The Human Giant



As everyone grew closer and formed bounds, Yoze sneaked out to return to his room as he couldn't wait to continue trying to fuse his spiritual energy with his blood. He had been attempting this fusion ever since he fought the Leopard demon but till now he had made little progress.

He had been experiencing the same difficulties with manipulating his spiritual energy as when he tried to enter Martial Silver Thunder's body. He could manipulate his spiritual energy to do basic movements like moving it to cause spiritual suppression or form spiritual claws 

But doing more complex and intricate movements and techniques was incredibly difficult to do without a wave of pain being inflicted on his mind. There was also the issue that Yoze couldn't figure out how to solve and that was the conflicting nature of his spiritual energy.

Having multiple types of spiritual energies from his demon spiritual body cultivation talents had given Yoze some incredible benefits ever since had gotten his second spiritual body cultivation talent. Such as greater protection against external spiritual energy, each type of spiritual energy was almost entirely independent from Yoze allowing him not to focus on controlling them, and due to their conflicting nature, they produced a constant stream of new spiritual energy.

But it also made it more difficult for Yoze to control any of them as they frequently went berserk, damaging his body more than some demons do.

 There was also the need to divide up any spiritual energy Yoze gained meaning the more spiritual body cultivation talents he had the more the spiritual energies Yoze produced were split up. This led to some reduction in the fact that while Yoze had the advantage of always producing spiritual energy it had to be shared, meaning that all his spiritual energies grew stronger at a slower rate.

The conflict between his spiritual energies was increasing the difficulty that Yoze had when trying to fuse his spiritual energies into his blood since whenever two spiritual energies got too close to each other, Yoze would lose the small bit of control he had over them as they went at each other's throats.

"Slow and steady wins the race, as long as I'm making progress no matter how small it is going to be worth it in the future. And it's not all bad. My control over my spiritual energies has been improving."

"This is especially the case with how easy it is becoming for me to visualize the paths that are being created from the spiritual body cultivation talents." Yoze wasn't discouraged about the fact that he was making slow progress instead it made him even more excited for the day he succeeds.

As Yoze was observing the paths of his spiritual energies he noticed that a bit of Armored Elephant spiritual energy and Swamp Leopard spiritual energy got absorbed into the same area of his flesh.

When this happened he felt his body become a bit heavier and his body felt more comfortable at the idea of being underground.

What made him more interested was the fact that his instincts told him that once the spiritual energy in his body reached a certain saturation something major would happen to his body. He didn't know what kind of change this could be, whether it was good or bad but he was looking forward to it.

Another interesting thing he observed was the fact that his spiritual energies didn't experience any conflict with each throughout the process. It was as natural as breathing and it was as if a pact had been made to not cause trouble in his flesh.

"Why don't they conflict with each other when they enter my flesh but do when they enter my blood?" Yoze raised his eyebrows with interest.

He felt that it was interesting that both spiritual energy and inner vigor both interacted with the body and that both experienced difficulties when attempting to enter his blood. They both could enter his flesh without much trouble but they needed a more complex and unique method to enter his blood.

As Yoze was thinking about the similarities of inner vigor and spiritual energy he suddenly had a wave of inspiration as he remembered that becoming a Blood Master using the Blood Swordsman body cultivation method allows him to use multiple types of inner vigor. 

"Maybe I can use the Blood Swordsman body cultivation as inspiration." Yoze closed his eyes as he remembered the words in the Blood Armored Body Cultivation manual.

He quickly found a passage that suited his needs and tried to put it into practice. 

"To become a Blood Swordsman I need to use my Armored Swordsman Inner Vigor as a container or main controller. This will allow me to support multiple types of inner vigor since they all become subordinates to the main inner vigor."

"I can try to do the same and make one of my spiritual energies my main spiritual energy but which one do I choose? They all are equally as powerful." Yoze's mind raced as he mulled over what spiritual energy he should attempt to be his main spiritual energy.

Yoze's first thought about making his first demon spiritual energy, the Serpent demon, the host. It had a great amount of destructive power and could oppress other spiritual energies.

However, he shook his head and turned his focus toward the Armored Elephant spiritual energy. Unlike the oppressive and sharp nature that the Serpent spiritual energy had, the Armored Elephant spiritual energy was pure heaviness and defense. 

It was an effective spiritual energy to use as suppressive spiritual energy and it could also give him incredible defense against spiritual energy attacks. The Armored Elephant's spiritual energy attributed towards heaviness also complemented Yoze cultivating the Big Golem body cultivation method.

Yoze shook his head again and turned toward the Swamp Leopard demon's spiritual energy. The attributes that this spiritual energy has over others are that it is a lot less noticeable and full of brute force. It might even allow Yoze to better emulate the Leopard demon's ability to survive lethal injuries by creating holes in his body.

Yoze shook his head once more and focused on the last spiritual energy type he had, the Three-Headed Fox demon. The only demon that Yoze hadn't killed and was able to successfully integrate with the human world without exposing its cover. There was also a high chance that the Three-Headed Fox demon was a part of the Demon Union.

The Three-Headed Fox demon's spiritual energy was illusory and seemed to cause hallucinations. It was very different from the other spiritual energies as it didn't seem to have any increases in offensive strikes but more towards ambushes and sneak attacks 

They all had their pros and cons but Yoze could only try this experiment with one of them. If he succeeds then he wouldn't have another chance to change his host spiritual energy. 

If he failed then there was nothing he could do but try again and fix the past mistakes. As Yoze mulled over his choices he felt that none of them were right for him. He also had a persistent feeling that he had overlooked something incredibly important for him to succeed with this idea. 

"Knock knock" 

Suddenly drawing Yoze's attention away from his spiritual energies was a knock on his door. Yoze turned to look at his door and noticed that spiritual energy in the shape of a red flower was standing behind his door.