Chapter 26 Cultivate (2)

'Let's first see how fast I cultivate.' Ben thought to himself.

Benjamin used his soul sense to inspect his own body. At the same time he recited an unknown mantra that came from the [Divine Demon God] technique, his breathing changed to a distinguished rhythm, full of power and dignity.

He took control over the energy that reacted the most to him practicing the [Divine Demon God] technique. Benjamin didn't know how, but suddenly he knew what the energy, he had just taken control of, is called.

Like a whisper from heaven, it called out to him. Demonic qi. The essence of all the Demon races. An energy too volatile and aggressive for any other race to control or even attempt to come in contact with.

But in the hands of Benajmin, it was as docile as a newborn baby.

With every breath in the Demonic energy enters his whole body through the skin. With every breath out his body let out impurities.

Time seemed to slow down. What Ben didn't know was for every inhale he would take 10 minutes and for every exhale 20. In any other situation, this would have been impossible. Only what kept his body functioning was the influx of energy that cleansed his body of impurities.

When the expelling of impurities slowed down. Ben felt an invisible wall holding him back. With minimal effort, Ben pushed passed this wall.

The sound of glass shattering is the only thing Ben could hear as his body feverishly boiled and thrummed. Immense power coursed through his body.

The first step of cultivating the body path. The first stage, is the body tempering stage, the first small realm, skin tempering.

Benjamin's skin strengthened itself multiple times over, it shed an incredible amount of impurities as his body crossed through the skin tempering realm.

An untalented normal person would get 10 Jin of bodily prowess. As for someone with, for example, a very low ranking constitution or special bloodline could get 20 Jin of bodily prowess maximum in the skin tempering realm.

As for Benjamin, he felt his body crossing the 10 Jin of power without crossing over into the next small realm, the muscle tempering realm. Benjamin felt his blood begin to boil.

His Wrath bloodline roared to life. A feeling of controlled rage came over him. It oddly felt like being in the 'zone' athletes feel in their height of the game.

Ben shed an ungodly amount of impurities as he felt his bodily prowess rise with an extra 20 Jin. Settling him on 30 Jin.

A sudden rage took over his body, not one of wrath, but a cold rage of not being the best, not standing on top of the world. A heat that settles into your bones unable to be extinguished.

A feeling of disdain for everything in existence bubbles forth from Benjamin. He felt his Pride bloodline passively aggressively react to being left behind. Ben's body crossed over the 40 Jin stopping at 50.

As Ben thought this rollercoaster of extreme feelings was over his body shone in bright light. His [Heaven and Earth] constitution felt the imbalance of his body.

The [Heaven and Earth] constitution forcefully stimulated his Void Kitsune bloodline. Raising his body prowess to 65 Jin.

Ben again felt a brittle wall standing before him. Only a little push would let his body cross into the muscle tempering realm. He would have given this push if not for his mind screaming at him to first form his first Demon Node.

'What to do? Envy's left eye, Greed's right eye, Pride's heart, or Wrath's cerebellum?'

The technique stated it didn't matter with which node to begin. But for some reason, Benjamin felt an incredible pull towards the Demon Node of Pride.

Ben blinked a few times. 'I'll trust my instinct.'

Deep breaths, in and out, demonic energy kicking up a storm while being drawn in by Ben. The unknown mantra repeated itself inside his mind.

A sharp pain suddenly came from the very center of his heart. It felt like a needle carved a small empty socked inside his heart cell for cell. Benjamin forcefully held the pain down. Gritting his teeth and focussing on the technique.

The Demonic energy rotating inside his body rushed to the small socked inside his heart. Filling it and condensing. The concentration of Demonic energy spiking to ridiculous levels.

From a gaseous substance of Demonic energy, it condensed into a liquid. But the influx of Demonic qi didn't stop there. The socked got filled with more liquid until it couldn't contain it, condensing from the liquid into a sludgy substance.

Taking Benjamin completely by surprise his mind opened up and a whisper that resonated with his Pride bloodline came to him.

[Intuition] the ability to understand or know something with the littlest possible information. It is like instinct but better, or like a sixth sense that warns you before something is going to happen.

Ben couldn't ravel in this new ability because the influx of Demonic energy did not stop. It filled his body pushing past the threshold of skin tempering stage and stepping into the muscle tempering stage.

'This feeling is actually very addicting. The feeling of becoming stronger while only sitting still and letting your body be filled with energy.'

Benjamin felt his strength double the closer he got to the next stage. When he got to the peak of the muscle tempering realm and had excreted impossible amounts of waste, his [Intuition] told him to create the Wrath node next.

'I just got this ability, why not listen to it?'

The moment he tried to create the Wrath node at the base of his brain, where the cerebellum is located, he got overwhelmed by an electric pain wrecking throughout his whole body.

This was to be expected. Feeling needles carve away at a small portion of your brain of course someone would feel immense pain.

Benjamin lost his sense of time and all that was left was his focus on pushing through and creating the Wrath node.

The demonic energies kept surging towards his body and converging at his cerebellum. Condensing to the crystal node of Wrath. Ben felt his body burst and bulge with power.

The Node resonated with his Wrath bloodline, the circulation of his blood accelerated, more and more impurities were expelled from his body. Benjamin wanted to scream because his blood was circulating too fast throughout his body.

And then it all went quiet. His blood returned to its normal circulation speed and the power he felt dissipated. Again the whisper of the heavens came to him giving him the name of the ability.

[Beserk].