Chapter 348
Chapter 348
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After the bloodbath ended ravaging and destroying the three great families of Marchant Union, the Lenoir Family, Ashdown Family and lastly the Shura Blood Guards in tow with Leylin returned back to Lenoir manor.
The whole Lenoir family was filled with excitement and although the pain and anguish of Leylin grand uncle death was still fresh in everyone’s mind, it didn’t disturb or diminished their joy for the current occasion.
In a bloody and ruthless world like Grace Mainland, the concept of life and death is rather twisted and the grievance although is not detached but, quite frankly no one keeps dwelling over the departed ones.
It was a really festive occasion for the whole Lenoir family that they have not only tided through their troubled times and got revenge for their grievance but also completely ravaged their enemies, as Leylin fulfilled his claim of killing them to their last ones!
In eyes of everyone now, Leylin is a supreme existence and although his realm isn’t the highest he’s definitely the most powerful existence in the whole Merchant Union with the support of Alaister Family.
Everyone from the upper echelon of the two remaining families had a particular gleam in their eyes when looking at his heroic figure descending from the sky above riding a ferocious Rank 6 Cyan Blood Bat, many couldn’t wait to get close to him and probably gain his grace including Ashdown Family head Ian Ashdown who wanted to lay down his inner intentions but Leylin wasn’t up for the bootlicking as something else took priority.
Currently there are many things he previously would have given a glance to, which currently he have no desire to care for, a small example are the duo of Mable and Demi who’s whereabouts and situation is far too worthless to attach any importance to and thrown at the back of his head.
After arriving, Leylin immediately asked about the whereabouts of Yamaduti from Shura Blood Guards and after knowing that he has already killed Poisonous Barun Feat, and would be returning to set off to Endless Sea, Leylin entered the Lenoir family and without any explanation entered secluded cultivation inside his own manor.
Leylin didn’t greet anyone who were waiting for him and separated, asking the Shura Blood Guards to make sure no one can disturb him meanwhile.
Leylin only told Shura Blood Guards that he has gained some understanding of realm and would want to enter a close door seclusion to digest it properly. Obviously they were euphoric to know this and couldn’t stop complementing him and his otherworldly talent.
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Entering his own mansion and, inside his underground laboratory with the bright lamp, Leylin felt much better.
Walking to the simple experiment lab, Leylin thought in his mind.
“A.I. Chip! How is the progress on the simulation of Magical Artifact model? Also the simulation of Sky realm warrior soul refining.”
[Rank 3 defensive spell model simulation progress: 89.9%. Estimated completion: 5 days!]
Towards the simulation of a rank 3 spell model, the A.I. Chip gave a reasonable duration when he first started to walk towards this plan, but at that time he was a Earth Realm Warrior with ability comparable to a Peak Nirvana which can be compared to a Rank 3 Magus.
Fast and thorough stimulation of this spell model was one of the reasons he broke through to Earth Realm despite knowing that he would need to crush his cultivation rank later on.
The expenditure was too much which was bearable for Leylin as he entered Earth realm but after his power receded, it became more troublesome and needed more time but even still he’s at the cusp of fulfilling his plans.
Currently as a Third Sky of Disaster Realm, at the cusp of Earth realm as he’s tightly forcing his breakthrough to be delayed and overflowing with sentient force, Leylin’s powers are comparable to a Peak Rank 2 making him narrowly eligible to perform the creation of a Rank 3 Artifact.
Hence, Leylin was extremely pleased with this.
Previously the A.I. Chip was not able to estimate the progress of a successful simulation. However, after recording the massive amount of information in the libraries of Ashdown and Lenoir Family, the A.I. Chip finally allowed Leylin to see a glimmer of hope to make this a successful endeavor.
“As long as it can be completed! It will be worth all the effort, this is gonna be my Trump Card for the journey to Endless Sea.”
Thinking of this Leylin took out an object from his pocket which looked like a cross pendant.
