Burning Flame City

Zaka flew toward the east from the valley at a casual pace. Soon, he found an empty cave nearby and entered it.

He placed a bewildering and concealment formation in front of the cave, he got the formations from Edgar's, the red-robed man, collection.

He waved his hand and a small hill of treasures appeared in front of him. Zaki flew out from Zaka's body and his corporeal body turned real.

"Wow, so many treasures!" Zaki's eyes glittered.

"Yeah, but unfortunately, most of the treasures were the ingredients for evil cultivation technique. Only the materials for building formations are useful for us." Zaka was levitating the treasures hill and sorting out the content.

Some are formation flags of formation arrays, ingredients for evil cultivation technique, and some are materials for building a formation array.

"Hmm?" Zaka's eyes were lit up. He pulled out a sword from the pile of treasures. Its body was blood red with baleful qi enveloping the sword. It was thin and about seventy centimeters long.

But more importantly, it was a sword! Zaka's eyes teared up a bit. He hurriedly sent his qi into the sword, refining it.

"Haha! Not bad, an earth-grade magic-artifact!" the moment he finished refining the sword. It disappeared and reappeared above his qi divine sea of his dantian.

For an earth-grade magic-artifact and the grades above it, they could be stored inside a practitioner's dantian, above the qi divine sea.

Only the divine sea realm cultivator could refine and utilize an earth-grade magic-artifact.

After combing through the pile of treasures for some time, Zaka put the treasures back into his storage ring.

"Hmm, there is a jade-bottle container which was also a storage artifact that was filled with a liquid. I felt refreshed just by smelling it. I suspect that it was a liquid nature-essence. There were about two hundred kilograms of the liquid.

Besides, there was also a stack of golden bank-notes with each note read one hundred thousand gold pieces. There were ten of the bank-notes that means the total was one million gold pieces.

I don't know the exact value of this wealth." Zaka shook his head.

There was a lot of information about cultivation's common sense inside the books of the five-element school's dao repository. But, there wasn't any information about the value of artifacts and liquid nature-essences.

"I should observe first about the common value of things in this world, before selling the ingredients." Zaka believed that the ingredients of the evil cultivation technique could be sold and the value should be quite high as well.

This reasoning came from the fact that Edgar was an evil cultivator. So, it was only natural that he would buy quality goods for his cultivation.

It was his main source of power after all.

Zaka opened his notification window. He got a total of [5200 KP] from raiding Edgar's base.

[1000 KP] from killing Edgar himself, the leader of the Ghost Refining Sect. [2200 KP] from helping approximately two thousand vengeful ghosts and the wraith king to reincarnate.

[1000 KP] from releasing the three thousand prisoners. Lastly, another [1000 KP] from killing all Edgar's disciples as well as the servants who helped them.

This amount is quite a lot, he only lacked another four thousand to five thousand karmic points to buy items related to [Gatotkaca Bloodline].

For example: [[Kontang Antakusuma] -> ten thousand KP], [[Caping Basunanda] -> nine thousand KP], [[Terompah Padakacarma] -> ten thousand KP].

It has to be said that those three artifacts were divine-grade of bloodline-artifacts. Bloodline artifact was the equivalent of a magic artifact for a fiend-body cultivator.

Magic artifacts could only be refined using qi, while bloodline-artifacts could only be refined by the blood of a fiend-body cultivator. And then, only divine power could be used to activate the bloodline artifacts.

Due to the high strength of a fiend-body cultivator, the materials of a bloodline artifact were of a higher quality than that of a magic artifact. Also, few people were capable of refining a bloodline artifact.

These factors made that the price of a bloodline artifact was twice that of a magic artifact!

Only a heavenly immortal could utilize a divine-grade magic-artifact, and its price was immeasurable!

The price of a divine-grade bloodline-artifact was double that of a divine-grade magic-artifact!

The same as magic artifacts, a divine sea realm cultivator could only use an earth-grade bloodline-artifact. Each increase of the stage of the cultivator's realm could allow him to use a higher grade of bloodline artifact.

And only a Godfiend could use a divine-grade bloodline-artifact. However, there was an exception.

A mighty fiend or godfiend could refine a bloodline artifact with their bloodline as the main ingredient. The final product was an inheritance-bloodline-artifact.

The descendants of the inheritance-bloodline-artifact refiner or other cultivators with the same bloodline could activate the inheritance-bloodline artifact.

Although they could only let out a small portion of the might of a divine-grade inheritance-bloodline-artifact, the power was far, far stronger than the original artifact that they could use at their realm.

[Kontang Antakusuma], [Caping Basunanda], and [Terompah Padakacarma] were precisely a divine-grade inheritance-bloodline-artifact!

They could only be used by a fiend-body cultivator with [Gatotkaca Bloodline]. Their original price was [1.000.000 KP] and then it got reduced drastically to a price of [10.000 KP].

One raid of an evil cultivator lair got him [5200 KP], didn't this meant that he only had to raid another five evil cultivators to buy the three divine-grade bloodline-artifact?

Of course, next time, he wouldn't be so lucky to encounter an evil cultivator who used vengeful ghosts to cultivate. The prisoners were there to provide new vengeful ghosts so they were related to the vengeful ghosts.

