Chapter 91: Dying...
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After 5 spoonfuls: [Mind Cultivation - Middle Copper Rank (12.2%)]
After 10 spoonfuls: [Mind Cultivation - Middle Copper Rank (65.5%)]
After 25 spoonfuls: [Mind Cultivation - Late Copper Rank (83.9%)]
After 50 spoonfuls: [Mind Cultivation - Peak Copper Rank (42.8%)]
After the entire box: [Mind Cultivation - Half-Step Bronze Rank (95.1%)]
"Not enough… Still not enough…"
Appearing like a corpse, Lucifer clutched onto the table he was sitting over. Refusing to allow himself to pass over into the afterlife, he actively inflicted pain on himself.
However, with his Mind Cultivation still not in the Bronze Rank, he turned his haggard face up toward his little sister. Then, with a voice on the verge of fading away, he muttered, "M-More… S-So delicious… Ca-Can't get enough of it…"
Completely overlooking the zombie-like state of her brother, a smile almost formed on Li Yan's small, round face. After which, she rummaged around in her storage ring. Finally finding what she wanted, it was immediately taken out and thrown on the mahogany table.
"For you… dessert…"
Fully showing off the demon cake that she conjured up from fuck knows where, she quickly scooted it over to the mouth of the half-dead man.
"..."
Staring at the occasional acidic bubbles and bones plopping up from inside the 'cake', Lucifer forced himself to swallow the last of his saliva. Then, with his life on the line, he wrapped his tongue around the 'cake' and consumed it in a single bite!
Kak!
Spitting out great amounts of blood, Lucifer pretended to play it off cool. However, no facade was good enough to conceal the current state of his internal organs…
'W-Who the fuck needs organs anyway…? Only a loser would care about something so superficial…'
He tried his best to upkeep a tough-guy front. But no matter what he said or thought, there was no denying the fact that his insides were quite literally… melting…
Even with his Body Cultivation in the Initial Silver Rank, there was no way that would be good enough to prevent or thwart the melting of one's internal organs.
As a result of this occurrence, well… Lucifer died.
Or rather, he was scientifically considered dead for a good three seconds. However, like a zombie suddenly coming back to life, he jumped out of his skin and inhaled a breath of air like it was the most valuable thing in the universe.
"I'm alive… And my Mind Cultivation broke through into the Bronze Rank. Moreover, it jumped straight into the Early Bronze Rank…"
Still reeling in from his touch with the grim reaper, Lucifer sat back in his chair and digested the most recent sequence of events.
'It seems like, after breaking through to the Bronze Rank, my mind subconsciously used telekinesis in order to put the majority of my organs back in place.'
'Though such a method is like using duct tape to prevent the sinking of a ship with countless holes, it is still sufficient enough to last me until my breakthrough into the Core Formation Realm.'
Once one breaks through into the Core Formation Realm, their whole body will go through a major metamorphosis.
During this metamorphosis, one's body will be rid of all scars, most imperfections, latent injuries, etc. And this was exactly what Lucifer planned to make use of so as to heal his internal catastrophe.
'Tch. If only my cultivation were at a high enough level to begin aiming for the 'Divine Life Restoration Physique''
'With such a physique, I could come back to life even if there were only a single atom of my existence still left in the world of the living.'
'But unfortunately for my destitute self, I would need to be in the Mahayana Realm in order to acquire that Physique…'
Sigh…
Heaving a great big sigh, Lucifer turned his narrowed eyes to the goth midget. He really wanted to ask why she wanted to kill him so badly. But in the end, he restrained himself and said, "We have some more unwelcome visitors outside. Your Formations are more than good enough to take care of Peak Golden Core Formation Realm Cultivation.
So, would you like to go and obtain some more loot for this Big Brother of yours?"
Although interested in such a proposal, Li Yan decided to go off-topic and ask, "Yumms… You like…?"
"...Yeah, it was very good… So delicious…"
"Really…?"
"Yes…"
"K… Will go get loot."
Seemingly in a happy mood, Li Yan walked away from her big brother. Quickly making her way toward the exit, she jumped out and used a Formation.
Summoning up a cloud of misty white energy, she glided across the skies in a jolly type of apathetic mood.
