A Chaotic World

Hearing Xihuang Yuanfeng's words, Lu Tianzi was overjoyed!

"Junior thanks senior for the magnanimity!" Lu Tianzi clasped his fists towards the elderly demon.

"At least you understand the fact that I am showing you my magnanimity right now! Now shut up and start cultivating already!" Xihuang Yuanfeng snapped.

"Junior understands," Lu Tianzi gave a grateful smile before looking around the chamber.

With a scan of his perception, he could tell that the World Origin Energy in this area was slightly denser than outside.

The denser the World Origin Energy within the area, the more conducive it was for a martial artist's cultivation.

During meditation, martial artists drew on the World Origin Energy around them to replenish their strength.

During cultivation, martial artists similarly drew on the World Origin Energy around them to supplement their energy.

The existence of World Origin Energy in the surroundings was the sole reason why it was possible for martial artists to slowly gain strength through cultivation, even without having to tap on resources such as Essence Stones.

Of course, it would naturally be more efficient to cultivate with the help of such resources.

Lu Tianzi sat cross legged in a corner of the chamber, positioning himself directly below one of the dimly glowing ancient runes. This was the point in the room where the World Origin Energy was the densest.

Seeing Lu Tianzi pay attention to such small details, Xihuang Yuanfeng nodded in satisfaction.

It might seem petty by striving hard to acquire even the smallest of advantages in every step he took. But on the long road of cultivation, every small bit of advantages would accumulate, eventually resulting in a huge difference between individuals.

This would become the line that separated the peak experts from the rest.

Having settled down, Lu Tianzi did not waste any more time and dived straight into perusing the information within the jade slip.

After a while, he began to understand the essence of Slaughter Essence cultivation systems.

The energy that he had been absorbing from the enemies that he killed was actually Slaughter Essence in its most primordial form.

After a martial artist had formed a foundation for Slaughter Essence cultivation, he would be able to detect and absorb this Slaughter Essence with every kill he made.

However, this was unrefined Slaughter Essence after all.

By absorbing it into his body, the martial artist's Slaughter Essence foundation would activate, allowing the body to slowly refine the Slaughter Essence on its own.

Of course, this was far less efficient than refining this Slaughter Essence according to a cultivation technique, converting it to a form of refined Slaughter Essence with his own attributes.

This refined Slaughter Essence would be able to provide the martial artist with a far greater strength than the original unrefined Slaughter Essence. This was due to the fact that it would now have taken on the attributes of the martial artist himself, resulting in a form of resonance and synergy.

At the same time, once the martial artist had refined the Slaughter Essence into one with his own attributes, this refined Slaughter Essence would solely belong to him, and could no longer be plundered by others by killing him.

The fact that martial artists of the Slaughter Essence system refined all energy within their body to carry their own unique attributes resulted in them giving out less Slaughter Essence when they were killed.

This corroborated with Lu Tianzi's earlier findings that demons gave less Slaughter Essence when killed.

Lu Tianzi finally realised that this was not due to a difference in race.

It was due to a difference in cultivation system.

Even though that answered some of the questions in his heart, it was after all a minor matter, and Lu Tianzi did not spend too long pondering over it.

What he focused on now was the Heaven Devouring Divine Art before him.

Lu Tianzi closed his eyes in meditation, trying to feel each and every Slaughter Essence particle within his body. It was only now that he realised how slow his body's natural refinement speed of the primordial Slaughter Essence was.

Much of the Slaughter Essence within his body was still in that primordial form, yet to be refined into gaining attributes of his own.

That was also natural.

After all, he had killed experts of extremely high cultivation realms as compared to his Primary Essence Building realm cultivation in the Slaughter Essence system, including even an Essence Condensation realm martial artist in Hu Shenwei!

Without a proper cultivation technique, it was simply far too difficult to properly refine such huge amounts of primordial Slaughter Essence, resulting in much of it still being left unrefined.

But that also meant he had that much more room to grow before having to go out to hunt for more Slaughter Essence!

Lu Tianzi fell deep into his meditation, trying his best to drive his Slaughter Essence according to the Heaven Devouring Divine Art. The elderly demon Xihuang Yuanfeng did nothing to disturb him, instead continuing his meditation on his bed.

