New Mission

Before Lin Xiang even knew it, under continuous cultivation, a day has passed.

In a day passing, a beautiful phenomenon changed Lin Xiang's cultivation dwelling.

Sparkles of ice were now sparsely all around the room. A frosty mist permeated the atmosphere. Under Lin Xiang's body was a large patch of radiantly glowing ice that shined with a crystal glow.

By simply cultivating his bloodline, could Lin Xiang create magical phenomenons!

At this time, Lin Xiang had reached a critical point in his cultivation.

The Profound energy filling his Qi Sea had reached a powerful potency. It was the late layer of the Profound realm, the 7th layer.

While the Law of Ice had reached the Late Stage of the Novice realm. A full 3% of the Laws of Ice continually filled Lin Xiang's Qi Sea.

Reaching both the late layers of the Profound realm and the Late Stage of the Law Novice Realm wouldn't come easy to any geniuses, even special bloodline users.

From the Mid Stages to Late Stages represents a huge gulf of power and energy. A cultivator needs the appropriate amount of perception abilities to be able to wield Late Stages power.

This applies to all proceeding major realms of cultivation. The Late Stage represents reaching a gulf that tremendously boosts one's abilities by at least 100%!

Even Lin Xiang greatly benefits from reaching the Late Stages.

While Lin Xiang's black-grade bloodline is extremely powerful and contained highly potent abilities, he still needs to use the various energies of the Heaven and Earth to directly enhance his cultivation base.

His bloodline energy only provided a way for Lin Xiang to monstrously increase his combat prowess and skip over bottlenecks other cultivators experience when comprehending World's energies and their own Great Dao Laws.

The amount Lin Xiang fully comprehended from his bloodline represents how high his cultivation base is.

As his black-grade bloodline has a boundless amount of universal source energies and Absolute Yin Great Dao particles, it's completely effortless for Lin Xiang to break through.

It's only when Lin Xiang fights that his bloodline energy fuses with his Qi Sea, causing his combat prowess to take tremendous leaps forward. The essence of his bloodline's inherent skills follows the same principles.

At this time, Lin Xiang had finished consolidating his breakthrough.

Particles of essence from his Qi Sea rippled out and fused all throughout Lin Xiang's internal body. His physique rapidly strengthened beyond the normal standards of Late layers Profound realm cultivators.

These essence particles came from both Profound energy and the Laws of Ice. They all fused into every inch of Lin Xiang's body, even down to the tiniest of his cell.

The process wasn't painful at all. It felt completely relaxing to Lin Xiang as if he was washing under the beauty of moonlight.

Simultaneously cracks in his skin form. Gross black sludge protrude out from these cracks and was instantly frozen upon hitting the floor.

These were the accumulated impurities Lin Xiang's body had gathered leading up to the Late layers of the Profound realm.

Now, with 70% control over Profound energy and 3% Ice Law essence, his body naturally cleansed every single ounce of impurity. It enhanced his physique and Qi Sea to be able to intake more powerful energies from the Heaven and Earth.

Minutes later and every impurity was cleansed from Lin Xiang's body and frozen by the icy atmosphere.

For a moment, Lin Xiang's Spiritual Sea could perceive higher forms of energies.

These energies transcend Profound energy and Novice Ice Law's essence in every way. Grasping them would bring a cultivator to a new world completely different from their previous limits. It would fundamentally transform a cultivator into a new, powerful being!

Lin Xiang easily identified these energies as Heavenly Origin energy and Primary Stage Ice Law essence. Both higher stages that can pull Lin Xiang into a new stage of power.

However, Lin Xiang didn't take the chance. Not only did he feel an indomitable mental barrier that separated these energies, but he himself also wanted to increase his comprehension of Absolute Yang bloodline energy to the same standards as his Absolute Yin side.

His Absolute Yin bloodline had only increased to 2% completion. When Lin Xiang comprehends the Absolute Yang bloodline to the same level, both sides would instantly reach 4% completion!

After all, this was the Absolute Yin-Yang bloodline. Without the other, it would be impossible to advance.

The only reason Lin Xiang can just faintly perceive Heavenly Origin Sensation is that his innate Spiritual Sea perception abilities are monstrously high.

'I suppose this could be considered a slight downside to this bloodline. But even then, I love to study Fire just as much as I do with Ice. This suits me the best.' Lin Xiang's lips curled into a wide smile.

His eyes opened and a faint glow of Ice radiance streaked from his pupils. The dazzling ice would lull anyone's weaker soul into a complete trance. They would freeze by just meeting his eyes.

The soul-pulling Ice radiance vanished a moment later.

Lin Xiang slowly stood up, power crackling out of his joints at a higher intensity than his last breakthroughs.

This immense power gave Lin Xiang a sensation of bliss. With just a pinch of hand, he could rip apart any Early Heavenly Origin expert!

For a special bloodline cultivator like Lin Xiang, such feats were only natural. Even high-tier Heavenly bloodline or Divine bloodline can transcend major realms to fight above.

