Ian noticed that Elan’s dragon body was covered in water, clearly indicating that he had just gone underwater for training before returning.
He praised, "You’re able to smoothly control the body of the Crystal Dragon, moving as freely as a real Crystal Dragon. Elan, you’re doing great, you might even meet the upcoming requirements!"
"Hehe, I’ve been training recently!"
Upon hearing his brother’s praise, Elan wagged his tail happily but bashfully, "I even intentionally learned how to swim using a human body, just to understand how the movement of a dragon body differs from that of humans..."
Ian’s praise was not merely encouragement for his brother but was sincerely truthful.
After all, Crystal Dragons are born as sublimated creatures, and the Aether Crystal Dragon, being the strongest type, naturally has special attributes. One such attribute is the innate ability to refine Origin Quality, and another is the need to use the soul as assistance for various actions.
Without a soul, ordinary beings cannot control a Crystal Dragon at all. The fact that Elan can operate normally indicates that he already has a complete soul.
This is the benefit brought by Awakened Spiritual Power and meditation techniques.
"You can now officially practice the meditation techniques."
With blue radiance flickering in his dragon eyes, Ian observed Elan’s situation and commented, "The practice you did before can be termed visualization, enhancing the spirit through controlling imagination, building complex and significant images in the mind, which promotes the birth of the soul."
"For spirit energy users like us, it has a miraculous effect, while ordinary people can use artificial souls to slowly practice."
"In essence, you controlling the dragon body is visualizing the Crystal Dragon, and now you’ve mastered it. Next, what you need to do is truly practice the meditation techniques, accumulate computational power, while creating a ’Primordial Seed’ and ’Essence Furnace Core’ within your body."
"This builds the foundation for my Path of the Dao."
Since Ian paved the Arcane Pathway, he never intended to let Elan casually practice other Bloodline True Forms. Latest content published on novel⸺fire.net
As his brother, Elan’s best choice is undoubtedly the Arcane Pathway.
Artificial souls are the foundation of practicing the Arcane Pathway.
Visualization and meditation techniques are the basis of computational power.
The human body naturally extracts Origin Quality from food and environment, just cannot store it.
But through visualization and meditation, possessing strong computational power, one’s thoughts become active and powerful, allowing them to keenly detect the Origin Quality within and mobilize it, continuously refining and strengthening their bodily foundation.
At this point, humans can strengthen their bodies to a level comparable to First Energy Level Magical Beasts without relying on any Bloodline True Forms or any Magical Beasts’ Origin Structure.
That’s the first stage of the Arcane Pathway ’Clear Soul’.
And when the accumulated Origin Quality is abundant, Clear Soul is achieved, and the Arcane Pathway can establish its foundation. In this carapace, with both soul and body already polished, use Origin Quality to condense an ’Essence Furnace Core’.
The Essence Furnace Core is the method for directly using Origin Quality in the Arcane Pathway.
The Origin Quality refined naturally by the human body, no matter how high the quality is, cannot be directly used to harm others, like how blood carries rich oxygen and energy but cannot be directly used to kill just by pouring it.
The Arcane Pathway must modify, compress, and convert the Origin Quality to utilize it offensively.
This process should be carried out by the ’Bloodline True Form’s ’Essence Organ’. Ian’s ’Heart of Fertile Soil’, ’Clear Source Crystal’, ’Fairy’s Ice Tide Bead’, and ’Minor Abyssal Jade’ are such Essence Organs, providing him with the earth series Origin Quality, which leans toward defense, and solid offensive earth Origin Quality, sharp ice-like water Origin Quality, and tidal wave-like water Origin Quality respectively.
Overall, each Essence Organ quickly produces corresponding types of Origin Quality, but they can only produce that specific type of Origin Quality.
But the Essence Furnace Core is different.
Although the Essence Furnace Core is extremely troublesome to condense, it can be adjusted by the creator to produce various types of Origin Quality.
Movement, spreading, growth, soaring, fluctuation, crossing, purification, fusion, balance, purity, refinement, plasticity... Ian once saw twelve towers in Dragon Bone Plaza; those were summaries made by pre-era civilizations on the characteristics of Origin Quality.
Twelve different categories of Origin Quality, paired with different attributes, are enough to form the numerous Origin Quality types on Terra.
Magical Beast organs cannot achieve all purposes simultaneously, but the Essence Furnace Core can. Although it takes time to adjust, once prepared, the Essence Furnace Core can entirely fulfill any special Origin Quality demands and execute any Origin Quality techniques.
Of course, the higher the level of the Essence Furnace Core, the faster the conversion, and the better the quality.
And when the Essence Furnace Core is established, the Arcane Pathway’s second stage begins.
Next, according to Ian’s design, it involves visualizing the Origin Structure of Magical Beasts with the soul, controlling the Essence Furnace Core to condense corresponding ’Sublimation Organs’ inside the body. The higher-level Essence Furnace Core and soul can support more organs.
And when all organs are constructed, that’s the limit of the Arcane Pathway’s second stage ’Forge Body’.
By then, what they should do is, like Ian is now... completely transform their bodies, thoroughly alter the essence of their life, reaching the domain of ’Inheritance’, and thereby stepping into the realm of the third stage.