"Haha, finally! I have reached the Small Achievement Realm in all three techniques," Thiago suddenly exclaimed in excitement as he reached the end of the seventh consecutive day of practicing his techniques. All of his techniques had increased exponentially in power and effectiveness after reaching the Small Achievement Realm.
For example, his Lightning Chains, which had previously been rather unstable and tended to flicker and dim from time to time, were now extremely stable and many times more powerful than before.
On the other hand, the cloaking effect of his 'Abyss Turtle Breathing Art' was now many times stronger, and he should be able to easily hide his cultivation from cultivators who were two major realms above him.
Only if certain cultivators had cultivated an extremely powerful or secret investigation technique would it not work so well, but only if that certain cultivator was at least two realms higher than Thiago, because even if he had a powerful perception ability or secret technique, but was only one realm higher than Thiago, he would not be able to detect Thiago's realm, let alone sense him, such was the power of the 'Abyss Turtle Breathing Art'.
In addition, his Void Shadow Technique had also become extremely useful, as he was now able to move completely silently and undetected in combination with the Abyss Turtle Breathing Technique he had tested earlier, it was simply amazing.
When he used it, it looked as if he suddenly disappeared into the shadows only to reappear somewhere else a moment later, which was only an illusion as he had not yet reached the stage in the technique where he could teleport from shadow to shadow, but it still showed how fast and stealthy his movement was when using this technique.
To test the technique, he had even walked up to some unfortunate beasts who had been completely unaware of him as he had casually strolled up to them. They had been horrified as they had felt a sudden impact on their bodies from behind, and then suddenly everything had gone black as their consciousness vanished.
What he had also done during this time was to upgrade his skills, which had previously reached the limit of the peak of the student realm after he had advanced to the 1st tier of the superior student realm, which had fortunately cost him very little, as it had been quite cheap to be honest.
Now he had a huge arsenal of skills, and the best part was that he now had at least one technique for all of his affinities, which would certainly increase his combat effectiveness.
He had Dominant Lightning Chain Art for his lightning affinity, all his dark skills such as Shadow Thorns for his dark affinity, and lastly, his Poisonous Black Mist, which at least incorporated the poison affinity, although it was not a pure poison affinity technique, it was still quite good.
As for the next point, when he had time these days after practising his other techniques, he had also practised the technique he had recently received from the Wheel of Fortune, the Spirit Thread Conversion Technique, which had now also reached the small accomplishment level, as it was not as complicated as the others, but it was still not a bad technique, as he had realised after practising it for a while.
He had even made a robe with the technique, using some of the beasts Faye had fought during that time, as well as some he had hunted himself. With the technique, he had used his 'Spirit Thread Conversion Art' to convert these skins into thread, which he had then used to make the robe. And surprisingly, even though it was the first time he had tried it, it had turned out quite well.
The best part was that this robe did not look like it was made of animal skins, but looked just like it would if it were made of ordinary linen or cloth. It also had some of the properties of beast skins, which basically made it resistant to water, fire, cold, well, only to a certain extent of course, and it had a self-cleaning function, which was the best thing for Thiago as he was sure to stain it with blood in the future and it would have been a huge hassle to have to clean it all the time.
The robe looked quite similar to his previous one, with a few differences, such as the texture seemed to be of a higher quality, which was quite understandable, as the previous robe had been an ordinary one made of normal woollen cloth, without any mana imbued in it and without any additional functions.
On the other hand, his new robe was made from numerous beast skins that had belonged to beasts from the 1st tier of the student realm up to the 8th tier of the student realm, which meant that these skins also contained a relatively large amount of mana, making the new robe completely incomparable to the old one.
Well, he had already tried on the robe, and it felt so comfortable that he did not even want to take it off, except when he wanted to change back into his beastly form.
And most importantly, Thiago had finally remembered to practice his 'Heavenly Demon Soul Transmogrifying Art' in these few days, as he had planned to do some time ago. And after tempering his soul a few more times over the past few days, he had unexpectedly made a small breakthrough in his soul power, which had pleasantly surprised Thiago as he had not expected to make a breakthrough in his soul power so soon.
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Well, Thiago had obviously underestimated how crazy and terribly powerful his technique was, as well as what he was doing to his soul each time, he was cultivating with the soul technique that no sane cultivator would ever dare to attempt, ever.
Basically, he was torturing his soul with these corrosive energies in his soul space, released by the three entities he had condensed there.
This was the main reason why no cultivator would dare to do it, because if something went wrong with their soul, their soul might crumble to pieces, or they might become mentally handicapped, not to mention all the pain from this torture, which would normally drive even the bravest cultivators mad.
But Thiago seemed to be able to bear it all with relative composure, although no one really knew how he did it...
Well, not that it mattered much; what mattered was that Thiago's Soul Force had taken another step forward and grown exponentially after this small breakthrough, which also meant that his Soul Sense had become much stronger and had a much wider range of potential use.
