Practice

Lucifer had went to sleep and when he woke up Berry was finally awake they had talked about the dungeon and got to know each other better. Lucifer had also completed his two daily quests and then they both went to there rooms to practice. Lucifer was staring at the egg Yu gave him.

[advanced Demon doll beast egg]

[Strength :11]

[Dexterity :11]

[Endurance :10]

[Skills: sacrifice, scissor proficiency, copy]

[Companion form : Soul]

Lucifer thought it was good but no matter how much qi he used no marks were formed and no qi was used lucifer was stuck so he put the egg away and just practiced using space and blood elements and his qi control. Lucifer made some progress with a technique he had been practicing as he was completely focused on only practicing techniques and his cultivation art only stopping to eat and work out for exp, soon days turned to weeks. Lucifer had completely focused on training nothing else crossed his mind and while lucifer wasint one to brag if he want to do something he had an extreme level of focus to the point that he wouldn't even sleep. Weeks passed and lucifer had managed to make and almost perfect a new spacial technique and he could now slightly control blood outside of his body but only his own blood. Lucifer had also learned a lot about his cultivation art. Berry also hadn't slacked during this month and he was currently finishing his advancement to the high divine core real and with a newfound understanding of himself and his power he almost directly advanced to the martial core realm. It was easier for Berry because he only had one bloodline and was proficient with a lot of elements but not as many as lucifer. When he finished advancing he went downstairs and knocked on lucifers door.

Lucifer opened the door and said "Yo congrats on your advancement you wanna spar and see how strong you are"

"You read my mind let's go" Berry and lucifer both left and went to the Mountains near the outer sect they were away from any courtyards so they were just gonna go all out they had already agreed to fight at full strength but only with the strength of their body's no items or beast souls, and after the fight Berry could heal them both so there was no harm in going all out.

Berry and lucifer stood facing each other they were on the peaks of two hills with a bit of distance between each other. At the same time they both fully activated their bloodlines, Lucifer had been practicing staying in his bloodlines form and he could almost sleep in it. Lucifers wings were bigger and he had a couple more scales lucifers eyes were also wilder and his teeth were sharp like a wolf's, Berry eyes glowed green his arms and legs were covered in scales and a tail grew out. everything that touched him melted slightly and his presence was poisoning everything around him. lucifer glowed with a harsh demonic energy and the air around him distorted slightly and he used blood hardening. He activated wolf stalks buffs and entered the demon mark form, Lucifer and Berry's aruas collided and fought constantly even though they were standing still. There aruas made the normal outer sect deciples feel like two ancient beasts were fighting. Lucifer felt like he was in danger when Berry's hair started glowing green and white, he leaned his head back as Berry ran at lucifer and within a second slashed his claws at lucifers neck, lucifer barely dodged it and punched at berry but he just slithered around his arm and wrapped around it like he didn't have a single bone in his body. Lucifer started charging spacial rend on the arm Berry was wrapped around, the spacial energy cut Berry multiple times before he let go and shot back twords his hill. Lucifer and Berry were so focused that the entire world disappeared In their eyes only they existed they didn't even notice the crowd of outer sect disciples around them Berry jumped off of lucifer and wanted to land on the hill but lucifer used one of the new techniques he was working on and shot the spacial rend at Berry. It formed a black hole and sucked the grass and trees around them until it was about to devourer Berry.

But Berry punched at the black hole and a green python came out wrapping around the black hole and crushing it, Berry and lucifer were back to their original positions and in the blink of an eye they ran at each other and constantly dodged and tried to punch the other. If any of them made a single mistake they could be severely injured, the crowd around them started cheering and placing Bets on who they thought would win while others were speculating about why the two were fighting the craziest theory they came up with was the two of them were having a lovers coral or that they were fighting because they loved the same woman.

