The Story Never Ends

The moment Davion said this, the black smoke that covered his hands changed into lightning and the head of the puppet exploded.

"Indeed, it worked. Since my spiritual energy can simulate any type of energy with just my thoughts, I can even switch between them after casting a spell." He thought and looked at the puppet which was standing without its head.

"If it was the dark energy then the head would slowly corrode and finally disintegrate in a few seconds. But with the lightning energy, it burst in an instant."

"However, not only did I damage the hall but even the puppet. So, I can't let anybody enter this hall in the future." He sighed as he knew that it might create suspicion if they find out someone living in the bottom courtyard was strong enough to destroy the puppet.

"Now I can feel like nobody below the Nascent Soul Stage would be able to handle my full blow. Even the devils in the late-stage of the Golden Core Stage can only be slain by me without any resistance." He thought and started chanting the devil language.

How could he let the free experience points get away? Especially after his experience bar has become empty.

***

The next day, Davion went towards the library alone to collect information about the spiritual artifacts and pills. The moment he was injured by the whip used by Leyla, he knew that it was of a higher grade. So, he wanted to know more about them. The same goes for the pills that he had taken yesterday.

When he reached there, he found that the library looked similar to the spirit arts hall. There were many jades kept in a similar fashion.

"I thought that it would be similar to the library of the Bone and Devil Sect but it looks like I was wrong. Since the information is stored in the jades, doesn't this mean that I would need contribution points to read them?" He got disappointed thinking about this.

"Wew, everything requires contribution points in this sect." He shook his head and went towards a desk where a young girl was sitting as she was the only one here.

He reached there and greeted her, "Hello!"

"Oh!" She was polishing jade and didn't notice that someone had already neared her. Thus, she suddenly exclaimed.

She stood up and saw a handsome young man infront of her. Then she greeted him back and asked, "Hello, how can I help you?"

"Are you the one in charge here?" He asked.

"Indeed." She nodded.

"I'm a new disciple here and want to exchange my spirit stones for the contribution points." He went straight to the point and took out all the spirit stones that he had obtained from the Sect Master of the Blood and Saber Sect. Even though he had some more, he wanted to save it for the future and Ryland.

Her eyes nearly popped out after seeing so many spirit stones. Even though she was an inner court disciple and in charge of the library, she had never seen someone taking it out so casually.

"It seems like he has someone backing him. But why are there only lower grade spirit stones?" She was puzzled as someone with a status like him should have a fair amount of middle-grade spirit stones. However, she didn't ask him because it would sound inappropriate.

If she knew the reason then she would surely puke out blood as Davion got all of them by killing. Nonetheless, nobody would be able to guess it after looking at his pure and handsome face. Except for some girls in the Sect.

She took out a strange cauldron from her desk and requested, "Please show me your points."

Davion nodded and brought out the projection from his ring. Then he saw that she was putting all the spirit stones inside the cauldron. The cauldron shined and, in a few seconds, he saw that his contribution points were increasing at a rapid rate.

It finally stopped at 1100. Seeing this she took the spirit stones and the cauldron back and smiled, "You're quite rich."

"It's just so, so.." He waved his hands and went towards the shelves in search of the things he wanted.

Seeing him leave, she sighed, "I wanted to ask his name but it looks like he is in a hurry. So, let's forget about it. He should surely come here in the future."

***

A few minutes later, Davion came out of the hall with lots of information in his head. There were many jades inside that he was interested in but he only chose three jades, each costing 30 contribution points. They contained information about 'The Cultivation of the World', 'The Spiritual Artifact and Pills' and 'The Devil World'

He finally knew the total cultivation hierarchy in this world as there was only incomplete information in the Bone and Devil Sect. The cultivation goes from the Body Tempering Stage, the Qi Refining Stage, the Golden Core Stage, the Nascent Soul Stage, the Domain Realm, the Venerable Stage, and the Saint.

He got shocked when knew about the Venerable Stage and the Saint because he already knew about the other ones. The cultivators in these cultivation stages can only be found in the central region where the big sects lie. As for the middle-grade sects, they are limited to the Domain Realm.

He wanted to know more about the stages above the Nascent Soul Stage but there was not much information and only a general introduction was given. So, he felt that this jade was a rip-off.

Similar to the cultivation of this world, the Devil World also had a system of its own. The reason why he chose the jade containing this information was that he wanted to know more about the devils as he always summoned them. Not only that, he wanted to know how strong that Conard could be. How could he forget about him after getting bullied?

The system of cultivation of the Devil World goes from the Devil, the Devil Minion, the Devil Commander, the Devil King, the Devil Emperor, the Devil Sovereign, and lastly the Devil Saint. Since the projection of Conard was at the Nascent Soul Stage then it would mean that the projection was at the level of a Devil King. Thus, Conard should at least be a Devil Emperor.

Even though the cultivation hierarchy seemed similar to the Divine Star World, the power structure of this world was completely different. While the humans in the Divine Star World slowly cultivate by absorbing the aura of Heavens and Earth, the Devils cultivate by absorbing the Devil Essence of one another.

The Devils are born due to the gathering of Devil Essence in the surroundings and they feed on each other to grow and become stronger. Due to this reason, the devil world is really chaotic. Here, all the devils have their own territories and subordinates and they battle out against each other to become stronger. So, the power structure of this world was not as stable as the Divine Star World.

"The Devil World looks really scary. Even though the cultivation world is all about strong ruling the weak, the Devil World takes it to the next level." He looked solemn thinking about it.

"However, these things are still far away from me. I need to become strong as fast as possible." He then left his Inner Court Disciples Peak and went towards the Artifact Peak.

Indeed, Davion already had a clear knowledge of the spiritual artifacts in this world. The ones that he had seen in the Outer Region were all the lower-grade spiritual artifacts. While the whip Leyla was using was a middle-grade spiritual artifact. These artifacts could only be made by someone above the Golden Core Stage. Above these artifacts were the higher-grade spiritual artifacts and the fairy artifacts.

The higher-grade spiritual artifacts are the artifacts used by the elders and the Sect Masters in the inner region. They are so powerful that they could only be carried by someone in the Domain Realm. Also, they were made by someone above the Domain Realm. So, all the middle-grade sects could only acquire them from the four major sects.

Above these artifacts were the fairy artifacts found only in the Central Region. These artifacts have a soul of their own due to which they can move on their own. They were terrifyingly powerful and every move from them would shake the Heavens and Earth. Nobody in the Inner Region had seen these artifacts and thus considered them as myths.

Not only that but there is also a rare type of spiritual artifact that is very weak when created but slowly improves along with the user's cultivation. These artifacts possess a soul of their own when the user reaches the Nascent Soul Stage. Due to which nobody in the inner region could make these artifacts and were also considered as myths. Since this artifact possesses a soul very early, they become even more powerful than the fairy artifacts in the future. So, these artifacts were known as the Natal Core Artifact.

Like these spiritual artifacts, the Devil World also has its own set of artifacts. However, these artifacts are known as the Devil Artifacts and are also divided in a similar way to those spiritual artifacts. His broken blade is also one of the Devil Artifacts. But since he isn't a devil, he couldn't bring out the full potential of it.. So, he was using this blade only because of its hardness.