God's Eyes

12 years passed in the blink of an eye.

At first, Jason thought that it would be an arduous and extremely painful period of time.

Little did he know that it would be possible for him to enter a fully focused state, and a trance where more than a decade passed in a blur.

The same was the case with Jennifer, Artemis, and the other soulbonds.

This was mostly owing to their connection with each other.

With the stigmas fully utilized, and the Celestia aura merging all of them, the deepest part of everyone's consciousness had been connected with each other.

Thus, even without making any visible efforts, everyone knew about the condition of another.

It was an addictive sensation that was something entirely new for Jennifer.

However, instead of slinking away, she could now understand the true importance of Jason's soulbonds to him.

After all, it was a truly wonderful feeling to be connected to one's soulbonds, feel their joys and sorrows, and turn into a family!

Because both Jason and Jennifer were solely focusing on refining their entire being, enhancing their talent, and becoming stronger in their innate constitution, their growth was not directly visible.

The only thing that changed about their cultivation base was the fact that the surrounding cultivation energies were dense enough to force a reaction onto Jason and Jennifer.

Their vessels and souls were being pulled towards one another, allowing their cultivation to passively increase at a rapid pace.

Jason's vessel had almost fully fused with his soul world core, while the same could be said to have happened to Jennifer.

This was an exceptional feeling as their strength was also increasing in proportion to their cultivation base.

Adding the tiny enhancements they received in every single session they practiced the Kanadi of a Primordial technique, the effect of interest improved everything further!

However, what they hadn't expected was that their bodies' demand for nutrition would increase to such a great extent that they would devour their entire stockpile of nutrition solutions in a mere decade!

This was ridiculous, considering that their stock of resources was equivalent to the cultivation resources heavenly prodigies required while focusing on refining their body over a century…

As such, after nearly 12 years, they had been pulled out of the capsule that automatically opened, releasing the two of them.

On the other hand, Artemis, Solaris, Petri, Spyro, Sira, and Aren were eagerly awaiting them, issuing various voices to welcome them.

They hadn't been bored either, but their focus had been on cultivating, and digesting the treasures Jason had provided them with.

Every single soulbond had received multiple enhancements, and not just their cultivation.

Because of that, everyone was overjoyed upon reuniting with each other.

The decade had passed quickly, and everyone had become much stronger.

All soulbonds, even Aren had entered the Mid Ascendion stage, allowing them all to fuse their cultivation vessels with their soul.

This was a great achievement but also what Jason had expected.

Even Aren's fast cultivation speed was within his expectations.

After all, Aren was a Roc, a mythical creature in the perfect cultivation environment, so it was no surprise that his cultivation speed had accelerated by a total of eight activated and overlapping Stigma and the Celestia aura that attracted the purest energies of the surroundings.

Sira could be considered as the only exception.

She was not cultivating and simply sound asleep, creating blessed energy with which she enhanced her four blessings.

Putting on some dry clothes after a quick shower, both Jason and Jennifer looked at each other, a knowing glint visible in their eyes.

They hadn't seen each other for a decade, but they had sensed one another.

Their connection was even deeper than being close and seeing your beloved physically.

As such, the time they were physically separated was not all that bad for them.

Clenching their fists, they stretched their bodies afterward, in an attempt to get rid of the numb sensation and soreness that had made them feel rigid.

Seemingly endless power spread through Jason's body, and he knew that even his ordinary mana was far more powerful than it had ever been before.

The same could be said about his mana veins, the God's Halo, his stigma, the Celestia aura and every single cell in his body.

His entire being was brimming with energy, and so was his soul world that had enlarged manifold.

'So even my soul world, and the amplification had been enhanced…as expected of the Kanadi of a Primordial technique, it truly nurtures the entire being, including the soul!'

This made many things far easier than he had initially expected.

Even then, Jason had not expected his soul amplification to reach more than 50%.

It was beyond his wildest imagination and the result made him smile.

Wanting to test the changes and enhancements his body underwent after the True Soul amplification, he released a thread of mana from his body.

A fine thread materialized in front of him that shot through the mansion, taking several turns, before ending up in front of the vault.

Upon opening it, he noticed that one of the Sacred Elvyr powerhouses must have brought the remaining ingredients for the True Soul awakening to him.

At the same time, there were a few letters that had been placed in the vault, waiting to be read by him once he was done with the Decade of refinement.

'So the Queen simply assumed that I won't take longer than a decade before I stop practicing the Kanadi of a Primordial technique? Or did she expect that the nutrition solutions would run out?'

Smiling lightly, Jason controlled the thread of mana to envelop the items inside the vault before pulling it back.

In a smooth move, everything was stored inside his spatial ring before he turned back to Jennifer.

"A few items are still missing for my True Soul awakening to be completed. You still want to wait, right?" 

While holding Jennifer by her waist, he asked her the question while his soulbonds were trying to squeeze themselves between them both.

They wanted to share this moment of togetherness, feeling that they deserved it after a decade of separation.

Jason felt that his soulbonds needed his attention too, but he didn't want to neglect Jennifer either.

Thus, while holding Jennifer, he released the beastarium of Lyina from his storage ring.

"Soo boys and girls, shall we take a look at what kind of soulbond we bind next?" Jason asked, with a slight smile on his face.

After a long and careful consideration, he had decided to allow his soulbonds to help him find the perfect soulbond for him. Together with their help, he wanted to research what kind of soulbonds he was supposed to bind.

They knew that the future was bleak and that it was extremely important for him to bind more beasts to his soul, just for the sake of survival.

As such, even Artemis agreed on binding hundreds or even thousands of beasts to his souls.

Her only demand was that he should let only a few new soulbonds be as close to him as the six of them!

Jason understood her concern, but he couldn't really promise anything.

He would never be impartial or favor any particular soulbond over the others. 

So if they were to get attached to him just like the others, he was not going to push them away.

In the end, this was inevitable, and Artemis had to accept it.

Thus, she and the other soulbonds were already grateful for Jason's consideration to allow them to take part in the selection process of his new soulbonds.

This was not something anyone else would do, after all.

Following that, the eight of them, including Jennifer spent a few days picking out a few soulbonds that would be suitable for Jason's progress.

In the beginning, it was weird for all of them to look at the beasts of Lyina as if they were goods to shop.

However, after some time, everyone understood that they were just talking about the scenario of binding the said beasts in a hypothetical sense!

It was not as if Jason would bind all 273 beasts they had chosen for him to bind them to his soul!

If they only knew that a few hundred beasts were nothing in comparison to what Jason would bind to his soul in the vast future, everyone would laugh at the meager number of 273 beasts!