10. Sacred border.

I was easily able to slip put of the mansion with my cultivation. I headed towards the academy the heavenly sacred border is a small realm behind the academy that is kept stable by the thunder gods meteorite sword. It provides high quality energy for those who cultivate inside. However if they go too deep thier soul realm is often damaged due to the sword.

The sword itself was used to slay hundreds of millions of demon spirits and they are all trapped inside the blade. Anyone who comes close to it is seriously harmed by the blade.

Stepping into the realm I'm surrounded by a rainbow of different colors. The energy is rather pure here and in abundance.

I move towards the center of the realm with the nightmare demon pot under my arm.

I slip past a ghost who is mumbling to himself and arrive in front of a massive greatsword which is lodged in the ground, spirits are howling around the blade giving it a malevolent feel.

They all notice me instantly as I enter the domain and rush forward. "Thanks for the free spirits ey." I pop the top off the nightmare demon pot and a large suction force drags all the spirits into the pot as it lights up in multiple different colors.

"Free hundreds of millions of spirits to charge my pot. You think I'm going to pass that up?" I laugh moving forward as a literal wave of demons is sucked into the pot.

A bolt of lightning flashes past me from the sword.

"Oh? Not happy about it? Too bad." I sneer at the massive blade, setting the pot down I start marking a formation around the sword.

It's an energy absorbing formation kind of like my jade bed. However this one will just stabilize the realm so it doesnt collapse and pull in some energy from the outside to keep it stable.

It wont improve it much but it wont collapse so it will still be a good training ground for future generations.

I plop down and wait for the nightmare demon spot to finish draining the sword. If I were to try to get the blade then those spirits would try to attack me and I'd be forced to destroy them which would be a waste.

The sword crackles occasionally with lightning. It's got it's own sword spirit, however that's about all it can do at the moment. Just crackle ominously.

"Yeah keep bitching, just makes me want to melt you down even more." I tell the sword. "Not a fan of heavy blades personally so I think I'll turn you into something useful."

More lighting crackles across the blade in warning.

"Yeah yeah, biri biri bzzt bzzt you too." I say sarcastically.

About 20 minutes later the nightmare demon pot is lit up like a small sun and looks damn near brand new. The malevolent aura from the sword is gone all that's left is the sword.

I walk over and pick up the demon pot before storing it in my soul realm.

"Well then it looks like it's just you and me then." I walk towards the large blade avoiding some errant small lightning bolts.

As soon as my hand touches the blade though the sword attacks my spirit.

"Wrong answer." I grin as the sword spirit is quickly obliterated down to a basic soul, its entire memory wiped clean leaving just a small soul orb I quickly take.

As for the sword I tuck that into my soul realm, I'll have to dismantle it later on, drain it of energy, melt it down and make a weapon or weapons I can use. The materials are top quality however they are wasted on a door sized blade.

I store the blade in my soul realm, double check my formations and head out of the sacred border back to my courtyard.

However I have a guest.

"Hello Aunt Mu, how can i help you today?" i ask the purple haired woman waiting outside my door.

"I sensed your cultivation rising earlier and came to investigate but by the time i got here you were already gone." She says curiously.

"Ah yes, my cultivation went up a bit. I headed off the the sacred border earlier and stabilised the realm, it wont cause any more problems with people having damaged soul realms now." I explain.

"What rank are you?" She asks curiously.

"Heavenly fate realm 3. Above a legend is demigod rank, followed by heavenly fate realm. I skipped past a couple realms." I explain.

Her eyes sparkle. "You know how to reach the demigod realm?"

Ye Mo had explained to her how to become a demigod as he himself was also working on becoming one.

"Understanding of laws. Things like ice, wind, earth, fire, etc." You dont have to become a spiritual god of said law you just need to understand it a bit to be able to reach the demigod level. However you'll require much more cultivation energy. "You can also absorb heavenly energy however it's quite thin here and hard to get."

"Heavenly energy?" She asks confused.

I point my finger towards her and direct some heavenly energy into her body.

She closes her eyes and tried to focus. About five minutes later she smiles. "I see! I couldn't feel that energy before, it really is thin."

Even if I cultivated nonstop in this place on my jade bed, it would take me hundreds of years to get another single rank up. There just isn't enough heavenly energy.

There is enough for demigods, but heavenly fate users? No. That's the limit.

However I wont have to worry about it as heavenly energy is being poured into my soul realm due to the myriad mountains and rivers painting and the temporal demon spirit book, plus what's stored in the sword and the demon pot.

However I don't need to go up anymore ranks currently. I'm the strongest in the area, besides that one utter fucking monster in the prison realm. I wont be opening up that realm anytime soon.