As Akasha fought with the soul projections of these cultivators, they all began using their concepts against him. There were concepts of power which allowed this cultivator to grow stronger with each attack he delivered. There were even concepts of nature that allowed cultivators to draw vitality from nature itself. As long as nature existed around them, they would nearly invincible.
Even with all of these different concepts being used none of it matter to Akasha. With his blade in hand, he effortlessly reaped the lives of whoever he targeted. They had been fighting for about 10 minutes so far and Akasha had killed over 80 of the cultivators. From the start he hadn't used any abilities or skills, it was only him and his swordsmanship.
SHK!!!
SHK!!!
SHKKK!!!!
As blood fell through skies and staine they golden grass below Akasha disappeared and reappeared in the middle of the remaining 15 cultivators. He stood with his dark skin covered in the blood of deceased cultivators and his blade was still dripping with fresh blood. As the cultivators watched him a woman spoke.
"This kid is not normal at all." As she said this her face was grim and her clothes were sliced in many areas. Much like her the others were also in bad shape.
Hearing what the lady said another woman spoke out, but this time she spoke to Akasha himself.
"Hey, do you talk? What's your name kid?" This woman was the strongest remaining out of the 15. She stood at the Late Transcendent rank. Even being the strongest here, her condition was not good at all. She had blade wounds, and her dress was barely covering her hidden assets.
The odd thing about this woman though, she wasn't bleeding at all. Her wounds instead showed light and this was because of her concept. She had a concept related to light and to reach the Late stage, a person must fuse their concept into their origin. So, now she was nearly a being made up of complete light.
Akasha stood with a straight face as he watched them. Hearing the woman words he spoke.
"Of course, I can speak. What, do you think I'm a mute or something?" His words were sarcastically spoken as his voice drew even more attention. When the woman heard this, she inwardly smiled a bit before saying
"And your name?"
"Oh right, I'm Akasha and you?" Akasha replied as he put a way his katana. As he did this he thought silently while watching the others tend to their wounds. 'Well, it makes no difference. I'll end this after this little chat.'
"Interesting. My name is Tia Light; I am the princess of the Light clan in the Middle Dimension. I don't know how much you know of the Middle Dimension, but I would like to invite you as a guest to the Light Clan. I know you won't be able to visit for some time so take this token and break it once you reach the Inner World rank."
As the others heard this their eyes nearly popped out their sockets. The woman who had spoken at first looked at her and spoke
"Big sister, are you serious?!" She exclaimed as she found it hard to understand why Tia would suggest this. Sure, the guy was talented and a bit abnormal, but still he was far from the peak of even the Lower Dimension.
Hearing this Tia didn't respond, she simply nodded as she passed a pure white token to Akasha. He caught it and stored it away without even looking at it. He then spoke.
"Alright, I will pay you a visit after this Supreme Golden Age bullshit. Anyways, it was nice to meet you but it's time to say our goodbyes." Akasha spoke with a smile on his face. Seeing him covered in blood with eyes that were like the abyss and that smile he was giving; it sent chills down their backs.
He then spoke again.
|Dao of Chronos - Chronos Field|
HUMMMM!
An invisible field covered all of 100 million meters and inside of this field, Akasha was something akin to a God of Time. The moment the field covered the cultivator he simply waved his hand, almost like saying goodbye. However, the instance he waved, all 15 of them were reduced to dust.
[Trial one complete. Reward - Zenith Grade Transcendent Concept Pills]
After the screen showed and disappeared, three bottles of sky-blue pills appeared in Akasha's hand. He took a quick moment to appraise the item, and he was a bit impressed. These pills basically sped up the process of learning more about your concept. He then sent them to the clone that was cultivating inside of The Sanctuary.
Once all this finished another screen appeared momentarily before the next trial started.
[Trial two - Survive 200 Transcendent Cultivators]
As the screen disappeared the skies were once again filled with cultivators. None of these were present in the previous round as Akasha's eyes could easily tell. He shook his head a bit before taking out his blade once more.
"Let's just get this over with."
As he said this, he raises his blade into the air and spoke again.
|Dao of Sword|
|Dao of Destruction|
|Dao of Chronos|
|Dao of Space-Time|
|Dao of Blood|
|Dao of Nothingness|
|Dao of Infinity - Endless Barrage|
HUMMMM!
BOOOOOM!
BOOOOOM!
BOOOOOM!
BOOOOOOOM!!!!
He activated his sword skill Endless Barrage and added the power of seven Daos! All of this happened in a mere moment and none of the 200 Transcendent had the time to do anything but look at the display with wide eyes.
As the Illusory swords rained down in a nonstop barrage the Daos it was powered by all caused complete havoc.
The Dao of Sword made the skill endlessly more powerful. Each of these illusory swords were at the absolute peak of the Transcendent rank. Destruction and Nothingness both were imbued inside each blade. Everywhere the swords passed caused space to be destroyed and then devoured into nothingness.
He used the power of Space-Time to lock the space around all 200 of the cultivators and then he further used Chronos to effectively time lock them. And once the swords made contact, he used the Dao of Blood to make sure even their blood turned into nothingness.
In less than 30 seconds the entire field of golden grass was completely destroyed and not a single cultivator remained aside from Akasha. Once everything was finished the realm began to repair itself and then another screen prompt showed.
[Trial two completed. Rewards - Apple of Beginning]
Once the screen disappeared a mythical looking apple appeared in front of him. He wasted no time and appraised the item.
[Apple of Beginning]
Rank - Absolute
-An apple birthed from the center of the multiverse. This apple is powered by all forms of conceptual power. Once consumed the user will have the opportunity to receive the power of whatever they wish. For example, if the user wishes to have the Dao of Water, then they will be receiving this conceptual power. This is not limited to any rank; however, the user should tread lightly when choosing.
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"Shit, this is actually pretty good." Akasha said as he read the details. This was something that could be useful for him right now. If he duplicated this thing and used this to get a few more Forbidden Daos, then he could easily speed through the Transcendent ranks.
Currently he was only Early Transcendent with the concept 'One of All'. With this concept he could literally become whatever he wanted to be, he could take concepts and embody them or even embody nature itself. Along with his many Daos that were at 100% he was already ready to fuse the two and breakthrough.
However, he didn't do this because he wanted more Forbidden Daos and now, he no longer had to wait. He took the apple and sent it to The Sanctuary. One he did this another trial began and it was now 300 transcendent cultivators.
Seeing this he wasted no time at all, and he immediately began to spam his sword attacks. As he did this, he stood there floating in the air casually watching the chaos and destruction ensue.