As the miniature murder-hobo collected some loot for the 'fam', Big Bro Lucifer thought about a great many things while searching his knowledge bank for the relevant Mind Techniques.
'With that demoness girl leaving all the loot bags in a half-dead state, I can still finish off the kills and obtain every ounce of loot.'
'Add that to the work being passively conducted by my clones, and I have quite the thing going on for me.'
In the midst of thinking about all the loot he would obtain, the other part of his mind finally found the segment of memory that he was looking for. So, with post-haste, he replicated the specifics of the memory down on a piece of high-level paper book material.
After a few minutes of scribbling, a Technique book ultimately came into being. And the name of this technique was the 'Mind Fuck' manual.
To be completely candid, Lucifer may or may not have forgotten the original name of the technique. So, he maybe, maybe might've just called it whatever the hell he wanted to call it…
'How does one even remember the details depicted in the Technique, but not the name of the Technique itself…?'
'It makes me wonder just what type of person I was before transmigrating, or whatever it was that happened to me…'
Just remembering bits and pieces of his past life was enough to piss Lucifer off. So in the end, he steered away from that topic, instead putting his focus on the 'Mind Fuck' Technique.
"Let's see… To properly Mind Fuck, I just need to circulate the thin filament of mind energy permeating the area around my mind."
Doing everything that he was speaking about, Lucifer swiftly put a certain degree of attention on the filament of energy above his brain. After which, he circulated it in the same manner that was depicted in the Mind Fuck manual.
Thereafter, Lucifer worked on the exterior emulation of the mind energy.
In other words, he was trying to make what was on the inside integrate its existence in the world outside.
After a few seconds of playing around with this process, he eventually reached a point where he could make the mind energy transform into an illusory tendril.
Of course, this was not enough to cultivate or make use of the Mind Energy. But it was still a pretty decent start.
Leaning off of this start, Lucifer extended the length and width of the tendril. From 1 cm to 1 inch, then to a foot.
That single tendril of wavy, Iridescent Mind Energy was transformed into something viable for mass replication. So, without further ado, he worked on making more of the wavy tendrils of Mind Energy.
During the time that Li Yan used up to 'deal' with the Water Nation Loot Bags, Lucifer's control, quantity, and quality in Mind Cultivation had improved by leaps and bounds.
From the Early Bronze Rank to the Middle Bronze Rank, he was making tremendous progress in a span of time amounting to less than 10 minutes!
Furthermore, it wasn't only his Mind Cultivation that had improved during this period of time, as there was also his Qi Cultivation and Body Cultivation, both of which could be cultivated passively!
In less time than it took to figure out the meaning of one's life, many advancements were made in Lucifer's aspects of existence.
Taking a glance at the exact changes, a simplified system interface opened up.
BLING!
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{[Lucifer]}
[Qi Cultivation - Half-Step Core Formation Realm (Middle)]
[Body Cultivation - Early Silver Rank (21.5%)]
[Mind Cultivation - Middle Bronze Rank (35.9%)]
[Battle Power - Middle Nascent Soul Realm (Pinnacle)]
[Middle Nascent Soul Realm Clone cost - 10,000 CE²]
[Maximum Amount of Clone Essence so far - 700,000 CE²]
[Current Clone Essence - 650,000 CE²]
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Lucifer likely only needed one more breakthrough in one of his aspects to fully push him over into the Late Nascent Soul Realm in Battle Power. And if he were correct in his assumptions, the aspect to do that would most definitely be his Body Cultivation. Either that or his |Sword Slash|, but he was more inclined to believe that his Body Cultivation would be the first to make a breakthrough.
'Sword Slash is at the peak of the Early-Sky Rank, and for it to make another breakthrough, it will definitely need a bit more time. Whereas my Body Cultivation is speeding through the Realms like a drugged-up bastard.'
Even though Lucifer had to experience excruciating amounts of pain in order to progress this fast, it was more than worth it if it meant he could become stronger than ever before.
'That shithead main body of mine may be a good-for-nothing goody two shoes, but he was always a persistent one when it came to going through pain for more power.'
'If I wish to one day give him a few good slaps across his dick-shaped face, then there is no room for going easy on myself.'
Following through with this train of thought, Lucifer ceaselessly circulated his Mind, Body, and Qi Cultivation. Like a passive afk machine, he progressed in everything all at once!
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