After informing everyone once again that he was going to send an avatar to a higher universe, Chojusen made the preparations to split his soul and create another avatar. Now that had had mastered laws and had fully fledged Daos to support him, slicing off a piece of his soul and creating an avatar was hardly a problem for Chojusen.
Chojusen had been through this experience once, so he knew exactly what to do. The avatar nodded at the true body and left through a crack in the void. As the avatar travelled through the void, the system kept telling it information about what universe he was entering.
It turns out the next universe was a place where people cultivated their soul. There were demon spiritualists and fighters which worked to achieve divinity through their soul. Chojusen was getting hyped up to live in this new world of cultivation, but fate had a different plan in store for him.
Not a couple hours after he started his journey through the void, he faced a horrifying void storm. If the true body was here perhaps, it would be able to escape from the void storm with some injuries, but this was only an avatar; it only had the energy to travel across the void, not combat against it.
As Chojusen stared down the impending cataclysm, the system told him to take a gamble and enter one of the cracks in space. Entering a void crack during a void storm was like playing Russian roulette with five rounds a chamber of six. Maybe Chojusen would leave the storm and be completely fine, but it was more likely that he would just get annihilated by the winds of the void.
Still, he was just an avatar with nothing to lose; especially now that Chousen could just create avatars willy nilly. Thus the avatar picked a random crack and dove right in.
Quiet... It was suddenly extremely quiet...
The sudden change from the raging void storm to total calm was unsettling to say the least. However, Chojusen was still alive, at least the worst case scenario was avoided. Chojusen looked around but there was nothing. Not even… the void?
Where was he? There was nothing here? Not even the static noise-like void was present. As Chojusen came to understand that he was in a zone of total nihility, the system woke him up from his investigation.
[Oh dear… It seems like you just saved yourself a lot of time. Your luck truly is… absurd.]
"Huh? You know where we are?"
[We are currently two universe levels ahead of where you were originally going to end up.]
"Two Universe ahead? But there's nothing here. This is a zone of total nihility. I still have a portion of the true body's strength, but even when I check the area with my Dao of Nihility, I see nothing but emptiness."
[Try fusing your Space Dao with you Dao of Nihility, to expand your range of detection.]
Chojusen did as the system asked and surprisingly, he found a large stone-like edifice just floating around in the middle of this zone of nothingness. Chojusen managed to issue out one teleportation to the stone edifice before consuming the rest of his portion of the true body's strength.
"Mhmm? Are these supposed to be characters? They don't look like Japanese or Chinese… But, I can sort of understand them anyways."
As Chojusen stared at the piece of stone while he floated there in space, he became hypnotized and started to doze off. Chojusen's consciousness kept blurring and delved deeper into the characters, until he forcefully punched himself into looking away.
"System… What the hell was that? If I didn't stop looking, my soul and will would have been erased into this zone of nothingness."
[I suppose it was a bit silly to hope for you to gain enlightenment from something of this level while you're still a soul without a body… You need some new techniques, and oh boy are you lucky. This plane has three forms of cultivation while you have enough shop points to get two unrivaled cultivation methods. The only problem is… This place is Dao locked. You won't be able to leave until you become a Daolord.]
"Guess that means that step one involves reforming my body?"
[Right, but first buy the two ultimate techniques you wish to train in, the last technique won't even be close to the other two in power, but with a Billion or so extra points you could buy something that would get you through the Daolord level. Anyways, the three types of cultivation are training the body, or Fiendgod Body Refining, training the essence, or Ki Refining, and training the heart, Heartforce Cultivation. All three have their own benefits and restrictions.
Ki Refining is "debatably," the easiest of the paths to take and will only require you to build up an Immortal foundation and then nurture it with your Daos; kind of like what you've been doing in the previous two universes.
Fiendgod Body Refining is all about refining the body to gain the power of the Dao itself. Instead of Ki, the path of Body Refining uses divine energy as fuel to do pretty much anything. This cultivation path is harder than Ki Refining at the start but the two become equally difficult to progress in by the time a person reaches the World God level; just before becoming a Daolord.
Heartforce Cultivation is the most mysterious and difficult path to take on. However, because it's so strange, it is rare to find many Heartforce cultivators. Heartforce itself is the power of the Dao Heart and only progresses with the tempering of said Dao Heart, as well as the experiences of the cultivator.]
"Dao Heart?"
[Its like your will power and resolve, but expressed in reality.]
Chojusen didn't miss a beat. He said "Ki and Body Refining it is then."
[Shouldn't you… a least think a bit more? That was kind of an instantaneous decision...]
"What is there to think about? I'm already used to training up my body and energy. Will power and resolve? I hardly have any experience tempering these aspects of myself."
[Ok? Well, it's your choice… Anyways, the best cultivation technique in this plane is called "Dao Origin" and you will be receiving 2/3 of the full technique; the last section will cost 10 Billion shop points to buy, so you better get to saving~]
"What can I buy with my remaining shop points?"
[Well for now, I suggest you focus on trying to quickly reach the Daolord Rank and gain the ability to leave this place.]
"Alrighty then. Give me the technique~" Chojusen said. He closed his eyes to not have to deal with reality while integrated with his new memories; but then again, he was in a zone of nihility, so closing his eyes made no difference.
As he waited and waited for new memories to appear in his head, he felt confused as nothing happened. Annoyed, he said to the system "Hey what gives? Where's my technique?"
[This time you won't be getting memories… Open your eyes.]
Before Chojusen was a book. This book was ULTRA thick and magically, it would keep gaining new pages as time progressed. For some reason, most of the pages appeared in the part that Chojusen could actually see; several sections of the book were forcefully locked away until Chojusen could open them with his insights.
"Mhmm? Are these supposed to be Daos?"
[Correct~ They are the most basic interpretations for Daos imaginable. These are what we call Intent.]
"You mean the thing after Grandmaster Rank for Passive abilities?"
[Right again~]
"You can have a Dao for the Staff, Cooking, and Teaching?"
[You can even have a Dao for Dual Cultivation~]
"... In any case, the first thing I need to do is recreate my body."
Chojusen ran into the first of his problems here; there was no energy, there was nothing at all. However, he had created his own Dao of Nihility, thus leaving a path for him to train. Chojusen had to go back to feeling the energy of nihility, as he could no longer see particles with his body, but to his surprise his energy-less body could actually move nihility through his Dao with no restrictions.
Ironically, Chojusen used the power of nothing to recreate his body. Though at the moment, he was stronger than most humans. To his surprise, Chojusen actually received a new bloodline for being "born" of nihility.
[Host has reincarnated as a Calamity Fiend after gaining a body out of nihility.]
Chojusen checked his Status.
[Status~
Name: Chojusen Akimichi
Level: Xiantian Lifeform
Race: Mostly Calamity Fiend, Part Chaosfiend, Part Fiendgod, Part Nephilim, Part Dragon
Age: 36 Years
Divine Energy: 0
Ki: 0
Shop Points: 2,450,050,000 Shop Points]