The Story Never Ends

Inside the cultivation room of his courtyard, Davion was sitting cross-legged on the floor while looking at the bottles of pills infront of him. One was the bottle of black-colored pills that he had obtained from Aiden while the other was the bottle containing the normal Qi refining pills.

"Let's see what happens when I take the black one." He opened the cap of the bottle and took out one of the pills. Then he swallowed it and closed his eyes.

The pill broke apart and released a huge amount of devil essence after it went inside. This devil essence then slowly proceeded towards his devil seed and was absorbed by it.

"Is this it?"

"Nonetheless, it didn't even provide me with the experience points although it worked similarly to those Qi refining pills. Why?" He was confused as it didn't seem to make sense.

The Qi refining pills would also break down after they went inside and likewise would release a large amount of Qi. Then this Qi would be absorbed by his body and his experience points would increase rapidly.

He thought for a while about this matter and reached a conclusion, "Maybe it is due to my devil seed absorbing it instead of my body?" 

"Although this pill seems to be useless to me, I can recover my devil essence during a battle in case I run out of it." He made up his mind and put that bottle back into his spirit ring.

"Now, it's time to level up." Like previously he opened the cap of the other bottle. But this time he poured all the pills into his mouth and swallowed them in the blink of an eye.

If anybody had seen this then they would surely pass out from shock. Even a Nascent Soul Cultivator didn't dare to take this huge amount of Qi. Not only that, one had to be careful of the impurities present inside the pill.

This was the reason why the cultivators wouldn't solely depend on the pills. They would only take them in a certain interval of time in fear of accumulating impurities. This was also the same for the pills of the highest grade. However, it didn't matter for Davion.

His experience bar began filling up swiftly, and it became full in a few seconds. A strong aura was released out from his body which shook the whole courtyard and the formation outside. This indicated that he had reached level 29. But this was still not over yet as it began filling up once again.

"Damn, I don't think this courtyard will be able to handle it if I level up once again. The same goes for the formation outside. The elders would definitely get notified." He had a solemn look on his face.

"I became careless and didn't think about it in excitement." While he was worrying, he saw a blue-colored barrier surrounding him. It prevented his aura from leaking and managed to stabilize the formation and the courtyard.

"This.." He became speechless and didn't know how to react.

But suddenly he heard a calm woman's voice in his mind.

"I will be waiting for you at the peak."

He had beads of sweat on his forehead when he recognized whose voice it was. 

"Elder Liliana.." He muttered. Remembering how the old elder in the spiritual arts hall mentioned how scary she could become when angered, he felt his heart beating wildly.

"She must be furious after knowing I lied to her. Who knows if she might even torture me to know my secrets?" He had various scenarios playing in his mind when all of a sudden, a far more terrifying aura came out of his body. If not for the blue barrier, everything would have been turned to dust.

"Let's forget about it for now. I should focus on seeing what changes would happen to me right now." Indeed, he had leveled up again. 

His spiritual energy became more robust and began flowing violently throughout his body. He felt his cells, tissues, and every part of his body greedily absorbing this energy.

After a few minutes,

"Ahh.." he suddenly cried out and tore off the clothes he was wearing as he experienced a tearing pain in his skin. Slowly, his skin started shedding off like those of the snakes and new ones started reappearing. While it was happening, other changes were simultaneously taking place inside his Dantian. 

A Silvery colored spiritual energy with a tinge of gold mixed into it was being drawn into his devil seed. Not only that but his soul which was floating above it was getting baptized by this energy. The devil seed grew in size, and some changes could be seen in the soul.

Firstly, the soul became silver-colored from brown and radiated a shade of goldening from its outline. Then the devilish features completely disappeared. This included the wings, horns, and tail. As a result, the soul looked completely similar to Davion's body.

After an hour,

"Hah, hah…" Davion caught his breath and sighed in relief, "It's finally over."

He stood up and stretched his body. He found it much more comfortable and lighter than an hour ago. He then left this room and went to his bedroom to look at the mirror. As for the barrier, it disappeared the moment he touched it.

When he entered, he caught sight of Ryland on his bed chewing some spirit stones. Ryland also glanced back and then something weird happened. Ryland flew over his shoulders and both of his heads started licking his face. 

"Stop.." Davion tried to push him away but Ryland seemed to be enjoying it and didn't back down.

"Damn" He cursed and slapped Ryland away with his right hand.

"Bang" Ryland was flung outside the room.

"Strange" he murmured and went infront of the mirror.

"What? Is this me?" Davion had his mouth wide open after he saw his image.

He looked a few years younger than previously and had a childish vibe written all over his face. His skin looked as smooth and crystal clear as that of a newborn baby. When he touched it, he could feel how soft it was.

"I.." He shook his head and turned back. Although he looked more handsome, he still wanted to laugh after seeing his face.

"Let's take a bath first and think what to do later on." He felt sticky and a bit dirty.

But before he could do that, Ryland had pounced on him again.

"Ryland. Stop playing…"

***

A while later, in the cultivation room, Davion was standing in the middle with his eyes closed. He had already taken a bath and had changed into a new set of robes. If not for these robes of the Thunderbolt Sect, everybody would think of him as a scholar. This was all because of his innocent young look and fair smooth skin. How could cultivators who fight brutally possess such qualities?

"Focus.." he softly said.

Then slowly his body started to levitate.

"As I thought, I can indeed fly." Davion finally opened his eyes and smiled. After reaching level 30, he noticed that the color of his spiritual energy had changed a bit. Even though only a tinge of gold was added, it had improved his spiritual energy by leaps and bounds. So, he knew that it should be similar to how Qi evolves into soul Qi after reaching the Nascent Soul Stage.

Thus, he tried to fly using his spiritual energy like how one could fly using their soul Qi and he became successful in the end.

"I think I should practice a bit more." He thought and practiced flying everywhere in the room.

"Swish…swish…"

Only the sounds of his robes fluttering could be heard in the room. 

A few minutes later, he finally stopped.

"This speed is comparable to when I'm using the Thunder Stomp spell. However, I should be much faster now if I use it again." He descended, but he didn't want to test it currently. Previously he had dealt a ton of damage to the floor, and who knew what would happen if he tried it again.

"Now, I'm ready to leave. But before that, I think I should refine this weapon." Davion took out the axe which was owned by Aiden and did the same process he did with his halberd. Yet, instead of using spiritual energy, he injected devil essence.

The axe shined brightly and was refined within a minute. He put it back in his spirit ring and thought, "I've become really strong after reaching level 30 as I refined it this easily. I should even be able to handle Aiden without my devil form."

He was full of confidence. 

"But there are new problems now." He furrowed his brows. 

Meeting Elder Liliana was already one. So, he refined this axe to increase his battle power in case something happened when meeting her. Even though he would not be her match, being prepared was still better than doing nothing. The other problem was that after reaching level 30, the experience bar didn't fill up like earlier but stopped when it was only one-tenth filled. It meant that these Qi refining pills wouldn't be useful like before. 

"Maybe there should be similar pills for the Nascent Soul Cultivators.." While thinking about these things, he left for the Core Disciples Peak with Ryland.