The Inheritance Of The Supreme Immortals

Chapter 87: Chapter 87: Training, Creating An Army.

The rhino-shaped beast noticed Sam and approached him with a threatening gaze, as if sizing up a hunter.

Sam got into a stance, holding his sword pointed at the rhino monster, attempting to intimidate it into making the first move.

GROWL!

Confronted by the hunter, the rhino let out a rugged trumpet growl before charging towards him, its huge horned head lowering, intending to pierce the hunter to death.

"It's so fast, even though it has a huge build," Sam narrowed his eyes. The ground under his foot sank as he pushed his body forward.

In a couple of seconds, Sam flashed in front of the rhino and swung his Astral Ascendant sword in an arc.

The rhino, seeing the incoming attack, let out a growl before positioning its huge horn to block the sword.

When Sam's attack landed on its huge horn, he felt like he was hitting a wall. The vibrations from the collision sent shivers through his arm.

"Hmph," Sam grunted and pulled his sword. Just as he was about to attack again, something from the side came crashing onto him.

Sam noticed this attack, but it was too late for him to defend. He raised his sword in the direction of the incoming attack, attempting to block it to decrease its power.

In a blink of an eye, the rhino monster's tail, which looked a lot like the tail of a crocodile, covered with pointy thorns, came down, slapping Sam's body and sending him flying and crashing down a few dozen meters away.

Sam's body landed roughly on a faraway trunk of a tree that somehow withstood the collision. If it weren't for Sam having a powerful body, he would have been in bad shape.

Still, that attack just now broke the hand that was holding the sword, his shoulder was dislocated, his arm muscles were torn, and blood was flowing out like a fountain.

"I didn't expect it would use its tail to attack me like that. It seems I'm really inexperienced," Sam's arm healed in a few seconds, and his dislocated shoulder corrected itself rapidly.

He then activated his innate ability, Rumination Clarity. The ability granted him unrivaled aptitude for learning, comprehending, and innovating.

What is experience?

Learning something by doing it practically again and again.

With this ability, which could increase his aptitude for learning to unprecedented levels, active, he could gain experience much more quickly than anyone.

He stood up and launched at the rhino monster again, this time watching out for the attack of its sneaky tail.

Just like that, Sam fought with the dangerous monster back and forth. He was not trying to kill it; he was only trying to use it as a sparring partner.

The same could not be said for the monster, though. It was trying to kill him and eat him.

It felt like it had never seen a more delicious snack in its life, like it should eat him right now and prove to this arrogant kid just how much of a mistake it was to provoke it.

Every time it attacked him, Sam was able to defend, but not without taking heavy damage himself. It was only because the monster was physically stronger than him.

With the help of Rumination Clarity, his sword techniques improved rapidly. He was now taking less damage than before.

Realizing he had had enough with this one monster, he suddenly unleashed his full speed and disappeared from its eyes.

Sam flashed from place to place, using his sword to cut the huge body of the rhino monster ten times, then a hundred times.

He did it a thousand times until the rhino monster's body was covered with sword wounds.

The rhino would have defended itself if it weren't for its huge build that slowed it down and Sam being a supreme path cultivator who could battle beings with higher cultivation than him.

It could not catch him; it could only growl and struggle to get a hold of the person trying to kill it.

His figure flashed in front of its legs as he severed the tendons for all four of its legs, causing it to fall to the ground.

Sam then appeared in front of its head, floating in the air. He raised his hands, which were glowing with spiritual energy. "Hundred Mountain Palm."

The spiritual energy in the air became unstable, condensing into a huge palm manifesting in the air. It looked majestic and surreal, like the palm of an almighty god.

The rhino, sensing the threat, growled in uneasiness and fear brought by the hunter.

However, it couldn't move a muscle because its agility was compromised and tendons had been severed, making it harder to move.

GROWL! GROWL!

The growls of the beast continued to echo in the atmosphere, but no one came to help it. All its cries fell useless in Sam's ears.

"You shall be the first one to witness this move of mine." Sam did a pushing motion with his palm open, and the huge white palm created by his condensed spiritual energy moved slightly.

Then the palm rapidly gained momentum and fell on the rhino monster with full strength.

The air around the area became chaotic, surging back and forth due to the pure pressure given off by the Hundred Mountain Palm.

The Hundred Mountain Palm was much larger than the monster rhino, which in front of the palm looked like a cockroach about to be crushed.

Under the strength of the palm, the rhino was completely crushed into the ground with a terrifying power, as the monster rhino growled weakly until it went completely silent.

The Hundred Mountain Palm pushed through the ground until a huge crater of a palm formed on the grassy ground.

When the dust settled and the Hundred Mountain Palm disappeared, all that was left was the palm-shaped crater and a barely alive monster rhino whose eyes were slowly losing the last traces of life.

"You are one strong beast. Even after all that, you are still... barely alive," Sam looked at the monster rhino with interest. The monster rhino was in the Spirit Severing realm and could be useful if he could control it.

