312 Another Cycle

'I'm not sure about this 'plant' element, but…'

While what seemed to be a vegetation element that was attached to cultivation practice seemed interesting, it seemed unlikely for me to master it that easily as it was at most going to appear as a pseudo attribute, at least that was what I could expect, judging from experience with 'Icy Fire Formula'...

Last time, I did already have the pseudo water attribute, which is what I assumed to be the reason behind me achieving a complete attribute as a result of combining both bloodline evolution effect and the third element stimulation that came along the 'Icy Fire Formula', but that wasn't the case this time.

Actually delving into learning this element would take a lot of time which I obviously didn't have a lot of at the moment, so I could only leave that to another time, however, I was still going to use and initiate 'Practice Cultivation', and right away at that!

The reason was that I wanted to obtain the earth element, which would be a complete attribute addition unlike the case of the unknown vegetation element, not to mention it's nature that made me even more decided on getting it.

The Earth elements, just as widely known and acknowledged, are considered one of the best elements when it comes to defense, the one aspect that I lacked the most in!

As I have naturally depended on speed to breeze through most fights, my defensive ability grew stagnant with time, and while that didn't seem to pose a problem most of the times, it did become a deficiency at some critical events like the assassination attempt and the 'Cheering', and since all of my stats were balanced at the moment it would be better to balance my attributes's abilities as well, at least that was the path I found suitable to me the most considering I had 'Omni-Mastery'...

The process of 'Cultivation Practice' wasn't that hard, all one had to do was create the earth elemental seed in the form of 'Planting Soil' and temper the liver according to the cycle before pushing it into the water elemental seed, which was the water cell in my case.

Unfortunately enough, I didn't have any earth monster cores so I could only try collecting and isolating them from the elemental crystals I had to form a pseudo source that should act as good as an actual elemental orb.

'Let's try it out…'

Taking out a dozen of the shards that I broke off the corruption core's platform in the first base, at that time back then, I was still holding off maxing my elemental capacity to reach stage three as I wasn't sure if that would actually stop me from mastering other elements which was why I didn't even bother purifying these crystals till now.

[ A Corrupted Elemental Crystal has been acquired, do you wish to purify it? ]

'Yes.'

[ 'Pseudo Omni-Element Crystal' (Grade Undefined) ]

'Hmmm…'

Seemingly due to the fact that the shard were originally a part of a bigger crystal, they actually didn't get graded by the system, but it wasn't like that would pose much of a problem.

[ An Elemental Crystal has been acquired, do you wish to absorb it? ]

'No.'

I obviously didn't plan on absorbing it the common way as it would only draw the elements that I had as an attribute which wasn't my target, so instead, I started digging into the crystal using my mental energy…

'The amount of elements should be in the middle between first and second grade crystals…'

Probing a bit was all it took before I identified the earth elements hidden within the crystal and started my own attempt at isolating them before absorbing them directly to my body, while still keeping an isolation shell made of mental energy.

The method of using elemental crystals was actually more common than using monster cores, but elemental crystals of one pure element were what would be normally used, at least that was what all of the elemental art manual's startup part has described, so I had to collect enough pure earth elements in the mental energy shell before moving it to the liver and starting the cycle…

[ A Corrup… ]

I completely purified the dozen or so crystals that I brought out to make sure I would have all my needs of elements before I proceeded further...

The process took me about two more crystals before I was able to collect enough as I had to discard more than half of the earth elements in each one due to the nature of omni-crystals, as I didn't waste anymore time and guided the shelled elements into my liver and started forming the seed…

...

[ You have created the special technique 'Cultivation'! ]

…...

[ 'Cultivation' First stage (Water 99%)+(Earth 99%) ]

The whole tempering process also didn't take long just like my last one, it was really quite convenient to be able to finish the whole thing in a few hours.

After obtaining a complete liver tempering, I didn't hesitate as I drove the 'Planting Soil' directly into my heart through the blood vessels, forcing it into the water cell...

[ A new stat has been unlocked! ]

[ Earth Element: 0 ]

The next step was to naturally charge the cell, which was the main reason why I purified more crystals.

[ Earth Element +0.1 ]

[ 'Cultivation' First stage (Earth -100%)+(Water +100%) ]

[ Earth Element +0.1 ]

Completing the whole body tempering like the usual routine worked, moved on to the last step.

[ 'Cultivation' First stage (Water 100%)+(Earth +100%) ]

[ 'Omni-Mastery' is activated… ]

[ 'Cell Mastery' has absorbed 'Cultivation'! ]

[ 'Cell Mastery' has leveled up! ]

[ 'Cell Mastery' has reached level 6! ]

[ Initiating 'Elemental Interfusion'... ]

[ 'Cell Mastery' lv.6 (Unique*)

Description: an elemental art created from the fusion ability of 'Lightning Cell' along the fusion function of 'Omni-Mastery'.

'Lightning cell': 3rd Stage.

'Thunder cell': 3rd Stage. (Lightning-Thunder dual wave)

'Wind Cell': 3rd Stage. (Hurricane)

'Fire Cell': 3rd Stage. (Raging Fire)

'Ice/Water Cell': 3rd stage. (Icy Fire)

'Earth Cell': 3rd stage. (Cultivation) ]

[ The 'Hexa-Element'' stat has absorbed 'Earth Element' and evolved into 'Hepta-Element'! ]

[ Hepta-Element: 33.00 (+0.8) ]

[ Attribute: Lightning, Thunder, Wind, Fire, Water, Ice, Earth & Vegetation (Pseudo)... ]