Poison God's Heritage

Chapter 761: Going Dark

The Dusking sun stood up from his seat, both hands behind his back as he approached me.

I was heaving and desperately taking in breath after breath from the exertion. Both of my arms were numb and had massive black and purple spots all over them from the bruising of merely parrying most of the Rakshasa's blows.

My hair reverted to its original color and so did my body as the half-gigantification had ended.

My body pumped up blood like never before as it tried to desperately heal up the bruising and mild damage all over my body and combat the fatigue from going into Titan Mode.

"Em, what was that?" the Dusking Sun asked.

For me, this was a childhood dream, for him, I must have looked like an idiot with a lot of power using them for the first time.

"I just wanted to let everything out," I said.

"I mean… I'm not saying that what you did was wrong," he said. "In fact… it was absurdly accurate to what I asked you to do, to let go and go into the flow. But you did it a little bit too… let's just say perfectly."

"You mean you don't think what I did was wrong?" I asked.

"Yes and no, the first thing is, you entered the flow of combatting a beast pretty rapidly and accepted your ferocious nature to a great extent, you never lost your sanity and always had a goal in mind, the only issue was, you wasted more than two-thirds of your Qi doing random stuff, what was that outpour of Qi you did at the start? What was the point of that?" he asked.

"Emm…" I scratched my head, I can't say that I wanted to become a Super Saiyan, that's just incredulous.

"I would suppose that you wanted to frighten your opponent with how much Qi you have as you displayed a good margin of it as expendable aura, which frankly could work against other sentient cultivators," he said.

"I see," I replied to him as I took in his words.

"But, that won't work against that," he said as he pointed at the now-standing and quite healthy-looking Silver Raksahsa.

I sighed, "I knew it wouldn't have worked, the cultivation difference is too huge. I usually make up for it by using poisons. To disturb and disable one's own Qi, it would instantly lower their body's physical resistance and allow me to take them out. But since this is training I can't do that…"

"Not only that part, it is higher level than you in cultivation, and it already knows the extent of your Qi. What you did by massively releasing your Qi was simply… foolish as it didn't understand why would an ant exhaust itself even further before it fought it, not like it would have ever won in the first place."

The Silver Rakshasa didn't approach us, I would suppose it was because the Dusking Sun was right next to me.

"I see," I replied.

"However," he interjected. "What was it, euh, like this?" he said as he took "The Stance" and immediately began exerting his own aura.

My eyes widened, if a Sun stage cultivator was to release his aura like I did, it would ruin the Lord of Lords pagoda.

But, that never happened, as although an incredible and massive jet of power was constantly outpouring out of the Dusking Sun, it didn't feel… tangible.

It was still frightening enough to make one think several times over then approach him, clearly displayed as the Silver Rakshasa jumped back and landed on all fours, it hissed and screeched low, as its tail was standing on end and the spikes on his entire body were vibrating and shaking from both fear and readiness to fight for its life.

"Oh, this feels rather nice," he said as he stood up, with the aura around him still vibrating and letting out not just visual display but also electric discharges and sound.

"How did you do that, I don't even see Qi being exerted," I asked.

"It is because I'm not letting my Qi out randomly, but burning my Qi to display the aura itself. Unlike what you did you simply opened the box that hosted your Qi and let it out, but I used it and ignited it. For someone so smart, you actually never thought of doing this," he said.

"Well, I never used heavenly Qi before using this body, so it's a first. And I think I understand too, but I'm too exhausted to do this right now. I'll need to go out and absorb more heavenly Qi before I can do this," I said.

"Why? Didn't you receive massive amounts of Saint Qi crystals from many of the suns?" the Dusking Sun said.

I almost facepalmed as I forgot about that.

"I honestly forgot that you can absorb Qi from crystals, as I only used crystals to power my machines, right, I'll go and cultivate for a bit to recover," I said.

"Good, once you're done, you'll need to release a couple more seals of the Silver Raksahsa, and then I'll guide you on how to properly fight it," he said.

"I appreciate the help, although I didn't do much to repay you for it," I said.

"You seem to have forgotten that you removed a parasite from inside my brain," the Dusking Sun said. "That is something I'm still repaying to this day, don't worry about it," he said.

I nodded to him and headed to another sealed room inside the white space where I dumped a massive pile of Saint Qi crystals and began absorbing them one by one.

***

While my main body was cultivating, I was still using half my focus on the puppet alongside the Blue Sun and To Yang.

The three of us approached the broken gate that the giant Noble Rakshasa had destroyed. It was in tatters and had no hope of being reconstructed. There were thankfully no Rakshasas nearby and from what we could see, the entire area was empty and void of life.

"You already went through this door, I suggest you go to the research area if you want knowledge about Soulsteel," Tao Yang said.

"And where is that?" I asked.

"Here, through this door," she said as she pointed at the smaller-sized door next to the broken main one.

We approached it and found it locked.

"I don't have my body with me, otherwise I would have used my soul energy to open it, it will take a long time to break this down," she said.

I noticed the small keyhole where the administrator had always used its tentacles to access all sorts of facilities in the Bastion.

Looking around, the small body of the Administrator was actually pinned under a pile of rubble.

"The Administrator, it should still be functional," I said.

I went toward the debris and pried up the wall-sized chunk of wreckage above the administrator's cube-like body.

A small red light appeared on top of its head before it took note and notice of us.

"New visitors?" he asked.

"No, same ones from before, only different bodies," I said.

"I see," the Administrator said.

"I suppose you still have some Soul Energy within you to function," I asked.

"I do, I was about to flush it out, in fear that the Rakshasa might consume it, but the pile of rocks fell on me and pinned me down, so I entered hibernation mode. But it seems that I was good fortune that didn't happen," he said.

"Indeed, it is, we're back with your Queen, she's hosting this body," I pointed at the Gunner puppet.

"What sad fate, that my Queen had lost her body and been turned to a puppet," the Administrator said.

"That didn't happen," I said, "She is hale and healthy, and is guiding us through the Bastion. Her body is safely guarded outside the bastion and she is very much alive," I said.

"Is that true?" the Administrator asked Tao Yang.

"Pretty much, as your commanding officer, first rank, Queen of Solarous, you're commanded to follow and guide us to where we require. Access code is…"

I couldn't hear it as she started speaking in a very strange and random way, her tone and way of speech was… well, cryptic is all I can say.

"Orders received, and hierarchy has been established. Please follow me," the Administrator said.

It then approached the locked door and used one of its tentacle limbs to access it.

Once the limb entered the keyhole the door, simply folded on itself and disappeared opening a long path for us to move through.

"Please remain on guard," the Administrator asked.

"Why?" I asked.

"Because Rakshasa might still be inside this area of the Bastion."

"Wasn't it locked?" I asked.

"It is only locked from here; the Bastion had already lost too much energy to keep up every facility functional. As for this area, although the entrance is sealed, it has several breaches alongside it, and some Rakshasa could be inside it."

Well, if it had a breach we could have entered from the breaches, but I guess it wouldn't be smart since we'll have to enter through the main door and halls where we had to fight thousands of Rakshasas the last time.

I simply followed the administrator as he moved and made sure that I was looking right and left with my shield held firmly in front of me.

The tunnel itself was dark, but that didn't affect us, as I did have night and thermal vision installed on all the puppets just in case I had to use them to fight in the dark or against enemies that use stealth.

And so we walked in the dark.