Nascent Soul

Pain that had long surpassed the pain he felt when the squid had squirted the acid on his body had been plaquing Saber for hours, and the pain assaulting Saber only increased even more. Such pain may have been able to seriously affect Saber, but it could not affect the fusion of Saber and his ultimate goal to increase his strength.

He had already begun refining his Sage energy to make it his own, by the time he came out of this tower nine months from now, he wanted to be in a realm of power that would allow him to easily enter the Inner Sect of the Sword Art Sect.

Some may wonder what the people of the Sword Art Sect would think if Saber disappears from his house for nine months but, Saber knew that once he made it in time for the annual Inner Sect competition, no one would even realize his disappearance!

That's just how the Sword Art Sect was...No one truly cared about one another! Anyway, appeared inside of a Golden Core that had a tinge of darkish-blue energy that Saber felt he could easily control however he wanted.

It was a piece of energy that unlike the rest of Sage energy, could exit his body and even be sent as an attack toward his opponent. Unlike the golden Sage energy that he has to infuse into other stuff, this one was a lot more flexible and even slightly more powerful!

Saber began refining the energy, but the speed at which he refined was incredibly slow compared to his standards. Days passed and he was able to only refine 1/100 of the energy contained inside of his Soul.

The pain he felt from the Nine-tailed Fox bloodline increased throughout but he could handle it for now. What he realized was that the more he refined energy in the pool of golden blood, the faster the pace at which he refined it.

At first, it had taken him 15days to refine 1/100 of the energy contained in his soul, but as the bloodline of the Nine-tailed Fox began settling into his body, the pace at which he refined his Sage energy began steadily increasing.

By the time one month had passed, Saber's speed had increased dramatically. In the same 15 days after absorbing the one tail fox bloodline, Saber was able to refine another 2/100 of the energy inside of his Golden Core.

As of now, Saber had refined 4/100 of the energy inside of his Golden Core and made it his own. Slowly, his Soul was being raised to a higher level, and along with that, his body was being immersed in the blood of the Nine tails.

The pain he felt was incredible, but his determination in wanting to increase his strength did not waver yet, Saber was still taking the pain that would come from the fusion of the Nine-tailed fox bloodline too lightly!

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(Six Months, Three Weeks Later)

"Hohohohoho, I did not expect Saber to be able to forge his own Sage energy while simultaneously being under so much pain!" The weird and downright frightening laughter of the mysterious person responded as he gazed toward the Heavenly Lightning Tribulation that formed inside of the space over the tower he spent quite a few Cycles creating.

"But, even after passing the Heavenly Lightning Tribulation, you still are looking down on the pain you'll feel when your bloodline is fusing with the eight and especially ninth tail!" His voice again resounded in the space, his mere casual movements causing cracks to form in the surrounding space.

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(Inside Saber's Mind Domain)

A figure who seemed to be extremely similar to Saber but with darkish blue skin was currently being rained down by many bolts of purple bolts of lightning.

Every attack from the bolts of lightning seemingly raised the aura of the figure who sat in a meditative position on top of a golden platform that spanned ten meters and had nine golden pillars around the edges.

But, suddenly the bolts of purple lightning abruptly stopped raining down on the figure as he seemed to let out a sigh. Soon after, he weakly got up and began walking around the platform in circles.

'I had only faced two rounds of lightning bolts since my Golden Core had protected me for the previous seven. This caused the quality of my Nascent Soul to reach a level that even I did not know was possible.

The speed I which I break through realms would have been unreal, well only if I did not also need to refine Sage energy not only use for Sage cultivation but also body cultivation.' Saber thought while staring at the skies of his mind domain.

Now, there were not just those stars, a black hole, and all the other glowing lights, but there was also a massive page the size of the burning stars that floated in front of them.

'Master said this was previously in the mind domain of Adrianna, but since I am now his disciple, then it disappeared from her mind domain and entered mine.

All I need to do, I follow the workings of that scripture to gain a second chance at life. Not only that, apparently I'll eventually be a true undying being after fully comprehending it!' Saber thought with excitement.

He knew that in this world...No, he knew that in all the worlds in existence, death was something that plagued every being. Yet, right in front of him, was a scripture that would eventually make him truly undying.

'Anyway, now that I am a Nascent Soul and my energy has undergone massive transformations, it is time to refine this platform and the pillars and make it my own to control. This is the only way to enter the Mid-Level Nascent Soul realm according to master.'

Saber thought. Even though he knew from his memories how to enter the Nascent Soul realm, none of the memories that he absorbed were of people who were already in the Nascent Soul realm, so he needed to rely on his new master's teachings.

Getting that out the way, Saber at in a lotus position as he was about to get ready and begin the refinement of his platform and the pillars but...

Grrrr!!

Just as he was about to begin, an intense pain instantly attacked his very soul!

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(Outside The Tower)

"Hmm, it seems that the process is beginning. This is the reason why Adrianna couldn't reach the seventh tail! A pain that reaches to one's very soul isn't something a normal person can ever hope to simply ignore!"

He said as his interest in Saber's next decision peaked. He wanted to know if Saber would absorb all of the Nine tails bloodlines, or if he would give up due to the immense pain.

It was truly interesting to him since the combination of his own race's bloodline and Saber's original bloodline could warrant an unexpected mutation that'll be super useful in the future!

Though he couldn't fully peer into Saber's future nor could he see his origins, he had a fair idea of what it was, and if he was correct...then Saber needed to increase his current strength extremely quickly since his future would be filled with struggle.

'The people of your race are ruthless and coldhearted even to their kind. I wonder, my 678th disciple, can you survive?' The mysterious person thought with slight expectation.