KRONOS (1)

After he calmed down, Feng Luotian turned his attention back to his body. He fully activated his Theríon and tried to see what his new ability would be: "Let's see what kind of ability I got."

After closing his eyes to communicate with his new bloodline, the ability he got was …

///// KRONOS: Knowledge Recollection of Non-Origin System

He furrowed his brows, confused: "KRONOS? What's this? Is this is really a special ability of my new bloodline? It's completely different from what Little Yun got back then. Well, even if they came from the bloodline interfusion, their original bloodlines were different, so the ability should also be different I guess. But first of all, how can I know how to use my ability with just the name?"

Feng Luotian was perplexed at what had occurred to him, so he decided to feel his bloodline again. Next, he got the information regarding his former abilities.

///// [Last Dance Curse] Level 1: Increase the user's power level by 1 for 5 minutes. However, the user has to collect 10 souls within 5 minutes. Otherwise, the user's level will be decreased by 2.

///// [Momentum Eyes] Level 1: The user can see the momentum and projectile of every object within 20 meters.

Sensing the ability's prowess, Feng Luotian could not help complaining: "Tch. As expected from the consequence of bloodline interfusion, the original abilities' powers have greatly fallen until they are barely usable. Now I have to collect ten souls within five minutes? It was only one soul before. And the time limit should be at about thirty minutes at One Fang."

To collect souls was to kill someone and refine their souls.

Since this Last Dance Curse was the ability of those ruling the underworld, the place where millions of deported souls journeyed, it was a perfect match to its user.

Alas, Feng Luotian was not in the underworld right now. He needed to kill ten people just to raise his cultivation for one level for only five minutes. This ability literally made him out to be a ruthless murderer.

"And my Momentum Eyes only has 20 meters range while it was about 250 meters before." Feng Luotian further added with a sigh.

"Anyway, there must be something worth sacrificing these two abilities."

With nothing to goes on, he gave up communicating with his bloodline for now and shifted his focus to the overflowing energy that was almost burst out of his body at any time.

///// Level: One Fang (804%)

"This should be whatever energy I have accumulated by refining all those monster cores everyone gave me."

Knowing that he had enough energy to advance to the next level, he sat down and tried to break through to Two Fangs using the usual method.

Boom!

///// Level: Two Fangs (352%)

[AN: One level requires 100% and the next level requires twice as much energy, so the leftover is halved after deducted by 100%, hence (804-100)/2 = 352%]

"What?!!" As soon as he thought of breaking through, the energy suddenly erupted with a boom, and his cultivation rose to Two Fangs.

He almost choked from surprise and excitement after sensing a sudden rise in his strength. He was overwhelmed by this new discovery.

Confirming his own cultivation level again, he became even more shocked: "I broke through to Two Fangs just like that? Does the bottleneck not exist with my new bloodline?!"

[Bottleneck]: a stagnation in cultivation that every cultivator had to face when they reached the peak of their current level.

At that peak, to break through to the next level without any mishaps, cultivators needed comprehension, which was to comprehend the profundity of their own bloodline and Theríon.

The cultivators would have to capture an essence of what their next level would be before they decided to attempt their advancement.

There was also another part of the breakthrough process.

It was a Theríon modification.

When cultivators realized that they had completely comprehended the profundity of the next level, a modification was usually how they burst their Theríon all at once, emptying their soul core.

After that, they would use their comprehension to adjust, improve, or remodel their whole Theríon and then put all of it back into their soul core to complete the process of cultivation breakthrough.

All of these processes required a tremendous amount of time and effort, as well as talent and support.

One would need to be extremely focused and concentrated without any disturbance while doing the Theríon modification, or else they would encounter a disaster.

Once they had done it wrong, after they put their Theríon back to their soul core, the Theríon would either rebel or explode, causing their soul core to suffer damage, which led to two results: severe injury by energy deviation or death.

Since the danger of breaking through was so lethal, most cultivators chose to slowly comprehend their bloodline until they were completely sure that there would be no risk in their advancement before making a breakthrough, resulting in their cultivation speed being stagnated, hence a bottleneck.

This would be a usual process for cultivation level advancement. However, there was what they called a trigger, a shortcut of sorts, that could literally skip all of these troublesome steps.

A trigger usually came from emotions, such as hatred, anger, fear of death, or will to protect loved ones, et cetera. The trigger would push one's limit and let them be able to advance in their cultivation even before they could fully comprehend their own bloodline.

The cultivators who had been triggered could directly break through to the next level. Nevertheless, the aftermath of such advancement could also leave a scar inside their soul core and would take effect later in their cultivation path, lessening their potential to grow in the future.

One obvious example of the cultivation advancement by trigger was when Feng Luotian got devoured by Wight Wolf.

Both Sun Wuji and Mei Yue'er experienced a traumatic surge of emotion, pushing their own limit until they broke through to their next cultivation level.

Fortunately, with an incredible effect from the wisp of Eternal Dao Lotus Seed at that time, the scars that would subsequently block their talents in cultivation were completely healed.

This showed how hard it would be to ascend one cultivation level at a time, yet Feng Luotian could do it with a thought. No one would believe if they were told of such story.

"So this is my ability? Since it can be raised again, let's try more."

Feeling that there was still enough energy to make a breakthrough again, he decided to plough through all the way.

///// Level: Three Fangs (126%)

///// Level: Four Fangs (13%)

And with a couple booms, he effortlessly became a Four Fangs Fighter. After reaching this level, he did not have enough energy to advance any further. But that's not the point, was it?

"Hehe. Hehe. Hahaha!!"

He started to grin and began to laugh like a madman.

This was heaven-defying enough to blow anyone in this world out of their mind. Just absorbing enough energy and he could breakthrough at any moment without going through any of the aforementioned troublesome processes of cultivation advancement.

Although he was a reincarnated individual, he had a new bloodline, so he would naturally have to comprehend his bloodline and Theríon once more. However, with his new bloodline's ability: KRONOS, such comprehension was not needed.

The Theríon modification could be completed in a single thought. Thus, the only thing to focus his attention on was to obtain energy as fast and as much as possible.

There were many ways to acquire energy.

The simplest one of all would be to train, be it upon bodies, muscles, skills, abilities, techniques, minds, souls, etc. Once the cultivators exerted and recovered their Theríon, the energy within would increase at the amount corresponding to how closely they pushed their limit.

Training until one lost consciousness would return a greater increment to their energy than those who chose not to. However, would normal people choose to train their hearts out every time?

The answer would be a "no."

Unless they were training maniacs, they would not waste all their time training.

A simpler way to obtain energy would be through refinement. In other words, it was to refine items that had energy within, such as monster cores. By refining them, cultivators could directly absorb the item's energy to increase their own.

Refining items may seem much simpler than training, but the world would not be that easy. Such a convenient item always came together with exorbitant prices. You had to be very rich if you wished to use such a way to cultivate.

Alas, those who had not trained would have a hard time comprehending their bloodline, resulting in having a longer bottleneck session. Therefore, it would be best to do both if you wanted to increase your cultivation as fast as possible.