Chapter 184: Middle-Comet's Passage Realm
100 years was enough for an entire lifetime to go by, but for those in the world of cultivation, such a period of time was not even enough for a nap.
With 100 years having passed since the Divine Retribution was sent down by the heavens on the Phoenix Conqueror, many, many things had changed within the double-leafed faction that used to be made up of two single-leafed factions.
And for those inside the Heaven Exploding Cave Abode and Fallen Immortal Mountain, nearly 750 years were forever gone from the timeline...
This resulted in countless improvements to the cultivations of every resident of said secluded area—an area still located within a corner of the massive Emonius Sect.
In 750+ years, Azmodeus\'s cultivation had long since achieved the Middle-Comet\'s Passage Realm. However, it didn\'t stop with just that, as the Late Comet\'s Passage Realm was right around the corner!
It would likely be no more than a few weeks until he achieved the Late Comet\'s Passage Realm—a breakthrough that would allow his illusory comet to appear even more prominent than before.
One might wonder how it took so long for the Monstrous Genius to reach such a stage, and the truth was that <1200 years to achieve the Late Comet\'s Passage Realm was considered something that only those with extreme Cultivation Talent could accomplish.
With his Cultivation Talent progressing into the Early Planet Forger Rank, it was only appropriate that his cultivation was at such a speed.
Furthermore, one must remember that Azmodeus had yet to enter the Starry Expanse, leaving him as one of the only ones inside the Astral Plane to have talent within the Planet Forger Rank!
This would normally not be possible unless one was lucky enough to be born with a high enough level Spiritual Root. But in his case, there was no limit to the degree to which his Cultivation Talent could be taken!
After all, the number of people he assimilated the Physique\'s of came out in the thousands per day, with hundreds of millions of Mirror Mirage\'s constantly on the lookout.
There was no telling where his cultivation talent would be by the time he left the Astral Plane. But by his calculations, it should take no more than 3 thousand years for his talent to achieve the Peak Planet Forger Rank.
And by that time, the whole Astral Plane should be under his heel, so everything lined up just as he envisioned it would.
But regardless of his continued advancements in cultivation talent, there were many other things that had tremendously improved over the last century.
For one, his Battle Power reached the Peak of the Half-Step Planet Forger Realm, and his Professions had all achieved the Early-Planet Forger Rank, allowing his ridiculous talent to once again rear its head!
He progressed his comprehensions in his professions to insane levels, all through the nonsensical methods of reverse engineering secret manuals that he found after scouring the Astral Plane and Boundless Void for innumerable years. Additionally, he had also improved his ability to research and create new concepts!
Through this ceaseless action, a few Moonlit Path Realm books on Alchemy and Formations were found. And with the unrelentless comprehensions of a certain Peak Moonlit Path Realm manual called \'The Secret of the Golden Flower\', Azmodeus learned what was necessary for one to achieve the precipice of the boundary between the Moonlit Path and Planet Forger Rank.
It was with this extremely vague information about potential routes one could take in their constant progression of Alchemy that Azmodeus broke through the bottleneck that prevented him from reaching the Early-Planet Forger Rank!
Furthermore, with the applications of reverse engineering and applicable infusion, he was able to utilize his knowledge of the Planet Forger Alchemy Master Profession in order to take the leap with his other six professions as well!
In a way, this made him the only person in the Astral Plane to be of the Planet Forger Rank in 7 different professions!
Even so, there was no way in hell that Azmodeus would be content with the miniscule progress that he\'s made so far. And with the advancement of his professions, he decided to put even more effort into everything he could think of, all while splitting the workload among all his clones and Mirror Mirages.
In the end, it wasn\'t only his main body working at 100% efficiency, as every single version of himself put themselves in a state of non-stop progress. They surpassed even Jue Mei, the alien cat, in terms of speed and effort put in.
There was no end to the insatiable thirst for more power and knowledge when it concerned the one who all people of the Heaven Exploding Sect referred to as the \'Crimson Emperor\', one bathed in blood wherever he traversed.
Nobody questioned his decisions, and no one had the gall to go against his words—words that might as well have been divine ordanes when they came out of his mouth.
He was ruling as an absolute tyrant, one who cared not for social status or even the hierarchy, as the only thing that had been on his mind for the past thousand years was the pursuit of benefits!
Besides the talkative girls who spoke of murder and yandere tendencies, the only thing that had ever been in his plans since the very beginning was none other than the benefits that could be obtained from anything that could be taken advantage of.
There was really nothing else in his goals…
He wanted more… More and more until there was nothing left to acquire…
It was with this mindset that he stood on a high reaching cliff that overlooked the whole world like there was nothing higher than him.
"..."
Azmodeus turned his cold, piercing gaze through the countless armored figures roaring at him from below the cliff, as this was the result of his efforts over the last thousand years.
HOOORAAAH!
The bellows of the Azura\'s, Vermillion\'s, and numerous other Platinum Rank figures reverberated with utmost fervor, as not a single one of them possessed a countenance that wasn\'t borderline insane.
WAAAA!
RUMBLE!
Their combined auras violently fluctuated, causing the deep valley they resided in to tremble and quake.
As they became lost in their own fervor, the expressionless man above deeply pondered a topic of note while appearing like nothing short of an aloof god among men.
After eradicating all the troublesome heroes of my sect, including the heroes who were after Jia Lei, only the Zealots are left.
And it is with this unquestionably faithful legion that the next step truly begins…
A step which will wipe the disgusting smirk off that Goddess of Sh*t watching an illusion of my territory from beyond the heavens.
She sits completely unaware that I\'ve already put a blindfold over her conceited gaze...
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