Chapter 111 - River of Time passes like seconds...
In the first pages, it wrote—
[A spiritual beast can be many things, from a monster to a little cat, but using three of the best summoning techniques, and well, quite a lot of suffering, hehe, my disciple! I have made the best spiritual beast to summon. You don’t summon him, you just create it and then add a refined soul into it. It will eat dead bodies, rotten plants and herbs, even blood and bones, and in its body it will create pills like healing pills, elixirs, spiritual qi gathering pills and elixirs, poisons, golden soul liquid—to help in soul cultivation and a few more things.
Its cultivation will be in stars. More you feed it, the more it will refine and become of higher levels.
Although it’s a centipede, it can be used as a weapon like a whip, or tied around your arm like a gauntlet, or well, just use it as a reservoir for energy when your energy runs out. You can take it from this. Isn’t that useful now, hehe.]
Next parts dictated on how to create it, what challenges may come, and the creator’s own experiences.
Cale laughed. ’He’s actually a dragon, isn’t he? Easy to guess by his arrogance.’
Then he moved to the next part. ’Talent improving ritual.’
Now Cale understood why these two came in pairs. The talent improving ritual could only be done using that centipede. You needed it to drink blood from a hundred beings. Of those hundred, as many high rankers as possible—in Cale’s case, as many Emperor Stage cultivators as possible. It would only work if used as the centipede’s first pill, though what it concocted wouldn’t be a pill. It would bite you, putting all the material inside. Once you cultivated that for a year, you’d gain all the talent from the blood of high-stage cultivators.
’Such a vile technique, hehe. Looks like dragons don’t mind it. He even tested it on people. This is likely something from a blood cultivator, a blood sect, perhaps.’
Sighing, he set it aside for now.
He trained for ten more years. Twenty-one in total.
He unlocked the [Ink Domain], but alas, he didn’t get any rewards. Getting the domain itself was the reward.
Next, he focused on his bloodlines. It was quite easy. Just use their qi and energies—for Kunpeng, use water attributes and absorb water spirits, and so on.
Twenty years passed like that. His current bloodline chart looked—
[Race: Human: 59% (Perfected) | Elf: 04% (Perfected) | Kunpeng [Divine]: 74% (Perfected) | Dragon [Ancestor]: 81% (Progenitor) | Phoenix [Mythic]: 55% (Progenitor)]
It had grown quite a lot. Throughout all this, he never stopped practicing the sword.
Origin Essence had leveled up to Lvl.52. Unlocking the Ink Sword Domain, he gained yet another domain, though it still needed practice.
A total of forty-five years had passed since coming here.
A loner as he was, he still felt the pull to sex. The desire for women, of course. Yes, quite the weird thought, but given that he was a descendant of people with high yang attributes, it was obvious. Even with his yin properties controlling it, there were still limits. Forty-five years was insane. Hell, there weren’t even any brothels in this place.
He was literally a sex machine for an entire year of his life, it was obvious he would become like this.
He decided he wanted to enter the Sword Dao River. But for that, one needed to gain enlightenment in the sword path. That was way too different from what he was doing—enlightenment came after building a foundation.
Another forty years passed. His sword had reached its near limits of what an Apprentice Stage could attain. He definitely needed cultivation.
His stats other than cultivation were absurd.
[Laws: Law of Adaptability (Lvl.4), Law of Creation (Lvl.2), Law of Understanding (Lvl.3), Law of Chaos and Nihility (Lvl.5), Law of Sword (Lvl.8), Law of Lightning (Lvl.5), Law of Fire (Lvl.5), Law of Water (Lvl.3), Law of Self-Restoration (Lvl.1), Law of Death (Lvl.4)]
[Dao: Sword Dao, Merciless Sword Dao]
[Paths: Path of Refinement, Path of Creation, Path of Fire, Path of Chaos and Nihility, Path of Devour, Path of Ink, Six Paths of Reincarnation (Quasi), Path of Recreation and Regeneration, Path of Demon]
[Sword Intent: Chaos Flames Intent (Lvl.3), Lightning Intent (Lvl.4), Ink Sword Intent (Lvl.3), Demonic Sword Intent (Lvl.2)]
Eighty-five years. Cale felt like an old man, yet his body looked like it belonged to a movie star. His every movement carried intent, every step could be imbued with it. He could even imbue it into Thorned Lotus.
He never knew that normal cultivation could be so tedious. The system had made it far too easy for him.
He’d started making swords now—not through blacksmithing alone, but a weird combination of both blacksmithing and Genesis. Such swords always came out good, no cracks or air bubbles. But alas, as a swordsman, he felt his creations... pathetic.
Noxis, despite looking like a burned-out piece of wood, still radiated a murderous aura. It was a sword Cale would choose over tens of the ones he’d made.
’I still have a long, long way to go, hehe. The martial path is indeed eternal.’
To enter the Sword Dao River—this was one of the steps he’d figured out. Understanding the sword. Creating the sword. Using the sword. Identifying the sword. Maybe there were more steps, but he wouldn’t learn them easily.
Ten years passed. He understood, another step down.
To enhance your sword technique to next level. But Cale didn’t have any fixed techniques.
Then he realized—he had the ’Zenith Heaven Asura-Slaying Sword Dance.’ Although it wasn’t a proper technique but more of a battle form, as long as it was a sword technique, it was enough.
Another year passed. Cale had understood. He would never really need a sword technique as long as he practiced the Merciless Sword Dao and Zenith Heaven Asura-Slaying Sword Dance.
With all the fused techniques of Myriad Battle Flow, it was unlikely any other sword technique would truly fill the gaps.
All other things he could practice were cultivation techniques, maybe hand-to-hand ones too. But sword techniques? He wouldn’t need them anymore.
Four years and all others would enter this place.
Cale had started to enhance ’Zenith Heaven Asura-Slaying Sword Dance’ to enter the Sword Dao River.