33 - (Spoiler in title)

As Su Tao continued to cultivate, he never let his guard down. However, luckily, no one ever managed to find him after Li Lan and those from the Yin Moon Sect. After all, this forest was simply massive, and it was hard to find anyone in it even if the entire Su family was sent searching.

After twenty five days passed, Su Tao felt the black blood merge into his dantian and bottleneck even more, and he could now cultivate at the full speed of what his talent would allow: 2% per day.

Then, he spent the next twelve days cultivating with his fully utilized speed. He was extremely happy to be able to go this fast. He was as fast as Li Lan and the city master's daughter.

However, he was far more unique than them. His eyes and his heart were something he had never even heard of before. They were merely talented and had great potential, which was something that couldn't compare.

At the end of these twelve days, he had reached the same level as Li Lan when he met her. He was now at the limit of the third bronze star. If everything went according to plan, he would just need to cultivate for another half day to break through and develop inner energy.

He was extremely excited for this. Once he reached this height, he would have surpassed what he could ever have achieved before he got the eyes. In fact, he already had.

But he was surprised as he calculated the days. He just now realized that it was only four days till his birthday. (Yes it actually is)

In just one year, he had reached a height that he previously thought impossible to reach in his entire life. On top of that, he had killed people more powerful than he could have previously imagined killing.

He was not the same boy as a year ago. He was now ruthless, merciless. He had killed three people, helped one, and nearly killed four others, with all of them at a level he previously thought to be stronger than he would ever be.

His whole personality had changed. In no way was he the same as before. That innocent little boy was gone. Only now did he realize just how much everything had changed.

In the past, he never would have thought that things would turn out like this. But this only gave him more desire for strength. The universe had given him an opportunity to rise above those that he hated. It gave him a chance at revenge on the one who killed his sister, on the one who murdered his mother.

At this moment, a wave of determination passed through his eyes as he sat in this tree. Then, a constant flow of Qi appeared in front of him and floated into his body.

'This is it.' He thought to himself. 'This is the moment that I change my destiny from an ordinary one to an extraordinary one.'

By now, the barrier to the silver rank in his body was as thin as a sheet of paper, and it only took a small amount to tear it down once and for all. Half a day later, that barrier had its first hole, and Qi flowed through this hole into the dantian on the other side.

The moment the Qi entered into the dantian, it started changing. It changed into a blue inner energy. This change took a while, but it then started to spread through his whole body.

After a few minutes, the barrier to the silver rank finally completely dissolved, and the bottleneck got absorbed into the dantian. Any Qi that entered into the dantian from now on would be gradually converted into a blue inner energy that flowed like water.

On the surface of Su Tao's body, across his entire body, thin lines of blue started to appear, quickly expanding and shifting around. Very soon, his entire body was covered in a thin barrier of a watery inner energy.

He was surprised, but his shock quickly faded and was replaced by curiosity. He had used a resource that was only supposed to be used for those at the silver rank while at the bronze rank, and this was the very first resource that he used while cultivating. Everything was built off that, meaning that Su Tao's inner energy had a very good base because it was of high quality.

He figured that this was the reason he could use the barrier across his entire body, but it did not occur to him that it was actually because of the precision he had gained as a side benefit of the eyes.

He was now officially at the one star silver rank, and he felt a complicated mix of emotions.

But at this moment, the black blood once again started to merge into his dantian again.

'Hm? It's merging again? I thought that it wouldn't increase my potential anymore.' He thought to himself.

His potential was once again increased by the black blood, but it was not very useful to have a better potential at this point since he had already reached the limits of his talent in terms of cultivation speed, so potential meant nothing until later from now on.

However, he would not dare to complain about getting more potential. He was just confused is all.

However, he was then baffled by what happened next.

The black blood then started to interact with the watery inner energy within his body, and then, a small spark formed.

The spark then expanded, turning into a little bolt of electricity in his dantian that looked like a small electric bolt.

Su Tao was completely baffled. He did not think that anything further would happen after he broke through, but his black heart had given him a surprise this time. It seemed like it automatically made lightning inner energy even though he didn't even have any resources of that type.

He couldn't make sense of this. But then, he thought that maybe it had something to do with the fact that the black heart originally came from his two eyes, and the premise of the abomination was that it was both wicked and holy, good and bad.

It then made sense to him that he wouldn't have the power of water but not the power of lightning since that would be out of balance.

However, it looked like he would need to strengthen this power of lightning before he could use it at all.

He couldn't help but wonder if it would automatically make the opposite power, because the opposite of water was lightning, but he quickly discarded this thought since it was ridiculous.

(Opposite of water is lightning, opposite of fire is ice)

He then figured that it was probably because the black blood was made with the two powers of his eyes that it also made some lightning inner energy.

But he had never heard of someone having two separate types of inner energy, but he was sure that this was not unique to him. After all, if people could combine elements, why couldn't they have two separate elements?

Once he saw this, he figured that it was likely that something like this wouldn't happen again, but he was still happy nonetheless. If he could have two separate elements, this would increase his strength again as well as his survivability.

But the power of lightning within his dantian was currently extremely weak. It was not even very pure either. It was clearly only created due to the black blood and the power of his eyes. As such, he needed to strengthen it.

He would do this the same way that people at the silver rank would. He would summon Qi from the environment and direct it to this lightning inner energy in order to replenish it and make its amount, purity, and strength increase.

Now that he was at the silver rank, his sensitivity towards aura and Qi also increased. He figured that he would now be able to sense the aura of someone at the high tier one star silver rank, and probably even the peak tier one star silver rank.

He then sensed the Qi in the environment, summoning a small stream of Qi that went into his body.

Along with the sensitivity towards the aura of Qi, anyone at the silver rank would be able to summon more Qi after they broke through, allowing them to somewhat catch up to the increased difficulty of breaking through to the next rank.

As he directed this Qi through his body, he noticed something peculiar. He felt as if his control over it had increased. It was not as simple as the control that came with breaking through. However, he just ignored this for now and directed the Qi into his dantian.

At first, the Qi did nothing in his dantian, but the moment it touched the spark, the spark started to slowly grow. Many times more Qi went into the inner energy than the amount of inner energy it produced. Otherwise, people would just recover their inner energy endlessly.

After another hour or so, the spark of lightning had grown to be the same size and amount as the watery inner energy, but its purity was many times lower and it was much weaker.

Su Tao then just cultivated and filled his dantian entirely with inner energy before deciding to focus on the purity of the lightning inner energy.

After all, he only had a small portion of the dantian actually filled after breaking through, and he needed to fill the dantian completely to be considered at his peak state.

A couple hours later, his dantian was completely full of inner energy, and if one were to look at it, they would see that it was half blue and half yellow, which was extremely weird.

On top of that, the color of the usually white dantian was completely black at this moment.

Seeing as he was finally at his peak state for the first time, Su Tao decided to check out what the dimension of his eyes looked like and if there were any changes to it.

Title: Effect of the black blood, Silver rank at last