Chapter 16

Divine was pleasently surprised when Minion Scarface cooked by herself.

The soup wasn't as good as when he made it, but it was eatable.

Divine wouldn't have to prepare every meal himself in the future. That was a win in his book.

That was one of the reasons why he let Minion Scarface keep the tiny magical beast core. As a reward.

It was a fire core. He had discovered it easily with his qi sense.

Additionally the [+2 Blood Qi Essence] notification had tipped him off. Scarface's poor attempt at hiding the fire core had been for nothing from the start.

He was really glad that he could collect blood qi essence from the recently dead in the range of his qi sense. Better was that his qi sense was growing with every breakthrough.

Divine imagined encompassing this whole magical world with his qi sense and collecting blood qi essence en masse on a daily basis without lifting a finger.

That image was fascinating and kind of terrifying. But if that was even possible it would be far off in the future.

Divine wanted to see if something would happen when a goblin had such a magical beast core filled with fire qi. Especially a goblin already marked so deeply by fire.

Divine hoped Minion Scarface wasn't stupid enough to consume the fire core.

It would really be a waste to lose his most competent minion.

But death waited for goblins around every corner anyway and maybe something great would come of it.

Another reason for letting Scarface keep the core was the fact that it contained qi of the fire element.

Practicing elemental qi arts was something Divine was already working on.

He had made strides in handling dark qi and used it for the Shadow Claw Technique and the Stepping Light Traversing Shadow Movement Technique.

After reaching the foundation establishment realm, the way to further cultivate the Eternal Divine Demon Cultivation Scripture and the Shining Blood Demon Body Cultivation Manual to the golden core realm was by refining elemental qi.

Of course the key elements to become a divine demon were blood qi, dark qi and light qi.

Divine wanted to study elemental qi arts from other elements too, but without refining the qi for his cultivation.

The fire element wasn't high up on the list at all.

Because of his environment he really wanted to gain control over water qi and earth qi.

Always having access to clean water from the air was a dream come true.

Since becoming a goblin Divine didn't mind living underground in a cave but he sometimes worried about the mountain coming down on his head. Literally.

Even if it looked very stable now, everything could happen. Especially with dragons flying around the mountain range.

He wanted to reinforce the earth around him with qi and use the earth for other things too. Convinient things like burying garbage and digging to expand the cavern.

Of course they were useful for attack and defense too but that wasn't the priority for Divine with controlling water and earth.

Divine looked at his status.

[Spirit Qi Cultivation: Ninth Stage of the Qi Condensation Realm]

[Body Cultivation: Eighth Stage of the Body Tempering Realm]

[Blood Qi Essence: 8]

Divine was really happy with his cultivation speed.

With dedication, hard work and the help of qi condensation pills, body tempering soap and pure blood qi essence he had almost reached the peak of the qi condensation realm and the body tempering realm.

When he finally reached the ninth stage of the body tempering stage he would slowly attack the barrier to the foundation establishment realm.

The way to walk over the highest mountain was to take one step at a time.

Next in his routine was body tempering. He wanted to take a supplement today and see if he could break through.

Divine took out a drop of blood qi essence and let it hover over his hand with his qi.

By now he could exert a steady force with his qi to control objects in his immediate sorroundings.

Like telekinesis, only instead of contolling objects with his mind, he controlled the qi lifting them.

Of course it wasn't very powerful yet and he could only lift light stuff in a small range around himself.

Divine studied the drop with his qi sense to further his understanding of blood qi. He already had the blood qi essence in his hand so he used this chance.

Studying the elemental qi was easier with reference material.

That's why he had kept the tiny dark core he had gotten from the shadow cat.

For a while he kept studying the drop of blood qi essence. Annoyingly he didn't make any tangible progress.

Divine consumed the drop of blood qi essence and stood up.

Taking off his robe he tied a leather loincloth around his ass. He had fashioned it himself from a nice pelt.

He went through the body tempering exercises.

His movements were flowing smoothly.

Sometimes slow, sometimes fast.

Sometimes he stilled completely and held a position for quite some time and sometimes he exploded with incredible speed and power.

All the while he was controlling his spirit qi and refining the blood qi essence to purify and strengthen his body until it felt like he was featherlight.

And then it felt like he was floating.

Divine's constitution made a qualitative leap forward, breaking through to the ninth and last stage of the body tempering realm.

Divine was sweating out a lot of impurities and was happy that he had remembered to take off his newest Spider Silk Robe.

That way he had already ruined a robe in the past. Which he then graciously bestowed upon one of the minions.

Even though the Spider Silk Robe and the cheaper common Spirit Robe both had inscriptions for cleanliness, they weren't strong enough to withstand this level of dirt.

Very happy about his breakthrough, Divine went to the well to get water.

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Gobly was watching Master Divine from her sleeping place.

She hadn't managed to fall asleep because she had thought of the fire core all the time. She had been really conscious of it.

The fire core called to her.

And then she had noticed Master Divine getting naked and donning a loincloth.

The whole time Master Divine was doing his special movements, Gobly had stared spellbound.

After he was done Master Divine got water and went over to the latrine pits.

The glowing mushrooms' light shined on Master Divine's supple green skin. Now Gobly could see Master Divine's body even more clearly.

As he took off the loincloth and started washing Gobly couldn't hold it anymore.

Gobly snaked her hands under her robe and touched herself.

She drank in the picture of all of Master Divine's glory.

She caressed her small tits softly. She was happy to notice that her tits had grown somewhat from eating so well.

Her nipples were erect.

Master Divine looked so imposing.

Gobly pinched her nipples.

His well sculpted body was enrapturing.

Gobly's other hand wandered further down her body.

His naked skin was so wet and glistening in the mushroom's light.

Gobly's breath grew heavy with extasy.

It didn't take long for a squeaky moan to escape her lips. She curled her toes and arched her back in bliss.

She continued to watch while Master Divine put on his robe. Gobly enjoyed the afterglow and slowly calmed down.

Sometimes she wondered about Master Divine.

She had never seen him fucking. Neither goblin tits nor goblin dicks, not even himself.

Gobly didn't think she had ever seen him hard.

What was wrong with Master Divine? Should she be worried?

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Divine continued with his routine and was slowly closing the gap to the foundation establishment realm.

Divine read to the goblings from his cultivation books.

He taught the goblings and Minion Scarface some lessons.

Divine managed the minions.

He cultivated his qi and his body.

He was preparing for the cultivation in the foundation establishment realm by practicing his elemental qi arts.

He had the basics of handling dark qi covered.

Blood qi control was slowly making progress.

He even had some small accomplishments with earth qi and water qi.

The biggest problem was light qi. He was stuck on it. Not so surprising since he spent almost all his time underground.

That meant he had a new project now, finding an appropriate place to study light qi outside.

Divine made sure the goblings were fed and that there still was some food in supply before he stepped outside his cavern into the tunnel leading to the main cavern.

'A direct exit from this cavern to the outside would be nice. Maybe a project for the future.'

Another path where he didn't have to go through the main cavern every time to go outside would be really convinient.

Particularly as the whole Lost Tooth Tribe was slowly losing its usefulness as a meat shield standing between him and the horrors of this magical world.

Everything that could overpower Divine by now would massacre the whole tribe too fast.