Chapter 31: Beasts and Their Evolution
Somewhere near Raicho Mountain;
The next day, Marx made his way to Raicho Mountain. He wasn’t in any kind of hurry, but he also knew the importance of time.
He had to find that beast, extract and merge with its flame, and then work on his alchemy.
Since he had already planned to enter that Secret Realm, he couldn’t possibly think of reaching the Foundation Establishment Realm.
That meant he could only focus on one thing.
Improving his alchemy and becoming a higher-ranking alchemist.
This time, he didn’t run to the Raicho Mountain. He took out a sword, used the Art of Telekinesis, and flew with that sword.
"Wohoo!"
He couldn’t help but excitedly scream when he flew at a hundred kilometers per hour at an altitude of two thousand meters.
The feeling of air hitting against his face didn’t faze him, nor did the possibility of falling to the ground.
Because he truly felt alive while flying like this.
It was something that he had always hoped he would be able to do for almost twelve years.
After twelve years, he had finally succeeded.
Unfortunately, he had to stop his flying before he reached the Raicho Mountain Range.
It wasn’t that he was afraid of alerting others, even though that was one of the dangers of flying.
It was just that he couldn’t sustain his spiritual sense for this long.
Art of Telekinesis didn’t rely on Qi. It required a spiritual sense. The Divine Sense could be used for a longer period thanks to the impact of Qi.
But the spiritual sense couldn’t merge with Qi, making it rely only on his soul.
And since he couldn’t constantly pull out soul energy, his spiritual sense was bound to run out.
More importantly, spiritual sense could detect others within a hundred-meter range, making it a perfect radar.
That’s why he wanted to preserve it.
If the flying just required Qi, he could’ve easily traveled throughout the State of Drunken Immortal without running out of Qi even once.
After his Spiritual Root reached High-Grade, his Qi reserves also improved significantly.
The Qi vortex in his Dantian was nearly fifteen feet wide and fifteen feet deep.
A normal cultivator with a Low-Grade Spiritual Root would only have a vortex one foot wide and one foot deep at the Third Stage of the Qi Sea Realm.
At that time, his vortex was already three feet wide and three feet deep. By the time he reached Sixth Stage, it had doubled.
A normal cultivator with Mid-Grade Spiritual Root would only have three feet wide and deep vortex.
That’s because a Mid-Grade Spiritual Root cultivator would have a two-foot-deep vortex at the third stage.
Reaching the sixth stage would only increase the vortex size by one foot.
But High-Grade Spiritual Root could have a three-foot-wide and deep vortex at the third stage, just like Marx.
Only he had Mid-Grade Spiritual Root. He was able to achieve this because of his Innate Dao Body.
So when his cultivation reached the Sixth Stage, every stage added one foot to his vortex’s size.
But his Spiritual Root also increased when he had six feet wide and deep vortex. So, when his Spiritual Root reached High-Grade, its size doubled.
From then on, one foot was added after each stage. So at the Ninth Stage, he had fifteen feet wide and deep vortex
And in this stage, he had a total of nine.
Even those with High-Grade only had about nine feet wide and deep vortex at the Ninth Stage.
Of course, he was still a bit below the Top-Grade as they would normally have an eighteen-foot-wide and deep vortex.
And not surprisingly, only those with Top-Grade Spiritual Roots could reach the Foundation Establishment Realm.
So, even with his Pseudo Lightning Body, if he encountered a powerful Foundation-Established cultivator, it would be a huge problem.
Even the Adult Beasts would be a huge problem.
That’s why Tina was so surprised by his confidence.
Fortunately, Marx didn’t have blind confidence but rather a true understanding of his strength.
He also wanted to test the limit of that strength.
So, without wasting any more time, he ventured into the deeper regions of the Raicho Mountain Range.
Whether it was the Raicho Mountain Range or the Taicho Mountain Range, he had never travelled to the middle.
