Chapter 104 - CHAPTER 104 – BECOMING A TRANSCENDENT ENTITY (1)

Solanky quickly rushed into the safe zone and sat cross-legged to recuperate his lost energies, as using the finger of terror technique more than five times had taken a toll on his spiritual energy reserves, and escaping with all his might left him with 20% of his spiritual energies. He sat down; using his spiritual sense, he noticed that every being in the safe zone was looking at him in shock as they all saw the miserable half-step peak-turn malevolent spirit, who struck terror in their hearts and minds, reduced to such a state. The mysterious woman, knowing the strength of this malevolent being, was greatly shocked because she had clashed with it before, and as a special life form, she was at a disadvantage, and she knew her spiritual body was slightly more powerful than Solanky's. This meant in terms of techniques, Solanky was much more terrifying than her; the transcendent seniors in the spiritual space were the most shocked, as they never thought a junior would be able to kill several powerful transcendent spirits and seriously injure a half-step peak-turn spirit. They marked him to befriend him the moment they were out of the golden statue's spiritual space, and there is no doubt that he could become a transcendent entity. Within the spiritual bag, Solanky's consciousness descended in the form of the source-defying flames. He began to refine and absorb the essences of the transcendent spirits first before proceeding to break the energies within the halo. Activating his observational technique, he deduced the hidden secrets of the devouring heart's secret technique, which the desolate god himself had failed to grasp. Solanky also clearly understood that it was because of his connection with Supremo, which was why he was able to learn the technique. In between the eyebrows of Solanky's spiritual body, a black dot appeared, and on the left side of his chest were three black dots, indicating his completion in comprehending the devouring heart technique. Solanky ceased practicing the devouring heart technique and focused on the energies of the malevolent spirits rampaging within his spiritual body. He smiled and looked towards the darkness where the half-step peak-turns malevolent spirit stood. Solanky observed it very well and noticed that its energies were rapidly diminishing as it failed to use the halo. And now its life was in the hands of Solanky; the more time goes by, the weaker it becomes and the more irreversible its state becomes, even if it were to miraculously acquire its halo back. Solanky, looking at it, felt no form of remorse towards it, just a blank expression. Solanky sat down once more, formed seals with his hands, and several formations appeared directly beneath him; he summoned the spear spirit, which had its own spiritual world. Although this world was just a few light-years in diameter, it was enough for him to cultivate and break through his spiritual body's size and become a transcendent in the physical realm. The formation prevented other beings from entering, and only true peak-turns beings could enter. Solanky's body turned into a streak of light and entered the spear's world. Upon entry, Solanky sat cross-legged and closed his eyes and activated the devouring heart secret technique for the first time. The three dots on his chest began to rotate slowly, and the dot between his eyebrows began to expand slowly. The rampaging energies from the essences of the malevolent transcendent spirits all began to stabilize and move towards his eyebrow as they were sucked into that black dot. After a while, all the energies were sucked into the black dot between his eyebrows, leaving no traces behind. Solanky then formed seals again because the devouring heart secret technique had three levels: the first was the devouring move, in which the energies were sucked into the small dot, which acted like a black hole; the second level was the absorption move, whereby all the energies sucked in were converted into one's own and absorbed; the third level was reflection. The third level was suitable for reflecting enemies' energies and forces, and the moment the third move is activated, the entire body of the being is covered in tiny black spots. These black spots absorb the energies the moment they hit them and reflect them to whoever made that contact, regardless of the distance. After mastering the second level, Solanky tried to learn the third, but it was too difficult to master, as it needed the spiritual of a half-step peak-turn being with the physical body of at least a saint-venerable transcendent. Noticing his efforts yielded no fruit, he stopped and began absorbing the energies of the essences, which were now converted to his own. He finished absorbing the energies, and he could tell that his spiritual body had become much stronger, and its height was now eight trillion light-years tall. Although he was elated, he was a bit disappointed because his spiritual body was still inferior to the mysterious woman. Solanky now made a decisive call to absorb the halo from the half-step peak-turn malevolent