With the entity's laugh, the atmosphere of depression which had begun settling over Seth was lifted.
The news that his finger beams will soon become useless, didn't really faze Seth.
Despite his arrogant dreams, he wasn't a delusional person and had already figured out that there was no way everyone he would meet in his cultivation journey would be susceptible to his qi.
Hell Seth had already entertained the possibility of one day being at the opposite end of qi poisoning, something he really wasn't looking forward to.
"Though having a bit of the bloodline activated sounds like it would be a boost to my strength, am I wrong to conclude that there is a heavy con to it?"
"Yes. If you think you're an arrogant bastard at the moment, then wait till you see yourself after getting a bit of the bloodline activated."
"No, I'll pass," Seth said without hesitation. He had just been depressed a moment ago thinking about how horrible his arrogance was and he might perhaps not live past three years, the last thing he needed was something that would make him want to challenge Egaroth's strongest cultivator.
"Good choice" the entity lazily replied, making no comment on Seth's decision, and then the next thing he knew, he was back to observing the almost frozen-like world.
The lightning bolts were just the way they had been when he left and to his depression he could still see a tiny heap of his ashes.
"Say, this arrogance, is it a curse of the primordial fiend?"
Seth had no idea if the entity would answer seeing as it had already kicked him out, but the entity's answer came thundering.
"It's no curse, it's an inborn trait of true ruler and conqueror, the character of a being superior to all." The entity said from within Seth, pride in its tone.
"Boundless arrogance had no place with a weak man" Seth solemnly said remembering Roushi's story, and though he couldn't see it, he deciphered that the entity's mood had crashed.
Seth expected a firm rebuttal or scolding but it seemed even the entity was aware of its position and truly acknowledged reality.
"Though it truly is an inborn trait, there is more to it, and unless you figure out how to deal with it, you'll just become another failed predecessor." The solemn tone of the entity sounded and after that, all Seth knew was the roaring of lightning.
The bolts which had once been frozen now became active, striking around him, but with each second that passed, they moved closer to him and more of them stuck to his soul.
When the dark clouds had first popped up, they had been rotating clockwise, but now there were going anticlockwise, and to Seth's amazement, they seemed to be brewing more bolts of lightning.
"Is that okay?" Seth asked in his mind but got no answer.
"Guess our conversation is ended," Seth thought.
He watched with trepidation as more and more bolts of lightning fell from the sky and landed on him, the blue bolts sticking to him like a magnet.
Before long, lightning began running all around Seth and before he knew it, flesh appeared on him from the lightning.
How it happened Seth didn't know, the workings were phenomenal to him, leaving him in awe and amazement, but good things didn't come easy as he soon felt his head getting light.
Throughout all this, the one thing Seth was thankful for was that there was no pain involved. Seth had planned to keep track of the changes happening to him, but in the end, he had no idea when he lost consciousness.
...…
With a snap, the eyes of the naked body which had been lying still on the ground for a while now, snapped open, this mere action of his scaring away the vultures which had just been about to land on him.
"Good, I'm still alive. Quick my body."
With this thought, the naked man lifted his left hand, glad to see his flesh and then he quickly lifted his right hand, flexing it and happy to have gotten it back.
"Hmm, I feel different," Seth thought sitting up and staring at his hands.
He tightened his grip and felt the power in them, closing his eyes as he basked in the qi rapidly moving within him and then his dantian.
Seth could feel that his qi had gotten stronger, he could feel that his strength had increased, but the biggest change of them all was his dantian.
Whereas before it had contained either gas, liquid, or soldier qi, now what was there was darkness.
Dark fumes moved about in Seth's dantian, his qi no whir to be found, but when he requested qi from it, the dantian spun and qi was poured out.
"Well I should be in the immortal level at the moment, perhaps it is the darkness element" Seth mulled clueless about the changes he had just gone through.
With a groan, Seth pushed himself to his feet and flicked his left hand, and he had just begun walking when he stopped and looked at his left hand, noting the lack of reaction.
"My space ring," Seth thought, trepidation on his face, as he looked at his hand, his lips twitching as he stared at his bare fingers.
Seth's eyes blinked several times and then without hesitation turned and went back to the area where the lightning had hit him, panic on his face.
"Chances that the rings had survived the lightning strike were low, but Seth couldn't bear the thought of losing a particular one.
Not even waiting for his eyes to search, Seth's soulsense went blasting forward and all it took was a single sweep for Seth's figure to blur to a position among the scorched ground and for his hand to shoot to the ground and pick up a ring.
Seeing this ring, all of Seth's worries dissipated.
This was the one ring that contained all his loot from Zuroc, and thought it was the only ring that survived, Seth attributed that to it probably not being from this world, and after all Zuroc was a blood cultivator with out of the world resources
With his ring, Seth stood up and causally moved a few meters away, where he found a red sword that had been embedded in the ground and was in a pristine state.
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