An hour later,
Lu Shen came out of the bathroom, wiping the sweat from his brow. The pain in his mind and the trembling from his death in origin land had made sweat hard.
He decided to go to the Star Hall to read about spiritual treasures, heavenly body, spiritual herbs, and other knowledge. He need to understand these better, especially since he no longer had the Origin Bracelet celestial insight ability and he wasn't sure when he could heal it.
Whoosh.
Lu Shen's consciousness returned from the Star Hall. He didn't know how much time he had spent there, but calculating the time, he felt like he had spent months reading all the necessary knowledge.
However, he had only managed to read one percent of the information were in star hall, as ninety eight percent was sealed. Despite the headache from reading just a one percent, he learned many important things, including what a Devouring Body and Golden Devouring Dragon, which he hadn't fully understood those in his dreams.
The Devouring Body is a rare physique with the ability to devour the spiritual energy of spiritual herbs and pills, allowing the warriors to break through bottlenecks effortlessly. This physique helps a person to cultivate ten times faster than normal people by devouring spiritual herbs.
However, the texts from the Star Hall also mentioned the side effects of the Devouring Body. The more spiritual herbs or spiritual treasures a person with a Devouring Body devour, the weaker their physical body would become over time. This was the defect of the Devouring Body.
Lu Shen also read about the Golden Devouring Dragon, a mythical beast and it was true dragon, it had unparalleled ability to devour any spiritual treasure, herb, or beast without any side effects.
This made Golden Devouring Dragon even stronger than the Devouring Body.
Heavenly Bodies were classified into grades: Mortal, Sky, Heaven, and Celestial. Each grade had three levels: low, middle, and high, with Mortal being the lowest and Celestial being the highest.
The Lu clan leader grandson possessed a low Sky grade Heavenly Body and baby Lu Shen's Golden Devouring Dragon bloodline was a low Celestial grade Heavenly Body, two grades higher than the Devouring Body.
Even so, the Devouring Body should not be underestimated, it makes a person genius born once in a thousand years. Heavenly Bodies were not commonly found on Nexus Planet, they were so rare they could be counted on one hand throughout history.
Both the Golden Devouring Dragon bloodline and the Devouring Body shared the ability to devour.
However the Devouring Body had another fearsome ability, if a person with a Devouring Body devoured any devouring type bloodline or body from their own family generation(someone born in the same family).
They can absorb a person's bloodline and all of their talents. This is why the Devouring Body is one of the most feared physiques in history, even if it awakens at a low grade.
"Shit..." Lu Shen cursed, when he remember about the dream, where he had seen baby Lu Shen's lifeless eyes.
"Sigh"
Lu Shen said, taking a deep breath and calming himself.
....
After some time, Lu Shen finished digesting all the knowledge.
He decided to consume an Enlightenment Fruit. he crossed his legs, Lu Shen took the Enlightenment Fruit out of the storage space.
He ate it, he felt a surge of pure energy flowing into his mind. Slowly, he began to understand all the techniques he had cultivated. His understanding of cultivation techniques grow deeper, and he felt his proficiency in cultivation techniques slowly increasing.
After cultivating for an hour,
Lu Shen checked his status.
[ Host: Lu Shen
Age: 18
Race: Human
Bloodline: Four Head Serpent (Superior)
Warrior Realm: Integration(early) - 45%
Battle Power: 3700
Luck: 40
Cultivation Techniques: Five Element Refinement Technique[big success](99%), Golden Body Technique[small success](75%), Silent Breath Technique[small success](70%)
Skills: Stealth, Fire Armor, Wood Spear, Rage, wind blade, stone wall.
Equipment: Origin Bracelet(in deep sleep) ]
"Indeed, the Enlightenment Fruit is low level, it just increased my cultivation by one percent. I did not break through to cultivate the wind element"
Lu Shen thought, holding his chin as he analyzed his status.
He felt disappointed, the effect of the Enlightenment Fruit was lower than he had expected.
Now he only had two Enlightenment Fruit left.
"I hope I can break through with this"
...
On the top floor of the Warrior Association, a cute girl was talking to a cold, expressionless girl.
"Can you believe it? Lu Shen endured Uncle's aura! He's amazing!" Bimala shouted in excitement, her eyes full of sparkles.
The cold expressionless girl, who was the daughter of the Warrior Association head of Azura Cloud Stronghold, shook her head.
"Bimala, you've been talking about Lu Shen for a straight hour. Are you sure you're not just imagining things?"
"I'm not! You'll see during the graduation test. I bet he'll impress everyone." Bimala pouted.
The cold expressionless girl sighed.
"We'll see. I'm curious about him too."
She felt a headache seeing her only friend taking about Lu Shen for over an hour and not stopping talking about him.
However, She wanted to fight Lu Shen to know if he was as strong as her friend was boasting.
She had was on a mission when Lu Shen came to the Warrior Association and felt a little pity that she couldn't cross blades with him.
She thought, since she and Bimala also studied at the most advanced academy in Azura Cloud Stronghold. They were students of Azura Cloud Academy, established by the lord of Azura Cloud Stronghold. She knew she would meet Lu Shen soon.
In the same room, the Warrior Association head, Aman, was on a call.
"You bastard! Why did you hide Lu Shen? And why didn't you tell me you gave him the Evolution Stone?" Aman shouted, looking at a 3D figure.
"...."
Li Lan felt speechless. When and how did he give the Evolution Stone to Lu Shen? He had already given his Evolution Stone to someone else.
"What are you talking about, Aman? I didn't give Lu Shen any Evolution Stone." Li Lan was startled.
Lu Shen got an Evolution Stone? Didn't I just give him a rank 5 demon beast core?
"I..."
Aman didn't give him a chance to explain, shouting in his anger,
"You bastard! Why are you still lie to me?"
