Chapter 1746 A Different Experience
When Alex was ready to break through to the Saint Soul 9th realm, there were less than 5 months before he had to absolutely leave for the Eastern Continent.
He sat alone in his room, preparing for the final cultivation session he would sit down for that was not just to regain some Qi.
He took out a pill in his hands and looked at it for a while, before placing it back into his storage. He was so close to breakthrough that he didn't need it.
What he needed was a Beast core that would help him push himself to the edge and further. There were still a few cores that he hadn't turned into a blood beast yet, and of those he chose one from a beast that was in the Saint Transformation 1st realm.
This was the first time he had eaten a core of a beast in the Saint Transformation realm and he wasn't sure what to expect.
Alex ate the beast's core and closed his eyes as his mind pulled him into his Spiritual Sea.
Alex's vision sharpened in the bright but cloudy atmosphere of his spiritual sea, with the silver mountain to his right, now smaller than ever before, and the deep ocean of spiritual energy beneath him.
In front of him, a being formed out of Spiritual energy, taking the shape of what looked like a turtle but with no shell. It had a long neck ending on a circular head, 4 flappers for its limbs, and a short tail, while the remaining body was simply that of a turtle without its shell.
It was a smooth-skinned beast with no scales and a gray body.
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Alex didn't remember killing this beast, so it had to be one of the ones that he killed during the time he could not remember much of.
"I... am not me," the beast spoke slowly. "This is not a soul, is it?"
That was the first time a beast had managed to figure that out without even knowing they had died.
"This is not your Soul," Alex answered. Now that he thought about it, he didn't know if the souls of the beasts had even survived. Most likely they had not.
"No, it's not," the beast replied looking around the spiritual sea. "I remember a battle and you were there. Are you dead too? Or is this your Spiritual sea?"
Had the beast's intelligence grown somewhat past the phase of being obsessed with their emotion at the moment of death?
Saint Soul realm beasts did show that improvement too, but not on the level of the beast in front of Alex.
However, when he tried to leave, he found himself unable to.
"Hmm?" Alex frowned. He tried to force himself to leave, but something kept him grounded in the Spiritual sea.
Alex thought for a bit and slowly turned around in horror. It was the beast. He couldn't leave because it was alive.
Its presence was what had brought him here, so if he wanted to leave, he would have to get rid of it.
Alex felt bad, but it was something he had to do. "I'm sorry," he told the beast. "It appears that I cannot leave you alive."
"But you just said..." the beast's eyes were filled with sadness.
"I'm sorry," Alex said. A tempestuous yellow fog escaped from all around him, making its way toward the beast.
The beast stood still, watching the fog slowly drift toward it.
"So beautiful," it said softly as the fog consumed its spiritual body and what little intelligence remained of it.
The fog retreated back into Alex just as quickly as it had escaped and disappeared into his body.
Alex felt a significant improvement in his spiritual sea. Not only had it become stronger all of a sudden, it had also become just that much more wider.
Finally, Alex could leave.
He threw all the emotions and thoughts out of his mind and went back outside where the beast core had begun spreading out its Qi throughout his body.
Alex took the Qi and started cultivating with it. Back and forth, the Qi went around his body, improving every little aspect of his body as it needed to.
At the end of it all, with nothing but a simple will from Alex, the Qi in his body suddenly improved, placing himself on a higher cultivation base.
He had finally arrived in the Saint Soul 9th realm.
Just one more breakthrough would place him in the Saint Transformation realm. However, Alex decided to stop there.
Next would come the Inner Demon, and with a war on the horizon, Alex could not take the chance at all.