Reaper of the Martial World

Book 7: Chapter 174: Demonic Essence (1)

Dyon dropped from the skies, barely catching himself before he fell to his knees. Still, despite his apparent weakness, the scene of such a massive beast corpse collapsing before him as crimson blood rained down from above, coating his valiant figure, was too awe inspiring for those spectating to care.

‘That took more out of me than expected…’ Dyon thought to himself, wrinkling his brows as he felt the weakness of his body. Although the remaining Blue Flame Demon Tigers didn’t dare to attack for now, he didn’t think that such a situation would last. ‘I should have kept some soul recovery pills for myself…’

Dyon couldn’t help but berate himself for being too arrogant. These soul recovery pills were among the niche markets he wanted to corner within the Tower, in fact, although he hadn’t checked himself, he was sure that they were among his top selling items. But, Dyon hadn’t thought he’d need them. His soul being drained was exceptionally rare for him, so it didn’t seem necessary.

Despite using [Slow] to drastically reduce the energy requirements for [Torment] Dyon still felt himself sucked completely dry. If just the second act of [Judgement] was so fierce, what about the remaining seven?

The spear barely pierced the beast King’s head before it erupted into a shower of meat, bones and blood. It was almost too exaggerated.

Luckily, Dyon worries were unfounded. Noticing their big brother’s weakness, the now healed beast babies immediately took action, displaying their year-long training progress.

Dyon had to admit that he was impressed. Not only had their teamwork reached a peak level, but their various bloodlines were started to show signs of forging their own way.

Biibi’s bloodline ability allowed her to infuse her celestial will into her cultivation qi, allowing her healing magic to reach a new level. Sen’s allowed him an explosive increase in either speed or strength, depending on which of his forms he entered. Linlin’s bloodline blossomed along the wisdom path, allowing her to quickly analyze the techniques of her opponents and create counter measures for them. Her innate bloodline technique was similar to [Soul Aid] except it worked only for certain defensive formations. Finally, there was Shere who unlocked a similar physical boost ability to Sen. The only difference was that in exchange for a lesser increase, she was also gifted sharper senses and slaughter qi.

When these four bloodline abilities worked together, they covered for each other’s mistakes seamlessly.

Shere was able to act as vanguard, having high combat ability and senses. Biibi was able to provide support from the back, whether that be healing or various buffs in strength, speed and the like. With her strong soul, she was also sharper than Shere in the senses respect.

Then, Sen supplemented Shere’s attack position, working together to pierce through their enemy’s defenses. When Shere pushed ahead, Sen would stay back to protect Biibi and Linlin. When Shere grew tired, Sen was able to cover for her, acting as a strong anchor.

Of course, Linlin was a staple of their group. Not only was she the one who often directed the actions of the four of them, she provided defensive support, disallowing the enemy from taking advantage of numbers to deal with Sen and Shere.

Dyon watched the four of them systematically work to wipe out a pride of transcendent grade beasts with a smile on his face as his soul slowly recovered. They really had grown.

Days later, the Gorge had finally been cleared. After setting a concealment array that darkened what was happening below, Dyon took Madeleine in his arms again. She seemed to still be taking a content nap.

“Big brother, isn’t it safer to keep sister-in-law in the tower?” Biibi asked.

Dyon shook his head. “Her life is still hanging on by a thread. As things stand now, things could go very badly very quickly at any moment. I have to be there to stabilize it if that happens, even a split second could be the difference between life and death.

“Oh…” Biibi suddenly felt sorry for asking. Although they hadn’t known this sister-in-law for long, Madeleine was the type of person who everyone took a liking to quickly. Seeing her so grey and weak made them feel uncomfortable.

Dyon had only laid her to rest before fighting the demon tigers because it couldn’t be helped. But, as things stood now, he felt better with her in his arms.

“Don’t worry about it so much, she’ll push through this.” Dyon said with a smile. “Let’s go and see what this Demonic Gorge has to offer.”

“Hard rocks, lots of hard rocks!” Little Rain flipped around in Dyon’s inner world, forcing him to release the little guy for fear he might accidentally harm the Heaven’s Selfless Breath bushels.

Dyon laughed slightly.

“Who’s this?” The four beast babies blinked, Biibi, Linlin and Shere having returned to their adorable toddler forms.

“He’s our money maker.” Dyon said mysteriously. Who knew that Little Rain, who had been completely knocked out for the past more than month, would suddenly awaken with such vigor?

Still, this was good news. The Demonic Gorge was large, who knew how many mineral deposits they had sitting around? Although Dyon was very interested in the concentration of demonic and devil qi, he was even more interested in just what kind of minerals would be formed after trillions of years bathing in such conditions…