spirit. He took out the halo from his spiritual bag and began to undo the spherical seals. After the last seal was undone, the halo radiated a majestic aura, and the energy was several times stronger than the time he snatched it away. This was an indication that the half-step peak-turn spirit was now in a sorry state outside the spear's world, and the halo had begun to forcibly absorb his remaining life essences as it failed to use them. Solanky activated the devouring technique to its fullest, and this time the black spots on his forehead began rotating at an incredibly fast pace, and the black dot between his eyebrows seemed to pop out and suspended before him with its size increased to seven times its original size. The halo shook violently as it tried to resist the suction on it, but it eventually stabilized as the suction on it became even greater and stronger, and with the separation by distinct spiritual worlds, it failed to detect the presence of the half-step peak-turn malevolent spirit. After several days inside the spear Solanky was able to suck 60% of the halo's energies. He stopped his absorption and stored the halo in his spiritual bag and began to absorb the energies for himself to reach the half-step peak-turn spiritual body and exit the spiritual world of the golden statue and go into seclusion to break his physical body's bottleneck and become a transcendent entity. Solanky now sat to slowly absorb the energies of the halo he had sucked in, formed seals with his hands, and noticed that the energies of the halo were taking longer than expected to convert into his own energies, and only 20% of it had been converted. And this 20% was equal to the energies of the transcendent spirits combined. Solanky was shocked because the energies he absorbed earlier were comparable to beings like the third venerable one of the forsaken realm, who was a powerful saint emperor transcendent entity, but this spirit surpassed him by a huge margin. This only meant the spirit wasn't your regular half-step peak-turn spirit but a special lifeform that was corrupted. Solanky began absorbing the energies and estimated that the remaining 80% left in the black dot would take at least two days to convert. After absorbing the energies available, Solanky sensed a terrifying, oppressive aura brush past his spiritual body, although he was safe in the spear's world, protected by formations inside the safe zone for a brief moment. The oppressive aura faded as soon as it came. Solanky then realized that he had just come into contact with the peak summits trials, but it receded as his physical form hadn't reached that level to challenge the peak summits. Solanky, still reeling from the shock and might of his peak summits, decided to check his spiritual body again to check it because of it the peak summits appeared. He was yet blown away again as his spiritual body was now twelve trillion light-years tall, making him much more powerful than the mysterious woman. Solanky knew that this was possible due to the fact that he is a source-defying lifeform different from other lifeforms and beings. With this spiritual body, he could battle it out with half-step peak-turn spirits who were mostly 10 trillion light-years tall. Solanky was elated, but he knew that he needed to shrink it to nine trillion light-years to avoid suspicion; with that size, other beings would be at a disadvantage and couldn't use their true power, but not Solanky. Being a source-defying lifeform, his abilities were unfathomable and his limits unknown. Awakening his source-defying spiritual body gradually, the normal constraints placed on beings didn't apply to him. He could adjust his height and appearance, an ability most beings lacked and had never heard of. Solanky came out of the spear's space and let down the formation and dashed into the darkness again to finish off the half-step peak-turn malevolent spirit once and for all. The other seedlings watching him were stunned because the moment he stepped out, the aura he radiated was equivalent to the mysterious woman's aura of power. The mysterious woman said to herself, "Who is this monster? And how could he improve this fast and survive the malevolent spirits' attack? Wait, could it be that he fought with it and triumphed over it and is now looking forward to absorbing it?" Solanky dropped from above like a falling meteorite. With the halo, he could directly pinpoint the exact location of the malevolent spirit. The malevolent spirit, which was now in a weakened state, stood no chance against Solanky now, as it now had 5% of its power left and was constantly depreciating in power, looked towards Solanky, and accepted its fate. With a single slap, it was instantly killed on the spot. After killing the spirit, he noticed that the conversion of the energies had risen to three times its original speed, and it would take less than a day to completely convert the energies. Solanky didn't linger much and exited the darkness to the safe zone to record his progress and exit the golden statue's spiritual space and get back into his physical form and break through to the transcendent entity level.