98 Chapter 98 (1/2)

The Envy trial was over, the boss monsters weren't really hard to beat if you took care of the afflictions that the stages gave you. Matt felt like he was cheating with his skills, but not like he was complaining as on the fifth level there were core formation manuals. On the sixth level, there were more crafting, forging and pill formulas reaching towards things core formation and even some nascent soul experts could profit from. His cultivation nut buddies were drooling at the books that they were holding, some were of the Heavenly rank. Matt was holding one of those cultivation manuals in his hand, this was the third part of the series and he hoped that he would find the last one on the next level as well.

[ Name : Supreme Thunder God's Penetrative Nirvana Finger ( Third Tome )

Meant for: Core Formation (Middle Stage+)

Grade: Heaven Middle Grade

Requirements: Lightning B+ grade and up

Qi usage: High

Description: Finger attack focusing the cultivators lightning Qi into their fingertips. The longer you charge this attack the stronger it will be, possesses supreme penetrating power. ]

'Looks good, but who came out in that name... I feel like the FBI will come after me if I use that on someone.'

He didn't think he would be able to find some techniques that were better than the ones he bought of his system store. But there were ones of heaven grading mostly the lower one but still. The number of books on the fifth and sixth levels was quite limited so he didn't need the whole twenty-four hours to copy them down.

First came the body refining though, he had pried every metallic object from the walls or ceiling that had some weapon sounding suffix and prefix. He didn't expect that the items around here would have a grading, who would expect to find earth graded items scattered here. But even then he didn't find much besides the candleholders or some metal quills.

While his friends were on the sixth and fifth-level scrambling to write things down, or remembering them he was on the second level cultivating. This was the one that no one really visited, having the most basic crafting manuals on it that no one really wanted.

He could feel the warm metallic substance enter his body as he felt the familiar feeling. He was breaking through, his muscles tensed up and his body started shining brightly. He looked like a golden statue that had been polished and spotlights were pointed at it. After the breakthrough, he glanced at his status screen, which he didn't really bring up for quite a while.

[ Name : Zhang Dong

Affiliation : Zhang Clan

Spirit Points : 423267

Cultivation Base Qi: Core Formation [Late Stage 2 %] (Empowered Lightning Core)

Cultivation Base Body: Core Formation [Great Circle 0,5 %] (Golden Body)

Techniques: Empowered Lightning Qi cultivation art, Golden Body Arts, Thunderlight Sword, Thunder Movement Art...

Dao: Dao of Heavenly Lightning, Dao of Smithing and Crafting

Other: Senior Aura, Impartation of Knowledge, Mentor's Eyes, Apprisal... ]

'Well, my cultivation base didn't increase at all... but the body refining is finally up there. I wish I could get that upgrade though...'

He still had some candleholders on the side, luckily there were some chandeliers here and there so the place wasn't all dark. But it was certainly darker than what you expect from a library building.

'I bet the guys have some magic arts to see better or spirit up some glowing whisp for it...'

Matt went back to cultivating, the remaining items not really pushing his cultivation forward that much as he was earning fractions of percentages even from earth middle graded items. He would take what he could get, couldn't really complain about the free items but he knew that he wasn't getting to the nascent soul anytime soon. The description on his body refining also had a new line in it, he required a heaven graded item to advance after getting 100%.

'Here is hoping there will actually be some tangible rewards on the 7th level.'

Time winded down and the group soon found themselves at the last stage. They were walking down a curved set of stairs while the surroundings were just a starry void. There was a large platform above them where they were walking to, lights appeared on the side of those stairs that looked like blue Wisps. The whole place was dead silent the only things that could be heard were their footsteps and breathing.

”This should be the last one, wonder what my clan members are doing now...”

Matt said while walking ahead a couple of steps, he was in the front so he couldn't really see the other cultivator's expressions. The others were reminded about their own clans, they hadn't seen them for over a month now and had no way of knowing if they were still alive.

”I'm sure the junior members made it through, Feng Daiyu might not be the brightest but her strength speaks for itself.”

Feng Maling proclaimed while looking at her worried Matriarch that was deep in thought after hearing Zhang Dong mention his own clan.

Soon the group was at the top, the stage was round and there was nothing on it besides one thing. A person was sitting on a large throne, looking at them while resting his cheek on his right hand. His legs were spread apart, his eyes wide open and red in coloring. He was looking at the group of people, seemingly annoyed at the cultivator's late arrival.

”It took you long enough...”

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[ Sin of Pride [ Core Formation Great Circle ] ]

The man looked quite bored as he leaned back in his throne, he looked like someone in his thirties. He was wearing a red robe and had horns coming out of his head that curved inwards. His hair was white just like Matt's and he was of similar stature as the lightning cultivator.

”Let me congratulate you on reaching this point in your journey. Not many people manage this feat.”

He didn't look like he would be getting up from his throne anytime soon as he just switched the hand he was leaning on to the other one and continued babbling some exposition.

”Most people never get the Sin of Greed, I congratulate you on resisting your natural predisposition.”

Guess he was talking about how cultivators in this world would murder their own family just to get that one pill which pushed their cultivation forward a level. The trial he was talking about just showed them some powerful treasures, they were supposed to fight each other for them. But they were just illusions that were easily dispelled by Matt's mind technique, but he wouldn't tell the boss that the trial debuffs and tricks were useless against his Tranquil Will.

'Think I need to invest in better mind fortifying techniques, they will probably be crucial if I ever visit other secret grounds like this. The people making those always like to test people by showing them illusions or things like their worst fears to test them.”