"The heart of this beast contains immense amounts of Devouring Dao. The eyes are imbued with Void Dao. And there are thousands of minor daos grafted into the flesh and blood." Reason explained to his avatar, after most of the God Beast was dismantled into parts.

"So you say I should cook it and eat it?" Pef wondered out loud.

"No! Damn idiot. These are Heavens Laws! And you want to cook them?" Reason exclaimed in a horrified tone.

Pef shrugged in defeat.

"Eat it raw?" he proposed with a meek tone.

"Try a single drop of blood. You should not die, I guess." the armored woman allowed with a nod.

Pef wasn't filled with confidence at her words.

Before he could try it, Drake poked a jar of blood and ingested a drop with a curious face.

He soon began steaming and growing red, while his cultivation grew rapidly, until he reached Tier 1 divinity. And then he promptly exploded into blood mist.

"You said it was safe-ish..." Pef muttered while restoring the dragon kid back to life.

"... For a Tier 4, I said. Then again, live testing works as well. Congratulations, Dragon God." Reason declared gently while examining the newest divine smith.

"It hurt a lot! But I learned so much!" Drake yelled victoriously, then swiped another drop of blood into his mouth.

The dragon exploded again, making Pef's eyebrow twitch a bit.

He revived the crazy kid but kept him still with an arm on his shoulder. "Go and meditate now. Try to make sense of your new powers." Pef advised the foolish kid with a chuckle.

"Right! I do have new senses..." Drake murmured to himself, then flew up towards the moon. In mid-flight, the kid Blinked away.

"Go on everyone. Take a few drops and grow." Pef allowed to his wives and higher troops.

Soon enough, they all exploded into gory bits, and had to be restored to life.

"So much power in a drop of blood..." Pef mused to himself, while pouring a drop into a wine gourd, then mixing it gently.

Misty stepped forward and licked her finger after tapping the wine mix.

As expected, the fairy also exploded into mist, although her glass-like wings remained intact and pristine.

"Are they a separate thing?" Pef asked while examining a wing with his coresense. It appeared to be solid silk with qi veins and tiny crystals embedded into it.

"Fairies are complicated. They mix illusion and reality into their cultivation, thus higher tiers are unfathomable. You never know if what you see is really there, or even real at all." Reason explained and poked the wing with a finger tip, making it shatter into motes of light.

Pef clenched his fist and reassembled the fairy back to life, to find she had grown a few centimeters.

"Hehe. I can cultivate now!" Misty exclaimed happily and gulped a mouthful of blood wine.

In a second, she was again reduced to bloody mist.

But her new body was now a teenager, and seemed to have Earth rank cultivation of some sort.

Pef glanced at Reason in confusion.

"She is using the blood as her pond substitute. Perhaps the fairies spike their ponds with Godbeast blood. It would make sense." the weapon reason with a thoughtful look.

"One more sip, and I can fly again!" Misty demanded and gulped the wine once more.

And indeed, the fairy crossed into Sky realm now, and didn't explode anymore.

Misty seemed kinda tipsy instead, flying wildly and bouncing of trees.

"Well, diluting the blood makes it safer then." Pef concluded sagely, and sipped a bit of blood wine himself.

The avatar was infused with energy and heavenly enlightenment, making Pef lose balance for a second.

"It's a rush. But a good one." Pef admitted to himself, while examining his own status page for changes. Nothing truly spectacular, but even a grain of rice was better than nothing.

Reason laughed melodiously and flicked an eye from the godbeast into his hand. "Eat it with your main body, idiot."

Pef nodded and transferred the eye outside, then ate it. His organs and meridians were immediately filled with qi and Void Dao, and Pef stopped in mid-flight to circulate and digest the new powers.

Much later, he opened his eyes and saw a new world, lines of gravity and mass now visible like a new sense.

'Are you seeing this?' he asked his glove.

'The eyes of heaven, they are called. Voidsense, in a word. Try folding space now.' the glove said in an excited voice.

Pef tried to copy what the godbeast did, creating a phantom claw made of void. After a few hours, he eventually managed it, although it was a small claw, the size of a palm, not a galaxy.

'It's pathetic.' he mused inward.

'That depends. Hit that asteroid.' the glove spoke while marking a distant object on his retina.

Pef swiped the voidclaw at the target, then stared in surprise as the void folded to allow the claw to strike and shatter the asteroid from far away.

'This looks promising!' Pef exclaimed happily, and began demolishing a nearby asteroid field as target practice.

'Shape it like a sword now. You don't have a beast's instincts, but your sword training should suffice.' the glove advised him with a smirk.

Morphing the claw into a short sword, Pef sliced again, cutting through a distant asteroid with ease.

On his inner page, the sword intent changed from One with the Heaven to One with the Void.

'It was that easy?' Pef asked in surprise.

'Damn idiot. This is a Captain level skill. You're just too lucky!' the glove muttered as explanation.

Pef nodded to himself, and formed a hundred more voidswords. Now this was a nice boost to his powers indeed.