"So what if I gave it to him? What's the problem, Aman?" Li Lan, regaining his composure, retorted angrily, still not knowing what Aman was talking about.
"Greedy bastard!" Aman cursed Li Lan.
"Shameless bastard!" Li Lan cursed Aman.
The two began to argue fiercely.
After some time, Aman laughed and teased Li Lan, he knew that Li Lan didn't know about Lu Shen's current warrior realm.
"Lu Shen is now at the early Integration Realm."
Li Lan's eyes widened in shock.
"What..... Is that true?"
"Yes, and he's now an outer member of the Warrior Association." Aman nodded and puffed his chest.
"Fine, but what's this about the Evolution Stone?" Li Lan sighed in relief, thinking about the deal he had made with Lu Shen. With Lu Shen in the Integration Realm now, he was one step closer to his plan.
Aman shook his head and he began to explain what happened today.
"So that was Lu Shen successfully evolving his bloodline. Ha ha ha!" Li Lan began to laugh, feeling very happy.
If Lu Shen was in the Integration Realm, he had taken one step, and with his bloodline evolved, he had taken two steps.
"Ha ha ha..."
Aman became stunned, he wonder why Li Lan was suddenly laughing like a fool.
"Damn it" Aman felt irritated as Li Lan did not stop laughing.
Aman extended his hand.
"You owe me money, give me."
"What are you talking about?" Li Lan looked puzzled. He turned away, ignoring Aman.
Aman became furious. "You can't just ignore me!"
"Bastard! Give me my money!"
Bimala and the cold expressionless girl watched Aman and Li Lan arguing like children.
"Seeing them bicker like this makes me want to laugh" Bimala said with a smile.
The cold expressionless girl nodded.
"Yeah, it's kind of funny"
They both shook their heads and headed to their rooms, leaving Aman and Li Lan to their childish argument.
...
Lu Shen's House
Whoosh!
Spiritual energy around Lu Shen's rented house began to rush into his bedroom.
Woosh!
Three spiritual energy particles began to float around Lu Shen.
"Finally, I can cultivate the third chapter"
With this, Lu Shen finally having a breakthrough, he finished all the Enlightenment Fruits.
"Pity I don't have enough Enlightenment Fruits to cultivate all my techniques"
Lu Shen felt a bit disappointed, but he thought about how he could get five more tomorrow and he was confident he could master the other cultivation techniques too.
[ Host: Lu Shen
Age: 18
Race: Human
Bloodline: Four Head Serpent (Superior)
Warrior Realm: Integration(early) - 47%
Battle Power: 3700
Luck: 40
Cultivation Techniques: Five Element Refinement Technique[great success](1%), Golden Body Technique[small success](72%), Silent Breath Technique[small success](67%)
Skills: Stealth, Fire Armor, Wood Spear, Rage, wind blade, stone wall.
Equipment: Origin Bracelet(in deep sleep) ]
"Not bad"
Lu Shen felt happy seeing his strength increase. After thinking about it, he decided to try out the five element refining techniques.
Woosh!
Spiritual energy around him began to flow into his body, and slowly, his bloodline started integrating into his heart (the second meridian).
....
[ Host: Lu Shen
Age: 18
Race: Human
Bloodline: Four Head Serpent (Superior)
Warrior Realm: Integration(early) - 51%
Battle Power: 3600
Luck: 40
Cultivation Techniques: Five Element Refinement Technique[big success](1%), Golden Body Technique[small success](72%), Silent Breath Technique[small success](67%)
Skills: Stealth, Fire Armor, Wood Spear, Rage, wind blade, stone wall.
Equipment: Origin Bracelet(in deep sleep) ]
"Hehe, 4% increase in just one hour! Not even when devouring a rank two peak stage demon did I increase this quickly" Lu Shen laughed heartily.
After the Refinement Realm, warriors usually took many years to break into the Spirit Core Realm. Unlike the Refinement Realm, the Integration Realm required warriors to integrate their bloodline into the twelve meridians, which is lengthy and time consuming process.
....
After adapting to new chapter of five element refinement techniques, Lu Shen decided to use the Earth Essence Crystal. He walked from his bedroom to his basement training ground, he carefully taking out the Earth Essence Crystal and placing it on the ground.
He carefully collected the liquid Earth Essence into a small vial, he ensuring not to waste a single drop. The energy within the liquid was pure, almost overwhelming Lu Shen by Earth Essence spiritual energy.
Gulp
Sitting cross legged near the bowl on the ground, Lu Shen began to meditate, slowly absorbing the essence into his body. He felt his earth element energy becoming more refined and powerful with each passing moment. His connection to the earth's spiritual energy grew purer as time passed.
"Ahh" Lu Shen groaned in pain as the pure Earth Essence energy began to refine his body.
Boom!
"Shit"
Lu Shen gritted his teeth to endure the pain as his body was being refined.
Lu Shen felt his body tearing apart, he couldn't bear the pain as he hadn't expected the Earth Essence to be this powerful.
"Damn it, what to do?"
Lu Shen felt desperate and frustrated in this situation.
"Ahh"
unable to bear the pain, Lu Shen unconsciously began to cultivate the Golden Body technique, slowly channeling the energy to refine his body.
The pain from the Earth Essence energy gradually calmed down. However, as he began to use the Golden Body technique, new pain emerged. This time, as his body attributes were high, he didn't feel as much pain since he had cultivated the Golden Body technique in the past.
The Earth Essence slowly began to refine his organs, turning them black and showing his organs transforming into iron.
...
Hours passed, Lu Shen continued to cultivate, completely immersed in the process. The energy from the Earth Essence Crystal flowed into him, merging with his body. He could feel his mastery of the Golden Body techniques slowly increasing and approaching a critical breakthrough.