I Cultivate 10,000 Times Faster-Chapter 165: Fiendblood Integration
The battle of wills raged for hours.
Neither side could gain a decisive advantage. The dragon's consciousness was immensely powerful, but it was incomplete and could do nothing against an soul that's already fewrelsss and corrupted.
Time passed and faded into obscurity and Levi seems to have turned numb at this moment.
Eventually, gradually, the dragon's pressure began to weaken. Not because it was giving up, but because the extraction process was consuming more and more of the heart's physical structure. As the heart shrank, the residual consciousness had less material to anchor itself to. It was being starved of its foundation.
The attacks became periodical, then occasional then it became rare.
Finally, it stopped entirely as the dragon's consciousness faded.
The last thing Levi sensed from it was a feeling of resentment, before everything went silent.
Levi who was soaked in sweat and blood dripping from his orifices heaved a sigh of relief. He was thoroughly exhausted.
He checked the progress indicator:
[Extraction Progress: 61%]
[Estimated Time Remaining: 1 day, 19 hours]
More than halfway. The worst of it was over, the rest of the extraction should proceed more smoothly.
Levi closed his eyes again and returned to meditation, letting his exhausted mind rest as much as possible while maintaining the absolute stillness the matrix required.
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Day Four.
The heart had shrunk to the size of a walnut. Most of its mass had been converted to essence, which now filled nearly three-quarters of the collection reservoir. The liquid starlight substance had become more concentrated.
Levi's body had consumed almost all of its fat reserves. His face was gaunt, his muscles standing out in sharp definition against skin that had become pale from lack of movement and sunlight. His metabolism had slowed to conserve energy, dropping his heart rate and breathing to barely perceptible levels.
He looked like a corpse in meditation—perfectly still, barely alive, sustained only by cultivation and sheer determination.
But his consciousness remained sharp. The battle with the dragon's will had somehow strengthened his mental state, forcing him to refine his willpower to levels he hadn't known were possible.
The matrix's work continued relentlessly.
[Extraction Progress: 84%]
[Estimated Time Remaining: 14 hours]
So close. Just fourteen more hours of sitting perfectly still, and Phase 1 would be complete.
Then Phase 2 would begin. Integration. The truly dangerous part where he'd have to inject the divine bloodline essence directly into his heart and survive the transformation that followed.
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Day Five.
The heart was fully extracted.
Not completely—a tiny core remained, maybe the size of a grape, suspended in the matrix's central chamber. But 98% of its original mass had been converted to essence, which now completely filled the collection reservoir to capacity.
The matrix's formations had shifted from extraction mode to refinement mode, working to purify the essence even further, removing the last traces of impurities and stabilizing the liquid for injection.
The matrix chimed softly, and a holographic display appeared:
[Extraction Phase Complete]
[Bloodline Essence: 99.7% purity - Mythic Grade]
[Volume: 247 milliliters]
[Integration Phase Ready]
[WARNING: Integration with Mythic-grade essence carries extreme risk]
[Proceed with integration? YES / NO]
The same warning as before.
But Levi's decision hadn't changed.
He reached out with a thread of Astra energy and selected YES.
[Integration Phase Initiated]
[Preparing injection apparatus…]
New formations activated within the matrix. A crystalline needle materialized in the air above the essence reservoir, maybe six inches long and impossibly thin. The needle was hollow, designed to draw essence from the reservoir and inject it directly into the practitioner's heart.
The needle floated over to Levi, positioning itself precisely above his chest, aligned with where his heart beat beneath skin and bone.
[Injection will begin in 60 seconds]
[Once injection starts, process cannot be stopped or reversed]
[Practitioner must maintain consciousness throughout transformation]
[Estimated transformation duration: 12-72 hours depending on integration success]
[Final warning: Survival probability low]
[Proceed? YES / NO]
Levi selected YES again without hesitation.
Twenty seconds. Ten. Five.
The needle descended toward his chest.
Zero.
The needle pierced his skin.
It went through flesh and muscle, sliding between his ribs, penetrating the membrane around his heart without causing any damage.
The sensation was strange as it would feel with anyone having foreign object literally inside their chest.
The needle's tip pierced through his heart, then it started with its injection.
247 milliliters of Mythic-grade divine bloodline essence flooded directly into Levi's heart.
The effect wasn't immediate like he had expected. But as his heart pounded and blood flowed through his body, an intense amount of pain flooded through Levi's heart like a hot magma.
It so intense that his mind simply couldn't process it properly. Every nerve ending fired simultaneously, every cell in his body screamed in agony.
The divine essence began its work immediately, attacking his human DNA with the single purpose of rewriting his entire genetic code.
Recognizing the foreign element threatening to overtime its existence, the human genes resisted, triggering violent immune responses and tried desperately to reject it, to expel it, or destroy it before it could take root.
But the essence was way too powerful.
It forced its way into his cells, tearing apart chromosomes and rebuilding them lie an artist painting over an existent picture.
Levi's human DNA was shredded and replaced with hybrid strands that contained both human and divine material.
Levi's heart convulsed. The organ that had been beating steadily for his entire life suddenly couldn't maintain proper rhythm. It skipped beats, then beat too fast, then nearly stopped entirely.
And in that moment, something new began to grow.
Just opposite his original heart, new cells started multiplying at rapid speeds as a new organ began to form beside his original heart!
It was the Fiend heart!
The Fiend Heart, rebuilt and constructed from the divine bloodline gene path, grew rapidly, forming its own network of blood vessels, creating its own chambers and valves.
Within minutes, it had fully grown and connected with his system.
Right now, Levi possess two hearts within him like every Fiend Warrior!
Within minutes, it had fully grown and connected with his system.
Right now, Levi possess two hearts within him like every Fiend Warrior!
