Cheat Cultivator's Ascension

"Sometimes, even I get scared of my own genius" Wu Xiaotian muttered remembering that one video clip in his past life, smiling as if he found the perfect expression for this moment.

Using his blade, he left a large conspicuous mark in one of the cave's walls, serving as some sort of marker for him to know whether he's going around in circle, and also so that he can retrace his tracks, before navigating the complex cavern system once more.

His everyday life continues just like that, traversing a death maze-like cavern, encountering numbers of wild beasts all being sent to oblivion by him, picking up all the valuables he ever come across with.

"It's really huge…" Wu Xiaotian was exploring around when a wall from a certain area of the cave starts to crumble, revealing a new path.

Bored by the fact that he seems to be just going around in circles, he decided to brave the area, confident in his strength especially when almost all that he come across with told him that all of the cultivators here were suppressed down to the Perfection State Core Formation Realm at most, yet he still walks with caution as he thought he could never be too safe especially when he's inside a celestial level cultivator's secret realm.

As he continues to tread the narrow path, he reaches a dome shaped space which is unexpectedly clean, unlike the other area where beasts' excretion and carcasses are littered all around. The open area, illuminated by glowing ores, is huge enough that even if he were to run his [Rend] in full power, there will still be enough space for him to play around without hitting the walls.

As he explores around, he found nothing noteworthy except for the other tunnel opposite to where he come from, this one far bigger as its height reaches over ten people, and its width enough for nine full grown men to walk shoulder to shoulder without difficulty.

This makes Wu Xiaotian so suspicious as the passage is too smooth and structure-like for it to be a naturally formed path.

Walking closer to the passage, his suspicions turned out to be true as numerous eyes glowed from the darkness of the path, their numbers reaching a terrifying amount that if any other people were to go here, they would definitely feel shiver down their spine as all of the hair in their body rise.

Wu Xiaotian however, just frown a bit before drawing his blade, imbuing his qi to it as he slashes, sending a wave of his Transcendent Qi covering the entire path, the Qi displaying eerie yet beautiful transformation as it completely devours everything in its trajectory, reshaping the passage into one that resembles a slash.

"That's too absurd really, that's why I try to avoid using techniques like this in public" he said as he stares at the carnage he just did.

"I wonder if there's anything I can do to imbue an attribute to my qi" Wu Xiaotian muttered as he remembers the description of the Primordial Nihility Transcendent Qi.

[Primordial Nihility Transcendent Qi]

[Energy that births the nihility, in which the chaos is situated. Able to devour every energy in existence and transform them into it, can also mimic the property of every energy in existence with elevated potency.]

[Replacing spirit qi, all spells cast by the user will multiply in potency by at least ten times, multiplier increases as understanding of Primordial Nihility Transcendent Qi improves, Qi absorption rate x 100, additional base stats for each breakthrough x 10.]

Seeing that even the system stated that he could transform the Transcendent Qi and imbue the nature of other Qi to it, he searched for techniques that could accomplish just that but unfortunately for him, there is only one technique that can achieve what he wants, and this same technique is something currently out of his reach.

[Universe Creation Nihility Art Volume 1]

[Using the energy of the universe to create primordial nihility the primordial nihility can also transform into the energy of the universe; the practitioners of this technique can refine pseudo-nihility energy from any other kind of energy and replace normal qi with it.

The effects of all spells cast by the practitioner will improve twice and reduce their consumption of energy by seventy-five percent.]

[Note: Shows its true potential when cultivated with Primordial Nihility Transcendent Qi]

[Purchase Requirement: Celestial Level]

[Price: 100 quintillion Universal Coins]

Seeing the information of the technique, not to mention the purchase requirement, his meager hundreds of thousands of Universal Coins won't even amount to a drop in the ocean when compared with this absurd numbers, and it doesn't even end with that, seeing that there's nine volumes of the cultivation manual, each one adding another two zeroes as the number of the volume increase.

Just looking at all the zeroes in the ninth volume's price makes him so dizzy.

Fortunately for him, he could settle for something more basic, however, far more affordable.

[Myriad Talent Compendium]

[A book of a collection of talent records, from innate physiques and blessed souls to even peculiar qi. Gives bits of information along some confirmed facts for each talent recorded. (Record of the Primordial Nihility Transcendent Qi found)]

[Price: 100,000 Universal Coins]

Seeing the price, Wu Xiaotian didn't even hesitate one bit before purchasing it, hoping that the information about the Primordial Nihility Transcendent Qi is something he can use to accomplish his little goal.

Once the compendium appears, he immediately heads to the page where the information about the Primordial Nihility Transcendent Qi is located.

Finding what he was searching for, he was quite surprised as there was quite a lot about the Transcendent Qi, as he starts to read it however, disappointment gradually filled his face as nearly all of the information was miscellaneous ones, people who previously possess said talent as well as their achievements and strength before either perishing or fading out of recognition.

It's not all negative though as he managed to find something that causes his hope to be ignited again. Written in the latter part of the documentation is a statement directly from one of the talent's previous possessors.

"Ultimately, I think that my talent is something that can be nurtured by a combination of comprehension and willpower, so long as you have enough of the latter, you can control the talent and make it transform to whatever you want"

Getting inspiration from the quote, he starts his training to imbue other properties to his qi. At first, he just imagines the form his qi wants to take, and this method makes the Transcendent Qi move and appear like the things he envisions, when he imagined fire, the qi will transform into a chaotic and lively form, when he imagined water, it transforms into a calm and accommodating one.

He also tried to transform it to other elements such as earth, metal, wood and wind, the Transcendent Qi completely imitating the element's physical form.

Wu Xiaotian however, despite being satisfied with this progress for a small amount of time, thinks that this is still not proper imbuing of property as he observes and realize that the transformation lacks essence, like how the fire transformation lacks the heat and burning sensation, the wood transformation lacking the feeling of life, this issue occurring to all the element he tries to simulate.

After a few hours of experimenting, he decided to stop for now as he stares towards the large path. Deciding to walk the passage he just ruined with his sword slash, he collects all of the luminous ores in the dome-shaped space then continue his exploration, his body gradually getting consumed by the darkness if not for the luminous ores surrounding him.

After walking for nearly an hour, he starts to get exhilarated as a sun-like yellowish light shone through the end of the passage. Starting to hasten his pace, he reached the end of the tunnel in record time, the warm sunlight greeting him as he enjoys the fresh breeze of wind.

He would've shout and express himself some more if not for the group of people looking at him, curious as they look at the man who just came out of the hill where 'that' came off. Pointing towards the large gash in the hill, one of the people asks Wu Xiaotian as they approached each other.

"Would you happen to know who did this?"