Considering only Adult Beasts lived there, it would be a complete suicide even for a Foundation-Established cultivator.
Unfortunately, the location of that Adult Beast was close to the middle of the Raicho Mountain Range.
Even with his Spiritual Sense, he couldn’t feel any Adult Beast with a high temperature on its body.
According to Tina, this beast was a twin-tailed lion with both of its tails burning in flames.
Even after searching for a while, he couldn’t find this beast.
More importantly, he had to hide his presence, so this was taking a lot of time.
Eventually, during the nighttime, he entered the Pagoda and met up with his sister.
They talked for a while, with Maria asking him a bunch of questions about the city they visited before.
After having a meal, both fell asleep quickly.
Marx woke up early in the morning, and after making Maria some breakfast, he left the Pagoda.
He had specifically checked for any beings nearby. He wouldn’t make the silly mistake of coming out when there was someone else.
He kept searching for the Twin-Tailed Lion.
’Wait a minute! I remember Yuki telling me about the Talisman Inheritance in this mountain range.’
’She didn’t give me the exact location, but I can use that array.’
He quickly took out the flags and started spreading them around the Mountain Range before he took out the array plate.
[Qi Detection Array- Activate]
As he used this array, he was able to see everything in this mountain range in a holographic form.
When Marx saw this, he slapped himself in the forehead.
’How can I forget something so important?’
He quickly returned to his senses and used the array to sense the hot Qi.
According to Tina, this beast had Beast Flame, which would make its Qi much hotter than that of any other beast.
In less than a minute, he had already spotted a Qi signature on the other side of the mountain range.
Of course, he wasn’t worried about reaching that place. Instead, he decided to search for the cave where a large amount of Qi could be found.
Unfortunately, no matter how hard he searched, he wasn’t able to spot this place.
’I guess I can only look around this place.’
Thinking about it, he put away the array plates, collected the flags, and ran around the forest.
He tried his best to avoid the central area of this mountain range. Every mountain range had two Beast Generals.
Since they were comparable to the Golden Core Cultivator, he couldn’t possibly go there.
’I’m quite glad that these beasts usually do not leave their zones. Otherwise, I wouldn’t even be able to search this place.’
Marx knew that even though he could hide his presence from the Adult Beasts, he couldn’t hide it from the Beast Generals.
If humans cultivated Divine Sense in the Foundation Establishment Realm, Monsters cultivated it in the Beast General Realm.
In Beast Soldier Realm, they cultivated their bodies to generate Blood Qi. Once they cultivated enough Blood Qi, they advanced to the Adult Beast Realm.
In this realm, they could access their bloodline, allowing them to activate a unique ability of their face.
Twin-Tailed Lion had the Fire Bloodline that allowed it to generate Beast Flame.
The previous Giant Beast was known as Giant. It generally unlocked immense strength, at least ten times greater than that of its contemporaries.
In the Beast General Realm, they awakened Divine Sense, allowing them to learn other languages and improve their intelligence.
But once they reached this realm, they also started disliking the idea of eating their own kind.
Before, they would only care about their own family, but now, they care about their entire race.
Because they stopped eating their own race, they had no choice but to absorb spiritual energy through the surroundings.
This process would be much slower, so they tend to stay in one place for decades, even centuries.
They would only move if they were disturbed or had something else on their mind.
Marx was able to search this forest thanks to their behavior.
Although the Raicho Mountain Range was big, Marx’s cultivation had also improved significantly.
This allowed him to move around the place and find the most suspicious place much quicker.
But what he saw only made him speechless.
Pa!
Slapping himself on the forehead, Marx thought.
’I must’ve been an idiot. Why didn’t I just narrow down my search to these caves?’
Marx stared at a large cave that was surrounded by a thin layer of invisible barrier. This was similar to the previous cave, except it was much smaller.
’Seriously? Why can’t these cultivator bury their inheritance like pirate treasures?’
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