Then an idea popped into his head. "You will become my subordinate, and you will do as I say."

It was not a question or an offering; it was his declaration. "With you being the first, I will create my army of immortal undead beasts."

He touched its horn and then said, "Shadow extraction."

An eerie sound was heard as the now-dead monster's body started to emanate a strange black aura, which then condensed into a ball of soul energy. Inside it contained its soul.

Then the ball of soul energy shot out like a bullet and merged with Sam's body.

With his Soul Sanctum Imbibition Physique, which had the ability to store souls and use that soul's energy to increase the strength of the host's own soul.

Sam could feel his own soul strengthening and the soul of the monster inside him; he sensed the newly established connection with the monster's soul.

"I know it's scary to be alone, but don't you worry. I will get you an army of monsters to accompany you," Sam smiled before redirecting his gaze from the body of the rhino monster to a certain direction.

From that direction, he could feel the presence of several monsters, just as strong as the one he had just killed, if not stronger.

His gaze then went back to the dead body of the rhino monster. "Devour."

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A spiral of spiritual energy manifested from his palm, creating an intense suction force that rapidly pulled the rhino monster's body into it.

Sam could feel the rich spiritual energy from its dead body.

It was one of the purest forms of spiritual energy, rivaling the quality of his own spiritual energy, and he was a Supreme Path cultivator. "I can see why monsters are much stronger than their cultivator counterparts. They have the same quality of spiritual energy as me, and I'm a Supreme Path cultivator."

Sam closed his eyes and analyzed the spiritual energy revolving inside his Dantian. It easily merged with his body. "I guess this is because they have a high affinity with nature, which makes them so dangerous."

He stood there for a moment, watching his cultivation level increase from absorbing the spiritual energy from the dead body. "...but the quantity is nowhere near enough... I guess devouring one monster is not enough to increase my cultivation."

He then went towards the area where he found monsters of all kinds of shapes, resembling the animals he was familiar with on Earth.

Without restraint, he released his presence, which rose like a tsunami from his figure and covered the area with an oppressive aura, attracting the disdain and threatening looks of all sorts of monsters.

"Don't you worry; I'm your new master. I'm just going to... devour you. I promise it will be painless if you cooperate," Sam smiled, feeling their killing intent lashing out at his body.

In response, the beasts let out all sorts of hisses, roars, howls, and growls. They didn't know what he was saying, but they knew he was a threat, a hunter who was here to hunt.

They were beasts, mindless and ruthless.

They wouldn't let anyone tell them what to do; they wouldn't submit unless it was death that enslaved them.

They wouldn't go down without a fight to the death. They would deal with anyone, even if it were a supreme path cultivator.

Sam sighed, "So... you have chosen death."

Sam's figure rose from the ground as he floated before the dozens of different breeds of beasts, looking at him dangerously.

"I will give you a chance: kill me, save yourselves, or I kill you, and you become mine," Sam raised his sword, pointing it at the dozens of beasts with mild killing intent.

Seeing that the beasts didn't even take a step back due to his intimidation, he smiled in satisfaction. "I might as well try another one of my moves while I make you mine."

Suddenly, his entire presence changed. If earlier his presence was intense and hot, it now turned frosty and cold.

An icy aura began to emanate from his figure, freezing everything around him like a small blizzard. The air became denser. "This is a technique I created myself, and you will be the first ones to witness it."

Keeping away his Astral Ascendent sword, Sam's pale face got even paler. His crimson hair turned into a milky white, and his blue eyes turned bright red.

Behind him, a silhouette of a White Western dragon appeared as he activated his Frozen Abyssal Dragon bloodline to invoke his ice power.

Sam joined his hands together, concentrating some kind of energy from his body. "Absolute Zero."

The air around him went absolutely quiet before a surge of giant ice qi, blending with strong ice intent, emerged from his figure.

It condensed around his body like a cocoon, simultaneously making the air chilly, with ice shards forming in the air, making it harder for the beasts to breathe.

The cocoon around Sam condensed even further, becoming denser and denser until it looked like a nuclear power plant waiting to explode.

In a blink, the cocoon cracked like an explosion of ice qi. An icy white aura spread around him, with him being the center, freezing everything in its path like fragile crystal.

The monsters couldn't escape its power either. The ice qi enclosed the entire area in an ice cage, rapidly lowering the temperature to near absolute zero, instantly freezing and killing the dozens of monsters in a split second.

Sam opened his red eyes, then raised his palm against the frozen beasts. "Devour."

The strong suction, much more powerful than the previous one, manifested, pulling all the frozen beasts into it.

Once devouring the frozen beasts, Sam could feel his cultivation improve rapidly, advancing from the Lower-Stage Nascent Soul realm.

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Middle-Stage Nascent soul Realm.

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Upper-Stage Nascent Soul Realm.

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Peak-Stage Nascent Soul Realm.

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