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Cultivation Realms – Elementary Profound Realm, Nascent Profound Realm, True Profound Realm, Spirit Profound Realm, Earth Profound Realm, Sky Profound Realm, Emperor Profound Realm, Tyrant Profound Realm, Sovereign Profound Realm, Saint Profound Realm and Divine Profound Realm.

World Spiritist Levels – White-Cloak, Gray-Cloak, Blue-Cloak, Purple-Cloak, Gold-Cloak.

Fleshly Body ranks - Strength Training Stage, Viscera Training Stage, Muscle Altering Stage, Bone Forging Stage, Pulse Condensation Period, Tempering Marrow, Eight Inner Hidden Gates and Nine Stars of the Dao Palace.

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Chapter 13 - Reaping The Rewards

(Second chapter of the day.)

After Issei finished talking with Jasmine, he didn't directly head towards the Blue Wind Nation's territory. Before he went there, there was one more thing that needed to be done. Before long, Issei arrived in front of the ruins of what had previously been a grand school.

Heavenly Might School.

The whole area around the ruins of the school was sealed off by a white-colored Spirit Formation, the likes of which Issei could easily trespass. With a single wave of his hands, the Spirit Formation opened, and he stepped inside, closing it behind him.

Now, inside the school, Issei closed his eyes and sent his Spirit Power to fill the entire territory of the school, searching for something. Before long, he sensed a high agglomeration of spiritual power, just beneath what had been the mansion of the headmaster.

"There it is," said Issei, as he opened his eyes, his sight set in the space in front of him, directly towards the ruined mansion. Lightning then flashed in his eyes, and he disappeared from sight. All that could be seen was a blue streak, running across the huge territory of the school, with extreme speeds.

Before long, Issei arrived at the place where his final battle against the Headmaster had taken place, along with the area where he took the lives of most of his friends. Sighing slightly, Issei lowered his arms, and flicked his fingers.

"Explode."

The ground beneath Issei shattered, as it was completely pierced and destroyed by his one hundred strands of vibrating spiritual power, which exploded everything in it's sight. This was the true nature of Vibrations; destruction itself. Previously, when he was healing Xia Qingyue, he had been forced to suppress the boundless and tyrannical power, but now that he didn't need to hold back, only utter and pure destruction laid in his sight.

Issei then looked into the crater that he had made, and noticed that it still wasn't deep and wide enough. Bringing his had down once more, he murmured, "Explode."

This time, the strands of spiritual power came with double the power, enlarging the crater length and depth-wise by a large amount. This, however, still wasn't enough to Issei. From his guesses, if it continued like this, it would take a little more than one hour to reach the point he desired.

Sighing, Issei raised both of his arms up in the air and took a step back, concentrating on the Spirit power within him. In the next moment, in front of Issei, an invisible stream of energy started to agglomerate in the air, swirling and recoiling, just like gusts of winds, slowly solidifying in a whitened spirit formation.

Looking at his creation, Issei took a few more steps back to make sure, before bringing his arms down with full power, his Spirit Formation coming crashing against the ground along with it. In the next moment, the sound of an explosion rang out, as the entire Spirit Formation burst in a torrent of Spirit power, that completely shattered the ground beneath.

Spirit Formations had thousands of uses. Some could be used for protection, while other for stealth and even for concealment. Their uses and powers all depended on the imagination, something that Issei had plenty of. The Spirit Formation that he had just used belong to a branch of the attack-type ones.

"This should be enough," said Issei, as he walked over and peered deep within the crater he had created, looking at the structure of rocks underneath. Obviously, there was something aside from earth down there. "Well then, time to reap the rewards..."

Issei then jumped down into the hole, cleanly falling onto the rock surface underneath. In the next moment, he crouched down and placed his hand against the floor made of rocks, searching for something. Before long, he found something that seemed to be a hole.

Immediately upon finding out what he wanted, Issei waved his sleeves and produced a small key from his cosmos sack. Bringing the key down, he placed it on the whole and turned it. In the following moment, a rumbling sound filled the air, as in the surface next to Issei, a small hole, just large enough for an adult to pass, appeared.

Storing his key back, Issei jumped into the hole with no hesitation, instantly falling into a dark room, without a single illumination. Seeing that, Issei activated his Lightning Incarnation mode, which allowed him to see in the dark, and looked around the area, an excited look on his face.

Surrounding him on all sides were piles upon piles of Nascent Beads, spirit grass and even other kinds of rare cultivation resources, including True Beads, which were a grade above Nascent Beads. Seeing the huge amount of treasures, a greedy look appeared in Issei's eyes as he waved his hands.

As if a gust of wind has passed through the area, all of the cultivation resources in the room suddenly disappeared out of sight, appearing within the inner world of the Sky Poison Pearl in the next moment. Smiling lightly, Issei dusted off his clothes before jumping up, exiting the room.

