Bruno took a deep breath, trying to calm himself again. Before, he hadn’t paid much attention, but it seemed his personality wasn’t the only thing that had changed in his idiotic brother. The aura of death around him made it clear that he was a legitimate evil cultivator.
Bruno knew very well that he was no saint now, but the image of the little boy a few years younger, who followed him and played in a distant past, wouldn’t leave his mind. This master Almin had found was karma that Bruno and Alm had planted in this current life.
’Well... like attracts like. The past can’t be changed, but from here on, let’s make him follow a different path.’ Bruno murmured mentally, trying to accept reality.
Alm didn’t respond this time; he, with a Yin soul, could clearly feel the resentment of the dead penetrating deeply into his brother. He must have really followed in his footsteps and done some questionable things. Alm didn’t judge him, but he also didn’t want his brother to fall into the same abyss as him.
Both infused a large amount of Qi into Almin’s meridians while calmly analyzing him. He should be only a few years older than Denil’s current body, but the life in his body was equivalent to that of someone a few hundred years old.
’He will face many difficulties in cultivation in the future because of his condition. But when he advances to a higher realm, he can replenish some life force, and that will give him some time.’ Bruno spoke.
The younger a cultivator was, the more life force they possessed. With this, it was easier to assimilate celestial Qi into their body for cultivation. Therefore, after a certain age, when the life force depleted, cultivation became much more challenging.
Of course, with each new realm reached, the cultivator gained more life force. And this would extend their youth for cultivation, regardless of their actual age. In Almin’s case, he was already at the end of his cultivation youth; even if he advanced a few realms quickly, he would reach the limit.
’We’ll have to find a way to replenish his life force in the future,’ Alm commented. It was right at that moment that Almin opened his tired eyes.
"Hm??" A confused murmur escaped his lips, and then, in the next second, his face twisted. Bruno sighed, and then earth runes covered his lips before he could make a scene.
Then he spoke calmly. "You’re well aware of your condition, aren’t you?"
Almin’s eyes trembled in a new astonishment; that was enough to confirm the question.
"You’re in our room. That bastard won’t steal your life force anymore. Just recover and obey like a good pet. I won’t allow anything bad to happen to my pet." Bruno said without much emotion.
Those words only made Almin even more fearful and scared. He was kidnapped and in the fat guy’s room? What did he want to do with him? Was he playing for the other team? Would his body be violated? Almin’s mind was racing, extremely terrified. After all, it was a place with psychopathic cultivators with very ’different’ tastes.
Bruno and Alm weren’t surprised by that reaction, but they didn’t exactly know what Almin was thinking. If they knew, Almin would get another beating that would worsen his condition even more. But, fortunately for him, Bruno put him to sleep again.
It would take a few days for him to recover physically. He was properly sealed with earth runes, so even when fully recovered, he wouldn’t be able to escape or scream.
Alm and Bruno got up and sat on the stone bed, casting a quick glance at Ruri, who was sleeping peacefully. Then, they turned their attention to their inventories, focusing on the remaining hundred abyssal crystals there.
As they examined the inside of these crystals, they confirmed the impression they had since the first time they saw them. Inside, there was an intricate and complex mixture of infernal laws with Yin Qi from the divine world.
Bruno analyzed deeply. ’Some cultivators on this ascending planet absorb the laws from these crystals to cultivate their wings. However, due to the interlinked and dense Yin from the divine world, they must face extreme difficulty in assimilating the infernal laws. That’s why they prefer to use the crystals as currency instead of cultivating with them.’
Alm agreed, being the Yin expert at the moment: ’The Yin from the divine realm is something very powerful for these cultivators to handle. They must waste almost all the infernal laws because of it.’
Soon, a great opportunity unfolded before them. ’With the collecting technique, we can perfectly separate the infernal laws from the Yin. We can absorb everything and have tens of times the result of theirs,’ Alm added, satisfied.
Bruno was also excited and added: ’First, let’s open the space with the Devouring God Spatial Technique. That way, we can deposit the Yin Qi and absorb it calmly.’
The Devouring God Spatial Technique was something they acquired from the system. Initially, they thought it was just a spatial technique superior to the ones they had received before, the one that gave them the first ’inventory.’ However, to their surprise, it was much more than that.
The space created for the inventory with this technique had a very high level of space-time laws, separating the internal space from the external. Certainly, the original creator of the technique came from a divine planet where the laws were more complete and dense.
Alm and Bruno, as they studied the technique, understood that when this same level of spatial laws was applied to an ascending planet with weaker laws, the created inventory should become almost a world completely separate from the outside. It could even seal celestial laws perfectly within.
The old technique, on the other hand, was a simple space, almost like a spatial ring, serving only to store material things, at most useful for depositing the bloody formation runes they had stolen.
However, they didn’t immediately open the new space with this high-level technique. The size of the available space was defined only by the amount of Qi that Alm and Bruno could supply to the technique. Although technically infinite, the amount of Qi needed to create a very large space was astronomical; if someone went overboard and exhausted all the Qi, the space could collapse, and everything inside would be destroyed by spatial laws.
The size they could currently create was smaller than that of the old technique. So, at first, they decided to ascend a few more realms to be able to create a larger space and maintain it.
Now, they found it better to use the technique anyway. Even with the new space being small, they could now use it effectively. They could deposit the dense Yin coming from the abyssal crystals and absorb it calmly using the collecting technique without waste.
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They focused entirely on the technique. The night came, and soon, a new day began. Ruri woke up calmly, with her Qi fully restored.
Upon returning to consciousness, Ruri noticed her master focused on a task. Her gaze then turned to Almin, who was unconscious and firmly restrained by earth runes in their room. A strange sensation permeated her mind.
’Even his mouth is sealed to avoid screams... What did my master do while I was asleep?’
A chill ran down her spine, and instinctively, strange things came to her mind. Something very weird began to surface in her, making her feel very uneasy. But soon, she calmed down and decided to focus her attention on studying the techniques learned from the sect’s books. She still remembers the last time she mentioned ’the other team’ to her master.
A few hours later, Alm and Bruno finally created the new space, so they wasted no time. All the abyssal crystals were placed in the newly created spatial inventory, and, using the tattoos, they absorbed the first crystal. Without surprises, with less than half of a crystal, their Qi levels were completely restored.
Next, they focused on the infernal laws, which were rapidly sucked in by the symbol of the Evil God. The shadow of the second wing was already beginning to take shape.
However, as they focused on extracting the remaining Yin energy from the first crystal, a violent tremor hit their souls. It took a second to process that unexpected change: death was looming over their heads!
A strange mutation occurred. The behemoth’s bloodline, previously dormant, awakened frantically, and the infernal laws, along with all the power contained in the abyssal crystal, came to life even more violently.
They spit blood, and the level of that power continued to grow every second, quickly surpassing Alm and Bruno’s ability to handle it. It was a devouring force, trying to consume them in an unstoppable manner.
Then, from within that fist-sized crystal, they felt a dormant will they knew very well.
Alm spat in astonishment: ’This is the will of the queen!’