35 What’s the Duan Clan?” (1/2)

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All Duan Yan could do was whimper when he stared at his now disabled hand, although it could be healed through medicine, it would still take a few months thus slowing down his cultivation and practice speed.

Duan Yan's eyes became red with hatred as he stared at the masked figure before him, at the same time fear formed within him.

Duan Yan began to coalesce his Qi around himself, his World-Coalescing Realm cultivation base stirring up the surroundings, placing pressure on the spectators. When his eyes met the masked man before him, his soul quaked; before those magenta eyes, he felt so small and weak.

”Astrallis, it seems he can't even take a single glance from your eyes. The pure soul power of your Astral God blood makes you emit soul energy subconsciously, do you think his mind would break if you attacked with soul energy?” Bataar snickered into Astrallis' ears.

”It's only because his will is weak, that I'm able to influence him,” Astrallis said in disdain.

Astrallis stared at the crazed figure before him.

”It's your lucky day; it's unbecoming of me to spill any more blood before Princess Eversnow,” Astrallis coldly said to Duan Yan.

Astrallis let go of Duan Yan's wrist, but not before he sent Duan Yan flying with a punch, his body rolling across the ground.

”How dare you!?” Shouted a middle-aged man from Duan Yan's entourage, as he managed to snap out of his inundated state.

The pressure of a Minting Stage cultivation base descended on Astrallis, causing Astrallis' bones to creak.

”Oh, this idiot has the protection of a Minting Stage cultivator,” Astrallis thought as he stared at the middle-aged man.

Astrallis stared nonchalantly at the man, his gait never weakening, in fact, it only became straighter.

The World-Creation Realm is the final realm within the World Stage, in this realm, the comprehensions of the cultivator culminate into a world inside their dantians – a world formed by understandings, it holds all the laws of the cultivator. The Minting Stage after that is divided into four realms; each realm helps forge the inner-world of the cultivator making it stronger and firmer, allowing for more power and higher comprehension.

Currently, Astrallis was only in the World Wandering Realm, which is the first realm of the World Stage. World Coalescing Realm comes after the World Wandering Realm, which is followed by the final domain of the World Stage which is the World Creation Realm. Astrallis has the archaic blood of the Astral God, the tremendous soul energy that has flowed through his blood since his birth has tempered his will and soul hence why the middle-aged man's aura had no effect on Astrallis' soul-being.

At the same time, Astrallis cultivates the heavenly Sanguinary Felicity Body-Art, a person who duo cultivates both essence and body cultivation is rare as a phoenix feather and unicorn horn. The number of factions in the universe that have a body cultivation technique, that doesn't interfere with essence cultivation, can be counted on one hand; the Felicity Blood Religion is one such faction.

A person who duo cultivates both body and essence goes against the heavens. It takes much more for them to break through to higher realms, at the same time their cultivation speed may not be as fast as a practitioner that only cultivates essence, but there are always pros and cons. A person who duo cultivates body and essence can generally fight a few grades above themselves; their battle-power defies the heavens.

Astrallis was, even more, a freak of nature, his Sanguinary Felicity Body-Art had a mutation in its invocation, both from the unique Yin feature of the art as well as the Astral Blood within his body. This lead to his physical body having manifold more strength compared to a standard body cultivator.

The most central feature that allows Astrallis to fight multiple grades above himself relates to the soul energy of his Astral Blood.[1]

Astrallis' will never faltered when the overbearing pressure of the middle-aged man descended. The man became embarrassed when he noticed that the masked figure was even younger than his Young Master.

”Boy, do you know who you are messing with? He is Duan Yan one of the Young Masters of the Duan Clan,” the middle-aged retainer tried to scare Astrallis, hoping for at least some reaction.

There finally was a reaction from Astrallis, but not the one the retainer was hoping for.

”What's the Duan Clan?” Astrallis voice spread around the area, traces of mirth contained within.

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The faces of the crowd all became odd.

”Does this youth not know the immensity of heaven and earth? How does he not know the Duan Clan?”