69 Well? Shall we go and see? (1/2)
— Dark Cave, third sub-level
Jodye Trill didn't know about the secrets happening in the dark back in his homeland, he was fighting monsters in Dark Cave.
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!
Explosive sounds continued to ring out from deep in the dark cave. Jodye Trill was battling dark creatures in a vast cavern. The creatures had bodies of pure darkness and stood at 2.5 meters tall, wielding giant clubs that were similarly made of darkness. Their male humanoid bodies were massive and lewd, slightly awkward for Jodye to stomach.
The female humanoid's bodies were voluptuous and even more lewd, like giant amazonian shadows. Dark and perverted thoughts pervaded Jodye's mind when he looked at them for too long! If Jodye's mental strength wasn't so powerful from being reinforced by source energy, he might have fallen into bedevilment once or twice! Theses dark fiends looked like more massive Goons, similarly with no mouths only a single piercing green eye! On top of each of their heads were a pair of bull horns.
A huge body slammed into the wall, and then was immediately buried deeper by a small boy's flying kick!
CRASH!
This boy had dual sabers in his hands and was shirtless wearing a stylish headdress crown and white pants that didn't have a stain on them. This was obviously Jodye Trill, and these were the two combat weapons he got from the corpses of those Crimson Rider henchmen. Another huge black shadow swiftly approached from behind and slammed down a giant black club. The small boy dodged into a roll under the legs of the creature, spinning out to slash at the fiend's ankles. A yellow radiance full of pure force was flashing from his dual sabers!
Riiiiip!
The sabers tore through the thick legs of the fiend like it was a sheet of paper, causing it to crash loudly on the ground as it flailed around in pain, chest peaks swinging from left to right.
”Awesome! So this is the so-called combat gear,” as he spoke Jodye Trill was decapitating the fallen fiend with a cross-slash,as the fiend evaporating into black smog. Jodye chanted the Azure World Epoch, and this smog was instantly absorbed into his lungs and refined into pure force. ”With my saint cultivation at the mid-Revolving Force rank, my BP is around 19. These Phantom Sabers are C-grade combat gear that actually provides a 20% boost in my heavenly force. That brings my bp to 21! Not mention my pure force which has the advanced nascent level strength. Using azure essence force, my strength should reach 41 BP.”
Jodye had already refined his lungs and heart with true essence, allowing them to store pure force. This was easy for him as he had already improved the spiritual meridians in those two organs, they were already refined by origin power! Currently, Jodye was surrounded by 12 substantial level 2 fiends, the Bully. However, one was getting intimate with the cavern wall, while another had just been smoked. Dodging another attack, he lopped off the Bully's extended arm! The arm turned into black smoke which entered the pores of his body to be refined, as he cut off another Bully's leg.
Very soon, these Bully fiends were left in a tragic state, none of them could even touch Jodye! The boy wonder had slaughtered them all until his lungs became black from all the tainted fiend force he had absorbed. From a tunnel deeper inside Dark Cave, a dozen more Bully fiends stormed their way over. Each one of these Bully fiends had a minimum of 10 BP, with most having around 15 or 16 BP. However, the strongest among them owned a shocking 35 BP! This particular Bully was the only one with a mouth, his teeth were razor sharp and layered like a piranha, with a long tongue hanging out from the side.
”Caution Host! Maniac Fiend detected!” warned Trippy.
”Careful Jodye, that fiend's a maniac! You might not be able to beat him if you continue holding back,” warned Xavier Tricko from the host space.
”So that's a Maniac Fiend,” Jodye Trill was completely unbothered. Maniacs were fiends with far higher levels of intelligence and strength. They were dangerous and bloodthirsty and controlled the other fiends. These fiends were unique in that they could evolve and grow stronger by eating pure and life force energies. Their bodies were a level tougher than themselves, so this maniac fiend had a defense worth 45 - 50 BP. Maniac fiends would always be much stronger than other fiends of the same level. Jodye felt that this would now serve as a good training session, ”No worries.”
After all, now that he had tempered his flesh with azure world true essence, Jodye's physical body could withstand the strength of more than 100 BP, more than three times what this maniac fiend possessed.
Did he even need to worry?
He would just continue to fight this fiend with saint force until it fell and he refined it! Refining a maniac might directly push his force purity to the upper limit.
