Chapter 64: Living Crystal
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Han Sen had practiced three Hyper Geno Arts/Qigong whilst he was in God's Sanctuaries.
When he entered the last God's Sanctuary, the 4th, Han Sen had discovered The Story of Genes.
Making it four Hyper Geno Arts/Qigong.
When he finally entered the Great Geneverse, he had discovered something amazing that only he had discovered so far.
Because Hyper Geno Arts and Qigong were usually difficult to practice and unlock their gene locks, the people of the Alliance only focused on one before entering the Fourth God's Sanctuary.
However, even if they at least managed to complete practicing two, awakening the self-geno core of one of the Hyper Geno Arts/Qigong, it was already difficult enough.
So in the end, people of the Alliance would end up graduating from God's Sanctuary with only one Hyper Geno Art/Qigong maxed out.
When they enter the Great Geneverse, that Hyper Geno Art/Qigong will follow them until their deaths.
However, because Han Sen had run into many opportunistic events, he had managed to unlock the gene locks of all his Hyper Geno Arts/Qigong. When he entered the fourth God's Sanctuary, the Black Crystal had helped him once more and had strengthened his self-geno cores that manifested whenever he was close to death.
In the end he had completely maxed out all three Hyper Geno Arts/Qigong. Maybe The Story of Genes was different, but eventually Han Sen was still able to practice it as if he had maxed it out as well.
Then, Han Sen's time to reap what he sow finally appeared.
In the Great Geneverse, every being could only practice one Hyper Geno Art/Qigong. This was because their genes were very stable and can only take in one Hyper Geno Art/Qigong. Any more and they would end up exploding.
The humans from the Alliance were different however.
Because they were the result of experiments from Crystallizers, the humans had genes from many different species of beings and creatures, making their genes very unstable.
However, due to that instability, the humans from the Alliance could practice more than one Hyper Geno Art/Qigong that the beings from the Great Geneverse couldn't do.
Everytime a being makes a breakthrough in their Hyper Geno Art/Qigong, their body's strength would increase.
Imagine how strong a body of a person who practices four Hyper Geno Arts/Qigong would be.
That was Han Sen's reward when he entered the Great Geneverse.
He was able to make use of such a system and be four times stronger than those of the same level.
This was something Qing Tian wanted to take advantage of.
He planned on practicing five techniques, not only because they will grant him a huge amount of strength in the future, but because they are very beneficial to him.
Each Qigong he had made and perfected will increase a certain aspect of him.
The Myriad Bone Tempering Art focuses on his bones, the Tempered Star Jade Essence Physique focuses on his body, the Gold Essence Mantra focuses on every physical aspect besides the body itself like organs, blood, veins, etc…
Then there was still adaptability, which was the job of The Myth of Genes.
Finally, there was the Order and Chaos Sutra.
This final Qigong was very spiritual and focused on his spirit and energy.
If he trains all these techniques to the very end and maxes them out, he will essentially be the strongest in every aspect. His intelligence is already very high, his wisdom as well, his skill, techniques…
However, Qing Tian didn't wish to relish in this glory alone, he was planning to share this with his family and friends. Although not completely, he was still a bit greedy and selfish despite meditating a lot.
He already provided/enhanced one technique to some people already. Now he will just provide them one more when they enter the second God's Sanctuary and that will be it.
All he will let them have is two Qigong each person. If they wish to have another Qigong/Hyper Geno Art, they would need to go and look for one themselves like Han Sen had done.
"Are you all rested and ready?" asked Qing Tian as he walked over to Queen and Lin Xue who were already preparing to head out.
Magica doesn't need to rest or sleep at all, but it gives her some mental relaxation. After becoming intelligent, Magica was now susceptible to mental stress. Which only appears when she's kept summoned for a long time.
When she's called back into Qing Tian's Sea of Consciousness, she becomes very relaxed and her mental stress disappears. And although she doesn't know why, she enjoys the feeling nonetheless.
Qing Tian, however, did know why.
The Yin Yang Image.
It is invisible to the beast souls within his Sea of Consciousness, but because they share a connection, the spiritual energy of the image still affects them. It calms them down and slowly heals, tempers, nourishes, and keeps someone in a perfect state at all moments.
With this Yin Yang Image, Qing Tian will never experience any sickness or disease of any type in his life. His health and vitality will always be at 100% (obviously except for moments when he's fighting and is injured).
"Yeah, we're just waiting on Magica now," said Lin Xue as she happily put on her shoes.
Qing Tian smiled and told his mom, "Magica won't be joining you and Queen, mom. She's plenty strong already and could easily take down a Sacred Blood creature."
"So she's a Sacred beast soul?" asked Lin Xue, finally receiving some information about Magica.
Qing Tian didn't say anything and instead moved on.
"You both will attack a nearby humanoid creature. It's body is made out of crystals and it uses no weapons. It's main method of attack is it's fists and it uses a peculiar style of fighting that will push both of your martial arts through a breakthrough," said Qing Tian as he led the way, easily walking past many obstacles.
