A regular chapter that was a bit late but I have been really busy lately. I also changed my schedule so please go and take a look for yourselves.

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Chapter 9: Two months

As Shaon read the description of the cultivation technique, he was quite surprised. Remy hadn't been lying when he said that it was going to help him. Basically this “Blood Crystal Chains” was an upgraded version of a Blood Weapon. It was sturdier and if cultivated properly, it had more attack power and more flexibility in terms of maneuvering.

Shaon looked at Remy and asked, “Why give this to me now?” Remy just looked at him with a bit of a disappointed look and said, “This technique is the basis of “Bloody Angel”, a prototype if you will. When I developed Bloody Angel, my goal was to actually make it like that technique, however I never managed to do that. I am giving it to you in terms of hoping that you will be able to complete it.”

With that, he took out another jade slip and said, “In here is all the progress I made in converting Bloody Angel to Bloody Crystal Angel. It will be yours now, maybe my angle of approach was wrong, so you may be able to see a path to convert it, that I was too blind to see.” As Shaon accepted the jade slip, he didn't know what to do at the beginning.

He looked at it for a while and then decided to store it inside his Dantian space. Shaon was in no hurry so he didn't want to start hindering his progress in cultivating at the moment. With that, Shaon asked a few questions regarding some things he didn't understand and Remy answered them. They had this question and answer round for another few hours until Shaon finally got an answer to all of his questions.

He then exited his Dantian and started his daily training regime. He was still wearing his shackles and their weight had been increased a long time ago. Just when he was about to leave the little hut to start training, the sun started to rise. He just sighed a bit in thinking how his life had changed a lot in the past half a year.

He went from a shunned child of a major clan into a Conclave Disciple of one of the major schools in the Dimension. If anyone knew about this, they would immediately be green with jealousy. He increased the weight of his shackles to training mode and started running around the mountain top that was now his. At times he would stop and execute a set of close combat fighting moves and then move on again, at time he would thread between trees and at times, he would spurt in a straight line.

After running around for about two hours he arrived back at the cottage. He was wearing only pants and shoes as the shirt was removed before he started training. Usually the shirt became a hindrance when it got soaked in sweat, so he had made a habit of not wearing one when he was training.

He had changed the weight of his cuffs back to everyday weight that was 10 kg each. He was currently sitting in the courtyard and resting. Veri was sitting next to him and waiting for him to recover. Since there were no opponents on the mountain top, he decided to use Veri as a sparring partner.

At some point in time, Alice had also wondered outside. When she saw Shaon covered in sweat she ran to get a towel and a washing bin. When Shaon had cleaned his body, he sat down and gave Alice the jade slips on formations and an introductory jade slip for alchemy. All of them, he got from Remy earleier.

He also told her that he didn't need a babysitter and her job now was to learn from those jade slips, if she needed anything, she only needed to tell Shaon. She agreed to it and every couple of days, she would ask a questions on what she didn't understand. Shaon just relayed Remy's teachings like a telephone.

Like that hours became days, days became weeks and weeks became months. Shaon was currently at the peak of the fifth stage of the Grandmaster Realm and only needed a little push to enter the Prince Realm. Actually he had been in this state for the past 2 weeks but Remy told him to just consolidate his foundation instead of trying to break through.

In the past two weeks, Remy had taught him a lot about formations, alchemy, forging and so on. He had given Shaon so much jade slips already that Shaon could start his own sect if he wanted to. They had discovered that Shaon wasn't good at alchemy but was good at formations and forging. He had learned and developed a lot of formations that would help temper his body, he could even create an inter spacial ring, a very small one though, with 1 square meter room.

However, this left both Remy and Berserker stunned, usually a person who had studied both formations and forging for millions of years were able to create one. However, Shaon had analyzed the ring, he had and drawn connections with the formations Remy had given him.

He had a sharp head even in his past life and since there was nothing better to do in a hospital bed, he enjoyed solving mysteries. From there, he learned how to draw parallels and through a trial and error managed to create a ring. Regarding his rate of improvement even Remy could only say that Shaon was a monster.

A person, who was regarded as the strongest, praised him as a monster. Shaon could only laugh to that. Even though Shaon had learned a lot about formations and forging, he hadn't looked at the jade slip Remy had given him, the one about turning Bloody Angel into Bloody Crystal Angel.

“It is time. I can feel my life force slipping away. Now is your last chance to reach the Prince Realm with my help.” Remy's voice echoed out in Shaon's head. Shaon was currently talking to Berserker about the acceptance of new inner disciples. He relayed what Remy told him to Berserker and Berserker only nodded, “If he says so, then it must be true. I won't disturb you for now, just come and find me when you have successfully broken through.”

As he said that, he just stood up and decided it was time for him to leave. Shaon headed downstairs to the training room, and sat down in a lotus position and exhaled deeply, “Now then, what do I need to do?”

Remy started pouring more power to him and said, “Refine the power I'm sending to you. As you submerge in it, you will feel as if your body is overflowing with energy and will soon burst. When you feel that start channeling it according to Bloody Angel. As you sink deeper into meditation, you will see a giant door in front of you, all you have to do is push open that door.” Shaon nodded and started refining and circulating the energy according to Bloody Angel.

Soon he felt as if he was in a trance, the more he concentrated on circulating and refining the energy Remy sent him, the more he felt his clear mind slipping away. At first he didn't notice but towards the end he gave it his all to fight the drowsiness to no luck. At some point in time, he opened his eyes and discovered he was standing in a pure white space. In front of him was a giant black door. As he took a look around to be clear where this was, he saw Remy approaching from a far.

“What is this place, this isn't my Dantian?” When Remy got close enough to Shaon, Shaon asked him in puzzlement. Remy slightly shook his head and said with a gentle smile, “This is inside your consciousness. The reason there are no elixirs or mentors to help someone break through is because none of them can enter the consciousness to help you. I, on the other hand, am an exception to that. It will take the last remnants of my power to help shield you from the pressure. Best of luck to you my little friend.”

Shaon saw both proudness and a bit of sorrow in Remy's eyes but he only nodded to him. He started walking towards the door and soon realized why breaking through the threshold was so difficult. The pressure increased with every step and a person needed large amounts of Qi coupled with large amounts of determination to reach the door.

He felt the pressure descending on him increase as he arrived closer to the door. When he reached in front of the door, he was gasping for air. He gently pushed the door open and as he did, he felt the last of his strength fading from his body as he fell through the door.

He opened his eyes and discovered that he was in the training room, his body was covered ins sweat. “Huh, nothing happened?” Shaon mumbled to himself and was wondering if he had failed to break through.

Just as he was about to ask Remy, a loud “THUMP” echoed out in his body and following that, his whole body was in immense pain in a flash.