"What did you do to me?!" The captain roared!
Feeling that the situation could become dangerous Dracs used almost instantly with his new established link with the seed of corruption to order it to tighten the captain's heart as hard as it could without killing him.
The latter turned blank instantly and put his hand on his chest while looking at Dracs in disbelief.
After a couple seconds Dracs eased the pressure but not too much and when he was sure about his control on the captain's heart he finally said.
"Sorry captain, I was fed up with this bullshitting act. I won't play around the bush, in fact I think that you are really an interesting man so I decided to give you a small gift, it's called a seed of corruption."
The man had a weird expression but he was still able to understand something.
"You are not Young Master Taidian Akran."
Dracs could only nod.
"Indeed. I'm called Dracs, I'm only using the lad's body as a temporary solution. I have tricked you in order to plant this seed so I can be more at ease in interacting with you. In the long run it will also benefit you."
"And am I supposed to believe you? Ahah." He sneered.
Dracs shook his head.
"I know you won't, not today, nor tomorrow, but I think you'll soon enough notice that being my ally can only be beneficial for you, after all even the old Ancestor of your Clan has accepted my offer."
He said casually while playing with the jade token in his hand.
"Impossible…" The captain mutured while looking absentmindedly at the jade token.
Dracs nodded in satisfaction and continued.
"The fateful encounter was me. I made a deal with the Ancestor because I don't have any ill intention toward his Clan. What I need is time, ressources, information, all that can help me recover my body as soon as possible. And I hope you could help me to do it."
"Ahah! Don't count on it, I would never accept helping someone instead of myself, I'm a cultivator!"
"You are delusional, the Akran Clan has already bound you to stay in the low tier of the cultivation ranks. Look at what happened to you because of your bloodline's curse, you are crippled."
The captain grunted when he heard this remark but what his interlocutor had said was only stating the truth.
"Let me tell you that I saw two yellow eyes like moons when I activated the seed of corruption. I think I triggered a reaction in your bloodline and this yellow-eyed creature wasn't so happy about it, but I did overwrite its command so it should be safe in the future for you."
The captain was even more shocked by this revelation, it was like the thunder had struck him!
"You...You saw it!"
"Yes...Do you know what it is, or who he is? It's not necessary to hide it anymore, I also have a method to directly look inside your memories but I guess that it wouldn't be so pleasant."
The captain could only think of this guy called Dracs as a true Devil and he could only tell him what he knew.
"I don't know much, really. But I'm pretty sure that this creature is a kind of god, I feel that he is the primogenitor of my bloodline. When I was in a trance last night it was like I was in another world, but I can't be sure about it. At that time I was really like a wild animal with not much sanity left."
With the knowledge of his past world he had a guess of what could be this creature and the system calculated that this hypothesis has more than fifty percent of accuracy, it wasn't extremely high but it also wasn't low.
"I'm really interested in that entity, if I'm not wrong, it could be a kind of werewolf. Have you ever heard of this specy?"
The captain was more and more intrigued about this guy named Dracs. He was also a little bit fearful, his instincts told him to run away as fast as he could but he just couldn't do it. Moreover there was this 'seed' inside his heart now and it seemed impossible to remove it in his current state.
Dracs continued and said.
"To confirm my assumptions it would be great if you can help me capture those white bats that appeared in the surroundings at night. The body of the lad is too frail so I can't use my most basic martial art, it's a pity. That's why I need a method to increase the overall strength of the lad. His cultivation method is useless to me, even though I fixed the flaws in it and the common scripture is even more useless."
The captain scratched his chin pensively for a moment and said.
"You want to try the Bloodline Ritual, correct?"
Dracs hesitated a bit before answering.
"It should be a good plan, but before that I need blood samples, and those white bats are the perfect target for my tests."
The captain shook his head in dismay.
"Look, even if you healed me a bit, I'm too tired and lost too much blood, I would need to recover for at least a week before I can fight again properly."
Dracs agreed with that.
"So don't waste time to recover. In the meantime I want you to record the ritual and the cultivation technique associated."
