The Chaos Dragon Prince

Mere minutes passed and the duo could already sense their Inner World forming more essence marks. And that their Spiritual Sea is broadening past their previous limits, breaching into higher levels of understanding.

In this state, Cain and Amber had one critical thought. A thought that caused the duo's entire being to violently quiver.

As Elder Heng explained, martial cultivators aren't meant to follow any path of the heaven or try to copy the power of the universe. Rather, they comprehend the rules and principles of the universe to form their own powers of a universe!

The essence Marks of an Inner World symbolizes the creation of one's own unique power.

It's why forming essence Marks, whether its Laws or Divine Qi fill, takes a lengthy amount of time. All Martial Cultivators are creating their own unique energy principles off on the fundamental understanding of the principles of the current universe.

More essence Marks also means a cultivator's Inner World has stronger space stability, eventually reaching a point it can match the rules of the real world.

With this, a cultivator can intake the more powerful sources of the universe and eventually evolve their Inner World into something greater.

Naturally, the Spiritual Sea needs to have extremely high perception abilities in order to control and absorb these energy sources.

The Divine Law level, the Supreme Divine Laws, the energies of a Holy King, and all masters above, this was the Martial cultivators' Divine Path in separating from the universe and then surpassing it!

Elder Heng may have already told them part of this before. But merely listening and experiencing the sensations were two entirely different stories.

It was all enhanced through the fact that Cain and Amber could thoroughly comprehend just a small portion of these mysterious sensations.

In that moment, Cain and Amber felt a subtle crack in their minds. Whatever barrier that was holding them back before had just split open by a tiny portion, allowing them small access to a new realm of understanding.

The duo felt suddenly enlightened. Unknowingly, as time drained away, the duo's comprehension gradually increased, and their Inner World experienced rapid growth.

At the same time, their Heavenly Grade Dao Core Fragments began to lose small amounts of their luminous luster.

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A day had passed quietly.

As the new morning washed over Cloudsea Holy Land, Cain and Amber had just finished their cultivation.

Their Dao Core Fragments have already returned to their spatial rings, both cores noticeably dimmer than they first appeared.

The duo's eyes slowly opened as a sense of elation swirled through their entire bodies.

For a brief moment, Cain's eyes sparkled with dazzling lightning. A momentary flash from him could blind the eyes of mortals.

Amber's pupils overflowed with eerie black lights. The minds of mortals would be crushed with only a single glance into their pitch-black pupils.

The next moment, their eye phenomenon cleared away.

Stretching his arms, cracking his joints that pulsated with pure power, Cain gave a refreshing smile. "Only one night of cultivation and my essence marks have already increased to 370! I honestly didn't think I would advance this much."

A similar pleased expression crossed Amber's face as she said, "Not just you, but I have also managed to gain 350 essence marks in one step. This feels..."

At this point, Amber's brows slightly furrowed. "Say, I know the Dragon Charm can enhance our cultivation speed, but don't you feel there is something else? Like some other force that's making our speed even better?"

Cain quickly went into contemplation as well. "Yes, I was wondering about it for a while, but I can just barely feel there is some other force within me while I cultivate. The only problem is that it's hard to concentrate on this force when I get into an enlightened state. But today, this force seemed to stimulate more intensely than in the past."

Even at this point, Cain and Amber couldn't be blamed for failing to detect their mysterious black lightning. Neither of them could actively stimulate it or even sense it within their cells. The best they could go off on is the vague sensations they experienced during their cultivation.

Still, with Cain and Amber's deduction abilities, they had a faint guess of where this force had emerged.

Amber muttered out loud, "Ever since our Divine Ascensions, our cultivation speed went up by leaps and bounds. It's to a point where we can even cross Divine Origin to the Great Divine Sea realm in a mere manner of weeks. Even with our resources, this is a speed that's pretty much impossible across the entire God Galaxy. If I had to assume, during our Divine Tribulation, something great must've fused into our blood."

For a moment, Cain closed his eyes, scanning over his body with Chaos Sense in an attempt to seek out this mysterious force.

Compared to the past, he was able to just barely discover a peculiar sensation in the depths of his blood. But he couldn't go beyond just barely sense it.