Though, Lin Xiang was clear about how much of a superior advantage his absolute bloodline has. None of them would be able to causally breakthrough as he can.

Taking a look around his room, Lin Xiang snapped his finger. The frosty mist dispersed and every speck of ice vanished.

Before doing anything else, Lin Xiang stopped for a moment to consider his options. 'It's good to have a fast cultivation speed. But not so good to reveal my bloodline without proper prowess. If I can awaken my Absolute Yang bloodline skill, I wouldn't have to fear anyone in this Sacred Emperor City. But still, I need a way to mask myself for now. Hmm...what about that system?'

The moment Lin Xiang called for the system, a blue energy projection appeared right in front of him. He gave the screen a full look over before noticing two tabs that hadn't appeared on his first look.

'Hm? Store? SP?'

Clicking on SP showcased a page that detailed he only had 100 SP at this moment. A stream of information entered Lin Xiang's mind at the same time.

'SP is Store Points that can be used within the System Store. Enough SP can grant you cultivation arts, weapons, resources, or other miscellaneous.'

Feeling curious, Lin Xiang promptly checked out of the SP tab and went into the store tab.

Inside the store tab were four different other columns Lin Xiang can choose from. As was explained before, the columns detailed cultivation arts, weapons, resources, and miscellaneous items.

Lin Xiang gave a sweeping glance. His causal glance soon turns into a gaze full of genuine surprise.

'It goes all the way up to high-grade Heavenly Art?! I can already buy weapons and skills that can make me equal to the peak of the Heavenly realm, Heavenly King! It's just...what's with these prices?!'

Lin Xiang would typically consider himself a calm and calculative person. But the prices on the higher grades items made him speechless.

Just one high-grade Heavenly Art costs 5,000 SP!

These high-grade Heavenly Arts also produced powerful abilities he hadn't even seen in his previous art. One such Art included the ability to create Law essence claws that can twist apart space and slow down time!

It was hard for Lin Xiang to not be tempted by such powerful abilities. However, with his measly 100 SP, Lin Xiang could only window shop, just like a poor man.

A small sigh escaped his lips. 'In any case, my bloodline already provides enough of an advantage there is. And it seems like completing these system missions can give me more SP. Though, no clue how much I can exactly gain. I'll just focus on what's immediately useful to me. Let's see...something to hide my cultivation...'

Lin Xiang didn't bother with the more powerful and useful items. His poor self couldn't bear to get anyone one of them.

After a few minutes of searching and he finally found a suitable skill.

'Low-grade Heavenly Tier Aura Mask. Completely covers the cultivation base in a mysterious fog. 100 SP.' It'll cost every bit of Lin Xiang's SP, but it was worth it.

Low-grade Heavenly Tier is equivalent to the Early Stages of the proceeding realm after Heavenly Origin, the Heavenly Ruler realm.

The realm after Heavenly Ruler is Heavenly King. And Heavenly King cultivators are rarely seen normally in these types of mid-level cities.

All Lin Xiang needed to worry about for now is other Profound Realm and Heavenly Origin cultivators. It was rare for a person at his cultivation to even meet a Heavenly Ruler.

Thus, Lin Xiang promptly chose the Aura Mask.

A flash of blue streaked out of the system. It landed in Lin Xiang's palm, instantly forming a small cultivation scroll.

Closing the system and unfolding the scroll, Lin Xiang was greeted with symbol marks that contained the Aura Mask essence.

Numerous particles were within this essence. It gave the feeling that one was peering into an impenetrable fog.

All Lin Xiang needs to do is comprehend the essence within the symbol marks to fuse the skill inside his soul.

With Lin Xiang's innate perception abilities being extremely high because of his bloodline, comprehending the Aura Mask was done in mere seconds.

Lin Xiang stirred his soul, causing a mysterious fog to appear throughout his internal body. Any Profound realm or Heavenly Origin cultivator would only be able to perceive the vague sensation of the Profound realm.

Once finished, a metallic voice sounded in Lin Xiang's mind. 'Host has received a main mission. Travel to the peak of Polaris Mountain. Awaken your Absolute Yang inherit skill. Rewards will be a critical cultivation skill. Failure to do so within a day will result in death.'

'Seriously? Are all these missions just going to be my life hanging in the balance?' Lin Xiang wryly smiles.

The prospect of skirting along the edge of death was merely amusing to him more than anything. It would take a lot more for him to feel any semblance of pressure.

'Well then, no need to waste time. In any case, awakening this second skill will leave me unrivaled once I reach the Heavenly Origin realm myself.'

The intake of Heaven and Earth energies, along with Great Dao essence particles, allowed Lin Xiang to temporarily skip over basic bodily needs.

Late layers Profound realm can let him go a couple of weeks without sleeping, eating, or showing.

Though there was still a novelty and pleasure in doing so. Lin Xiang had a desire to also partake in simple pleasure. But with the guillotine of the system hanging over his neck, such things would have to be postponed until later.