Reaper of the Martial World

Book 7: Chapter 225: Thin Sword (1)

Dyon blinked, finding himself back within his inner world. The first thing he saw was a meditating Madeleine, emanating the light of an absolute goddess.

His main body’s divine sense immediately detected that the third phase had begun. It seemed that these two weeks had ended just in time.

Dyon smiled bitterly when he noticed that his Presence had fallen from the Lower Emperor level back to the Peak King level. Honestly, he had expected his Presence to be eradicated entirely, so it was surprising that it was still here. He remembered that he his Presence only reached this level because of Luna. So, logically, since he relied on someone else, the new path he had chosen wouldn’t allow such a thing. But, it seemed his understanding was still shallow.

‘Or…’ Dyon sunk into deep thought.

Before he could finish his thought, Madeleine’s eyes opened. The flash in her eyes was so sharp that Dyon almost dodged reflexively.

She didn’t say anything immediately, instead, she looked toward Dyon with an odd look in her eye.

“Did your Presence advance again?” She blinked, finding it incredulous. She had always believed in this husband of hers, but some things were so far out of the norm that they were unacceptable even for her.

Dyon was already considered the youngest in modern history to grasp Emperor Level Presence. All of the others who had were at least Pseudo Dao Experts, yet he was not even a saint when he grasped his!

The qualitative change that one undergoes in the celestial realm is even more exaggerated once one comprehends enigmatic energy. It’s the grasping of Heavenly Laws that makes it easier to comprehend a Presence.

In addition, one had to remember that Emperor Level Presence was impossible to comprehend – according to the norm – by those who didn’t rule or weren’t part of the upper echelon of an Emperor God Sect or Clan.

However, not only did Dyon not require this mastery of Heavenly Laws, he hadn’t even built a true Royal God Clan yet! In fact, his so-called Empire wouldn’t even meet the requirements for a mere God Clan!

Dyon frowned. “No, it actually got wea –“

His words paused. ‘What’s going on?’

“Weaker?” Madeleine’s eyebrow raised. “If it wasn’t for my Goddess’ Disposition, it would be very hard to breathe around you right now…”

Dyon immediately tried to retract his aura as much as he could, but he couldn’t rein it in no matter how hard he tried.

Unable to figure it out, Dyon sent both his consciousness and Madeleine out with a thought. In that moment, Madeleine sighed a breath of relief as though a weight had been lifted off of her shoulders.

“It looks like we couldn’t escape it because it was your inner world, I really don’t know how you do it.” Madeleine said with a smile, standing up from their bed to get dressed.

She couldn’t help but sigh. After she awoke from her injuries, three new and perfectly formed meridians were added to her 108. Due to the fact she had only just broken into the celestial realm, the additional meridians had to go through the tempering of the foundation realm, the meridian formation realm, the essence gathering realm and the saint realm all at once. This was a large part of why her situation was so morbid.

The later in cultivation one takes the pills, the more pain and hardship one must undergo. When it was Amphorae’s turn to take hers, being incapacitated for a decade might be a low estimate. Still, Madeleine found it all to be worth it because the greatest evolution was her constitution.

Much like Dyon’s, all God Constitutions had successive levels one must cross. In fact, Madeleine’s and Ri’s trials were just as difficult as Dyon’s.

The Titan Diamond Body had the Gem stage, the Mesh Stage, then, finally the Silk Stage. However, simply reaching the Silk Stage took a lifetime of accumulation and mind numbing amounts of resources. Had it not been for Dyon’s soul once more asserting its dominance, Dyon would still be at the mere Gem Stage. Maybe he would have only progressed to the Mesh stage after taking the Pulse Fruits and Pills.

Actually, if Dyon had still been at the Gem Stage, he wouldn’t have even had the power to fight for the Pulse Fruits and would thus definitely still be at the Gem Stage. Such was the irony of the martial world.

Obviously, Madeleine didn’t have the luck of having such an overbearing soul. So, just like everyone else, she was forced to begin at her first stage and slowly work her way up. It was for this reason that the true prowess of both her and Ri’s Constitutions had yet to manifest themselves. The difference was that Ri had an ancient tree spirit guiding her, while Madeleine had no one.

It was only after gaining three new meridians that Madeleine suddenly felt he chains on her constitution loosening, but then Dyon blazed by once more. She couldn’t help but feel dejected.

However, there was hope. The Heaven’s Selfless Breath tea leaves were highly compatible with her constitution. Although she didn’t improve as quickly as Dyon, she felt that she had made great progress she never expected. The Life and Reincarnation characteristics of her Flames fed into this improvement, reaching a new and exciting height. She could see a road to improvement.

Seeing the determined expression of his wife’s face, Dyon could only chuckle bitterly. She had misunderstood. He wasn’t more talented than her, it just seemed that his own soul was taking control of his life.

The real question was, how would he follow this new path his manifestation and he decided on if there was such an overbearing passenger in their vehicle?