New Skills

He woke up at his usual time and took a shower and brushed his teeth, he went into his backyard and sat down and started cultivating, he never needed to buy pills to help him get stronger or cultivate even though this was a relatively low world for some unknown reason it was rich with Qi everywhere, he never knew why people haven't noticed this foreign energy in the air but he was glad they didn't, Like usual no mishaps occurred while he cultivated he lived in a quiet area where their was no trouble to be found so he had a smooth cultivation area and time.

He also learned new information last night, in order for him to break through to the next stage for night and day cultivation he would need to absorb a soul of a monster or human at his level of power or higher, he decided to absorb a soul later at night once his soul and mind was on the same stage as his body and strength so he could break through at the same time, after 3 hours of cultivating he had reached the peak of [Soul Blood Creation] which is the 9th layer, since he had free time on his hands he just practiced swinging and adjusting the strength he outputted with his scythe for the rest of the day till dawn, Once dawn arrived he started cultivating again and sent the Qi he gathered into his consciousness, like before 3 hours later he reached the peak of [Soul Qi Gathering] which is also the 9th layer

Once he stood up he walked to the front of his house to start heading to the forest, He decided not to call a taxi this time though since it was late at night, while on the way to the forest he thought about what monster would be on equal strength with him?, the strongest monster he had faced so far was the fire bear but even that was relatively weak, thats when he remembered a monster he had learned in class called the scaled lizard, it had high defense and decent attack power but just like the earth wolves its speed was slow, but the thing that made this on the same level as him was its intelligence.

it wasn't super smart but it was smart enough to ambush people, but it would be hard to find this monster since it roams anywhere, he then said well i will just have to search in the forest until i find one, who knows how long that would be though…eventually he reached the forest and started searching for a scaled lizard, he jumped from tree to tree, he ran, looked in every place he could see but it was useless, but then he thought i'm only searching in the outermost part of the area i should go deeper in.

while he was deeper in the forest searching for about 1 hour he heard a noise from a bush that was behind him, it made a ruffling noise for about 2 seconds before it stopped, then unexpectedly something leaped towards him and threw its tail at Akuma, since he heard the noise a bit early he was ready for an attack, he leaped to the side but unfortunately he was a bit to slow.

the tail hit him in the stomach and he hit a tree and coughed some blood, whenever he crashed into something his eyes would be closed and he never seem his own blood ever since he changed because he would be drenched in monster blood this time though since he was a bit prepared his eyes were open, he looked at his blood and saw that it was black, he then thought… i really am not human anymore… he didn't waste anymore time and shot up of the ground and attacked the lizard, he left a gash in one of its 4 legs that was bleeding out.

The lizard screeched a little, then it attacked him again aiming for his neck, Akuma quickly user his scythe to block the incoming attack from the lizard, once he blocked it he was made to take 2 steps back from the impact, once he put down his scythe he attacked again aiming for its belly, he was to quick for the lizard so he couldn't dodge, he successfully cut the lizard gut that also started bleeding out, the lizard slowly dying quickly used its last remaining strength to kill Akuma.

the sudden attack left him unguarded and he was sent flying once again but this time with more force, he almost fainted but he bit his tongue to stay awake, he got up slowly and readied his scythe again and rushed at the lizard, but this time he was planning to fake an attack by going for its rib cage but changing his direction mid-way to its neck, once he reached the lizard he threw the attack at its rib, the lizard then tried to defend its rib by putting its tail in front of the scythe, but suddenly the attack changed and it went for its neck.

the lizard not being able to do anything panicked but it was useless, the lizard was decapitated and its body fell on the floor making a thump sound, before Akuma absorbed its soul he wanted to catch his breath first, he sat on the ground quietly while resting… 2 minutes later he stood up and walked to its body and placed his hand on the bottom half of its body, he then sent his Qi through it and found its soul inside.

he used his Qi to grab it quickly and it went inside his body, just as it was about to he stopped it before it completely went in, who knew what would happen when he reached the next level so he decided to absorb it when he was home, he then started jumping from tree to tree to his house… once he arrived he sat on his bed and absorbed it completely

Suddenly… a huge burst of power surged through his body, he tried with all his will power to not let a single drop escape he wanted as much power as he could get, a few minutes after he got up and felt a big increase in his body and strength and his mind and soul, his body got 10x tougher and he felt like he could destroy a whole house in one punch, his mind got 10x clearer and because of this his senses were heightened he could hear a bird bugs crawling from under ground that was 6feet under, his soul had also gotten stronger he could resist illusion magic if he ever encountered it.

he day time cultivation reached the first stage of [Soul Bone Formation] and his night cultivation reached the first stage of [Soul Core Formation], but that wasn't the end of his power changing, suddenly Qi started to gather into one specific spot it was his belly it was forming a sphere shape and it was hardening once it was finished he felt like he could store and release Qi more easily with this but he had no idea what it was.

just as he was about to stand up he was sucked into the mysterious space that he has been to before, this time he was given skills books not only for his scythe but for him, the scythe skill he had gotten was called [soul strikes] it was a move-set that made replicas of his self to trick his enemy it also gave him movements for the scythe, it displayed fascinating moved each strike was fast enough to not be seen, some strikes went diagonal some strikes made curves and other mine strikes slashing down.

Then the skills he got for him self surprised him too the first skills was called [Soul Fire Shot] it displayed someone in white hair and black eyes and was relatively buff shooting them it was black flames that didn't damage your physical body but your soul, each shot would damage your core and soul eventually killing you from your soul being destroyed, it was the perfect skill to use without blood splurging every where or leaving no evidence behind. Another skill that he had gotten and was being displayed was called [Soul Claws].

this skill was similar too [Soul Fire Shot] but a little different, it also targeted the soul by shooting claws at the enemy fast and precise, but what made this skill different was it had a burning effect to it , the longer you dont heal your soul from the attack the more damage accumulates over time from the attack, if its goes unattended it you would eventually die from the lasting effect from it.

Unexpectedly new information was given to him it was info about the core that formed in his belly he found out that this core was the center of his power so if it is damaged it would take a while to heal and if its completely destroyed you lose your Qi forever, the benefits from this core is that you can store souls you want to keep for later inside and they wouldn't be able to escape, it was almost like a soul bank to use, then he was pulled out from the space unexpectedly again, Akuma then decided to go take a shower then brush his teeth to go to sleep, he had a long day and he was tired, once he was done he slumped on his bed to go to sleep to prepare for whatever tomorrow events had planned for him.