Spending the three days together have greatly improved their familiarity. Kairos has shared some of his plans with them, and they told him a little of their past. Even though there are huge differences in their age and backgrounds, they hit it off with the young boy greatly.
The way they talked was like between old friends, though they remained respectful, “Young master, thank you for your help. If you permit, may I ask a question?”
Kairos likewise, treated them as people should be, “Hmm? Go ahead!”
“How could young master create a cultivation method on his own? Doesn’t such things require numerous years of research and examinations?”
“Oh, that? The original cultivation method actually comes from this tome,” Kairos pulled out his old dirty tome and patted it. When the manuscript was pulled out from his luggage, the smell of the mouldy old book immediately spread throughout the area. It wasn’t a terrible smell, but distinctive and powerful.
“The more I uncover the knowledge written in this tome, the more I am convinced that this cultivation method must be the accumulative knowledge of countless generations of geniuses, or one that surpasses them all. That it teaches the origin of all energy sources in the heavens and Earth is simply incomparable to any other martial arts that I have heard of.
Compared to it, what I did was nothing special. I merely tweaked the original to suit each person.”
“Even so, what young master did is incredible!” the others also nodded when they heard this.
“If one is unable to understand the true essences of the original, one would not be able to change it at all!”
“That’s true! But even so, how could young master modify it for us on the spot?”
Their curiosity is relatable. Every practitioner knows that each part of a cultivation method is extremely sensitive. Any changes, no matter big or small, will require a lot of thought and careful examinations. Without an extensive understanding of cultivation methods, it will be impossible to make alterations like he did.
It is not too unlike trying to cure diseases by doing intensive research and tests, and such things are definitely not something that can be done swiftly with the snap of a finger. Yet here is a boy that could quickly alter such profound techniques on the fly.
“That’s a good question, and I have been asking myself that recently.
Whenever I try to practice or when I read a person’s cultivation method, information and answers will come to me immediately.
Sometimes it even felt as if these were things that I had done before, but in the end, I’m just as confused as you guys.
Regardlessly, I confident that your cultivation methods are all perfected for you in their own rights, and there should be zero side effects.”
Zero side effects!
Every practitioner that most cultivation methods will have some side effects, like extremely difficult bottlenecks or easily causing a person to give in to their inner desires and demonify.
There are very few with no side effects, and all of them are top tiered.
In truth, there are less than one percent cultivation methods that are truly free from side effects, and all of them have to be near perfectly integrated with the practitioner. Or even a perfect match for the person.
The advantages of a tailor-made cultivation method are completely evident at this moment.
The fifteen looked at Kairos like he is some kind of monster that can create such an impossibility right in front of their eyes, but even Kairos himself felt strange over this matter.
After knowing the value of cultivation methods, he has slowly begun to understand the rarity of having a superior technique. All of the existing cultivation methods in Saint Empire have been created and refined by countless masters over countless of generations.
There is this thought within him to quickly return home and ask his father about his family tree. Perhaps there really is someone famous in his ancestry with a special ability to alter and create cultivations like him?
However, this ability to create cultivation methods is not omnipotent, nor is it even an overpowering force.
No matter how potent are the techniques he made, it will take years of cultivation and countless resources to attain a high rank. In fact, if others find out about it, he will be in major trouble.
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It isn’t hard to imagine powerful forces capturing Kairos, in order to force him to tailor-make every single cultivator for their clan.
For the sake of protecting himself and those close to him, Kairos had been heavily investing in the future.
This is the reason why he had decided to set up a shop in the capital city, and for the same reason recruiting more than a hundred members into the Snowdrifts, and even spending a fifth of what they had - over a hundred and ninety White Gold – on baby contract beasts.
Likewise, this is why he wanted to recruit the fifteen covert operatives.
However, each of this is a long-term investment. Their establishment hardly has enough goods to support all the families. All members of their newly created clan are only second-year academy students. The contract beasts that are supposed to be fearsome beings are still stumbling about with unsteady steps. Furthermore, the cost to raise a single creature is already astronomical, and that is considering the standards of Gaia. Whether the Mortal Realm could provide enough sustenance for these overly powerful divine beasts is still a question up in the air.
Naturally, Aisa that is the avatar of the Holy attribute is largely unaffected. She is an existence far beyond normal beasts, but for the little ones to fight alongside them, it would still take some years.
