"Pfft, what? Six Soul Cores? You're not joking, are you?!"
Hearing Heavenly Punishment's words, Murong Huai was utterly shocked. Three Soul Cores were already the absolute limit, and now there were going to be six? Was this a joke?
"Of course not. Since you want to condense Soul Cores to control your attribute powers, why not control all of them? Why settle for just three?"
Murong Huai had been about to argue, but after thinking it over carefully, he found that it made a lot of sense. Right—since he was going to control his own attribute energies, why not control them all?
"Wait, though. Why six Soul Cores? If I'm controlling everything, shouldn't there be thirteen Soul Cores?"
Heavenly Punishment rolled his eyes. "My dear brother, didn't you just say these things were difficult to condense? Thirteen? Could you even make that happen?"
"Oh, right. Thirteen is too many. But why six Soul Cores?"
At that, Heavenly Punishment raised a hand and divided the thirteen types of energy into five groups before saying:
"I've divided the thirteen attributes into five groups, with each group condensing its own Soul Core."
He then brought forth the first group: darkness and light. "Darkness and light complement one another. This core uses the light and darkness within your body as a guide, allowing the two forces to circulate and merge within your heart like the twin fish of Taiji. From then on, there will not only be no danger of backlash, but the mutual generation of yin and yang will also allow you to unleash twice the power.
Place it in the heart. Let yin and yang complement each other, progressing step by step."
Then came the second group, the powers of time and space. "The powers of time and space can fuse into