In the next class, before the lesson began, Long Yuyin approached me. Her usual confident demeanor seemed subdued, and there was a certain tension in her voice as she spoke.
"I'm sorry for my behavior earlier," she said, bowing her head slightly. "You made me see my shortcomings, and I truly wish to learn from you."
I raised an eyebrow, my skepticism clear. "You truly mean that?" I asked, studying her carefully. I wasn't one to easily take words at face value, especially from someone like her.
Her gaze didn't falter. "I do."
In that class, we focused on battle techniques. I decided to demonstrate. As we sparred, I deliberately reduced the power of my attacks and instead focused on enhancing my reaction speed, moving at the rank that matched her level. Each time she attacked, I pinpointed the flaws in her movements and showed her how she could improve. Her eyes followed my every move, her concentration unbroken but still I have presented more flaws that she never knew even existed.
This routine continued over the next classes, not just for battle techniques but for all aspects of cultivation. It was clear Long Yuyin was determined to improve, and I offered her the guidance she never had in the first place.
Nie Li initially was against it. But I convinced him about how people could change over time.
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Recently, I had received reward boxes from both the Saint Soul Ground and the Ghastly Ruins. Among the treasures were a few spiritual essences, a grade-4 and 3 armors, and two dragon-blood demon spirits with excellent growth rates. I took a moment to look at the craftsmanship of the armor made from God's Domain, I am currently wearing. I stored the rewards away for future use.
Later, I retrieved the Nightmare Demon Spirit Pot I had crafted myself using creation emergy. It had been absorbing heavenly energy for quite some time. I extended my senses and copied all the dragon-bloodline demon spirits that Nie Li had obtained from rewards and from sales. Then, I took out the two dragon-blood demon spirits I had received as rewards and recreated them storing the originals and began the refinement process within the pot.
As the demon spirits swirled inside the pot, I reduced the ordinary growth rates of the dragon-bloodline spirits to about 5,000 good-quality ones. The Library of Heavenly Path (LoHP) optimized my refinement process, and around 200 of these spirits mutated. Then, from the good spirits, I refined them down to 770 excellent growth-rate dragon-bloodline demon spirits. The failures increased as I pressed further, reducing the numbers.
Later, I recreated the remaining 100 using creation energy and refined them once again. After some time, 30 god-level growth-rate dragon-bloodline demon spirits emerged, each more powerful than the last. I repeated the process, honing the spirits until only seven god-level, excellent- dragon-bloodline demon spirits remained. Each one was mutated, sentient, and brimming with potential.
I checked their status using the LoHP and was satisfied with the results. I could sense that further refinement would continue to enhance their bloodline levels, but for now, I paused. Seven hours had already passed.
The final demons included the Inferno Ruler Saint Jiao Dragon, the Frost King Luan Dragon, and the Shen Lei Sage Xie Dragon. With care, I absorbed the three of them directly into my soul realm. Unlike before, I now had a degree of control over the vine within my soul realm. I extended the vine to them, and I felt a deep connection with these spirits, even as I absorbed their elemental properties.
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I ventured into my ring world. I moved deeper into the realm, away from distractions, and activated the three dragon spirits. Their destructive power surged, with elemental attacks rivaling those of Martial Ancestor realm experts. Even at my heavenly fate 4 star that I outwardly show, these dragons could amplify my attacks to affect Heavenly Axis realms.
The dragons' powerful limbs and wings were not just for show—physical attacks from them could decimate nearly anything in their path.
Satisfied with the test, I visited the realms where Shen Xiu, Yu Yan, and Xiao Hua were situated. The cultivation farm I had created was thriving. I activated a law domain within the farm and connected it to a time-flow array, increasing the flow of time inside by a factor of 100.
I handed one of my spiritual stone essences to Yu Yan and the other to Xiao Huo, preparing them for their next stages of cultivation. Along with several exotic heavenly medicine essences, I began my own cultivation, feeling the familiar surge of energy. Inside my soul ocean, another star condensed, marking my advancement. As I refined the remnants of energy in my body, it was transferred to stabilize my realm.
Over the course of 10 days, my cultivation rose to the 9th Star Realm. I pressed further for another 10 days, pushing beyond the Heavenly Law's limits and forming the 10th star—a phenomenon that could not exist in the physical world.
