Mystical Journey

The sharp blade directly cut the Power of Inheritance into several small segments.

He then opened his mouth to promptly inhale a segment of the blue line. The rest were isolated by the flames of the demonic blade and trapped in a narrow small space.

With a hiss, the blue line, which was only the length of an index finger, was sucked in. However, after it had just entered his mouth, Garen felt an incomparably strong, odd chill surging into his brain.

His entire mind thundered and burst into chaos as if his brain was frozen by the coldness of the blue line.

After the blue line entered the mouth, it turned into a pure chill and moved into Garen’s body, wantonly wreaking havoc. It charged at the original chill of Scarlet Snow Technique in his body, causing it to be in a state of mess.

Both of them were the coldness energy, but Garen’s current Scarlet Snow Technique and this surge of chill felt completely different.

Whew.

The demonic blade Sunlight released a burst of flame and wrapped up Garen’s entire body. The scorching heat began to burn him continuously.

Four beams of Scarlet Mists from the Scarlet Snow Technique shot out of Garen’s nostrils and slowly circled around him, spreading coldness to resist the blazing flame. While resisting the flames, the Scarlet Mists also began to gradually melt like ice and snow.

Following this meltdown, a large amount of coldness melted and permeated into the Garen’s body to fight against the blue line, while the remaining Scarlet Mist appeared increasingly purer and finer.

“This is the process of smelting,” Garen was enlightened. “Separating a bit of the Power of Inheritance blue line into the body. Followed by using a large amount of coldness from Scarlet Snow Technique to repeatedly refine it and improve the quality of the power of my technique.”

However, the current blue line was still raging in the body; it seemed that there was no indication that the Scarlet Snow Technique was refining it.

Garen could only persevere. This method was discovered by him from the internal database. It was a refining method for when facing a higher level of energy than his own.

This was also the only way, using quantity to impact it, causing it to break apart into smaller parts and integrate into the body.

Time went by bit by bit.

Garen’s Scarlet Snow Technique’s chill in his body continued to lash against the blue line. Garen’s internal organs were gradually damaged by the constant shocks, but they were immediately self-healed by his mighty physique.

Occasionally, unexpected serious bruises would occur and Garen would quickly repair them with some potential points.

A few hours passed in a blink of an eye.

Garen’s face became increasingly pale as if there was no blood in it; it turned into a white jade.

Surrounded by blue flames, the size of the four Scarlet Mists had been reduced to half of that of the original. They were only the length of a fingernail, but the color was getting brighter, like red cherries that were just picked, unusually fresh.

“Almost there.” Garen breathed in a sharp breath.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

Suddenly, all four pieces of the Scarlet Mists were sucked in by him at one shot. They flowed down the throat into the body and like a sharp sword, fiercely striking the blue line within the body.

The highly condensed and tempered Scarlet Mists were abnormally hard. Like four small daggers, they fiercely hit the same point on the blue line.

Crack!

With a loud boom, the blue line finally broke and shattered into countless tiny pieces.

A large amount of the chill from the Scarlet Snow Technique rushed forward. After several hours of continuous battle, Garen was extremely exhausted. A large amount of impure power had been consumed in the entanglement with the blue line, leaving behind only the purest and toughest power of Scarlet Snow Technique.

These power, accompanied by Scarlet Mist, rotated at a high-speed on Garen’s chest. Although they were invisible in the body, such high-speed rotations were also gradually imposing an enormous burden onto Garen’s internal organs.

They were pulling on his internal organs and faintly turning them.

Pooh!

Garen finally could not help but spurt out a shot of blood and it splattered on the ground in front.

His mighty self-healing ability and potential points were used at the same time. The self-healing ability of his constitution was far from being able to keep up with the destructive speed of the bursting pieces and Scarlet Mist at this time.

Garen knew that he had underestimated the difficulty of absorbing the Power of Inheritance. This was how it was for him. If it were changed to another person, it would be an instant self-explosion.

If it were not for his good body constitution, his Living Secret Technique of the Hellfrost Peacock Technique having a strengthened resistance to coldness, and the restoration from potential points, he might have completely exploded and become a rotten flesh.

This was true especially with regards to the potential points.

Garen viewed his inside and saw his internal organs constantly struggling to grow a vast amount of granulation tissue in an attempt to self-heal and repair itself. However, the newly healed wounds were immediately cut and destroyed by a huge rotating force. They were continuously healed, destroyed, healed and destroyed again.

It was just this kind of repeated damage and it had actually exhausted the little potential points he had!

It was necessary to know that these were the potential points that could regrow an amputated limb and revive a severely wounded person. One point was almost equated to one life! And to think it was being depleted as such during a cultivating and refining process!

While Garen was astounded, he also checked his remaining potential points.

Three points remained.

Fortunately, in the midst of this high-speed rotation of the Scarlet Mist, those fragments of the blue line were quickly melted and absorbed into the four Scarlet Mists, making the original fingernail-length Scarlet Mist slowly grew to become longer and wider.

Eventually, it soon became four palm-length razor-shaped and were extremely sharp.

The four Scarlet Mists formed a red vortex in the middle of Garen’s chest. After absorbing the blue line fragments, their quality had obviously risen.

Garen now felt relieved. After the absorption was completed, his internal organs were gradually healed. The cutting speed of the red vortex also allowed the body to gradually adapt to it.

“No breakthrough?” He sensed his own state, and there indeed was no breakthrough. The Scarlet Snow Technique remained unchanged. It was still its original Tenth Grade.

However, there were changes to his Skill Pane.