Lu Tianzi did not know how much time had passed, but when he finally opened his eyes, they gave off an indifferent glint, as though he had seen through the multiple aspects of life.

At this moment, he had finally managed to fully refine all the primordial Slaughter Essence within his body!

On top of that, he had done so in accordance to the profound means of the Heaven Devouring Divine Art, causing his cultivation realm to skyrocket as a result!

Advanced Essence Building realm of the Slaughter Essence system!

Due to the vast amount of Slaughter Essence that he had accumulated within his body, Lu Tianzi had actually managed to skip an entire boundary, leaping directly from Primary Essence Building realm to the Advanced Essence Building realm!

But that was not all.

In order to cultivate the Heaven Devouring Divine Art, Lu Tianzi had to simulate an internal world within him that was on par with the external world.

Even though the current Lu Tianzi was nowhere near such a level as of now, his understanding of his inner world had still improved by leaps and bounds, allowing him to gain insights that resulted in an even greater level of control over his inner world.

With these new insights, coupled with a higher cultivation realm in the Slaughter Essence system, Lu Tianzi managed to adjust and assimilate the power from both cultivation systems.

The power from these two separate cultivation systems formed a sort of resonance, creating a complete system within him. The addition of one more cultivation system might not sound like much, but the resulting sum was far greater than its parts, amplifying his strength in each individual cultivation system by countless times!

Because of this marvellous resonance between the two cultivation systems, in just this short period of cultivating the Heaven Devouring Divine Art to improve his Slaughter Essence cultivation realm, Lu Tianzi had actually managed also improve the unification rate of the Spiritual Essence in his body as well!

Thirty five percent.

That was how much his unification rate had increased along with the refinement of his Slaughter Energy.

In addition to the sixty percent unification rate he already had, Lu Tianzi was now at a terrifying ninety five percent unification rate!

This was already far beyond the eighty percent point that talented geniuses aim for before shooting for the Essence Condensation realm!

Even if Lu Tianzi decided to stop now and attempt his breakthrough into the Essence Condensation realm, he would still be able to stand head and shoulders above every other Essence Condensation realm martial artist within Ivory Rock City!

"You are finally awake," Xihuang Yuanfeng commented as he opened his eyes.

From the timing, it was obvious that the elderly demon had been paying attention to Lu Tianzi despite not having asked or even looked at him all this time.

"How long have I been in meditation?" Lu Tianzi asked curiously.

"Do I look like I bother keeping track of the time?" Xihuang Yuanfeng shrugged nonchalantly, causing Lu Tianzi to startle a little before he nodded in understanding.

Even though there was no way of discerning the time by observing the sun within the dimly lit chamber, any expert of Xihuang Yuanfeng's calibre should have been more than capable of keeping track of the exact time taken if he wanted to.

However, how many years had Xihuang Yuanfeng been trapped here?

From the way he looked and the manner that he spoke, Lu Tianzi could guess that the elderly demon must have been sealed here for decades at least.

In that case, why would he still bother with something like time?

Keeping track of the time would only make him feel even worse!

In fact, Lu Tianzi was already grossly underestimating the situation. Xihuang Yuanfeng had actually been trapped in this chamber for far longer than Lu Tianzi could ever imagine.

"So how is it? Still think that the Heaven Devouring Divine Art is only 'all right'?" Xihuang Yuanfeng gave a smug grin. He truly had great confidence in the cultivation technique.

"This Heaven Devouring Divine Art is truly quite something," Lu Tianzi admitted.

"Isn't it? Now then, hurry up and kowtow to your master!"

"Before that, junior wishes to ask something," Lu Tianzi answered.

"What is it this time?" Xihuang Yuanfeng snorted unhappily. "Are you not intending to honour your word?"

"Senior misunderstands, junior does not dare! In fact, junior is extremely grateful for senior's help," Lu Tianzi clasped his hands in gratitude. "However, I believe that all senior did was to pass me a cultivation technique. The cultivation technique might be fearsome, but…"

"But what? Stop being wishy washy and speak up!" Xihuang Yuanfeng frowned.