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With my foundation solid, I proceeded to True God cultivation. Reaching the top rank required faith condensation, so I gathered the faith energy, slowly forming a divine form at the center of the dao ring. Over time, a shape resembling my soul form manifested at the center.
My understanding of all laws reached mastery, and as a result, the walls of my realm thickened and expanded. The influx of energy—from faith, potential energies, heavenly energy, and the essences of exotic medicinal materials—continued to pour in.
I had finally ascended to the Top Rank True God realm. Divine abilities began to manifest—life, fire, annihilation, time—and with my understanding of divine daos at great perfection, others would soon follow. I could now utilize the power of faith to its fullest, and my internal body world was evolving into an absolute land. If I were in the Gods Domain, I would seek an inheritance from a saint or sub-saint to further perfect my abilities.
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Back in my soul realm, I felt a surge as I broke through to the Heavenly Axis realm. The energy didn't stop there—it climbed rapidly to the 5th layer of the Heavenly Axis. I was confident that I could now battle multiple Martial Ancestor realms, though my soul abilities were still a limiting factor.
Several months had passed in the outside world. Nie Li had made significant progress, reaching the 2nd Heavenly Fate realm. But he was killed by Hua Ling people and his realm fell back to one fate. He is also pissed, but would like to solve it himself after reaching heavenly star realm. Unlike in the plot, Nie Li hadn't got the difficulty of entering heavenly fate partly due to killing one of Kong mings successors, so he had a certain confidence in himself.
I helped him as Lu Piao did, providing demon spirits to friendly clans like the Ashen and Gu families in exchange for a share of their spirit stones, for just maintaining appearances.If he build such relationships, he could ask favours from them.
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In one of my ventures, I decided to go out of the institute over to the bigger landmass outside, I transformed into feminine form and after hunting some dragon bloodline demonbeasts and visiting some places, I finally meet with Gu Heng's faction. Remembering that he was an enemy faction and one who aligned with Long Tianming, I exerted the aura of a True God. With a flicker of my power, I froze the enemies guarding the deity lakes of Gu Heng. Annihilation energy swept over them, leaving no trace behind. I approached the lake and extracted the deity root.
Back in my ring world, I placed the deity root inside, and within two days, it formed a deity lake. I recreated this deity root four more times, creating a total of five deity lakes, all producing spirit stones. Since only deity roots only created but rest are available energy sources, I could absorb it.
My actions would have been okay, of I were a person in the sect, but they were not able to connect anyone who would do this, as the deity Lake is also considered both sects and family property. Some of them, who saw a glimpse of me, provided some hints of my looks and was out on a notice for everyone.
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I focused once more on my cultivation. My Heavenly Axis cultivation reached the peak of 5 axes after five months of intense training. During this time, I developed a deeper connection with Xiao Huo as it learned to communicate with consciousness and I explained the process of demon blood sacrifice to it. When I performed the ritual, the spiritual phoenix blood entered my body, and the transformation was immediate. My cultivation soared, propelling me to the unchartered territory of heavens law, the 10th level peak Heavenly axis realm, shattering and fixing my soul realm many times over.
Inside my soul sea, the vine that grew to a tree size sprouted new flowers and spread even further, while the remnants of the phoenix bloodline integrated into my body, enhancing my fire law domain. My adaptive body accepted the bloodline ability, and now my root human bloodline carried its properties.
Bloodline power is the an ability that could still remain, even if my body ascended to a conceptual level of existence.
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The alliance of human sects, including the Heavenly Note Sect and the Skyblaze Sect, had gathered recently. It wasn't difficult for me to reach the location where the majority of the geniuses from these sects were situated. By the time I arrived, Nie Li had not yet made an appearance. Among the crowd, I spotted familiar faces—Xiao Ning'er, Huyun Lanruo, and Xiao Xue.
As soon as Ning'er noticed me, she approached with a soft smile, her eyes lighting up as she leaned in to greet me with a tender kiss on the cheek. The gesture was met with a wave of envious stares from many seated nearby, their whispers barely audible but unmistakable in intent.
Through our soul connection, I could feel the surge in Ning'er's cultivation. Her aura had ascended to the Heavenly 1 Star realm, thanks to the energy we shared. She once informed that, without doing anything her and Ye Ziyuns cultivation soured in these months due to the latent energy from my each realm breakthrough. So I cutoff the energy flow resulting in them complaining. Well it did made them work harder so, here we are..
