Chapter 70: Next Realm!

Now, Ashen only had to select four qi out of them that he was going to pursue.

"Let's see... Spatial and Chaos qi are the obvious choices."

Spatial qi was obvious because it lets you travel through space and create ruptures in space. Other abilities would depend on one's attainment in it and the skills he had acquired.

Chaos qi was a bit unknown. There was no information about this qi, only that it had the power of destruction. However, if one could raise their attainment in it, they could even create new skills to use this qi. Also, one could embed this qi with other skills, increasing the destructive power of the skill.

"One of the other two qi has to be popular and easy to use. There should be skills already crafted to use it. It could also act as my cover for the other types of qi, I can't possibly let anyone find out that I can use more than one type of qi. That would just increase my threat level in other's eyes and they could target me."

"Sword qi, Lightning qi, Fire qi, Ice qi, Wind qi, these all are good at offense and contain high power. Earth qi and Metal qi are good at defense, while Ghost qi is good for stealth and Phantom qi is good at creating a large army of phantoms and using them to fight."

"Blood qi on the other hand can be used for blood manipulation and controlling beasts. Just introduce your blood into the beast's brain and you'll be able to control them with just a thought. There was just one condition, make the beast submit to you so that it wouldn't resist the blood entering their brain."

"Out of them all, I have to choose only two. Fire and Sword qi are to my liking, however, since chaos is also for offense, I should only choose one of them and to be honest, I like sword qi better. Controlling the sword with just your mind, cutting anything you like, isn't that cool?

So sword qi it is. I'll just make it my primary path so that everyone will think I am a cultivator of the sword path.

Sword Emperor Fang Ashen, sounds cool"

Ashen continued to ponder with slight murmuring putting every thought into this. If he had to select only one it would've been quite difficult but now he was able to choose the better ones.

"Next I need to choose a qi for defense. I've always thought about how to defend against a skill like my Yin Finger Blossom Beam. It is just too fast to perceive with my normal sight. If someone had a similar skill, how would I defend against it?

Metal and earth qi are both better at defense, but, I wouldn't want to take a chance with them. Even metal and earth can be destroyed with a strong enough attack. If someone's attack was powerful enough to pierce through my defense, it would leave me like a sitting duck, ready to be struck down."

Ashen contemplated on which qi would help him in this situation for some time before widening his eyes in realization:

"Ah, right! Time qi!

It would be the best to counter the attack. I could just peek into some seconds in the future to predict my opponent's next move. Additionally, I think I can also slow down time to perceive a really fast attack.

As the saying goes- 'Evading the attack is the best defense!'

So, the final four qi I am going to choose are - Spatial qi, Chaos qi, Sword qi, and Time qi"

Deciding on his path, Ashen turned to the system as he asked: "System, how many points would it take to advance me to the core formation realm with these four qi?"

[Ding! Host, First you'll have to gather the same amount of the four qi and then the system can form a core for you, but, if you're willing to spend Villain Points, this mighty system will do all that for you and advance you to the core formation realm]

Now, the last qi, greenish-white in color, entered his body at a rapid speed, expanding the dantian even more.

Ashen could feel the tension in his dantain growing before,

Pop!

"Argh!"

The dantian exploded, gushing out the qi it had absorbed as Ashen felt extreme pain. He endured it, trusting the system.

Soon, he felt the qi revolving in a circular motion as if sucked into his solar plexus by some force.

The qi of different types began to revolve in harmony.

At first, they resisted each other, not getting along at all.

However, after some long time of concentration and revolving with each other, they became balanced, getting concentrated into a spherical shape.

Soon the shape began to turn solid, enclosing the four types of qi inside.

Next, A bright light gushed out of Ashen's body as the ethereal core finished its formation.

A powerful aura gushed out of Ashen's body which was kept in check by the formation around his room.

After the elder came rushing after sensing his aura, he thought that it would be better to create a formation to not let the aura leave his room.

This powerful aura indicated that Ashen had successfully advanced to the core formation realm's first stage.

Right now, he was levitating in the air before opening his eyes.

Thud!

As soon as he opened his eyes, he fell on his bed.

He had just advanced, there was no way he could fly so easily.

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(A/N - Thanks for reading. ^..^)