Chapter 184: One Month later
Chapter 184: One month later.
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If the Elemental Extremities of Dao technique allowed him to ignore all normal limits, both on a person’s elemental affinities and the number of elements they could bear within their own body,
then this technique allowed him to elevate his own life essence presumably beyond any imaginable limit.
Zhu Rong was not yet certain what it referred to, but he soon discovered its uses.
It laid bare the true nature of a person’s life essence and allowed it to be elevated more and more.
According to his other self, the reason he was able to awaken the demonic essence in his body was that it was already there, but in his case it was revealed because he ended up confronting the other fragment directly, and that was also one of the reasons he had managed to obtain this part of the Nine Extremity Dao Scripture.
Zhu Rong, on the other hand, did not have such luxuries, if they could be called that, and this was where the Life’s Extremities Technique came into play.
During the previous battle, his other self had used this technique to reconstruct his body as well as to directly use the Red Mist in his dantian to form that new type of core.
He had succeeded in doing so because the spiritual mist was the condensed life essence of a being, and as it happened, it was of demonic nature.
This made Zhu Rong realize why the mist had not directly taken control of him, but instead had settled in his dantian like a domesticated soul.
It turned out that It wasn’t by chance, but rather because he already had a certain affinity with it.
According to his other self, the demonic essence he recovered from that blood pearl at the mine was something the being in the Frozen Lands created to nourish the creatures within the cocoons.
And that was the reason why all of them, when born, were already beings so powerful that they were already within the Spirit Realm.
According to what he was told, not all blood pearls had such a high concentration of Qi, and he had indeed been lucky to have taken one that had a concentration high enough to elevate any being to the higher stages of the Spirit Realm.
"You said that if I start forming the elemental cores again, it won’t conflict with the demonic core. How sure are you about that?" Zhu Rong asked, rising while still on the surface of the water.
"Don’t worry. From my understanding, all nine techniques in the manual should be in harmony with each other and should not obstruct one another. I myself have cultivated both to some extent, so I can at least assure you that these two should not give you any problems," said the voice inside him, making Zhu Rong sigh in relief.
He had decided to remain inside the secret realm and get used to his new level of strength, as well as prepare for when he would eventually leave this place.
Thanks to the formation of the demonic core, he had already ascended to the initial stages of the Spirit Realm, a level of power he was not used to and had never been able to reach in his past life.
He intended to settle some matters before leaving the secret realm, one of these was precisely to recreate some of his elemental cores.
According to his other self, although most of the resources of this secret realm had already been consumed over the course of time by that creature to make its escape smoother, some were still intact and would be perfect to help him recreate his cores.
And now that he also had a certain control over the read mist within himself, he should be able to recover a good portion of his cores very quickly.
Not to mention that time here flowed differently. According to his other self, only a few days had passed outside in the world, while inside, almost a month had gone by.
The thought shocked him, to say the least, but he realized that this was indeed a great opportunity to train and adapt to his new strength, so he remained inside for several more months.
Outside the secret realm, time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, a month had already passed since the incident.
Things had calmed down, at least on the surface, across the province, and everything was beginning to return to normal.
But precisely during this period of regained calm, the clouds in the sky gathered once again, their fury far greater than before.
No one understood why this was happening, and they had no time to find out, as everything unfolded in an instant.
Soon, the ground shook violently, sending tremors throughout the entire province, while its powerhouses emerged once more, all converging on the source of the disturbance.
When they arrived, all they saw was an entire section of the vast forest completely flattened, and in its place remained only a massive, deep crater, completely charred.
It was clear that it had been done by the heaven’s wrath, that had descended here, but precisely this shocked everyone, it had happened suddenly and very quickly.
Only a few minutes had passed, and the sky above had already cleared, blue once more, with barely a few scattered clouds visible in the distance.
Whatever it had been, it had already come and gone, leaving behind only this crater, over which none of those present knew what to think.
One of them was the headmaster of the academy, who, seeing the area of the forest wiped out, couldn’t help but mutter to himself, his expression both confused and troubled at the same time,
"This... is where the portal to the secret realm appeared.
But why was it attacked again? Didn’t it disappear a long time ago?" he asked, confused, as he vividly recalled the events of a month ago when the heavens had already tried to attack this area, only to be stopped by that woman.
Now it had happened again, and this time the heavens had completely erased this area.
But the question remained,
what exactly had they tried to eliminate? And why?
It was needless to say that this sudden event caused a turmoil throughout the entire province, so much so that the provincial governor, upon receiving the report once again, nearly blew up the entire building in rage as he furiously rushed toward Qiyan City to see it for himself.
All of this had been caused by a single individual who, at that moment, was flying as if nothing had happened, muttering some curse toward the heavens.