Moments later, Murong Yu, the arrogant cultivator I had once fought in the Ghastly Ruins, approached. Beside him stood Ye Yuan, an unfamiliar face. At first, they greeted us with standard pleasantries, but soon enough, Murong Yu's mask of civility slipped.
"So, the 'mysterious genius' finally decided to show his face. I was beginning to think you'd hide behind your title forever," he sneered, his eyes gleaming with thinly veiled contempt. "Aren't you supposed to be some kind of prodigy? Yet, here you are, cowering."
My gaze remained on him. Without a word, I released a fraction of fake Heavenly 2 Star aura, the pressure rippling out for a mere moment. I had mastered domain control to such a degree that no one else seemed to notice—except for Murong Yu and Ye Yuan. The brief taste of my true power was enough to silence them. Their expressions shifted from smugness to shock as they faltered, words dying on their lips.
Murong Yu's arrogance vanished, replaced by an awkward cough. "Tch… Let's go, brother Yuan," he muttered, and the two quickly made their way elsewhere, leaving me in peace.
Across the gathering, I spotted Nie Li, now being enthusiastically embraced by Huyun Lanruo. Xiao Xue stood close to Lu Piao, their conversation light and carefree, well mostly Xiao Xue remained like that. It seemed Nie Li was already falling into his usual dynamic with those around him.
Suddenly, Long Yuyin made her way over to my side, her presence commanding as always. " Can I sit with you ?" she remarked, glancing at Ning'er before turning her attention back to me.
I shrugged, offering a small smile. "Yes, and this is Ning'er my fiance. ". She silently sat beside me. Ning'er is blushing, I don't know why considering we already had sex before.
After exchanging a few words, the air in the room shifted with enthusiasm as the auction began. Various treasures and rare artifacts were presented, but none of them truly caught my attention. I sat back, observing the geniuses like mingyue wushuang, Yan Yang they are both heavenly axis realm beginner stage cultivators. Next is Long Tianming who like me has under gone demon blood sacrifice and accepted strengthening.
Nie Li is making dealings with Li xingyuan of ashen clan and Gu Bei. Waiting quietly until the final item appeared—a Myriad Miles Map. Its intricate design and mysterious aura filled the room with a sense of awe. Nie Li, of course, wanted to bid, so by using his friend Gu Bei, he managed to obtain the item.
As the auction concluded, Geniuses began showing of their artistic talent coupled with intents. Nie Li's genius shone once again. He demonstrated his mastery by inscribing a sword intent on a piece of paper without any heavenly energy usage, a feat that drew mockery at first followed by gasps and murmurs from the crowd as those who destined for it understood.
As it was impossible with his cultivation unless he has such deep understanding. His talent was undeniable for others, and I couldn't help but remember the item I studies from demon spirit book back then. Facing its intent, I subconsciously activated my sword intent which didn't go unnoticed by others, but they probably couldn't trace it and attributed it to the painting, so it got much more coverage to it..
The gathering had served its purpose, and although nothing extraordinary had occurred for me, it was clear that things were progressing for Nie Li, and in turn, for all of us. I went to Nie Li first..
"Nie Li its me, Tao. I came to request something from you."
"Oh come in.."
After I went in, I saw Nie Li placing his myriad maps back in his storage rings. I took out a starfall fruit. It's not as potent as divine phaseless fruit, but still this single one could allow a normal earthen fate to get all the way to heavenly star realm.
" I could give you this divine fruit and two other extraordinary growth rate dragon blood spirits, and in exchange for a God Level growth rate dragon bloodline for me and Xiao Ning'er "
" It's a starfall fruit!!. Where did you get it?..."
" Ha, about that....I found it in a pair. I have consumed one. Your master asked me to prevent some truths from you, before you gain appropriate strength..so I can't tell you really..it's because of my unique fate."
...After some silence, He said " Okay. I have already prepared one and planned to give you one. Now I will make Xiao Ning'er one with lightning based one, as I remember her aptitude is...Any way this treasure is extremely useful for me now. I will shamelessly receive it even though we are friends."
