45 Sea of Souls I
While it was true that everyone present inside the restaurant were promising talents of the younger generation compared to Cyra who was biologically engineered with they system help they were nothing, if they spent more time learning how to use their techniques faster than it could have given her some more challenge, but new she learned that she can learn much more fun techniques if her Essence reaches 100.
The next day both Cyra and her master proceeded towards the entrance of the sacred realm, there was hundreds of people already waiting for the opening ceremony to begin, Cyra turned towards her master and asked, - "Is there anything that you forgot to tell me?"
Cyra Master was thinking for a while than said, - "No but listen to the sect master words, he knows much more than we do.."
"Welcome everyone to the Opening of The Shadow Sacred Realm, this is the biggest realm under the sect management as you guys probably already know only disciplines under the age 15 permitted to enter, above that there is no way you can ever exit the realm, There is only one rule inside that you must always follow if you wish to leave alive, always go towards the higher ground, follow the wind but never descend into the lower regions, as you go higher the restrictions on your bodies ease, but if you were to fall your bodies could easily be crushed."
"Now than let's talk about your objectives, 1 week inside is only an hour outside, there is no limit how long can you stay inside but I suggest everyone to leave the sacred realm after 3 weeks because the restrictions can ruin your cultivation, inside you will be hunting souls so you could advance in the ranks of reapers, this is a golden opportunity for everyone, additionally after you kill something with a soul you gain points for that, if you kill someone inside you gain their points, the necklace that each and everyone of you wearing is your ticket outside by breaking the necklace end you will be teleported outside." - Explained the Sect master.
"Now let's look at the placement rewards so everyone can see how generous our sect really is" As the Sect Master said this he turned around and looked at the giant board behind him, he was also very curious what would the sect offer this year as prizes for people who practiced in the sacred realm.
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Currently registered practitioners in the Shadow Sacred Realm: 10 437 987
Top 5 000 000 Will receive: 1 000 Essence Crystal / 1 technique of the Shadow Crimson sect
Top 1 000 000 Will receive: 5 000 Essence Crystal / 1 technique of the Shadow Crimson sect
Top 500 000 Will receive: 10 000 Essence Crystal / 1 technique of the Shadow Crimson sect
Top 100 000 Will receive: 50 000 Essence Crystal / 1 technique of the Shadow Crimson sect
Top 25 000 Will receive: 200 000 Essence Crystal / 1 technique of the Shadow Crimson sect
Top 5 000 Will receive: 1 000 000 Essence Crystal / 1 technique of the Heavenly Crimson sect
Top 3 000 Will receive: 3 000 000 Essence Crystal / 1 technique of the Heavenly Crimson sect
Top 1 000 Will receive: 5 000 000 Essence Crystal / 1 technique of the Heavenly Crimson sect
Top 500 Will receive: 10 000 000 Essence Crystal / 1 technique of the Heavenly Crimson sect
Top 100 Will receive: 50 000 000 Essence Crystal / 1 technique of the Heavenly Crimson sect
Top 25 Will receive: 200 000 000 Essence Crystal / 1 technique of the Divine Crimson sect
Top 5 Will receive: 1 000 000 Stage 2 Essence Crystal / 1 technique of the Divine Crimson sect(choose at will)
Top 3 Will receive: 3 000 000 Stage 2 Essence Crystal / 2 technique of the Divine Crimson sect(choose at will)
Top 1 Will receive: 5 000 000 Stage 2 Essence Crystal / 5 technique of the Divine Crimson sect(choose at will)
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Looking at the board the sect master was actually quite happy now they had a chance to accrue techniques from the sect higher ups, while the disciplines from the lower branches were happy that they could learn Shadow techniques, the only people who were dissatisfied with the rewards were the people from the Divine Crimson sect they couldn't understand why would the Sect overlord give away such a large number of precious techniques, after the prizes were displayed frictions started to appear around the formation this signaled that the Sacred realm could open in any second, everyone was ready to rush inside and start hunting for souls.
"Oh yes before I forget additional to these rewards, anything that you find inside will be yours, the sect higher ups won't be taking them away even after you leave the realm!" Said the Sect Master.
Cyra was cautious and started cycling Essence inside her body until the Rune of sight has lit up, unlike before she had much more Essence so the Rune Essence consumption was truly neglect able this time, the moment her vision changed the Shadow Realm also opened, she simply followed the flow of people, there was no need to hurry at all, soon it was her turn to enter a blinding light was the only thing she could see for minutes.
Half of the Shadow Realm covered by the Sea of Souls, but it's hardly resembling a sea now days, there are still some caves but only blue and white dust covers the landscape. There is no day and night only the endless dusk exits, It's quiet incredibly quiet only the slightly flowing wind could be heard as waves of dust traveled through the sea there was no sign of life.
This is a place where life never existed, the sea may appear barren and empty but in Cyra eyes it was something else, it was full of souls there was hundreds of thousands of them just simply floating around as she was looking down from a dust dune, they simply flew through Cyra completely ignoring her presence she just sit down and watched them exist, she was actually rather puzzled by this experience everyone that she met told her that this place was a living nightmare yet these souls completely ignored her presence and calmly floated like they had nothing better to do.
