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Five days later, I was heading deeper into the forest.
It took me three days to reach ten thousand years, with my strength entering ten thousand years I did not have any noticeable change, I did not awaken any lineage or evolve.
Along with my ten thousand year magnification, my third eye finally woke up granting me various benefits, the most notable being a 360 degree vision with a range of one hundred meters.
As for the other benefits, it is that it allows me in a much easier way to cultivate techniques and possibly in the future the laws.
And on the other hand, it allows me to be more sensitive to spiritual energy, making my cultivation using the [Immemorial Soul Art] method much faster and more fluid.
Those are the only benefits I have discovered so far.
As for the name of the third eye.
[Eye of the Empyrean Seraph] was the name that came to mind.
Which took me by surprise, since in my second life I learned that seraphim were a winged species far above angels.
As far as I know, seraphim were the protectors of a certain god, while angels were the most common class warriors out there.
So I decided to officially call myself [Empyrean Seraph Spirit] officially from now on.
A bit silly of me to admit my current career like that for one eye, but as long as I'm satisfied, I don't care about the rest.
It should also be noted that my spiritual age is 10,780 years. With my advanced age, my overall strength rose to 15,000 years.
As for the appearance of my third eye it is very different, it had black sclera with sapphire blue iris and a silver ring with a horizontal black pupil.
The further I went into the forest, the beasts and trees changed a bit.
The beasts began to be a little less but stronger being now very common to find beasts of 9,000 years and the trees were a little taller and thicker with leaves of a brighter green color.
I continued cultivating according to the [Immemorial Soul Art] method and the distance to the second stage is still far out of my reach.
It is with if there is something that prevents me, so I thought maybe it is because of my age. So I could only increase my spiritual age for now.
As for the second stage of the body tempering method, I can feel that I am not far from achieving it. Perhaps within a month I can enter the second stage, increasing my strength by a large margin.
My physique is so tough that 9,000-year-old beasts can barely scratch me.
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It had been a week since I entered the forest and the number of beasts that tried to attack me were many, only to end up dead were dozens.
That the final ended up becoming resources for me.
And now I run into the first problem, no matter how many rings I absorbed, my age only increased by 700 years this week.
The rings I consumed were over 8,500 years old and less than 10,000 years old. Making me realize that the millennial beasts will soon stop serving me as resources to increase my spiritual age.
That alone made my determination to find ten thousand year old beasts so that I could continue to increase my strength without any problem.
This also made me realize something, once I reach one hundred thousand years it will be a great challenge to continue increasing my age since I will have to consume rings of beasts of one hundred thousand years and more in order to increase my strength quickly and efficiently.
Which is very difficult since one hundred thousand year old beasts can become rare according to my understanding.
*sigh*
Or at least I am lucky enough to be able to find spirit herbs rich in spirit energy, as well as some treasure that can help me cultivate.
I have a solution for this too, but I still don't know if it can work. However, for now I could not put my idea into practice due to lack of materials and resources.
So I can only keep making use of the beast rings for now.
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* Bam *
* Crack *
He was currently flying over the forest watching the fight between two ten thousand year old beasts.
One of the beasts was a species of giant lizard with black and gray scales along with yellow lines running from its head to the part of its tail, a cobra-like head with long protruding yellow fangs and blood-red eyes, with large, sharp claws.
With an age of 13,000 years.
The other beast was a kind of bull with a body full of black muscles and large hooves covered with red fur as well as its eyes and tail, it has a pair of large curved horns and pure ivory color.
The age of the bull was 14,200 years.
Their battle had destroyed several trees and left some craters in the ground.
Although the "cobra-headed lizard" beast had a thousand-year disadvantage, it could be seen that it had an advantage.
The "bull with ivory horns" had his body covered in claw scratches, his wounds were an intense purple color where you could see how the meat was slowly melting. Furthermore, his previous speed and ferocity could no longer be seen anywhere.
The cobra-headed lizard charged at the ivory-horned bull and took a sharp bite on one of its legs.
The ivory horn bull did not stay still and roared as small rocks rose into the air before shooting off, hitting the cobra-headed lizard all over its body, breaking more scales.
The fight of the two beasts had bored me, so I decided to kill them rather than wait for their long fight of resistance to finish.
[Mirage sword]
Six light gold colored swords materialized around me.
As he continued to stare at the beasts, four swords shot towards them.
Both beasts who were focused on their fight were caught off guard as two swords sliced their bodies into various pieces.
This was the lethality of his attack ability, he could cut beasts like butter and without much effort.
I approached what was left of their bodies.
I could see how there were two black rings representing the ten thousand year old beasts.
I sat on the spot not caring about the blood and the severed bodies.
It started to absorb both rings at the same time while circulating [immemorial soul art] the two rings started to glow before turning into little notes of light that entered my body slowly.
The two rings could take about thirty minutes to absorb, leaving my body unprotected.
Or at least it would be the case, but the six swords levitated around me.
If something gets close to me, they will attack it to death.
So I wasn't worried about being interrupted or attacked while absorbing the rings.
I could feel my spirit core filled with vast amounts of energy.
Thanks to my third eye, the speed at which I absorbed the rings was faster and smoother, which only took me twenty minutes.
When I opened my eyes, I could feel my spiritual age increasing to 12,000 years.
It was already dark, and I got up as I picked up the better-condition parts of the beast's brown bodies.
That would be my dinner today.
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The next few days were equally monotonous.
Killing, absorbing rings, cultivating my two techniques in my spare time and at night.
When I was not doing any of the above, I dedicated myself to deepening my knowledge of the soul and spirit.
The more I understood the knowledge that I acquired, I could feel how many things became clearer to me about life and death.
Also thanks to that I discovered something that had been bothering me since I entered ten thousand years.
It was that I could feel that there was something inside my spirit ring, which gave me the same feeling as the seals or locks that were used in my previous life to hold criminals in the kingdoms and sects.
I was able to understand that the stronger I am, the seal will also become stronger to suppress me.
This made me frown wondering why.
Due to my curiosity and desire to understand more about this type of sealing.
Kill some beasts to investigate and experiment with the rings. It was when I discovered that all beasts also have this seal inside.
But the seal was inactive and would only activate when the beasts had been cultivated for up to ten thousand years.
This made me realize that there was a great enemy that repressed beasts and spirits so as not to reach great spiritual ages.
I also understood that this must be the reason why the 100,000 year old beasts that decided to become human had to live out of obligation in human societies.
I was also able to understand why every beast, when it was a hundred thousand extra years old, had to go through a tribulation. At first I thought it was a tribulation from heaven like in my past life, but I was wrong.
It was a tribulation that sought to kill the beasts to prevent their advance. Now everything was becoming a little clearer and at the same time complicated.
Without realizing it my face had a cruel smile, the one who sought to stop the beasts was my sworn enemy and I had to kill him or he would become a thorn in my rib.
I was not going to repeat the same mistakes from my past lives, in this life I wanted to live without regrets and live my way. For that I need strength, strength so that others do not dare to have thoughts against me.
He knew that whoever this person was must have power to an unimaginable level to curse every existing beast in the world.
This made me realize that this person could only be a… God.
