Don² have always been acting quite flamboyant but deep down, he is actually very insecure, he felt that he owe all of his achievements to Shadowslash, the only person that could convince him was his best friend but he no longer living in their world.
He had been training almost every single day back on Gaia, he believed that even though he isn't talented as human beings when they create brand new techniques, he could still become strong, he is confident that his hard work would pay off.
He had been honing his soft and hard martial intent, palm intent and fist intent, because of his special status as a beast martial artist, he doesn't need any weapon, he'll just need to refine his body into an art, a living and breathing weapon of mass destruction.
His foundation was extremely stable, because he had reached Saint Realm, he is now just slowly converting his internal energy into Saint Qi, but his mastery over his techniques continue to rapidly increase, he had been researching numerous martial arts to increase his understanding towards the martial way.
His bottleneck on his martial art path isn't because he is lacking over his mastery towards his techniques nor his self created techniques lacking in quality, it is because he isn't confident on himself, now that he finally heard that he had done enough.
He immediately broke through, his bloodline that was unresponsive finally started to riot, his disciples were looking at him with awe, all of them started kneeling one by one, Shadowslash on the other hand was sweating heavily.
He was using all of the reserve energy he has on his clone's body to hide Don Don's advancement from this world's consciousness, fortunately, his brother have broken through with ease, he finally achieved great mastery towards his own martial path.
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Name: Don Don
Title: [Glutton], [Martial Sage], [Beast King]
Race: Divine Beast
Species: Battle Saint Ape
Bloodline: [Battle Saint Ape (40% Purity)]
Grade: Divine
Gender: Male
Level: Saint (60%)
Innate Attributes: Strength/Spirit
Internal Energy: Saint Tier (60%)
Elemental Energy: [Spirit Qi: Saint Tier]
Mysterious Energy/Intent: (Soft and Hard Martial Art Intent), (Fist Intent), (Palm Intent)
Martial Art Techniques: (Heaven Destroying Fist), (Heaven Covering Palm), (Thousand Illusionary Step), (Sage Spirit Destroyer), (Heaven Swallowing Technique).....
Racial Trait: (Battle Saint Ape Bloodline), (Gluttony), (Martial Sage Intent), (Divine Beast Aura)
Passive Abilities: (Extreme Speed), (Indestructible Adamantine Body), (Enhanced Intelligence), (Enhanced Spirit)
Active Abilities: (Steel Body Transformation), (Flight), (Human Transformation), (Enlightenment Will)
Saint Forbidden Ability: [Battle Saint Ape (Heaven Rebel Form)]
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His abilities have all been strengthened, not to mention, all of his techniques have reached their transcendence stage, Shadowslash is confident that as long as Don² continue on this path, their world's martial arts would definitely bloom, he was also shocked by his transformation.
He had directly jump into 60% purity on his Saint Qi transformation, also, he is no longer just any spirit beasts but an actual divine beast with a bloodline purity that is nearly 50%, unfortunately, they have no known knowledge about the Battle Saint Ape.
Don² transformed back to his human form but he no longer look like a middle aged man, he now looks like a young man full of vitality, he quickly hugs his brother, "Big brother, I have awakened my ancestral bloodline! I am now a divine beast!"
Shadowslash of course knew this but he doesn't want to rain down on his brother's parade, he could only hug him while congratulating his advancement, with this, their empire have obtain another powerful Saint expert.
He asks, "You had advanced in this world, is there anything wrong with your spiritual world? Your Dantian might be affected by this world's consciousness, if you sense something wrong, don't hesitate to return back to the empire."
Don Don couldn't help but feel warm inside, he could sense the concern of his older brother, he quickly explains his situation, "Don't worry big bro, after my breakthrough, this world have mistaken me to be it's resident, I have obtain a spiritual root that exists on all the martial artists of this world."
Shadowslash raised his eyebrow when he heard this, he knew that people of this world have the so called spiritual root, it determines their talent, he actually created this type of root inside his clone's body but it wasn't perfect, he wanted to know the difference between his creation and the real thing.
But before he could asks, Don² seems to realised something and sighed, "Big bro, it seems that I don't have any Mana existing in my body, do not worry, I could still absorb it, my beast core wasn't tempered by this world but all of the Mana I absorbed would directly turn into internal Qi."
Shadowslash was shocked, he also realised that this would definitely impedes his brother's cultivation if he returns back to Thousand Race Empire, as if knowing what he was thinking, Don² quickly added, "It isn't actually a bad thing."
He raised his hand and two different types of energy appeared, one was red and the other was blue, the two combided becoming gold, "The red energy is spirit Qi and the blue one is Mana, the two complements each other greatly."
He release his Saint aura, the people inside the city couldn't help but feel breathless, now that Shadowslash have taken down his illusion, the senses of the people returned to their body, they couldn't help but look at Don² in shock.
Shadowslash sense the gaze of the people, so does the others, Don² disperse his aura and said, "This place isn't suited for this kind of discussion, let me lead you to our base, there is an individual I want you to meet, she is quite talented and is being praised by our own scholars."
They then went to Qi family estate, they were greeted by the servants that were recruited by Qi Nulong personally, most of them are people that lost their way of life because of evil people, they felt indebted towards her and are loyal to her.
The expression of the servants became strange but they bow their heads so that they wouldn't show it, they realised that Don² have changed greatly, his appearance seems to be the same and different at the same time, before he seems to emit an aura that belongs to an enlightened old man.
But right now, he felt like an enlightened sage but at the same time, a young man full of life, Don² led Shadowslash to the most important place of the estate, the inner mansion, only Qi Nulong could enter this location, the others could not.
The Qi family is already known as servants under Don² so called secret sect, the other great family knew this and wanted to give some gifts to her to ease off their relationship, the might that Don Don's group is already known by everyone in the city.
If even the city lord is intimidated, the great families wouldn't stand a chance, fortunately for them, Qi Nulong didn't find any trouble with them but their business started to become depressing, the business that involves restaurant have now become Qi family main business.
The food have become one of the famous things in their city, it is entirely because of the Qi family or Qi Nulong herself, the scholars have shared to her many recipes that involves increasing one's strength through consumption, she didn't spread this to others.
The chefs that she had recruited were actually the orphans that their group have adopted, these orphans were branded by some sort of slave mark by the scholars, this type of method was actually banned on Thousand Race Empire to use upon another intelligent being.
But they still use it to tame their monster companion, the slave mark would only work on those that have large enough spiritual world to carry the brand, Qi Nulong chose the most talented orphans that have problems over their characters.
The slave brand would affect the advancement of the brander, her potential would decrease because she have to level up both her spirit and cultivation to continue controlling her so called companion but she'll also receive some feedback to her subordinates.
Orphans that were proven to be loyal wouldn't be branded and would be trained to be loyal to Thousand Race Empire in an extremely long process, but the scholars knew that the young minds are the easiest to influence and manipulate, they don't think that they are doing a bad thing.
For them, it is a great opportunity for the orphans to become loyal subjects to their empire, not only would they have a sense of purpose, they could live a life much more luxurious than expected to them.
The orphans have been training to either become martial artists to truly build the imaginary secret sect that Don² have made up, adventurers for the future adventure guilds that would be build across this world or be scholars to help this world improve and spread the greatness of Thousand Race Empire.