Techniques

Drog closed his eyes and focused on the pendant hanging on his neck. He opened his eyes and before him, he saw his master – Liu Ri.

"The first technique that I will bestow upon you will be the body strengthening technique," Liu Ri said. "It's called: black dragon god's divine body and it has nine levels. Training in this body strengthening technique will transform your human blood into the blood of the black dragon god, your human bones into the bones of the black dragon god, your human muscles into the muscles of the black dragon god. Your human skin will remain, but under it, black dragon god scales will take place. Training in the black dragon god's divine body will also spawn a darkness element inside your dantian."

Drog furrowed his eyebrows. "If I have six elements and not five, won't my cultivation technique – pentagon Qi refinement become an F-rank cultivation technique?"

Liu Ri nodded her head. "Yes. With six elements and not five, your cultivation technique – pentagon Qi refinement will become a worthless cultivation technique, but don't worry. Darkness element works as a cultivation technique and not like any cultivation technique, but as an SSS++ rank cultivation technique. All the Qi that you devour will be immediately refined."

Drog nodded his head. "Good," he said.

"The second technique that I will bestow upon you will be the movement technique," Liu Ri said. "It's called: white tiger god's divine movement and it also has nine levels. Training in this movement technique will allow you to do two things. One, move in a frighteningly high speed. Two, teleport to any place that you have visited before. Training in the white tiger god's divine movement will also spawn a spatial element inside your dantian. Are you ready?"

Drog widely smiled. "Of course I am ready. Let's begin."

Liu Ri walked up to Drog, stopping an arm's length away from him. "Close your eyes," she said.

Drog closed his eyes.

Liu Ri raised her right arm and extended it. She with her index and middle fingers touched Drog's forehead. Unlike when he was a child when she had to point her arm down to touch his forehead, this time around, she only had to extend her arm.

A burst of knowledge flashed through Drog's head.

Liu Ri lowered her right arm to the side of her body and Drog opened his eyes.

"I have bestowed upon you both the black dragon god's divine body body strengthening technique and white tiger god's divine movement movement technique," Liu Ri said. "You can now leave my prison and begin training in them."

Drog nodded his head. "Yes, master," he said, closed his eyes and focused on his body. He opened his eyes and found himself back in the cave. "Alright, let's begin," he thought and closed his eyes. He focused on the black dragon god's divine body body strengthening technique and knowledge on how to reach the first level of the black dragon god's divine body body strengthening technique filled his head. "The first thing I must do to reach the first level of the black dragon god's divine body is to spawn the darkness element," he thought. "To spawn it, I have to get engulfed in complete darkness. I have to cut off all my senses and wait until the darkness element has spawned inside of my dantian."

Drog slowly breathed in through his nose and slowly breathed out of his mouth. "Let's begin," he thought and closed his eyes. The first sense that he cut off was the sense of sight, but since he had his eyes closed, he didn't feel much difference. The second sense that he cut off was the sense of taste, and this time he felt a difference. He could no longer tell the taste of saliva in his mouth. The third sense that he cut off was the sense of hearing. He could no longer hear any sound, but that of his own thoughts. The fourth sense that he cut off was the sense of smell. He could no longer smell anything. The fifth and final sense that he cut off was the sense of touch. He could no longer feel the ground that he was sitting on.

Time passed. How much of it passed, Drog didn't know. It may have been a day, a month or even a year, but after this unknown amount of time, his thoughts suddenly stopped and a feeling washed over him. A feeling which yelled out to him that if he didn't reattach at least one of his senses at this moment, he would become a part of the darkness and would never be an individual again.

More time passed and like before, it could have been a day, a month or a year, but a strange feeling washed over Drog. A feeling which yelled out to him that he was both a part of the darkness and also an individual. He opened his eyes and his senses were no longer cut off. "What was I doing?" he mumbled and immediately remembered. He closed his eyes and focused on his dantian. He could feel the presence of the sixth element, the darkness element.

"You came back much sooner than I expected," Liu Ri's said.

Drog opened his eyes. "How long did I take?"

"Five-hundred years."

Drog's eyes and mouth widened from shock but before he could say anything, Liu Ri said, "That is what it took me to spawn the darkness element. You however only took a single month."