God Slayer Chronicles 45 Burning the Disgust Away

"And you seem to be overly talented at cultivation." The response from Song Yi.

"Why does Song Ping hate you so?"

"Song Ping?!" The words mumbled with dread after exiting Song Yi's mouth.

"Song Ping and I share the same mother… but not the same father. Beyond that… I'm not willing to say." Song Yi fumbled with his hands, rubbing his neck and face started to go red with shame.

"How unfortunate for you. Don't worry. I'll make sure he doesn't harm you. He's only got some minor talent. Not enough to become a permanent problem." Sha Ku cracked his knuckles.

"Haha, yeah." Song Yi said, mumbling his words and his eyes darted about, scared that someone would hear their conversation.

This sort of plotting made him uncomfortable to the extreme, yet it seemed not to bother this boy who was so much younger than him! Had his parents raised him with snakes or something?

Seeing the older boys attitude Sha Ku shook his head, "No wonder you failed at the test." He let out in a soft sigh.

"Wh what?" Song Yi stumbled.

"The test, it already sensed that your downtrodden and defeated. You'd be unable to cultivate with such an attitude." Sha Ku said, disappointed in the lad.

Soon enough after their exchange Sha Ku and Song Yi arrived at the newcomer's lower mountain dorms. They weren't luxurious at all. They were only lined up from numbers 1 to 70.

There wasn't even that many students on the lower mountain… was the first thing Sha Ku thought.

Immediately Sha Ku walked up to the door numbered, one, entering it swiftly, only giving Song Yi a casual wave of the hand as a goodbye.

"Bye-bye then." The downtrodden boy muttered as the number one door was slammed in his face, then meekly entered the number two spot, closing the door gently.

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As Sha Ku entered the room, slamming the door behind him, he scanned the room, tutting slightly to himself.

The Qi formation on the ground was indeed useful, but it could door with a few improvements. Carefully removing a sword from his belt, he slit his finger.

With the blood slowly pouring out of his finger, he pressed it to the ground, changing the pattern of the formation until it looked completely different.

Now instead of looking similar to a pentagram, it was encased by a circle of blood, and a red Daoist symbol for Yin and Yang resided within it.

By the time he had finished, Sha Ku had a bright smile on his face, "This should at least improve its output by fifty percent."

Now that he had got the important stuff out of the way he looked around, examining this new room. Like everything else on the lower demonic mountain, it was dark and dreary. It had a small circular hole in the clay wall which facilitated a window… it didn't even have a frame.

The bed looked nice enough, but as he inspected it more closely it was covered with some kind of lice… or flea. He didn't know what it was; all he knew is that it disgusted him. And the table where food was meant to be eaten… it was half rotted; woodlice fell out like a waterfall!

"This will not do!" Sha Ku let out a large snort, raising his right hand and shouting the word –

"Blaze!"

In just a moment a torrent of flames emerged from Sha Ku's right hand, incinerating the bed, table, the insects…

A typhoon of fire curled around the room burning all of it to ash, cleansing everything in fire!

The blaze shot out of the circled excuse for a window, like a dragon's breath it bathed the courtyard, causing the students who had just arrived for their lesson with the old witch to fall to the ground, ducking under the fire!

Gently the flames began to exhaust themselves, retreating into Sha Ku's hand again as he stood there, his clothes, the formation and him unscathed from the hellish nightmare that had encompassed his room.

"Ahhh, that's better." Sha Ku sighed in relief, raising out his left hand, the cold energy put out the smouldering ruins, even the smoke in the air was gently pushed out of the charred circle.

"Perfect." Sha Ku felt the crawling sensation in his back disappear.

He sat down in the formation, ready to meditate, ignoring the commotion that was going on outside.

Now was the time to plan. His ascension in this realm can be divided into three parts, his power base, his cultivation and his influence on the world. These three things formed a trifecta, without all three it would collapse, unable to support itself under the weight of his glory.

Currently, he'd established his power base, providing generous amounts of cultivation techniques to the Yang Clan. They would grow like a weed with these things, and his younger siblings will be the flowers from these weeks, dazzling and bewitching all to see. Whereas the Yang Clan elders would be the prickly thorns hidden underneath, a forgotten yet ever-present threat.

Sha Ku wasn't one to only rely on others, and the Yang Clan while growing in power would require his support. Him being inducted into the Spirit Sword Sect was the first step of this.

Now all that was left was to temper his cultivation at an acceptable rate. He'd already sorted which techniques he'd practice for the foreseeable future, but he needed to decide how he'd cultivate.

The main problem in the future is that he needs to evolve both his Yang and Yin bloodlines. Currently, they were weak, unable to honestly give him the power he needs to practice the Yin-Yang divide to its utmost.

There was only one solution to this matter, Body Cultivation.

Sha Ku had to cultivate his Undying Slayer technique until he managed to collect enough Yin and Yang resources to strengthen his bloodline. At that point he'll easily be able to break through, forming river after river until he reached the Qi Sea Realm!

Chapter end