Whirling them around, Pef demolished a nearby star system, dismantling the planets and asteroids into tiny bits, while adding more and more voidswords.

However, past a thousand swords he could no longer control them with finesse, and had to use a more at once for every strike.

Still, he was a Tier 4 god now, and his qi reserves had grown as well. In a few days, he reached ten thousand swords and used them in groups of ten, more like a flyswatter than proper swords.

Diluting the beast blood even more, he also began upgrading his troops, passing them each a small cup of Heavenly Laws in liquid form.

A trillion soldiers were ascended at speed, pushing them all towards Monarch and Saint ranks.

Sadly, he didn't have enough blood to create a trillion gods. They would have to reach enlightenment by themselves, but it should be much easier now.

Instead, he focused on raising Shiara and Drake, feeding them tiny bits of godbeast flesh.

After a few divine meals, Shiara crossed over and reached Tier 4, and began churning out even stronger ants for the Legion.

Emerging from their ant eggs at Sky rank was a huge advantage, compared to humans or devils who needed to cultivate bitterly to reach that rank.

However, without pills or other aids, ants had a major bottleneck reaching Monarch and then divine tier.

The new Legion cultivation helped, but not to a big extent. Ants were still beasts of a sort, with strong physical bodies but poor talent for cultivation.

They would need to fight, and devour the dao from their enemies. And Pef was preparing to find them that enemy.

Sure, he found more cultivator planets in his path, and some were rather nasty and had to be cleared out, but a few millions here or there were not enough.

Drake achieved his Tier 2 rank just as Pef arrived home in the Lacrima galaxy, while Lasciel was nearly ready to ascend as well.

Even Aria was now a peak Tier 3, and was eager to fly out on her own, and find enlightenment though combat and exploration.

"One year, to rekindle my bonds with my sisters. Then I'm leaving." the green haired woman said watching the holomap intently.

In a few minutes, Pef stopped in orbit above Lacrima.

He was home once more. Pef opened the status window and began reviewing the changes.

Veritas Legion Adjutant-User data file

Name: Pef Xi

Alias: Monarch, Emperor, Saint, God, Legion, Count, Veritas.

Rank: Local universe CIC, Legion: Soldier

OS: Standard Veritas Legion Indoctrination method: compatibility 1.227

Race: Physical God, Tier 4 (improved +53%)

Body stats:

-Strength : 15 115. (Physical God bonus +50%)

-Agility : 17 700. (Physical God bonus +50%)

-Endurance : 14 070. (Physical God bonus +50%. Veritas Adjutant modifier +1000)

-Intelligence : 322. (Veritas Adjutant modifier +1000)

-Wisdom : 187. (Veritas Adjutant modifier +1000)

-Charisma : 951. (charm +9%)

-Qi reserves: 20 133 000.

Cultivation stats:

-Spiritual affinity: Water 31%, Sword 53%, Void 35%, Fire 9%, Wind 3%, Thunder 8%, Metal 5%, Earth 5%, Life 6%, Entropy 2%, Order 1%, Chaos 1%. (Yin and Yang, Creation and Destruction under 1%)

-Core size: Galactic. (9.993 cms radius)

-Core inner volume: Cluster. (One main galaxy , 12 dwarf galaxies. Total worlds: 1.2 trillion)

-Qi purity: 31%. (~1% trans dimensional injection)

-Soul Aspect: Silver. (Combat/Control/Command affinity)

-Soul defense: 8285. +90% bonus (open meridians 1+11)

-Soul attack: 4327. +10% bonus

-Sword Ki abilities: 53%. (One with the Void: stage 1)

-Water Dao abilities: 31%. (Greater Water Domain, ~91000 kms radius)

-Fire Dao abilities: 9%. (Large Fire Domain, ~9000 kms radius)

-Void abilities: 35%. Blink radius: 9 trillion kms, Voidsplitter skill 3%, Recall radius: 800000 kms. Voidsense, minimal.

Divine stats:

- Ki sense: Galactic (~1 million light-years radius)

- coresense: Gigantic. (~3 light-years kms radius)

- telekinetic field: Average. Range 5 meters (Divine strings manipulation: 80%, Gravity generation: 53%, Quasi strings: 3%)

- add-ons: Icesword rune.

- sword intent: Average (Swordforce: stage 4, 53%)

- transmutation/alteration: Huge. (water Mastery, fog and ice: stage 8, plasma: stage 5, condensation: stage 7)

- divination: Minor/???. (trans dimensional injection)

- heartforce: Average. (Diamond Heart stage 3.)

- kharmic luck: Medium. (Minor reincarnation, trace memories, Realm allies, non-causal scars)

- logopedic Dao ability: Medium: 3 words (Legion, Truth, Faith) (Devour Dao: Soul digestion stage 4, 9%, Soul restoration 9%) +Veritas Powerword gun = 81000 words (charged at 8.1%)

- Extra abilities: water clone: stage 8, Ice wings, Ice armor, fire clone: stage 6, dojutsu: stage 4 (helix spike), mindforce: Large 58% (shield, maze, pulse, flay). Clone fusion stage 1.