Chapter 939 - 459: Lifting the Curse

Chapter 939: Chapter 459: Lifting the Curse

"Hmm, chu..."

Li Ang separated from Inanna, the corners of the Dragon Maiden’s lips glistening.

The golden eyes of the Earth scattered into flowing gold, and her chest and abdomen that could easily breathe fire were now panting uncontrollably.

"Let’s stop here for now," Li Ang said.

Inanna nodded weakly, laying down powerlessly along the mattress.

While waiting for Zosia to prepare the ceremony, it wasn’t quick to obtain the essence from the remaining Dragon God, and in his free time, Li Ang continued to "teach" the Dragon Goddess how mortals convey their affection.

Due to the strong feedback from her body, any teachings were remarkably effective.

Currently, he was teaching her "the ordinary touches of close people," but her understanding was still shallow, not knowing when to stop, and seeking excessively made her unable to endure.

The Dragon Maiden rested, panting, while Li Ang sat to the side, taking out Arunak’s Divine Staff to study.

The shriveled Demon Arm was wrapped around the Demon Dragon Bone, appearing twisted and ferocious. Typically, people would absolutely not accept such an arm on their body.

Li Ang felt much lighter after separating from it, his only concern being the curse still existing within him.

The earlier conflict with the Six armed Saint King led him to consider a possibility during his idle time; perhaps he could attempt to lift the curse himself.

Jenova once said his ideal technique was Chaos Destruction, which combined Spiritual Piercing and Matter Annihilation, but relying solely on Spirit Casting Art was still far from the final form.

The upper limit of Spirit Casting Art certainly wasn’t just this, but after observing over these days, Li Ang also realized there were differences among Primordial Beings themselves.

Although he couldn’t estimate how many levels of strength could be differentiated with all his information, it was evident that Zosia was a level above others, and the only one who might rival her was the "Eternal King" Esso, whom Li Ang hadn’t met.

The Six armed Saint King was a battle maniac, more adept at application than development. He could only unleash rough Spiritual Level strikes, still not knowing how to integrate Reversed Spirit Casting Technique, that clever method of piercing Spiritual Structures.

Whether Chaos Destruction was a technique he’d learned after being demonized or later under Zosia’s guidance was unknown.

At this point in the Illusion Realm, it should still be early for him to perfect his technique, and over these days, it was clear he wanted to learn Li Ang’s future techniques, but each time he’d be absent for a while, then would leave to handle matters for Esso, akin to a loyal dog at beck and call.

The Demon Curse itself was a particular Spiritual Manipulation Technique combining Spirit Casting Art and Reversed Spirit Casting Technique, the Reversed Spirit Casting Technique part was like a continuous damage type in conventional Magic, while the Spirit Casting Art part reconstructed and rewrote on the basis of continuous damage.

Having become a Spiritual Forger and personally experienced ancient events, both Spirit Casting Art and Reversed Spirit Casting Technique no longer seemed so mysterious or revered to Li Ang’s eyes.

Since Chaos Destruction could counter Jenova’s attacks, and now Li Ang’s Six armed Demon’s spells had been fully system-enhanced, perhaps he could use the same concept, using the same source of power to lift the curse he imposed.

He had already tried this before.

Once more, Li Ang wielded Arunak’s Divine Staff, infusing Magic Power, and the front end’s hand began to wriggle as if filled with flesh and blood, the shriveled thorns unfurled again, and he aimed it at the prosthetic upper arm, the demon’s knuckles began to move.

The fingertips, initially unable to touch anything, suddenly could hook onto something in the void as it began to invoke Magic Power forming Spiritual Piercing, this Reversed Spirit Casting Technique.

It was the Heterogeneous Spirituality left behind by Reversed Spirit Casting Technique using Li Ang’s body as an anchor point, the very essence of the curse.

Wielding this Divine Staff, along with the knowledge of a Spiritual Forger, the curse was no longer the untouchable formidable entity it once was, now manipulable to Li Ang.

The Six armed Demon could consolidate its split form using the curse, this curse also carried an aspect of the Technique from [Spirit Casting: Body Manifestation], which Li Ang now fully understood.

In the Spiritual perspective, the crimson Heterogeneous Spirituality was being drawn out like threads, the part located at the arm anchor point becoming increasingly faint.

If Li Ang were to resolve the Yunxiang Race’s curse now, it would be as easy as drinking water.

However, the original curse the Six armed Saint King imprinted on their bloodline must have been at least as strong as Li Ang’s current one, likely even stronger, as those curses would gradually fade as they passed down through the bloodline.

Yet, at the moment it was about to be drawn away, the entire mass of Heterogeneous Spirituality vibrated violently, extracting Magic Power from the void to replenish itself, making the curse solidify once again, even causing Li Ang a bout of Spiritual Level pain.

He shook his head, enduring the pain, now having grown familiar with it, even using it as a form of encouragement.

Since this attempt failed, he would have to consider that other option—

The Demonization expansion option on the system’s body modification panel—an external limb.

Deducting Professional Points, turning Arunak’s Divine Staff into a third floating arm, normally concealed within a Dimensional Rift, ready to be summoned at any time, resembling the appearance of the Six armed Demon.

Firstly, this would mean he wouldn’t need to hold the staff himself or use a manifested arm to hold it; it would be an external hand in itself, capable of directly unleashing a series of demonic attacks, allowing Li Ang to simultaneously cast his Dragon Summoning Technique or Decomposition Beam.

Secondly, this arm also had great strength, able to serve as a guard for him as a Caster.

Over these past few days, he’d done some mental preparation, contemplating repeatedly that the Land of Ten Thousand Spirits wanted him to master Evil Magic and was about to press the confirm button.