‘Energy Machinist secret method — Cold Scarlet Snow Technique: The Tenth Grade. (Coldness strengthened by one level. Sharpness strengthed by one level.)’

“So this is the strengthening effect?”

Garen was delighted. The strengthening effect, which once appeared in the Secret Technique World, had finally reappeared. It was only then could he know his own level even more clearly.

“Don’t know what effect does the strengthening of coldness has and what is the effect of the strengthening of sharpness.” Garen’s thoughts spun, but it was better than nothing.

The Power of Inheritance was not used to advance levels. Its biggest use was to increase and break through the bottleneck of Inherited Level. This was the key. It could strengthen the quality of Willpower and this was what countless Energy Machinists dreamt of.

Garen wanted to understand this point in his mind. Without any hesitation, he opened his mouth and sucked the second blue line into his mouth.

A new round of absorption began again.

The absorption this time was no longer the same as the first time. It was not that thrilling. The strength of the red Scarlet-Mist-vortex had increased significantly, allowing him to fully support the impact and destruction of the blue line after it had entered. The both of them were slowly and firmly caused friction against each other.

From time to time, Garen would take out some of the incense materials he had prepared to supplement his strength and replenish the great consumption of his power.

Just like that, Garen continued absorbing and he stayed in the underground cave for two whole days. After two sleepless days, he finally absorbed all the Power of Inheritance and integrated it into his Scarlet Snow Technique.

In the Skill Pane, Scarlet Snow Technique also showed a final change.

‘Energy Machinist secret method — Cold Scarlet Snow Technique: The Tenth Grade. (Coldness strengthened by three levels. Sharpness strengthened by three levels.)’

Both the coldness and the sharpness were strengthened and had reached a Level Three effect. Garen did not know how terrific the Level Three effect was. It was not clear as he had not tried it out, but he was definitely more powerful than he had been.

The blue flame in the cave slowly extinguished. Garen put away the Demonic Blade Sunlight and let out a breath, exhausted.

“Finally, it was all absorbed…”

He hurriedly ate something and then fell asleep.

Considering the two consecutive days without sleep, a high degree of concentration, the manipulation of the demonic blade Sunlight and his body state, coupled with the continued damage upfront, Garen was physically and mentally exhausted.

He slept through one whole day.

When Garen woke up, it was almost twenty hours later.

He opened his eyes and looked at the quiet cave. The broken radiation lamp on the ground was releasing a white smoke. Garen exhaled deeply.

“It’s the fourth day. Time to resolve the amoeba essence and the nameplate of the disciple from the enemy’s sect, All in one shot!”

Garen was too lazy to clean up the cave. He tidied his robe and put on a new robe and boots that he retrieved from his space ring.

As his energy field expanded, Garen violently crashed out of the cave.

Boom!

As the broken stones were sent flying, Garen threw something into the hole with a backhand.

A large amount of flame blazed and came out of the cave with a boom, incinerating all the traces of items within.

He stood on the edge of the crack of the abyss and looked up and down.

The sky was still dark, full of stars. Beneath it was the dark abyss with an unfathomable depth. Subtle, weird sounds could be heard from below.

Hiss…

Suddenly, a dark shadow jumped out from the wall of the cliff. It was a Black Sucker with four limbs attached to the stone wall. This monster flew toward Garen on this side and shot out his black tongue which resembled a dart.

The tongue brutally smashed on the surface of Garen’s energy field, splattering a little transparent debris.

“Level Four lethality?!” Garen looked slightly surprised at this Black Sucker. This creature jumped back up to the cliff and glared fiercely at him.

Its limbs resembled a gecko as it crouched on the cliff. Its entire body was black, like carbon. Only the pair of eyes was red; its body size was the same as that of a human.

“This is a Level Two district. A Level Four creature actually appeared here?” Garen was puzzled, but he was too lazy to deal with this kind of creature. The opponent was indeed Level Four, but that was in comparison to Level Four pilots. Garen, being an Energy Machinist, was much stronger than the pilots. Moreover, he was the Energy Machinist of a sect, and so, he was even more powerful. Even if he were to stand on the spot to let the Black Sucker fight him, it would need a few hours at the very least to have his defenses broken.

Nonetheless, the most annoying thing about the Black Sucker was that when it died, it would release a very strong odor like the smell of feces, which was very difficult to get rid of. Once it came in contact with the body, it would take a week to wash it away.

Garen looked down at the abyss below. He suspected that the emergence of Black Sucker, a Level Four creature, should be related to this abyss beneath him.

“I’ll just go down to have a look. Perhaps I can encounter creatures like Amoeba. According to the data, it likes to live in a dark and cold environment.”

However, he had to figure out how to go down. Garen looked at the Black Sucker that was still vigilantly watching him.

After a few minutes…

Garen rode on the back of the Black Sucker. The both of them climbed down quickly and descended like a gecko, heading toward the abyss below.

On the precipice with a steep foot of hundred and eighty degrees, the Black Sucker was like moving on the ground. Its four limbs grabbed onto the rock face like suctions as Garen rode on its back. His eyes flashed fiercely from time to time, but he would immediately shiver from the chill released by Garen. The fierceness would promptly turn into submission.

Garen sat on the back of the Black Sucker and felt the rock walls on both sides moving at a high speed. In front and beneath, he could already see a little outline.

There seemed to be a black river, and the turbulent sound of water could be heard. As the distance closed in, the sound was getting louder and clearer.

The rocks by the riverside had black-purple plants growing on them. Similar to spikes and thorns, they looked unusually vicious at first glance.