My crazy Cultivation Path

CHAPTER 148

One week later. On the ship.

“I’m exhausted…”

Tony declared.

He was lying within his own consciousness.

He had managed the feat of assimilating his power of rank seven and eight.

But it had pushed him to his mental limits. Even within his consciousness, his head hurt; every thought was painful.

Suddenly, he burst out laughing.

“I’m really sick… My body was so overboosted that my muscles started swelling even more, and I would have exploded from the inside.

All my organs would have gone boom.”

Looking at his consciousness, he noticed that it had expanded.

“And we can thank aether for that,”

Tony sneered.

He had managed to find other ways to use it.

But before starting his experiment, he had covered his entire body with aether to heal himself.

Yet it was so slow that even now, he still had a few open wounds.

However, there was no longer any danger of death.

When I arrived in the room, I could see that Liara had wounds on her body, but toward the end of our fight, she was completely clean.

All her injuries had healed, even the burns that had scorched her skin.

I only see one explanation: she focused on each wound one by one, which speeds up regeneration.

And above all, she has better control of aether than I do.

But unfortunately, I didn’t have that luxury.

My body was on the brink of death…

…Wait, that means that every time she cut off my arm, she reattached it using the blood.

That must be extremely mentally stressful.

But that doesn’t change the fact that she endured that extreme concentration just to continue torturing me.

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Suddenly, several swords floated into the air and formed around Tony, responding to his face as it began to tense.

In a twisted way, I can say that she loves it.

She pushes herself to exhaustion just for that.

That gives me even more reasons to kill her.

If someone like her rises too high, who knows what kind of madness she’ll unleash.

Looking upward, he saw the fifteen swords floating horizontally in the air, ready to pierce.

“For someone who’s been training for a week, fifteen is good… and it seems to be my current limit.”

But he remembered Liara’s myriad of daggers.

She had thirty-five.

But she’s off-topic.

And anyway, her body is still human, so there’s no point stressing myself over it.

If my limit is fifteen, then hers is thirty-five.

That’s just how it is.

Aether consumes endurance, and mental strength as well.

That’s why willpower is important.

But he hadn’t stopped there.

He had pushed physical reinforcement even further.

He absorbed aether and directed the flow toward his ears.

And while he had been sleeping for a long time, he could even hear what was happening on the ship.

The discussions between Zina, Sys, and Dina, which allowed him to learn more about the culture.

Or even Asti, Iloy, and Dirios, who had become inseparable.

He heard each of them talk about the person they wanted to kill, but Tony interpreted it instead as their first major obstacles in life.

Of course, they were talking about Lusus and Galion, who had spared them only to kill them later.

Those three didn’t have oversized pride, but simply thinking about those who had treated them like disposable objects, killable at any moment, quickly fueled their fury.

Tony could also hear Simone.

From her words, he quickly understood that Kurdes had been right.

Simone was changing as well, but with a certain madness in her mind.

“I too will reach rank nine, and then I will cleanse every inhuman, every pig who kills for their own benefit…

Kurdes, you said it was impossible to eliminate all evil…

I’ll show you how I will do it,”

Simone declared.

“So she’s going to become a monarch…”

If I remember correctly, in human history on Earth, many followed that path, but they lost themselves along the way.

They weren’t cultivators, yet you only have to look at the madness they committed in the name of justice…

So if Simone starts to spiral as well, it will only add more problems for me,

Tony said.

He heard no sound from Aconé.

But remembering his face when they fled, Tony knew that Aconé hadn’t been spared either.

Maybe he was fine physically, but mentally, it could be something entirely different.

Tony knew that Aconé had already passed the hundred-year mark long ago, recalling their meeting at the celebration after his qualification as a cultivator.

A hundred years is a long time.

At first, maybe all that was left was laughter and amusement, but doing that for a hundred and fifty years had made him forget the reality of the world.

It took being tortured by a cannibal for him to relearn it.

The madness of battle can temporarily hide your true wounds, but they will return to torment you.

Who knows?

Maybe you killed someone you hated, but in the end… nothing remains.

“Ah, well…

With that line of reasoning, someone listening to my thoughts would think I’m driven by revenge.”

He clenched his fist.

“But I think differently from others.

I know how to give my trust—and take it back.

And above all, I don’t feel concerned by the world’s evils.

When you come after me, I won’t feel the slightest hesitation in killing you.

But only you.

Not your loved ones.

Only you.

This experience was extremely painful for me, but it taught me that simply being aware of the true nature of the world is not enough.

Power, intelligence, and manipulation can be fatal when you run into monsters.

“But then, what differentiates you from a monster like Liara?”

In truth, I’d say her lack of humanity.

I doubt she can emotionally attach herself to others.

And even if love is powerful, she would only find it with someone as twisted as herself.

But I don’t intend to let her experience life any longer.

I will resolve all my problems during that so-called final battle.

Even if it happens in two or three years, that is where I will finish you, my opponents.

I don’t care who wins this damn war.

But I would feel a disturbance within myself if I let the Chang or Payo clan win, claiming that we Terrans are the lesser evil.

In any case, the past or the future will prove me right:

evil is everywhere, even among those who believe themselves good or virtuous.

The truly important thing is not to be overwhelmed and to live according to your true desires and emotions.

And for some, those desires are to kill, rape, dominate, become a myth.

While for others, it’s adventure, love of battle, living in peace, discovering the very essence of life.

And many other things.

As for me, with my objective, I am merely swimming in this immense sea called the universe.