Chapter 172 - Golden.

"Daddy is back"(Zu Ling).

"I am back."(Aizen).

"Welcome Back."(Allessa).

She looks a little bit intrigued at me, must be the new wings as they are very catchy.

"Daddy has wings now... Can I have wings too?"(Zu Ling).

"Yes, you can. But it will depend on your luck."(Aizen).

"Aww. If you find some wings promise that you will give it to me later?"(Zu Ling).

"Sure it's a promise."(Aizen).

After that we went on our day like normal, we ate we played, we learned. It was a good day. right now Zu Ling is sleeping and I and Allessa decided to talk a little.

"You haven't Realized yet?"(Allessa).

"I changed didn't I?"(Aizen).

"Yep, Zu Ling didn't care. But your hair now is Golden..."(Allessa).

"Well, that is some effects of the 2nd awakening. If I am not mistaken Tang San's hairs become bluer after he finishes his second Awakening. In the manhua at least."(Aizen).

"Are you feeling any different?"(Allessa).

"Wait a bit there. Remember we will only see the differences after we both reach LVL 90? I know you are curious and all, but the surprise is part of the excitement that comes after..."(Aizen).

"Hehehe. So I won't tell you my surprise too, I've noticed something happening to you but I don't want to spoil the surprise now..."(Allessa).

"Now I am curious.,"(Aizen).

"Well, now you know how I am feeling."(Allessa).

"Have you at least absorbed any Soul rings?"(Aizen).

"I have absorbed three why?"(Allessa).

"As someone who absorbed his 7th Soul Ring today, I wanted to say. The 7th Soul Ring is extremely special if you can acc.u.mulate the max number of Soul Bones and absorb them together with your 7th soul ring. Second Awakening is something really op. And you who already has a pretty powerful martial soul were to undergo it..."(Aizen).

"I understand. Thankfully I didn't absorb my first three soul bones yet as I was thinking of something between those lines."(Allessa).

"Good."(Aizen).

"So have you already chosen your target?"(Allessa).

"Yup, already have. It's a wolf. A nine elemental Wolf to be more exact."(Aizen).

"Three days from now own?"(Allessa).

"Yup. Three days."(Aizen).

The next three days were basically em getting used to having wings, it's harder than you can imagine. Also, these wings are extremely sharp, and they can extend a little and be used as some kind of bladed weapons, and they are part of my [Sage Body] too, so even if they somehow got cut off or wounded I can easily regenerate them.

And soon it was time to hunt the Nine Elementals Wolf. But I wanted to be stealthy this time around, let's see if I can kill it like a ninja. For old times sake. I've already scouted the place with my clones and have a pretty good memory of it.

Concentrating on the clone memory I flap my wings and enter the new pocket world. I didn't even blink, it was instantaneous.

I activate my skill [Detachment of The Primitive World], and now I was invisible to anything but direct sight. Using my Stealth abilities I was able to Reach Wolf's place of rest. Now, who should I kill it? I know. Let's use my new Yin-Yang release. Thank you Absolute Balance skill.

Concentrating on what I am going to do I take a deep breath and fill my body with energy.

[Sage Art: Yin-Yang Release: Atom Shifter]

A beam of white and black energy hit the poor wolf, he doesn't howls or whimper. He just looks at my now more visible form while his body is destroyed on a fundamental level, thankfully I avoided the Soul Bone. But what a terrifying thing is this Yin-Yang Release, the power to create anything and destroy anything. Truly the powers of a god in the hands of mortals.

I just quietly sat there and absorb the Golden Ring that is floating above nothing, because that's is what the wolf became. Nothing, just a soul Ring and a Spirit Bone to remember him.

The absorption was pretty fast this time, my hand Scouts multiplied by ten again, and now my Martial Soul is called [10Million Armed Golden Buddha], The skill I obtained is called [Myriad Elements Fists].

It's literally a skill that hits the opponents with every element in the whole creation. Yeah, every element, from positive and negative. I just know that training this skill will be an absolute pain.

The Soul Bone is an External bone, A nose to be exact. I just hope it doesn't change my appearance, as much as I want an op External Bone I don't want to look like a furless furry abomination.

Absorbing the External Soul Bone was easy, and after its absorption, I was immediately assaulted by a stupid amount of smells, heck I could even smell Zu Ling from here. Interdimensional nose, nice. I can also smell the aura of people, and I can probably track someone I can remember the smell across dimensions.

Concentrating on Zu Ling's smell I flap my wings, and bam I am immediately at her side. So I can teleport by smell too... Interesting.

The end three days I spent getting used to my new nose, thank god it didn't change my appearance, but just the fact that I could smell someone across dimensions was something incredible, it also served as a lie detector. Soon the three days have passed and it was time for my last hunt. My 9th ring.

My target is a pretty vicious Dark Bat of decay, the thing is really gross. But I at least have a huge counter to it.

Already inside its pocket world, I activated all of my buffs.

I took a deep breath and my 7th ring started shining. [True Avatar].

Suddenly I started growing and growing, my skin started to turn golden my arms multiplied seemly with no end, I grew, grew, and grew. Suddenly I was a behemoth, a gigantic golden Buddha with multiple arms, and I could feel everything, every arm, every finger. It was an eye-opener. I may have used a skill that has similar effects but this time it was totally different, it felt more connected, more alive.

I have a domain too, but I didn't activate it. The domain I gained in this form is something strange and not combat-related. Its name is [The Most Peaceful Buddha Domain], inside this domain, there is no conflict, no fights. Inside the domain, there is only calmness and peace. totally counterintuitive for a battle, but maybe I can use it in other ways?

The first skill I used in my avatar form was [Purify], Suddenly from every hand of my avatar a beam of purifying energy went to hit the Bat, it evaded some of the beams but the moment one hit it, I started bombarding it with everything I have.

It was taking to much time to die, so I made a gigantic Goudoudama and transformed into a spear, and trusted it to my side, but at the same time I activated my 6th skill [Cause and Effect], strangely my spear that was trusted to my side pierced through the bat, from head to toe instantly killing it.

A Golden Ring rose from the body. My 9th Ring, after this ring I officially start the final steps of my journey towards Godhood... It is strange... I feel like so much time passed, yet I did so little. Such nostalgic feelings... I can't help but remember the first jutsu I learned, my first kill, the times I almost died. My isolation on the skeleton plains... No Aizen, you can feel nostalgic later... Ring first, let's absorb the Soul Bone together too, It an External ear Soul bone, ti will probably increase my auditive powers.

Absorbing the ring and bone was fast, way faster than any of previous times. And the skill I gained is [Sever]. It permits the severing of anything, and I mean anything, from concepts to physical matter, I can literally sever anything, even the Soul. The Soul Bone amplified my hearing to astronomical levels and even granted me control over sound, it also gave me the ability to hear the truth.

But the moment I finished Absorbing the 9th ring and the Soul Bone I had an epiphany, an enlightenment if you will. I immediately activated both my [Telepathy] and [Voice of All things], and for a brief moment, I was able to hear the voice of creation, the voice of truth, the voice of everything. I had found Buda.

I started shining more and more, cracks started shaking the pocket dimension where I was still in my avatar form, I sat in a lotus position and concentrated on getting as much as I could from this enlightenment.

A giant golden buddha with a huge amount of hands was shining more and more. But then everything suddenly stopped an eerie stillness, an alien peacefulness that seems out of this world.

Finally, I've finally reached the four states of being. I am now just a simple step away from becoming a buddha.