Reaper of the Martial World

Book 12: Chapter 84: Hunters (2)

The only unfortunate part, and the reason Dyon wasn’t able to quickly defeat Berolt despite this truth, was that the Dark Flame world and the desert world were two sides of the same coin. Dyon had already said that he shouldn’t absorb the same types of energies, yet he had been faced with yet another fire/ice world core.

Knowing that he couldn’t, Dyon had no ability to improve the strength of his body. Due to his constitutions, his body was the most foundational part of his strength. As a result, despite control half-laws more powerful than even some laws, he still had to be cautious.

His main goal now would be to find another source of energy so he could balance out his body with more energies.

This sort of process would be extremely complex and required a level of alchemic skill that made one’s head spin. Though Dyon seemed to be walking around normally, the truth was that his body was currently in a state of limbo with most of his soul strength being diverted toward maintaining its balance.

If he compared his body to a pill, he was essentially in a constant state of keeping himself stable. The good news was that this was an excellent way to train his mental energy. The bad news was that this put an artificial cap on both his soul strength and his battle prowess.

In order to get out of this rut, he needed to perfectly balance the yin and yang qis within his body. But, this wasn’t as simple as fire and water. If it was, then Dyon wouldn’t have a problem now.

Luckily, this was where the good news finally started.

What Dyon needed wasn’t just yang fire and yin water, he needed both yin and yang fire in addition to yin and yang water. This was an in depth level of feng shui that didn’t even exist on the mortal plane and was a theory that Dyon himself only theorized after he saw how unstable his body was after absorbing the energy of the desert bubble world’s world core.

This was where the Dark Flame bubble world finally gave him some benefits.

The desert world’s fire could have been considered primarily yang. As a result, the balancing of the blue star was mostly yin. This covered yang fire and yin water. However, the Dark Flame world was different. Dark Flames didn’t necessarily have to be yang!

Though much of the energies were yang, the dark violet flames of the Darkwell Clan were actually yin. As a result, in order to balance it, Dyon had to forge an opposing core of yang water and ice.

This was why Dyon had such a hard time. Bright water and ice wills were opposing to his entire cultivation journey to now.

That said, Dyon was ultimately a genius. In the end, his body’s strength hadn’t actually increased since he couldn’t absorb more energy however…

Dyon’s soul qi surged, multiplying in strength several times over. He thought that he would finally break into the immortal realms with his soul, but what actually happened was inexplicable. Dyon felt the bottleneck to the next level actually move. It didn’t loosen… but it physically moved, pushing itself back as though making more room for Dyon to grow more powerful within the mortal realms.

It made so little sense that Dyon’s meditative state faltered as he made a weird face.

There was simply no explanation he could think of for this, but now, he felt more comfortable than he had in a long time.

His body’s strength hadn’t improved, but he had purged half of the yang fire and yin water attributed energies in his body for the energies of the Dark Flame bubble world.

Not only had his effective strength increased as a result, but his soul’s burden was alleviated, causing its strength to reach a new level.

Dyon smirked. ‘You’re going to love that qi I left behind very much.’

Dyon’s yang fire and yin water qi had to go somewhere after he expelled it. As for where it went, maybe he was the only one who knew the answer to that.

It took Dyon’s body a few weeks to reach the equilibrium he sought. He hadn’t had the time to do so within the world core, but now his strength had reached a new level.

Dyon stood up with a calm smile.

‘The next world I should find needs to be one of earth and wind. It will definitely be more difficult to find yang and yin attributes of both… yin wind is particularly dangerous and yin earth by my estimations should be exceptionally rare.

‘These eight energies will lay a perfect foundation for me. Yin and yang fire, water, earth and wind are a perfect start. Afterward, I will need to more specially tailor the balancing act toward my constitutions… bubble worlds made of those special energies are mostly extremely high level and monopolized by hegemons though.. but that will be fine, I plan to give them hell regardless.’

The benefit of spending time in the Dark Flame bubble world was that Dyon now had a detailed map of this star segment and rough estimations of adjacent star segments now. He had already found a world of yin wind to go to.

Of course, that was his first destination. He had only spoken of going directly to the void battlefield first because he hadn’t fully trusted Amethyst. Even if she didn’t plan to harm him, would she still be so staunch if someone caught her? Who knew.

‘I should see if I can find any immortal essence level type qi stones here first, though…’