“To think the item I would be using would be so similar to a past creation of mine. The Grace Mainland shall also bear witness to the Fallen Stat Pendant!”
Fallen Star Pendant, Leylin removed the silvery grey cross from his neck.
On the surface of the cross was embedded with various colours of gemstones, which looked to be an impeccable art piece.
This is one of the object Leylin got from his transaction with the Misty Pavillion for the information about the Gate of Heaven, Leylin was immediately enticed with the pendant the moment he saw him, he performed multi experiments to improve and alter it for his needs all the while checking for different parameters it needed to be verified onto before usage.
The odd pendant is called Heaven Froze and it’s a rare type of alchemy material used by top class blacksmith, it’s definitely one of the most expensive things in his overall haul from the transaction.
Fallen Star Pendant — it was the item that attributed a fair share of young Leylin early journey in his acolytes and beginning magus days.
By design, it’s a much more complex and powerful item, it can even over qualify the standards of Magical Artifact and reaching the realm of Magical Item in the future!
It’s fundamentals are similar to the earliest form of it’s creation back then, but added with Leylin’s seemingly bottomless wealth of knowledge despite of being in a different world, it’s existence is not something the likes of that version of Fallen Star Pendant could compare to.
The layer of defense that its design to radiate, no matter if it was physical or Profound Qi resistance, would reached a very high degree upon completion. No one below the ranks of an extremely powerful Rank 3 Magus could penetrate its defences.
However, in any world, the law of conservation of energy must be fulfilled. Every time the Fallen Star Pendant would be activated, it required a consumption of energy. And the source of energy for this is none other than the soul of a Sky Realm Warrior— Elrod Crystal!
“The Fallen Star Pendant’s defence would be rather good, although it can’t hope to tank that ‘monster’ head on. I can save myself, especially when I would not be the target!”
Leylin was solemn as he commanded, “A.I. Chip! Establish mission. Apart from the simulation of host, direct all the power for the creation of Fallen Star Pendant”
[Beep! Mission establishing! Beginning to use idle processes to calculate, time shortened! Estimated completion: 3 days] The A.I. Chip’s voice intoned.
“First of all, I need the basic material for the formula, a vengeful spirit!”
Walking to the corner of his experiment laboratory, Leylin took out a up clear bottle. Within it was a man, and looking at Leylin with an expression of fury.
“Awww.. Don’t look at me like that, I’ll blush. Why are you so angry with me, I am just someone who butchered your son and massacre your family and is the cause of your demise.” Leylin pursed his lips and teased him as Elrod roared and thrashed around.
“Well no matter, the more angry you are more interesting it would be.” Leylin expression fell as his cold dark eyes stare daggers at Elrod and he streched his hands while cracking his knuckles.
“Get ready, try to resist and make it more interesting.”
“Let’s get rid of your past grievances, rejoice I am helping you get rid of your pain!”
Leylin suddenly invoked the negative energies stored somewhere deep inside his body! Although the devour system can effectively get rid of all the negative energies from the Devour Qi making it resemble the all purpose extremely versatile and characteristics of sentient force, Leylin still stores a refined accumulated part of dark negative energies to use for Rampage, Seal of Life and Death, and all the Marital Skills that would be interconnected with Devour Martial Spirit.
Currently now, with the extremely huge assimilation of devour force inside of him from all the massacre the negative force is at an extremely high level ready to be used. It was so much that it very much hindered the refining ability of devour system decreasing it’s efficiency.
In the meridians all over his body, there hid the different negative energies of bloodlust, fear, slaughter, and desperation. They all emerged, and under his will, the negative powers all flowed towards his left arm.
The shrivelled left arm was covered with white mist. The mist shifted unpredictably, like the faint shadows of ghosts.
His mind flicked.
Following to the circulation method of the right arm, Leylin started invoking the negative energies in his left arm.
