Chapter 140 - 140: Sword Heart
Inside the hotel room;
Tyler suddenly opened his eyes and turned east.
"Jenny, did you feel that aura?"
"Yes!"
Jenny nodded on the first floor of his pagoda and continued.
"It is the aura of hellfire. I sensed Mephisto's presence thirty seconds ago, but now I can no longer sense that presence."
"It seems like someone made a move to destroy Mephisto's clone. But I can't sense the person who did."
While saying that, Jenny was deeply thinking about the second aura she felt.
'It feels so much like Tyler's dad. But he shouldn't be able to destroy Mephisto's clone so quickly, right?'
Jenny was confused, and so was Tyler.
Their confusion would only be cleared once they returned to the Coastal City. Unfortunately, there was still a long way to go before that.
Tyler closed his eyes and started focusing on his Sword Intents.
Invincible Sword Intent and Blood Sword Intent appeared next to him.
Although both were at the same level, their power couldn't be compared. More importantly, the red sword intent was incredibly dim, almost non-existent.
This wasn't a natural phenomenon but something Tyler had to do to make his path more stable and natural.
Tyler had been thinking about this as soon as he awakened two Sword Intents. While they were both powerful and unique, there was a clear difference.
While Blood Sword Intent did increase his power, the improvement wasn't as big as his other sword intent.
More importantly, even after he improved it, it was bound to lag behind his Invincible Sword Intent.
So, during these three days, he thought of sacrificing his Blood Sword Intent, not to improve his other Sword Intent.
But to use it for something else, something more significant. He planned to sacrifice Blood Sword Intent to create Sword Heart.
This might sound confusing, but there were two ways to create Sword Heart.
Slowly increasing the blood energy and absorbing more resentment and negative emotions was the first method to create Sword Heart.
Sword Heart was basically Sword Intent with an additional power added to it, making it similar to an energy source.
Normally, a cultivator wouldn't sacrifice his sword intent, so this was the only path for them.
But if he did sacrifice his Sword Intent, Tyler could directly form a Sword Heart.
Then, he would lose his Blood Sword Intent but still gain an immense increase in his power.
The problem was Sword Intent wasn't just a simple realm.
It was a state of a swordsman.
The stronger a swordsman becomes, the stronger his Sword Intent would get.
The stronger Sword Intent would give more power to the user.
His Invincible Sword Intent was already one of the strongest sword intents.
So, he should just focus on improving it instead of trying to absorb the resentment of other people to improve his Blood Sword Intent.
While that wasn't the only path to improve Blood Sword Intent, it could also be improved through natural comprehension.
But he didn't plan to split his time to comprehend both of them, especially since Invincible Sword Intent would eventually reach a point where he wouldn't need another Sword Intent.
So, for three days, Tyler had been using the power of his Blood Sword Intent to form a Sword Heart.
It was almost ninety-five percent complete.
And the process continued as his Sword Intent completely disintegrated and merged with his heart.
That's where his Sword Heart existed.
Although it didn't need to be in his heart, Tyler felt like putting his Sword Heart in his real heart.
That's because when he used the Sword Intent for transformation, it could affect the power of his body.
According to Xue, since his Sword Intent could affect his body, why not make that permanent with Sword Heart?
In her words, there was a possibility for him to forge a Sword Body by using his blood energy and the power of his Sword Heart.
Although it wasn't guaranteed, Tyler just needed that possibility to make it possible.
With the last remaining five percent of his Sword Intent merging with his Sword Heart, he gradually lost all of his Blood Sword Intent.
Now, there was not a single trace of Blood Sword Intent in his body, but even so, his cultivation of Blood Sword Scripture had not been disturbed.
With the Sword Heart completed, he could proceed to the next level where he could form a Blood Sword Embryo.
This stage was very delicate as it required a large amount of blood energy and sea of consciousness.
Blood Sword Embryo could only be formed within the Heart, but once formed, it needed to be nurtured in the sea of consciousness.
Once it was nurtured for a long time, it would awaken as a Sword Soul.
Opening the sea of consciousness required him to reach the Soul Sublimation Realm, but he didn't need to speed up his practice of this technique.
Especially since he had been practicing non-step for three days.
'It's time to move around this city, and it has been three days. Why hasn't anyone arrived yet?'
Tyler opened his eyes and walked out of his bed. He took out the ID card and thought for a moment before putting it back in his spatial ring.
He could go and ask to join the team, but he felt like he shouldn't rush.
There must be a reason why they hadn't contacted him.
And so Tyler began moving around the city. He didn't have any specific goal, just wanting to see various things in the city.
And surprisingly, there were a lot of things that he just found out.
For example, while walking around the tea stalls, he found a newspaper belonging to DN Newspaper Company.
DN was the name Daisy had given to their newspaper company. It had two names.
Daily News and Daisy News!
Daisy didn't want to use her name as an official name, so while registering their company, she used Daily News.
But Tyler jokingly called it Daisy News since she created this company.
What surprised Tyler was the content in the newspaper.
Daisy was already using her newspaper to hire people for another company, 'Grant Electronics'.
He didn't know much about it since the idea of creating this company was very new.
But it was related to electronic appliances like televisions, radios, Speakers, and billboards.
Electronics weren't these things, but Daisy wanted to focus on just them to promote their News Station even more.
The situation of war had become a major topic of discussion among the public. So, it's not surprising that the newspaper would be sold so quickly.
But what's truly surprising was the date.
This was a two-day-old newspaper, which meant it was brought directly from Red Hogg Country to Purple Cloud Country.
Of course, Tyler knew Daisy would soon start making branch companies in other countries with the help of Star Plasma Pavilion.
This was their original plan.
Unless Daisy decided to change it, the factories would be open in other countries and news would be distributed everywhere without much delay.
This was one of the reasons why the cost of establishing a newspaper company was so high.
They weren't trying to use the profit to expand their company. They were using their current assets to do that job.
Of course, before anything, Daisy wanted to see just how profitable this business was.
Looking at several ads in the newspaper, Tyler believed they would soon start making factories in all seven countries.
There were other countries as well, but they were either much stronger or much weaker and smaller.
If they wanted to get into the economic market of those powerful countries, they would need to establish themselves as a powerhouse.
On the other hand, even if they did go to those weaker countries, only newspapers would be sold due to their low cost.
The per capita income of these countries was several times lower than that of middle-class families in the seven countries.
They lacked resources.
Most of their resources and lands with resources were either taken by one of the seven countries or more powerful countries.
That's why the strongest in those countries would generally be around the Early Stage of Soul Sublimation Realm.
Over ninety-nine percent of their cultivators were at Mana Condensation Realm.
Even in the seven countries, at least eighty percent of the population was at Mana Condensation Realm.
As for the stronger countries, less than forty percent were at Mana Condensation Realm.
It's not that most people were born with D-Grade or higher techniques, but those who awakened E-Grade would generally be eliminated.
They wouldn't outright kill these people, but the competition was so fierce in this country that they would either be forced to leave or fight till death.
Out of that forty percent, at least twenty-five percent were children, while the remaining fifteen percent were either slaves or even worse 'sacrifices'.
This was the reality of those powerhouse countries.
The strong get everything, while the weak do not even get to live a normal life.