Birth of the Demonic Sword

Chapter 1606 - 1606. Improvements

A rain of magical beasts, multicolored flames, and cultivators fell on the winged lion. The army targeted the base of the last head with their offensive, and they eventually managed to rip it off.

The metal creature crumbled at that point. The energy that kept it together vanished, so its fabric shattered and transformed into black shards that acc.u.mulated on the floor.

Noah quickly went to gather those materials, and a few experts followed him. Wilfred, King Elbas, Pearl, Luke, and other cultivators interested in the inscriptions behind that creation couldn't wait to study the metal.

The group didn't have to talk about the distribution of those resources. They had been together for so long that they could quickly decide how to split the materials.

Noah had already taken one leg, but no one dared to speak when he decided to store one of the heads. The same went for King Elbas since he had been crucial in clearing the whole layer. Instead, Wilfred decided to let the other experts study the last head before claiming it.

Divine Demon didn't care about those materials. Jordan and Ian wouldn't say no to those resources, but their influence on the battle didn't grant them that privilege. The two hybrids settled for a large share of the metal shards and felt satisfied.

The rest of the shards went to the remaining hybrids and magical beasts. That material carried many nutrients that those existences could use to improve if handled correctly. After all, the upper tier was only one step behind the ninth rank, so any piece of metal was a priceless treasure.

The army didn't have the time to cheer after that victory. Some magical beasts had died during the battle, and many of the leaders had suffered severe injuries. They all had to recover, especially since they still had another layer to clear.

Noah sat among his underlings and let his aura fill the hall. A door had opened on the other side of the staircase, but he didn't care about it just yet.

'I didn't think I could improve my body so easily,' Noah thought while inspecting the severed head.

An oval fake center of power tried to activate the severed head. The item contained enough energy to fuel an upper tier creature, so Noah ended up desiring to eat it right away.

Noah suppressed his instincts to study the fake core. The item didn't radiate any peculiar aura. It was a simple mass of power, but it was far more complex than the prototypes described in the four books.

'I might be unable to understand its real power,' Noah thought before closing his eyes and gathering his consciousness around the severed head.

Noah's ambition surged. He had managed to acc.u.mulate some potential after the last victories in the fifth layer. Every trial could defeat liquid stage cultivators, so his law had grown after his multiple feats.

His aura flowed inside his mental waves and transformed them into something more than thoughts. It made them become pure carriers of his existence that managed to sense the faint meaning inside that seemingly neutral energy.

An intense desire to live suddenly filled his mind. Part of the energy contained inside the item tried to reach his mental sea, but the black hole promptly sent dark matter to create a defensive layer around his mental walls.

Noah could soon think clearly again, but he didn't disregard the emotions felt during that inspection. The oval center of power contained far more than pure energy. It was a clear statement of Great Builder's inheritance and feelings.

Noah bathed in those sensations while his companions recovered. The faint feeling contained in that energy flowed inside him and gave him a better understanding of Great Builder's law.

The expert's law carried features that Noah had already seen before. It was an expression of life, but it had far more complexity to it.

Great Builder seemed able to turn bricks into lifeforms. His influence was strong enough to force stones to breathe.

Noah could study the materials, but his companions met many hindrances in that process. The ones who could find part of those meanings didn't care about them. Divine Demon and Wilfred were brutes. Only King Elbas could reach Noah's conclusions.

"Who wants to pick it up?" Noah asked, and King Elbas didn't hesitate to stand up.

The expert walked toward the new room and quickly returned while showing an old tome. King Elbas had retrieved the fifth piece of the inheritance, and the pyramid cheered about that event.

The whole structure trembled. It sent Noah and the others back into the fifth layer and chanted mysterious hymns that made the earthquakes more intense.

The same neutral aura coming from the head flowed through the various corridors and empty rooms. That energy wanted to make the air transform, but it suppressed its influence before anything could happen.

'We are close, but not yet,' Noah concluded in his mind before sending the severed head and leg inside the dark world.

The currents of dark matter proceeded to weaken those materials so that Noah could finally absorb them. Some of the experts in this group deployed similar methods to turn those resources into nutrients.

The dark world took care of handling those materials. It slowly turned them into energy that the black hole could send to his body.

Noah had the time to study the new book while the dark world handled the purification. The fifth piece of the inheritance explained how to improve the products of the workshop further.

Noah had already understood that he had to fill his creations with his law to make them reach the eighth rank, but the middle tier teachings dived deeper into that topic.

Those creations weren't a matter of laws or domains. They had to become separate existences after they left the workshop. The technique could only set their meanings, but they had to remain different existences.

Noah had done the same with Snore and Duanlong. The two Blood Companions shared a tight connection with his existence, but they were separate entities. The next level of the workshop required him to do the same with all the disposable magical beasts created through that technique.

'I should be able to solve everything with my ambition and expertise,' Noah thought once he finished reading the fifth book. 'My connection with the dark matter should never give them the chance to escape my control anyway.'

Noah's workshop was different from Great Builder's technique. It only used two resources, and Noah avoided wasting fake cores most of the time.

That difference didn't allow Noah to rely on the fifth book completely. It granted him the knowledge that he lacked, but it prevented him from abiding by all those teachings.

'I can't even use resources coming from rank 9 cultivators anymore,' Noah cursed in his mind, but his annoyance soon vanished.

Noah was in that situation because his existence was unique, and he already had multiple techniques that covered most fields. He didn't need anything else. The books could only improve his version of the workshop and polish some of its aspects.

"Is it time to go up?" Pearl asked and broke the silence that had fallen in the hall.

"Nothing more to do here," Divine Demon shouted. "I wonder how Alexander did on the sixth layer. I wouldn't mind challenging him in some trials."