Once Issei was out of the underground storage room, he turned around and walked away, exiting the territory of the Heavenly Might School and returning to the Blue Wind Nation, as if nothing had happened.

Previously, when he had killed the headmaster, he had looked into his cosmos sack, and saw information regarding the secret storage of cultivation resources of the school, along with the location and the key. However, at the time, he had been crippled, and was unable to reach it. Now, however, with his cultivation restored, he could finally come back and reap the rewards.

As for cultivation resources, although Issei had no need for them anymore, as he could already cultivate normally, it wouldn't be bad to have some around for him to use, in case he was needing some. Not only that, they were only harmful if used excessively. If used once in a while, there was no problem at all, and could even be considered beneficial.

Obviously, during his period of secluded cultivation, he would need cultivation resources once in a while, and Issei wasn't about to waste his hard-earned money on such things. He had killed a lot of people for them, after all… Issei considered it to be his treasure.

By nature, Issei always had a greedy personality, which was demonstrated by his constant looting of corpses, no matter how invaluable. As someone who had once been a slave, living in ultimate poverty, now that he had the chance, he couldn't help but to want to accumulate large amounts of wealth. It wasn't his fault; only his origins could be blamed.

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A couple hundreds of kilometers away from the Blue Wind Dragon City, and the forest in which Issei resided, there was a large mountain range, called the Scarlet Dragon Mountain Range. It covered a large territory, and according to the rumors, on the highest area of the mountain range, there was a powerful red dragon, who had taken that place as its residence. That was where the name had also come from.

The mountain range was large, and in one of its areas, there was a small clearing. The atmosphere was quiet, and there were no animals in sight. Suddenly, however, a streak of blue flashed, and in the next second, a young boy magically appeared in the middle of the clearing.

This youth was no other than Issei, and he had traveled all the way to the Scarlet Dragon Mountain Range, which was quite far from the Blue Wind Dragon City, in other to be able to cultivate in silence. The area was dangerous, with various profound beasts, and very few people traveled through there, let alone live there. As such, Issei had chosen it as his new residence.

"This area should do," nodded Issei as he looked around. After a while, he sat down in the ground, and laid a concealment Spirit Formation around him, which also served to block the sounds from the exterior, allowing him to cultivate in complete silence. "Alright, now all that's left..."

Issei then waved his hands, and sword after sword appeared in front of him. All of those could be considered treasures, even in great sects, and the less valuable one was as powerful as an Earth Profound weapon, which was suitable to cultivators of the Earth Profound Realm, the fifth realm of cultivation.

This rank of weapon, however, was used by cultivators of the Sky Profound Realm and the Emperor Profound Realm, as Earth Profound Weapons were already extremely rare, and only great sects would have a few Sky Profound weapons. As for Emperor Profound weapons, it was unknown whether they existed in the Blue Wind Nation or not.

And, this was only the worth of the weakest of the hundreds of swords in front of Issei. As for the strongest, there was no way to determine its rank, but it was, at the very least, higher than an Emperor Profound weapon.

This weapons, obviously, were the ones he had acquired in Li Xiaodie's, the Asura World Spirit that had battled with Eggy, cosmos sack. To the mighty World Spirit, those kinds of swords were only relatively good, as his realm, which to Issei was still considered unfathomable, was far above them.

Now, this group of swords, in which the weakest of them was enough to cause a large sect to go crazy, were all going to be Issei's test subjects. He was prepared to polish his skills in creating Divine Weapons with them.

For his training, Issei had already decided what he would focus on. In this period of secluded meditation, Issei was determined to enter the last stage of bodily transformations, the Pulse Condensation period, and begin cultivating in the ways of the profound. Along with that, he had various other objectives.

First of all, he would improve his swordsmanship skills, and maybe even come up with a style of his own. Not only that, he would also indulge himself in learning Li Xiaodie's styles of fighting, which included using various swords at the same time as flying swords and controlling each of them individually using thought. There were thousands of formation to do so, and Issei was planning on researching every and each of them. The biggest his skill repertoire, the better.

Secondly, he would also increase his understatement over his two Daos, the Dao of Lightning and his Dao of Vibrations, which would be improved through the constant use of the 'Flow like Silk' strength training. Not only that, he would also further immerse himself in the memories he had gained from the Magic Cube, and see if there was anything else he could learn, aside from his cultivation skill.

All in all, it could be said that the moment Issei emerged from his secluded cultivation, he would be a completely different person. He would be much more deadly above all, much more powerful. When he finished this period of cultivation, although he would still be far from achieving his dream, he would still be one step closer to defying the Heavens!

With such thoughts in mind, Issei sat down and grabbed the first sword, immediately beginning the process of creating Divine Weapons.

This marked the start of his secluded cultivation period!

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