18 Time For Some Live Practice (1/2)

At the Wolf Range, Jam began to look for Night Rangers to hunt. After reaching the Qi Collecting Stage, Jam had unlocked the ability to use divine sense. And after reaching the Palace Creation Stage, his divine sense's range had grown significantly.

Divine Sense was the ability to extend one's energy outside their body to scan the environment. Aside from scanning an opponent to know their level, divine sense can be used to look for things in the environment. It's like an extra sense that give a cultivator information, without them having to use their natural five senses.

At the Qi Collecting Stage Jam's divine sense had a range of 100 meters. Now that he was at the peak of Palace Creation, he could use his divine sense to detect things up to 10 kilometers from his body. If Jam chose to augment his soul with a soul-enhancing superpower through the use of Divinity, Jam could potentially increase the range of his divine sense's normal range.

However, the most optimal choice Jam could make at the moment — instead of enhancing his natural divine sense range — was to use a superpower like Jared's Void Detection, to be able to cast a wider net when searching, and also search more specifically.

The outer region of the Wolf Range was millions of kilometers long, and Jam didn't want to waste any time. Instead of combing through the mountain with his divine sense, he used Divinity to replicate his classmate Jared's superpower, Void Detection.

Void Detection would let him use the local void to search for Night Rangers. Void Detection worked in a similar way to divine sense. However, at the cost of being worst at detailed micro-inspection, its range was leagues ahead of divine sense. While Jam's Divine sense might only extend up to 10 kilometers, with Void Detection, he could search up to 1,000 kilometers away from himself.

More important was the fact that Void Detection could search for exactly what Jam wanted; it would filter out all other information aside from what Jam wanted to look for. Divine Sense would send Jam details — from the macro scale like natural formations, to the micro scale, as in the texture of ants —within the range that Jam let it reach. While this was useful, Jam was searching for Night Rangers at the moment and did not want to waste his time sorting through all the random pieces of information his divine sense would pass on to him.

With the power of Void Detection, Jam found a den of Night Ranger in about ten minutes. All of the Night Rangers in this den were very weak, with the strongest one being comparable to a Palace Creation cultivator.

However, Jam didn't have any plan as to how he would kill these Night Rangers. Moreover he had never been in a real fight, so, he chose to be cautious and not challenge the den by himself, even if his cumulative strength vastly surpassed those Night Rangers present.

Surrounding the Night Ranger's den, there were several patrols of Night Ranges, presumably watching for intruders to their territory. These creatures were surprisingly intelligent, having a base and patrols surveying their territory. Jam chose to target these patrols until he had enough confidence to fight all of the den by himself.

Now that he was out of the academy, Jam could start practicing his most powerful techniques. In the academy, for fear of causing reckless mayhem, he didn't practicing energy attacks. Little did he know that all the courtyards in the academy were design to let cultivators practice their attacks within them, at least to the Saint Realm.

Jam met with his first patrol of Night Rangers which consisted of 7 wolves. To be safe he chose to start practicing his Styles of Cosmic Bow. This way, he would be able to target these ”dangerous” wolves with the safety of distance. Jam used the first skill, Single Shot on every wolf and to his dismay, he realized he had severely overkilled each wolf.

In the patrol, the strongest wolf had been a Palace Foundation Stage demonic beast, even though Jam was using the weakest core skill from the Style of the Cosmic Bow, it still wrecked the wolves' bodies beyond recognition, not to mention the weaker wolves. Everything on the wolves' bodies was destroyed, leaving Jam with no spoils of war.

However Jam didn't dwell on this ”mistake” and began to practice the True Demon Form Technique. To practice this technique Jam needed to absorb the demonic energy from the demonic beasts he killed. This technique had to be practiced within minutes of the user completing their kills, or the demonic energy from those killed would dissipate into the environment.

[True Demon Form (Partial Demon Form): Transmute demonic energy into internal demonic power and unlock increasing perfect demonic forms — <1%| Evolvable]

To no one's surprise, the demonic energy from 7 lesser mortal beasts wasn't enough to reach the first level of this technique, Partial Demonification. Jam estimated that he would need to kill several thousand demonic beasts of this level to reach the first level in his technique; killing higher leveled beings would let him progress faster, though.