Chapter 350: Destiny Template, True Will Manifestation (II)

As the screen darkened, Chen Chu looked at Bai Yunfeng with a questioning gaze, surprised that Kleide was related to a king.

"After King Akers contacted me, I asked Old Ling, but we don't know much..." Bai Yunfeng began to explain.

In short, it was a story of a rich girl—Kleide’s mother—being wooed by a delinquent.

Over twenty years ago, the massive war between the human race and the Purgatory Demon Clan erupted. As a king, Akers had significant responsibilities and was stationed in the mythical world almost constantly.

At that time, the war had just begun and had not yet affected the families of top-level experts, so Kleide's mother was still living in the Banan nation. However, due to special reasons, only a few people in Banan knew that she was the daughter of a king.

While Akers was focused on the mythical world and unable to spare any attention, Kleide's mother met and fell in love with the heir of a small martial arts academy who had gone to the capital for studies.

By the time Akers found out, his daughter was already living with Kleide's father and was even pregnant.

This made Akers furious. The heir had already been married before going to the capital, which Akers saw as a disgrace to his family. After all, he was a king-level expert, and his daughter, though lacking in cultivation talent, held a status akin to that of a princess in Banan.

Akers was enraged that the daughter he had carefully protected had been reduced to being a mistress, and even planned to kill the heir. However, he was stationed at the front lines and couldn't return. He forcefully ordered his daughter to break off the relationship and secretly arranged to have the man eliminated.

His daughter resisted strongly. She eloped with the heir back to his small town, even threatening to kill herself if Akers pursued the man.

This almost made Akers cough up blood in rage, and he severed ties with his daughter. Only a few high-ranking people in Banan knew about this.

Even the heir who took Kleide's mother didn't know she was the daughter of a king-level expert. He only knew she came from a scholarly family and was quite knowledgeable.

Later, the heir was killed in a martial arts competition, and Kleide's mother and son lived a difficult life on the streets, as she had never done any hard labor before.

Years passed, and after Akers's anger had mostly subsided, he learned that the heir had died. He personally returned to the blue planet to find the mother and son. It was unclear what happened next, but Akers never returned until after Kleide's mother died of illness.

"That's about it," Bai Yunfeng concluded.

"It seems King Akers had it pretty rough," Chen Chu remarked with a strange expression.

Yan Ruoyi nodded slightly. "Indeed, it’s quite tragic. I didn't expect his daughter to be so foolish, severing ties with her father for an ordinary man. That’s just greedy and dumb."

"Indeed." Chen Chu nodded.

If Akers had treated his daughter poorly, neglecting or abusing her, her actions might have been understandable.

From the looks of it, however, Akers had treated his daughter well. Under such circumstances, she still betrayed her family for a delinquent and became a mistress? Calling it a pursuit of love and freedom is generous; it was indeed more accurately extreme selfishness and stupidity.

This time, Akers's involvement was obviously to ensure Kleide's survival. Kleide probably didn't know that the person he was collaborating with was Akunus, but once he chose to challenge Chen Chu and got involved in this incident, he was marked.

No matter how talented he was, Chen Chu had planned to kill him. However, with Akers's intervention, Kleide's identity shifted from being a collaborator with the demon cult to being an informant cooperating with the Federation.

Severe injuries wouldn’t be a big issue for a king-level expert. Akers could also be thinking of using Chen Chu to teach his grandson a lesson.

However, Kleide's background was something else. Born into a king-level family, his mother had been a mistress, and he was an illegitimate child. His talent had initially been mediocre until his mother’s death triggered his explosive growth.

He fused with the genes of a high-level mutated beast, comprehended advanced Destructive Fist Will, and his realm improved rapidly, crossing a major realm in combat power. Now, he was caught up in the conflict between the Federation and the Blood God, with a king watching over him.

This was the template of a destined protagonist, a fact that left Chen Chu astonished.

That night, Chen Chu sat cross-legged in his room, looking at the attribute page. The Dragon Emperor Tyrant Body in the martial art section showed no changes, but his expression was calm.

The War God Body was similar to the Insightful Blade he had previously cultivated. Before reaching the realm of the Insightful Eye, the art couldn’t be recorded and thus couldn’t be enhanced.

To break through to the Seventh Heavenly Realm, a cultivator needed to reach the peak of the Sixth Realm with their true power and condense a complete runic phantom in the sea of consciousness, achieving a state of luminous true power.

This state required the cultivator to unify their essence, qi, and spirit, transforming their true power into light. Only by merging this light with the runic phantom could they condense the True Martial Phantom.

Without this fusion, the runic phantom would be merely a mass of willpower, not embodying the essence of the cultivator’s true martial art.

