The lord of life and death

Rain is not wearing any armor, he is wearing his sleeping clothes. He plans to sleep in the weight room. He is fighting in close combat with a corpse for which the corpse's claw is injured in many places. He is four small realms lower than the corpse, so he has to be careful about his energy.

His main focus in every world is the vitality rule, so death energy cannot remain in his body without the three methods. Rain attacks the corpse with his two hands covered by fire energy. His left-hand remains covered with fire energy, whereas his right hand's fire energy is replaced by vitality energy.

After landing some hit with his right palm on the corpse, whenever his right palm lands on the corpse, it flinches back and where his attack lands the place starts melting for a few seconds. Rain sees after the melting stops after a few seconds chunks of flesh disappear and in some areas, bones can be seen,

 His right hand, with vitality energy, causes more damage against the corpse than his left arm, with fire energy. After he starts attacking with vitality energy, his speed of energy consumption slows down. But still, he does not stop using fire energy because death energy is equally effective against vitality; it depends on the rules in the energy. The energy containing more rules gains the upper hand.

Whereas the death rule is not effective against the fire rule. The injury he caused by the vitality rule heals back but the burn spots by fire rule remain. As the fight goes on, the soul chip figures out the attack moves of the corpse, he now from the corpse's claw attack can create a low-level claw technique. If he comprehends death energy, the claw technique may become superior claw technique.

Even though he did not figure out the claw technique of the corpse, his palm skill is higher than the corpse, he will gain the upper hand against the corpse after some time. But now he figures out the corpse claw attack, the corpse is unable to land any attack on Rain. While Rain can land all his attacks on the corpse.

Now, if nothing changes, Rain will be the final winner of the fight. After half an hour, Rain's right palm enters the chest of the corpse and pulls out the black heart. The corpse falls on its back on the ground. Rain stares at the black heart of the corpse, brimming with energy and trying to infect him.

Rain with his energy built a cage around the heart and walked toward the seal. He reaches the seal and starts to examine it for damage. And find 70% of runes are damaged, if he had been late for a minute, the seal would have been broken. 

Rain walks to his fence and stares at the city burning, he can hear screams of people from the center of the city. He can also feel the energy fluctuation of fighting happening in the center of the city. Rain stares at the city for a few seconds and turns around to check the damage to his house and finds his kitchen, living room, and bedroom on the second floor are destroyed.

The weight room, study room, and guest rooms remain intact, he is thankful that the entire house is not damaged, and he has a place to rest. He then walks inside his house and enters the weight room. And walk toward two corpses and take their hearts out from their body. He put the three hearts outside the door of the room, he did not want them destroyed by the weight inside the room.

He then picks up the two corpses takes them outside his house and throws them on top of the middle realm black corpse and then fire surges from his palm onto the corpses. After 5 minutes nothing remains except black ashes. Rain took one last look at the city below and then went inside his house. He picked up the three hearts and sat inside the weight room.

And then he eats the three hearts one by one. He cancels the neutralized rune and the familiar feeling of weight settles upon which makes his head touch the floor. But now his attention is not outside his body but inside as dead energy razes inside his body.

Rain mobilizes his energy to fight against the dead energy, he surrounds the dead energy with his energy and starts refining the dead energy. His goal is not to mix his energy with dead energy which is anyway impossible. His energy is already mixed with vitality rules and he did this to comprehend the vitality rules.

His understanding of vitality does not kill me and makes me stronger. The opposite of the vitality rule is the dead rule. So, with full concentration, he fights the dead rule. After some time, he hears people talking and the sound of their footsteps and hears one footstep coming near him and stops, he raises his head to see Elder Meng outside his room. 

Rain spoke with difficulty because of the three hundred kg weight on him," Elder Meng."

Elder Meng," I see you are practicing, so I will not disturb you."

" I will remain outside repairing the seal. After your practice finish come and fine me."

Rain nods and waits for Elder Meng to walk away and then goes to his practice. Inside his body only a wisp of dead energy remain, so he quickly refine the dead energy with his energy. He can sense it because of the fight which took place inside his stomach. The stomach is damaged with the wall of the stomach is rotten.

But Rain did not heal his stomach but took an energy pill and put it inside his mouth and before the pill reached his stomach, he started to refine the pill. And his energy starts recovering, as his energy is fully recovered and the pill is completely refined. Rain takes another energy pill and his energy which reaches the limit of the 2nd realm grandmaster surpasses the limit.

True energy is a mixture of his body energy and soul energy. Surpassing the limit and advancing to the third grandmaster realm made him receive the same feedback when he advanced to the second realm grandmaster. Without his intervention, he notices his stomach healing and his body and soul strength to a small degree.

Rain also feels the pressure of 300 kg become less and he is able to sit cross-leg and mediate. After a few minutes, he crawls to leave the room. Outside, Rain finds the morning sun has risen and around his house is crawling with people. They also notice Rain and one of them dressed better than the rest starts walking toward Rain.

