Divine Emperor of Death

Davis arrived in his chamber while Granduncle Daniuis's Family was in an uproar over Glynn's revival that's been informed as a comeback.

They were in utter awe over his medical abilities and felt that it was no wonder it was possible that he created many miracles like learning Death Laws that would make one insane. They welcomed Glyn with open arms and thanked him for protecting Lucia at that time.

On the other hand, Glyn's elder sister Nina was full of tears and moved beyond comparison, wanting to head to Davis to personally thank relay her gratefulness, but the others all stopped her, citing that they shouldn't disturb him.

In the rejoicing atmosphere, Lucia announced that she would like to marry Glyn at the end, which garnered approving responses.

Nonetheless, Davis was unaware of their family affairs and entered inside the Nine-Treasured Immortal Ordeal Palace to resume his cultivation since those two immortals didn't seem to be acting on that ultimatum for some reason, and he didn't have time to bother about it either.

He arrived at the ground floor and saw that there was still something left.

'Did Myria leave this for me…?' Davis's eyes squinted as he looked at the spirit formation.

This spirit formation was useful for splitting the Essence Orbs by extracting them smoothly and forming them into another vessel. With this, Davis felt like he could appropriately split the Essence Orbs for equal distribution so no one would get an advantage over the other.

Nonetheless, he wondered why Myria didn't release the spirit formation before exiting, making him feel a bit complicated.

He shook his head a few seconds later, putting the matter at the back of his head before he split the Essence Orbs into two equal halves. It was fairly easy, simple, and didn't take much time either compared to segregating the Chaos Essence Orb, perhaps because of the gap between them.

After all, the Chaos Essence Orb was an Immortal King Grade Essence Orb, while the other Essence Orbs were Immortal Grade Essence Orbs.

He couldn't help but admire the ingenuity of this spirit formation, wanting to learn more but having little time for everything, limiting his options.

"Lereza, can I have more jade cases?"

After splitting the Essence Orb, he asked for storage materials, and surprisingly he got one for each time he requested. This made him aware that the palace spirit possibly possesses a spatial ring of her own. Although he wasn't greedy for it, he wondered what else he had in her spatial ring.

For example, in Crimson Starchild's spatial ring, he found so many light-attributed immortal resources and an object that seemed like a fist-sized crystal sphere. It held a significant amount of heaven and earth energy, one that equated to immortal-level energy.

There were thousands of them in it, two thousand three hundred and fifty to be exact.

Similarly, there were a few thousand more in Dark Ironroar Palace's Immortal and Infernal Lightning Palace Immortal's spatial rings, making him assume that these fist-sized sphere crystals were the immortal currency he had been expectant of.

Myria called them Immortal Crystals, Low-Level ones, of course.

This made him wonder how much Lereza could possibly have and even the immortal inheritances of Isabella and Shirley.

After storing the Essence Orbs in the jade cases and storing them in his spatial ring for distribution, he couldn't help but grumble inwardly.

To make full use of these Essence Orbs, they required time. Even though he could slow it here, the risks involved bothered him greatly.

"Lereza, are you going to talk to me or not? How long are you going to remain stubborn with your bias? I know you wanted Myria to be your master for some reason, but the reality is different. I'm your master from now on, so let's get along together."

He didn't mince his words, waiting for her response as the atmosphere became silent.

"You mean we aren't getting along right now?"

"Well," Davis's brows narrowed as he heard her melodiously penetrating voice, "I'll thank you for saving me time, for starters. However, I don't know what exactly you are up to or what kind of intentions you have towards me or rather... Myria."

"All I can say is that you're overcautious about me." Came an exasperated voice.

'Easy for you to say...'

Davis almost rolled his eyes. She could say anything she wanted, but without evidence or sincerity, how could he believe her? The risk was with him.

Every time he entered here, he felt like risking his life. He was still fine with it as he was the master of this palace and could do something about it. However, if he brought his people and they were taken hostage, then he really wouldn't have a place to cry, becoming full of regret.

Moreover, if it was any random palace spirit, it would be fine, but Lereza was a palace spirit connected with the world master. How could he not remain cautious about her?

"You're really not going to say anything about yourself? At least demand what you expect of me."

"…"

Davis wanted to know more from another angle but was instead met with silence for a while.

Momentarily giving up, he headed to the ninth floor and sat in a lotus position, intending to increase his Body Tempering Cultivation but before that, he started investigating his soul once more.

Davis found that although his Everlasting Samsara Tribunal Soul Physique was powerful, it had a fatal disadvantage on the very basic stuff. That was… it only gave the base prowess of the Supreme Immortal Sigil, meaning that instead of increasing his base prowess by six levels, it only allowed him to gain five levels.

