His smile deepened and he began to think 'It's time to put killing father on the agenda, hehe.'
During this week, he basically only focused on cultivation, now that he entered the first stage, he had to start cultivating properly. He needed to start with a cultivation art for this.
The first cultivation art is extremely important for every cultivator, switching from then on will never be as pure as the first art. One has to use special resources to clear the cultivation fully.
'The Spectre Embryo Art is more of a technique than an art, its essence is to be the foundation for transforming between human and spectre. As one cultivates further, one can combine the two different arts into on.
For every stage, there is a spell of the opposite mode. As a human one is then able to use spectre abilities while a spectre can use human abilities. This ability is also more auxiliary to help adapt to the final stage, where one can use both human and spectre abilities whenever, since the soul and body combine into one, being alive and death at the same time.
That state is similar to being undead, only that one is spectre and human at the same time… well, this art is indeed strong. Even if one ignores the ability of doing everything at the same time, this art is the same as cultivating the dharma and the soul fully at the same time.'
Once a cultivator starts cultivation, they can choose between body, dharma and soul. The body cultivators are also called physical cultivators, dharma cultivators have a stronger spiritual power which enables them to use weapons and spells, while soul cultivators have a strong soul, they have an advantage over creation arts and are the best solo killers.
Regardless of how strong and talented one is, one can only train one path at the same time, except one has such special cultivation arts as the Spectre Embryo Art. The world doesn't lack talented or ruthless people, it lacks an open inheritance.
Thinking of this, Lingxu shook his head 'The method of the modern times doesn't work here. If all mortals were allowed to cultivate, then the general spiritual environment would fall rapidly, spiritual veins would be occupied and formations would be built around them to restrict any spiritual power from leaving the veins.
From then on, the spiritual power would be focused in the hands of the strong and the situation would be a lot worse than the current one where one can still cultivate very well as long as they have a little inheritance and talent… well, the cultivators all lived for so long, the current situation is probably the best in their considerations.'
He shook his head and threw away those thoughts, focusing back to planning the death of his father.
'Is this called patricide?' he made a sidenote while considering the situation 'Well, he is a cultivator in the middle stage of qi refining according to my senses, so killing him won't be too difficult as long as we can get in a sneak attack.
The issue is that a sneak attack is difficult in my current situation… except…'
He thought of something and browsed the inheritance. Sneak attacks are a speciality of ghost cultivators.
It was a lot of inheritance which was basically a library hidden in the yaksha mask, there was no way he could save such a huge among of information in his head. He looked over all the techniques and found quite a few that were strong and suitable.
The 'Ghost Spike Spell' would cast a ghost spike that can pierce the soul and has a little effect on the body. His soul isn't strong enough to insta kill, so he rejected this.
He saw some more, such as 'Spectral Strangle', which required the foundational spell 'Spectral Hands', he also saw some other spells and techniques that could work, but he couldn't cast them.
'These all require having already entered the path… I won't enter it just to make it easier, the Spectre Embryo specifically states that it only works if it's the first cultivation art, even resources can't alleviate this.'
Thinking of this, he went away from the abilities of the Spectre path and focused on the other two. He also quickly saw that most Hunter abilities were against ghosts and against the soul, the same issue was here with his soul not being strong enough to instant kill. He had a strong soul, but one had to have a huge advantage to kill one instantly with one hit.
Finally, he looked at the Lord path and saw something that moved him – Evil Spirit Rebirth Ritual.
This ritual would transform a living person into a ghost, they would shed their body and only retain their soul, like a spectre of the body giving path. They are basically spectral companions of the cultivators.
They also have the ability to grow through different ways and can learn many abilities. Basically all ghost cultivators raise one such evil spirit to be their right-hand man.
There are different types of evil spirits. These are based on the requirements to be filled – the evil spirits have to have some connection to the cultivator, the closer the connection, the better. They have to have a certain resentment. Lastly, they have to die a gruesome death.
These three points combine into the evil spirit which will awaken different abilities, one fixed ability based on the closeness, one ability based on the resentment and one based on the death.
'No wonder it's a favourite, one has so much room to play and decide.'
He instantly thought of one person, so confirm this, he read the part about the fixed ability – doppelgänger. This ability is to make the evil spirit temporarily take on the appearance of the cultivator, the higher the connection, the better this is.
In addition, one can also transfer injuries to the doppelgänger, make it cast spells for oneself or use it as a second mana pool. It's really helpful for many things.
There is also a chart based on the resentment and reason of death.
'If the resentment is based on a certain emotion, the evil spirit can evoke that emotion. If the resentment is baseless but comes from the influence of others, it will have such influence too. Hanging gives it a hanging ability, a painful death gives them the ability of enhancing pain, blood letting gives the ability of stronger bleeding…' he read more and more and had one thought in the end 'This Mo Yue clan is so evil, how many experiments did it take to get this information…'
Although he thought so, he was still thankful for the many examples. He also gained an inspiration for what he wanted to do.
'Fortunately as long as the connection is strong, one will have the ability to control this ghost even if one is technically weaker. This ability should be created so that every younger generation of the Mo Yue clan can grow up with an evil spirit, like a pet that follows them from early on… well, beast taming cultivators aren't much different anyways.'