Under his control, the already shrivelled left arm became even more shrivelled and shrunken.
Looking at that, it was like as if there was only a layer of skin pressing on his bones, which appeared very strange.
However, as his left arm shriveled up, a mass of extremely evil power started slowly growing.
The thick white mist on his left arm shortly turned pitch black. The arm was also frighteningly black, as if it was heavily toxic.
A mass of maniacal, evil, destructive power quickly condensed in his left arm.
After various full cycles, the power in his left arm flowed down into his left palm using the same technique as his right arm, and together they burst from his left palm!
“Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom!”
Following the explosion, seven pitch black handprints flew out from his palms.
The destructive power, along with the thick essence of death, all struck Elrod’s soul in front of him.
Suddenly the sentinel force of the soul was instantly impacted making it extremely dim.
Under the watchful eyes of Leylin, the soul was surrounded by a swirling black energy.
The lively roaring and raging soul looked like it had instantly aged a lot as the visible visage of Elrod become older and turned into an older version of himself.
The [Death Seal]!
Leylin’s eyes glinted with an odd light, “Still not enough huh, as expected”
He knew that the [Death Seal] would be very extraordinary. This kind of destructive power was not only astounding in strength, but more importantly, this [Death Seal] additionally came with the power of Death!
It could actually cut off the force of all living existence and although it was a soul, Elrod still latched onto his spiritual force making him vulnerable to the [Death Seal] and suffered from the attack but obviously Leylin knew just one attack wasn’t enough.
As expected, Elrod only simmered down for a second immediately started to wail again.
“If one isn’t enough, then two and if that’s not enough then I would go as many as needed. I have no lack of energy and could carry on continuously for days but I seriously doubt you can.”
“Again!”
Leylin smiled, yet his hand continued to move and attacked again.
“Ah… It hurts! I’ll kill you! No… Please! Forgive me!”
The vengeful Elrod continued to wail from within the confined bottle as Leylin continued attacking without any end in sight, he would collect negative force and release [Death Seal] the would observe Elrod and after confirming that he was still holding on he would still continue, and just like that it carried out for hours!
Towards such painful wailing and pitiful state, some would hesitate, however Leylin’s brows had not furrowed the slightest as he continued the movement with his hands.
The [Death Seal] pierced through the bottle, and directly into the chest of the Elrod.
“Argh!” Elrod let off a hair-raising scream, and his body became blurry.
Once he could be seen again, but the one in front of Leylin’s eyes had taken on a completely different form. He looked shriveled and sickly as if an old begger who haven’t ate for days and is on the verge of dying from starvation, he looked hideous and pitiful.
“You are aging well.”
Leylin mocked him and laughed, but now there was no response finally after so much torture the soul couldn’t hold on and was defeated.
Leylin didn’t waste anytime before drawing another mysterious magic rune… and hence, the experiment started.
The experiment then lasted for over a dozen hours and continued the way until the third day before the end was near.
Inside the experiment lab.
Inside a scarlet pentagonal formation, a pitiful weak shriveled body with bumps and bruises through could be seen. The old thin face of the Elrod soul had been tied down by a metal chain, trapped within the spell formation.
At this moment, although the soul looked to be phantom, as if disappearing in the next moment, his face no longer had the craze and hate from before. Instead, there was a dazed expression on it.
Leylin looked at the soul in front of him, his face revealing a satisfied expression. “After a long day, I have finally removed all of the grievances from it!”
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A few hours passed.
At this moment, there was a chill permeating the experiment lab.
One could almost hear the wails of vengeful spirits within these four walls.
As for the Elrod’s soul in front of Leylin, it had almost lost its human appearance.
“The last step!” Leylin picked up a silver knife and closed his eyes collecting some form of lively energy from inside his body.
Leylin released the refined devour force from inside the body giving it a physical form as he concentrated it onto the silver knife and pierced Elrod’s head through the eyes.
“Pu!”
