Bing Qin Yang was raising his hands, from where thin golden strings came out, whilst just a bit above them, there was a translucent blue sphere.

On the other side, Ezoju Ling was standing close with his two palms on his back.

"Calm yourself down, breathe slowly in and out, I will circulate some of my Soul Qi within your bloodstream, try to keep it under your control." He muttered calmly.

The teenager nodded slowly, he was somewhat hesitant, but he decided to take the bullet.

As some of the Soul Essence was transplanted, the veins around his back, became dark-purple, and were throbbing, Bing Qin Yang gritted his teeth, he began to redirect the Soul Qi towards his hands.

The Soul Qi, looked like white specks of floating dust, which were slowly converted and began to give more and more weight to the blue sphere.

"Hold on!" Ezoju Ling said, he moved one of his hands, towards the blue sphere, which immediately began to shrink.

Yet, because it had shrunk so quickly, it began to destabilize, many blue fares were shoot at all directions, creating small flames that quickly dissipated outside reality.

Bing Qin Yang sighed.

"Do not put so much Qi on my body, how am I supposed to control it?"

But Ezoju Ling snorted coldly.

"How is it my fault that your Cultivation base is so pitiful?

With your resources, you should be at the very least at the Qi Gathering Realm, yet, you are merely at the 4th Stage of Body Tempering at your age!"

For a small moment, Bing Qin Yang was about to refute.

He thought about many excuses, like his poor Fire Affinity that prevented him from awakening his Bloodline Ability, which hindered him drastically, as it reduced his speed of Cultivation when he practiced the methods of the Clan, or prevented him from using many of the training rooms.

There was also the fact that he decided to Cultivate Soul Path, that in the end forced him to take two subpar Sutras, to compensate for the flaws of the other, that reduced his Cultivation speed by at least a half.

Another thing that made him progress more slowly was the fact that back then, he used a lot of his time to pursue his fortuitous encounter, or about his many experiments, and their aftermath which usually left him on the hospital, decreasing even more the amount of time he Cultivated daily.

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Looking back at it, just how much amount of time he lost due to so many of his pursuits?

"I guess I could have done things a little bit better?" Bing Qin Yang muttered to himself, while blushing in embarrassment.

The teenager shook his head down, and regained his focus on the blue sphere on front of his eyes.

Through his delicate control, he created many golden strings, which he moved with an unusual skillfulness.

By moving his hands very subtly, he managed to create an almost invisible web, to envelop the blue sphere, on this way, he stopped the leakage of energy.

After creating this web, he shouted.

"Give me your Qi again!"

Ezoju Ling injected his Qi on the bloodstream again, like a huge tide of water, colliding with the rocks at the shore, the Qi hit his veins, yet, by relying on his precise control he was able to redirect their fury towards the sphere.

With every impact, the sphere shook and twisted, but Bing Qin Yang was able to retain his control by relying on his web, yet many protuberances appeared within the blue sphere, which became more apparent over time.

Bing Qin Yang moved one of his hands and cut it's strings, then, with his bare hand, he touched the blue sphere and began to mold it, he moved his hand across the sphere, removing it's protuberances, as well as compressing the sphere.

As this happened, more and more Soul Qi shook within his body, a body which was not very resistant, there were small cuts on his veins, which led to internal bleeding, however Bing Qin Yang had a solution for this.

He concentrated, some of his own soul essence was spread evenly across his body like a soft foam, that quickly began to mend his wounds, a foam, which he also used to accelerate the flow of Soul Qi.

As the time passed, the sphere became smaller and smaller, in the end it ended up with less than a fifth of the size it originally had.

Yet, the translucent, almost transparent blue sphere, now looked far more vivid, more tangible, more solid.

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Despite this, the blue sphere was still see-through, and inside it, one could see many blue flames sprouting.

Ezoju Ling looked at Bing Qin Yang and said.

"Do not grow overconfident, even though we are not pouring more energy into that will, it's still very unstable, if you lost your concentration and control over it, it may explode.

And this time, it will be dozens of times more powerful than before, and we know how it ended up earlier..."

Bing Qin Yang nodded solemnly, he closed his eyes as he controlled the flow within that sphere, which slowly began to settle down.

The flames become less numerous, and their energy became dimmer.

At this point, Ezoju Ling smirked.

He raised his arm, he created a vortex of energy which he used to pull a box that was nearby.

"Good, now that it has settled, we can go on the next part of our plan."

He opened the box, which was filled with a myriad of materials, from it, he took a few gray-blue leaf's, as well as a celeste liquid that was constantly moving chaotically.

"Good, I already took some of the Withering Soul Leaf's, and a bit of Living Water.

We are going to use the two, to give it more power to your Secrecy Will."

There was some resignation and tiredness on Bing Qin Yang's face, in the end he nodded very slowly.