Rain by the clothes, tools and their talking to each other figures out they are people who do construction work. He guessed Elder Meng may have called for them, he is thankful, he would have gone to the city to call for them. And coming toward him is the person in charge of these construction workers.

Rain watches, the man reaching him, bows deeply at him, and speaks," Morning Grandmaster. We are sent by the city to repair your house."

Rain nods, "Morning and thank you."

The Man," Grandmaster, Do you want to change any layout of your house or the same as before."

Rain thought for some moment to answer, "Same as before." It does not matter to him, he will not stay in the city after the secret realm exploration. He then points to the weight room without a door," Built a metal door for this room, and do not enter the room." 

The Man nods," Then have a good day grandmaster." again bowing at him and returning to his group. Rain again enters the weight room and deactivates the weight formation. After doing this Rain walks toward the mine seal, where he sees Elder Meng with three other men working to repair the seal.

Rain remains silent and watches them repair the seal. He was also feeling the changes in his true energy, he found true energy was further condensed and his body and soul strength increased by 6% and the improvement did not stop as true energy ran inside the body.

Rain feels his understanding of Vitality's rules- 'That does not kill you makes you stronger' is appropriate without consuming the three corpses' hearts it would taken two months to advance to the third realm grandmaster. The true energy of his body with vitality rule did not increase by refining the three black hearts but evolved which opened the gate to advance to the third realm of grandmaster.

Which gave him another way to advance his realm, other than by refining his body to increase his energy. He can now evolve his true energy. 

"After the exploration of the secret realm, my next stop CrystalSteel mountain range up north." He thinks. With the life-threatening cold, he can evolve his vitality energy. In there some monsters and resources further help me increase my strength, to quickly advance to the peak grandmaster realm.

Rain sees Elder Meng stop and step back while the rest of the three men keep on working. Elder Meng then turned around and looked at Rain up and down," Under 20 years Grandmaster warriors are rare, and now by your speed before 20, I think you will able to advance to the 7th realm or late grandmaster realm."

 Rain only smiles," Thanks for the praise, Elder. I am only lucky." Elder Meng doesn't know he is not practicing alone behind him there are other two Rain.

Elder Meng," This cannot be called lucky. You are talented. I shared your information with my sect and learned there is a warrior named Ji Xuan now he is the great elder of the Heavenly Crane Sect used to be a warrior and without anything transformed his body into a spirit body. With your talent, you will surely be able to transform your body."

" Our Sect does not accept warriors but if I mention your situation, the sect may agree for you to join us."

Before Rain can speak it is not needed. Elder Meng continued, " Yun Ting, do not say no. With the sect's help, you will faster reach peak grandmaster than practicing alone."

Rain nods and thinks joining Tyrant Blade Gate can help him investigate Yunxin's situation and protect his family and him when he investigates who tried to kill him when he took over Yun Ting's body. " Elder Meng do not mention it now. I am going to CrystalSteel Mountain Range after the secret realm exploration and stay there for some years. How about when I return then I will decide to join your sect. Then maybe I reach peak grandmaster realm or transform my body into spirit body, then it will be easier to join your sect."

Elder Meng nods," Ok then. Now let's talk about the night attack. I was not able to help you because of two peak refining energy strengths one corpse monster and one cultivator from Earth Devil palace attack. I with the help of the formation around my house defended against them." 

Looks at Rain with an apologetic look," Sorry, I was unable to help you."

Rain understood and he was able to handle the situation," Does not matter only two beginning and one middle realm black corpse monster attack me."

Elder Meng," From the energy residue of the battle I figure out, you killed a middle realm black corpse."

" After becoming an immortal cultivator, you can choose the physical repairer, you are in the third realm of the grandmaster but your body reaches the sixth realm of the grandmaster."

Rain nods.

Elder Meng continued," You helped the city protect the seal, so the city decided to reward you." Rain watched as he took out 10 green color gems and handed them to him. Rain can feel the gems as if are alive.

Elder Meng, "Your body strength reaches the 6th realm of grandmaster, with sufficient resources you will able to quickly reach the same realm as your body. These gems are called life gems, absorbing the energy within them you can quickly advance to the 4th realm higher."

Hearing this, a smile spread on Rain's face before the competition he will able to advance to the 4th realm of grandmaster." Thank you."

Elder Meng continues," I felt fire rule residue, you may have fully comprehended a fire rune." A glass bottle appears in his palm and inside the bottle Rain sees a green color flame. " Along with vitality rule, you have started to comprehend fire rule. So, I have decided to reward you with this low-level spiritual fire- vital flame."

This time Rain did not take when Elder Meng signaled him to take the vital flame," The gems are sufficient elder, you do not have to personally give me."

But Elder Meng caught his right hand, which he was not able to dodge, and in his palm put the bottle," Think as an investment on you for me. And do not join other sects."

Rain can feel the rule fire and vitality from the flame. With its help, he can merge the vitality rule with his fire rule. So he nods after a few seconds and puts them inside his space bag.