[ 2000 WORDS - Not edited yet so ignore mistakes for now
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Teleportation stones.
A relatively exclusive commodity, even in the High-rank stars of the Divine Realm; wealthy cultivators from well-established families being examples of those who would be able to procure such an item that its cost could provide luxury for an average family for at least a few months.
This cost was not exaggerated though because teleportation stones required precious divine material and precise skills to make.
Coupled with their function which allowed for extraordinarily fast travel between two places no matter how far apart, with the ability to set specific coordinates, it was a reasonably high price.
Such a useful item, Yuji couldn't bear to waste it, so before he used the one Gu Xuan provided, he used 2 tails of his remaining origin energy to make 10 more of them and stored them away in his inner world storage chambers.
He was barely concerned about using up origin energy for that because his body is constantly devouring and refining more profound energy from the air into origin energy as such, there were no qualms within him whatsoever, more so since the teleportation stone was useful to get out of sticky situations.
~~ EARTH
Trees filled the dense forest wherever the eye could see and the bird song resounded through it as a gentle wind brushed against the leaves of the forest plantation.
High up in the clear blue sky, all of a sudden a black hole appeared which anyone knowledgeable enough would recognise as the spatial passage made by the teleportation stone.
Soon after its appearance, Yuji flew out and directly laid his eyes on the familiar woodlands of the earth which paled in comparison to the world before, however, it could still be considered beautiful nonetheless.
Hovering over the somewhat dense forest, Yuji took in a breath of the air and couldn't help but let out a wry smile. 'I can smell the polluted air and low-quality profound energy even in a forest where energy should be rich...the fact that it will only get worse as I get closer to the cities says a lot about how careless normal humans have been with the only place they can call home.'
He thought to himself within moments of arriving as he compared the air quality and energy to that of the world he was just from which was essentially another earth, but with profound beasts and much less damage done to it by external forces.
Yuji promptly brushed his dissatisfaction about the world aside and with a tinge of excitement in his tone, mentally said to Cliona. 'Your potential first sister is somewhere in this forest.'
You heard right, Yuji considered 'her' and all other girls that Ye Chen should originally get in this world as 'potential' wives, by no means was he doubtlessly taking them.
He was a whole different person from Ye Chen after all.
Based on that alone, it was a fact that he would take a different path from him, nevertheless, it wouldn't be without its resemblances.
As he said so, contrasting to Yuji who was a tad bit anxious, Cliona was ecstatic at the news.
Now, one should understand that Cliona is by no means normal, so unlike a normal woman, she has no qualms about him finding a new sister for her despite him recently proposing.
They had a long life ahead of them to spend time as a proper couple and now that she had her unquestionable status as a wife, she was perfectly content.
And in fact, she was welcoming this because she has already hogged him to herself for long enough and despite it being filled with a few low points; whenever she got the chance, she was with him doing something, be it training, making love, or simply resting or doing something leisurely, so she, much like Yuna, had thoroughly enjoyed her alone time with him which wasn't something the coming others would get in such a capacity...for now.
Most importantly, over the past 20 months, she has been having an increasingly hard time accompanying Yuji in bed whenever he desired because his lust was ever-growing along with his strength and their connection.
To the point where even her who eclipsed her past self in skill - unless she received the full potential of her body - was quite regrettably struggling to keep up with him, so she needed all the help she could get.
'Really!? Hahaha Yuji, you finally found us a sister!'
Yuji smiled faintly and shook his head at her excitement then he focused on flying around as he spread his divine sense 5 miles around himself, searching for her anxiously as he worried that he might be too late. [ 2 ]
After a few minutes of flying, at the edge of his divine sense towards the east of him, he sensed a pulse of a beast's profound energy which is abnormal considering this is but a normal forest.
Worried that 'she' might be near that area, Yuji increased his speed as a resolute and cold look flashed in his eyes.
*Whoosh*
His speed made thin trees bend to the will of the gust of wind he created as he shot towards the beast direction and within close to 2 minutes of full speed flying, he made it.
Somewhere in the latter part of his short burst flight, he had noticed with his divine sense that 'she' was nowhere in the immediate area of the beast so his worry temporarily dissipated, but since he was already so close, he decided to quench the curiosity that had formed and what he saw surprised him slightly.
It was an unconscious white tiger cub surrounded by 8 hungry silver wolves, though, it could barely be called white anymore because its fur was stained in its blood.
