[Status]
[System]: Fate Devouring System
[Name]: Lucian Bloodveil
[Realm]: Heavenly Palace Golden Core, Early stage
[Cultivation Technique]: Celestial Flame Lotus, 9th Level
[Laws]: Space (0.1%)
[Innate Fate Movements]: Gluttonous (Purple) (Upgradable); Dragon-Demon Physique (Blue) (Upgradable); Child of Fire (Blue) (Upgradable); Cultivation Genius (Green) (Upgradable); Longarms Blademaster (Green) (Upgradable)
[Fate Points]: 5055 Strands
[Heavenly Fate Opportunity]: Can be stimulated by spending Fate Points; the more spent the easier it is to discover great opportunities. The greater the opportunity discovered, the longer the cooldown period. (Can be used again after 180 days)
[Innate Weapon]: Unawakened
[Harem Member(s)]: 6
[Main Quest]: 1
[Sub-Quest(s)]: Searching…
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The dark clouds rolled across the sky, unleashing torrents of water that seemed to connect heaven and earth. Lightning flashed, illuminating the world in brief, followed by thunder that shook the capital.
Sitting cross-legged in a luxurious room of Eloise’s palace, Lucian opened his Status Panel. His brows furrowed as he fell into deep thought.
After he absorbed the space dao bone, this new option showed up in his status. But until now, he had only comprehended this much.
His comprehension of space was still too low to use the spatial laws in any movement technique.
Lucian sighed in frustration, then his gaze moving down to his Innate Fate Movements.
When he saw the “Upgradable” option beside each one, his lips curled up. He began to ponder his choices carefully.
Right now, he had 5055 Fate Points, and if he chose to upgrade his purple fate, Gluttonous, he would spend all his points on just this one. Moreover, this Innate Fate was still strong enough for now.
So he chose to ignore it for now.
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After thinking for a moment, he decided on his physique Innate Fate.
This blue innate fate would need 1000 Fate Points to upgrade to purple. So, without any delay, he chose inwardly.
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[Ding!]
[1000 points is needed to upgrade. Do you want to proceed?]
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“Yes,” Lucian confirmed mentally.
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[Beginning the upgrading process…]
[Fate Points]: 4055
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Lucian closed his eyes, waiting for the System to begin enhancing his physique.
However, even after waiting for half an incense stick of time, nothing happened!
He frowned and after a moment of thought, took out a low-grade spirit stone from his space ring.
Immediately his body completely absorbed the Spiritual Energy with an unimaginable speed!
He was startled and quickly pulled out nearly ten thousand low-grade spirit stones from his spatial ring. He placed them in a circle around himself.
There were even mid-grade spirit stones among them.
The energy stored inside Spirit Stones continuously began to enter his body, flowing like rivers into an ocean!
…
Next day,
The spirit stones had completely turned into dust, their essence drained to the last drop.
The room was filled with powder that drifted through the air, catching the occasional ray of sunlight that broke through the morning clouds outside.
But Lucian was not concerned. His eyes were still closed, immersed in the wonderful feeling of his transformation.
Right now, his physique had changed drastically.
His new physique was called Soul-Devouring Demonic Dragon Body!
Lucian felt he could kill his previous self easily!
Moreover,
He took out a mid-grade Spirit Stone and circulated his Cultivation Technique.
Less than five breaths of time, he completely sucked it dry. He didn’t use his Gluttonous Innate Fate; this was just the absorption speed of his new physique!
His Meridians had expanded significantly, becoming wider and stronger than before.
The circulation of Spiritual Energy was smoother than before, increasing the efficiency of his output.
But that was not all.
He could also sense the size of his Heavenly Palace was slowly increasing!
But what caused his eyes to widen in astonishment and his heart to tremble intensely was his Essence Blood!
When he examined his heart with his Qi sense, he could see that his Essence Blood was no longer crimson as before.
Instead, it was now pale golden in color!
And the amount of Essence Blood was also increasing slowly, causing his already strong vitality to rise to unprecedented heights!
It took a long time to calm down his wildly beating heart.
Taking a deep breath, Lucian opened his system panel again, this time intending to upgrade his “Cultivation Genius” Innate Fate.
He also recieved a divine skill inheritance. He sensed that his current comprehension wasn’t enough to grasp this skill quickly.
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[Ding!]
