Chapter 378: Dao Cores
Chapter 378: Dao Cores
Amber’s expression was one of slight disapproval as she said, “I can understand seeing both sides, but…weren’t those guys far too fickle? Saving a life, getting saved by said life, and then promptly wanting to betray him? They were either too hopeful, na?ve, or just slimy rays.”
Even back in her Vampire, royal family, there was a faint sense of loyalty. She and even her parents may not see eye to eye with the other elders. But in the end, they would undoubtedly band together when faced with foreign thoughts.
The Hiyashi Vampires had a clear sense of respect for repaying back debts. So when seeing how fickle that group was, Amber found it hard to consider their reasonings.
Cain felt a bit more indifferent. He casually shrugged. “They all, and really everyone, have their own reasons. If we were to learn their own history, I’m sure it could sway our minds. It’s just like Lei Huo says, we should learn to have a broader mind on any type of situation.”
“I…can’t really argue with that.” Amber lightly sighed. She then turns her attention toward the second jade scroll.
Picking it up, she unfolded and scan her Spirit Sense along with Cain on the essence symbols upon the scroll’s page.
Information is instantly processed within their minds. And both Cain and Amber let out a subconscious grin of glee.
This art was exactly what they needed!
The name of this art was the ‘Face Shift Aura.’ With this, anyone would be able to completely change their face and energy auras!
Unless one uses 100% of their powers, it would be impossible to tell the person’s original identity.
This art was formed from the miracle of Transformation Law essence. Along with granting anyone immense physical prowess, it also had other auxiliary abilities such as this one.
Cain and Amber promptly assimilated into a cultivation state, their soul sense interjecting into the jade scroll. Their Spiritual Sea was soon engulfed with an abundance of Transformation Law essence.
It felt far more potent than the Law essence they currently cultivate. Almost like they were about to shed off a new layer of skin and form a new body.
The young couple continually poured soul energy into their Spiritual Sea to increase their comprehension abilities. Their minds’ rate of thought enhanced, allowing them to rapidly understand the properties of Transformation Law essence.
Both Cain and Amber only had quasi-expert level attainment in the Source Law path. It’s a half step lower than Kali’s brilliant expert level. But quasi-expert was enough to make the young couple’s Law perception at least thousands of times faster than geniuses on the Radiance Luster Holy Land’s peak disciples.
Only a few minutes later, Cain and Amber felt a click in their minds. A faint outline of Transformation Law’s essence formed in the duo’s Spiritual Sea.
The same outline simultaneously formed within the duo’s soul’s core. This symbolizes that Cain and Amber already comprehend a small portion of the Face Shifting Aura art!
With this comprehended, Cain and Amber were like sponges soaking up waters. Their soul sense could now grasp and absorb Transformation Law essence into their bodies.
The more that they absorb, the quicker their Transformation Law perception became.
A few more minutes passed and the young couple’s bodies suddenly shook. White energy rays flickered out of their bodies until they converged over them, shrouding them in a blinding white mist.
Moments passed and the white mist dispersed from the Cain and Amber’s bodies, revealing their entirely new forms.
The young couple has now taken on a more ordinary appearance. Their faces wouldn’t stand out from the crowd. Even their natural auras appeared stable, but nothing distinct.
Cain nodded at their new forms and said, “With just a few minutes, we can perfect this art and completely change our appearance. When we have this master, we’ll change our clothes and leave this place.”
With a silent nod of agreement from Amber, the duo poured their all into perfecting the Face Shifting Aura art.
Luckily for them, the art only had one stage to complete, so there weren’t any extra, time-consuming steps needed.
Their cultivation was silent, but neither Cain nor Amber could keep their hearts completely even.
After all, once out of here will be their grand adventure to explore the massive God Galaxy and eventually reach back home.
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Within the Wintry World’s grassy plains were numerous random cave areas. Most of the time, nothing significant ever occurs in any of these caves.
However, at one specific cave, a cluster of faint green light covered the entrance. The green lights were just barely visible for anyone to see. One would have to strain their eyes to do so. And if one were to penetrate their senses onto the green lights, they wouldn’t be able to detect any life auras within the cave.
It caused whatever being that passed, whether Dao Vicious beast or humanoid life form, to casually pass by the cave.
At this time, the cluster of faint green lights suddenly quivered and dispersed into tiny energy particles.
The cause of the disappearance came at the hands of an ordinary-looking young man. He, along with an equally unassuming young woman, showed up at the cave’s entrance.
To their clothes, faces, and auras, neither of them can particularly stand out amongst their crowd. They would be destined to be washed away within the sea of other people.
And these two ordinary folks wouldn’t want it any other way as of now.