In my room, I invited Xiao Ning'er and gave her diluted Phaseless Fruit pills for the Star Realm and Martial Ancestor level pills, in case she needed to return favors. We spent a fun night together, strengthening our bond.
By morning, Nie Li distributed demon spirits and asked Huyan Lanruo to guard him as he removed the inscriptions from the painting. By evening, Nie Li absorbed the Myriad Miles of Rivers and Mountains into his soul realm due to his higher cultivation. I quietly copied it into my ring, though it took a significant amount of creation energy. Nie Li made a counterfeit copy to spread out in the world, while my version lacked his inscriptions, leaving me to craft my own.
Nie Li was approached by, dragonseal family followers of long Tianming for obtaining a dao intent writing. We witnessed his writings although with half hearted attempt, I and Xiao Ninger has known and read about it in temporal demon spirit book. But due to limited time, apart from me ,She has not comprehended their true meaning.
Later, our master at the request of Hierarch Skycloud came to Nie Li. While Nie Li went to create one for venerable, master called out to me.
'What did I do?' I thought over as I reached the gate to bow and respect him.
Looking at my confused face, he chuckled and responded by fondling his beard,
"You didn't think that such an important meeting of younger geniuses won't be supervised by sect elders in secret? Your action of making Murong Yu leave was noticed, and we could not discern your aura fully but it's similar to star realm cultivation. We believe your control has reached such an absolute level. Better yet, the sword intent Nie Li inscribed momentarily were able to make a sword intent release from yourself. Now comprehending intent and applying it in battle is other. Hierarch Skycloud is vouching for you as he is interested in you two..."
" Elder, I am ashamed. I must thank venerable Skycloud for his consideration."
' well that's good for me right?', I thought.
We returned to our premises, but still Nie Li was harassed by the people wanting his writings.
Later, I found out Xiao Yu who reached 4th fate now looking like shit as he was killed and his realm fell to 3rd fate. Nie Li managed to get favour from Ashen family, Li Xianjun to get revenge.
We went to Gu clans tournament. Looking at Gu Bei who made elders rethink their decision and Gu Heng's frustration. I was near Gu Lan, the sister of Gu Bei. So started a pleasant conversation with me..We had met many times during our visit to Gu Manor to deliver demon spirit. On an of thought, I asked her about her progress in treatment,she said she would be able to stand up in a month's time and cultivate a month later. So Nie Li's treatment was able to bring her back..
"Gu Lan, now that you are nearly healthy, I could give you a gift. Please don't resist, it won't do any harm"
In actuality it was not a gift, I haven't tested life divine dao ability of healing I obtained recently, I only trained some offense abilities. I covered her, in my shield. Activated an array drawn in air to form an inscription to produce illusion covering both of us and nobody noticed., and placed my hand on her shoulders. The moment I activated life divine ability, a green light flashed, pure life force was created and it began to circulate inside her. Through my divine sense, I manipulated the flow and went to her blocked and recovering Meridian fields, the meridians became energized, even began to grow and her blocked acupoints were cleared, and the poison remnants were refined away, I went further to every meridian pathways and then to her legs which were out of commission for many years. After 5 minutes, before Gu Bei came to us, I finished my operation. She coughed out some black blood and remnants. She produced some low moans and growls during operation. She circulated her heavenly energy only for it to run even more efficiently than before her prime and her qi veins could carry more stress. She could also move her legs.
"Try standing up, no one will know you are within my illusion field, that elders won't find out..." I further strengthened the illution by using illusion and confusing divine dao. She stood up, the joy was visible I her eyes.
"Thank you..."
"No don't thank me. Thank Nie Li he was the one who nurtured you back. I couldn't do this as proficient back then. This healing is a new technique is what I practised. I only just took pity on you and did the finishing touches. Now you can go sit back, it seems your brother is coming for you.."
She sat back, I removed the black blood by destroying it with a thought and removed the illusion field and array. 'It seems consumption depends on cultivation level of person.' I thought.
Xiao Ning'er left that night. Next day, I went with Nie Li to outside world. Fought with Hua Lings people. It was not hard. I only used 2 star realm strength, but my sword intent mercilesslessly killed anyone with as a dust. I killed about a quarter. Rest were done by an Ashen family follower heavenly axis realm and Nie Li who managed to upgrade his realm back to 2 fate. He extracted the deity root.