[100 points is needed to upgrade “Cultivation Genius”. Do you want to proceed?]
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“Yes,” Lucian confirmed without hesitation.
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[Beginning the upgrading process…]
[Fate Points]: 3955
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This time, the change wasn’t so eye-catching.
Yet as time passed Lucian felt his thoughts becoming clearer, sharper, allowing him to perceive the world with unprecedented clarity.
The upgrade had changed his “Cultivation Genius” Innate Fate to “Enhanced Mental Perception.”
But Lucian felt this wasn’t enough.
So without hesitation, he decided to invest another 1000 Fate Points to upgrade this Innate Fate from Blue to Purple.
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[Ding!]
[1000 points is needed to upgrade “Enhanced Mental Perception”. Do you want to proceed?]
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“Yes,” Lucian confirmed, his eyes gleaming with anticipation.
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[Beginning the upgrading process…]
[Fate Points]: 2955
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His Enhanced Mental Perception had evolved into Unrivaled Perceptual Ability!
His law comprehension also began to increase…
Lucian immediately took out another massive amount of Spirit Stones, as he felt his Cultivation breakthrough was imminent. He took out hundreds of mid-grade spirit stones.
His Cultivation Technique was drawing in Spiritual Energy with unprecedented efficiency…
He remained seated for an entire day, motionless, simply absorbing Spiritual Energy…
***
Currently, Emperor Maximilian was sitting inside a pagoda, gazing at the same lake where he and his sister used to spend some “personal time” together.
However unlike previously, his eyes only reflected confusion and regret.
At this moment a tall woman wearing Empress gown slowly entered the pagoda.
Previously, she was a just concubine, but after the Fourth Prince ascended to Crown Prince, she became the Empress.
Sitting beside Maximilian, complex feeling flashed through her black eyes.
“Your Majesty, you seem troubled,” she asked softly.
Maximilian didn’t turn to face her. His gaze remained fixed on the rippling lake surface.
After a long time, he sighed deeply, without turning to face her, asked, “Empress, do you know how did I become the Emperor?”
Her hands, which were brewing the tea, paused slightly, but in the end she did not respond because this topic was considered taboo. She had recently become Empress, so she did not want to comment on such a sensitive subject.
Maximilian didn’t mind, he continued to speak, “Everyone knows that I’ve killed the Crown Prince. But that wasn’t the truth.”
Her hand holding the teacup trembled slightly, causing ripples to form on the surface of the tea.
“Unlike me, my Royal Brother had Cultivation aptitude. At that time, he had already stepped into the path of Cultivation. I was certainly not his match,” Maximilian’s eyes grew distant, “Then one day I met that person…”
He took the tea cup and said, “That day I was returning from the Empire’s border. But in the midway, I was ambushed. All of my guards were killed. Just when I already accepted my fate, she appeared! With a wave of her hand she turned them into ash!”
He paused, taking a sip of tea before continuing, “She told me she could help me become Emperor. At first, I laughed. Why would such a powerful being care about mortal affairs? I thought she was intentionally toying with me before killing me.”
“But after that she simply vanished. At that time, I already knew about the Cultivators, still seeing one in person made me realize how vast the gap truly was between mortals and those Transcended beings.”
He continued to speak, “Next day when I entered the Royal Palace, I was confused seeing all the soldiers kneeling before me.”
He took another long sip of tea, and spoke, “When I asked one of my men, he told me how yesterday I killed my father and the Crown Prince in a bloody coup!”
Maximilian laughed bitterly, “Right then I heard that mysterious woman’s voice in my mind. It was actually that woman who had killed them all because she wanted me to take care of an infant!”
And that child is Lucian!”
“What?!” Empress cried in shock. She was now paled in fear as she didn’t know why Maximilian was sharing with her such a secret.
At this moment a cool breeze suddenly entered the pagoda.
“How does she look like? Did she tell you her name?”
A voice echoed out of nowhere startling them.
Maximilian eyes flickered, and he asked hesitantly, “L-lucian!”
“Hmm… answer my question.”
Maximilian swallowed hard, “No! She never told me who she was! I only saw her that one time! She had a veil covering her face!”
The Empress’s face grew even whiter, cold sweat forming on her brow.
Maximilian slowly removed a ring from his index finger, and said, “You had this when you were left at the Royal Palace! Whoever she was, she is definitely related to you!”