Tainted will

The clouds in the horizon began to brighten, and the stuffed wild animals returned to the depths of the forest.

In a nameless mountain near the Xuan mountain. There was a cave near the top of this mountain devoid of humans societies, but currently the entrance of the cave was blocked by a huge boulder. Inside the cave there was a pool of underground water and lot of animal droppings in the cave. It seemed wild animals visited this area a lot. After carefully checking the cave, one could see they were quite a few restrictions and arrays placed all over this place.

Time flies, in a flash two months quickly passed. By now Bai Ming had already refined the 900 year old flame essence and caused the destruction of the Xuan mountain, he also reached the peak of core formation realm in these two months with help of his extremity grade spirit root, spirit liquid and the 3rd grade qi gathering array.

Hong!

Inside Bai Ming's body, an earthshaking change happened.

His muscles, bones, and veins were becoming stronger, reaching the limits of quasi-medium grade treasure body. This wasn't the rotten blood art's contribution, but a breakthrough acquired from him pushing his own body through internal cultivation.

Such a great change didn't occur on his body alone, but also in his dantian.

Bai Ming had long ago broken the bottleneck and had just fused nine leafs and turned them into a spring's eye — it was the most important step in breaking through to the Spirit realm. His spring's eye was huge, as if a great lake, and now it was the spring's eye that was expanding at the rate of a tsunami.

Forming an majestic river!

After whole two hours, the spiritual rivers expansion finally stopped. Bai Ming was now a genuine Spirit realm martial arts expert.

Bai Ming slowly opened his eyes and released a long breath.

Next he inspected his cultivation.

Bai Ming nodded in satisfaction. He casually threw a punch, sensing the power within he smiled slightly.

"It won't be long before I achieve the Yin-Yang void realm. He-he-he…" Bai Ming snickered.

Next Bai Ming heard a mechanical voice in his head.

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[𝙻𝚞𝚌𝚔𝚢 𝚜𝚙𝚒𝚗: 𝚊𝚟𝚊𝚒𝚕𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 2]

[𝚂𝚙𝚒𝚗: 𝚈𝚎𝚜/𝙽𝚘]

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"Yes!" Bai Ming chuckled before giving the confirmation.

[𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚌𝚎𝚎𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐.. 𝙲𝚘𝚗𝚐𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚞𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜!! 𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚘𝚋𝚝𝚊𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚍 1)𝙰𝚟𝚊𝚝𝚊𝚛 𝚘𝚏 𝚂𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚗 𝙳𝚎𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚛𝚊 2)𝙱𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚝 𝚆𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜 𝚃𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚜𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝙰𝚛𝚝 ]

[𝙰𝚌𝚌𝚎𝚙𝚝: 𝚢𝚎𝚜/𝚗𝚘]

"Accept" Bai Ming's eyes became blurry, a whole minute had gone by. Only then did his eyes regain their clarity.

Bai Ming immediately feel into deep thought, after pondering for a good amount of time, Bai Ming made a decision, he walked towards the healing formation near him. With his heart at peace, his eyes filled with resolve, without the slightest bit of regret or pity he ruthlessly destroyed his internal cultivation becoming a tier 1 bone forging realm cultivator!

"Cough, Cough..."

Coughing blood violently, Bai Ming crazily bleed from his seven orifices, his face had turned deathly pale from the extreme blood loss, his entire body was trembling crazily, he felt an intense sense of dizziness assault him. If wasn't because of his treasure body he might have suffered even more.

A moment ago he was like a heaven soaring Phoenix but now both of wings were cut off as he fell deeper and deeper into abyss without any resistance.

Bai Ming quickly activated the formation with his divine sense, even though his internal cultivation had drastically dropped to lowest possible level, he had still retained his body cultivation and initial stage spirit realm divine sense.

Bai Ming spent the entire day recovering, only then did his body fully stabilize.

Then Bai Ming entered the 3rd grade qi gathering array he had previously set up.

After that, Bai Ming began comprehending the Avatar of Seven deities mantra.

The seven deities mantra was a cultivation mantra like the primeval heart mantra, but the primeval heart mantra couldn't hold a candle to the seven deities mantra. The difference between them was wide as the ocean of knowledge.

The Seven deities mantra had Ten layers corresponding to the Ten respective layers of cultivation. The cultivation realms in ascending order are; Bone forging realm, elemental realm, core formation realm, spirit realm, Yin-Yang void realm, Supreme mortal realm, Divine astral realm, Ancient qi realm, False God realm, Fate grasping realm.

