Chapter 23 (1/2)

In a random area in the Spirit Ascension Platform, Huang Yu was standing in a sea of snake corpses as he was covered with snake blood.

His breath was slightly heavy from the exertion of using the King's Wisdom. He didn't have a powerful large area of range attack at the moment so it took quite a bit of them to dispatch those snakes.

A whirlpool of energy surrounded him as they were slowly absorbed into the spirit ringl he had ȧssimilated inside his body.

He noticed something familiar about how the energy was nourishing his singular spirit ring. It seemed rather similar to how he healed himself with vital energy.

Hence, a thought made itself into Huang Yu's mind: Could vital energy age his spirit ring?

If it could, this was actually a massive breakthrough in the spiritual cultivation department. Although his main level of strength was independent from that side of cultivation, the power that could be gotten if he aged his spirit rings to a high enough level was not negligible.

Huang Yu summoned his white spirit ring that had been increasing rather quickly in age. In fact, the moment it was summoned, it broke through to reach the 100+ year old level, turning it yellow.

This was attributed to the fact that it had faced up against so many higher level spirit beasts that were also snakes.

Before trying out his experiment, Huang Yu's third eye glowed lightly as the light began bending around him, creating the illusion that he was trying to regain strength at the moment.

He formed a bit of vital energy in exchange for a small portion of his stamina. Then, he tried to send it to the spirit ring.

The sides of Huang Yu's lips curled upwards as he felt the sensations he was feeling from doing this.

Although it wasn't much, not even being able to increase the age of his spirit ring by a year, there was still an increment.

Ideas ran through Huang Yu's mind as he found out about this method of using vital energy.

If he used the vital energy that he made on his known, he could roughly calculate that it would be far too inefficient to age his spirit ring(s) this way.

However, what if he could take the vital energy from someone else to do so?

From experimenting with Guang Biao, Huang Yu had found out that there was an amount of vital energy that could be taken from a person without harming them.

As long as he didn't take too much and harm the person's vitality, that small amount of vital energy would recover with time.

Now what would be the best way to gather so much vital energy then?

Guang Biao called him king right? Maybe he could make a kingdom?

Nah, to take vital energy without harming people, it has to be taken willingly.

In that case, how about a cult? Since cults had super fanatical people who were willing to lay down everything for it.

Maybe that could work. He would come up with the specifics with Guang Biao later.

Huang Yu retracted his spirit ring and stopped creating an illusion around himself via light. As he was about to leave the area he had done a massacre in, he heard the sound of birds.

Turning his head up, he was greeted by a flock of large, green birds. He could tell that their attentions were all on him with hints of… hunger in their eyes?

Well that's ok. Although he was a bit tired and they had an aerial advantage, they weren't a threat to him.

His senses suddenly warned him as he jumped out of the way of a strike that had been coming from his back.

When Huang Yu looked at his ȧssailant, he found that it was a 100+ year old Man Faced Demon Spider.

Huang Yu was confused when he saw this. If the Man Faced Demon Spider was here, it had to mean that this was its territory. Yet why were there those snakes and bird beasts here? There was no way they would have migrated here out of fear of the Man Faced Demon Spider.

He would leave the thinking for later. For now, he had to take down the adversaries in front and above him.

It would be a bit challenging to beat them in his current condition but he still had the decisive advantage over them.

As he prepared to strike first, he was surprised when the Man Faced Demon Spider outright charged at him. This wasn't its original attack pattern!

Well that saved him a lot of time.

Activating Godspeed, he easily dodged the strike from one of the Man Faced Demon Spider's legs before moving to behind it.

Readying a move that could instantly defeat the Man Faced Demon Spider that was wide open, Huang Yu was forced to dodge as a bunch of the large, green birds flew down to try and… rip a bite off his body?

Wasn't this spirit beast supposed to harass with it's claws?

With a swing of his blade, the lives of the birds that had attacked him came to an end. However, the birds seemed not to care for their lives as they barraged at him, trying to rip him to shreds with their beaks.

At this time, the Man Faced Demon Spider also came to add on to the pressure on him.

As he slashed and swung his blade masterfully, he noticed the madness in their eyes. It was rather similar to Tang Wulin's eyes when he attacked him at the Class Promotion Tournament.

Huang Yu's eyes narrowed as he ripped through the spirit beasts like a hurricane of flesh and steel. Since spirit beasts exhibited traits like these towards him, did this mean that Tang Wulin was also a spirit beast?

His thought process was cut off when he heard wolf growls. With a sigh, he turned around to see a pack of Green Wolves.