Chapter 431: Cultivation, Emperor's Extreme World-Startling Book
Mercenary Tao was now absolutely one of the Reincarnators with the highest "traffic" in the Eastern District Shanty Town.
Title Level Reincarnators formed their own system and rarely interacted with low and mid-rank Reincarnators. And the most famous batch among low and mid-rank Reincarnators was not very well-received by high-rank Reincarnators.
Mercenary Tao, at this stage, was very special.
On one hand, low and mid-rank Reincarnators still considered him to be in the same class as themselves. After all, Mercenary Tao hadn't entered the Title Level yet and still set up a stall in the low-rank area of the Shanty Town.
On the other hand, no mid or high-rank Title Level Reincarnator dared to underestimate this enigmatic mysterious powerhouse.
Mercenary Tao's rise was built on the bones of a group of famous Reincarnators. His strength was forged by a large number of Reincarnators' Scarlet Drop Cards.
Kaito Shirogane came to the Shanty Town. There were still many people surrounding his stall, but those women from other districts and Black Butler were not here.
Kaito knew that was one of the biggest customers he could meet currently. Therefore, he first sent a message to Black Butler, telling the other party that he had returned to the Space and would go to the Cultivation Center to temper his abilities first, ready to trade at any time.
Subsequently, Kaito plunged into the Cultivation Center.
[You have entered the Cultivation Center. Time flow has been adjusted. Starting now, fees will be deducted at the price of 50 Dimensional Points per minute]
[Gravity Change: 1.5x (Can be actively adjusted to max 3x)]
[Oxygen Density: 0.75x (Can be adjusted within 0.5-3x range)]
[Extreme Environment Setting: None (Can choose from Waterfall, Lake Heart, Seabed, Volcano, etc. environments)]
"Adjust gravity to 3x, adjust oxygen density to 0.5, activate Extreme Environment · Seabed."
The internal environment of the Cultivation Center, full of technological sense, changed instantly, as if boundless ocean submerged Kaito in an instant.
Extremely high gravity made Kaito, whose body weight was terrible, start sinking immediately. The high pressure of the seabed made the already thin oxygen almost disappear.
Kaito's physical state entered an extreme state of high pressure and low oxygen in an instant. His heartbeat also began to accelerate. Blood began to rush like a river.
This wasn't cultivation, but Kaito's current warm-up method. He was using this method to quickly awaken the "tension" of his body cells, letting his whole body get into the state quickly.
After all, with his current physical ability, relying on "exercise" to make the body consume energy and enter the state would be very time-wasting.
Ordinary intensity exercise couldn't even make his body produce much consumption.
A moment later, Kaito surfaced from the seabed and changed the terrain to a volcanic crater again.
In the scorching air, Kaito sat cross-legged at the volcanic crater, his whole body covered in Busoshoku Haki (Armament Haki).
Kaito's Busoshoku Haki wasn't obtained through ability learning, but mastered using abnormal learning ability when Corey possessed him.
Therefore, he couldn't simply strengthen it quickly by spending Singularities.
Kaito could feel that under the rapidly increasing intensity of enemies he faced now, this level of Busoshoku Haki was beginning to be somewhat inadequate.
Those small fry unable to break his Busoshoku Haki would basically be killed by the counterattack of Brilliant Flames just by attacking him.
But enemies truly capable of contending with him could all break his Busoshoku Haki quickly, making his defensive ability appear quite insufficient.
Kaito sat cross-legged. An emerald green leaf appeared in his hand. Just as this leaf was taken out, that abnormal refreshing fragrance entered Kaito's nasal cavity.
Kaito felt his brain become cool and refreshing.
As if in an instant, there were no more barriers in the brain, and thinking about problems had no sense of obstruction.
Various problems and performances of Busoshoku Haki were presented in his mind.
Kaito jumped down from the volcanic crater. His pitch-black body rubbed along the crater.
Scales of the Fire Dragon appeared instantly. Busoshoku Haki fluctuated constantly. Intense friction and high heat of magma were rapidly contending with his Busoshoku Haki.
Kaito put the Bodhi Leaf into his mouth. In the next moment, Busoshoku Haki re-condensed in a form almost visible to the naked eye. He was utilizing "spirit/aura" in a more efficient way.
Kaito didn't lack spirit; he only lacked skills. Now, accompanied by this almost self-taught enlightenment, Haki intensity improved rapidly.
Kaito sensed the power of this "enlightenment" state and didn't waste much time.
He took out that "Heavenly Book" from his backpack directly—[Emperor's Extreme World-Startling Book]!
This book, which previously showed nothing related to martial arts techniques, recorded various fate calamities. As Kaito flipped through it at this time, the electric current stored in his heart also condensed towards his eyes constantly.
Kaito landed from the volcanic crater at this time, sitting cross-legged in a depression in the center of the crater.
The temperature here was extremely high. The air was also filled with volcanic ash and sulfur smell. Oxygen was very scarce.
But Kaito was unaware. His eyes opened; lightning wandered in his eyes. His gaze was empty, mind already wandering beyond the heavens.
Kaito felt it wasn't enough. He began to use the title ability of [Wild Arrogance Biding Time] to trigger lightning in the atmosphere. In an instant, thunderclouds densely covered the sky above the volcanic crater. Dark clouds almost pressed onto the crater.
Muffled thunder roared in waves.
In this rare state, symbols began to appear in Kaito's mind one by one. These symbols then transformed into human shapes. [Information] was displaying its hidden mysteries in various different forms.
[Emperor's Extreme World-Startling Book] hid some kind of martial arts principle, but it didn't appear as text in the conventional human sense, merely stored within in the form of special information.
Moreover, that kind of information was not fixed, not limited.
Kaito looked at the changing symbols, seeming to contain infinite variations, his eyes blurred.
The corners of his mouth hooked up unconsciously. Want to see clearly, want to understand!
Hum~
Pitch-black long hair began to float backward. The invisible helix in Kaito's heart started rotating again.
A large amount of information changed constantly in Kaito's brain.
At this time, he began to understand why in the original work, the techniques everyone realized from [Emperor's Extreme World-Startling Book] were different.
Because [Information] was just [Information]. That wasn't something ordinary humans could understand. Cultivators were just observing from their own angles.
Whatever angle you observed from, you would get whatever result.
Different people observing had different results, naturally producing different comprehensions.
Blood gushed from Kaito's nose and mouth. The hair behind him also began to turn white rapidly. But Kaito was unaware. He wanted to see all information clearly with incomparable greed, wanted to encompass all power, until the blood in his nose and mouth began to soak that Bodhi Leaf.
Only then did he open his eyes, greed receding somewhat.
"Such good stuff... Red Dust, you really should have traded it all to me~"
On the peak of the Ancient Nanyue Mountain in Eastern Xia, there was a huge lake. Legend had it that this was where Zuo Ci once refined pills, so it was called Pill Refining Lake.
Red Dust lay in the lake alone, swimming freely. After breaking away from Sage, he only felt the world was big enough for him to go anywhere. And His Majesty Fate Eternal was also missing. For him, the result couldn't be better.
"Heh, Mercenary Tao. If you're unwilling to take me in, so be it. With my current strength..."
"Achoo!"
He suddenly sneezed. Huge Gang Qi blew him flying from the lake with a boom. The entire Pill Refining Lake was frozen in an instant.
Red Dust knew with his current constitution and internal energy, it was impossible to catch a cold. This was probably some kind of spiritual sense. Someone was speculating about him with ill intentions?!
Who exactly is it!
Thinking of this, Red Dust decided to accept Song Xian's invitation. Heard that the protector behind Eastern Xia was that one from [Azure Sky]...
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