With the power of reincarnation energy, the prowess did exceed his combination of heavenly lightning and heavenly fire, but if his Essence Gathering Cultivation reached Peak-Level Law Rune Stage, then their prowess would become equal.

It could be said that his Essence Gathering Cultivation and Soul Forging Cultivation finally maintained an equilibrium after a long time. However, the fact that his Soul Forging Cultivation's base prowess was skewed to five levels was still a heavy yet unknown loss.

'Mhm, does this have something to do with the reversal of reincarnation energy? Or is it because it's not a completely Reincarnation Physique? Only the core seems to have the essence of reincarnation while the remaining layers of the soul essence exude life and death energy...'

He couldn't help but examine his soul essence. Half an hour later, he noticed something peculiar.

'This life and death energy surrounding the reincarnation core doesn't seem to be released by the reincarnation core but something that maintains the balance of the reincarnation core… from… collapsing…?'

Davis made an exasperated expression on his face, wondering what the heck he did to his soul.

It seemed stable but not complete.

Perhaps, this was the reason why his base prowess was five levels higher and not six levels higher like it was supposed to grant him upon creating an artificial physique from a mutated Supreme Immortal Sigil.

"Sigh, forget it… This is how cultivation works… research one's path and make continuous improvements upon improvements or fail once and become crippled..."

Davis tried to optimize his mental state positively as he spoke out loud, "Even if I made a slight mistake, I just have to find the right path in the future."

Besides, he understood this disadvantage most likely allowed him to remain instead of forceful ascension.

After all, his base prowess would've exceeded Level One Immortal Foundation Stage and entered Level Two Immortal Foundation Stage instead, possibly causing him to ascend. That should be the limit since the immortals aren't suppressed to Level Two but Level One Immortal Foundation Stage.

It was an advantage if he considered it this way.

Remaining optimistic, he took out the Chaos Essence Orb that had been chilling in the transparent jade case, admiring the unearthly vortex in it.

He began circulating the Grand Chaos Body Art after studying it for a few days. As he circulated his martial energy, he began absorbing the Chaos Essence Orb. A few strands of essence from the Chaos Essence Orb surged out, responding to Davis's pull as it entered his body through his many pores.

Strangely, Davis felt like nothing had entered him. He couldn't touch nor feel this energy. However, he could see this chaotic essence flowing according to the Grand Chaos Body Art as though the manual practically commanded the chaotic energy.

Davis was stunned beyond compare but didn't forget to focus. His concentration was at max, and he could feel his body tempered slowly after each circulation. At first, it was his meridian pathways. Next, the meridian points, and then the tempering surged out, revitalizing his blood, nerves, bones, and organs.

The tempering was so smooth, oriented, and practically without pain that he didn't dare believe that he was even tempering his body.

*Crack!~*

Abruptly, a patch of his skin broke like glass, falling off his body. The chaotic energy had seeped into his flesh and skin, starting to construct them anew. His entire skin fell apart, but the new skin was rapidly produced again.

His skin had become a bit paler as a result, but it was baby soft, making him wonder what happened to his slight roughness. However, he could feel the amount of energy each of his individual cells was able to hold had drastically increased!

These changes happened slowly over two weeks, each circulation marvelously benefiting him.

*Bzzzz!~*

Davis smoothly entered the High-Level Martial Overlord Stage, strengthening his Body Tempering Cultivation.

His circulation slowed even more. However, that was because he started to comprehend the essence of Chaos.

But just a few minutes after Davis had reached the High-Level Martial Overlord Stage, his body adapting to chaotic energy giving him optimal insights into Chaos Laws as he learned its essence by experiencing it with his body, he abruptly opened his eyes and stopped comprehending.

He quickly stored the Chaos Essence Orb, exited the Nine-Treasured Immortal Ordeal Palace, and shot outside his chamber, arriving outside the Mortal Hex Emperor Purple Palace as he gazed above.

The skies had changed colors, appearing blotted out like it was a cold, dark night.

However, Davis knew that it was the same scenery that shook him to his very core.

The Vacuous Beasts were descending again.

But still, the Vacuous Beasts began to move sideways like last time, flying into the horizons, but as he squinted his eyes and watched some Vacuous Beasts slowly become bigger, his eyes shot wide as he waved his hand and bellowed.

"Quick, raise the defenses! All powerhouses of the Alstreim Family, move out and defend your positions until your life runs out!"

*Bzzzzzz!~*

Savage immortal undulations shook the world as hundreds of Vacuous Beasts somehow entered the Fifty-Two Territories from above, descending into every region they could place their eyes on!