Vin having returned back to his true appearance assessed his body, noticing the minute changes within him.
Since he hadn't actually focused on increasing his realm, it had only moved up one stage, bringing him to the sixth stage of the Spirit Sea Realm.
But where the true growth was shown was in his now perfectly sculpted and well toned physique. His body rippled with so much power, that the air around him seemed to vibrate to his presence.
Vin didn't know how strong, just his raw physical strength was, but if he had to take a guess then, he was sure he could kill someone in the seventh stage with a single slap.
And to test that analysis, he cracked a few bones and flexed his muscles for a bit, before giving out a full powered punch in front of him, his Blood Essence raging within him.
The air seemed to ripple and compress in front of his fist like it was trying to contain his power, before an explosive sound rang out like an air cannon that had been shot.
When Vin looked at the aftermath he jumped up in shock, the entire area in front of him, spanning about ten meters in width and a hundred meters into the distance was razed
"So freaking cool!!" Vin exclaimed, and just as he was still reeling in the pleasure of his strength, a loud howl suddenly shook the entire place around him.
"AAAHHOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!"
Vin looked behind him to see Zara wagging her tail in excitement, he then walked towards her and stared stroking her sleak fur that had become even more smooth.
"Not bad there Zara, seems i might have to work really hard to catch up with you" Vin praised as he assessed Zara's new cultivation. Zara was formally in the seventh stage when he met her, but now she was in the ninth stage.
That was three whole stages above him, he shook his head wryly, but he wasn't sad about it, in fact he was truly happy she was progressing this fast, that way she could help him when in need.
Zara closed her eyes as she nuzzled on his cheek enjoying his caresses, she too was also happy about his growth, she had seen when Vin had transformed into the form of that Phoenix, a sence of reverence had shone in her eyes as she had felt a certain pressure from the Phoenix.
The Phoenix had looked so majestic as it demanded the attention and worship from everyone, and as a mythical beast herself, she felt it even more, she felt like no matter what the Phoenix wanted to do to her, she wouldn't have been able to resist.
But the fact that Vin was that Phoenix, also made her feel a sense of pride and smugness, if even she, a mythical beast couldn't resist, she doubted the other demonic beasts would even be able to raise their heads at all.
"Alright Zara, I think our work here is done, our next destination should be that forest you first landed in" Vin said after a while.
Zara nodded her head, before she went on one knee and lowered her head to the ground, Vin smiled at her antics, before he tapped his feet and hopped on her back.
"It's been two weeks since I entered this place, I wonder how everyone else had progressed, I'm pretty sure some of them would have died by now." Vin muttered, then he glanced into the distance and activated God's Eye to its fullest.
His eyes sight to zoomed into the distance, and he could barely see the outline of an evergreen forest, but because he could barely see the outline, showed that the place was still pretty far away, a few hundred kilometers at least, and it would take a few days to get there even with demonic wings.
Once Zara saw that he had settled in, she raised her head, adjusted herself and flapped her massive wings in a powerful motion, generating gusts of winds around them, and in a swift motion, Zara shot into the skies.
If not for Vin's new found weight, he might have been blown away immediately, Zara's speed surpassed his demonic winds speed by quite a few notches as she broke through the air.
The only way to overcome this was to use Hermes Celeration, but that would be considered cheating as Zara wasn't using a skill, but then what happens if she used one, Vin dreaded that thought.
For the first week when Vin had started absorbing the Earth Flame Essence, he had concentrated fully on it so as to get used to its the energy.
But during the second week, he had deviated some of his attention to do other things, and one of them was comprehending his sword skills.
Having fully mastered Sword One, he anticipated when he would master Sword Two, before he could move on to the next one which was Swords Three.
Sword One taught him the basic sword mastery, Sword Two was the intermediate sword mastery and if it followed the sequence then Sword Three was the advance sword mastery.
He had no idea what came after that but he was sure as hell that, that would be when he truly started to cultivate the essence of the sword.
Another thing he focused on was the the second move of the 'Seven Sins Of Chaos ~ Burial Flower'
He could now cast it more easily and more efficiently, the skill was like a domain type skill as it encompassed a very large area and it orgored well with the second Chronicle in the 'Nine Chronicles of Hell ~ Wails of the Forgotten'
Which created a localised storm of whispering voices, disorienting enemies and making them making them vulnerable to attacks.
When these two skills were used together, it created the perfect counter for large scale battles, or against a large amount of people.
And lastly Vin brought out the Void Calamity Sword, it's blade shining with a Pristine violet color, under the reflection of the sunlight.
Vin had also temperd his sword within the Earth Flame Essence, allowing it to go through a baptism of fire, and because of that, the aura around the sword had now become even more condensed than before.
Vin was itching for a battle right about now and he was almost tempted to go looking for trouble. He even hoped someone would be stupid enough to attack him, that way he could find the perfect excuse.
Three days passed like a flash and Vin could already see the full view of the forest in front of him, the sight of greenery was a nice change for him as he was almost tired of seeing cracked earth and hard stones.
As they got closer to the forest the smell of fresh trees and due mists hit his nose and it felt quite refreshing.
When they were just right in front of the forest, Vin told Zara to land so they could continue the rest of the journey on foot. Flying above the forest would make them quite an easy target.
They moved slowly, taking in the view of the dark green trees and cascading shrubs all around them, when suddenly sounds of clashing steel was heard, as it seemed like a battle was taking place somewhere.
They both moved closer to view it when they saw a dusting sight, there were three male disciples preying on a female disciple.
Judging by their robes, the guys were from the Yin-Yang union church, the ones who cultivated the unorthodox methods of using an opposite gender as furnace for their cultivation.
While the female disciple was from the Esquisite Paradise, the sect that only accepted female disciples, and one of the things to note about them was that all the female disciples were truly, heaven toppling beauties.
And looking at the girl, Vin could adhere to that notion, but he didn't interfere immediately as he wanted to understand the situation.
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Mara wasn't the strongest amongst the disciples of the Esquisite Paradise that had attended the Mystic Realm adventures, but being one of top fifty meant she wasn't weak either.
When she had enter the portal to the main realm, she had found herself in the volcanic region, but she wasn't in any way close to the volcano, she had searched around and had noticed the forest ahead of her.
Since there was a forest ahead, she didn't find any need to head towards the volcano, but since she wasn't a freak like Vin or Zara, it had taken her a full week to get to the forest.
And when she had arrived, she felt tired after walking through the hot volcanic region, so she had rested for a day on the forest, during the next few days she had explored the outer regions of the forest and had found quite a few spirit fruits that had improved her cultivation slightly.
And she was heading into the Inner regions when she had encountered, three filthy scums from the Yin-Yang Union Church.
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