Yin & Yang Pleasures of Cultivation

It happened near instantaneously after the meeting in the main lobby hall. Several mind-boggling news spread around the entire Siren Blade Organization like wildfire.

The news being that three cultivators somehow managed to become Spirit Rank Mages within the span of hours! 

And as if this impossible-sounding news wasn't mind-shattering enough, there's also the news of Siren Star wanting to challenge the three of them!

These two pieces of news struck these Siren Mages hearts like a million-ton hammer. 

Reaching the great Spirit Mage realm like it was just taking a step, how could any reasonably sound Mages possibly accept this?!

All regular Siren Mages and even the Spirit Rank Senior Mage couldn't suppress the violent, turbulent waves in their hearts. 

However, no matter how much they wanted to deny it, Elder Yang's words are essentially absolute.

Since he claimed so, it only has to be true. 

But this truth made many Siren Mages feel as if all of their own hard work had been for absolutely nothing. Even more frustrating was the fact those masked youths haven't been seen at all.

And as the time flew past, more and more Siren Mages began to delude themselves into believing those cultivators used some sort of trick by a Spirit Artifact.

Nobody knows what kind of Spirit Artifact could ever perfectly replicate Magical Energy. 

But this was more sounder than thinking how those cultivators can take a single leap into powerful Magical Energy. 

This delusional is why many were getting increasingly pump for Siren Star's upcoming challenge. They all were assured that Siren Star can expose these cultivators for who they really are. 

Being a Spirit Ranked Mage, Siren Star, of course, knows numerous Magical Formations to expose any dirty trick.

It is practical knowledge that Magical Energy can also directly counter cultivator's talisman or Spirit Artifacts. 

Qi energy's main properties are to harness pure unbridled power from the environment, allowing any cultivator to unleash devastating attacks.

As for a branching property, Qi energy also has mystical properties, allowing cultivators to perform seemingly similar feats to Mages. 

These feats come in the form of the more unique talisman and Spirit Artifacts of the world.

However, no matter how seemingly similar it is, Qi Energy could never match Magical Energy in this area of field. 

Magical Energy's mystical ways allow any Mage a far more profound grasp over mystical properties. This would permit any decently powerful Mage to absolutely shatter any cultivator's talisman or Spirit Artifacts. 

Such powerful abilities even explain why the Raven Mages showed zero fear towards the Golden Crow Circle Spirit Artifacts.

Along with all this knowledge, Siren Mages were also generally excited to just see Siren Star in action. 

A move from any Spirit Ranked Mages is no joke. Their power is something not even hundreds of peak Gold Mages can ever hope to match.

And seeing this kind of power in action would undoubtedly be a grand spectacle. 

Furthermore, Siren Mages were banking on their luck to gain some kind of Magical insight from witnessing Siren Star's overwhelming power.

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At the same time the wildfire of news stormed the organization; Darcel's group was actually the exact opposite of everyone. 

Despite currently being the center of nearly everyone's attention, the trio was calm and focus.

Within their room, Darcel, Aniela, and Masami sat cross-legged, eyes closed shut. Their expression was calm like water, already fallen into a completely concentrated trance.

Around the trio, numerous significant changes were occurring within the environment. 

Streams of Magical Energy smoothly flowed into Darcel, Aniela, and Masami's bodies.

Each of them was seizing the Magical Energy from the air as if it was the most natural thing for them. The only difference between them was their rate of Magical Energy absorption.

Masami was the slowest, though only just slightly slower than Aniela's Magical Energy absorption rate. 

Although, while the girls seemed comparable, Darcel was a step above them.

He was pulling far greater Magical Energy without any sweat. His comprehension of Magical Energy improves with each passing second he cultivates. 

Of course, it wasn't as instantaneous as his Qi Energy comprehension. But it had improved to the point that would want to make Siren Blade violently cough out copious amounts of blood. 

Entirely unaware of just how incredible their performance is, Darcel began to think upon their next move after this session.

Already, he can feel an inevitable breakthrough coming on. A breakthrough he was sure that would simultaneously get the attention off and on their back. 

And once that happens, Darcel knows he'll need to plan out even more of their moves.

At that moment, Darcel recalled the information Aniela relayed to him and Masami. 

The key points to the Siren Blood Mage structure are missions and rewards. If they were simple grunts here, Darcel knows their time would've been far more troublesome.

