Thousand Lights Avatar

## Summary

Thousand Lights Avatar is a spiritual technique that Zac acquired from the Spatial Gem of Aia Ouro, given to him by Qi'Sar, the Twilight Ocean Realm Spirit, as a greeting gift during the Twilight Ascent. It was a stand-alone technique included in one of Aia Ouro's Soul Cultivation Manuals, Thousand Lights Chapter, that Zac traded to have unlocked by the unsealer Provedius in the Orom World.

## Acquisition

* The sky rumbled again, but the man only snorted in derision as he walked over and picked up the Spatial Gem of the little ghost. "What can you do to me that hasn't already been done, you greedy old fellow?" **Chapter 777**
* “Don’t look so worried. Us meeting is a good thing for you. Here, a small greeting gift,” the man said and threw over a small gemstone. **Chapter 779**
* The man Zac had visited was called Provedius, a middle-grade Monarch and a Jade Orom Attendant, surpassing even Murbot. He was also known as the greatest unsealer of the Orom World, and he had effortlessly unlocked every single method that Zac had gathered, with the sole exception of two of the crystals belonging to Uona and one of Aia Ouro's. **Chapter 796**

## Overview

* It was called the **[Thousand Lights Avatar]**, but it didn't actually look like it required the **[Thousand Lights Chapter]** to work. It was a technique where you continuously extracted Mental Energy and your Dao from your soul and infused it into your spiritual body. In the beginning, it wouldn't do much good, but after you had reached some success you would see all kinds of benefits. **Chapter 796**
* First of all, it would continuously strengthen the spiritual body, which included one's pathways, which was extremely useful as Zac neared the later stages of the E-grade where every node-breaking was fraught with danger. At higher grades, it could do even more miraculous things, such as performing spirit walks with your spiritual body. **Chapter 796**
* For a Spectral Cultivator, it was pretty much a cloning technique. **Chapter 796**
* At the highest stage, it would be a second life of sorts. If you got your soul destroyed in battle or cultivation mishap, you could reform a backup soul with your **[Thousand Lights Avatar]**. It would be significantly weaker compared to your original soul, but it was obviously far preferable to dying. Reaching that state would take hundreds of years of effort though, and wasn't something that could benefit in the short run. **Chapter 796**

## Cultivation

* The first and easiest step of the **[Thousand Lights Avatar]** was to just set up a framework to build upon as he progressed. The method had suggested the original user, the Eidolon, to form it based on their favorite appearance. Since Zac wasn't an amorphous wraith, he had chosen to instead form the frame based on his skeletal structure. **Chapter 826**
* From there, he would gradually fill out his body, from copying pathways to flesh and muscle until his body was filled by a secondary soul of sorts. This initial step hadn’t taken too much work, allowing him to mostly complete it while resting. Most of the work came from engraving a set of patterns that prevented the mental energy from immediately dispersing. **Chapter 826**
* The initial step might have been straightforward, but it hadn’t brought him any benefits either. Zac had tried to make use of his nascent avatar in the wilderness, both by instilling it with Dao and trying to use it to push his mental energy into his skills quicker. Neither really worked. It was more efficient to infuse his muscles with his Dao if he wanted to empower his body, and the pathways were much-too-thin to carry the required amount of Mental Energy to bolster a skill with a Dao Branch. **Chapter 826**
* Now, this weak framework had become some sort of bridge, improving the harmony between himself and his Dao Avatar. It blurred the lines between corporeal and spiritual, where it all moved toward a singular unity. It was still far from perfect, but it did make his stance more natural, putting not only his mind but his whole body in the right state. **Chapter 826**
* The idea with the greatest potential was to form a series of pre-created Dao Arrays in his Soul Aperture. For example, he could have one Evolutionary Array and one Inexorable Array. When he needed to activate them, he would just fill them with his Dao and channel the output into his Skill Fractals. Zac first needed to actually form the Actual avatar before he started refitting it into a full-body Dao Funnel. **Chapter 943**

## Sacrifice

* The spiritual framework he'd worked on for over a decade stirred as he activated the ultimate survival method of **[Thousand Lights Avatar]**. **Chapter 1,060**
* Zac had been prepared for his soul and consciousness getting split in two when he sacrificed his **[Thousand Lights Avatar]** to move part of himself over to the newly-created body. **Chapter 1,061**

