<h4>Chapter 223 Garvin''s Teachings</h4>


    "Are you just letting them leave?" Davis asked in a doubtful tone, not sure if the old man will really leave them alive or would just hoodwink him and kill themter.


    "Of course, why not? Since you told me to leave them alone, I do not need for them to be here…"


    Davis asked with an incredulous expression on his face, "Aren''t you afraid that your hidden location will be found out by your enemies or the Tripartite Alliance by letting them leave alive?"


    Garvin shook his head, "It doesn''t matter, and even if they do, by the time they get here, I will long be dead, and you will be somewhere else."


    Davis tried to probe more, "What if they were just nearby?"


    Garvin grinned, "Then they''re just asking to die!"


    Davis furrowed his brows and turned confused. Wasn''t his enemies supposed to be powerful?


    "Come with me…" Garvin prodded and dropped his feet to the ground.


    His transparent soul body suddenly morphed into a body that had flesh and meat. To be more precise, it looked like a body that had flesh and meat but in truth, it was just a real soul body that had materialized.


    Davis blinked at this marvel and subconsciously followed behind him.


    Going through the closed door, which Davis tried to probe before when wanting to escape, they arrived in front of an underground water body, inside a cave-like structure.


    "What is this ce?" Davis questioned, his eyes wide open.


    He couldn''t see anything or sense anything in this ce but when Garvin waved his hands, he was able to see an undergroundke in front of him.


    "This is the underground cave below the West End Valley, and the source of the fog which perpetually exists throughout the valley."


    "…"


    "Down here, thiske was just a damn normalke, yet the body of an unknown Eighth Stage Beast dposed into every part of thiske, causing the property of theke to change and generate this kind of fog over time as far as I know."


    Davis was astonished and finally understood the source of the fog, but even so, he couldn''t understand, "What has this got to do with them wanting to die bying here?"


    "As long as they are here, their souls will be temporarily suppressed to a huge degree. This will grant me enough time to kill them even if they were powerful than I was at my peak!" Garvin boasted as if he was confident.


    Davis raised his brows, "Then, can''t you just bait them here and save me the trouble…"


    "Idiot! This is just myst resort! Listen here brat, things will not always progress as nned. You got to take a step back before nning to move ahead. Doing so will help you see the big picture."


    Once Garvin said that he turned to look at Davis in a meaningful light, "You get it?"


    Davis nodded in agreement but quickly realized something.


    "Wait, why isn''t your soul suppressed? You don''t even have a fleshy body to protect you!"


    Garvin gave off a derisive sneer," Hmph! What do you know? I had to spend thousand years tempering my soul body in thiske to gain resistance, and in the process, I had to make sure I wouldn''t die halfway."


    "Can I temper my soul body in thatke?" Hearing that, Davis''s eyes lit up in greed.


    "Don''t even think about it! You won''t evenst a second with your soul forging cultivation base…" Saying so, Garvin turned back to leave.


    Davis, who couldn''t see anything to his front without Garvin''s help, followed him back into the room.


    …


    First day…


    "Out of the three cultivation systems, Soul Forging Cultivation is the hardest to cultivate! I assume you know the first five stages of Soul Forging Cultivation System."


    "I''ll start exining the first one, Nascent Soul Stage. This stage is where your existent, yet non-existent soul, takes form…"


    Garvin started to exin. He vocalized his thoughts and made Davis understand his teachings to a great degree, even taking the time to exin the first five stages in Soul Forging Cultivation to stabilize thetter''s foundation.


    "Understanding the soul through heaven and earth energy is the mysterious element. What kind ofw do you practice with your soul?"


    "Light?" Davis said doubtfully. After all, he also used Fallen Heaven''s dark-like energy as well.


    "Light, is it? Most of us tend to subconsciously stick to Light for our Soul Cultivation. In truth, it doesn''t matter if you practice light or dark. Understanding the mysteriousness behind the soulw is what''s important."


    "What is soulw?" Davis turned confused as it was the first time he heard of the term.


    "I thought of exining that when I get to exin about the Fifth Stage but whatever… Laws are of the embodiment of the universe. It is boundless."


    "Since it is boundless, you won''t be able to even understandpletely. Not even I do, nor do Ninth Stage Experts!"


    "People since ancient times decided toe together topile theirprehension and doing so resulted inws being divided into three major types in ordance with the cultivation systems created for humanity."


    "Energy Laws, Body Laws, and Soul Laws."


    "But in truth, all are one and the same, belonging to the same majorw."


    "For example, let''s say you practice firews. Using fire bodyws to temper your body is effective but to train your soul and energy with fire bodyws will result in no progress at all."


    "You''re simply using the wrong source of energy andprehension to feed your power."


    Davis''s eyes widened as he understood, "Then how do I differentiate between thews Iprehend?"


    "Heh, that depends entirely on yourprehension and the ability to understandws. This is entirely innate and there are no records of one being able to improve their innate talent ofprehension as far as I know." Garvin shook his head.