Chapter 342: Cultivating Once Again, Human Immortal Realm
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Time persistently made its marks in the etches of the world; even if it were the Immortal Realm, time would still remain flowing forever.
It had been more than 5 years since Azmodeus took up his job as a grunt construction worker. Now the top dawg of more than 1000 Districts, he had become the High District Manager of one of the 8 Large Provinces of the Eastern Royal Capital. Being only one of five other Immortal High District Managers in his Province, he could be considered one of the top brass.
With such an illustrious status, Azmodeus learned what he wanted to know about Immortal Cultivation Techniques. From this information, he figured out that every Immortal Cultivation Technique acted as a sort of anchor to an Immortal for different cultivation milestones.
Only being able to pick a single 'Foundational Immortal Cultivation Technique' for the Half-Immortal, Human Immortal, and Earth Immortal Realms, citizens of the Immortal Worlds had to choose wisely if they wanted a future in cultivation.
For Azmodeus, this meant he needed one of the absolute best Immortal Techniques he could obtain. And with his current status and income, he had everything he needed to buy the most solid Immortal Cultivation Technique that could be purchased with money.
Although it wasn't the absolute best there ever was, it was good enough to make covering up his inadequacies far more manageable in the later Immortal Realms.
After walking into a room with construction tools scattered around the interior, Azmodeus approached a table where a cloaked man stood.
"Here is what you ordered, Sir Ming Po."
Speaking respectfully, the cloaked man placed a beautifully carved case on the table that separated him from Ming Po. Opening up this case, a pure white tome with golden outlines was presented to one of the High District Managers of this Province.
"...I see… You may leave now."
"Yes, sir."
Upon hearing the door close with the disappearance of the cloaked man, Azmodeus sat down on a chair and picked up the tomb from its case. After reading the large, italic letters that read 'Primordial Immortal Arts,' he opened up its brittle cover and keenly focused on the first few words of the first page.
"Well, this is quite a pleasant surprise."
Even though Azmodeus was no professional when it came to appraising, he could almost immediately tell that these Immortal Arts were the real deal.
To be honest, he was expecting to receive a fake. Of course, he would've aimed to track down the buyer and torture the real thing out of him. But now, with the genuine article already within his grasp, that was no longer necessary.
Without further contemplation, Azmodeus circulated Elusive Ascension in conjunction with the Primordial Immortal Arts.
Using these techniques got him thinking about Jue Mei and the other girls. While lost in his thoughts, he wasn't even aware that he had already taken his first step on the path of Immortal Cultivation…
"Oh?" That was all he said when he finally realized what had happened.
Progressing from the 'Grade 1 Half-Immortal (Initial)' stage to the 'Grade 1 Half-Immortal (Early)' stage was a decent accomplishment. But Azmodeus was far more interested in his new control over Immortal Energy.
If his power had been limited to his physical aspects of existence before, then he could now vividly feel the Immortal Energy within his Dantian Space.
"Wait, Dantian Space?"
Looking into his body, Azmodeus now had control over his divine sense, and with that control, he could view his new and improved Dantian Space. The first thing he noticed was that the overall size of his Dantian Space had been severely reduced. The second thing was the austere sight before him…
"The place is completely barren—like a vast, empty desert." Sighing a little at the sad example of a 'sea,' Azmodeus noticed a few droplets of a light golden liquid. "Is that the Immortal Energy I just gathered?" He asked himself.
Approaching the Immortal Energy droplets with his divine sense, he quickly understood that he was right in his deductions.
"So, it seems I need to start over and fill everything from the beginning again… Well, fuck me sideways…"
The only plus side he could tell of was that each droplet of Immortal Energy was worth countless amounts more than his previous Energy Sea combined. Besides that, merely looking at the decrepit land was enough to throw an ordinary person into depression.
After a few seconds of looking at more and more Immortal Energy droplets gathering in the center of his divine sea, Azmodeus left with his divine sense. Upon arriving in the outside world, the first thing he did was speed up his circulation of Elusive Ascension and the Primordial Immortal Arts. He did this with the assistance of a few… pills…
One might call him a druggy. And they would be absolutely right!
To supplement his lack of cultivation talent, Azmodeus had to do what he had to do. And in this particular situation, he had to make use of his status in order to acquire all the drugs that a crackhead could ever want!
Becoming the epitome of a thrifty tycoon, Azmodeus gobbled up massive amounts of multi-colored pills. Ranging from the Half-Immortal Rank to the Earth Immortal Rank, he truly showed off just how much worth he had amassed in the last decade.
WAAA!
It took no more than 15 minutes for Azmodeus to make a breakthrough from a Grade 1 Half-Immortal to a Grade 2 Half-Immortal!
This was only possible because of the pill-gobbling technique that Jue Mei had given him all those years ago. Otherwise, he would likely be progressing his cultivation at the normal pace, which meant that hundreds of years would've passed before he made this breakthrough…
But regardless of what may not have been if yatayata happened, Azmodeus had now regained his speedster mojo. And with his surging urge to gain more power burning brightly within his heart, he spent his day off leaping over realms like they weren't even the fart!
{[Grade 2 Half-Immortal (Early)]}
{[Grade 2 Half-Immortal (Middle)]}
{[Grade 2 Half-Immortal (Peak)]}
{[Grade 2 Half-Immortal (Limit)]}
{[Grade 3 Half-Immortal (Early)]}
{[Grade 3 Half-Immortal (Limit)]}
{[Grade 4 Half-Immortal (Initial)]}
{[Grade 4 Half-Immortal (Peak)]}
In the span of 24 hours, Azmodeus managed to achieve a realm equivalent to that of the average Immortal child in Everveil!
"Well, now that I think about it retrospectively, it really isn't all that impressive…"
Letting out a wry chuckle, Azmodeus pulled up his system interface and saw that something very interesting had been altered.
BLING!
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{[Infinite Evolution System]}
[Host: Azmodeus]
[Race: 2nd Order Loot God - 0.01% Nourishment]
[Lifespan: Inapplicable/Infinite]
[Cultivation: Grade 4 Half-Immortal (Peak)]
[Battle Power: Grade 1 Human Immortal (Early)]
[Immortal Power: 23.2]]
[Evolution Essence Bank: 0.1 Immortal Evolution Essence]
{[Assimilated Evolution Traits/Qualities]}
[Cultivation Talent: White Tier Immortal (Initial)]
[Spiritual Roots: Crystallized Embryo] (Rank: ???)
[Singularity Coalescence: White Tier Immortal (Initial)]
{[Immortal Physiques:]}
[Immortal's Resilience: Peak-Yellow Tier]
{[Immortal Lines:]}
[White Tier Loot Lines: 1]
{[Loot Halos:]}
[Red Tier Loot Halos: 1]
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"Well, damn! Without me even realizing it, my Battle Power broke past the Half-Immortal Realm and reached the Human Immortal Realm!"
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