Opening his eyes back up, Cain could only shrug with a relaxed expression. "Whatever the force is, it's evidently benefiting us. We're simply too limited in our cultivation to figure what it is now."

When he finished speaking, Cain suddenly sensed Zi Yan attempting to contact him through their ring.

Taking out the contact ring, Cain poured in his soul energy and soon heard Zi Yan's report.

'Master, I wasn't able to find too much, but what I have is very important. I managed to learn from Demon Yan that Senior Master Juo wanted to use the golden bug to specifically control mistress. When the mistress is under their control, they would then start making plans around you to completely control both of you. I'm not sure how long this process would have taken, but it seems to me they were prepared to play the long game.'

Though he didn't ask Elder Heng during their meeting, Cain already knew that the golden bug couldn't instantly control anyone. It was like a virus that would implant itself onto the soul's core, slowly fusing into it until it had gained full control.

Unsuspecting victims wouldn't even know what happens until it was too late.

All of this only led Cain to reinforce his decision to assassinate Senior Master Juo as soon as possible.

He told Zi Yan, 'Alright, later one, I want you to send the direction location of where Juo lives. But remember, you will need to make all of your moves completely causal without any suspicions.'

'It will be done, master.' The line instantly went dead.

With how responsive and diligent Zi Yan is, Cain could really see the value of completely loyal allies.

The Dragon Slave method is an extreme case for completely loyal allies. It was the quickest method, but Cain could tell its potential was limited. If he could gain completely willing allies without any mind control, those kinds of people would be determined to go beyond what's needed to satisfy him.

Of course, to gain these types of allies, his own personal strength and special abilities must be extremely high. After Cain explained the sensation to Amber, she only had an inquisitive look.

She plainly asked, "Say, you're always the one to go on about the importance of useful allies. So, why not just take more of Wen Shao's subordinates with that art? I'm sure we can find one close enough under him to assassinate that Juo fellow."

That certainly sounds tempting enough. But Cain knew how continuous action of the Dragon Slave method would be more troublesome than it's worth in the future.

This wasn't out of an ethical or moral sense. Cain never bothered to care about such things or even pretend to do it because of the mold of society. That simply wasn't his character.

However, only having slaves would either lead to suspicious being cast onto them or allies with severely limited growth.

The suspicions would stem from the more orthodox cultivators. Though there are many slavery practices across the God Galaxy, not many were willing to be upfront about it less they want condemnation from the orthodox or even righteous cultivators.

The higher-up cultivation mastery would seek out more excuses with him all in the pretenses of his 'sinister actions.'

Divine Mortal or not, Cain wasn't anywhere near strong enough to ignore those types of people.

As for the growth of allies, Cain would prefer the people under him to have their own thoughts and opinions varied from him. This way, both parties can benefit more from two varying perspectives rather than thinking everything Cain says is the law.

When considering this, Cain told Amber, "Best to keep it safe with the slave method. I don't want us to be caught in troublesome fallout. Even as nobody could sense the art in their souls, I don't doubt these people are smart enough to figure out a connection between us and the slaves."

"Hm, alright." Amber nodded. But she still wasn't willing to concede just yet. She then asked, "Slaves of the table, then? Then, if we can gain where he lives now, why not just quickly kill him off already? I know it would be good to wait a few days to avoid suspicion from selves, but we shouldn't wait too long, right? Our cultivation would certainly increase by much after mere days."

Cain took a few seconds to respond. In the end, he weighed the pros and cons and knew which one was the superior choice. "I like to be dominating and domineering. But, I also want to be overly prepared for any situation. When a great amount of time has passed and everything returns to normal is when we will strike. With Chaos energy, not even an ancient Heavenly Venerate existence would be able to know how he died."

As Amber nodded to the plan, her eyes briefly flashed. "If that's the case, then I'll make regular trips to that temple starting today. Not only is this good for my Spirit energy, but it will only cause more confusion when Juo disappears despite our seemingly good relations."

Hearing this, Cain cheekily smirked at Amber. "You know for sure there are going to be people coming up to you, right? The limelight of attention can't dim away, you know."

Amber casually waved him off. "I'm not socially inept, you nut. To get them to leave me alone, I'll probably do something minor. Not particularly sure what, but I'll think more of it when it happens."