Seeking Identity
5. Leafs of Life

Zigen, who is currently wearing white shorts and bare-chested, was listening to instructions from Barda explaining how to fuse the Spiritual Energy that had filled her Spritual Room.

There are two ways to do it, the first is by combining it into a circle and making room for the Spiritual Energy that is absorbed into the body.

And the second channeled it to the Roots of the Spritual and grew the Leaves of life to become a potent Medicine in times of precariousness.

Hearing Barda's explanation, Zigen nodded his head and asked "Are the Leaves of Life able to instantly grow..? ask Zigen.

"No" Barda replied and explained, "to be able to grow the Leaf of Life requires a thousand circles of Spiritual Energy" Barda said.

"That's a very tiring job" murmured Zigen and Barda nodded his head confirming, "Where does the Spiritual Root that is in my body come from" asked Zigen.

"Spritual Riding has been around since you were in the womb, that's where your mother gave you nutrition" Barda replied.

"So, since that was also the Spiritual Energy stored near the navel" Zigen asked ascertained and Barda nodded her head.

"Thank you for the explanation" Zigen said and began meditating inside the cave.

"Do you want to grow Leaves of life" asked the curious Barda.

"I'll decide later" replied Zigen who was already meditating.

"Whatever path you choose, you need to absorb the Spiritual Energy to do it" Barda said.

"Don't let your Spritual Energy get out of control, or your Spiritual Path will get hurt, and you'll be a human being for as long as it is" Barda explained.

"I understand, thank you" Zigen replied.

"May it work" Barda said and slightly moved away.

Starting from absorbing the Spiritual Energy around, Zigen's body shook from the excess of Spiritual Energy, the capacity of the Spiritual Space was 100 circles, if it wanted to make room for the Spiritual Energy absorbed into the body, then it is necessary to unite it to its hundred.

Currently the Spiritual Soul Zigen was performing the unification of the Spiritual Energy by binding her using the Spiritual Energy that had been absorbed by her.

Unifying the Spiritual Energy was not easy, as the Spiritual Energy would go berserk, forcing a breakaway that made Zigen's main body tremble and sweat profusely.

Two days had passed, the Spiritual Energy that had been brought together by the Zigen Spiritual Soul, suddenly expanded and shrank into a single circle filled with vitality strength, which was all about, because it contains 100 Energy circles which are equal to the power of 1000 Spiritual Energies.

While Zigen's main body, there was a sound of a submerged explosion that signified Zigen had managed to do it, but Zigen did not immediately open her eyes which made Barda speculate.

"Whether that brat wants to cultivate the Leaf of Life, I should be prepared if his Spiritual Space undergoes an explosion, otherwise this child will die" Barda murmured.

Barda's guess was correct, Zigen thought gathering that much Spiritual Energy would only take one month because there were so many Spirit Fruits that Zigen had consumed.

Therefore the rest of the Spiritual Energy that was absorbed instead of being stored, Zigen used to control the Spiritual Energy that had fused towards the Spiritual Root to cultivate the Leaves of life.

Doing so slowly and filled with caution, the Spiritual Roots trembled violently and sucked in the Spiritual Energy crazily, but Zigen held her back and channeled the Spiritual Energy to be absorbed bit by bit.

One week later, the twig began to grow and there were small buds on top of it, zigen's main body is surrounded by a thin green mist that comes out of her body and some time later re-enters Zigen's body.

Opening his eyes and letting out a long sigh, Zigen got up to Barda and exclaimed happily "I succeeded" Zigen said, after arriving in front of Barda and suddenly his body was sitting limp.

With his breath cut off, Zigen muttered "Why my body..?"

"You run out of Spiritual Energy, the next time you want to grow a Leaf of life, leave a little Spiritual Energy so that your body is not too tired" Barda explained Zigen's current body condition.

"Why didn't you explain it in the first place" Zigen said quietly as she dropped her body back and closed her eyes.

"You don't ask, remember forgetting to ask yourself you'll be in danger" Barda said and began to disappear, letting Zigen rest.

This month, Zigen in the morning practiced instinct and balance in the horses, because Barda built many tree trunks as high as two meters and Zigen in order to jump over her one by one while avoiding the stone that was laid by Barda.

Because even though the language is the same but the letters in the world where Zigen is located now use letters such as alphabets, and Zigen always put on a bitter smile when Barda scoffed at her for seeing Zigen's bad writing because she wasn't used to it.

five years later

Zigen who has mastered everything taught by Barda and began to do exercises by fighting animals in the forest. Because of his love for animals, Zigen only kills animals enough for his stomach, since then many animals have been subject to him.

Currently, Zigen is facing Crocodile Scales Horn, the owner of the lake in which there are many gold grains scattered like beach sand, because of that Zigen tried to tame her to mine her gold.

Dressed in the armot of tiger skin that was forged by him, avoiding crocodile attacks and maneuvering in the air, Zigen exclaimed "Receive this" zigen shouted as she swung her staff and a line of light shot towards the Crocodile.

The Horned Crocodile bounced off the middle of the lake and the water splashed profusely as it was as big as a Tronton Truck, before the crocodile made a comeback, Zigen had pressed his bloody palm to tame it.

"Close.!" zigen's screams and her blood began to fuse with the crystal attached to the head of the Horned Crocodile, making the crocodile become calm no longer rebelling.

"Huft, it's finally over" Barda said and sat on the Crocodile's head.

"Didn't you kill one of those animals" said Barda, who immediately arrived in front of Zigen and pointed at the smaller Crocodile, as big as a regular truck.

"It's not good to kill animals carelessly, we have to preserve them" Zigen said as she stroked the Crocodile's head.

"Whether in your place of origin, many animals are extinct because they are hunted continuously" asked Barda.

"You're smart to guess exactly" Zigen said as she gave her thumbs up to Barda.

"Are you senile, that the skin can be wrought into armor" said Barda.

"Your senile Old Ghost, have you forgotten that I have had many Armor made from the skin of all the animals that are here" said Zigen, who has had and not only the Armor, Zigen had also made many pills from the celestial medicine book.

For nearly five years, Zigen had reached the Energy level Alchemist, an Energy level aray formation master and had also become a Forger at the same level.

"Now your job is done, so you are free to do anything" Barda said.

"You're right, there's no animal I need to conquer anymore..?" Ask Zigen.

"Nothing, because the animals here at the maximum can only have five hundred Spiritual Energy circles, if it had long possessed its spirit beast it would have died by itself and left behind only the Energy crystals that you had gathered all along.

But since you have done the blood contract combined with the Soul Shackle technique, the Spirit beasts here will be able to improve their abilities without having to worry about their lives" Barda explained.

"It is good if so" Zigen said, rising up and saying to the Horned Crocodile "You gather the gold on the edge of the lake and keep it well until I return" Zigen said as he pointed towards the edge of the lake and walked back towards the cave.

Barda who followed from the side asked "What are you doing gold for.?" ask Barda.

"I haven't thought about it" Zigen said, and they chatted along the way.

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