Thinking of this, Li Ang glanced at the Professional Points.

It was fine when he hadn’t looked, but upon suddenly seeing that row of numbers, he was taken aback.

[Professional Points: 12239]

How did it become so much?!

After the massive expenditure at the City of the Ship’s Rudder it should have been reset to zero.

Promoting a Level 9 profession straight to Level 10 took twenty thousand points, which wasn’t reachable here, but aside from elevating directly to Legendary, most everything else could be resolved.

True, some unresolved events outside the Land of Ten Thousand Spirits might still be awaiting settlement. Yet they were settled in just a few days?

No, a few days? That was just my subjective perception.

Li Ang looked at the date on the system panel, which was stopped at September 5, Year 300.

Evidently, time couldn’t have passed just one day; it was the system that had ceased counting.

In the Land of Ten Thousand Spirits, there was no distinction of day and night, nor any passage of time, but upon returning, it became uncertain.

How much time had actually passed outside.

Li Ang furrowed his brows.

"What’s wrong with you?" Inanna asked from the side.

Li Ang turned his head to look at her, the Dragon Maiden had regained her breath and was now leaning on the bed. Feeling his gaze, she instinctively shrank a bit, her embroidered foot curlingly tucked under the edge of her skirt.

"I’ve been thinking about the curse, there’s some progress, but it seems quite some time has passed in the outside world."

"Are you worried about the group members?"

"Somewhat, and there’s more."

The fires of war in the Ignis Sky Realm, Elaphia’s matter, these are also considerations.

"I believe they can handle the waves well, you don’t have to worry too much."

Inanna softly said, "Among the many mortals I’ve seen, rarely have I encountered such a group full of possibility and unknowns gathered together. Since you achieved it, you must understand."

"It’s not that I don’t trust them, just inevitably a bit worried."

The key to this illusion realm lies in Zosia’s ritual. As the time in the illusion realm advances, Li Ang feels that a key event will surely arrive at that moment.

He stared out the window at the night, absent-minded, still a while until dawn.

Suddenly, he felt something touching him. Li Ang turned his head, surprisingly, it was Inanna using her toes to tug at his sleeve.

Compared to Zoe’s tiny feet with a youthful plumpness, or Dorothy’s slender and graceful feet, Inanna possessed features of both. Or, her abundant body made toe nails sharp, combining the colors of gold and gemstone, it was the heterogeneous touch that turned it into a stunning artwork.

Li Ang couldn’t help but reach out and grasp it. Inanna’s body trembled, inciting a small wave of dense shivers.

"Have you recovered your strength?"

"I, I just wanted to call you..."

By now, Inanna had learned to hear the subtext in words, and learned that among mortals some words left unsaid can better capture the tension that lingers in the subtlety.

Li Ang’s fingers pressed on the footpad, fingertips sliding along meridians, originally transformed from Dragon Claw, capable of easily crushing rocks, shaking the Earth, but suddenly detected an anomaly.

"How, how can it be, the, the feet too? Mortals are truly beyond imagination..."

Surprise, tension, and disbelief mingled in Dragon God’s eyes.

"It depends on what kind it is," Li Ang said.

Inanna paused, carefully lifted her palm, pressed under her collarbone, eyes shimmering with unknown radiance.

"Is it as strong as here?"

Li Ang raised his hand to indicate: "From low to high, it’s from here to there."

Inanna glanced at the position he indicated, the claws were merely positioned at a relatively forward low point, breathing a sigh of relief.

"Well then, then I can experience it." The Dragon Maiden gathered her courage, seemingly thinking it’s nothing significant.

Li Ang said nothing and began massaging the footpad and tendons.

Soon, she began arching her foot, claw tips dancing, finding it hard to suppress the soft moans from her throat.

"Wait, hold on, very strange..."

Dragon God bit her lip: "Clearly said, this is the least sensitive..."

"Originally it should be, but..."

"Alright, I know when I chose the mortal form, I didn’t consider much."

Inanna admitted her failure from ten thousand years ago.

"Actually, if the Six Dragons are willing to spend time, they can also adjust their incarnations’ image, right? You see Akuya has changed, I’ve heard the Wind Dragon has altered as well."

"They are passive, but indeed, they can."

Inanna pouted childishly: "We’ve reached this point, I don’t want to run away... oh oh!"

Li Ang’s hands were soaked in sweat, feeling her foot tremble.

A smile suddenly appeared on his face, Inanna immediately urged: "What are you laughing at?!"

"I just remembered some legends, like Dragon Blood granting mortals an Immortal Body."

Li Ang talked about the legend of Earth’s dragon slayer Siegfried, who bathed in Dragon Blood to gain an Immortal Body.

"That’s just mortals’ imagination of the extraordinary world, isn’t it?"

Speaking of dragon slaying, the Dragon Maiden felt a little indignant.

"So, there are also dragon lovers who believe dragon sweat can have the same effect," Li Ang continued.

He recalled seeing such a setting in some work but couldn’t remember specifically.

"You’re surely teasing me!"

"I’m not teasing you, indeed there’s such a legend, I asked you because I didn’t know."

"Then you’d better try it."

Inanna raised her dragon claw like a piece of art.

Li Ang bent over and kissed her, his body warmth made Inanna tense up, clutching her skirt.

Yet, the sensations of the beautiful feet were still far from genuine impact, even though her doubly reactive body was enveloped in heat, unable to touch the key point, merely scratching the surface.

The vertical pupils of the Earth Dragon glowed more intensely with golden light, she raised her body and pulled Li Ang onto the bed.

"I’ve rested well, try what you just said."

The Earth God offered the abundant fruit to the mortal she chose, reciprocating with rain that nurtures the world.