The sensation of omnipresence, no matter how limited, was extraordinary to anyone.YanZaizen, likemanycultivators of his city, did not practice Soul Cultivation formanyreasons.Yet, hepossessedspiritualsense. Spiritual sense maintains a direct connection while transmitting the information to the mind in real-time. This would give one an often mistaken sensation like their five sensory perceptions have been enhanced but in truth, it only gives that impression.


    However, SoulCultivationrequiredspecific materials or soul-attributed essence.Unlike standard essence liquid or crystals, which utilizes the world''s all-present and variedessencestocultivate qi, SoulCultivation''s soul-attributed essencewas far rarer and more difficult toobtain.


    If you hada variantsoul, thencultivatingthesoultypically had otherrequirementsthat could be filled rather than soul-attributed essence. Unfortunately, he did not possess one - at least to his knowledge.


    So one can imagine his bewilderment.


    The angrywaspdidn''t seem to forget its intentions as it dived towardsYanZaizenwith fury,littledidYanZaizenknow that whenheranearlier,hehad almost stomped thislittlewaspto death.However, whenhewent unconscious and startedglowingwith an unknownglow, thewaspturned tail and ran without even conceiving the notion of revenge.Then,YanZaizenwoke up and thewasphadfoundhis enemy once more.Unlike before, he didn''thavethe black light surrounding him,thusit decided to strike!


    Unfortunately for the wasp,due toYanZaizen''s enhanced perception and current cultivation, it was far from beingYanZaizen''s match.A wave of the hand and a surge of Qi later left the wasp without its life.


    "Incredible!"Still shocked by his discovery,hecouldn''t help but direct his gaze to the Meteor Ring.Was itbecause ofthis?Being unfamiliar with the concept of Soul Cultivation,hedidn''t know how muchhe''d progressed, buthecould actively sense hissurroundingsof up to one hundredmetersaround, and passivelyfeelthesurroundingsof about three to fourmeters.Ifhefocused in asingledirection, even reaching five hundredmeterswas possible!


    Unfortunately, only grass and hills were around and noprettygirls, otherwisehe''d hope to use this new perception for...betterthings.However,hefully intendsto doso whenhereturns.A mischievous grin couldn''t help but form on his face.


    An ideaformedin hislittle headafter a while.Perhaps...


    He sent his newly acquiredSpiritualSense into thering, and suddenly felt that his surroundings were no longer filled with just grass and hills, but a myriad ofcolorfuland random assortmentof items.It was like his perception was split, one outside and one inside thering.Hissoulform, a characteristic that only Soul Cultivators possess, seemed to take shape inside thering.SoulForms is classified as the body of yoursoulanddeterminesits structure, characteristics, and status of yoursoul.Seeing hissoulform, he felt odd.


    He was like a thinlight.There was no silhouette of himself, but more so just a thin, squiggly line of light.He could see around theinsideof the ring and even move at almost unsurpassable speedsinside, but it felt a little underwhelming being a line oflight.Was this his soul?He''d never seen storage ring where one can send their soul into.Most storage rings were constructedusingspatial-attributed essence and materials to create a smallpocketworld, thispocketworldcan then be interacted withusingone''s Qi.Spiritual Sense wasn''t required.


    However, this ring obviouslyrequiredit for usage.


    From what little he didknowofSoulCultivation, it was divided into three aspects:SpiritualSense,SoulForm, andSoulFlame.SpiritualSenseisawareness,SoulFormis one''ssoulbody, andSoulFlameis the energy source that powers theSpiritualSenseand allows one''sSoulFormto maintain itself.TheSoulFlameis an essential aspect ofSoulCultivation, asitdeterminesthe strength of one''ssoul, and anydamagetoitessentially meansdamageto one''s core existence.


    Hecouldn''t see hissoulflame in this form.Itdidn''t surprisehimmuch, causehedidn''t knowmuchabout cultivation relating to thesoul, butitstillgavehima start.Hedecided toputthis at the back of his mind, and focus elsewhere.


    Like, the stuff in the ring.