But since they're Senior Siren Mages, their duties are quite simple. With their status, they have complete free reign over their mission choosing. 

Regular Siren Mages would need to finish a set number of tier missions before they can move on to the next tier. This strict requirement is to let the higher up to see if that Mage actually has worthy enough talent or not. 

Of course, this requirement simply doesn't exist for Darcel's group.

They can even choose the special high-tier missions that will grant them numerous fantastic items if completed. 

Additionally, Darcel, Aniela, and Masami don't need a Mage overseer when taking on a mission.

The Mage overseer is mainly for the newly recruited Mages who shown immensely promising talent during their ritual. 

Because under normal conditions, these Siren Mages would at most only be at the High Mage realm, so an overseer would be a tremendous help.

And with the prowess Darcel, Aniel and Masami wield, that option would only be futile. 

Once they finally completed a mission, Darcel's group will be rewarded with mission points.

These mission points can be traded in for a variety of rewards. But what Darcel deemed the most important was high-ranking Magical Arts, Mage Staffs, and Spiritual Magical Stones.

Wanting a quality Mage Staff was self-explanatory as Darcel knows he and the girls lacked a proper weapon for them to use. 

Spiritual Magical Stones are used to either speed up their Magical Energy absorption, power Magical Formations, help strengthen their attacks, and a variety of other tasks.

However, the very best reward was the high-ranking Magical Arts. 

Darcel theorizes their combat strength will significantly grow if they can get their hands on just one of those Arts.

In fact, as of right now, Darcel and the girls were comprehending a Grand Rank Magical Art. 

Initially, Aniela and even Masam wanted to start off smaller for as to get familiar with Magical Energy comprehension.

But with a confident smile, Darcel assured them that they can easily comprehend a Grand Magical Art already. 

Such boastful claims, if anyone were to hear Darcel's words, they would want to shred him to pieces.

Grand Magical Arts are only for Spirit Rank Mages and above. And these Magical Arts aren't easy to learn at all. Even the most talented of Spirit Mages struggle with comprehending Magical Arts.

It's why there's no shame when Spirit Mages use lower rank Magical Arts, perfecting them to a complete degree. 

The ranking of Magical Arts goes from Nascent, Gold, Grand, King, and then Saint. Within each ranking are stages of success that tell how far a Mage comprehension of that Magical Art is. 

The stage of success goes from Low, Advanced, High, Elite, and then Master.

The Magical Arts the trio are currently trying to comprehend is a low ranking Grand Magical Art. 

And though it is low ranking, this Grand Magical Arts requires only Mages with insanely high comprehension abilities.

Typically, there would be several impossible borders that would separate a Spirit Ranked Mage from even achieving low success. 

However, those borders didn't hinder Darcel's group's smooth progress.

This specific Grand Magical Art was called Spirit Chains. 

Learning this ability would allow a Mage to send out crimsons chains that either tightly constrict an enemy, pierce through any type of defense or defensive formation and also directly absorb the energy stored within a person Dantian or Magical Space.

It's only merely been hours of time since Darcel, Aniela and Masami began comprehending this Grand Magical Art. 

This amount of time would basically be nothing in other Spirit Ranked Mage's eyes.

At the very least, a Spirit Mage could spend months just to across over one small mental border. 

That snail-like pace was nowhere to be seen for Darcel's group.

When six hours finally passed, Aniela and Masami touched upon the borders of the Low Sucess stage! 

Subconsciously, a proud smile broke out on both of their faces.

'Ah~! I can feel it! This is so much different from cultivation arts but still all the easy for me. I wonder what looks Darcy and Sami will give me~?' Aniela felt like she was on cloud nine.

'Heh. This is almost too easy to the point I wish we chose something at a higher rank. At least then I won't be too bored. Though, I can't wait to see their faces morph into shock!' Masami similarly was full of Spirit.

At that moment, wisps of Magical crimson Energy leaked out of the girls, signifying their near arrival of the low success stage. 

In their own minds, Aniela and Masami truly believed they making better progress than each other and even Darcel.

However, what they weren't aware of was that Darcel is already leagues above them. 

At the same time wisps of crimson Energy leaked out of Aniela and Masami's bodies, a monumental change streamed out of Darcel's bodies.

In comparison to the girl's slight leakage of crimson Energy, Darcel actually had rays of crimson Energy shooting out of him like sunlight! 

And within only a few seconds, his crimson Energy began solidifying at breakneck speed.