The captain's face was ashen. Cultivation methods and techniques were not so easily shared like this between cultivators but the guy in front of him was apparently shameless beyond reason.
"Fellow cultivator Dracs, isn't it too much?"
"You can call me Senior Dracs if you want, after all it's the way that the old Ancestor called me."
The captain was one more time dumbfounded.
"This… Senior Dracs… *cough* alright, I will do copy the ritual and cultivation technique."
Dracs nodded slightly and said.
"Then, I'll leave you alone until dusk. I'm itching in this body, I need to release some energy."
He then turned around to leave without shouting a single glance to the captain.
When he was finally alone in some distance, he finally could relax and took a deep breath!
"Ahhh… I was going to explode! It's so hard to play the big boss, I feel like I'm losing my human side too fast. It's not good, this new state affects me way too much. What should I do? Hmmm… Firsty, System, show me all the data."
[Dracs' data] :
Specie : Corrupted Anomaly (unlisted)
Corruption points (CP) : 9,600
Energy (system) : 4,767
Cultivation rank : none
Cultivation technique : Corrupted Yin Body (default)
inventory : locked / energy 4,767/1,000 (can be unlocked)
Skills (innate) : high sensor scanner / high level analytic / virtual library / camouflage / seed of corruption
Skills : Drain / Purify / Mindless puppet / Strings of confusion / Corrupted Yin Lotus
Martial Arts : Step of Illusion / Claw of the Corrupted Tiger
Bloodline : none
[Host's body data] :
Specie : human (cultivator)
Cultivation rank : Qi transformation
Cultivation technique : Common Scripture of Akran Clan (default) / Yang Devouring Yin
Martial Arts : none
Bloodline : none
"System, unlock the inventory."
[Inventory unlocked : 10 cubic meters of space will be created for 1,000 energy units]
[Detail : cannot store living being]
"Not bad! It's pretty huge! Ahah, it is what I call an improvement!
He shouted out loud ecstatic!
"Now, show me the results about the blood of all the magical beasts that I sample."
[Bloodline Samples] : low tier
Hedgehog Fireclaw : 2.8%
Hollow Snake : 1.4%
Three Horned Hornet : 1.1%
Demonic Frog : 0.8%
Thorned Wood Boar : 0.3%
Bluegreen Spider : 0.1%
Poisonous Dear : 0.1%
More to come, irrelevant data...
[Bloodline samples] : mid tier
Two Headed Grey Wolf : 0.8%
"Hm. I guess that I won't get any more results before I reach a hundred percent for each bloodline. But since the captain would at least need a week of rest I can try my luck and use this time to familiarize myself with this new body."
He sighted.
"I don't have much to do before nightfall so I should start to cultivate with the shitty scripture of the Akran Clan."
He did choose to return to the cave. There, he saw that the Captain had started meditating in a cross legged position. So he soon imitated him.
The common scripture of the Akran Clan was a basic cultivation method so it wasn't that hard to understand, moreover Dracs had all Taidian's memories and practical experience with this method so it wasn't that hard to execute it.
Qi was absorbed through the many pores of the skin with each first breath of the cycle.
Then during the second breath, the Qi would be gathered an inch behind the navel where the Dantian would be created later.
The third breath will then begin to circulate the Qi throughout the whole body, so Dracs should pay attention not to absorb it in himself when it passes in the brain.
The fourth and last breath of the cycle would then be to take the refined Qi and gather it in a Qi 'sea' in the Dantian area.
The feeling was not bad but it was neither good because he was not cultivating himself but with Taidian's body.
Anyway he soon became engrossed in it and with the system's help, he calculated that he would need to repeat approximately thirty full cycles each session before taking a break and solidifying his gain.
And then to repeat this process more than a thousand times to reach the stage when he would be able to form the Dantian of his host. So he needed at least thirty thousand full cycles to attain this objective.
So he would need a month of time purely on cultivating optimally and diligently without rest or eating if he wanted to reach the next realm but it was pure madness. Clearly, it could be done... if he was a robot… Not a human.
He estimated that with this method and by himself, Taidian would never be able to create his Dantian before a year.
And like this, he then started his cultivation journey… with the body of another one.