The Immortal God Cultivator
Beginning of the Second Selection

A vast space is like an infinite universe, it is the space of every person who has reached the stage of Sustainability to practice under their consciousness, the subconscious. Inside the room there is the soul of the owner, as well as Adrine.

Now Adrine was using her subconscious to absorb a soul from a spirit beast of the demonic beast given by little Shin, the Darkness Lightning Demon. Previously Adrine had never done soul extraction through his subconscious, it was because the soul had not opened the Meridian Point. Since there is no resistance of the soul under consciousness, the previous absorption of the soul is done mentally and attacks consciousness, not under consciousness.

Adrine had tried desperately to be able to absorb the Darkness Lightning Demon's soul, the demon beast also opened up the power of the three red lightning. Adrine had been overwhelmed against him, but Adrine strengthened the Purgatory Demon's soul with her mental energy and now Adrine was superior compared to the Darkness Lightning Demon.

But this one demon animal also has intelligence like a demon animal possessed by Adrine, he pulled out a spear, his artifact. The spear was named the Lightning Spectrum Resurrection Spear. Like the hooves and horns of the Darkness Lightning Demon, the Lightning Resurrection Spear Spectrum followed the color of the lightning used by the demonic beast.

Adrine was pushed constantly by the Darkness Lightning Demon, yet he did not use the Purgatory Demon's next fire ability at all to avoid draining his mental energy.

The clash between the power of Adrine and the Darkness Lightning Demon grew bigger and bigger as no one was willing to budge, Adrine continued to try to absorb the soul of the demon beast bit by bit. The ever-expanding power clash made the effects of the Energy Prison Pill weaken, as well as its duration which also became reduced.

Little Shin realized that the ability of the Energy Prison Pill had decreased and had to be dealt with immediately, because it could make Adrine's energy explode and spread everywhere so that it could be known by others, as it could make Adrine's energy explode and spread everywhere, especially if it is known by the seniors.

'I have to activate the magic protector around here so that the explosion can be damped.' Thought little Shin.

Then little Shin put up a magic protector big enough and layered to anticipate bad things that might happen.

The Darkness Lightning Demon still continued to strengthen itself even though his soul had weakened, Adrine himself had also absorbed almost half of the demon beast soul in his opponent.

"Haha, now I can defeat you easily."

After which, Adrine directly attacked back and the Darkness Lightning Demon still continued to defend with his ability.

Adrine continued to utilize every circumstance to absorb the Darkness Lightning Demon's soul even more to the whole. Every time it attacked, every time there was an explosion, every time it clashed with each other's strength, Adrine continued to try to absorb the Darkness Lightning Demon's soul little by little even though it continued to be broken, but the longer the animals absorption more smoothly because the demon animal began to weaken. The breaking of absorption is also not as fast as before, now Adrine's chance is much greater.

'His ability is now weakened, maybe that's why he can't unlock the next one because he doesn't have enough power anymore.' Thought Adrine.

Adrine himself had already absorbed more than two-thirds of the Darkness Lightning Demon's soul, he felt that some of the great power had managed to penetrate into him even though it wasn't as a whole.

Since its absorption was already more than two-thirds, Adrine wanted to use the ability.

'Ah yes, I also have a new technique, how about I try it now?' Thought Adrine.

Then Adrine canceled his merging with the Purgatory Demon soul, but he resurrected it with his entire body. He also awakened the Darkness Lightning Demon's soul which was still not refined.

The body of the Darkness Lightning Demon that Adrine had brought up was still lacking on her horn and left hand, but other than that everything had been resolved. Adrine tried to absorb the Darkness Lightning Demon's soul in his opponent in order to perfect even more of the soul he had.

After absorbing for a while, his absorption was nullified due to the resistance of the Darkness Lightning Demon, meanwhile the soul held by Adrine had grown a little of his left hand and slowly his horn appeared, but on the left horn only, not the right.

The Darkness Lightning Demon that Adrine was fighting against looked like it had no more resistance because it seemed to have no energy, but Adrine did not attack him because he wanted to try a technique that he created.

Adrine is doing something to both souls that are in his grasp and now the two seem to be fusing. The energy in the two souls is like synchronizing.

"Soul Fusion!!"

When Adrine says "Soul Fusion," the two souls at the front merge according to the commandment spoken by Adrine. They form 1 new body which becomes different.

The body is black with the left hand shaped by an orange flame, the horn is still not perfect also in shape and perfected with the same fire. A pair of eyes formed by fire with a layer of fierce lightning, the right hand that was tattooed with fire and coated with lightning. It had fiery hair blazing fiercely and the soles of its feet were fully formed by pure lightning.

"Now, Combine Soul!!"