" Oh if I could get even one of them to love me I could die happily"

The contrast between the calm and God like Berry and the demonic devil like lucifer got the crowd very exited, word of the fight quickly spread and most of the outer sect was there even some of the inner sect was there but not a lot of people voted for lucifer because it was clear that he was geting dominated. In fact lucifer didn't have a chance to dodge or fight back he was getting pummeled but no blood had been shed because when he was injured the blood would go right back inside of him. After 10 minutes the fight had only gotten better and everyone was cheering like maniacs. Lucifers arm layer limp at his side and his other arms forearm with swollen badly, Berry and lucifer stepped back on to their original hills and stared at each other and when the crowd was wondering what was going on lucifer smiled at berry.

"can you stop acting like a clown and fight with your full strength"

"hahaha I guess I can't hide it from you" Berry then grew a whole foot taller and his arua greatly increased, clouds of green smoke circled around him and a sword made of poison formed In his hands. lucifer only had one arm he could use to effectively use a weapon so he made a replica of Fafnir's sword out of his qi then 4 hands made of qi came out of his back they were pointing at Berry through Lucifer's shoulders and by his hips it was like they were guns.

The crowd erupted into roars that could be hear from miles away they couldn't believe it the boys were holding back, Lucifer didn't get much stronger but berry got a lot stronger. Many elders and strong people apeared above the crowd when they heard the yell they were curious about what had the diciples so exited.

Lucifer charged at berry and swung his sword at berry's sword while the four hands made of qi charged spacial rend. Berry swung his sword at lucifer and when lucifer used ghost slash he realized that Berry hadn't committed to his strike when Lucifer's sword went through his he was ready he retracted his sword and in the blink of an eye spun and slashed at Lucifer's neck while he was mid slash. The elders were ready to stop it but the hands shoot out all four spacial rends and they formed a giant bullet. Berry slashed at the bullet instead of lucifer but the bullet went through the sword and hit berry's arm blowing up into a violent explosion Berry and lucifer both fell back and coughed out a bit of blood. When the smoke cleared they were both standing and even though Berry was very hurt Lucifer's condition was much worse both his arms were limp and one of his eyes were swollen shut. Some of the people who wanted lucifer to win were yelling that it was okay for lucifer to quit and that he had fought well but both lucifer and Berry couldn't hear them. Lucifer was smiling as purple smoke came out of his eyes, hands, and horns, the squeamish and weak-willed disciples almost threw up when they saw lucifers bones cracking and rearranging until his arms worked again. Lucifer's smile got a bit wider and his purple eyes started to bleed like he was crying blood. His newly healed body looked much stronger than before his hand eyes and horns were all much stronger his nails were also sharper and the purple skin was spreading as new marks were created until he had 100 total marks most of the marks were scales and the scales combined with the right hand to make the right arm. Lucifer looked up to the sky and let out a mighty roar a pillar of demonic qi shot out of him like a beacon. Berry healed himself and waited, it was an unspoken law to wait for your opponent to transform unless you wanted bad luck.

Lucifer lowered his head and the light disappeared he hadn't advanced but he was very close lucifers right arm was completely purple his nails were black and razor sharp. Just looking into lucifers eyes was enough to make some of the deciples piss themselves, Lucifer look at berry and disappeared. The crowd went wild as the fight resumed but most people still though berry would win, A tiny tear in the void apeared behind berry and he turned around kicking it, but lucifer wasn't their he was behind him with his fist swinging towards his back berry's tail struck the fist and Berry was forced to take a step back but he was still fine. He turned around and Berry and lucifer punched each other repeatedly there fists met and none of them retreated but eventually lucifers hands turned green. He was poisoned but tried to continue until Berry said "when you advance will be equal but you can't close the gap between us with a single arm" Berry then went back to normal as lucifers fists blew up as hard green spike came out of lucifers fists.

Berry took back his poison and lucifer went back to his base, Berry came over and healed lucifer and him. It was silent but then Berry and Lucifer looked around in shock they saw how messed up the hilt got but they also saw the huge crowd around them chanting there names Berry and lucifer looked at each other before they both nodded at each other and lucifer told Berry to hold his breath. Berry took a deep breath and lucifer picked him up which made the crowd think they might actually be lovers but lucifer just hopped into the void and ran too the courtyard and they both fell asleep.