Tale Of The Lone Petal

The journey of immortality was long and tiring, just like it rewards you with longevity it takes a lot of your time further you go. ■■■ spent the next several days cultivating to break through to the next realm.

The Spiritual Qi Realm.

Since now he transformed his body into one that's meant to cultivate immortality the Spiritual Qi Realm is like its name implies one that transforms his soul but in truth, it is more like establishing connections that allow your soul to control the very Qi in the air at your wish. In the later stages, it also demands you fuse your soul with your body creating your own spiritual/astral body.

■■■ has spent the last few days cultivating to reach that level? But with no manual and use of simple absorption of natural Qi the speed of his cultivation was slow. It can't be helped he guessed after all if he wanted to focus on the long run he needed to overcome this slow process.

He is also no longer naked now dressed in makeshift armor and clothes of a demonic creature is shelled skin and seaweed he sits on the top of the statue with a smile on his face. Prepared to greet the incoming dark sea as he saw the blazing red sun hiding behind the mountains.

After that, ■■■ sat down in the middle of the platform, feeling the dark smoke emitted from the dark sea and the flame-type Qi hidden behind it. Like usual he stayed there, motionless as if turned into a statue. Colorless Qi danced around him gently twisting the air surrounding him not by much but strong enough to be visible.

But soon his motionless state was disturbed by the movement under the sea it was a huge creature, he slowly opened his eyes seeing through the darkness of the night he located a huge dorsal fin that was at least dozens of meters tall. If the creature smashed into the statue he wasn't sure if it would be able to remain standing like it is doing now.

"Strange, did it get attracted by my Qi?" After all the last few days he noticed the leviathans of the dark sea don't come this close to the surface and usually don't get close to the statue. He was sure if it wasn't baited it wouldn't come here, and his first guess was it sensed him and his soul.

After all creatures of this realm seem strangely obsessed with souls devouring those shattered remains like it is some kind of priceless pills. He then picked up one of the many bone spears he made during the day focusing his Qi on it before throwing it with all his might, the power behind the spear was tremendous distorting the air and creating a vacuum around itself.

The water around it dispels, clearing a way to the spear and it crashes with the giant shark. Then thunderous strange shriek echoes through the empty night. The spear pierced its armored skin and the dark gray blood of the creature mixed with the dark sea before being swallowed by its dark waters. His spear wasn't enough to kill the leviathan it only made it bleed and become angrier.

A chuckle escapes from ■■■ as he picks up another spear. Prepared to clash with the creature, perhaps it can be classified as the Spiritual Qi Realm demonic beast. Still, this world's demonic beasts are really strange they can't be called demonic beasts at least not the pure-breed demonic beasts that are purely mutated through the Qi.

'Hmm, this dark sea seems to contain more secrets than I expected.' ■■■ know that if they fought too close to the statue he would lose this platform of his and he wasn't interested in finding a new one, which leaves only one option. He gathers Qi to his foot and then jumps on the dark sea after finding his balance on the water he rushes towards the creature causing the water around him to rise into the air.

The creature also didn't move toward the statue anymore, it let out a roar filled with murderous intent, and dozens of spiked tentacles launched itself from its huge mouth. ■■■ jumped up dodging from the tentacle sweep then pinning several ones together with one spear.

Tilting his head he dodged another tentacle strike, its size was huge, big himself in width then it started spinning like a drill. Tearing apart an air, like razor razor-sharp blade the sound of it splitting the air echoed in his ears. The creature then swings it towards ■■■ who is still on the air, he kicks the air sending himself up a little more only slightly away from being sliced into pieces by the monster's attack.

"So the shark is just a suit."

He stretched his hand towards it the surrounding Qi gathered around his palm ready to twist the air around it in an attempt to pull the creature that wearing the shark's skin. The creature didn't like it, its tentacles twisted and took another form. A creature made of flesh with only a mouth, shedding its bone armor and octopus-like skin it now revealed its true form. At least it's what he believes it is true form is.

Its body shines brightly in a deep red color, it reminds him of blood leeches from the Abyssal Realms, it's just a lot smaller and weaker even the newborns of them in the Abyss Realms are at least ten times its size. It even looked somewhat cute compared to those creatures, perhaps it's long lost distant descendant of them?

In its body countless different types of mouths manifested big or small it doesn't matter all of them opened widely revealing a swirling dark red whirlpool in it. The sound of wailing echoed from inside it but not of a person but countless beasts.

"Aww, even that's so cute compared to them, did your papa teach you that? Since you don't wanna come out from that shell so much why don't you disappear in it?"

A small whirlpool appears on ■■■'s palm, clasps his hands and separates it, and the small whirlpool soon takes the shape of a halo. Several crudely made bone spears floated behind him spinning on their own.

"Storm Piercing, First Type: Arrow And Empty Bow"