Adrine incorporated her created soul into her body and formed something new again, as in her soul body, Adrine had horns formed by fire and her eyes were also covered by lightning. His right hand was covered by lightning with fire tattoos all over his right arm, instead with his left hand tattooed by lightning and coated by orange flames.

Adrine removed his Ashura Black Fire Sword, yet he did not deactivate his soul eye.

"Let's use the next power, Blue Lightning Fire!!"

Then the lightning and fire that was all over Adrine's body became blue in accordance with his strength, but he felt that his strength was too great and needed a lot of energy again in order to maintain its form.

'Damn, again I have to use my mental energy.' Thought Adrine.

Then Adrine expended a lot of mental energy and her strength also increased rapidly. He could also maintain his form very easily and long-lasting, but little Shin became extremely troublesome as Adrine's strength became soaring with great significance. The changes to Adrine's real body were also the same as those in her subconscious, little Shin was already aware of that, but she preferred to take care of Adrine's increasing energy, instead, but it didn't work out until now either.

"If he can transform to this extent, isn't it now also successful? Why not yet?"

Shin complained in annoyance and thought that Adrine was playing tricks on him by expending considerable energy.

Adrine himself also did not want to waste time and now he attacked the Darkness Lightning Demon so fiercely and instantly made it significantly weak in a single strike.

Then Adrine absorbed the spirit animal's soul without any resistance at all and went very smoothly.

The absorption of his soul had succeeded and Adrine obtained the Darkness Lightning Demon's soul as a whole.

"Great power is within our grasp, now it remains to strengthen ourselves."

After that, Adrine came out of his subconscious and he was instantly aware. But when he opened his eyes, there were seniors around him who seemed to have sensed Adrine's existence.

Even though they were around Adrine, they seemed to not see Adrine in front of them at all.

'What is this? Are they aware of my existence?' Thought Adrine.

Adrine is confused and worried about her current situation, she no longer knows what to do. But the center of Adrine's mind is the seniors like completely unaware of Adrine's existence there, which makes him confused.

The seniors also look confused about something that is not understood by Adrine, in addition to not knowing the existence of Adrine, they also seem to be looking for something.

"Be quiet, Adrine, you can make them know where you are."

Suddenly little Shin appeared beside him, he was guarding Adrine to keep the seniors unknown.

Adrine kept silent and on guard, her body invisible and undetectable.

After that, the seniors turned around and left Adrine, they found no one, but Adrine was there.

Adrine could breathe a sigh of relief because the seniors had already left, despite not knowing what strength could protect her from the views of those seniors and what attracted those seniors here.

Little Shin immediately did a magic trick after the seniors left, Adrine did not know and did not want to know what was done by little Shin, only he was curious about the seniors earlier.

"If you ask why they're here, they're detecting your power, if you ask why you can't be seen in front of them, it's because I did it earlier."

Not even Adrine asked, but little Shin had answered her. Adrine knew that the little spirit could know her heart just by looking.

"You managed to raise your cultivation class to make the effects of the Energy Prison Pill instantly disappear instantly."

After hearing little Shin's words, Adrine looked at his hands and felt the energy present within his body.

"It looks like I'll have to break through, but isn't it..."

"Yes, you do have to break through to the level-2 Sustainability stage. The Darkness Lightning Demon's soul absorption made a reinforcement on your soul and affected your physical strength as well as cultivation."

Adrine smiled happily at it.

No need to listen to the explanation from little Shin anymore, Adrine immediately left her place and immediately returned to make a breakthrough.

"Hey hey, where are you going?"

Adrine did not turn her head at all when called by little Shin, she kept running very fast regardless of anything. Little Shin shook his head and flew after Adrine back to her house.

A few minutes later, Adrine and little Shin had reached home. Adrine immediately sat down cross-legged and cultivated.

"Tu... Wait a minute..."

Little Shin no longer had time to say anything to Adrine, the person he was talking to was already cultivating to break through.

"It's up to him, too, and now I'm gonna wait a month or so to say it."

Then little Shin went to make another pill from utilizing the resources present in the place. While Adrine is very focused on making breakthroughs so that he can get stronger.

AFTER A FEW WEEKS HAVE PASSED

Adrine managed to make a breakthrough in a short time, now he has reached the achievement of the initial level-2 Sustainability stage and gained a strong power as well, namely the soul of a demon animal called the Darkness Lightning Demon. Adrine named him Bolt Demon.

5 weeks had passed, little Shin had also returned and had also completed tens or even hundreds of pills.

Little Shin immediately approached Adrine because he wanted to say something that he had not been able to say to Adrine.

"Oh yes Adrine, the moment I give you the Darkness Lightning Demon's soul, I also want to give various Sky rank 5 spirit beast souls to you."

Adrine shook her head.

"Just accepting the Darkness Lightning Demon's soul alone means a lot to me, I know you need some Sky rank 5 spirit beast soul to strengthen your soul to break through to the Creation stage, I know you need some Sky rank 5 spirit beast soul to strengthen your soul to break through to the Creation stage, wear those souls!"