This didn't lasted long, not long after Cyra appearance another discipline appeared next to her who immediately took out her Sight Talisman to see the souls, this seemed to trigger one strange soul in the group, something that resembled a nightmarish scream could be heard and all of the surrounding souls started to swarm the discipline, within seconds her dead body fallen to the ground and a small mad soul left her body that started going rapidly towards Cyra.
The soul couldn't hurt her but it's was still better to be cautious so she activated her Pulse Technique and the Mad Soul together with all the surrounding Souls and Banshees were killed by her.
System show me what did I killed so far!
[Sea of Souls]
[Banshee: 30] [Status] [Int:30] [Str:0] [E:1]
[Side Note: They seem to be sensitive towards Essence, additionally they have the ability to manipulate Sand Dust and Bone Dust to create a unique screaming sound that scares the normal souls into attacking anything living in their surroundings.]
[Wandering Soul: 10 321] [Status] [Int:1] [Str:0] [E:1]
[Side Note: They are the Souls of mortals wandering the Sea of Souls]
[Mad Soul: 1] [Status] [Int:2] [Str:0] [E:1]
[Side Note: When a cultivator dies in an unjustified way, they become Mad Souls who seek out the nearest cultivator to take revenge on them.]
[Congratulations Host for gaining +10,35 Essence]
[The necklace]
[Name] [Cyra]
[Points] [0] -> [10 352]
[Rank] [9 832 102] -> [11]
Cyra realized that one of the banshees has dropped something as she was walking towards it a system warning appeared.
[Warning Host body is at it's limit suggesting host to take a break!!!]
But I only walked 5 steps, panicked Cyra looked at her stats and she found out why she couldn't move anymore, [Int: 88.28]
[Str: 240.72] -> [Str:4.81][E: 44.82] -> [E: 55.17][H: 2]
System I still should have enough time to move freely!
[No! Host is currently experiencing a field that pressuring host body with that of a fifty times larger force than on the outside world, in the outside world host strength is mainly coming from the bones and only 1 tenth of host body strength comes from the muscles, with fifty times of pressures there is no way in hell that host muscles are capable of moving host skeleton!]
Than what do I do?
[Reform muscles, after the damaged muscles fuse together they became stronger than before!]
Cyra hellish training began once again, to gain the maximum amount of benefits from this training she started using her Innate Ability, by using the 2 seconds of fastened metabolism her muscles instantly healed and reforged into new stronger ones.
[Muscle augmentation]
[Day 1]
[Side Note: Started to consume large number quantity of food to gain enough Xalium, Xalium has the effects of greatly increasing muscle mass and tissue density, it is found most of the food that cultivators consume, in smaller portions Xalium is cape able of maintaining muscles mass even if the cultivator doesn't do any exercises for years.]
[Results: [Str:4.81] -> [Str:5.00] ]
[Day 3]
[Side Note: Because of the large amount of Xalium consumed, after daily training new muscles formed, the muscles structure has became much more stable and strongly attached to the bones, this greatly increased the body strength]
[Results: [Str:5.00] -> [Str:6.00]
[Day 5]
[Side Note: All of the muscle fiber inside the Body has been broken than repaired, Every single fiber inside Host body has became larger and stronger]
[Results: [Str:6.00] -> [Str:7.00]
[Day 7]
[Side Note: The newly grown muscles are stronger, adjustments were made, the connection in Key points inside the body has been further strengthened so Host can bring out the maximum output of the body, with these firm connections the main muscles that are responsible for accomplishing task has been further increased, such is muscles that are responsible for walking or moving arms, avoiding secondary muscles to get in the way of successfully accomplishing the Key muscles jobs, now none of the secondary muscles are capable of obstruct the main muscle networks]
[Results: [Str:7.00] -> [Str:8.00]
[Day 14]
[Side Note: The Adaptions were going smoothly, the last part for the process was strengthening the capabilities of Cyra heart, because in the end of the day it's muscle too, this augmentation became necessary because her heart has to be able to pump blood through her body without any problems, since in the first week all the muscles inside Cyra body has been greatly improved and in return greatly increased in size, the larger muscles started to get in the way and force the heart to stop beating, to avoid total circulation failure this step was also a must]
[Results: [Str:8.00] -> [Str:10.00]
The next time Cyra came to her senses was 2 weeks after entering the Shadow Realm, her rank dropped from 11 to 209 she mad a fatal miss calculation, her master technique was life saving when it came to large number of ghosts but it didn't corrupted the souls at all she wasted 10 000 souls just like that it caused a bitter heart ache, than she finally gained enough strength to be able to freely walk around inside the Sea of Souls.
There were still no souls in her surroundings even after 2 weeks has passed, it seem liked the souls preferred levitating in the same spot instead of roaming the seas, it was all fine she started walking towards higher ground to be able to find more souls to corrupt, as she was walking constant system massages started to popping up as per usual.
[Int: 88.28] [Str:4.81] -> [10.00] [E: 55.17][H: 2]
