With the headmaster gone, I took the initiative to actively head to the walls. Injecting Qi into the golden token, it brightly lit up and a golden shield covered my body. Passing through the formation barrier, I entered the ferocious winds of the outside world. I went into the waters and maneuvered about.
With the token, I could feel a strong connection to the island, so getting lost isn't a problem. Also, connections to the vassal kingdoms could be felt that were weaker than the main one, allowing me to distinct them easily.
Several hours later, I finally got through the storm and arrived at the closest vassal kingdom. The size of it was only six miles; way smaller compared to the main island. The center of the island had a large castle that was the highest. Residential areas were tightly packed outside and deteriorated the farther away. Extending to near the beaches, did it finally come to a stop.
The castle walls were way smaller compared to the main ones, but were in the water as well and encircled the entire island. It's like the Sea Phantom clan is the castle and these vassal kingdoms are the territory granted to knights. But I came here to experiment, so it doesn't matter.
Passing through the barrier, it seems as though the entire kingdom went on alert. The king came out on some earth grade artifact that allows one to hover. But there is no cultivators with a high enough level it seems to hover except this king. His cultivation at the late stages of major meridian unblocking.
The king had a little bit of a belly, but was middle-aged and dressed certainly like a ruler with influence does. But he's a little greasy and not the most handsome I've seen. It's a good example of feudalism.
There was originally not a lot of civilians on the streets in the first place, but now the place seems to have fallen into a slight panic with my appearance. The king seems to be on high alert, but after seeing the token, he seemed to relax a little.
"S-senior, what business might you have over here?" he asked respectfully, while being careful to not misjudge my gender.
"I am a new representative of the Phantom Sea clan. I have some matters I wish to attend in this area. Please return to your throne and I'll notify you if I need something," I said indifferently as I waved my hand, making me seemingly angry.
"O-okay. If you need anything, please contact me," he said as he made a fake smile, waving for everyone to calm down.
Things quickly calmed down and I landed deep into the waters, before sinking to the bottom. I then returned to humanoid form and sat cross-legged on the floor.
Every since I crossed the tribulation, I have gained a new ability of devour that I couldn't use previously because of my cultivation. But now that I have advanced, I can finally put this ability to the test. This ability is to create devour symbols, or more importantly, a branch in the tree of devour symbols. Low-level devour symbols.
In this branch, one can create small devour symbols with the sole purpose of devour. Creating one is relatively easy as long as you know the method of doing so and have devour energy. The only requirement is a drop of pure blood essence for each symbol. When created, they're light as a feather, and float easily in the wind.
But they're as black as the blackness of space. Unless one has surpassed the saint realm, then they're impossible to detect through sight and divine sense. One can also be proficient in any kind of law and subtly detect them, but people with proficiency laws are probably rare.
What's horrifying about this ability is that if anybody below saint realm touches them, it'll automatically enter their body before attaching itself to the soul. It will slowly absorb their blood essence and soul before transmitting it to the user. But that's not the worse part.
The worse part is that it uses part of the soul and essence of the victim to replicate another one before leaving the body. It's like a virus that grows as time goes on. A single person in a city of a million with this symbol can infect the entire city in less than a month. One has full control of them and can take all the symbols back with no consequence for the user or victim. As a bonus, you keep the symbols that are created.
The only downside is that you have to be a Saint God to use it to it's full effect. It's stealth increases with the user all the way up to the peak of Saint God. So even if you're a low-leveled cultivator, it'll easily be seen by anybody a realm higher. Most of the abilities were locked away when it was gifted to me.
It seems as though something is seriously wrong with this current world. For a small branch of the entire tree to be unlocked at the xiantian realm, means the Immortal Realm's Qi has been in low concentration for a billion years. It's hard to tell because I've been used to this concentration for a some time now.
It's no wonder only a single person has surpassed the Saint realm in a billion years. The concentration has reached a bottom point for such a long time now. I don't even know if the concentration is going up or it's still decreasing. I hope this isn't a sinking ship and one that's slowly being repaired.
Although I don't know the cause, it's an interesting thing to think about. But it means that the cultivation path is a very long one and I've only seen the tip of the iceberg.
But back to the symbols. The ones that have been unlocked are just low-leveled ones, but really great. I can use these as long as the person isn't a saint realm cultivator or they'll certainly detect them.
Using my knowledge, I began practicing the technique. Since I've already acquired all the knowledge and comprehensions of devour, it's not that difficult. Although it'll require a little bit of trial and effort, I understand how it works.
Devour energy traveled in my meridians and gathered in my hands. I began drawing in mid-air, or mid-water, like a brush painting on a canvas. Devour energy escaped my hand and smeared like paint but with a gaseous texture. I slowly formed the complex lines and formations within it slowly but they refused to directly connect. But my luck wasn't on the first try, as I messed up and it dissipated.
Redoing all the steps, I corrected the mistakes and pushed forward. Messing up again, I retried and corrected the mistake with deeper concentration. After an unknown amount of time, I completed the diagram. Moving to the next step, I coughed up a drop of blood essence.
Filled with energy, this droplet floated in the water before moving towards the center of the symbol, where the input is located. Like a key, the blood essence was absorbed before it slowly traversed through the formation, all of the complex paths and formations connected together as it filtered through the system.
The symbol turned a blood red as it completed a full revolution. It's gaseous form compressed with the complete connection of the complex paths and formations. The blood seemed to be absorbed and it turned jet black. The symbol that looked like a painting turned into black, thin lines that all intertwined and connected.
Being complete, I grabbed the symbol in my hand that was as light as a feather. Now, it's time to put these on people.