Chapter 59: Elaine's Determination
Ken wasn't surprised by her question.
It was normal to ask this question. Even Elaine had asked him many times. Normally, he wouldn't answer these questions.
But these two had become a part of his harem.
So, he didn't mind explaining. But before he could, Elaine interrupted.
"I can answer you later. Ken, we need to focus on our cultivation for now. You should go and place the Purple Barrier Formation."
Ken rubbed his head and also realized that they shouldn't be wasting their time talking.
So, he nodded and immediately left.
Only then, Elaine turned towards Julia and said.
"Julia, I hope you will not ask these kinds of questions to him ever again."
Alice interrupted.
"But why? We are just curious about his origin."
"That's the problem. You can't be curious about his origin. He doesn't mind explaining these to you, but I don't want you to find out."
"At least, not now!"
Elaine sternly spoke, flaring her massive Qi for a moment.
At this moment, Alice felt a bit frightened by her tone and asked.
"Elaine, is there a problem? We are just curious. You know, we are a part of his harem too."
Seeing her frightened eyes, Elaine realized that she might have gone too far. She even flared her Qi.
She sighed heavily and said.
"Look! Ken is insecure and lonely. I trust you two. You are my best friends and now sisters. But, I want to keep him safe while he is still insecure and lonely."
After she said that, she raised her eyes, only to find a look of disbelief on their faces.
She knew they didn't believe it. After all, how could someone like Ken be insecure?
She shook her head and said.
"You can't see this, but as you spend more time with him, you will find this. I don't want him to spill his secrets to you because you've just joined his Harem."
"If he keeps this up, he will spill everything to everyone he has just met. Well, not exactly an unknown person, but anyone who has joined his harem."
"He is very lonely. Joining his harem is almost as same as a girl being his friend. Because the more she stays with him, the more she can't resist him."
"But at the same time, he is smart. I don't need to explain this to him. He won't be able to change this immediately, but we can slowly help him with this."
"For now, you just need to know Ken's mother comes from an extremely powerful family that can easily rival a Saint."
When they heard that, their eyes widened in surprise. They had just believed that he was connected to the Ancestor, which was why he had those techniques.
But they never expected him to have such a grand background.
Golden Dragon Sect's Ancestor was dead, but Ken's mother's family wasn't. They were still there, which meant there was a Saint behind Ken.
"Alright! We won't talk about this."
Julia nodded her head and took her scroll. She went to the side and started reading.
Alice rubbed her head, nodded at Elaine, and left for another ground.
Elaine sighed and shook her head.
The more she came closer to Ken, the more she realized just how frighteningly lonely he was.
His insecurity came from his knowledge and his lack of strength. For that, he needed to be alone and go to different places.
But these things made him lonely. He didn't have any to accompany him.
In fact, Elaine had one selfish reason to tie her best friends to Ken.
She knew Ken was going to establish a new force. He had told her some ideas in the past, but he never confirmed them.
It was only after the destruction of the Golden Dragon Sect, those ideas were confirmed.
But if that was the case, she would be forced to stay behind and take care of their force.
It wasn't bad, but she didn't want to leave Ken.
Her selfishness stemmed from the fact that to cover up that loneliness, Ken would easily find another girl.
She didn't want him to find more girls. She didn't like sharing him. So, if she could be with him all the time, she didn't need to worry about that.
Not only could they go around improving their strength to slowly pull him out of his insecurities, but he would also not be lonely.
At least, that's what she believed in.
'But for all of that to happen, I need to get stronger. From what Ken told me, I don't have any special talent. But thanks to Fire Spirit Body, I am stronger than Julia.'
'If I can practice this Heavenly Flame Refining and refine a Heavenly Flame, I can improve my Fire Spirit Body to another level.'
'According to that technique, if I absorb a small essence of the Heavenly Flame into my Fire Spirit Body, I can improve it further.'
'At least, I can make it a Middle-Level talent. As for Hundred Dragons Body Technique, I can also practice that to get stronger.'
'In fact, I should focus on that rather than just increasing my cultivation. I need to be with Ken in all of his battles.'
'That is the only technique that can help me bridge the gap in our strength. So, here I will focus on the Hundred Dragons Body Technique first and then the Heavenly Flame Refining Technique.'
She sat down in her exact spot and took out the scroll of the Hundred Dragons Body Technique.
She started to memorize this technique and did the others.
At this moment, Ken was busy with formation.
This job wasn't easy.
To create a formation, there were three important steps.
First step- Lay down the runes!
Second step- Connect the runes!
Third step- Power the runes!
The first step was about writing different kinds of runes in this place. This time, he had to use Construction Runes.
And, he had to place two different types of Construction Runes, one type of Elemental Rune, and one type of Conversion Rune
The first one was Shield Construction Rune. It was a rune that would utilize Qi to condense a spiritual shield that was as tough as metal.
The second one was the Shape Manipulation Rune. It was a rune that was used to manipulate the shape of the Shield into a dome or any sort of shape.
The third one was the Breathing Hiding Rune. It was an elemental-type rune that uses dark Qi to hide the breath and Qi of the people inside the rune.
The fourth one was the Energy Absorption Rune. It was a rune that could directly absorb energy from the surroundings.
But it can also directly absorb the Qi. This meant it didn't need to utilize the conversion part of this rune.
After all, it wasn't an absorption rune but rather a conversion rune.
So, he had to place these four runes, and each rune must be placed on top of another rune in a Formation Disk.
After writing those runes in the formation disk, he took out several of those and started writing the runes on those formation disks as well.
Finally, he moved on to the second step.
It was to connect those runes.
Now, this was where he needed to control every single formation disk with his spiritual sense and create a spiritual link between them.
Especially with the disk in his hand.
This disk was the center point of this formation, and it must stay with him because it was also the weakness of this formation.
In layman's terms, this was similar to opening a hotspot and sharing a password with friends to connect to a single network.
That meant all of these disks were the friend's smartphones while he was the one with the hotspot.
The spiritual sense was like a signal, and the range of the signal and the power of the signal were based on his spiritual sense.
Once all of those disks were connected to him through the spiritual sense, he could move on to the third step.
Powering up the formation. It was similar to giving charge to the phone.
After all, if the phone didn't have enough charge, it wouldn't turn on.
So, he had to first release his Qi into the formation to activate it.
Only after activating it, the formation could start absorbing Qi from the surroundings and sustain on its own.
It was the same as using the battery at first and then plugging the phone into a charger.
Ken was amusing himself with those examples in his head.
Things like phones, hotspots, wifi, and batteries didn't exist in his world.
He got the knowledge of those things from Grant's memories. He found it incredibly satisfying to compare these things.
Of course, many times, those things did help him.
Like the time he created the Ice Ring inside his Dantian.
As he channeled his Qi into those disks through one disk one his hand, he placed the disk on the ground and muttered.
[Purple Barrier Formation]
[Activate]