With his consciousness drawn into his sea of knowledge, Noire had witnessed the process of spiritual energy slowly convert into crystal clear waters and pour into a pound, lake, then an entire sea.
He could witness fragments of his life flood like memories towards the bottom, slowly sealed away.
His past life experiences, his secrets, his joys, and sorrows.
It was as if he began to rewind his entire life, which was a great experience of recollection from a third person's perspective.
Noire's top priority was to accustom himself to human cultivation skills, techniques, methods, and martial skills.
Watching his lifelong practice and experience in the sixth dimension would benefit him a lot to deduce a new movement technique and a few martial skills, especially since he can't rely on those from the Eclipse Tribe anymore.
The Silver Eclipse Tribe is known for its deep heritage and combat effectiveness, and Noire's practice in the tribe didn't emphasize solely on the spear; in fact, having mastery over a single weapon would have made you nothing but the subject of ridicule and mockery.
That would be akin to being the heir of a restaurant with countless years of heritage but having only a single recipe that you could perform to perfection.
What startled Noire more was that deep down within his knowledge sea, near the chained Dragon Avatar, he could discern the faint outline of his weapons collection.
Silver Eclipse Spear.
Intertwined luminance Daggers.
Crescent Moon Bow.
Void Splitting Longsword.
Each of these weapons held the soul imprint of Noire, and usually, a weapon with its user's soul imprint is labeled a Spiritual Treasure.
Treasures come in grades from Low Rank to High Rank. Of course, that's within the world of mortals where the cultivation stages are within the preliminary stages.
Above these levels, there is the human step rank treasure, earth step rank treasure, and heaven step rank treasure.
In the 6th dimension exists even higher grade, such as immortal step treasure, ancient step treasure, and primordial step treasures.
A spiritual treasure from the Silver Eclipse Tribe has its growth potential depending on the spiritual connection between a weapon and its master. Therefore, the spear being Noire's favorite weapon, it had already reached the pinnacle of Primordial Step.
However, the remaining weapons of Noire are still considered high-rank weapons, which works well for Noire.
Penetrating the depth of his knowledge sea with his gaze, Noire began to reflect on his experience and deduce new cultivation methods and techniques for his Avenue Road of Martial Arts.
One movement technique was inspired by the 'Primal Predator' and the 'Void Shuttle Steps' movement techniques.
This new movement technique will require Noire a tedious and exhausting experience of integrating the artistic concept of space, which was an inborn native ability, into a variable avenue; Dao Of Space.
After the integration of this concept, although superficial comprehension as Noire will no longer tear through space via instinct but through deliberation, it will be more than enough for Noire to move at high speeds without worrying about external suppression.
One combat technique inspired from his years of practice, and this combat technique will have a set of varying skills that Noire will be able to implicate into his fighting style the further his cultivation progresses, allowing room for flexibility and versatility. Noire had already picked the Intertwined Luminance Daggers for this road, but he would change the name of this set.
The reason he picked the daggers as a weapon is to honor the memories of Tianshi, as she was a dagger user.
She may not be able to follow him thoroughly with his cultivation, but that doesn't mean he is leaving her behind.
Following her name, the set will be dubbed as 'Angel's Wish' from today onwards.
The set has two symmetrical, long-daggers with curved blades.
One of the blades is pitch black as if extracted from the ninth layer of the abyss, yet it could exude a shimmer of darkness as if this abyss had its fluorescent.
The second is a pristine white dagger as if crafted from a white nova, the grip had its iridescent glow as if thousands of stars are imbued within.
With a heartfelt smile from the depths of his heart, these two reminded Noire of his two companions that were like night and day the first day they met, but have never separated nor abandoned one another.
'The dark one will be called Ning'er, the white one will be called Yue.'
Noire thought as he gazed into his own knowledge sea, and as if his consciousness mustered every ounce of its spirituality to make do with Noire's feelings, the initials of Ning'er and Yue have been engraved onto their respective weapons.
...
Due to the complications, Noire's breakthrough took longer than normal circumstances. Eventually, he was able to deduce the 'Nine Interstellar Steps' movement technique and the 'Twilight Combat Virtue' cultivation method for the Avenue Of Daggers.
Noire could deduce some miscellaneous inscription diagrams for sealing and enhancing runes, as he used to rely on Dragon Chants for the same effect earlier, but now he had to convert them into variable runic diagrams that rely on Spiritual Essence and Qi Essence to inscribe.
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Phoenix Palace Courtyard.
It has been half a month since the breakthrough phenomenon of Noire's.
Lord Luhei Kami had sent multiple envoy talisman to infer the situation from Anastasia, to which she gave vague reports every time out of guilt.
No matter how much Kirin and Lady Feng tried to consult and compel her into telling the truth, Anastasia still refused to inform her husband through such dry means.
Currently, it was the season of winter, snowflakes descended to bathe the landscape in a gray and white contrast.
The faint howling of billows could be heard through the densely packed snowfall, mortals with weak perception can barely see over a dozen meters ahead, whilst movement speed has been greatly reduced by the thick loads of snow that blanketed the ground.
"How weird can someone be, it's already been half a month since his breakthrough!" Arima, as usual, complaining.
The only reason he was yet to return to his liar was that his situation with Noire is still unclear, so he would rather wait with everyone rather than be brought to an audience all alone.
By Arima's side stood the Queen, but she was too disspirited to bother with his childish behavior.
Currently, they stood over the castle's outermost walls that viewed the conspicuous plateau as if it was an iceberg.
Usually, a Python would enter deep sleep during winter, but Arima has been stripped of the right of such a long nap, which is why he's grumpy.
A few silhouettes tapped next to Arima and the Queen intermittently.
Lady Feng, Kirin, and Anastasia.
The reason they decided to show up is simple, there was a flaring crimson river of flames approaching from the distance.
Noire's Flood Dragon Fire Qi Manifestation.
Noire sat crossed legs on top of his manifestation, his heroic, nonchalant posture seemed to radiate a somewhat serene atmosphere soothing to the heart.
His body exuded the majesty of a Dragon's bloodline inadvertently due to the Dragon Force integration, but it was fairly thin to the point of having one believe Noire had a fortunate encounter.
He was clad in blazing red robes that clung to his frame, and his long silver hair that exuded a twinkling light, coupled with his illuminated iris and golden pupils, all in all, it was a mesmerizing picture to the eye.
Watching him approach from the distance, the group suddenly felt tense, as if they're a bunch of criminals waiting for their death sentence.
Kirin smiled bitterly as she murmured with sweaty palms...
"Guess it's our judgment day..."