CHAPTER 75: A DISASTER

"Anyways, now that I explained that to you, is there anything else you want to know?" ending the conversation there as she fears that she might get even more of a shock than she already just had, the enigmatic beauty asked, getting a response from the one she is talking to in the form of him shaking his head.

"That’s already more than enough, thank you for your answer, Miss Qingyue" Azrael added in gratitude, making the lady smile once again before she replies.

"There’s no need for gratitude, boy, I need your strength to help me so I spend time improving your strength, it is a fair deal" she clarified with a smile on her face, sure, she appreciates the gratitude the young man is expressing but she knows that it is unfair for him to thank her when they are both benefitting from this exchange.

After a few more minutes of chit-chat, the young man finally decided to end the conversation for now as he started entering a meditative state, intending to get the most out of his time here to improve his Immortal Energy as much as he could.

[Detected an abundant amount of life force being absorbed and refined by the ascender. Maximum Immortal Energy +1]

[Detected an abundant amount of life force being absorbed and refined by the ascender. Maximum Immortal Energy +1]

[Detected an abundant amount of life force being absorbed and refined by the ascender. Maximum Immortal Energy +1]

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’What a monster...’ as she stares at the young man already in a meditative state, absorbing the usually inert but abundant life force in the surrounding of this place, Xue Qingyue thought to herself before she moves away from him, intending to meditate as well as she finally felt well-rested enough to do so, planning to push as much as she can without worry as she already told the only other person qualified to enter this Immortal Realm the fact that she might take some few weeks meditating, this allowing her to feel a bit satisfied as the subtle shock on the young man’s face making her feel victorious, thinking that it isn’t only this young man who is talented in this place.

With that, the enigmatic beauty and the oddly charismatic young man move themselves to separate places to prevent their range of absorption from interrupting each other’s meditation, the lady making sure that she moves far enough since the area where she can absorb life force is far larger than the young man’s range.

As they both meditated, the young man, Azrael, starts feeling like he is improving even more, the smile on his face wide as he felt like he will improve the amount of his Immortal Energy greater than his previous improvements, but he felt like there’s still something he can do to grow even faster.

’Right, these two...’ pausing for a while as he recalls two techniques, he smiles as he wonders what would happen if he practiced all three of them at the same time.

[Indestructible Pure Body Tempering Method (S-Grade Technique)

[True Soul Forging Art (S-Grade Technique)]

’It will be extremely efficient right? After all, it feels like my Immortal Energy is recovering faster when I am using the Immortal Forging Art’ Azrael mused to himself before deciding to circulate the two techniques simultaneously with the Immortal Forging Art, this recklessness, or rather, boldness of him about to bring him into a world of both immense suffering and reward.

On the other hand, while Azrael is having this bold thought, Xue Qingyue thought of something that she needs to remind him of, and realizing that the thing she wants to tell him is extremely important, she immediately cuts her meditation short as she rushes towards his location.

’How can I even forget about that!?’ she thought to herself as she hopes that Azrael is not too daring to try such stunt, and yet despite hoping so, she has an almost clear idea of what sort of person he is, and it wouldn’t really be surprising for him to try what she fears he would.

And lo and behold, everything performs right within her expectations, an extremely violent energy surging from the young man’s location before she can even reach him, making her panic as she knows the only way such energy will be released.

’Damn it! He’s too curious about things!’ she cursed to herself as she increased her speed even further, reaching Azrael’s location in breakneck speed, what she saw brought her horrors that made her shiver in terror, something she had never felt for an extremely long time.

’Is it too late now?’ looking at the grotesque state Azrael’s body is currently on, Xue Qingyue wonders in immense worry as she thought that just when she finally found the key for her to achieve that target she has for a long, long time, this key just starts tearing itself apart, and there seems to be nothing that she can do to reverse, halt, or even just slow down this process.

"Why the hell would you even do that!?" feeling extremely frustrated for losing a chance that she thought she already has, she couldn’t help but start breaking down, her reddish, pink lips pursed both in anger towards this young man’s decision and her own forgetfulness to remind him of such an important thing.

Her current state, seemingly far more desolate and ruined than her previous face of absolute confidence when she is facing the young man, is something of a material good enough for anyone who noticed it to tease her with such for their entire life, luckily for her, the only one who can witness her in such state is currently having his body being repeatedly torn apart with only his bones and organs barely able to keep up with this process, preventing him from dying while allowing him to feel such an excruciating amount of pain.

Being used to such a situation though, he doesn’t even flinch feeling all these things as he focuses on the changes happening on his body, a significant, positive change happening despite his body being constantly torn apart.