The Story Never Ends

"Thunder Domain"

"Ahh.."

One woman and two men cried out in pain as they were charred to death by Davion.

"It's finished. It seems like destroying the formation didn't seem to be a waste of time," He muttered as he found them recovering themselves not far away from him. It meant that the backlash they suffered was quite serious and needed immediate attention.

He then walked back where the battle had taken place earlier and found Bryant lying unconscious on the ground.

"With his attitude, I should have just let him die. But he is one of the disciples after all." He approached him and looked at him carefully. Especially the ring on his finger.

"Maybe I should take this ring as a gratitude." Davion couldn't resist seeing inside it as Bryant was someone having a strong background. So, there must be good things inside.

"Hehe, will there be spiritual arts like in Nora's ring?" He couldn't contain his excitement and took it off without any hesitation.

He looked through it and was surprised at once.

"Although there are no spiritual arts, there is something even better." He smiled and took out a bottle of pills from it.

"These should be the Soul Qi Refining pills that help a Nascent Soul Cultivator to grow their soul and improve their cultivation base. I'm sure it would provide me with a lot of experience points." He had some basic understanding of it from the library.

"Except for the pills, there are many talismans and spirit stones." He then put away all the contents of that spirit ring into his and left it back on Bryant's finger.

"It's time to leave." He was about to go when he sensed a weak energy fluctuation coming from ahead. He gazed in that direction and saw a hammer lying there on the ground.

"Hehe, a good artifact." He chuckled and came infront of it in the blink of an eye. He lifted it up and channeled his spiritual energy into it.

The imprint inside was easily destroyed, and he could feel some movement from behind. Thus, he used his Thunder Stomp spell immediately and disappeared from there at once.

"Where am I?" Bryant woke up and scanned his surroundings in caution.

"This place.."

"Wait!" He abruptly stood up as he recalled what had happened.

"But where are they?" He didn't see anyone there.

"Was it all an illusion?" He thought and later shook his head. How could he imagine that?

"Phew, let's forget about that. It's too scary." He wiped the blood on his lips and didn't even care to bother why he had this in the first place.

"I should return back now and report this matter. The enemies are terrifyingly strong. Even I was not a match against them. So, I don't think anybody can handle them." Next, he looked into his spirit ring and was about to take out his flying artifact when he finally noticed that it was empty.

"WHO?" He bellowed in anger. He couldn't believe someone would be this shameless.

"Not only that, I can't sense my hammer."

***

In the middle of the forest, where he had taken care of Jack, Davion was sitting cross-legged on the ground with his eyes closed. Currently, he was digesting the information about the cultivation technique transmitted by Elder Liliana.

Only after a couple of minutes, did he open his eyes.

"As I thought, this technique has really harsh requirements and is quite difficult to practice," he sighed and focused on his panel.

The words Divine Thunder Cultivation Technique had already been written on it.

"Since I cannot cultivate, I should not have been able to learn this as it is not a spell. It looks like there are some exceptions. Maybe, it is due to it consisting of attacking capabilities," he was in deep thought.

Once reached the Nascent Soul Stage, their soul would be a newborn baby. This baby would slowly grow along with time and the cultivation base would steadily increase. In this way, the soul would become stronger and would be even able to influence the outside world. This stage was considered as the Domain Realm.

However, it would take a long time if one depended only on this. So, with the help of cultivation techniques, one could boost this process. The Divine Thunder Technique was also the same but it had an additional advantage as it helped one to evolve their Divine Sense on the way.

It made the Divine Sense have properties of thunder which allowed one to cause damage to others with just their thought. As a result, it was overpowered and deserved to be the technique obtained from the Central Region.

"According to this technique, one had to absorb a huge amount of thunder energy and form a sea of thunder in their Dantian. The more destructive thunder they absorb the better. Next, they had to bathe their soul inside it."

"This would cause them unbearable pain and even some injuries in the soul if they weren't careful. So, it was recommended to consume pills or spiritual herbs that heal the soul."

"During this process, the soul would transform into a unique being made of lightning, and changes would take place in the Divine Sense. So, it was completely different from being able to manipulate lightning."

"Haiz, this process sounds quite painful. This must be the reason why she was smiling at me. If it was someone else, they would surely suffer." He shook his head. He knew that the expenditure would be huge to buy those materials that could heal the soul. Moreover, they were rare in the Inner Region too.

"Now the question is how did this old woman get this technique?" He pondered. He knew that a Domain Realm expert was still a nobody in the Central Region. Thus, someone with her cultivation base, should not be able to obtain it.

"Don't tell me she has a hidden background?" Suddenly he had this strange guess. Of course, he got this idea from the novels in his past life. He clearly remembered getting tired of reading about women belonging to a secret ancient family having devastating power.

"Perhaps I might be thinking too much." He smiled warily and was about to learn the technique when all of sudden, something struck his mind.

"Don't tell me it's due to her husband. It should definitely be him as he is a secret and nobody knows about him."

"Haha, did that old woman have an illegal affair? This would also explain why the elders dislike her." Davion laughed alone like an idiot while imagining these strange things.

He controlled it after a while and thought, "Let's stop thinking about this as she's an elder in the end. Even though she meant to trouble me with this technique, it's nothing to a genius like me."

He closed his eyes and put his attention on the technique in the panel.

"Although I don't have any Divine Sense, it was still recorded. Time to see what surprises it would bring."

By killing all those apostles, his experience bar had already become nearly full. Thus, he didn't need to worry about lacking experience points.

His experience points began decreasing, but it stopped in a few seconds.

"This.."

"Did the panel get bugged? It didn't even consume one-tenth of my points. Moreover, I got no information." He was confused.

However, his expression changed abruptly as he felt something strange happening inside his Dantian. Loads of spiritual energy flowed, and it swiftly gathered below his devil seed.

Afterward, it turned into lightning energy and his soul automatically dived into it. His soul which was silver-colored then slowly became blue like lightning and he felt something weird happening to him. But he couldn't pinpoint it exactly.

Only after a few minutes, did everything return to normal, and he opened his eyes.

"My senses have become sharper." This was the first thing he noticed as he saw a small ant crawling on a tree that was about a hundred meters away from him.

"Does this mean that my Mind-Eye has become powerful too?" He used it and saw everything as usual. There was no improvement in it.

"Humph, so annoying." He coldly looked at the ant.

"Zap"

A spark was produced, and the ant was nowhere to be found.

"This.."

He stood up in amazement and had his mouth wide open.

"It seems like the panel evolved my Mind-Eye."

He then focused on a tall tree far away from him.

A bolt of lightning automatically appeared out of nowhere in the sky and fell on the tree.

"BOOM"

The tree was turned into dust in a flash, and he finally understood everything.

"Haha, is this what is meant by you can hurt others with just your thoughts?" He chuckled.

"Despite it being powerful, it consumes a bit more spiritual energy." He found its shortcomings.

"Now, time to check the most important thing."

His soul came out of the body and it floated in the air.