## First Layer

* It had been years since he completed the first layer of the **[Thousand Lights Avatar]**, which allowed him to freely and naturally instill his body with the Dao. Just as he and Pavina theorized all those years ago, it had provided noticeable benefits to his technique. Not only that, it had proven useful in all kinds of scenarios, even carving blueprints. **Chapter 969**

## Second Layer

* Since **[Thousand Lights Avatar]** had proven practical beyond expectation, from channeling Daos into skills to improving his connection to his techniques, he'd kept cultivating it whenever he had time. And with the Moss Crystal's incredibly pure source of spirituality, he had already completed the second layer. **Chapter 969**
* Today, his whole body was covered by a secondary soul instead of just having a skeleton framework. It was still mostly hollow, though. Even with the second Moss Crystal he'd arduously bartered with Mossy, in exchange for enormous attunement traps in space and mountains of Nexus Crystals, it would take years to flesh out the budding avatar fully. **Chapter 969**

## Reforging the Method

* What if, instead of a Thousand Lights Avatar, he formed an Axe Avatar? Or an Avatar of Conflict? **Chapter 1,113**
* Zac urgently wanted to reform his spiritual body to confirm, but he suspected he'd need the help of Ultom to reforge **[Thousand Lights Avatar]** into something that could stand toe-to-toe with the overwhelming power of his bloodlines. **Chapter 1,113**

## Commentary

* However, there was one surefire remedy to prevent any escape method; destroy one’s soul. Only extremely rare techniques like Aia Ouro’s Thousand Lights Avatar could survive something like that, and not without paying a price. **Chapter 808**
* The Ka’Sotrov Shades was one of the intangible beasts mentioned in Calrin’s missives, and just like the Sky Gnome had guessed, they weren’t undead. They were rather special rocks that utilized some sort of spiritual projections sounding like the ultimate version of **[Thousand Lights Avatar]**. **Chapter 862**
* Zac's soul surged with every swing, and he once more felt that mysterious state of harmony as his Dao spread through the framework of his **[Thousand Lights Avatar]**. **Chapter 879**
* Zac followed suit, and a mysterious energy soon spread through his body, traveling along the spiritual pathways he'd created with **[Thousand Lights Avatar]**. **Chapter 886**
* Most of his methods couldn't be trained while on the move, but he could make some progress on **[Thousand Lights Avatar]** if he didn't need to focus on his surroundings. **Chapter 919**
* Joanna’s aura had become more condensed, while Vilari’s had become more ethereal. If Zac had to guess, Vilari had made some improvements to her soul. Perhaps she had practiced **[Thousand Lights Avatar]** to some degree of success? After all, he had given her the method after returning to Earth. **Chapter 931**
* Secondly, Zac felt like a network of condensed Mental Energy spread through his body could benefit him far beyond the original use of the Eidolon technique. After all, weren't the Mental Energy pathways of **[Thousand Lights Avatar]** very similar to the ones he used to form Dao Braids? But what if those temporary channels were not only made permanent, but sturdier and of higher quality? It might be the key to taking his Dao Braids to greater heights. **Chapter 943**
* Cultivating the early stages of **[Thousand Lights Avatar]** was mostly sending waves of Mental Energy through his body over and over, with each wave leaving a little bit behind. **Chapter 943**
* Pushing his Branch of the Pale Seal through his limbs was noticeably smoother, almost like it blended with his body [*after taking Essence of the Abyss.*]. It was almost as fast as letting it pass through the pathways of **[Thousand Lights Avatar]**. **Chapter 963**
* As for his **[Thousand Lights Avatar]**, it was gradually filling up on its own just by cycling the run-off energy of the Moss Crystal with the help of his Mental Energy. **Chapter 970**
* One of them was the **[Thousand Lights Avatar]**, which greatly benefited from Zac's evolved soul. Cultivating the supportive technique had been effortless since forming the dual soul spirals. He just needed to urge the spirals to speed up, and they'd release large amounts of pure Mental Energy that could bolster the network in his body. **Chapter 1,029**