271 The Strongest Creature (6); Upgrades... Upgrades Everywhere!
Ja Sun quietly viewed himself in the calm reflection of the emerald lake. Currently, his spirit transformation had gone through great changes.
Right now, he stood at an impressive height of 3 meters but in his human form, he won't be taller than 2.3 meters. Instead of a pure silver coat, Ja Sun proclaimed a body of dark silver fur with pitch-black stripes all over. A slightly feline tail resembling a tiger grew out from his tailbone. The sides of his face, like usual, proclaimed sideburns of fur that grew out to furry and fuzzy ears.
From talons, however, Ja Sun now had paws, or at least, a compromise between human hands and paws. There was padding under his feet and palms but his fingers weren't shortened with reduced dexterity. Instead, he could elongate pitch black nails from the tips of his fingers and toes that were as sharp as one of the more renowned swords. Over his chest grew a single crystal right in the middle.
This wasn't a weak spot. In fact, of his entire body including the Vajra Gauntlets, this silver crystal with golden tint was the hardest substance on his body. From this crystal, Ja Sun felt what he did while engaging with the Sage's Third Eye— a sense of comprehension.
But unlike before... Ja Sun felt that he was unraveling the world around him for all its mysteries layer by layer. Of course, nothing changed the fact that these layers were stacked in billions if not trillions fold but as long as he could understand it, Ja Sun felt satisfied.
'A sage that unravels the heaven... huh,' Ja Sun smirked.
Three emerald eyes with fierce golden pupils flashed gently. The emerald tattoo around his third vertical eye seemed even more prominent, crowning his forehead completely as his dark silver hair sprouted out similar to an untamed mane.
Behind Ja Sun was the phantom of his martial soul.
Instead of a giant beast on his four limbs, the Liger stood slightly larger than Ja Sun at almost 5 meters with his hands a bit longer and more bestial and a face that resembled a truly fierce kitty than a wolf. It completely resembled Ja Sun, thus, even in his True Spirit Avatar, Ja Sun wouldn't have to go out of his way to reform his combat system.
Humanoid!
Ja Sun's Martial Soul had truly evolved!
"What is it called?" Ja Sun heard the lady of the lake as he focused on the maelstrom of elements deep within the lake. He knew she could sense him finally beginning to make out what she truly was as he grinned, "The Three-eyed Silver Sage."
"Hmm? Ja Yin proposed a name rather authoritative of her new species. Are you willing to adopt such a plain name?"
"It's just a name," Ja Sun mumbled, "And that's the essence of my martial soul. Three eyes. Silver. And a Sage."
The difference just didn't end with his appearance. His most basic affinities, skills, and spirit skills had shifted drastically!
But after battling with Di Tian, Ja Sun couldn't be clearer about the true potential of this martial soul didn't lay in the spirit skills. In fact, the benefit of his spirit skills came from enhancement to the body but everything came from the martial soul itself when enhanced with a spirit ring.
If this was a math equation, the situation is as simple as martial soul+spirit ring= Spirit Skill.
But his Sage martial soul allowed Ja Sun affinities with all the elements! Light, Darkness, Fire, Water, Earth, Wind, and Space! His mind was currently working in how to understand the elements, mix them, and form something greater.
To him, right now, comprehension of elements, i.e., comprehension of the law came at a great priority. In fact, if he had one of those system traits from his previous world that compiled his own growth then his most basic 'panel' would have looked something similar to—
Name: Ja Sun
Spirit: 70 (Constantly refined by Immortal Buddha King Spirit Core.)
Attained Realm: Self (Perfect Control of Spirit Energy and ability to create variants use of spirit skills.)
Immortal Herb: Yin-Yang Fruit (Core), Beautiful Silk Tulip, Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng, Myriad Blood Mango
Name: Three-eyed Silver Sage
Type: Beast Spirit
Attribute: Spirit (Main), Light, Darkness, Space, Fire, Water, Earth, Wind.
Appearance: The Three-eyed Silver Sage's appearance is more similar to a humanoid liger with a mane. It has a buff body covered with dark silver fur with black stripes and a thick silver mane that looks lustrous. The three eyes on its body are bright green in color. The vertical, third eye often reveals a gentle glow. In the center of the chest is a triangular crystal entirely silver with a golden sheen that is the hardest spot on its body.
