Chapter 91: Dying...

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After 5 spoonfuls: [Mind Cultivation - Middle Copper Rank (12.2%)]

After 10 spoonfuls: [Mind Cultivation - Middle Copper Rank (65.5%)]

After 25 spoonfuls: [Mind Cultivation - Late Copper Rank (83.9%)]

After 50 spoonfuls: [Mind Cultivation - Peak Copper Rank (42.8%)]

After the entire box: [Mind Cultivation - Half-Step Bronze Rank (95.1%)]

"Not enough... Still not enough..."

Appearing like a corpse, Lucifer clutched onto the table he was sitting over. Refusing to allow himself to pass over into the afterlife, he actively inflicted pain on himself.

However, with his Mind Cultivation still not in the Bronze Rank, he turned his haggard face up toward his little sister. Then, with a voice on the verge of fading away, he muttered, "M-More... S-So delicious... Ca-Can't get enough of it..."

Completely overlooking the zombie-like state of her brother, a smile almost formed on Li Yan's small, round face. After which, she rummaged around in her storage ring. Finally finding what she wanted, it was immediately taken out and thrown on the mahogany table.

"For you... dessert..."

Fully showing off the demon cake that she conjured up from fuck knows where, she quickly scooted it over to the mouth of the half-dead man.

"..."

Staring at the occasional acidic bubbles and bones plopping up from inside the 'cake', Lucifer forced himself to swallow the last of his saliva. Then, with his life on the line, he wrapped his tongue around the 'cake' and consumed it in a single bite!

Kak!

Spitting out great amounts of blood, Lucifer pretended to play it off cool. However, no facade was good enough to conceal the current state of his internal organs...

'W-Who the fuck needs organs anyway...? Only a loser would care about something so superficial...'

He tried his best to upkeep a tough-guy front. But no matter what he said or thought, there was no denying the fact that his insides were quite literally... melting...

Even with his Body Cultivation in the Initial Silver Rank, there was no way that would be good enough to prevent or thwart the melting of one's internal organs.

As a result of this occurrence, well... Lucifer died.

Or rather, he was scientifically considered dead for a good three seconds. However, like a zombie suddenly coming back to life, he jumped out of his skin and inhaled a breath of air like it was the most valuable thing in the universe.

"I'm alive... And my Mind Cultivation broke through into the Bronze Rank. Moreover, it jumped straight into the Early Bronze Rank..."

Still reeling in from his touch with the grim reaper, Lucifer sat back in his chair and digested the most recent sequence of events.

'It seems like, after breaking through to the Bronze Rank, my mind subconsciously used telekinesis in order to put the majority of my organs back in place.'

'Though such a method is like using duct tape to prevent the sinking of a ship with countless holes, it is still sufficient enough to last me until my breakthrough into the Core Formation Realm.'

Once one breaks through into the Core Formation Realm, their whole body will go through a major metamorphosis.

After a few seconds of playing around with this process, he eventually reached a point where he could make the mind energy transform into an illusory tendril.

Of course, this was not enough to cultivate or make use of the Mind Energy. But it was still a pretty decent start.

Leaning off of this start, Lucifer extended the length and width of the tendril. From 1 cm to 1 inch, then to a foot.

That single tendril of wavy, Iridescent Mind Energy was transformed into something viable for mass replication. So, without further ado, he worked on making more of the wavy tendrils of Mind Energy.

During the time that Li Yan used up to 'deal' with the Water Nation Loot Bags, Lucifer's control, quantity, and quality in Mind Cultivation had improved by leaps and bounds.

From the Early Bronze Rank to the Middle Bronze Rank, he was making tremendous progress in a span of time amounting to less than 10 minutes!

Furthermore, it wasn't only his Mind Cultivation that had improved during this period of time, as there was also his Qi Cultivation and Body Cultivation, both of which could be cultivated passively!

In less time than it took to figure out the meaning of one's life, many advancements were made in Lucifer's aspects of existence.

Taking a glance at the exact changes, a simplified system interface opened up.

BLING!

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{[Lucifer]}

[Qi Cultivation - Half-Step Core Formation Realm (Middle)]

[Body Cultivation - Early Silver Rank (21.5%)]

[Mind Cultivation - Middle Bronze Rank (35.9%)]

[Battle Power - Middle Nascent Soul Realm (Pinnacle)]

[Middle Nascent Soul Realm Clone cost - 10,000 CE2]

[Maximum Amount of Clone Essence so far - 700,000 CE2]

[Current Clone Essence - 650,000 CE2]

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Lucifer likely only needed one more breakthrough in one of his aspects to fully push him over into the Late Nascent Soul Realm in Battle Power. And if he were correct in his assumptions, the aspect to do that would most definitely be his Body Cultivation. Either that or his |Sword Slash|, but he was more inclined to believe that his Body Cultivation would be the first to make a breakthrough.

'Sword Slash is at the peak of the Early-Sky Rank, and for it to make another breakthrough, it will definitely need a bit more time. Whereas my Body Cultivation is speeding through the Realms like a drugged-up bastard.'

Even though Lucifer had to experience excruciating amounts of pain in order to progress this fast, it was more than worth it if it meant he could become stronger than ever before.

'That shithead main body of mine may be a good-for-nothing goody two shoes, but he was always a persistent one when it came to going through pain for more power.'

'If I wish to one day give him a few good slaps across his dick-shaped face, then there is no room for going easy on myself.'

Following through with this train of thought, Lucifer ceaselessly circulated his Mind, Body, and Qi Cultivation. Like a passive afk machine, he progressed in everything all at once!

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