But what was so special about the seven deities mantra that made Bai Ming destroy his hard earned cultivation base, because the cultivation method had mantras for all layers? maybe. But most importantly it was due to the fact that it could allow him to store seven times the spiritual essence as before!

To have Seven times more spiritual energy storage than regular cultivators how astonishing was that!

Ofcourse Bai Ming could have just cultivated the seven deities mantra from the fourth layer onwards, But chose not to. Because he knew this power could build a never before seen foundation. Such a stable foundation would not only guarantee an easier and smoother path of cultivation, it'll also give him higher strength when he advances to higher realms.

Let's not mention seven times, even if it was only able store twice the amount as before, Bai Ming would still do it.

Even with Bai Ming's great comprehension abilities and understanding towards heaven and earth, he had to spend total of nine hours to comprehend the 1st layer of the seven deities mantra.

"I still have good amount of resources remaining, even if I would need to spend seven times the resources and require more time to cultivate each realm, the benefits are just too good. With the amount of resources I currently have, I should be able to reach the peak of core formation realm or maybe even achieve the spirit realm within a year." Bai Ming mumbled while smiling, his eyes occasionally flickering with a illusionary light.

Taking a deep breath, Bai Ming began his cultivation session.

The dense heaven and earth essence unceasingly entered his body and roamed around his body like a flood. Bai Ming sank into concentration as he operated the cultivation method to make the energy flow through his meridians and widening them little by little.

The intense flow of spiritual essence force was on the verge of bursting his meridians as his forehead broke out in cold sweat.

But he had to push through.

After roaming his body for hundreds of times, the spiritual essence entered his tiny bone forging realm Dantian, but unlike his prior experiences there were few extra things present this time around.

Six Bai Ming's were sitting cross legged on his Dantian, the world's essence first entered his Dantian before equal amount of spiritual essence was also absorbed by the six of his avatars.

'The amount of spiritual energy needed to break through is simply too great. Hehehe, but this good. Higher the requirements, better the effects right.' Bai Ming secretly thought, like this he began his second closed door training.

Time passed one second at a time, after Bai Ming started his closed door training, time slowly flew by 1 month, 2 months, 3 months, 4 months...12 months. Without him realizing it, an entire year had peacefully passed by.

During this period of cultivation, within the first three months of cultivation he had broken through to the initial stage of elemental realm. Then he spent 4 months to reach the initial stage of core formation realm. Then after another five months of solitary cultivation he finally achieved the peak of core formation realm.

The only pity Bai Ming felt was the fact he hadn't received a single reward for breaking through major cultivation realms again.

The entrance of the cave was now covered with plants, making the cave impossible to detect from the outside.

The cliff covered with vegetation started to shake until all of the vegetation fell off, revealing a dark cave.

A devilish young male with hair all the way to his waist slowly walked out. His face was white and his eyes shone with a demonic glee. The moment he walked out of the cave, all of the wild beasts nearby started to whine. Their eyes begged for mercy.

The long haired youth was about 16-17 years old. His gaze was cold as he casually looked at all of the beasts.

He was Bai Ming, who had been in closed door cultivation for an entire year.

"Status.."

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[𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚝𝚞𝚜]

[𝙽𝚊𝚖𝚎 : 𝙱𝚊𝚒 𝙼𝚒𝚗𝚐]

[𝙲𝚞𝚕𝚝𝚒𝚟𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗: 𝚃𝚒𝚎𝚛 9 𝚌𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚖 ]

[𝚂𝚙𝚒𝚛𝚒𝚝 𝚛𝚘𝚘𝚝: 𝙴𝚡𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚖𝚒𝚝𝚢 𝚐𝚛𝚊𝚍𝚎 ]

[𝙲𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚑𝚎𝚗𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗: 8 +]

[𝚂𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚍 𝚙𝚊𝚝𝚑 𝚊𝚙𝚝𝚒𝚝𝚞𝚍𝚎: 8 +]

[𝚂𝚔𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚙𝚘𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚜: 10,000/20,000]

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Bai Ming's eyes lit up. He muttered to himself, "A year has gone by and i have regained my cultivation of Peak core formation realm. I have ten thousand spirit stones remaining, but to reach the spirit realm with just these resources will take me another six or seven years. Its time to leave home."

Bai Ming turned silent as he looked toward the previous mighty Xuan Mountain, old memories surfaced in his heart.

These years of experience showed him that strength was the only means to protect oneself.

The dreams and desires he had from long ago intensified infinitely at this moment.

Bai Ming looked into the distance. His eyes were filled with a fantastic light.

"One step closer towards invincibility!"

"One more step closer towards immortality!"

"Another step closer towards becoming Heaven!"