Although Adrine sincerely rejected Shin's gift and gave good reason for his refusal, little Shin still insisted on giving the hard-earned soul to Adrine. He continuously forced Adrine to accept it.

"OK, okay, okay, I'll take it, but I only received the 5 strongest souls and the rest I gave you."

Just like before when little Shin forced Adrine not to let go of USC, Adrine must have done something so that little Shin could calm down and not get too excited, that is by doing a small Shin request which adds all the remaining points.

After that, little Shin took out the 5 most powerful souls in his opinion. Those five souls were the souls of the Shadow Serpent, Blue Wind Lion, Lightning Cheetah, Silver-Furred Tarantula, and Lightning Eye Phanter.

Adrine received the five souls granting little Shin and asked the Energy Prison Pill to safely perform the absorption. He injected 2 pills and as a result his energy circulation was slightly obstructed due to injecting more than one Energy Prison Pill. Although it can be handled easily, but it can be troublesome when in the process of absorption later.

Adrine did the absorption in his residence, it was quite risky, so he had to take another risk by injecting 2 Energy Prison Pills.

In a shorter time compared to when performing the Bolt Demon's soul absorption, Adrine managed to complete his completion quite smoothly and did not provoke the other seniors and disciples.

Then Adrine absorbed the other four souls and immediately sped up the process, he continued injecting the Energy Prison Pill when it would absorb the next soul.

Just by doing soul absorption alone, Adrine's cultivation again increased as before.

"Well, looks like someone's been cheating on me..."

Little Shin insinuated Adrine for increasing her cultivation by performing soul absorption alone.

"Who committed the fraud? Absorbing a soul also requires strength, this affects my cultivation as well, so it is only natural that my cultivation goes up. That's why I only went up to 1 class."

Adrine was not even happy, instead he complained just because he rose to 1 cultivation class and no more than that and now the achievement of Adrine cultivation is a level-2 Sustainability stage of the middle class.

"Yes maybe it depends on your luck as well, at least you should be grateful that your cultivation has gone up."

Adrine still let out a flat face with a cold and sour aura of annoyance, added the heated little Shin. Little Shin himself smiled instead looking at Adrine's annoyed facial expression.

Then Adrine diverted himself from it and returned to take care of the soul he had just received.

After Adrine finished receiving his five souls, he took out his 3 souls, namely the Purgatory Demon, Blood Demon, and Bolt Demon, and he also took out the three souls that little Shin gave him, namely the Shadow Snake, The Silver-haired Tarantula, and the Blue Wind Lion.

The three little Shin granting souls seemed to melt and his soul fused with Adrine's 3 souls, the Shadow Snake fused with the Blood Demon, the Silver Feathered Tarantula fused with the Bolt Demon, the Silver Feathered Tarantula, and the Blue Wind Lion fused with the Purgatory Demon.

The Purgatory Demon, Blood Demon, and Bolt Demon had been strengthened by the three spirit beast souls that little Shin had given earlier and the rest were kept by Adrine. The Lightning Cheetah is named Sarsala and the Lightning Eye Phanter is named Shuan.

What was once the highest power in the list of Adrine troops was the Purgatory Demon, now its position had been shifted by the Bolt Demon whose strength was slightly stronger compared to the Purgatory Demon. But Adrine did not distinguish his strength at all and still saw the same between his troops.

After that, Adrine headed to where the selection was carried out. He along with Etern, Pino, and Vania walked towards there. Hundreds of other candidates were also walking towards his selection. They all walked with the sound of warnings appearing on each of their respective residences. The selection building is not far from where the candidates live and just stay to climb up even more.

After getting to the selection building, Adrine along with others saw the existence of many competing arenas with an area of 10 meters x 10 meters x 10 meters. Not only on the ground floor, on the second floor to the top floor there may also be the same competition arena.

"Participants, please listen to my instructions!"

Asra's senior voice appeared from every side of the selection building, his voice did not know where it came from and suddenly there was. Asra will inform the rules for success in the selection.

"Rules on the selection are very easy to understand, you only need to challenge other candidates in order to get points. If you win, you will get 2 points, while the loser will not get points. The condition of success is you have to get 75 points."

'Easy-to-understand rules right now it seems like I have to do an incognito plan.' Thought Adrine.

The disguise plan that Adrine will do intends to fool the opponent, he does not want to be feared because he is strong and invincible, then he will be away and become difficult to get points. With the plan, Adrine wants to beat the opponent as if he has put all his abilities in his match.

"And again, you will get your first opponent after seeing your name being matched with another name."

Right after senior Asra said that, there was a writing in front of each candidate's eyes that showed their name and who their opponent was the first time. And the thing is surprising, in the first time Adrine has been paired with Reihan Xsue to do the match.