After another 30 minutes passed Jodye had cleaned up every fiend other than the Maniac Bully, who was kneeling before him on one leg, with every other limb missing.
”Bah! How tedious. I really need to study combat arts,” Jodye was tired, as he had expended all of his stored pure essence force. The fighting styles of the Titan clan didn't really suit his tastes, other than the Cosmic Glaive Combat Art he found in his memories.
Black tendrils of energy seeped out of Jodye's body, his heart in lungs filled to the brim with fiend force. Resentful, murderous, and lecherous thoughts consumed his mind bit by bit. He hadn't reduced the fiend to this state to torture it. Instead, Jodye had a feeling that if he absorbed anymore tainted fiend force, he would fall into bedevilment.
'Cosmo!'
The [Cosmos Revolving Grimoire] appeared in a flash of purple light, automatically flipping open to the third page. Then a red magic circle large enough for a person to step inside formed on the ground directly to Jodye's left.
[Guardian Summon: Mighty God Sky Jackal]
'Compatibility rating: 31%.'
'Child form unlocked.'
'Tier 1 abilities unlocked.'
'Summon time: 5 hours.'
A red light screen pillar the size of an adult male condensed from the magic circle, before a wolf's howl was heard. Then, a heavy golden sword slashed horizontally and broke through the light screen. The bright screen shattered like glass shards. Standing in its place was a wolf boy who appeared to be around seven years old, with wolf ears and red fur all over. Xavier was holding the golden-red Fenrir over his shoulders as he observed the surroundings.
”What a dump,” said Xavier dryly. ”Hey host temp, you want I should go clean up some fiends for you?”
”I'll think about it. Sly doesn't want me to let you act too much. Right now, I just need you to protect me while I refine this tainted fiend force in my lungs,” Jodye Trill directly sat down and closed his eyes, without waiting for Xavier to respond. He felt his mind slipping away. Xavier nodded and pierced Fenrir into the cave floor. Then he obediently sat crosslegged next to Jodye, glancing around vigilantly like a faithful watchdog.
Meanwhile, Jodye sink his perception inward and begin to chant the first verse of the Azure World Epoch! To his amazement when he sang the first verse of this worldly saint scripture, he made it all the way through the third stanza! After reciting the complete first verse, Jodye's body shook, and he underwent a new transformation! Pleasantly surprised, he continued to recite the first verse.
The first stanza condensed fate runes into his flesh, muscles, and organs. The fate runes had the unique ability to summon the Azure World's True Essence from countless billions of lightyears across the void. The second stanza deepened his understanding of Fate, by giving him visions of the Azure World's early days of existence.
As for the third stanza, it was actually the most magical!
Every time Jodye Trill recited the third stanza in its entirety, fate runes would condense and flow into his origin pool, settling into what was beginning to resemble a yin yang pattern. These fate runes were forming a worldly diagram! Worldly diagrams were magical array formations formed naturally from the essence of a world! Once he realized this, he decided to focus mainly on the third stanza so that the worldly diagram would finish condensing.
However, no sooner than making this decision he was interrupted.
”Haste makes waste little Joe, has no one told you this?” said Xavier Tricko via telepathy. He was always aware of Jodye's intentions.
”Don't take shortcuts. This is how you enter a state of force deviation,” added Sylvester from the host space.
Jodye Trill was annoyed, but he listened to the two so-called experts that live in his head. After all, he wasn't old as hell like these two. If they lived for hundreds of years and didn't know this much, it'd be embarrassing right?
Xavier narrowed his eyes as Jodye obediently chanted the entire first verse of Azure World Epoch and found that after an hour it had become extremely comfortable. The tainted fiend force in his lungs suddenly traveled magically through his spiritual meridians. His original immortal conception circulated on its own, refining the deadly tainted fiend force into milder energy that widened and strengthened his origin veins.
The refined fiend force traveled down his origin veins and extended them bit by bit until they touched the worldly diagram in his origin pool. The refined fiend force entered worldly diagram and force purity rained from the other side, nourishing his various force genesis fragments.
As he recited the first verse in its entirety, he noticed that the tiny fate runes being condensed were entering his lungs and heart. The worldly diagram in his origin pool resonated with the fate runes to absorb and refine the tainted fiend force into force purity.