As if made from some special materials, the silver knife directly pierced through the his eyeball.
Leylin did not bother paying attention to anything else as he placed the silver cross in the centre of the runes, as he began to complete the final step for the Fallen Star Pendant.
The Fallen Star Pendant was an object from Magus World. After having been converted by the A.I. Chip, to implement it into the Cultivation World together with the his alchemy talent, Leylin was able to deduce the correct procedure for synthesizing, improving and optimising it.
After costing Leylin a large amount of time, dedication and ingredients, the Fallen Star Pendant was almost completed, where the final step remained – “spirit awakening!”
The Fallen Star Pendant came from a derelict page in the Lowian Academy Teachings and according to it, the final step, the spirit awakening, had already involved the aspect of spirit and was something that could not missed.
With so much experience, the spirit awakening step did not pose a problem for Leylin.
“For the Spirit awakening, a stronger spirit body is not necessarily better. According to the A.I. Chip’s simulation and my own deductions, for a Rank 3 Magical Artifact a Sky Level Warrior whose comparable to a Rank 3 Magus would be the most suitable for it….”
Leylin looked at the soul, Elrod, who was lying listless on the light formation.
“For a long time, I have deliberately calibrated Elrod’s spirit strength to be compatible with the final step. As long as I am able to complete the spirit awakening, the magic artifact that I get will definitely be perfect!”
This was the trump card that Leylin had prepared for the upcoming journey.
A Rank 3 magic artifact is a Trump Card that is extremely useful for someone like him, especially for the two basic function he modified it for, the first of the defensive power capable of tanking a Sky Realm full force attack and secondly, it’s ability to mask Leylin cultivation rank!
With this Rank 3 Magical Artifact, Leylin is sure that no one below God Realm can see through his disguise and hence, Leylin would freely breakthrough to next realm which would form a type of misinformation about his power level and talent, currently Leylin is already a heaven defying talent before everyone, but he’s the type to only show the tip of the iceberg and keep many surprises for his possible future enemies.
As long as Leylin had that pendant, his safety in the Endless Sea would be greatly increased.
*Sssii! *
A cloud of white smoke rose from the silver necklace, and the white mist in the air transformed into a large jaw lined with razor sharp teeth, which bit at Elrod’s incapacitated directly.
* Ka-cha! *
He was immediately eaten by the large malevolent mouth, which it opened and closed as if enjoying the aftertaste.
Leylin stared at the large mouth, and after seeing that Elrod was completely devoured, he began to chant an incantation.
The chanting voice reverberated around the area, and Leylin’s spell formation that he drew on the experiment lab began to shrink to the centre, and finally, it all transferred onto the Fallen Star Pendant.
With the convergence of the runes, the patterns on the silver cross seemed more detailed and glowed with mysterious colours of light.
“Seal!”
Leylin fixed his gaze on the cross. When the runes were all accepted by the silver Fallen Star Pendant, he pointed at the huge mouth in midair.
* Pu! * A sound similar to a bubble popping sounded.
The white mouth was directly dispersed, and threads of white gaseous bodies were emitted. In the centre of them were many strands of black colour, which continuously fell onto the silver cross.
“With my name, Leylin Farlier, Fallen Star Pendant, shimmer!”
Leylin’s expression was solemn, and he bit his fingers, dripping a droplet of blood onto the Fallen Star Pendant.
The red jewel in the silver cross sparkled and directly sucked Leylin’s blood into it.
* Bang! *
A strong suction force appeared from the Fallen Star Pendant, circling around the surface of the silver cross and forming a whirlwind. It directly sucked in all of the black and white gaseous compounds.
The thick mist enveloped the silver cross within, and it floated in midair, becoming a luminescent ball of black and white.
“Very good! The awakening phase is activated, and everything has been going smoothly without a hitch so far!”
Leylin looked at the glowing ball in midair, his eyes holding an excited gaze. “What’s next, is….”
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