    The ring seemed to be boundlessly vast, but only a verysmallarea was occupied.Looking around,hecould see a myriad ofdifferentitems.From liquids to crystals,torandomstuffhedidn''t recognize like a piece of inky black wood, acompassthat radiated a slight white light and a few books.The inky black wood gave him a sensation of death, sohestayed away lest heloseshispoorlittlelife carelessly.As for thecompass,itwas odd, whenhepickeditup using a strand of soul energy,itopened and revealed acompasswith six orientating arrows.Typically, acompassonly has one-pointing north.This one pointed in all directions except directly east and west.Itwas as ifitwas missing a double-sided arrow.


    The tale has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation.


    “Odd,”heplaceditdown gently, trying to notdoanythinghe''d regret.Turning to the books,hepickedone up and they all seemed to radiate a sensation of ancientness, anditgavehim aweirdfeeling.I mean, how many timesdoesone actually feel ancientness?The first book was titled in a language he didn''tunderstand, butithad a violet cover and only a single silver dot at its center.Flipping through it and feeling uneducated, he tossed it aside and picked up another.The second was the same.Once again, feeling like thesebookswere mocking him for his lack of knowledge,itwas thrown to the side.


    The followingbooksall meet the same fate, each one was more violently thrown in frustration than the other.Until hecame acrossthe lastbook.It had a muscular malefigureon the cover, but thefigurewas entirely white as if shaded thoroughly.The characters on the top read:Immortal Herculean Method.Immortal?!


    That word shot into YanZaizen''s mind like a firework.Did this book lead to immortality?Hedidn''t hesitate toopenit.Whenhedid,hefelt like someone played a prank on him.The book was blank.Each pageheldnothing but blank whiteness that left one frustrated.Itwas as if the greatest secrets of the world were written on the page and someone wipeditclean.


    "Shit! You bastard, if I get my hands on...wait." He realized he was inside the Meteor Ring, and well, wouldn''t that mean the Meteor Ring was the one who wiped it? He let out a sigh of resignation. Well, since it was useless, he was going to toss it aside very violently. He pumped his soul energy into the book to get a good grasp of it so he could chuck it to the edges of this boundless space. However, the moment he did, the book vanished from his soul form''s grasp and sank deep into his soul form.


    "What?"Bewildered, he looked at his soul form to see a small white crystal located within.Initially, it just stood there.After a while, he started spinning rapidly within his soul form dispersing little motes of light into it.Surprisingly, there wasnopain,nosensation outside of feeling a little full.Thus, heremainedcalm.


    It had been about an hour before the crystal stopped its spinning.It shot out of his soul, leaving countless motes of light, and turned back into that once blank again book.During this hour,hejust went about and explored the area.Outside of the odd itemshecouldn''t conceive,herealizedhewasstupidrich.Yes, stupidly rich.


    The liquids and crystals in the ring were Essences!


    Essence is a vital part of cultivation.Essentially, everything hasessencewithin it.WorldEssenceis theEssenceof the World and the mostcommontype ofEssencethat is in abundance throughout the entire myriad realms, even in the air.You have elemental-types ofessence, which containsessenceof thenaturalelements or laws.Condensedessencehas threeforms-air,liquid, andcrystal.Eachformhasdifferent grades, ranging from Low, Mid, and High.


    World Essence Liquid was the mostcommonformof currency in the myriad realms.Typically, the liquidformisusedto recover energy, enhance one''s cultivation, strengthen one''s bodyusingvarious methods, power formations/arrays,usedin alchemy and armament creation.While crystals were even more valuable, let alone World Essence that is attributed, those are worth beyond one''s imagination.They could beusedtogreatereffect than liquid essence.A substantial part of the resources withheld from him by the clan was predominantly essence liquids.


    TheQiRevolving Realmrequiresanabundantamount of World Essence to convert it intoQi, enlarging one''sQi Revolving and strengthening one''s cultivation.It was this detail that left him stranded in the initial-Stageof theQi Revolving Realmfor eight whole years.Ifhepossessedabundantresources, disregarding his lackluster talent, reaching the peak-Stageof theQi Revolving Realmwould''ve been quite easy in those eight years.However,he''d given up his resources to YaQinqanfor less than a decade of his life,leavinghim stuck with this weak cultivation base.


    Now,however,hewas beyond wealthy!


    There must be almost ten thousand drops of liquidessenceand one hundred crystalessence.To further his excitement, he can tell that none of these essences were of the Low-grade!He wasrich, baby!