“You’re too weak. Leave and stop disrupting me.”
As soon the tiger’s eyes opened, they closed once more, ignoring Dyon completely.
“Ah, I get it.” Dyon circled around the tiger as though he hadn’t heard a word. “The reason you’re so life-like is because there’s an actual strand of a soul within you. Meaning if I kill you here, your main body would definitely suffer for your arrogance, don’t you think?”
Although Dyon was saying this because the tiger has already pissed him off, he was legitimately intrigued by this concept. If he could make use of it, wouldn’t he be able to give the spirits bodies? Even if they would be nowhere near as powerful as their peak, it would still give them some independence. Plus, they could help Dyon out.
For example, this tiger gave off the aura of a Pseudo-Celestial. To Dyon’s current pitiful forces, that kind of power couldn’t be ignored. He didn’t believe that any of his demon generals could defeat this tiger right now.
Of course, that was because the demon generals had to recultivate using the inner world technique. That and the fact this tiger was ‘programmed’ to be able to match God level battle prowess. Meaning, if this tiger took the tower trials, he would succeed in becoming a God. However, he fell well short of True God status, though.
Still, had his demon generals had the same pseudo-celestial cultivation, Dyon was certain that the 10 vice commanders could defeat this tiger, and about 50% certain that another hundred or so of the Kings could defeat him. This was because one had to remember that just like Dyon, the Demon Generals also took their trials with their cultivations sealed. But, unlike Dyon, they didn’t have Demon Sage blood essence within them to give them a strong body, they could only rely on themselves.
The fact they could become Kings and Emperors in that situation more than proved the talent of the Demon Generals.
“Are you trying to anger me?” The tiger once more opened its eyes to stare at Dyon with murderous intentions.
“I heard that Celestial Tigers were supposed to be the embodiment of slaughter. Who knew that one of their own would run away from a fight like this?” Dyon chuckled lightly, his eyes still shining gold as he made use of his innate aurora to understand the properties of the tiger.
‘This level of array alchemy… It’s beyond me right now. My head is going to split apart if I keep analyzing it.’ Dyon shook his head with a sigh. How could forming such a work of art be easy?
To many, the true beginning of the study of array alchemy was the comet realm. To masters, Dyon was just a beginner.
‘What I do understand though is that the only reason this soul strand can survive is because of the ridiculous amounts of life energy in the air… In the outside world, it would begin to slowly degrade…. Unless? Unless I used Life Stones from a spiritual vein.’
Although Dyon received a spiritual vein as a reward for his trials and it was currently in his inner world, he wasn’t sure if such low-grade life stones would work… And even if they did, how long could they last?
Plus, Dyon wasn’t even sure if his spiritual vein had such life stones. It might be too low level.
Dyon’s eyes shone at that moment. ‘I’m an idiot. The perfect combination in this world is a spiritual vein plus the Energy Core. That’s why the Angel Clan’s spiritual vein broke the normal allowed limits.
‘If I stimulate the Energy Core while in a world filled with so much abundant life energy, even if it didn’t have life stones before, it would form them now!’
Just as Dyon was lost in thought, a vicious claw closed in on his head, seeking to turn him into nothing but a bloody shower of blood in an instant.
Dyon frowned, not because of the attack, but because the aura of the tiger had grown from the pseudo-celestial realm to the peak 1st celestial stage. That leap was massive, easily more than a 10x increase in strength.
With a flash, Dyon dodged the attack, leaping just out of its range using his galloping steps.
Unfortunately, he had been solely focused on weapon type techniques over the past two weeks. So, of the 882 techniques he mastered, they were all related to the 9 primary weapons. Meaning, Dyon was only 18 away from being able to move forward to mid common grade weapon techniques.
As a testament to his hard work, his weapon’s master will had grown from the 1st will level, to the 2nd. Although this seemed like a small change, this was proof to the difficulty of the will. Still, this meant that Dyon could instantly master any weapon, even if he had never touched it before, to the 2nd intent level. Such benefits made the slow progress very much worth it.
“I angered you, so you decided to cheat?” Dyon sneered. “The slaughter path seems pretty pathetic. I’m glad I don’t follow it.”
The tiger roared in anger.
Its call was so fierce that the world seemed to freeze over, losing its color and falling into a bleak reality.
“Ignorance!” The tiger viciously growled. “You have 6 life forces hidden with you, did you think I wouldn’t notice?! You dare to call me a cheat?! I’ll kill you!”
After hearing this, Dyon felt kind of bad. He had become so used to being cheated that he just expected it now. But, the Tiger was right. In his Demon Sage Tower, after he laid the soul slaves to rest in another place, he still had Clara, Bella, Mia, and the three kitsune with him. So, he was facing the trial for 7 people.
Unfortunately, Dyon didn’t get the chance to apologize as the tiger struck forward once more with fierce murderous intent.