A couple of minutes later, the group of three finally made it past the many tress and found a cave.
"The humanoid crystal creature is in there. I won't head in with you both since I know that you're more than ready enough to take it down with no trouble," said Qing Tian as he placed his hands on both of their shoulders and smiled at them.
"But…" Lin Xue was about to begin to panic and was stopped by Qing Tian.
"I will be close by. You two are important to me, I would never send you both in harm's way if I don't know about your abilities and skills."
Qing Tian gazed at his mom with a caring gaze that sent his feelings of love and care to both women. They didn't understand why they were feeling what he felt, but they didn't dislike it.
They felt warm on the inside and they couldn't completely describe the exact feeling. Like becoming whole and knowing that even if you fail at everything and earn everyone's hate, there's someone who will shower you with unconditional love and care.
Queen and Lin Xue smiled and turned to each other.
"Oh my… you can smile?" teased Lin Xue as she looked at Queen's beautiful smile.
"Mghh…"
Queen began to feel embarrassed and wished to hide behind Qing Tian.
Crack!
The girls froze and turned to look over to the cave where they saw a humanoid crystal creature step outside of the cave. The crystal creature was 2 meters tall and it's body was slim.
Both women felt pressured at the sight of the creature.
Queen felt weird at that moment, she knew that she could easily beat Sacred creatures already and instinctively knew that the monster before them is a Super creature. The creatures that Qing Tian said he had already beat.
Turning her head to gaze at him, Qing Tian nodded and said, "You both can do this. I will be nearby and keep a close eye on you two."
Queen and Lin Xue took a deep breath before regaining some of their confidence. With their confidence regained, Quen and Lin Xue summoned their Sacred Blood beast souls.
Lin Xue didn't have any Sacred beast souls so she had received some from Qing Tian. After all, Lin Xue still wasn't skilled enough to harm a Super creature with a Mutant weapon.
Both women rushed in and attacked the white crystal creature in surprise and their first attacks bounced off it's body.
Having been trained under Qing Tian, both women knew how to combine their strengths effectively. Queen would take the Super creature's attention and she would attack when possible. Lin Xue would take advantage of the Super creature's attention on Queen and attack it from it's blind spots.
At first their attacks continued to bounce of, but gradually the damage was accumulating and fragments of the crystal creature's body began to fall.
Cllin-ch!
Lin Xue had attacked with her Sacred blood sword at the Super creature's shoulder with her sacred blood saber and managed to chop it off.
With one of the creature's arms chopped off, the girls no longer felt pressured and began to push the Super creature back and drive it into a corner. It continued to decrease in size as the fight prolonged and eventually it attacked with it's head as both of it's arms chopped off.
"It has… ha… really strong… vitality… ha…" tired from the continuous fight that lasted nearly two hours, Lin Xue was ready to land the last blow on the Super creature's body.
"Ready!" said Queen as she drove the Super creature to the corner once more and prepared it for Lin Xue to attack it.
Great!
Lin Xue jumped forward and with both hands on her saber, she got into a piercing stance before driving the saber forward with all her strength.
Clink!
She was met with resistance the instant her saber hit the super creature's chest, but it was all useless. Lin Xue's attack didn't stop there.
The instant the saber hit the chest of the super creature, Lin Xue swiftly let go of the saber and performed a spin with all her might. She raised her leg and kicked the hilt of the already falling saber.
Bam!
Chh!
The saber drove through the Super creature's chest and through the rest of it's body before flying straight to the mountain wall behind them, next to the cave entrance.
[Super creature Living Crystal killed. Beast soul gained. Life essence available. Meat inedible.]
Hearing those words within her mind, Lin Xue froze in her steps and felt an electric current wash through her body.
'S… Su… Super creature?!'
Lin Xue froze on the spot and didn't know what to say. All she could do was turn around and look at Qing Tian with shock.
She didn't know what was going on and could only turn to Qing Tian for answers.
What was a Super creature? She didn't know.
She never thought about the possibility of a rank of creatures stronger than Sacred Blood. However at this moment, her view on the strength between both Super and Sacred Blood creatures was skewed.
Lin Xue trained to be strong enough to take down a Sacred Blood creature but took down a Super creature down.
She didn't think that she was way stronger than before, it's only been a week since she started training after all. The thought of her strength rapidly shooting up had never crossed her mind as she fought the Super Creature.
Right now, all she believed was that the Super creature was extremely weak and only slightly stronger than the average Sacred Blood creature.
Qing Tian walked on over to his mother and said, "Your strength is higher than before. Don't delude yourself. The Super creature wasn't weak at all and was considered a Super Creature with strong defense."
"But…" Lin Xue paused. She didn't know what to say and could only continue to look into her son's eyes for answers.
"I understand mother, when we return to the shelter tomorrow, we will head over to Ares Martial Hall's evaluation room," said Qing Tian as he hugged his mother.
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