The Story Never Ends

The moment Davion reached inside the dome he saw a small silhouette pouncing him from the side.

"Who?"

His body reacted in an instant and slapped it with his right hand.

"Bang"

The silhouette crashed into the ground and only whimpering sounds could be heard.

Listening to the sound he finally knew who it was.

"Ryland?"

"Hehe, my bad." He was thinking about various things on his way. As a result, he didn't notice that it was Ryland who had jumped out suddenly.

He approached Ryland and found he had already passed out. So, he carried him back to his bedroom and was about to leave. But thinking that Ryland might get angry after waking up, he left some spirit stones over there.

Only after finishing this, did he go to the biggest room and sat cross-legged on the floor.

"It's time. First of all, let's see what this jade contains." He took out the jade slip given by the old man and focused on it.

After a few seconds, he put it back and recollected all the information. He finally had a deeper understanding of cultivation and what the Nascent Soul Stage was.

According to this jade slip, every person in this world is born with a strange type of energy. This energy is known to be responsible for giving you life. Thus, this energy is called the energy of creation. Even though everyone possesses this energy, only cultivators at the peak of this world could feel it.

However, there is one thing that everyone agrees on is that this energy lies dormant inside your Dantian. This is due to the fact that when you absorb the aura of heaven and earth and refine them into Qi, it flows through your spiritual root and gathers inside the Dantian. So, everyone believes that this energy in the Dantian might be the one attracting the Qi.

Here, this energy coalesces with the Qi and later forms into the Golden Core. Once you reached the Golden Core Stage you had to compress the Golden Core until it became unbearable. Finally, it won't be able to take it and breaks apart to form your soul. This stage is known as the Nascent Soul Stage. In the Nascent Soul stage, your Qi would transform into the higher form of energy known as the Soul Qi.

"Now I finally know why I got so bullied infront of Conrad. Even though he was only with his projection, his energy had already transformed and reached a higher state." He was in deep thought.

"This is all possible due to the energy of creation. Not only that, the people having a higher grade of spiritual roots are supposed to have a greater amount of this energy. This makes their cultivation much easier. So, this is what they mean by talent determines everything."

"Let's forget about this for now. I can't cultivate anyway. Time to learn the Thunder Stomp." He closed his eyes and focused on the panel.

"What? How could this be?" He had his mouth wide open as he finally saw the text written above the Thunder Stomp Art.

"Devil Soul Art"

"It seems like I can cultivate it even without the devil essence. Even though my experience points are nearly full, it is still written in red color. This means that I can't learn it for now," He sighed as he wanted to see what surprises this art would bring.

"This is actually my first time that I got an art which I couldn't learn even after my experience points are nearly full. Does this art mean that this art is very powerful?" He felt goosebumps thinking about this.

Then he slapped his face and muttered, "I am getting really excited. I should focus on what I was about to do."

He calmed his mind and set his sights on the Thunder Stomp Art. And as usual, he learned this art in a few seconds.

"Haha, it only took half of my experience points. This means that this art is far weaker than the Devil Soul Art." He laughed and took out the bottle of pills given by the old man.

He swallowed them in a jiffy and a strong aura was suddenly radiated from him. Everything shook and it looked like the whole courtyard was about to collapse. Seeing this he immediately withdrew his aura and smiled.

"I didn't know that these pills were so effective." Indeed, he had reached level 25.

"Now let's see what the lightning energy looks like." He pointed his index finger towards the puppet and a bolt of blue-colored lightning came out of it.

The lightning was so fast that it hit the puppet in the blink of an eye and a small part of it was charred.

"Wow, even though I only used a little bit of my lightning energy it still managed to cause some damage to it," He exclaimed as he knew that this puppet was strong enough to defend against a late-stage Golden Core Cultivator.

He then stood up and stretched his legs. "Time to see how fast I've become."

"Thunder Stomp"

Lightning generated from his legs and he stomped on the ground. As a result, he was propelled forwards and reached the corner of the room in a second.

"Interesting." He murmured and started dashing from one corner to another. Davion moved so fast that only his afterimages could be seen. Not only that, he jumped a few feet into the air and used Thunder Stomp while he was there. Due to which he could even stay for a few seconds in the air.

"Bang..Bang.."

Only these sounds could be heard in the hall. A few minutes later, he finally stopped.

"Amazing." He smiled but looking at the floor of the hall, he cursed, "Darn it."

All the tiles on the floor had been cracked and were riddled with holes.

"I thought that this hall should be able to handle it. But it looks like I was wrong." He shook his head.

Then he came infront of the puppet and looked solemn, "It's time to know whether this technique works or not. When I used my dark energy to burn my blood, I already had this idea. But I don't know whether it will work for other techniques."

"Dark Hands."

He used some part of his dark energy and black smoke covered his hands.

Then he caught the head of the puppet and muttered "Lightning."