Aura slowly closed her eyes and once more went into deep meditation. But this time, it was not to cultivate further but instead to feel the extent of her new powers.

The true reason Aura was often called a genius was not because her talent in cultivation as while high yes it was only that. And with only high talent one cannot be called a true genius.

No, the true reason was that Aura is incredibly skilled with the soul force art, this art was the most important tool of any cultivator without exception. Soul force have as many levels as there are great realms of cultivation and one can’t get into a higher level without being in the right realm.

This was still true for Aura, but soul force is not simple at all. And must spend a long time to fully master a level. Soul force was almost more important than cultivation in itself. While a high realm of cultivation would give one an incredibly strong body and a lot of soul energy it would mean little if one was not skilled enough in using soul force as this power would be mostly useless.

The low levels of soul force would only allow one to do simple things such as removing leaves, snow and dirt from once path or preventing one from getting hit by the wind, rain or snow. the higher ones would enable one to do so much more, like moving objects both big and small under the users full control.

while there might also be the art of telepathy for this, that is much harder to use then soul force. And does not only require a high amount of focus and mental strength. but is also far inferior to soul force which is both easier to use and much more potent.

But also things such as walking on water and levitation and at the very high levels even offer true flight.

Yes, this was the real source of Aura’s title as a genius. She had always easily been able to understand the concepts of soul force and been able to master it with great ease. So while others had to spend a lot of time not cultivating and instead trying to master the many levels of this profound art she could just mostly focus on cultivation her soul, earning her a place at the top.

After around seven hours of getting a feel of her new found powers she finally opened her eyes.

As she slowly stood up from the waters, her still pristine skin was almost glowing. The secret to this was within the water itself. The water was from the source enriched with many different herbs that are good for the skin, hair and would even slows down ageing. this natural stream of pure warm water was shared between only seven small homes like hers and each belonging to a queen, a great privilege indeed.

Standing there, she slowly raised her hands this caused two dozen orbs of water to rise from the pool and they slowly started to rotate around her. The orbs did not simply rotate around her, no they moved up and down and as they did they also began to overtake each other, doing this the smile on Auras face became even brighter.

“and, up we go!” Aura said while lifting her hands high above her head. And as she did, her whole body slowly raised until she stood atop the waters. while this was only standing still and also took up much of her focus it was still something unbelievable to must, as walking on water was something that normally required the late fourth level to do. But this was after all why she was called a genius.

And even now after only seven short hours, she had completely mastered this level of soul force, truly a feat worthy of being on the level on a genius.

standing there naked atop the waters with a bright smile on her near perfect face, and while orbs of pure water spinning around her shining like gemstones, she was truly a stunning sight one that would certainly cause all young men to fall in love.

She closed her eyes and allowed herself to be immersed in a feeling of great joy over the breakthrough.

“wahh!” she suddenly let out as she was shocked to her very core.

This caused her to fall straight down into the water along with the many orbs. And for around ten breaths worth of time, she just sat there, eyes fully open and visibly deeply shocked. Only then did she quickly close her eyes and attempt to feel within her soul if the sensation just not had been true.

“This. This. This is definitely the second rank of Soul expanding! but how I, I only just broke through to the first rank a few hours ago!” she said to herself with a voice filled with shock while looking down at herself, taking a few deep breaths.

“no, I need to calm down here so I can figure out what just happen!” she said in a determined and excited voice.

“let’s see here, what could it have been,” She whispered to herself “This would have taken me more than two full months of cultivation.” Her eyes snapping open again “could it have been enlightenment!? Yes it must have been, but how and why?” she said in a very excited voice.

“enlightenment, enlightenment, enlightenment” she mused to herself while trying to recall what she had learned on this particular subject.

“damn, I can’t seem to remember anything useful! But this just might be the key to solving my problem! so I definitely need to look it up” she said her voice filled with determination.

Not wanting to waste any time she got out of the water and used soul force to dry herself off instantly before taking on her robe and quickly leaving her home, going towards the sects main library.

With quick steps, she walked through her house and the small garden that separated her home from the large mountain walls that served to give her privacy.

After exiting a small tunnel and leaving through her gate, she sped up and left the valley that housed the homes of all the Queens.

Not long after she was already on the main road of the core sect. here she stopped running and instead walked in a very graceful way, she was, after all, a queen and as such could not be seen running around.

The main road she was now on looked more like something one would expect to see in a large city, then a cultivation sect. But then again this was the endless forest sect, the largest and most powerful sect in the whole world!

Its power and wealth were incomparable to anything else. Even the great empire of Zakunn which it was located within. Its power was also the reason behind the sects name. as it had not always been called the endless forest sect, no this had at first only been a title. Given to it in ancient times. But it had just happened that no one else had ever been able to overtake them terms of strength and, therefore, it had held the title for so long that no one even remembers its original name anymore. But little did it matter as there were no sect or clan who could take the title away anyway at this point.

Aura walked down the fine paved stone road, past a great many stores and workshops who was all run mostly by other disciples.

She quickly drew much attention from the many nearby disciples. And soon she had become the topic of much talk among the crowd. most already knew who she is, after all, there is only 7 people with the title of Queen and as such had very little anonymity, and those who did not know would all quickly learn it as dozens of disciples would say her name aloud as they stared after her.

Aura did not pay this much attention as this would always happen whenever one of the queens was walking around, but she did quicken her pace a little, as she did not really like all this attention.

This was also the main reason Aura had spent most of the past seven years on her own, and moreover ended up without having any real friends to speak of, and only had a few people she would even speak with, which were the top 3 ranked Queens. They were all members of the angel race but was a lot friendlier towards her then must, which had originally surprised her as must angels she knew had been a lot rougher than these three, and they had also ended up helping her much over the years.

“ahahaha” an arrogant laughter could suddenly be heard from within the crowd. “getting to see my beloved Queen Aura here is truly my good fortune.” a young man said as he walked out from a large store with an arrogant look on his face and eyes filled with undisguised lust.

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I really don't get why that just happened to the last bit there.... I swear it was fine just a sec ago... no really!