Cultivation Through Artifacts

"I..." Khal was speechless as he realized that these people around him were really serious! They were actually thinking he had used a Forbidden Art to open his Essence Path even though he didn't!

'This is complete bullshit!' cursed Khal inwardly, as he didn't dare to say those words out aloud.

"So? We don't really have time to waste on you, so talk! Or, if you don't want to answer, then that's fine with us... But you have to bear the consequences..." said Connor, his respect toward Khal slowly vanishing from his gaze and gradually turn into pity and disdain.

"I told you the truth! I really didn't practice any type of Forbidden Art nor did I use any prohibited item!"

"Words are meaningless without proof as only actions can talk the truth. Tell us how you did it and only then will we believe you, but if not..." Dorothea who was silent all this time stared daggers at Khal, her eyes even leaking slight killing intent!

Khal, however, seeing this didn't turn stressed nor scared but strangely calmed down and even stared right back at Dorothea; now he really was annoyed that everyone accused him, but as he was no fool to think he could fight with her or even anyone else from there as they were several Stages above him, he just remained motionless!

He just simply wanted to show he was no weak-willed individual that would get intimidated by a simple killing intent.

"Oh?" Dorothea seemed surprised, but as she also knew Khal didn't mean to be arrogant she just stared at him with a curious gaze.

"Okay, I will tell you and then you will see I really didn't use any shameless techniques." nodded Khal and looked at each teacher straight in the eyes.

"Hmph, then do it. So far you have only talked and not acted." sneered Connor coldly.

Khal nodded and said, "You all know I have a Sight Enhancement Talent, but that is an underestimation. My Heaven's Eyes not only can see everything around me as clear as day, but if I wish, I can inspect my body's interior, including my bones, muscles, my Body Essence, and Essence Path."

"Ever since I was a Cultivator, I was able to see them the very beginning, but only now did I get the courage to attempt to open one."

"And you think we will believe that crap?" asked Connor once again, but Khal's following answer shocked not only him, but everyone present.

"If you wish, I can demonstrate it to you." 

'...'

Everyone upon hearing that turned silent, none of them know how to react.

Jas who was silent all this time on the side seemed to think about something and asked, "And how do you want to demonstrate it?"

Khal turned to look at Jas and after showing a slight smile he explained, "If I am right, you all now thinking that I have used a Forbidden Art called Path Breaker, right?"

Once Khal's question sounded, almost all the experts present nodded while a few just simply remained nonchalant, waiting to see what Khal tried to say.

"Well, then you should also know and understand clearly how the Path Breaker works, or at least I hope you do."

"Obviously we know how that Forbidden Art works, you don't need to teach us about something that we already know!" blurted out Raffin, now even him getting annoyed by Khal as he just talked instead of acting!

However, Khal still stayed calm and nodded, "Then you should also know that it can only open sealed Essence Paths and not show all the 24 sealed paths in your body."

Scarlett on the side suddenly realized what Khal tried to say and raised her brow, "You say you can see and detect all the Essence Paths in your body?"

"Didn't I say that just about a few seconds ago?" asked Khal without any type of arrogance or contempt in his tone or gaze.

'...'

As everyone remained silent, Khal turned toward Jas and extended his arm, "I will prove it right now. As you know, the first few Essence Path is similar to everyone but there are places where they differ for all people. For example the arms and legs."

"How do you know this?" asked Connor, seemingly shocked by Khal's knowledge.

Not everyone knew about Forbidden Arts while even less knew about Path Breaker and how it functioned, thus it was surprising to hear Khal speak about it in such depth. 

Khal shifted his gaze at Connor and remained silent as he knew there was no good answer here while didn't want to say he read this from the book he got from a mysterious old lady.

If you didn't want others to know your secret just simply stay silent, that's how easy it was.

However, Connor and others seeing his silence seemed to get more suspicious, but Khal didn't care about them; soon, he will prove clearly that he didn't use any Forbidden Art!

"Please..." said Khal calmly and waved gently his hand toward Jas to grab it.

Jas naturally understood what Khal tried to do, thus did as he asked and grabbed his wrist.

Then, Jas closed his eyes and with an invisible power began to inspect Khal's body, revealing all the Essence Paths inside his body inside his kind.

When Khal saw this he nodded and pointed at his shoulder, the middle of his biceps, the right side of his wrist, and the back of his palm.

However, the moment Jas saw this his eyes widened slightly open by shock, and looked at Khal, who just stood still, waiting for him to talk.

"You... You can really detect your Essence Paths inside your body?"

As Jas' shocked voice was heard, every expert around them turned stupified and stared at Khal in silence, waiting for his reply eagerly.

"Yes. As I have told this before, my Talent allows me to do it." nodded Khal, without any hint of falsehood.

Jas staring at Khal for several straight minutes he nodded and glanced at every expert, "It seems Khal was telling the truth, he didn't use the Path Breaker."

"Maybe he really didn't use the Path Breaker, but he could have used any other Forbidden Art! Not only the Path Breaker can unlock sealed Paths!"

Jas heard Dorothea saying this, but shook his head, "You are indeed right, but he didn't. I inspected his body in greater detail and his body is still intact; he never used any type of Forbidden Art in his entire life."

'...'

Every expert hearing this turned silent, hardly believing that what Khal just told them was the truth as they have never heard about a Talent that could detect the Essence Paths in the body!