With the sun rising in my eyes. I knew what the choice I had to make was. I had to get the power of the Demon King of Annihilation under my control. That was not all, I had to find a way to make sure that the Demon King of Will and the Heavenly Saint could stay by my side.
"Do they stay in front of me? If they do, there is potential to harm them, even if the Demon King of Will Will's no damage to them." I thought.
I tried to get more information through my thinking, but nothing came to me. I decided to just relax until I was ready to train.
I could not get relaxed enough to think. So I went and started to use this time and just swung the axe.
Eventually, the Heavenly Saint came up to me. He was ready to train some more. We began to practice using the Spear Art: Thrust.
The Heavenly Saint started off strong. He fell through during the midday practice. That was mainly because we had not eaten at all. We had to go find something.
We can survive for days, even weeks without food, using the Qi inside our bodies. We will finally come to a point where our Qi will not contain our hunger. As for thirst, everyone usually keeps a container of water on them. At most, we can survive a week without drinking, but that is under good weather conditions, and the person is extremely healthy. If not, the time will drastically fall down.
If a normal person could survive for barely a day in a harsh environment being healthy. That time would instantly double if not triple being a cultivator.
We found some bedding near our camp and we took our time waiting. We had to kill whatever we could. The Demon King of Will could have made food for us. That would waste the practice time for the Heavenly Saint on live creatures.
So we settled down and waited. Finally, a creature that looked like a moose came forth. The Heavenly Saint picked his spear up.
With a low voice, he said, "Spear Art: Pierce" when he did. He threw the spear, and it killed the moose.
I was happy for the Heavenly Saint. I turned to him and saw a frown on his face. I did not understand why.
"Did your technique not work?" I asked.
"It worked a little too good." He answered.
"Why, what happened?" I asked.
"Come." He replied.
We went to go get the moose. I carried him over my shoulder. We continued to move forward.
Creatures kept coming to take the moose away. I would just cut their heads off and throw them on top.
Finally, we arrived at a tombstone. Behind it was the Heavenly Saint's Spear. I looked closer at the tombstone.
The tombstone had written on it, "Rex, your preparation time to get ready for the battle against the Dark Abyss is three days once you have seen this tombstone and returned to your camp."
I knew that I could not visit the camp anymore if I wanted to be ready for the fight. So I went with the Heavenly Saint and we got close enough to our camp that I was not in it. I was also in dangerous territory because it could seem like I entered the camp.
The Heavenly Saint took the dead animals to cook them. I went back and started to practice again. Slowly but surely, I felt myself getting stronger.
The biggest problem now was that I needed to train my Demon King of Annihilation form. I was afraid that I did not have the time.
I practiced my Soul Art: Axe Art: Heaven and Earth Cleave.
I wanted nothing to be damaged while I was practicing this technique. Day in and day out for the next two days. I did nothing but train.
While I was training, the Heavenly Saint trained with the Demon King of Will. The two were actually doing really well. The Heavenly Saint finally managed to complete his technique and get his spear to return.
It became day two while I was training. I saw the Heavenly Saint try a new technique out. This technique he called "Spear Art: Thousand Pierce".
He pushed himself to thrust the spear nearly a thousand times within twenty seconds. He was not pleased and continued training it until the night fell.
It was that night that I f inally fell unconscious. I had barely managed to keep my training technique from doing any damage.
I woke up a few hours later. I felt something staring at me. I quickly darted around. I saw nothing.I trust my instincts more than most people do.
I kept looking around. Finally, I saw a yellow striped spider. It was looking right at me. I could see it well.
I saw it throw its webbing at me. I caught it, and I looked back, and it was gone. I cut it with my axe. I'm doing my best not to damage the complete inside of the webbing.
Finally, I had a weird red and black jewel in my hand. Once, I had completely uncovered the jewel and placed it in my hand, I got a notification.
"The Jewel of the Widowed Demon Spider."
"This jewel has the power to enhance demonic traits by simply just staying on the hip. If used has material to forge a demonic ring, it would allow the user to hold more Demonic Qi."
I took this jewel, which is probably one of the few pieces to complete the Demon Ring that I need.
I fell back asleep. I still wanted to wake here and see what training I could get done. I was not too worried because either way. I was going to win the fight and war against the Dark Abyss.
I had to hope that the decision to keep the two others slightly in front of me would not backfire.