2- Chicken
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Carl then composed himself by taking a deep breath and sighing, as he began to ponder, 'It's strange how this body's former bearer was sought by everyone, despite not doing anything. He merely possessed devilish charms, so what's this nonsense about 'having devilish charms makes you a fiend cultivator?'
Sigh, the schemes of the heavens are just too much. Just to thwart this soul bearer with a nefarious devil bloodline—which I've merged into—and make his life as difficult as possible.'
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Fiend cultivators are cultivators who use the blood and flesh of others to get stronger—they differ from Carl in that they still follow heaven's way of cultivation, whereas he had to follow too many cultivation realms to become significantly stronger.
They have a huge drawback: it is difficult to manage one's emotions. Carl, on the other hand, has been through all of them, albeit he never had any drawbacks in his previous life.
Unbeknownst to him, his soul's devilish death qi gradually affected the structure of this body, which was one of the reasons his present body could maintain his soul's bloodline...
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His present body had short hair since he was still 12 years old, and he always trimmed it short because it bothered the previous bearer of the body being held by long hair. He also had red eyes, which was why they appeared to name him fiendish, for everyone with such eyes was a fiend cultivator, due to them cultivating using blood, their eyes turned red as well.
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He went through his memories and realized that the previous body holder died of starvation because he was constantly hunted and didn't have a place to go in case he wanted to feed or satisfy other mortal needs.
The blood he'd been on was the previous body's last attempt at avoiding dying for food, as it began sipping the blood of a pig he discovered on its way...
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After he had finished pondering, he began looking for a chicken nearby in order to obtain its feathers. He required a large number of them to etch inscriptions in the stones to begin the blood sacrifice array.
He eventually discovered one that was too big for a chicken but yet appeared to be in the mortal realm. He sighed helplessly, knowing that the heavens had recognized some sort of change, and that their best option to repress Carl was to make him give up his life...
Carl then thought about it for a while, coming up with a plan in his thoughts. A few minutes later, he began digging a few meters away from the chicken, creating a 6 meter deep and 2 meter wide contour. But as he went to go any deeper down, he discovered that there was metal that he couldn't dig through...
He frowned because it seemed too coincidental, so he stared at the sky with burning eyes until he stopped digging down and continued digging the soil that had been in between.
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Although his body was feeble, his soul was strong, which, unknown to him, was instinctively sustaining his body while drawing energy from around him. It was only in a special state when the souls of the previous and present bodies fused, and then the final soul resided in the body—the new Carl.
His body had enough strength to kill the chicken, but he had no idea since he was trying to stay as safe as possible in this dangerous world.
It was also unknown to the heavens that he cultivated in a way different from its own; while it was aware of people who cultivated on its way, it didn't pay much attention to Carl since it just suppressed him. But it didn't mean his heavenly tribulations wouldn't be more intense than others...
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He continued digging around the chicken, keeping 5 pillars of dirt in place to keep the upper layer from collapsing, since he didn't want it to notice him yet.
He then began to construct a trap, which consisted of a few stones and some of his blood in a circle, just beneath the chicken, and added a massive barrel capable of keeping the chicken's blood and meat, and eventually stopped.
Afterwards, he started digging above the chicken, which was difficult because the chicken was moving and not simply sitting in one position.
He started looking at it with his spiritual sense and eventually discovered the next area it was going to land on. He relocated everything he'd prepared beneath the location and then dug directly beneath it.
The chicken was taken aback since it had not expected to be killed today... But it had no option thanks to Carl's trap, so it fell as its blood was separated from its flesh. It then fell to the barrel, which was fully set up by the array.
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Carl's array used about 20% of his spiritual energy, but because his soul was as strong as an emperor realm cultivator—though he could only use it in situations like these—it would naturally have a drawback on him as his soul would be weakened for a while, absorbing the Qi from the air, which, unbeknownst to Carl, was slowly changing from Qi to devilish death qi.
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Carl eventually separated the feathers from the meat when the chicken fell into the barrel. He retained approximately 2% of the flesh to cook and consume, and the rest was left for him to begin absorbing in order to start cultivation.
As the chicken was stronger than his existing strength, his cultivation began to rise in the realms. The chicken was a peak mortal realm one, but he was just in the early stages of Devilish death qi condensation. He began to rise slowly yet gradually in cultivation...
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He found himself at the middle stage after finishing since the chicken had too much energy.
Since the devilish death qi condensation realm needed murdering 1,000 regular mortals who were barely early stage in power and eating their flesh and blood, it replaced 500 normal mortals after ingesting a peak level mortal chicken, proving its worth.
Carl sighed as he looked back at his strength, and then he took a nap...