Cultivation Through Artifacts

Somewhere on one of the mountains on Planet Thov, a young man's figure could be seen flashing through different-sized boulders and obstacles, killing every living form that came before his path.

Huge animals, grotesque insects, and carnivorous birds. All kinds of beasts that crossed paths with the young man voluntarily or not were slain before all of their essences were consumed, becoming a part of his body that further increased his strength!

Swish!

BAM!

After killing another beast that finally increased his number of kills into the three digits, Khal took a moment to stand still and close his eyes.

[You have successfully consumed 95 Beast Essence!]

Only when the notification was heard in his head did he open his eyes once again and take a quick glance at his status.

{Cultivator Status}

• Cultivation Talent: Power Imitation 

• Natural Born Talent: Perfect Disguise 

• Hidden Talent: Lost 

• Body Essence: 32,783

• Beast Essence: 2,174

• Cultivation Stage: Body Refiner

With a nonchalant expression, Khal inspected his status in silence before closing his eyes once again and letting out a deep sigh.

'I have been hunting like crazy for the past six hours, yet, I was only able to consume a little bit more than one and a half thousand essence.'

Indeed, even though he has given his all and used everything he possibly could to increase his units of essence, under a mere seven hours it was simply impossible to reach the required amount for the breakthrough which was 12,500 to be exact!

As a fact, it was already a huge surprise in its own that he was able to kill that much beast and consume that many essences under such a short span of time, as anyone else would have exhausted their strength and stamina already before getting killed! 

Of course, that miracle was only possible because Khal possessed an inhuman amount of Body Essence together with several powers that put him at a huge advantage against his enemies, thus killing so many beasts under such a short amount of time was, in the end understandable.

'What should I do now?' Khal opened his eyes and looked at the full moon above his head, pondering what he should do now that only an hour has remained before his time limit will expire.

'As far as I can see, this is the best place where I can become the strongest in the shortest duration of time. There are many beasts from the First Cultivation Stage all the way to the Third, some even being on the Fourth Cultivation Stage while my Body Essence is continuously growing thanks to the dense Realm Essence on this place.'

'If I were given enough time here, I am pretty sure I could reach the peak of this Realm in a single month!'

Although that thought was ridiculous and somewhat arrogant, as many would need several months and years to reach the peak of the Second Realm, in truth, it was more than feasible for him than one would really think. 

With the benefits of this planet and the knowledge of both Nova and his book in possession, Khal had everything he must need to break through the Cultivation Stages in the fastest way possible.

Khal clenched both his hand in frustration, but soon enough his body relaxed and showed a cold smile before turning his head toward a specific direction; he already knew what he should do and it was right before him.

"Maybe it's ridiculous and my life will be in constant danger, if that's what I have to do I will do it!" saying those words in a low and cold voice Khal pushed his feet against the ground and burst forward, seemingly targeting something or someone in the far distance.

Meanwhile, the Night Crawler that followed Khal showed a scared expression as he realized that the one Khal targeted was he himself! He could clearly feel the killing intent coming from Khal's ice-cold gaze and he must need to be dead in the head not to understand what was currently happening!

"Fuck this guy! He lost his fricking mind!" the Night Crawler blurted out a loud swear and without any hesitation turned around before bursting into the distance with speed faster than he has followed Khal until this moment!

He knew he stood no chance against such a monster in a head-on fight that killed several beasts in a row without rest, hence why he decided to start running and go back to the base to call for help. 

"Wish to run? Just in your dreams!" Khal snorted coldly and without hesitation summoned a crimson bow into his grasp and pulled its strings back powerfully while channeling half of his Body Essence into it.

In an instant, a meter long and a two-inch-wide black arrow was formed between his fingers, emitting an ominous presence that not even an existence on the Body Temperer Stage would take lightly if was forced to defend against.

"Go to hell itself!" Khal's cold voice traveled through the air and let go of the string.

Swish!

BOOOM!!

Breaking the speed of light with a thunderous outburst that sent powerful ripples through the air that cracked and broke the solid ground around Khal into several pieces, the arrow blurred for a second before it vanished from its spot and reappeared hundreds of meters away in the very same second!

"Wha-!"

The Night Crawler wished to ask how things got to this point, but not even before he could have uttered his first word the back arrow has already arrived before his face, piercing his head in one single try!

Bam!

However, the awaited spectacle as the head burst into flowing brain matter and blood didn't happen as the arrow just simply flew through the creature's head, leaving no apparent damage or whatsoever. Instead, the creature's eyes just simply lost all the light they had before his entire body fell onto the ground limply, no longer moving and breathing.

"I will go nowhere, even if that means I will make an enemy out of an entire race." Khal's eyes flickered coldly under the moon's light before his hand moved gently, summoning crimson flames that burnt the corpse before his feet into ashes in seconds!