"Junior is afraid that senior will be offended if I really do speak up," Lu Tianzi eyed the elderly demon nervously.

"Just speak! Are you not afraid that I will kill you here and now if you keep making me wait for your answer?"

"Since senior insists, then junior will speak honestly. Even though senior passed me a fearsome cultivation technique, it is just the Heaven Devouring Divine Art that is fearsome, and it is not reflective of senior's capabilities as a master. Anyone would be able to obtain such a cultivation technique as long as they had luck on their side. Could it be that junior have to call them master as long as they passed the cultivation technique on to junior?"

"You! Are you saying that I am just lucky?" Xihuang Yuanfeng gritted his teeth in anger.

"Junior is naturally not saying that! Senior's current strength is definitely not something that can be obtained through pure luck. It is just that junior has not received special instructions from senior that is especially inspirational or beneficial to junior's cultivation. So it is naturally difficult to be convinced," Lu Tianzi spoke carefully.

Xihuang Yuanfeng paused for a moment as though he was stumped, before breaking out into an uproarious laugh!

"Hahaha! What a joke! As though the cultivation technique was not sufficient, you even want me to aid you in your cultivation even before you acknowledge me as your master? Do you take me for a fool?" Xihuang Yuanfeng suddenly stopped laughing.

"Please forget about this junior's insolent request!" Lu Tianzi hurriedly apologised, worried that he had offended the elderly demon. "How about this then? Junior still needs some time to settle my own personal matter. But after junior is done with the matter, junior will definitely return in the future. At that time, we can decide on this matter again!"

"As if I will believe you!" Xihuang Yuanfeng's face was extremely ugly at the moment.

Even though it was only the introductory version suited for the Essence Building realm, this brat wanted to leave right after receiving the Heaven Devouring Divine Art from him?

As if he would allow such a thing!

"Tell me then, what is this matter that you absolutely have to do now?" Xihuang Yuanfeng questioned.

"Revenge," Lu Tianzi's answered without hesitation as his eyes glinted with a cold light.

"Hoh, revenge eh?" Xihuang Yuanfeng stroke his chin as he watched Lu Tianzi's resolute eyes.

From those eyes, his gut feeling was telling him that Lu Tianzi was speaking of the truth.

"What happens if you go back on your word? Or what if you die in the process? Won't it be better for you to follow my tutelage? That way, you will be able to obtain the strength that you need, and that will make your revenge that much easier. Don't you think so?" Xihuang Yuanfeng continued to probe.

"That will be far too late," Lu Tianzi shook his head. "I would need to find a faster method to do this."

"There are no shortcuts in the road to obtain strength," Xihuang Yuanfeng smiled. "However, you are right about one thing. That I have not personally aided you in your cultivation."

With a wave of his hand, Xihuang Yuanfeng sent a wave of energy blast right towards Lu Tianzi!

"Hmm?" Lu Tianzi narrowed his eyes in alarm.

There was no time to dodge.

Lu Tianzi immediately raised his arms in front of his chest to cushion the impact of the energy wave, driving his Spiritual Essence to defend himself at the same time.

However, the disparity in strength was simply too great.

The wave of energy shredded through his defence like paper, boring right into Lu Tianzi's body and entering his inner world!

"Argh!" Lu Tianzi groaned in agony as the wave of energy forcibly circulated within Lu Tianzi's inner world, as though it was tearing up his inner world from within!

But at the very next moment, it was as though Lu Tianzi had realised something, and he completely stopped resisting the wave of energy that was rampantly spreading within his inner world.

Lu Tianzi was still suffering from an intense pain, a pain so extreme that it could even cause non martial artists to die of shock.

However, Lu Tianzi gritted his teeth and withstood it with pure tenacity.

Right now, Lu Tianzi's focus was no longer on the pain. Instead, he was carefully observing what the wave of foreign energy was doing within his inner world.

Upon closer examination of his inner world, Lu Tianzi realised that the wave of foreign energy was actually forcibly converting the rest of his Spiritual Essence particles, directly increasing his Spiritual Essence unification rate!

To think that the elderly demon was actually capable of doing such a thing!

Just what kind of an existence was he?