Ezoju Ling moved very carefully towards the blue sphere, and he began to pour some of the drops of the Living Water, which due to it's higher density, stood just above the sphere.

After this, Ezoju Ling put those leaf's within the Living Water, then, he looked at Bing Qin Yang.

"Move your hands again, we need to integrate this within the sphere." Once more, Bing Qin Yang put one of his hands on the sphere, as he began to caress it.

The living water moved together with the sphere, however, even after going down, it remained floating, as if gravity did not exist for it, the leaf's also remained tightly connected to the water.

Slowly, Bing Qin Yang accelerated at the speed in which he moved his hand, as this happened, the Living Water slowly spread itself through the blue sphere, and the leaf began to resonate with an intense light.

Ezoju Ling grabbed more drops of the Living Water, as well as those leaf's, and then, he put them on the sphere.

The time went by, and Bing Qin Yang kept moving his hand, slowly, the color of the blue sphere began to change, and many bubbles appeared around it's edges, at difference from the protuberances, those 'bubbles' could not be removed as easily.

Those bubbles eventually lead to some of the 'water' splashing out of the sphere, and naturally this could not be allowed.

Once more, Ezoju Ling took another material, it was an ice with the shape of a drop of water, that upon touching the sphere, immediately submerged deeply, reaching towards the center.

After it reached the center, it exploded.

Many branches appeared as it did, branches which looked like tiny snowflakes, that slowly began to freeze the remaining parts of the will.

On the process, the drops of water, and the bubbles, slowly began to freeze, becoming less and less abundant.

In a matter of minutes, the will had turned almost completely white, it looked like an object made of marble, and was no longer a perfect sphere, instead it was more like a rugged paper, filled with 'cracks.'

The process to repair the will was long and tedious, Bing Qin Yang once more put his hand on it, and he began to move it, he did this very carefully and steadily, if he put just a bit more of strength that he needed, some of the pieces could fall.

To make matters worse, the material was also very cold, and thus he had to endure the cold while slowly giving it shape.

Many hours passed, before he finally completed this process.

Finally, after the process had ended, Bing Qin Yang sighed in relief.

"Who knew refining wills would be so difficult!" He said exasperated.

Ezoju Ling shrugged, he sat down and said.

"Well, what else did you expect?

The process of creating a 'will', is merely the first step, is like the rough sketch of an artist, or the first draft of a writer, a very important step, but far from the most difficult one."

A more accurate description of the process of creating a will would be like an sculptor, who must first find a proper material to use as the material for the statue.

Once the material is found, then the next step is to define the shapes, and slowly carve more and more complex shapes, whilst removing all the unnecessary parts.

In the case of Will creators though, the process is even more complex.

First they create a will, which is the 'mold', naturally this is a very important step, as the better the mold is, the better the future creation will be.

Then, they add it more and more properties and substances, like a deflated balloon being inflated quickly, under the process it expands, they must regulate and ensure the stability of the material.

When enough qualities are gathered the will can be further improved with more drastic means like changing the composition that sustains the will, whilst ensuring it's ability by relying on external materials.

Or the Soul Cultivator could also rely on changing the way the material is organized, like changing it's shape to that of a dodecahedron or something else, that could potentially prove to be more effective.

That and other myriad of forms existed, that could be used to improve a will, in fact there were so many ways to empower a will, that some odd, rare Soul Cultivators spent decades on perfecting their favorite wills.

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Bing Qin Yang was too exhausted mentally and physically, he wanted to go to sleep, but Ezoju Ling shook his head.

"First put that will inside your head, or what, were you not the one who wanted to keep your little head of secrets safe?

Besides, that little will you have, will give you a better sleep quality, and accelerate your speed of Soul Cultivation passively.

Anyhow, you can see the will we made, as the first sign of my sincerity."

Ezoju Ling said with a wide smile on his face.

Their cooperation had just begun, but he saw in front of him, a very interesting possibility.

In the same way that Bing Qin Yang's secrecy will was improved massively, the two...Three could work together, and even if the improvement would not be quite as drastic, as long as they increased by a 20% the strength of the will, his gains would be massive.

More importantly, now that he had seen with his own eyes, the proficiency at which he refined wills, another possibility was revealed before him.

He could begin to produce and sell wills in masse, with this, the two could acquire and more funds, with those funds, they could use to fuel their own progress.

Especially the one of Bing Qin Yang, whom despite his unusual skill of soul manipulation, was very restricted by his pathetic Cultivation Base.

As long as his Cultivation grew just a bit more, the two could gain more and more funds, to fuel their future goals.

And that was just the beginning, Ezoju Ling grew more excited as he imagined, just what kind of secrets would that old monster reveal to him, in exchange of just a few resources.

Let alone, the prospect of successfully reviving them.

As long as he did this, he would have a powerful Cultivator as a great ally for his future plans.

Their alliance was quite the bargain for him.