100 Lightning Purgatory Array and the Mystic Wand 1 (1/2)
”Holy… vision…” Jodye Trill stood in a daze after [Pharaoh's Law] appeared on his head. The fourth level of soul cultivation was called the Consciousness Stream. With his divine level consciousness stream, Jodye felt a brand new level of confidence. This was a strong feeling indeed! At this moment, Jodye was aware that he could form attacks with his mind as easily as he could with his fists. The difference in strength was quite significant, but Jodye could always fuse a concept into his divine qi. How would his mental strength be at that time? If he trained enough would he be able to activate combat skills with his mind alone? Jodye traced his space ring and withdrew his Scarlet Flame Magic Sword, using his mind to make it float in front of him.
Actually, he was already capable of doing this with his divine awareness, but only superficially. It used up far too much soul power to do so. He could move items through space using his divine powers, but they would be easily knocked down as he couldn't put any strength behind them. However, with a divine consciousness stream, he was able to fuse his original power into the Scarlet Flame Sword remotely. Of course, this currently consumed a vast amount of divine spirit source. It wasn't easy at all, and thus totally unpractical for battle at Jodye's current level. At most, he could use it to fly on his sword for a little while.
However, it may come in handy if he could refine a flying knife set… or as an emergency sneak attack.
Overall this was another trump card. It also helped him understand how important it was to improve his soul sea's overall capacity. This would be the goal of his alchemy in the future.
Currently, Jodye was not only able to see nearly 1,000 meters around himself, but he was also able to break his psyche apart into 10 independent streams of consciousness! Each consciousness stream was able to travel up to one kilometer away from his location and was also able to expand 100 meters or split into three strands of divine awareness.
This was indeed like an entirely different world compared to before. For the first time in Jodye's life, he recognized how terrifying [Pharaoh's Law] really was. If Jodye was replaced with the average warrior then it would be dozens to hundreds of years before he was capable of having a spirit that was powerful to this extent! Were other source artifacts able to give their hosts cheat codes like this? If so, weren't Sage path mystic artists too monstrous?
Due to his increased perception, Jodye was able to thoroughly investigate their surroundings. In a few breathes time, he had a decent understanding of the current circumstances. They should be in a hidden underground lair. On the other side of the path leading to this cavern, there was an excessively long tunnel. This eighth level vicious beast should have been some sort of trump card they kept at this end of the tunnel, or maybe a guard in case someone discovered their base. Either way, Jodye knew that whatever was on the other side of the path should be rather valuable!
Right at this moment, the [Cosmos Revolving Grimoire] opened up and released millions and millions of mysterious crimson blood runes. A third of these runes flew directly into little River's glabella with thousands of fate runes in tow, while the other two-thirds of the crimson runes were falling completely into Jodye's own glabella. Jodye felt like lava was pouring into his brain as his body swelled an entire size.
He felt his physique improving rapidly, and his origin veins becoming denser and thicker. His vague cognition of the Endless Carnage qi concept took on a more robust form! There was now another primary qi concept bubble in his consciousness, although the image inside was blurry. All Jodye needed now was some time to reflect on his recent experiences, and he was confident that he would develop the basic primary level slaughter qi!
Of course, Jodye wouldn't be satisfied with any concept that only contained one law, so he wasn't in a rush to improve his slaughter concept. He needed to gain more experience and create new comprehensions, only then would he be willing to solidify this new concept! His latest theory had to be superior to his previous four, or he wouldn't be able to rest easy. How could he accept a lower quality product?
Jodye's body continued to experience severe changes. He felt his blood boil and then chill before repeating again. He was in excruciating pain, but due to his mental fortitude and divine consciousness streams, Jodye was able to persist. He just circulated his original immortal conception as the energies within him got refined and directed to different parts of his body by Trippy. He observed this process strictly with his divine power and slowly understood how to condense blood essence. After doing so, he tore a strand of his consciousness to send a soul thought to little River.
He simply told her to cultivate as if her little life depended on it. He could see her condition was only slightly better than his own, but he was still worried about her. Green lightning snaked across the outer layer of Jodye's skin as he cultivated in silence.
Time passed, and before Jodye realized it, they had spent another two hours refining this eighth level Vicious Red-scaled Fire Lizard.
”I'll support you, host! Lol,” came the childish and robotic voice of Trippy. ”Harvesting. . . . Harvesting complete! Assimilating… Assimilation complete! Guess what, host? Volos divine bloodline can be boosted to 18%! Congrats!”