Normally, he wouldn't bother about something like this even if it was strange, but Yuji couldn't brush off the nagging feeling that the cub in front of him wasn't a normal profound beast. [ 3 ]
The aura it was unconsciously giving of, although pitifully weak, wasn't like the other profound beasts he met, and there was another aura lingering on it, one similar but far stronger, so he felt there must be something special about it.
Fully intending on getting to the bottom of this to probably gain some kind of benefit, Yuji brought out an unsheathed, pitch-black katana from his mystical tattoo; it was his soul weapon.
It was all black, including the rectangular guard, the exception being the bit of red in the wrapping of the handle.
Beginning along the collar, runic symbols stretched down along the blade to its tip. Within the carvings of the runes, a faint, but nonetheless, ominous, cold, and sharp aura oozed out as they glimmered with a pale red light seemingly excited to have been called upon by its master.
The katana had been formed from his soul and part of Cliona's as well; it was the physical manifestation into a weapon of a piece of both their souls merged to one and created due to their strong and ever-growing connection, so in a sense, it could be called their child. [ 1 ]
It's no wonder it was excited to be called upon.
Within the same moment that he summoned it, to not waste any more time Yuji disappeared from his spot in the sky and reappeared at the bottom and within moments skilfully sliced through all of the wolves.
Like a hot knife cutting through butter, the black blade effortlessly cut through the flesh and bones of the wolves, and at the moment that the blade was within their bodies, it devoured their blood; leaving shrivelled up halves of each wolf in its wake.
As it did so, the runes lit up to a noticeable and mysteriously mesmerizing, yet frightening red glow as the blade vibrated slightly and a barely noticeable sharpness was added to its edge, and a nearly meaningless weight added to itself.
The blade strengthened itself through drinking the blood of its victims, whether it be man or beast, it had no problem with drinking the blood of any kind, however, it did have one specific blood preference, one which is considered a delicacy above all else.
Anyway, so far, out of its near 1 000 000 victims, none had ever eluded its blade and it had become quite the fearsome weapon thanks to so much blood.
Having swiftly killed all the wolves, Yuji moved over to the white tiger cub painted in its blood.
He kneeled next to it and used his light element to heal it up. Because of his high strength and since the cub was no larger than a cat, within a dozen seconds his light element had healed it back to full health and it began to wake up.
Feeling a wonderfully relaxing sensation fill its small body, hugely contrasting the intense pain it had been experiencing ever since it ran away as it was told to, the cub let out a cute growl and it opened its eyes.
However, as soon as it laid eyes on Yuji, shock, anger, and terror-filled its small heart as it jumped back and in a futile attempt to growl menacingly, it simply let out a cute one.
But that's beside the point; it recognised Yuji, well to be exact, it recognised that he was a human cultivator and unwanted memories from merely a few hours ago began resurfacing and it started trembling.
It would never mistake a human cultivator, not after what they did, but this one seemed...different from the ones it knew.
He was smiling gently and hadn't attacked like the others.
At the same time, noticing how anxious and wary the cub became of him, Yuji made a small domain of light that covered him and it.
His light domain provides all the effects you would expect; healing, emotion soothing, morale boost, and others. As such, being in the domain quickly alleviated all the worries of the cub and noticing this, Yuji stretched out his hand which was covered in his light element.
Now that it was calm and had recognized that the human in front of it wasn't like the ones it had met, it slowly approached him, still rather cautious in case it took a turn for the worse.
As it arrived near him, it raised one of its paws into his stretched out hand, surprising Yuji as he thought to himself. 'It's that smart?'
After all, normal beasts were all bloodthirsty and even if he used such a domain on them, at best they retreated, but never took the initiative to make contact, especially not with a handshake.
This only solidified his will to take the cub with him as it could prove to bring much better things for him in future, so assuming it held basic understand, he asked. "Would you like to come with me? I can teach you to be strong so you don't lose anymore."
Hearing what he said, at first, the cub was reluctant, however, as it felt his light work its magic and saw the gentle but serious look in his eyes, her worries washed aways and a determined light shone in her golden predatory eyes.
Yuji saw the look of determination in the cub golden eyes and smiled at it as he said. "I see you've decided."
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[ 1 ] [ The Katana is different from the weapon Lucien gets from Lust in the original, it's stronger. Think of it more along the lines of a Zanpakuto. ]
[ 2 ] [ Since his observation haki merged with spirit sense I can't exactly call them either so I'll just call it divine sense because I can't call it spirit observation or observation spirit; sounds weird. ]
[ 3 ] [ I forgot what beasts were called in the original, so just go with it. Even with the energy, I'll just be calling it profound energy because the author of the original confuses me with the different names that he uses; sometimes he uses Qi, and other times deep energy. ]