Corrupt Creations

Seth couldn't miss the chance to get stronger and whatever Lexi was doing was certainly important for her, so combining these two purposes made it be an unskippable request.

Seth sat down on the floor and started to feel the flow on energies in the air.

Lilian and Caizhi stopped on their tracks and looked back at him. Lilian got confused by his action, weren't they finished already?

She was about to ask why did he sit there, when Caizhi stopped her.

"Do not disturb him now, it must be something important." She felt it through their link.

Lilian looked at Caizhi and didn't know how she could be so sure of it.

Seth followed Lexi's instructions step by step, concentrating on the important parts. It didn't take long and a vortex of energies started to slowly form around him. He felt all those different energies that were conflicting at nature and started to absorb them without delay.

Inside his energy veins, he discarded the normal procedure, where he would only absorb the Qi energy and stop the others from affecting him. Lexi felt all the energies there, including the Spirit energy and slowly used her method, infusing her unique spiritual energy that started to cleanse everything.

Her new technique consisted in utilizing her unique power as a spirit. Some spirits, like those inside weapons, would often buff it with offensive abilities, infusing strength on it, or even going as far as coating the weapon and the surroundings with an element. But Lexi's ability was a supportive one. She could cleanse ill substances.

This wasn't an omnipotent immunity ability, but it could turn into something powerful in the future. She could cleanse poisons, energies and even going as far as softening the pain Seth felt. But it was only effective with things within his degree of power. It would be impossible for her to cleanse a poison from a Mana Sovereign beast, as it was leagues ahead of Seth.

However, her pure aura was of such quality, that if that poison was only an insignificant amount, she could probably put an internal fight with it.

But this was just the tip on the iceberg on her new technique. She studied how Caizhi's body reacted when absorbing an incompatible energy and developed a course of actions to counter the incompatibility.

Right after that, came the most important point.

"Seth, use the Seed powers to force everything into submission."

Seth hesitated at first, he knew that the Seed of Tyranny was a power he owned and its real capabilities were under eight more closed seals, but he felt apprehension whenever he had to use it. Just remembering what happened when he acquired it and breaking its first seal, gave him chills.

"Don't worry after this, your body will be able to absorb these energies without the need of that power."

"Sigh... Alright."

Out of nowhere Caizhi and Lilian started to feel a heavy pressure and it was getting unbearable to stay next to Seth. They felt smothered by that pressure and retread towards the other side of the room.

'Seth, who are you exactly?' Lilian doubts and curiosity peaked up.

Seth was just going to use that power inside his own body, but even so, people with lower cultivation felt like a mountain was pressing down on them.

Crack!

Red lines appeared on the surface of his skin and it appeared like it was cracking from within. But what was happening inside was the key of the process.

Lexi guided the energies through the absorption process, while Seth forced his own body to accept the foreign powers. From outside it may seem that his situation was bad, but in reality, his life was outside any danger.

Whenever he used that ability, his own body would be pushed to its limits, greatly raising his prowess while at the same time damaging it. But when he broke the first of the nine seals that contained the Seed's power, his body passed through a strengthening process and he could at least handle some minutes using the tyrannical energy it provided.

Lexi didn't lose time and as his body was familiarizing with the new energies and its properties, she concentrated in bringing more Spirit energy towards him, something that was easy for her. She always attracted that energy for herself, as a spirit, her abilities depended on that energy. Although now, the torrential vortex of spirit energy went towards Seth's veins.

Seth Qi power kept growing so fast that soon he would breakthrough, and he was using Spirit energy instead of only Qi to raise his realm of power. That was something impossible for other practitioners. He suddenly felt that a blue energy was present in the environment, something that he couldn't feel before.

Mana!

It was the signal that he was entering the Mana Perception Realm. He was only eighteen years old now and was entering the Mana Perception Realm initial stage already. Normal cultivators could only dream of achieving that realm. A lot of resources were required for a person to achieve that level, so only people with a powerful background would enter such realm.

The difference between Seth and other Mana Realm practitioners was only one; the age. The youngest cultivator to reach that realm before him was the Demon Empress. She reached that cultivation at the sixty mark.

Boom!

All those energies were fiercely expelled, only leaving behind Mana and Spirit energy that were swirling around him.

After the sudden air expansion that took the girls by surprise, everything calmed down.

His perception of the world has thoroughly changed and he knew that there was Mana all around him. The girls couldn't perceive the swirling Mana, so they thought he just had a bizarre breakthrough, not knowing which realm he was in.

On the outside world, though...

"Someone entered the Mana Perception Realm!"

"Was it one of our sect elders?"

"No! I'm sure there wasn't an elder close to breaking through." Huo Shifen could not remember an elder almost at their realm and ready to step into the Mana realms.

"Then it must be an outsider, we cannot allow anyone to interfere on our plans, we need to investigate it brother." Huo Shikai had to be extra cautious at this moment, anything unnecessary could trouble him greatly.

"Alright. We will follow the energy signature and investigate the situation." Huo Shihong too, wanted a perfect scenario for the upcoming events.

The leaders of the Blazing Phoenix Sect left their urgent meeting and started to enter the forest behind the main palace.