Regarding their level of strength among their peers right now, any rich young heir will have better life-preserving techniques or treasures than them, like the talismans that Calculus used for defending and escaping. While they only have a few baby beasts that couldn’t run very fast and a powerful divine dragon that will revenge for him after the boy is murdered.
Any Mid A ranker could decimate the boys without a speck of them left, and the ridiculous thing is, opponents of this level cannot even be considered powerful, yet the treasures and abilities on Kairos will drive top ranking practitioners crazy with greed.
Unfortunately, the only one in their midst that could protect them - the primordial dragon - said that she is not allowed to help except against those ‘does not belong’, like the immortal Old Ye.
This is why he has absorbed the fifteen into their ranks so quickly.
There is another reason of course.
It is high time for payback to the Devilheart family. An immediate course of action is unrealistic, but having double agents is a very good first step.
In the end, it is a certainty that Kairos will crush the Devilheart family one day, freeing those that were held hostage with soul slips by them, and the fifteen’s soul slips will be the first batch he plans to retrieve.
While both sides agreed suddenly, but it was a simple decision for them to make.
For the covert operatives, they were already death warriors prepared to be discarded at any time, and accepting the boy’s offer was their only hope. Otherwise, why would they be so frightened from failing their mission?
Of course, training these men wasn’t cheap, but the willingness to sacrifice them is because of Jones’ presence.
The convenient thing about death warriors is that the dead does not talk, and neither will they be able to link back to their masters.
They are already over their thirties, yet still stuck at B rank. Just like contract beasts, human also has an age of growth, and once they grow past a certain age, they mature and stabilised. At that time, their future potential will become sorely limited, and they are the perfect material to discard.
After casting them away, even if the Solitary Blades clan wishes to pursue the matter, as long as the Devilheart family vehemently denies all involvement, things will remain inconclusive.
On Kairos’ side, it was a deal with little to lose and much to gain.
The truth is, if it is possible, he would not want to kill the ones sent against him. There is a high chance that the Devilheart family would not send their own family members but slaves.
And right now he sorely needs manpower for Snowdrifts, especially covert operatives. Not only so, but the cultivation methods that Kairos gave each of them is also definitely top-tiered, so much so that even Jones who have access to many great martial arts felt thoroughly impressed.
By training in the Origin Cultivation Methods, even these people that are past their growth stage will easily break past their bottlenecks. If they work hard enough and reach Double S rank, they will even get a chance to reform their bodies and increase their latent potentials.
At the same time, they would be staying in the Devilheart house, using their resources to cultivate, while giving the Snowdrifts valuable information. Granted, it is definitely risky for all of them, but a worthy venture.
Since they had sworn fealty, there was no need to treat them as outsiders anymore. Kairos told them to bring out all their equipment and started to refine their weapons. Surprisingly, the grade of their weapons is still pretty good at Beast rank Earth grade.
Don’t see that these weapons are a tier weaker than Kairos’ weapon which is at Beast rank Heaven grade. These are weapons that are stronger than the Beast Rank Huang Grade Chinese Longsword that Calculus was using during the mock battlefield exam.
This is because, in the Devilheart family, they believe in bestowing weapons that are suitable for each person’s cultivation rank. If the weapon is too powerful for a person’s rank, they feel that it will hinder the person’s growth because of over-reliance.
Even though they are death warriors, disposable tools, and people without a drop of blood that is linked to the Devilheart family, they are still given such high-class weapons because of the rules. One can see just how wealthy this family is.
After the fifteen have their weapons refined, it is already night time on the fourth day.
The fifteen plans to return to the Devilheart immediately. Since they have been on their mission over eighty hours by now, they would have a lot to answer if they tarried.
Kairos’ group, however, decided to stay the night and continue their trip home at daybreak.
The four days of rest has made the little guys restless and playful. The infant beasts jumped around and dashed about the creek, sometimes swimming in the rapids and often requiring Jones’ ermine or Aisa to save them.
When Kairos declared they will stay one more night, the little guys ran over to nibble at him in protest.
“Alan!! Pull your turtle away. OWW!”
Kairos managed to dodge every one of those little fellows, even the quick stoat is not a match for his Formless Style. But the tiny black turtle went undetected in the night. It was masterful concealment, perhaps, even comparable to the legendary combat class: Ninjas.