Cultivating in Honkai!

It is fine to act cool and become Fu Hua's teacher.

The Dao of Enlightenment bases its consumption on the target's comprehensive realm. Fu Hua is the equivalent of Foundation Establishment Realm. My automatic spiritual qi recovery can still keep up with her usage.

I can sustain five Foundation Establishment cultivators and two Purple Mansion Realm cultivators at once. Only Seele, Bronya, me, and Kiana are the large spenders. The remaining quotas are enough to deploy to all the other kids. Even that has excess.

I am lucky it does not need my attention. I can do other things after granting others comprehension boost. That's how I am trapped in my thoughts right now.

Just then…

…

A disturbance occurred.

As expected.

Fu Hua's breakthrough to the Sword Nurturing Pagoda triggered something else.

Unconsciously, she began to draw honkai energy from the surroundings. Her newly-repaired [Eminence] state went right into work.

Her eyes remain shut. It is evident she is facing off her 'greatest doubts'.

The breakthrough to the Sword Nurturing Pagoda requires one to confront their biggest doubts. I did not have one. I got it easily.

The same could not be said for Fu Hua.

Although I am considered way older than Fu Hua, around a million years old, I had once 'escaped' IX's influence. That alone is enough to guarantee my mental state. Facing my doubts became extremely easy when compared to that massive influence that sought to spread meaninglessness.

Fu Hua's "biggest doubts" turned out to be her previously repressed emotions. That was how Senti was born.

All the "what ifs" in Fu Hua's life was embodied by her. It is very evident when her character is the exact opposite of Fu Hua. Instead of servitude, she sought changes with her own hands.

Senti is the antithesis of Fu Hua; the person she could have been had she been more proactive.

This time, Senti emerged in advance, and along with her came a new Herrscher Core.

It looks like she needs some help.

"Heaven and earth are ruthless, treating everyone as straw dogs.

The sage does not wish to be benevolent, thus they do the same.

The space between heaven and earth is akin to a bellows. It is emptied, yet it loses no power.

Thus the true meaning of Taixuan (lit. Great Emptiness) is not the lack thereof; but the freedom to choose…"

I did not mind her internal struggle. My words can be heard by her, that I am sure. My spiritual consciousness serves as a guarantee.

I spoke out the level higher than [Eminence]. The ten thousand or so techniques in my mind made my understanding deeper.

[True Form] is the purity of one's thoughts. Through pure thoughts, one can control not only the honkai, but also imaginary energy. It forms a complete stigma space. It uses the imaginary energy's higher-dimensional attribute to push up one's mind to a higher level.

I combined my stigma space with the Herrscher's Stigma Space and locked up that poisonous mental power inside.

Fu Hua can do the same with Senti.

After all, she is hesitating to truly rid herself of Senti. She is the reflection of her ugly yet ideal side.

Hum-!

A bell's chime resounded.

Seeing her changes, I am more than sure about her success.

The only thing left is to wait.

*****

The power of a Purple Mansion Realm is immense. Their spiritual consciousness alone is enough to encapsulate more than five cities combined.

Kiana did not slack off on her cultivation. Aside from her base realms, she studied other techniques.

Her main qi cultivation technique, [Taixuan True Spirit Sutra], gives a bonus when comprehending void-related techniques. Once its [Small Accomplishment] is reached, it opens up a new function:

Buy one get one free.

If she comprehends something to [Small Accomplishment], she receives an "opportunity" to comprehend another void-related technique to [Small Accomplishment]. It is similar to the "opportunity" granted by the [Cloud Seeking Steps]. Though, Kiana's is repeatable.

The most horrifying aspect of it lies in its [Great Accomplishment]. The "buy one get one" function was replaced with something far more absurd.

Depending on her comprehended techniques, she can instantly comprehend new void-related techniques to [Small Accomplishment] at least.

It just so happened that all of her techniques, save for [Cloud Seeking Steps], are void-related. Coupled with her Herrscher Core that lets her experience the powers of Golden Core Realm in advance, her progress is extremely fast.

All of her techniques masteries are on [Small Accomplishment]. This gave Kiana the confidence to roam the world.

Since half a year ago, she goes off to somewhere and helps resolve a minor honkai eruption. She did not distinguish between Schicksal and Anti-Entropy territories. The number of times she helped others reached hundreds, if not a thousand times.

Within Schicksal's side, she is known as the Unofficial S Rank Valkyrie.

Within Anti-Entropy's side, people call her Heaven's Grace.

Kiana's elusiveness remained… except for her practice time. With Shi Tian's presence, leisure time was added.

Unfortunately, that is bound to be disturbed today.

Zoom-!

Her figure reappeared right inside a room. The moment her spiritual consciousness caught Shi Tian guarding an unknown sleeping girl, her hard-fought skills came to play.

"Why is she here?"

He turned around and looked at Kiana.

"Do you still remember her?"

"Of course. I am not a gold fish." She proudly stated. "She's that girl with a flat chest. Look, that remains the same until now."

"..."

Shi Tian resigned himself to fate. Early Purple Mansion Realm of mental cultivation gave the Tuna great intellect.

"To answer your question, she helped me learn a technique. [Blade Mantra], the one I taught you."

"Ah?!"

Naturally, Kiana learned the [Blade Mantra] from Shi Tian's video. It wasn't that hard, considering she went with a shortcut. Her Herrscher Power allows her to command honkai energy with ease, and as such, does not require her to reach [Eminence] to unleash [Blade Eminence].

Her mistake, however, is not learning it in-depth. She missed out on strengthening her mental cultivation as a result.

When he gave her a knowing look, Kiana defended herself:

"I learned it already."

"Which level?"

"Eminence. I reached it in one go!"

"Your spear cultivation?"

"Still in the Spear Soaking Flower Pond. I am uber close to reaching the Dragon Spear realm!"

The sword and spear cultivation has similar realms. The Dragon Spear realm corresponds to the Thunder-like Sword realm.

Kiana was flaunting her achievements. What was supposed to be her interrogation turned into Shi Tian's interrogation instead.

"So? Why is she here?"

'She really grew several more brains…' He thought inwardly. 'But why is she interrogating me like this?'

Despite being somewhat confused, he answered honestly.

"I saw her roaming nearby. I taught her some techniques and she ended up unconscious."

"That's all?"

"That's all."

Kiana believed in him.

"What will you do next?"

"I will decide once she wakes up."

"Then, let's fight again. I will last longer this time!"

Shi Tian did not say no to the Tuna's suggestion.

Soon, he was dragged off for another daily spar…

*****

A/N: Apologies. Something suddenly came up in real life. The bonus chapter has to wait until tomorrow. As a compensation, I will consider giving a second bonus chapter once we reach 900 powerstones this week instead of 1,000 (500 for 1 bonus chap; 900 for 2 bonus chaps). This offer remains until we reach 900 powerstones in a certain week.