When the spirit possesses the spirit master, the spirit master's hair turns dark silver, and fur grows out of his forearms and legs. The feet and hands turn into sharp paws with dangerous claws with astounding tearing force and the ears of the spirit master elongate. The elongated ears are carpeted with fuzzy fur which gives it an animalistic characteristic. The body, too, bulks up considerably. In between the user's eye, a third eye appears with a vertical pupil belonging to the cat family. Dark stripes spread over the user entirely while a crystal emerges from the center of the chest that is fueled with a brilliant silver glow with hints of gold. A liger's tail, too, emerges from the tail bone.
{Imagine a ssj5 transformation, for fur location, I mean.}
Use:
1) Increases comprehension towards all the elemental attributes. (Passive)
2) Increases comprehension with spatial attribute. (Passive)
3) Raises the speed of cultivation by 100%.
4) Raises the speed of cultivation of spirit masters and spirit beasts around the spirit master by 50%: Limit— 50-kilometer radius.
5) Raises the pace of comprehension of spirit masters and spirit beasts around the user by 20%: Limit— 50-kilometer radius.
6) The more spirit beasts or spirit masters affected by the blessings, the greater the additional enhancement of the user's own comprehension by 0.1% per living being.
Innate Domain— Sage's Seven Burst
Use: Enhances the user by 20% and inflicts suppression on opponents by 20%. Locks the space for opponents and revokes the control of elements the martial soul has an affinity with unless the opponent's comprehension of the element is greater than the user. Due to its nature and mix of multiple elements, the domain is able to merge with any other domain with the highest compatibility and temporarily add the removal of other attributes from the added domain. Allows the user to incorporate all the seven elements in every attack.
According to Di Tian, Domain came from understanding Law and Comprehension of the law came from a domain so if he truly wanted to take the step forward, he would need to prepare himself accordingly but before that, Ja Sun planned to clear up some of his most easily attained goals.
For instance, finally breaking through rank 70 and reaching the pinnacle of cultivation with the two beasts. One, a battery for his Nightmare's Fantasy, and the other one, his third and final spirit soul for the Three-eyed Silver Sage.
Yet, at this moment, Ja Sun felt the 'sky' being covered by a frivolous but terrifying presence and a golden fist more similar to a dragon's five-clawed fist stopped just an inch away from the back of his head.
"Goldilocks, it's getting annoying. We can sense each other just fine and you are incapable of hurting me due to accepting it wholeheartedly who's the better of us two."
"Then stop calling me goldilocks! My name is Ja Yin."
"No, it isn't. And you're a sick freak to adopt such a form," Ja Sun groaned.
"A connection was formed where I was the dependent one. Thus, I could only take the form of someone close to you..." He could almost feel the woman pout but he still didn't look at her because it was simply too weird even for him.
"Say my name!" She shouted.
"Goldilocks!"
"Aaghhhh! That's not right! You know I've got the Ultimate Strength Attribute. I can—"
Before she could complete, a compressed blast of wind element suddenly flung her far into the distance as Ja Sun hummed, "Wind element is a little more precise to control..."
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Days went by and Ja Sun had finally achieved what he set out for. His martial soul was evolved and Ja Sun had made tremendous breakthroughs.
Heck, he had gained a dozen spirit bones and a few spirit cores from humiliating the beasts and once he devoured the soul origin of the Deep Sea Demonic Whale, he had also decided to delve into his memories. Of course, he couldn't get too much since he was interrupted by another phantom of Asura but Ja Sun had a much easier time escaping this time around. The stronger he grew, the more he was coming to realize how strong the gods really are...
They gave the sense that a god was a mix of Qian Daoliu and Di Tian, but magnified by at least a dozen, if not dozens of times!
Still, Ja Sun's ability to manipulate the water element grew elegant from the memories of the water beast monarch, and with his memories came the few juicy bits about one particular being Ja Sun had some beef with...
Poseidon.
After his Nightmare's Fantasy was pushed to a million-year-old spirit soul, Ja Sun stored the million-year-old torso bone and turned to destroy the will of the Evileye Tyrant and form a new one with his Life Astral Combatant. With so much energy stored within Ja Sun... consecutive breakthroughs that would shock the whole world didn't come as a surprise to him. He could defeat the strongest mortal spirit beast so honestly, it was quite embarrassing that his accumulation of spirit energy only got him till rank 96 and this was after absorbing his second external bone that anchored onto the Nightmare's Fantasy Skull Bone.
The Evileye Tyrants always provide a skull bone in the form of a third eye.
