At the front gate of Sun sect, Auster, with a cold look in his eyes, is looking at a distance. Next to him is his father who is looking at the same direction.
Jared just found out about that his son left an imprint to Ceceada just before he lost consciousness, giving them the chance to locate Ceceada and force him to give the red sword.
"So that's where he is?" The Jared suddenly asked Auster with indifference in his eyes. However, the murderous intent can't be hidden.
"Yes," Auster answered while trying his best to calm his nerves down.
Jared heard this and while he is exultant to find out that they now have a chance to retrieve the sword, there is a downside.
Leaving an imprint is very dangerous because it is the result of sacrificing a portion your own soul to leave a mark on someone. These marks are undetectable by conventional methods and can only slowly fade away after weeks.
To actually To leave an imprint on Ceceada, Auster desperately sacrificed a portion of his own soul.
In cultivation, the soul is generally correlated with talents or physiques. Thus, sacrificing a portion of your soul will also leave you with less talent.
Simultaneously, they do not have any methods to recover the sacrificed soul portion, making it harder for Auster to tread the path of cultivation further.
This is one of the main reason that Auster is very livid while thinking about Ceceada. He wanted to tear him apart from the inside out and eviscerate him.
At the same time, Jared shares the same sentiment with his son because they just lost a potential powerhouse for the sect.
It took decades to nurture his son to where he is now, but all of it were destroyed instantly on a single event!
Thinking about this, he immediately planned to 'bring' Ceceada's brother to blackmail him further!
...
On the mouth of dark alluring cave filled with stalagmites and stalactites, Ceceada can be seen entering.
Earlier, he just heard his stomach growl continuously because he hadn't eaten for more than a day.
Although cultivators don't generally eat for days, it is only because they eat extremely nutritious food that can also keep them filled for days. Aside from that, they can also use pills to suppress their hunger for days.
Ceceada remembered that the last food he ate is just rice with salt, the obverse of an extremely nutritious food that cultivators generally eat.
He had also tried taking hunger suppressing pills before, but it makes him feel sick after the effects wear off. Thus, he felt like eating real food at the moment.
The fact that there are countless carcass on his rings right now, made him feel like that he is a walking market place with countless food to play with.
Upon entering the beautiful cave, he felt mesmerized by nature's wonder, his eyes are lit up because of its beauty. Although it looked intimidating too because the stalagmites and stalactites look like huge sets of teeth, his appreciation for nature still won in his heart.
He walked for a while and stopped at the center of the cave, around him are the countless huge sets of 'teeth'.
Ceceada then took out the carcass of a wild boar piglet on one of the ring. Although it is just a piglet, it is of the size of a regular adult pig back on earth.
The pig appeared in front of him almost instantly, dropping on the cold and damp cave floor, making a slap sound as a result.
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Slap!
He can see that the pig looked like it just died and is relatively fresh, for which is the reason why he chose this specific pig for his meal.
Even if the items stored in the ring won't experience time anymore, before he collected these carcasses, most of them were already rotting.
On the pig's neck is a huge wound, the cut almost reaching the center of its neck. Some coagulated and dried blood are still on it, preventing further gushes of blood.
The neck of the pig is positioned on a creepy position, its eyes half-opened as if it can't accept the cruel death.
He ignored the pitiful death of the pig in his heart, and prepared to apply to its skin the spices that he collected on the way to this cave.
However, while taking the spices from a ring, an intrusive thought rammed on his mind forcefully...
What if I try to heal this dead pig?
Ceceada felt weird when this random intrusive thought entered his mind. However, the curiosity is just too strong, so he raised his palm while it faces the dead pig on the cave floor.
"Sun Palm..." He whispered under his breath weakly, his eyes showing curiosity and anticipation.
Instantly, the cave was lit up, amplifying its grandiose and magical appearance.
Regardless, Ceceada ignored it and just focused his attention on what will happen on the pig.
Suddenly, he saw the piglet's wound closing, the crack on the surface of its neck bone becoming less cracked. These changes are visible to the naked eye.
Also, the coagulated blood and dried blood became liquid again, then seeped slowly back into the healing wound.
While the wound is closing in, the neck of the pig is fixing its position by itself, straightening it from the weird initial angle and position.
Ceceada watched in surprised and shock as he never thought that Sun Palm will be so powerful that it can heal the dead.
'I swear to god... if this pig suddenly moved...' Ceceada thought in his heart, trying not to believe that he can make the dead live once again.
What am I? A necromancer?
Ceceada shook these thoughts away from his mind and just focused on the healing dead pig.
After a few seconds, when the pig no longer have any visible wounds and injury on its body, it still didn't move.
This alone made Ceceada feel like he no longer have to worry about him being a necromancer, although with a bit of disappointment in his heart.
After all, who wouldn't want another powerful ability?
However, as if unsatisfied, another intrusive thought forcefully rammed again in his mind!
Necromancer... is it possible?
"Status!"
[STATUS]
[TITLE: Digital Health Bar]
[Cultivation Level: Level 1 of Elemental Formation Realm (-1800)]
[Expected breakthrough in 15 hours and 6 days.]
[Skill: Sun Fist -Level 4- 1/2000 (+), Sun Palm -Level 3- 1/200 (+), Cultivation Thief (Unable to upgrade)]
[Physique: Mid Basic Physique -Level 5- 1/4000 (+)]
[Points: 2810]
[Unlocked function: Shop]
Ceceada saw this and noticed that he can upgrade Sun Fist and Sun Palm. However, he didn't find any use for Sun Fist right now because retroactively, he can easily defeat his enemies without using it.
Currently, he still wanted to preserve his points for his physique and the shop. Of course, he knew that once he upgrade Sun Palm, its ability will skyrocket. But he will only upgrade it when actually necessary.
At the moment, he is only interested in upgrading Sun Palm to see how it will affect the completely healed dead pig on the cave floor. And so he did upgrade it:
[Congratulations for upgrading Sun Palm to level 4! You now have 2610 points!]
He heard the prompt, but he didn't think much of it. He is focused on seeing if the piglet can actually live!
His palm is still extended forward while healing the pig, nothing changed on the brightness of Sun Palm... however, Ceceada know that this is only a pretense of the skill. Because he knew that skill will skyrocket its healing power!
In his mind, he visualized that the piglet in front of him was actually living.
Suddenly, while thinking about the pig actually living, he felt a huge gush of bluish liquid mana escaping from his core and entering the pig!
When the gush of liquid mana left his body, Ceceada felt that more than eighty percent of his mana was depleted in an instant, making him feel dizzy because of the sudden change.
When the gush of mana entered the pig, its eyes widened in an instant and it suddenly trembled on the ground!
Slap! Clap! Slap!
The piglet, while lying on the cave floor, started to twitch and convulse on the cold and damp floor, making slapping sounds in the process.
Although dizzy, Ceceada felt a massive shock in his mind as he can't believe that he actually made the pig live again!
He watched as the pig looked around the cave and suddenly stopped convulsing on the ground.
While looking around the weird environment, the pig's eyes caught a glimpse of Ceceada.
Immediately after that, it suddenly stood up aggressively with anger in its eyes, looking at Ceceada.
It took a step back and then charged towards Ceceada with all its strength, making cracking sounds in the floor.
"Shriek!"
Although surprised by the aggressiveness of the pig, Ceceada felt that there is a connection between him and the pig, like it is just one of his limbs.
The moment he thought of this, the piglet slowed down on its tracks and looked at Ceceada meekly like a shy dog.