'I guess I have to fight Etern, but I'm relieved that the one I'm fighting is the one who likes to follow along.' Thought Adrine.

Then Adrine walks in search of Reihan and he goes up to the 2nd floor because he doesn't find him. Adrine went up again to the next floor because she did not find him on the 2nd floor.

After ascending to the 3rd floor, Adrine still had not found a person named Reihan Xsue.

'This fucking kid is where the hell is he? Just bother...' Thought Adrine.

Then Adrine went up again to the 4th floor and looked for Reihan's whereabouts, but still did not find him.

Adrine went up to the 5th floor and he managed to find the person from earlier in his car.

"Oh... You were here from earlier? Why aren't you looking for me?"

Reihan only smiled after hearing Adrine's complaints about her not looking together. Adrine himself had actually guessed the heart of the person in front of him.

"Why am I looking for you while you've bothered to look for me?"

Adrine was not at all surprised and angry when she heard Reihan's words.

"I'm just looking for a dog that likes to follow the wishes of others, I don't think the dog is very naughty and troublesome at all."

Just once said, Reihan was immediately provoked and his anger veins immediately saw soot on his temple. This time Adrine won a word game that has provoked Reihan his emotions.

"Who are you calling a dog? You stinky shit!!"

Adrine was just silent and was not at all provoked by Reihan's words.

"We're going to have a match here, why do you have to mock before you know the outcome of the match?"

Then Reihan smiled very widely and he went into the arena beside him. Adrine also directly walked inside without any hesitation at all.

"Well, you're the one who asked to be defeated, okay!"

"Not much ado, let's just get started!"

Then Reihan moved quickly after Adrine said that, the match started very quickly. Adrine was still standing on the spot and seeing how Reihan would later attack him.

Reihan moved with a spear in his hand, the spear was not his soul weapon, but an artifact taken from his storage ring.

'Top-level artifacts? Interesting too.' Thought Adrine.

THE ZRAAAST!!

Reihan darted so quickly towards Adrine with his spear at his stake, Adrine still silently looked at Reihan's movements with an expressionless face, while the person he saw seemed very excited.

The tip of Reihan's spear was right in front of Adrine, now his attack could no longer be eelak by Adrine.

YOHAAANG!!

Reihan's attack was restrained by the magic circle created by Adrine, the spear held by Reihan was almost broken if he attacked so hard.

'He's an Amulet Expert? I don't think his abilities are great either.' Think Reihan.

THE ZRAAAST!!

Reihan retreated on the lookout for an impromptu attack that Adrine might send to him, while Adrine was thinking about how to defeat Reihan without having to expend a lot of techniques and inconspicuous.

'It should be easy, but what technique should I use?' Thought Adrine.

Adrine continued to look at Reihan while thinking hard, while the person she looked at looked back with condescending eyes.

"Hey hey, I heard you're a spirit summoning type mage, how about you bring out the spirit you have?"

Instantly after hearing Reihan's words, Adrine came to think of something.

'Yes, I have to summon 2 or 3 souls that are at the same level as the Death stage, as if later I will look unable to defeat him, but lucky to win this match.' Thought Adrine.

Now a smile appeared on Adrine's face, but a thin smile that could hardly be seen even within a distance as far as Reihan now which was about 10 meters.

"Do you dare?"

Adrine actually provides a challenge so that the plan is not too flashy.

"What am I afraid of? Let's just get it out, I won't be afraid of anything you put out."

With his arrogance, Reihan challenged back in the meaning that was in his words and Adrine just smiled hearing it.

Behind his smile, there was an idea of whose soul should be expended to fight Reihan.

But Adrine was thought of by an idea that he thought was very profitable for him and this new idea will still follow the plan he had compiled before.

"How about we bet?"

Reihan was shocked to hear that.

Adrine came up with an idea like this when he saw the spear held by Reihan, from that he concluded that the Xsue family might have a treasure that might be stronger than the spear Reihan was holding right now.

"What kind of bet?"

Adrine smiled happily at him, Reihan seemed interested in the deal offered by Adrine to him.

"I will deploy my 1st most powerful army, if you can defeat it, I will surrender directly in front of you, but if you win, if you win, you have to give me a spear or an artifact the level of a spear you hold."

Initially suspicious of the bets offered by Adrine, Reihan thinks that the deal may have been in mind and Adrine may already have a plan to beat him.

"It's not fair enough if you just give up on losing, how about you give me something valuable?"

Adrine's pleasure, which was originally just a smile, is now increasing to hear that Reihan has slowly agreed with the bets he offers. Such an opportunity was expected by Adrine.

Then Adrine took out 3 pills.in a shiny red color with a purplish color.

"3 Pills of the Second Hell, is this the equivalent of the stakes?"

Connect!!