Chapter 147 - 2nd Cultivation Star

Ryan heard out his entire story and a question bubbled up in his mind, "Mr. Tom, the ghost you banished and this ancient ghost of this house are they the same or different?"

"No, they are different. And Tom only." Insisted the former exorcist and ghostbuster.

"Okay…." Agreed with Ryan and asked him how in the world his locket reached there.

The answer was very simple, and Nagisa answered it for him.

"The previous owner must have auctioned his/her house after the auction after the ghost incident, and the former owner of this house must have bought it from there."

"Yes, you are absolutely correct," complimented Tom.

Since he had been around for a while, and with his former profession of an exorcist he must have noted down his weaknesses, Ryan took the chance and asked him about the ancient ghost.

Tom understood what he wanted and decided to tell him everything about the ancient ghost. But before he did, he put forward a question and a condition before them.

"Before I start talking about him, tell me one thing, is that ghost your pet or something?"

"No…" replied Ryan laughingly. He understood what Tom was thinking and told him the story of how he found that ghost kidnapping his classmates and how he captured him with his barrier.

Tom frowned over it and asked him to touch his hands again. Ryan had no idea what he wanted to do. Since he couldn't sense any malice from him he did as asked by Tom and showed his both hands to him.

Tom touched his forehead with two fingers and extracted a light out of him. Ryan was getting a weird feeling from seeing a ghost doing such stuff, but he kept his mouth shut and enjoyed the show.

Tom extracted a revolving pyramid-like light particle from his forehead and kept it on Ryan's right hand.

The particle dissolved in him and spread a chill throughout his body. He shivered for a while before he got used to that and felt its effect on his body.

The particle was doing two things at once. First it was cleansing his soul sea and making it purer than before. Second, it was scanning his soul sea for something.

While he was enjoying its effects something happened in his soul sea, he sat cross-legged on the floor and started meditating. Nagisa got alerted by his reaction and was getting ready to attack the ghost of Tom Ghost Talker. Ryan intervened and asked her to stay a lil away from him and see the magic.

Aryan dived into his soul sea and found that revolving particle resonating with one of his cultivation stars. And to his surprise, the resonating star was not the Star of Harmony that was already shining brightly, but a dormant star located at a corner of his soul sea.

This time it was the Star of Spirits, the star that was related to the ancestor and the founder of the Hiragi Family.

He willed it and whoosh!!

The particle and he himself reached before the Star of Spirit.

The particle started vibrating. At the same time, Nagisa was feeling a burning sensation in her cultivation star. Suddenly she was feeling a resonance with Ryan.

She was refraining herself from going near him, but the resonance of her cultivation was forcing her to go near him. Tom observed what was happening with her and made a hand seal to restrain her where she was standing.

Nagisa furiously looked towards him and was about to shout out, when Tom asked her to quiet down and said he was helping her and Ryan.

Meanwhile, inside Aryan's soul sea, the pyramid shaped light particle glowed brightly and went into Aryan's cultivation star.

Suddenly his soul sea trembled, Aryan looked around and saw changes in his Cultivation Star of Spirit. Earlier it was dull, but now it was shining brightly.

Aryan understood it was time to unlock his second chakra. He closed his eyes and willed to transfer to the middle of his soul sea.

His second cultivation was already there, aligned with the first one. All he had to do then was to read his new grimoire and find the steps of unlocking.

Before he summoned his new grimoire it was already there, with a page opened. Aryan started chanting the scriptures and ancient characters written on it at the same time to establish a connection between him and the Star Of Spirit.

Some time passed, and Aryan opened his eyes. The connection and the unlocking of his second chakra was a success, but ninety percent, not a hundred.

He needed a trigger to make that ten percent happen, and he knew someone who could do that for him, the ancient ghost.

He could be the best trigger for him to reach the second stage of cultivation.

Ryan abruptly opened his eyes and found himself profusely sweating. Nagisa wanted to speak something but he didn't dare to do so, seeing the serious expression on Ryan's face her mouth quieted themselves.

Ryan stood up and turned towards Tom.

"Who gave you the key?" he asked in a solemn voice.

"Years ago when I graduated from my training my master transferred it to my soul, and asked me to give it to its rightful owner."

"And how did you find out it was me, and not someone else?"

"While giving he had told me the condition. The one who will be able to touch ghosts and the one who will create a resonance with the key will be the rightful owner."

"Oh~~!!"

"Yes, and from the moment you touched me it became unstable inside my soul and started showing resonance."

"I see."

While the two of them were talking the other two were staring at them like chimpanzees, who were unable to understand anything.

"Lil girl can you understand anything??" asked the small ghost.

"Not a single word." replied Nagisa

"Tch, tsk, useless" cursed the ghost and became quiet again.

Ryan observed something and congratulated Nagisa.