These are most of Thiago's results in these seven days of training, which he really enjoyed, although it was quite hard and exhausting, but he will not continue for now because he wants to do something else, like finally visiting the human city in this world.
Two flowers are blooming, each representing a branch.
While Thiago had made great progress this time, he was not the only one to make progress in these seven days, as Faye had also benefited greatly from taking part in Thiago's training and fighting various beasts.
In fact, she had broken through to the 3rd level of the student realm, which at first seemed quite abnormal, as she has no cheat like Thiago has.
However, when you consider that she was already at the peak of the 1st tier of the student realm, and that she had broken through the bottleneck quite quickly due to all the fights and mediations after each fight After that, she had cultivated for quite a long time after each fight, and while Thiago was practising his techniques, after her breakthrough, coupled with her great cultivation talent, she had successfully broken through to the third tier of the student realm.
After that, she had bragged directly to Thiago, "Look at my heavenly genius self, I have already broken through to the third level of the disciple realm, sooner or later I will catch up with you, humph!".
Thiago could only agree, not wanting to dampen her fighting spirit, while internally thinking in his mind that this was simply an impossible to achieve feat.
This time, in order to keep track of his gains, Thiago decided to take a look at his status, something he had not done for a while, as he was not someone who needed to look at his stats all the time to satisfy his vanity.
He said 'Status' in his mind and the all too familiar light blue panel appeared in front of his vision, not causing a single ripple in Thiago's expression as he was already quite used to the system not looking like his self when he had first appeared in this world.
Status
Name: Thiago Khan
Breed: Black Tiger
Species: Mystic Beast
Cultivation: 1st Tier of the Superior Student realm
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System points: 1612117
Shop
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Affinities
- Darkness (small) * *(small = small achievement)
- Poison (small)
- Lightning (small)
Skills
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- Dominant Lightning Chain Art
- Shadow binding Level 1 (Superior)* *Superior= Superior Student realm level
- Void Shadows Technique
- Abyss Turtle Breathing Art
- Spirit Thread Conversion Art
- Poisonous Black Mist Level 1 (Superior)
- Shadow Thorns Level 1 (Superior)
- Piercing claws Level 1 (Superior)
- Basic animalistic movement Level 1 (Superior)
- Basic animalistic bite Level 1 (Superior)
Innate Ability
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< Black Hole> Level 4
< Eyes of Eternal Truth> Level 6
Cultivation techniques:
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Abyssal Darkness (Basic understanding)
Heavenly Demon soul transmogrifying Art (minor achievement)
"Well, there seem to be some changes, well, that's normal, but my status seems to be filling up with time, which is good because it means I have more means and attributes.
Well, apart from my new techniques and the upgrading of the old ones, not much has changed, so I guess that's it," Thiago mumbled, closing his status as quickly as he had opened it.
Afterwards, Thiago decided to talk to Faye about his plans to venture into the human city, as he would need to have her in his inner world most of the time, unless they were in a safe place, as it would be quite dangerous for her to go out in the city in her beast form, as there would certainly be people who would want to take the opportunity to capture her, as it would basically be "free food" delivered to their doorstep.
"Ahem, Fye so I have decided since some time ago that I want to venture into the human city, the only problem would be that if you would like to go with me you would have to stay a long time inside my inner world since you don't have cultivated a human from yet unfortunately, I don't know what you think?"
"Huh? You want to go to a human city? And I would have to spend most of my time in your inner world, well, this princess has no problem with that, since there is quite an abundance of mana in your inner world anyway, and if you reach a safe place in the city, I should be able to leave the inner world for some time, right? "Faye replied, having been a little taken aback by Thiago's sudden decision to visit the human city, she was nevertheless quite determined and almost immediately decided to go with him, one of her main reasons for agreeing being of course the abundance and purity of mana in Thiago's inner world, as well as the fact that she had already become quite familiar with the inner world and did not feel strange being there.
And her ultimate reason was obviously because of Thiago and not wanting to be left alone in the forest, well not that she would ever reveal that at this moment.
"Yes, of course I'll let you out if there are no dangers or people who might see you, so don't worry about that," Thiago assured before continuing, "well, we'll probably leave tomorrow or the day after, since I'm actually quite eager to go there, hehe. Well, let's go to sleep now, it's night again."
So, they each went to sleep in their own rooms within the mansion in Thiago's inner world, sleeping extremely heavily after all the accumulated exhaustion from seven days of hard training.
At this point, Thiago couldn't understand how the local cultivators could push themselves to such extremes in pursuit of their goals.
The sheer discipline and determination required to endure such gruelling training in their respective martial arts, cultivation techniques and perhaps even weapons training, often for years on end, was beyond his comprehension. He found it hard to understand how they could continue with such intensity for so long when he himself felt satisfied after only seven days of training.
The next day...