Pill doping
It had been a long time since he had used such pills and his cultivation base had already been strengthened more than necessary, so he did not hesitate to swallow more than fifty pills at once, these pills had concentrated a lot of mana from the surroundings and the array applied to them would purify the traces of the mana being possible to absorb with less side effects and lessening the work of purifying the energy itself.
Another function of this pill was the accumulation of energy that had been increased, if silver level cultivation pills could condense the mana of the environment into mist, Nicola's pills had formed several drops and some liquid.
[You have consumed a cultivation pill, you are closer to reaching the next level]
[You have consumed a cultivation pill, you are closer to reaching the next level]
[You have consumed a cultivation pill, you are closer to reaching the next level]
[You have consumed a cultivation pill, you are closer to reaching the next level]
[...]
[You have leveled up. Level 43]
[You have consumed a cultivation pill, you are closer to reaching the next level]
[You have consumed a cultivation pill, you are closer to reaching the next level]
[You have consumed a cultivation pill, you are closer to reaching the next level]
[You have consumed a cultivation pill, you are closer to reaching the next level]
[You have consumed a cultivation pill, you are closer to reaching the next level]
[You have consumed a cultivation pill, you are closer to reaching the next level]
[You have consumed a cultivation pill, you are closer to reaching the next level]
[...]
[You have leveled up. Level 44]
[You have consumed a cultivation pill, you are closer to reaching the next level]
[You have consumed a cultivation pill, you are closer to reaching the next level]
[You have consumed a cultivation pill, you are closer to reaching the next level]
[You have consumed a cultivation pill, you are closer to reaching the next level]
[You have consumed a cultivation pill, you are closer to reaching the next level]
[You have consumed a cultivation pill, you are closer to reaching the next level]
[You have consumed a cultivation pill, you are closer to reaching the next level]
[You have consumed a cultivation pill, you are closer to reaching the next level]
[You have consumed a cultivation pill, you are closer to reaching the next level]
[...]
[You have leveled up. Level 45]
All of this took a long time to describe, but it actually happened very quickly, the transmission between Nicola's mind and the AI happened in less than a millisecond and in less than a breath he swallowed all the pills at once, leveling up drastically.
His dantian's foundations were completely shaken, climbing three levels at once so fast with the help of pills would have been impossible and irresponsible if not completely calculated by him and the AI.
All the energy in the pills was in a very high degree of purity and would not present many problems when being accumulated inside the elemental core, part of the excess energy that leaked was directed to the Fire Heavenly Essence that grew until mature in one go.
It was still dangerous, so he activated the healing ability present in his kitsune bloodline at the same time he activated the sin of laziness and the sin of gluttony present in his soul and dantian, which made his body and soul absorb the surplus energy when it was about to explode and turn it into healing energy.
His body was covered in a scab of blood and dead skin that had come off his body, it all happened so fast he didn't have time to feel the pain, the fast thinking ability he had unlocked from his kitsune bloodline by reaching level 40 previously allowed him to act almost instinctively. He had no choice, increasing his strength quickly without the help of the bloodline booster must be done risky, and he was prepared to take risks.
But he didn't stop there, after leveling up three times, the rewards of previous achievements were calculated by the system and he listened to the announcement again.
[Amount of experience gained calculated successfully by entering cultivation experience in host]
[You have leveled up. Level 46]
[You have leveled up. Level 47]
[You have leveled up. Level 48]
The amount of levels achieved this time came as a surprise to Nicola, he hoped to get one level for free, or at most two, but three was a lot more than he could have expected. It was very short for him to reach the level of gold, this year he would be 34 years old and had already managed to reach such height, only the geniuses cultivated by the countries could match.
But the scientific knowledge of the previous life helped him a lot. Nicola had realized that his body had benefited so much from the continual process of repeated destruction and healing, he felt like a cicada breaking out of old skin, breaking the crust of blood and skin and rising, the time around him seemed to slow down. The AI were flying in slow motion.
It took a while to understand what was going on but he soon got his bearings, his soul had been improved tremendously and his body level hadn't adapted to it. A few minutes later he was able to return to normal. His sin of lust's ability to control his soul came in very handy at this point. It was a sin he didn't use much, but it proved to be quite effective in situations like this. Nicola left a mental note to constantly use this sin to train his soul.