He could make do without combat techniques but it was always better to have a few of them since he did not need much time to learn them, anyway.
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"Sure but if you have to take an oath, help me break out of here." The old man thought for a while before nodding in agreement but he had a condition.
"Not possible!" Ye Yaming turned back, leaving without a second thought. Helping a criminal get out of jail? That would put a wanted label on him without doubt.
Before deciding to ask the man for guidance, he had not thought much. Demonic faction or Righteous faction, the affiliation did not matter much to him.
He would have happily fought the Righteous clan if he were born in the Demonic faction.
As long as the martial arts worked, he did not mind the affiliation.
Also, the Demonic Faction were people from clans who lost their control over their Beast Souls. So, it was very likely that the martial arts techniques they possessed were very strong and suitable for him.
The old man seemed shocked that the boy had not even given it a thought.
"Hey! Hear me out!" The old man shouted but Ye Yaming kept walking away.
"Wait!!" The man panicked but Ye Yaming showed no signs of stopping.
"Wait! Not break out, help me with my revenge." The old man shouted, calling him back. The thing about revenge had gotten Ye Yaming intrigued and he came back.
He looked at the spot where the two of his clan members were giving him looks but he ignored them.
"What revenge?" He squatted down near the old man and asked. Did the old man want him to end some enemy outside the jail? Maybe inside?
He sat down to listen to the full story.
"When you go out, inform the demonic faction that I, Lu Wang, was schemed against." The man explained.
"By whom?" Ye Yaming inquired.
The old man hesitated but decided to not tell Ye Yaming the name of the culprit. "That you don’t need to know. If you take an oath, I will teach you." He proposed.
The oath could make the promise accountable with their Beast Souls.
Ye Yaming glanced at the old man before agreeing. "Okay."
Ye Yaming paused for a moment before asking. "But how do you know I am getting out? Do you have some source outside?"
How did the old man know about him getting out?
How was he even sure that a boy who killed someone just after coming inside would be let out?
"Something like that." The man vaguely accepted without giving any explanation.
"That’s it? Nothing more, right?" He made sure. If it was just informing someone then it was doable.
"Yeah, just inform them. As for the technique. I will help you with the oath first." The old man said before summoning a silhouette of a human figure. Unlike the other Beast Souls Ye Yaming had seen, this one did not seem to have a beast like visible trait, it was a humanoid smoke.
"Is that burning the soul to initiate a contract?" He asked. The burning soul method was something he had read when studying for cultivation.
A person could burn their soul to bind the other person with their consent and sometimes without it.
The old man chuckled. "That’s too far off, cultivators do that." Cultivators had the method to safely use their soul and bind others with oaths. "We, the demonic factions fuse with our Beast Souls instead. The Beast Soul is harmed with this oath, not our souls." The old man explained.
The Demonic faction were not the normal type of warriors. They did not master the usage of their Beast Soul. Instead, they tried to fuse with the Beast Soul itself, acquiring physical traits.
The old man held Ye Yaming’s forehead, transferring his Beast Qi to complete the oath.
After the oath was completed, the old man gave Ye Yaming the demonstration of the technique, the technique from the Demonic faction.
"If we unite with our Beast Souls then the possibility is endless." The old man spoke. The Demonic faction’s goal was to perfectly master their Beast Soul and fuse with it, allowing them to acquire all the traits passively, like a unique physique.
"So this technique will help me unite?" Ye Yaming asked, amazed. If he could fuse with his Mutated Beast Soul then wouldn’t he get wings? Or the ability to fly?
"Not really. This is to get closer to the Beast Soul, an unorthodox method when abused shows results but with side effects, different from Cultivation but faster results." The old man shook his head. If success was perfectly guaranteed then they would have become the orthodox faction not the cultivation sects.
Their path had too many side effects to be able to become a path followed by everyone.
"If you manage to remain sane then probably a few years, less than 6, until you reach Peak first rate. That is if you don’t have a powerful beast soul." The old man explained. From his experience, six years were more than enough for someone to reach Peak First rate warrior level combat strength.
But that was if the person remained sane until then. Most of the Demonic faction members could not maintain their sanity perfectly. They always developed some quirks.
Not harmful in most cases, but it did change the personality. And that change of personality affected their potential as warriors.
"If you have a Beast Soul with great abilities then your potential is higher." However, there was a catch. It was not like the Demonic faction did not have powerful warriors. Some of them had Beast Souls most suited for this path. Like the Ji clan’s Swan Beast Soul.