The Ashura was a humanoid magical beast with three heads and six arms.The Three forms of the Ashura, as a rank 4 technique, could inherently improve the martial art of a cultivator multiplying her attacks till they reached the number of arms of the Ashura.Each form, on the other hand, had more amazing effects.The First form could increase the number of attacks by a large amount, creating material after-images through the "Breath" of the cultivator.However, fighting in that way comported a heavy burden on the cultivator's mind.Lucinda was battling seven people at the same time, her mental energy depleted to aid her concentration on her various opponents.She didn't commit any mistakes though, there were no flaws in her combat style.She had already been used on dividing her senses with the blood companion so it had been easier for her to learn the First form.Little by little, all the students were pushed back with many small cuts appearing on their bodies.In Lucinda's perception
It was night and Lucinda was silently cultivating.Seven vortexes were on her back, constantly absorbing cold and dark "Breath" and pushing it toward her dantian.In front of her dantian, another vortex rotated between her joint hands, taking in even more "Breath" from the environment.The process of training both her dantian and her body at the same time was quite taxing for her sea of consciousness and even the stress on her dantian was not negligible.However, Lucinda held on.When the dawn came, Lucinda opened her eyes.A sixth of her mental energy was depleted and she felt nothing but tiredness from the intensive training but she was used to it by then.One month had passed since the events with the other students and Lucinda never slacked off.She occupied her new accommodation and made the best use of the higher density of "Breath" by managing to practice in the Dark vortex technique and in the Yin body at the same time.She had to review her training schedule though as she had
The technique described in Ivor's book was a method to connect the space inside the sea of consciousness with the outside world.The cultivator had to use his projection inside the mental sphere as a link where the "Breath" had to pass through.However, the sea of consciousness was a personal space of the cultivator, it was his same mind, not a place appropriate to store "Breath".But the Elemental forging method did exactly that: it forced the "Breath" of Heaven and Earth outside of their dominion and refined it through the mental energy of the cultivator, making it a form of energy that could be shaped as the cultivator wanted.The "Breath" had its own will though, it could even oppose the advancements of the dantian, it was no wonder that it struggled to no end when it was put inside a sea of consciousness.Of course, a failure in containing it led to a backlash.That was precisely what was happening to Lucinda.The "Breath" that entered her mental sphere self-detonated because she
Lucinda spoke without moving her eyes from the Kesier rune."It's not that, I just don't have time for other people."Her mental sphere was enlarging at an incredible speed, Lucinda didn't want to waste any of her time inside the Sulfur domain on socializing."What about Murray, Norman, and Scott?"Daniel asked but those names meant nothing to Lucinda."I don't know who they are.""The three seniors in front of the entrance door!"Lucinda shrugged her shoulders."Oh, them. They allowed me to pass."One of Daniel's eyebrows arched when he heard Lucinda's words."All they want is to please me. They will never allow anyone inside unless I say so."Lucinda didn't move at all, her gaze was always on the rune as she answered."So, you do know that your followers are mindless idiots."Daniel chuckled softly."Idiots? Maybe. Mindless? Not at all. It's the nature of humans to stick with the strongest person or the one with the best future prospects. You might not know but I'm the only cultivat
The week passed quickly. Lucinda went outside the academy ground donned in her usual reddish gym suit. She had left eight hundred Credits to Ivor and used again the Sulfur domain to make sure that she had increased her power as much as possible. She had only one thousand and six hundred Credits and twenty merit points left, she was in need of the rewards of the mission. However, her headache had vastly diminished in intensity which left her pleasantly surprised. 'I should really pay more attention to the faculties of the academy.' Right outside of the entrance, in Arolyac forest, Lady Chen was waiting with three more students. "Why am I not surprised that you are here?" One of the students was Yaoyao and she spoke as soon as she saw Lucinda arriving. "We are the best in our class as well as the poorest. It is quite obvious for us to join this mission." Lucinda answered. During the previous months, Yaoyao had clearly shown her superiority to Justin, gaining the undisputed tit
Nigel asked a question to the captain."Captain, what do you mean by that?"Preston moved some hair away from his forehead before answering."On the first layer, the dimension was an icy field populated by rank 3 Snow bears. On the second one, we were in an underground area against Steeled centipedes. From that, we can imagine that all the other layers will contain a different environment. One thing you might want to know is that they are real magical beasts and not some creations of the inheritance ground."'They actually created real environments and filled them with the magical beasts corresponding to each location. I don't even want to think at the amount of preparation required to set up something like that.'Lucinda thought, marveled by the Royal inheritance.Nigel spoke again."So, we just need to clear the floor to pass it?"Preston nodded."That's the method that we used and it worked just fine.""Number of specimens?""One hundred on the first layer and two hundred in the se
"Thanks, Lucinda, you really saved us out there."Lucinda nodded, sitting on the ground.The effort of vanquishing the fog in the entirety of the fourth floor had tired her greatly, she needed to rest."As for the things that you saw when we were inside the illusion..."Lucinda raised one hand and interrupted him."Don't worry, everyone has his/her traumatic experiences."The other three nodded and lowered their heads, they were quite ashamed that they had been seen when they faced their most painful memories.Another pile of goods, bigger than the previous one, appeared in the middle of the layer.Errol laid his back on the terrain and spoke in a calm voice."I wonder why we are given this much time for each floor."Nigel answered."It's probably in order to let the participants safely approach every test. If it wasn't for Lucinda, clearing this floor might have taken a while.""So, what do we do now?"Yaoyao asked.She was a bit annoyed that Lucinda had saved her and she kept her he
Seven packs of monkey-type magical beasts to defeat in six weeks of time.They had all the time needed to carefully plan their approach, they had just to be careful not to cause too much ruckus.In the end, they chose a simple tactic: Lucinda would be the bait and expose each leader and the other three students had to kill it.Then, they would regroup and apply a different combat formation to better exploit the weaknesses of each kind of beasts.Earth monkeys and Spiked monkeys relied on their bodies so it was better to fight them as a group in a solid and stable formation, using strong attacks to kill each specimen in one strike.Fire monkeys and Toxic monkeys were adept in spells with a large area of effect, the students chose to fight them separately, dividing the creatures' attention into four different areas.Wind monkeys and Dwarf monkeys were fast and nimble, Lucinda and Errol had to stay in the center of their packs to attract their attention while Yaoyao and Nigel did a pince