Therefore, for Chen Chu to use attribute points for enhancement, he needed to fully manifest the War God Body's shell in his sea of consciousness, allowing the attribute page to record the art and enable enhancement. He estimated that this would take about four to five days.

Condensing the runic phantom was different from the instantaneous manifestation of phantoms in the secret scripture space, as it required the gradual materialization of spiritual will.

The seventh stage's War God Body involved tens of thousands of runic chains, making the structure incredibly complex. A normal cultivator would take at least two to three years to condense it.

This complexity was why Pang Long, despite being a genius, had been stuck at the peak of the Sixth Heavenly Realm for years, until he had achieved unity of essence, qi, and spirit, and broke through by counterattacking a Seventh Realm Archbishop in Kyrola.

After reviewing the steps for cultivating the War God Body in his mind, Chen Chu focused his will. The Divine Might Dragon Emperor rune in the center of his dantian trembled and entered his sea of consciousness, colliding with the mutated Dragon Elephant Phantom.

Boom!

The collision caused the Dragon Elephant Phantom, condensed from spiritual will, to disperse. The dissipated willpower transformed into a silver cloud, which began to condense into form under Chen Chu’s direction.

Soon, a thirty-meter-tall transparent phantom emerged. It was purely an embodiment of willpower, and now it needed to be meticulously "painted" into existence.

As the phantom appeared, the Blade of Void rune, previously embedded in the Dragon Elephant Phantom's forehead, reappeared and imprinted itself on the forehead of the War God Body phantom, resembling a black eye shaped like a blade.

Chen Chu was momentarily stunned.

Why does this rune always prefer the forehead position?

However, the "eye" naturally fused with the Battle Body phantom. After sensing no conflicts, Chen Chu decided to ignore it.

After all, creating this secret scripture was like feeling his way across a river.

***

The next morning, Chen Chu slowly opened his eyes, a heavy oppressive aura spreading from him. As the runic phantom began to condense, the War God Body was already starting to affect him, though currently only on a spiritual level.

When Chen Chu arrived at the dining hall, Li Daoyi spat out his milk in surprise. “Whoa, Brother Chu, did you break through again?”

In Li Daoyi’s innate eye, Chen Chu, who already appeared like a ferocious draconic beast, was now surrounded by naturally gathering transcendent energy as he moved.

Chen Chu responded calmly, “I’ve already deduced the seventh stage of my secret scripture. I cultivated a bit last night and gained some insights.”

“...Monster.” Li Daoyi swallowed hard. Creating a top-level secret scripture in a month was more impressive even than being an Innate Awakener. Coupled with his insane cultivation speed…

Suddenly, Li Daoyi didn’t find chatting with beauties appealing anymore. While he was doing that, Chen Chu was diligently cultivating and improving rapidly, so much so that even Li Daoyi felt left behind.

No, I need to cultivate harder. If I fall too far behind this guy, it’ll be embarrassing. I am an Innate Awakener. I am Li Daoyi, the future heavenly king.

Determined, Li Daoyi began to eat his breakfast earnestly. Suddenly, his phone rang, signaling a new message. Without thinking, he opened it, and his eyes lit up.

Chen Chu had started to eat his own breakfast. He glanced at Li Daoyi's phone out of the corner of his eye, then calmly looked away from the scantily clad images, instead shifting his attention to the Thunder Fiery Emperor Beast.

Deep in the pitch-black sea, a colossal black-and-red beast stood upright. The flickering golden flames on its body illuminated hundreds of meters of the seabed with light and heat.

In the distance, a colossal beast over a hundred meters long stood on four legs. It resembled a dragon without wings, covered in spines and exuding the formidable aura of a peak level 8 creature.

However, this dragon beast was currently staring at the Thunder Beast with trepidation, as if facing a formidable enemy.

Looking back at the dragon, the Thunder Beast let out a deep roar. Roar! Although I guessed someone would come to scout, I didn’t expect to actually encounter one. Since you’re here, die.

Boom!

The ground shook, and blinding golden light exploded, boiling the water and creating waves of scorching shockwaves that swept thousands of meters.

Through the turbid, violent waters, the black-and-red colossal beast emerged, exuding an extremely ferocious aura as its right claw gripped the incomplete corpse of the dragon.

In the Thunder Beast’s presence, even level 8 mutated creatures were vulnerable.

𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

This beast’s dragon bloodline hadn’t made a difference. Under the Thunder Beast's swift and powerful attack, combined with the nuclear explosion of its golden flames, the dragon’s domain collapsed, and its head exploded.

The Thunder Beast was in a good mood as it slipped a level 8 Life Crystal into the sharkskin pouch on its neck.