Chapter 8 "Cursed Luck"

Along with the white meteor Gron was also cut, his left arm was cut off, but he felt as if not only his arm was cut off, but the rest of his body was covered in cuts.

"We'll be going now Atuns."

"But we didn't even kill the guy!"

"He'll bleed out if no one helps him and there's not even a single beast in a 5000 miles radius. So we can just leave."

"NO! I want to kill him myself."

"Sure, but I'm leaving, if you die then not my fault."

"You think I'll lose to that brat even after he's injured?! Why the fuck did they even team me up with this bastard."

'Probably 'cause you are too weak. Man it felt like watching some superhero shit in 4D, but I guess that this is Gorns end, fuck I'll miss this simulation.'

The masked man, who is apparently called Atuns, walked towards the place where Gorn fell, but when he got there Gorn was gone, not even his severed arm was there.

"HUH?! HEY FOREI THIS BASTARD ISN'T HERE!"

"Hm?! What do you mean he ain't there."

Meanwhile, Gu Shang was already gone from the ruins because he was transported to another scene, he saw that Gorn was being treated by a busty elf with snow-white hair, he couldn't help, but wonder what it felt to be in bed with her.

'Gorn you lucky bastard.'

"Hey little man, wake up."

"H...five more minutes mom..."

"..."

Slap!

"HUH!? WHO ARE YOU?!"

"My name is Hestia, I am a wandering druid, I saw that you used the Apocalypse magic and couldn't help, but ask, where did you get it?"

"W-What do you mean? I don't even know what is Apocalypse magic."

"..."

"You know that I heard you say, and I quote "Apocalypse Magic : Final Cataclysm"."

"..."

"I-I got it from an inheritance tomb."

"Don't be scared, I knew the creator of it and this is the reason I saved you after hearing you have it, but at the same time I can help, but think that you're too bad at it."

"Why?"

"That spell was supposed to be made from a fusion of white flames, black lighting and cursed wind.

"Your spell lacked the cursed wind and that's why it was so easily destroyed. I mean, it would still be destroyed because you don't have enough mana, but your arm wouldn't be cut off from the slash."

"What do you mean I need to use cursed wind into the spell? Already getting control of the white flames and black lighting was almost impossible! And it doesn't even say in the grimoire that I need to fuse it with the cursed wind."

"Your predecessor did it. And the grimoire doesn't mention that because he didn't have enough time to add that in."

"How? How did he do it?!"

"I don't know, I just wanted to tell you what your spell was lacking."

'Damn training arc is going to start isn't it?'

The scene changed again and just like thought, Gorn started training his magic to be able to control the cursed wind, unfortunately for Gu Shang the entire training was something that he couldn't memorize as Gorn was doing the training with his mind and he also got rid of his habit of reading out loud, so all Gu Shang was doing was cultivate.

Yeah, it turns out he can cultivate during the simulation so at least he wouldn't be that bored, he was calling himself stupid for not trying to do that in the previous simulation. He was currently using "Sacred Perfection Body Refining" the technique from that ancient manuscript that Gorn saw as useless, this technique was made exactly for strengthening the body, so using it while in the body tempering realm allowed him to cultivate faster than the World Creating Lotus Art, which just showed how powerful the technique was.

The technique was about perfecting the rhythm of the body, once the rhythm of the body was perfect, your blood would start to produce internal energy that would immediately be refined to strengthen the body, refining internal energy to strengthen the body was producing much better results than strengthening your body with Qi.

Although it was only in this realm, it was as fast as someone with high grade-1 spirit root cultivating the World Creating Lotus Art, basically meaning that by the end of the day he would reach the peak of body tempering, after that he would need to use World Creating Lotus Art again since breaking through to root nurturing realm couldn't be done with a tempering technique.

The only downsides to the technique was perfecting the rhythm of the body. It took Gu Shang over fifty scenes to finally enter the state of perfect rhythm, but he was instantly thrown out of that state after feeling the pain from his blood vessels producing internal energy. It felt as if his every cell was being ripped apart.

'Fuck that hurt, well at least I'll be able to be prepared the next time. Might as well take a break and watch what the Mc's doing.'

Gorn was currently in a forest looking for some sacred beast, he already mastered the control over the cursed wind, but it took him between 100–150 scenes which should be about 9 years in the simulation terms.

"Great Serpent, I came here looking to trade with you!"

After an hour, Gorn was standing in front of a cave, the cave was so big that Gu Shang thought that a whole town could be fit in it.

'Heh, finally a hole big enough to fit my dick...fuck I hate myself."

SHHHH!

"Puny human, what kind of trade are you looking to make."

A giant white snake slithered out of the cave, the snake was the size of a commercial plane. It also had some teal scales here and there.

"I want to trade a drop of black dragon blood for your revers-"

Chomp!

The snake swallowed Gorn instantly upon hearing that he wanted its reverse scale.

.

..

...

[Simulation has ended, item selection will now start.]

'WAIT, IT ENDS JUST LIKE THAT?!'

[1. Ancestral Sword Style Manual.]

[Manual with the instructions for learning the Ancestral Sword Style.]

[2. Apocalypse Magic Grimoire.]

[Grimoire with instructions for learning the spells of Apocalypse Magic.]

[3. Great Severance Sword.]

[A divine sword made from over a million different materials mixed together, almost indestructible.]

[4. Heavenly Serpent Bloodline.]

[Bloodline of a divine beast.]

[5. Arcane Heart.]

[Organ which allows people to absorb mana at all times.]

"WHAT THE FUCK?!"

"WHY DO I GET SO MUCH GOOD SHIT AT THE SAME TIME!?"

"SYSTEM, WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS?!"

[Luck.]

"WHAT FUCKING LUCK?! THE WORST THING IN THIS SELECTION IS A FUCKING DIVINE SWORD!"

[Understood, rerolling will begin in 3...]

"WAIT WAIT WAIT!"

[2...]

"SELECT THE ARCANE HEART!"

[Item has been chosen.]

After this prompt appeared, Gu Shang could feel like his heart was being ripped apart and then restructured into something new, just to feel like it was being pierced by thousands of small needles. The pain was so unimaginable that Gu Shang couldn't catch a breath.

"WHEEZE! WHEEZE!"

Gu Shang couldn't catch a breath for over two minutes, but the pain didn't stop after two minutes, he just got used to the pain enough to finally be able to breath.

The pain never stopped, Gu Shang only got used to it after four hours passed. He knew the reason why the pain never stopped.

The first wave of was pain because his heart had to first transform into an arcane one, the second and unending wave of pain was because he was already 17, the people in that simulation were born with the arcane heart and it grew with them so the feeling of absorbing was something that was only increasing a little bit, but his arcane heart was that of a 17-year-old so the pain was something he couldn't get used to so fast. The other reasons why it was so painful was because his body was strengthened, and this world didn't have mana, but Qi.

Qi is more of an aggressive energy when compared to mana, and that can be seen just by the fact that mages manipulate it, cultivators can only perform magical arts by using their own Qi, not the one in the surroundings.