Infinite Awakening: My Exp Doubles Everyday novel Chapter 123

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Chapter 123: Soul [PART 2]

[Realm: Body: 12th Layer (3/12,000); Spirit: Qi Gathering 7th Layer (2/700); Mind: Level 5 (1/5000); Soul: Infant (1/100,000)]

As soon as the new stat appeared in the status screen, a torrent of knowledge flooded Xiang Yu’s mind.

The soul, he now understood, developed through three distinct stages: infant, nascent, and adult. Under normal circumstances, when a cultivator reached the Golden Core stage, their core would migrate to the spiritual sea. There, bathed in nourishing qi, the core would transform into an egg. This egg would gradually absorb qi until it finally hatched, producing an infant soul.

This infant soul would then feed on the eggshell—essentially consuming the Golden Core itself—and advance to the nascent stage, marking the breakthrough to the Nascent Soul realm. However, if a cultivator’s core was damaged or insufficiently powerful, the infant might emerge without adequate nourishment, resulting in a kind of pseudo-Nascent Soul stage.

This was precisely the stage Xiang Yu had unexpectedly entered. Though it didn’t grant him the overwhelming power of a true Nascent Soul cultivator or even that of a genuine pseudo Nascent Soul. All it did was provide some defense against soul attacks.

Ironically, this defense would likely prove ineffective against genuine Nascent Soul realm experts, who were the primary wielders of soul attacks in the first place. At the moment, this advancement seemed practically useless.

But Xiang Yu wasn’t discouraged. The system’s doubling effect was the key—if it continued working on his soul attribute, he might eventually advance to the adult stage. Such progress would render him immune to any soul attacks below the Soul Formation realm, which represented the pinnacle of power in the entire eastern region.

A question nagged at him as he studied the floating infant soul that resembled himself in miniature: what would happen if he reached the Nascent Soul stage without advancing his qi cultivation to the corresponding level? Would he somehow skip ranks to become a true Nascent Soul cultivator?

He sighed, reasoning that it probably wouldn’t work that way. The Nascent Soul realm didn’t rely solely on soul strength—it required mastery of qi as well. At best, he might be able to match such cultivators in pure soul combat, but would still fall short in conventional battle.

Then, a tantalizing possibility dawned on him. If he could learn soul attack techniques, wouldn’t that make him virtually invincible against anyone below the Nascent Soul realm? After all, cultivators at lower stages lacked any form of soul defense. This realization sent a tingle of excitement down his spine.

"I should research this further," he thought, his mind already racing with possibilities. But first, he needed to assess his overall progress. Withdrawing from his spiritual sea, Xiang Yu summoned his system interface to examine what other changes had occurred during the daily reset.

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The first thing Xiang Yu noticed upon returning to his physical form was the extraordinary power surging through his body. Examining the reset screen, he couldn’t help but feel a rush of satisfaction—his suffering had yielded unprecedented results.

He had earned a staggering one thousand experience points in body refining, his highest single-day gain ever. After doubling, this achievement had propelled him into the twelfth layer of body refining.