼt help but think, why does it happen? It is not something done voluntarily, but that happens automatically. However, only when Rean encountered the Zafa Bank expert, back in Astreg City, that he finally understood it better. At that time, the Core and Soul Fusion Expert of the Zafa Bank explained to him.

”There is a limit to how well a Higher Realm cultivator can hide from the Spiritual Sense of a Lower Realm one. For example, letʼs say an Initial Stage Foundation Establishment Cultivator tries to enter the Spiritual Sense range of an Energy Gathering Realm one. At that time, whether the Energy Gathering Realm Cultivator can feel the Foundation Establishment guy or not will depend on how much interference was caused.”

”If the Foundation Establishment guy moves fast, the higher will be the interference. In that case, the Energy Gathering Realm cultivator will probably notice him. However, if he slowly approaches the Energy Gathering Realm cultivator, chances are that he wonʼt be detected. Of course, if the cultivatorʼs realm is much higher than yours, then it wonʼt matter even if he runs.”

It was then that Reanʼs idea of Spiritual Sense being bent gained strength. If we use a metaphor, it is pretty much like air in a closed space. If you stay still, you wonʼt feel it since there is no wind. However, if you start moving, especially running, you will feel the air hitting your body. The wind is the cultivatorʼs Spiritual Sense. Only when you walk or run can he feel your presence.

As for why much Higher Realm cultivators can run in the air without you noticing, Rean came up with another theory and metaphor for it.

”Itʼs like aerodynamics. The higher your cultivation, the more aerodynamic you become. Low-Level cultivatorʼs Spiritual Sense would be considered a ʼgentle breeze.ʼ Thanks to the overwhelm aerodynamics of Higher Level cultivators, the Low-Level cultivators canʼt feel their ʼgentle breezeʼ touching the High-Level cultivatorsʼ ʼaerodynamicʼ body.”

”At the same time, the higher your Realm, the stronger your ʼwind/air,ʼ which is the Spiritual Sense, becomes. If the other cultivators want to hide from it, their ʼaerodynamicsʼ must improve even more, which means that they need to be at even Higher Realms.”

At that time, Roan and Sister Orb had to admit that Reanʼs theories made Sense. In fact, chances were that he was probably right. Even Sister Orbʼs Soul Gem System didnʼt have any information about it, so she recorded everything.

Now, hereʼs the million dollars question. How to become more ʼaerodynamicʼ without having higher cultivation? Thatʼs when Reanʼs concept of Light and Spiritual Sense came into play. The Light Element was directly related to Life Energy. Spiritual Sense, as far as Rean knows, can only be used by ʼliving being.ʼ That being said, Spiritual Sense is a type of energy, just like Light and Spiritual Energy. It was so much that a cultivator needed to use Spiritual Energy to fuel it. If you keep it going for too long, you will get tired, so Life Energy was included in the process too.

Rean had to thank the fact that he came from Earth at this point. Ancient Cultivators simply never stopped to think about such complex issues. These conceptions are too ʼfuturisticʼ for this place, especially the concept that Light is a type of energy, just like Spiritual Energy or any other kind.

However, it was one thing to talk about a theory, but another to put it into practice. Rean took months just to find a link between the Light Element, then Life Energy, and finally Spiritual Sense ʼEnergy.ʼ But from that point onwards, the world of Spiritual Sense changed for him.

Now, Rean is already 10 years old. It has been 4 years that he had been practicing not bending only Light, but Spiritual Sense as well, all of that through his control of the Light Element.

Today, it was the first time he would try to use it outside the Varen Tribe. The reason is simple. What if others found out that he could hide from Spiritual Energy? It was better to keep such a secret between him, Sister Orb, and Roan.