The vengeful ghost and the prisoners were the main contributors to the KP earned.

His first target was to buy the divine artifacts to increase his chance of survival. Only then he would slowly accumulate karmic points to but [Gatotkaca Bloodline]!

To acquire this many KP safely, Zaka had an idea after reading the memory of those evil cultivators. That was to join Daemon Guard!

Daemon Guard was a special organization founded by Marcus Empire to attract countless experts to their ranks. There were a lot of benefits to joining the organization.

One could complete the missions given by Daemon Guard to acquire merit points and then exchange those points with cultivation resources. Since this organization was backed by Marcus Empire, the largest power in the azure continent, its cultivation resources were numerous.

Its resources were even larger than that of the five-element school! This was natural because, over countless years since the ancient era, numerous powerhouses at the level of the ancient fiends had risen. At their peak, they had created many techniques for their descendant to cultivate.

Also, the size of the Marcus Empire was a level higher than the five-element school at its peak. Otherwise, how could the empire become the strongest power in a continent as large as the azure continent?

Without the alliance of the other three large power, the Marcus Empire would have unified the continent long ago!

To become a Daemon Guard, one would have to find a city first. In every city within the territory of the Marcus Empire, there would be a Daemon Guard's headquarters.

After resting for a night inside the cave, he and Zaki flew to the nearest city, Burning Flame City. This city was a fortress city, it was built at the border between the empire and the Beast Mountain Range.

Now and then, there would be a beast tide coming from the Beast Mountain Range. Burning Flame city and a lot of other fortress cities would hold back and kill the strongest beast of the beast tide.

"If you want to enter the city in physical form, you have to change your form to an adult body." While traveling to the Burning Flame City, Zaka glanced at Zaki who sat at his shoulder.

"No way, I love this form so much. It is very cute!" Zaki swung his leg back and forth in a way he thought was the cutest, "hmph! Just say it if you're jealous, there is no need to force me to change my form."

Zaka's face turned dark, 'this idiot system!'

"In the future, there would a lot of instances where you would be forced to use your divine will ability, or when you have to turn your body into a spirit form.

This would make sense if you're in the form of an adult cultivator. Because only a divine sea realm cultivator could use a divine will.

A child at the divine sea realm? Do you want to attract trouble for us!?" Zaka had stopped in one of the branches of a large tree. He stared directly at Zaki.

His gaze pressured Zaki into changing his form to a young man with a very ordinary face. This face was the 'correct' face according to Zaka. Also, there was a slight resemblance between Zaki's face and that of Zaka's.

Having lived with Zaka for many years, Zaki had known Zaka's preferences.

Now, Zaka had turned his face from 'Doran' to a very ordinary face. Watching Zaki's new form, Zaka nodded, "Good."

He resumed his journey.

Some people could indeed have a divine sea cultivation stage with a youthful body. This was because they could reach the divine sea realm when they were young, preserving their youthful personage as a result.

Those people, however, were cultivation geniuses. It was no longer a matter of resources, but comprehension and perception ability toward myriad dao in the world.

No matter how much liquid of nature-essence one had, they would be stuck at the bottleneck of their realm without sufficient comprehension of the dao.

At least, they had to have sufficient comprehension of their cultivation technique, whether it was qi refining or fiend-body cultivation technique.

Zaka had told Zaki about this common-sense since when they were at the Five-Element School dimension.

After traveling for two days and nights, Zaka had exited the range of Beast Mountain Range's forest and arrived at a vast expanse of meadow.

At the center of the meadow, stood an enormous city whose end couldn't be seen with one's naked eyes.

It had one hundred meters tall walls. The wall was made out of black stones and each of the stones was covered with formation runes. All the runes from each stone were interconnected, forming a humongous defensive formation array.

There were many huge pearls embedded on the top of the walls. They were emitting a terrifying aura. Each of the pearls was operated by a golden core realm cultivator at its side, ready to launch an attack anytime.

From the aura emitted by the pearl, Zaka could deduce that each of them could launch an attack at the level of peak nascent core realm. Even an immortal would have to flee facing those pearls.

At the front, there was a one hundred meters wide and thirty meters tall large gate. The people who wanted to enter the city were divided into two lines.

The queue was one thousand meters long, winding like a long snake.

Zaka also entered the queue. After waiting for six hours, it was now his turn to enter the city.

"Hold, you have to pay before entering the city," one of the guards with silver armor stopped Zaka, "One gold piece per person."

The guard swept his gaze to Zaka's and Zaki's ordinary clothes and stopped at Zaka's poor sack before deciding to just give the normal price.

If the people entering the city looked wealthy the guards usually increased the price two times or even three times. For those poor people, however, the guard was too lazy to increase the price.

Even without increasing the price, He doubted those poor people could afford the price. From his observation of the two people in front of him, they were just ordinary mortals, wanting to try their luck inside the city.

After walking past the gate, Zaka arrived in front of a bustling, wide road.

"Burning Flame City." Zaka couldn't stop his smile to surface as he watched the street vendors and restaurants by the side of the road.