When Cain reached the cave’s entrance, he quickly took out a detailed map from the Great Divine Sea captain.
This map was a god sent for the young couple. It laid out mostly everything they needed to know in order to explore this Wintry World.
Because the Iron Clad sect can be considered a quasi-first rate sect, it had an expansive amount of knowledge of its surrounding area. And luckily for the duo, the captain had such privy to this knowledge.
The young couple’s current position was on Wintry World’s main grassy plains.
Here, Cain considered these plains as the central hub for the whole Wintry World. It would take some distance to travel, but with enough time and patience, one can visit all the first-class major cities that contain the top-tier Holy Land forces.
Cain and Amber studied the map for a few seconds, committing detail of it into their Spiritual Seas.
After a few moments of contemplation, Amber said, “Before anything, we need to majorly increase our cultivation. Together, we’re only equal to an Early Great Divine Sea at most. So I believe we should join that Cloudsea Sect for their resources. If we just show enough the right amount of talent, we can easily enter in.”
From the map’s intrusive details, the Cloudsea Holy Land is a behemoth in not just the Wintry World but the entire Atlas realm. The entire Holy Land isn’t even in the Wintry World. It has its own massive hidden world.
But even so, the branch sect it left within the Wintry World is practically invincible. Nobody would dare to have any thoughts on dealing with them.
With this high amount of strength, it’s only natural that the requirements to join in would be rigorous. The map didn’t specifically mention the details for recruitment besides how difficult it should be.
This would be an immense problem for other youths. But for the young couple, it was a done deal.
Cain agreed with her plan, but he still pointed at one area on the map, saying, “Before that, let’s try breaking through the Divine Origin realm before heading to any major city. If we explore around here, I’m sure we can tail behind some group with a powerful background and steal their treasures. We most likely or will definitely need to use talisman and Spirit Artifacts to cleanly finish the job. I’m hopeful that with this, we can at least gain one Dao Core Trace. With that, it should be like what grandmother said. Reaching Divine Origin would be a quick process.”
If one were to speak of cultivation base improving resources, then neither Cain nor Amber is actually in shortage of them. They received an abundance from home and made considerable gains with Sea Collision realm’s Sea Qi and Law crystals.
And with Cain’s Dragon Charm, he can negate the hidden harmful effects of overusing external resources.
But even with everything they had, Cain doubts either he or Amber could even reach the Extreme Sacred Sage stage. Their heavily dense dantian requires at least a thousand times more energy than other geniuses.
All Qi energy or Law essence that is absorbed by the couple would automatically be converted into heavily dense properties. Thus, the time they need to construct their Qi Origin and Law Marks is hundreds of times slower.
Even though Cain and Amber have high level attainments in the Heaven and Earth path, they could not increase the rate of constructing the Qi Origin and Law Marks.
And now that they’re in the wilds of the God Galaxies, slow cultivation would be the death of them.
Their next best option is to place all of their hopes into the Dao Core trace.
According to Shi Wei, Dao Cores are the essence of the grand Great Daos. They all spawn from within nature itself and contain an immense amount of Qi energy and Law essence.
In the present society, there is no full Dao Core available to anyone. The most one can get is either a Trace of a Dao Core or a large fragmented Dao Core.
A Dao Core trace only has a small portion of its essence compared to a large fragment. It is suitable for Divine Origin geniuses, since their Inner World would not be strong enough to withstand the full essence and pressure from a fragmented Dao Core.
Using either a Dao Core Trace or a fragmented piece is simple. All that is required is for one to comprehend the Qi energy and specific Law essence within the Dao Core.
Once one can understand the Dao Core, their soul energy can control all energy within the Dao Core and absorb it into one’s Inner World.
Absorbing even the smallest amount of Dao Core energies gives tremendous benefits. It improves the space structure, provides enough energy and essence for the Inner World’s essence Marks to form, and the act of controlling Dao Core energies provides immense nourishment to the Spiritual Sea.
The effect of any Dao Core would be amplified if it corresponds to the Law affinity one cultivates.
If Cain and Amber could just get their hands on any Dao Core trace, reaching the Divine Origin realm would only be a short matter of time.
Any other peak Mortalhood cultivator would not be able to use a Dao Core Trace. Their Spiritual Sea hasn’t perceived any Divine Qi and would collapse under the tremendous pressure of a Dao Core Trace.
This was a non-issue for the young couple. With quasi expert-level attainment in the Heaven and Earth path, their Spiritual Sea has already surpassed the limits of Mortalhood.
They could already perceive Divine auras without an issue. So naturally, comprehending a Dao Core Trace would follow in suit.
Knowing all about the specialties of Dao Core Traces, the young couple had their next destination.