Future ambitions.

Under Liang Chen's control, the black book slowly opened and unleashed a flood of information directly into his mind, bringing it to the point of overloading. Just like the first time he opened this book and learned the first part of the technique, blood quickly started leaking from his seven orifices, his entire soul in agonizing pain as it felt like it was being torn apart.

Everything came at a price, and this pain was the price one had to pay for opening this book and learning a technique that was of the third highest rank in the universe. Of course, had Liang Chen's soul been weaker, the price for learning this technique would have been death, his soul dissipating and leaving his body a lifeless husk.

The Chaos King technique was divided into three parts, the first part that he had already learned allowed him to refine corpses and absorb 25% of their strength, while the second part he was learning right now would let him absorb 50% of the corpses' strength, a rather substantial increase.

Flooding into his mind alongside the information on how to cultivate the second part were the three skills that belonged to the second part of the technique, one for attacking, one for defending, and one auxiliary. The first part of the technique had also contained three skills, one for movement, one for defending, and one for attacking.

Liang Chen used the movement and the defensive ones quite regularly, but he had yet to use the skill meant for attacking, it was simply too weak when compared to his Dragon Lord's Three Steps. He gave the three skills a quick look-over, immediately seeing that two of them were simply upgraded versions of the attacking and defending skills from the first part, based completely on turning the Qi of the opponent chaotic and unruly.

The auxiliary skill was a bit more interesting to him, it was designed to increase the speed at which one absorbed any type of energy, allowing for faster recovery and cultivation. It worked by using the cultivator's energy, blood, and even their veins, to draw up an incredibly complex array that would automatically draw in any surrounding Qi, spreading it through the body. This was the first time Liang Chen had ever heard about drawing an array into one's own body, but the skill seemed very useful so he made sure to memorize it.

After memorizing the three skills and how to cultivate the second part of the technique, Liang Chen stood up and stretched his body, letting out a deep breath at the same time. Pain that made it feel like his soul was tearing apart was far from pleasant, but since it was necessary to grow stronger, he could only bear with it. While he was stretching, he felt a blast of cool water splash his face, followed by a dry towel hitting his face, Yan Ling throwing it at him while talking.

"I take it that you're done? If so, you should clean yourself, I dislike seeing you covered in blood."

Liang Chen placed his hand on the towel and quickly wiped his face, washing away the blood that had poured out from his seven orifices. Once his face was clean and dry again, he put the towel into his interspatial ring and nodded his head,

"Aye, I'm done for now, Can you come here for a bit?"

Yan Ling tilted her head in slight confusion, she had no idea what Liang Chen had just done after all. But since she had full trust in Liang Chen, she walked over in an obedient manner. The moment she got within arm's reach, he stretched out his arms as fast as possible and pulled her closer, wrapping his arms around her waist and planting a kiss on her lips. The two hadn't gotten to be all that intimate lately so this served as a good chance to be a bit more intimate while also transferring the information about the second part of the Chaos King technique.

Yan Ling blushed slightly at first, but she didn't push him away, wrapping her own arms around his waist. Their lives were very stressful, this was a good way for them to ease some of their stress. Of course, she made sure to memorize the second part of the Chaos King technique and the three skills while also enjoying the kiss. When they ended the kiss and pulled away from each other, Yan Ling licked her lips slightly.

"Still tastes a bit of blood, can't say I expected more from a lecher like you."

Liang Chen decided that not mentioning how into the kiss she had gotten would be the gentlemanly thing to do, raising his arms with a slight smirk. The two didn't immediately start cultivating the second part of the technique, both of them needed some rest first, especially Liang Chen, who just had to bear the strain of learning the technique.

The two walked over to a square table surrounded by four small couches, sitting down on a couch each. Liang Chen took out some food from his interspatial ring, Yan Ling taking out some tea from hers, the two quickly setting up a good lunch. Yumao popped out from Liang Chen's dantian, looking at the food with a hungry gaze, just waiting for Liang Chen to let him go wild on it.

Liang Chen and Yan Ling chuckled lightly at Yumao's demeanor, Liang Chen quickly indicating that it was fine for Yumao to start eating. The three then quickly started eating the food and drinking the tea, Liang Chen chatting with Yan Ling.

"Ling'er, you want to take over as the leader of the Storm Wolf sect, right? Mind telling me why?"

He had guessed that she wanted to take over as the leader of the Storm Wolf sect ever since he restored his cultivation after using the Mad King's Rage. But while he knew that she wanted to take over the sect, he didn't know exactly why she wanted to take over the sect, now that both of them were taking a break, it was a good chance to ask. Yan Ling swallowed the food she had in her mouth, responding in a rather serious manner.

"I want to take over as the leader because I want to elevate the status of the Storm Wolf sect. At first, I just wanted to make it the strongest sect on our planet to show Mother that even with her betrayal and scheming, our sect would never fall to hers, it would be the ultimate humiliation before I killed her. But you know, I've started thinking that it might be nice to spread the name of the Storm Wolf sect even further than that, into the wider universe. The minimum requirement is to make the name just as famous as the name of the Sealing God Empyrean, I want everyone to know about our glory, and about Mother's betrayal."

The Sealing God Empyrean wasn't known on their planet, but looking at how grand his hidden realm had been, even able to travel around the universe to find new disciples, it was clear that he must be a very famous figure. Half her drive came from her strong emotions to the sect, the other half coming from the hatred she felt towards her mother. But if anyone in the Storm Wolf sect had the chance of bringing it away from their planet and spreading its name across the wider universe, it would be Liang Chen and Yan Ling. After giving her response, Yan Ling tossed the question back to Liang Chen.

"What about you, Little Freak, what sort of ambitions do you have? Other than bringing back my parents-in-law of course."

Liang Chen brought the cup of tea to his mouth, slowly sipping it while giving the question a bit of thought. He had never really thought too much about what he wanted to do in the future, his thoughts had always been placed on killing Qing Lan Yong and bringing back his parents. After giving it a bit of thought, he placed down the cup and shrugged his shoulders.

"I haven't really thought much about it. I'm a pretty unambitious person, only ones I have are killing Qing Lan Yong and then bringing back my parents and your siblings. But if I had to say something else, it would be nice to reach the same height as the Sealing God Empyrean, I want to see why people like them always seem to have such a disregard for most other lives."

Liang Chen didn't consider himself a virtuous person, he could easily kill others if he considered them enemies or bad people. But the Sealing God Empyrean had been able to easily cause the deaths of countless people he had never even met before, forcing them into the final trial of the Mystic's Hidden Realm. How many times had he done this, how many people had been killed just because they were forcibly dragged into that trial?

Yan Ling let out a light giggle upon hearing his casual reply. Unambitious? Reaching a stage where you could bring back the dead, as well as standing shoulder to shoulder with someone who might be at the peak of this universe, could goals like that really be called unambitious? Both had ambitions that could be called extremely grand, but neither of them was too worried about it, because they knew that they could walk side by side and work together to fulfill their ambitions.

The two slowly finished up the remaining lunch while chatting, cleaning off the table and then sitting down on their respective couches with crossed legs. Now that they had rested it was time to start cultivating the second part of the Chaos King technique and then make use of all the corpses they had just acquired, which should be able to give their strength a nice boost.