Tale Of The Lone Petal

After tearing off one of its arms, he ended the half-blind one using it; now covered in black blood, he let out a disgusted groan; the blood was slimy and rather different from the human one, making him feel uncomfortable. One that lost it is arm tried to sneak attack him, but sadly, it was too slow; ■■■ stabbed his finger into its shelled body before swinging it to use it as a shield from its attack.

He then pulls his back, clenching it as he twists his fist, and Qi wrapped around his fist before smashing through the corpse's body, the small pieces of its shells sent flying into the armless one's face, blinding it. Then ■■■'s hand quickly clenched its head before it could even manage to scream with a smirk on his face he said in a sing-song tone: "Nice to meet you friend~"

Now, his hand was covered in even more dark, slimy blood, making him shake his hand in disgust before simply tearing through the demonic beast's body to free his arm from its body. ■■■ Could feel the vibration in the ground signaling to him that many monsters were coming.

Once the beasts came, they only saw two corpses of their kind lying on the ground, one that was smashed into a pancake and the other that was torn apart. While they were curiously looking around, the sound of whistling was heard by one of them before its head burst open.

This is followed by another few of their heads bursting open under the same circumstances. One of them picks up the dead one's head, and a red, shiny piece of coral falls from the ripped-off head. They looked up and saw a young man dressed in a makeshift combat-armored skirt while playing with pieces of red coral.

Creatures tried to climb towards the coral pillar, but after the first three were dead, they decided it wasn't worth it and started running, ■■■ let out a low chuckle. He wanted to follow them, but that might take too much time, and he might not have enough time to climb back to the statue once the black sea was back.

"Once I reached the next stage I should visit them." ■■■ jumps from the coral pillar and lands on the soft gray sand surrounded by a lot of the corpses of demonic beasts. He then starts skinning the corpses to get their meats and the beast's core.

"What is this?" ■■■ shook the transparent glowing crystal in front of himself with a questioning look on his face. "Hmm, what the hell is this? It's not a beast core." his best guess is it was related to a soul so he decided to show it to one of the coral pillars suddenly the crystal turned gray and lost its glow as if tainted by something and that coral pillar changed a little too, growing even spikier and bigger, not by much but still visible to the eyes.

"So that's what you feed on huh?" He then ripped off the rest of the cores from the creatures before stuffing half of them into the same pillar. As it grew bigger, a curious look appeared on his face.

"Hmm, so these things are the fragments of the soul, huh?" He looks at the crystals again before putting them in his makeshift bag. He used Qi to stitch it together, so it should last a few hours before falling apart long enough for him to climb back to the statue.

While climbing, he also noticed something particular: the coral pillars now react to him; to be exact, they react to those strange soul cores he is keeping. It was a slow and small movement with no practical effects, but ■■■ still noted that down. Perhaps he could feed one till it grows into a big enough one that can hunt itself.

But still, it didn't react to him, which was strange considering that he have a soul too; wait, he has a soul, right? ■■■ closed his eyes and senses his surroundings with his spiritual sense. "Yeah, I have still my soul. Is it possible that it can only sense ones that's shattered like those cores?"

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Night has come with it the dark sea has come back too; ■■■ puts down his bonfire. Luckily, he has already grilled quite a bit of meat. As he munches them down, he slowly observes the coral labyrinth getting slowly swallowed by the dark sea. The water was so rich in dark-type Qi that you couldn't even see your reflection on it. Also, the starless sky of this land is pretty interesting, too. He noticed it only now, but no stars were shining upon this realm.

"That's rather lonely sky isn't it?"

He stares at the endlessly expanding dark sky silently, feeling somewhat lonely; feeling fills him; perhaps deep down, he is lonely too. After his disciple's betrayal, he stopped separating his allies and enemies, treating both sides as enemies and allies. Cutting whatever relationship he had with his "friends" and "sworn enemies" and doing whatever he wanted, only thinking of himself caused him to become the enemy of everyone.

"Hehe, what am I even thinking?"

■■■ quickly took a lotus position and started cultivating so he could reach the next realm and start training flying and movement techniques, allowing his range of exploration and hunting to expand. Quickly forgetting the lonely thought he had just now, he replaced it with a feeling of absorbing the Qi in heaven and earth. Perhaps it's the specialty of this realm, but even when night comes, the fire-type Qi of the sun remains perhaps covered under the dark-type Qi of the dark sea, but it still lingered longer and greater than dark-type during the day.

The 8th Stage Of Body Transformation Realm. The muscle and tissue transformation.

The first five stages the cell evolution after that you will create a Qi connection between them which isn't too strong but not too weak too which is blood and that's what you do in the sixth stage, after spreading your new Qi-filled blood you can cover your organs and veins with the Qi transforming them too which is the seventh now all the inside is transformed you will transform your muscle, skin, and rest of the body part. Once you achieve that, your muscle will become as elastic as rubber and possess the ability to absorb shock, and your skin will become harder than steel, making you basically immune to most mortal weapons.

The last stage can be said to be the most important one among all nine stages of the Body Transformation Realm. Because you transform your body parts separately, resulting in loosely held together by his cells now, he will fuse everything, changing his very bone structure using the Qi. Once your body goes through a complete transformation, you can be truly said to have left your mortal shell behind and started cultivating immortality.

Since he pushed himself to the seventh stage on the first night, it's only fair if he pushed himself to the ninth stage and further on the second night, right? 

Taking a deep breath ■■■ continued cultivating the transformation wasn't easy; the true difficulty of the ninth stage was the pain of transformation; it is as if the pain you were supposed to feel during the previous other 8 stages all come rushing to you all at once. Some call this pain heaven's warning; it is heaven's way of saying to the cultivators that the path of cultivation is rising against its will.

■■■ gritted his and clenched his fist tightly, feeling the familiar pain rushing back to him. He overcame this pain once, and he will overcome it once again; after all, if it wasn't for that, then why did the heavens keep his memory of the previous life intact?! With a loud booming sound, his skin cracked, and colorless pale light came out from the cracks.

Ground around him started cracking, and the Qi inside his dantian overflowed, causing the cracks on his skin to spread even more; ■■■'s breath quickened, and an aura of pale white energy formed around him. Soon, the moment he has been waiting for comes; his skin, starting from the abdomen where his dantian is located, bursts open, revealing even clearer white jade-like skin and a finely sculpted body.

The 9th Stage Of The Body Transformation Realm. The Complete Body Transformation.

"Oh, dear world, I am back. Your dear devil has returned to play with you again."