While it is true that the spirit beasts above the cultivation of the 100000 years always provide a spirit bone of the slot that the spirit master has yet to absorb a spirit bone, there are a few exceptional beasts that would always give a certain spirit bone.
And even peculiar was the fact that the Evileye Tyrants would only provide a spirit bone to those who have the ability to form a third eye whether naturally or unnaturally.
Still, Ja Sun had almost accomplished all his initial goals.
He was the strongest at the moment, at least, when it came to the mortal realm.
How he can be so sure?
He defeated the overlord of the Douluo Continent.
He turned the overlord of the vast ocean into a battery for his spirit soul and intended to make use of his mate that escaped that day, too.
And, he had defeated the overlord of another continent revealed from the memories of the Evileye Tyrant as Ja Sun found his ability to govern elements, especially space, more pronounced. Heck, he learned a few abilities like imbuing spatial attribute to a mental attack and the ability that he couldn't learn, i.e, the attack Tyrant Eye used to converge space, time, and evil attribute at the cost of his life force just to obliterate the very soul origin of the enemy...
Ja Sun got it as the spirit bone skill with an additional domain.
At this point, if it was someone else, they would have gotten dizzy with the number of abilities he had gained and had yet to master.
But as they say, one step at a time.
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"Hey, is Sun and Moon continent really moving towards this continent?" Ja Sun inquired while laying close to the Emerald Lake.
"Give or take a few thousand years," The Lady of the Lake replied.
"Do you have interest in conquering that continent?" she continued.
"Come on, if I had such interests, do you think I would be lazing about here? I'm just making use of your connection to the elements and increasing my own comprehension of them. See? I've even opened the necessary domain."
Ja Sun waved his hands. His left arm was covered by a white tiger gauntlet with black stripes and his right arm was covered by a black tiger's gauntlet with white stripes on its surface. A Dark grey domain expanded only around him.
The Sage Domain that could only be used with both his arm spirit bones that increased the comprehension of every living being. Its effects were slightly worse than the Evil Sage's Third Eye but Ja Sun felt that this domain gave him more flexibility to what he wished to understand.
After a few seconds of silence, the being within the lake commented, "You have yet to pay for the essence of the Silver Dragon King I provided to you. Unlike the Golden Dragon that benefitted Ja Yin the most, the essence of the two dragons thoroughly refined your martial soul and your physique to the point you can match a few of the stronger spirit beasts with, of course, Ja Yin being the exception due to her unmatched Ultimate Strength Attribute."
"Her name isn't Ja Yin."
"Her name is not for you to decide. And, do not evade your payment. My patience and benevolence have its limits, too."
"Benevolence? Don't make me laugh." Ja Sun laughed despite saying so, feeling especially carefree, "You just haven't gotten to the point in what you really want. But sure, Life Gold, at this point is basically another rock for me."
Ja Sun took out the portion of the Life Gold he had promised as an advance and dropped it into the lake.
Strangely, despite something entering the lake, its surface had not a single ripple and Ja Sun commented on the observation instantly, "Is your ability to manipulate water passive at this point."
Chuckling, pleasantly surprised, she replied, "Good set of eyes. I wonder what else you've observed till now."
"Well, I do have three eyes," Ja Sun shrugged and continued to lay with hands behind his head.
After a few minutes of silence, Ja Sun commented, "About time we discussed the origin of cultivation."
And just like that, a creature in human body but with a mind more terrifying and brutal than beasts enjoyed the following conversation with a genuine and sincere smile as he knew better than most that strength could not substitute knowledge.
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A/N: Honestly, I did plan Di Tian's defeat and Ja Sun's evolution including the origin of cultivation adapted from various other cn but I had not planned to make Ja Sun Op in terms of cultivation.
However, had I not pushed Ja Sun to rank 96, it would have been dubious since Ja Sun has almost absorbed three million-year-old spirit beasts. Just this should push him to the peak. I kept it at rank 96 because he hadn't directly increased his cultivation.
Anyway, now that Ja Sun is op in every sense, I will try to develop his surrounding characters more. Like Zi Ji, Bi Ji, Ja Yin (Wang Qiu'er), Xiao Bie, and others. I think the beast world has a lot of fun potential but even then, I'm scared of screwing it up.
It wouldn't change the fact that at some point, Ja Sun would have reached this stage and I figured that deliberately suspending this upgrade would have made the story bland. Now that the upgrades are out of the way, I can slowly explore Ja Sun's current strength and change in character, too, as already seen from the scene with Ah Yin, too.
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