Chapter 362: Getting Stronger [2]

Chapter 362: Chapter 362: Getting Stronger [2]

Damon sat alone in the living area, the cracked marble floor still bearing the marks of his breakthrough.

The penthouse had fallen quiet.

Ariel and Selene had returned to the bedroom, their footsteps soft against the stone, their voices a low murmur that faded as the door clicked shut.

He was alone.

Good.

He needed focus for what came next.

His cultivation now at the King Spirit Realm Ninth Level, a foundation solid enough to support the next phase of his evolution.

But raw cultivation was only one piece of the puzzle.

His bloodline and physique had carried him this far, but they were still at Heaven Grade Mid.

Strong, but not strong enough.

He pulled up the System interface.

[Lust points: 17,322,200]

[Upgrade to Heaven Grade - Peak: 8,000,000 lust points per upgrade]

Ten million total.

He confirmed without hesitation.

[Upgrading Blood of Incubus Dragon Lord...]

[Upgrading Body of Incubus Dragon Lord...]

[-16,000,000 lust points]

The pain hit immediately.

This was not the gradual warmth of cultivation advancement. This was his body being unmade and remade at the cellular level.

His bones began to crack.

Like ancient stone under immense pressure, the sound echoing through the silent room as his skeleton was reforged from the inside out.

Damon’s hands gripped the armrests of the sofa, his knuckles white, his jaw locked.

The dragon-scale density the System was weaving into his frame was unlike anything he had felt before. Each bone in his body was being compressed, hardened, layered with the structural integrity of a primordial beast’s armor.

His ribs groaned. His spine arched as the vertebrae fused and reformed, each one gaining the weight and resilience of forged dragon-scale.

The pain was excruciating.

But he did not scream.

He breathed through it, his golden eyes fixed on the ceiling, his mind focused on the end result.

Then the fire came.

His veins began to glow.

Celestial-incubus fire, a fusion of his original bloodline’s seductive darkness and the Azure Dragon’s ancient light, pulsed through his circulatory system like molten gold.

He could see it through his skin. Faint lines of golden-red light tracing the paths of his arteries and veins, illuminating his body from within like a forge stoked to its peak.

The temperature in the room dropped.

Not from the fire, but from the sheer density of his aura.

The air grew cold. The windows frosted over, thin crystals of ice spreading across the glass despite the morning sun outside.

His aura was suppressing the ambient temperature of the room, pushing against the natural order of things with the weight of his evolved existence.

The frost crept across the floor, climbing the walls, coating the furniture in a thin layer of crystalline white.

Damon’s breathing slowed.

The glow in his veins began to fade, the fire sinking back into his core as the transformation completed. His bones settled. His muscles relaxed. The pressure in the room stabilized.

He opened his eyes.

They were still golden, but deeper now. The patterns within his irises had grown more complex, swirling with the combined essence of Incubus Lord and Azure Dragon.

He flexed his hand.

The movement was effortless. But he could feel the difference. The weight of his own body felt different, denser, more substantial.

He stood up from the sofa.

His feet pressed into the cracked marble floor, and he felt the stone groan beneath him. Not from spiritual pressure, but from sheer physical weight. His body was heavier now. Denser.

The dragon-scale bones and celestial-incubus muscles had increased his mass significantly, even if his appearance remained unchanged.

He raised his hand.

A sphere of spatial pressure formed in his palm, a concentrated orb of King Realm spiritual energy compressed to the point where the air around it warped and shimmered.

He let it expand.

The pressure washed over him, a wave of force that would have made any Earth Spirit Realm cultivator stagger, that would have forced a Heavenly Spirit Realm cultivator to raise their qi shield.

Damon stood still.

He did not raise a single thread of qi.

The pressure crashed against his body, and it was like standing in a gentle breeze.

His new physique absorbed the force, dispersed it through his dragon-scale bones, and neutralized it without any conscious effort on his part.

He increased the pressure.

The air around him screamed as the spatial pressure intensified, the marble floor beneath his feet cracking further under the strain.

Still, he did not raise his qi shield.

His body handled it. The dragon-scale density in his bones distributed the force evenly.

The celestial-incubus fire in his veins burned away the residual pressure before it could reach his core.

The frost on the windows shattered.

The furniture groaned.

Damon’s robes pressed against his body as the pressure reached its peak, but his stance remained steady, his breathing even.

He held it for ten seconds.

Then he dismissed the pressure with a wave of his hand.

Silence returned.

The room was a mess. Frost residue clung to the walls. The marble floor was cracked in a wider radius than before. The windows had hairline fractures spreading across their surface.

Damon smiled.

He pulled up his status window.

[Name: Damon Arcknight]

[Age: 18]

[Cultivation: Heavenly Spirit Realm - First Level]

[True Cultivation: King Spirit Realm - Ninth Level]

[Affinities: Fire: 95, Water: 175, Ice: 215, Wind: 215, Earth: 115, Lightning: 445, Nature: 95, Light: 95, Dark: 235, Space: 50, Time: 50, Sword: 115]

[Spiritual Roots: Elemental Spiritual Roots] [Saint Grade - Peak]

[Bloodline: Blood of Incubus Dragon Lord] [Heaven Grade - Peak]

[Physique: Body of Incubus Dragon Lord] [Heaven Grade - Peak]

[Lust points: 1,322,200]

[Harem Members: Ariel Aquaria, Mio Nightrider, Mia Nightrider, Selene Frostborn, Seraphina, Flare, Alena Terra, Lumina Solaris]

[Beasts Bonds: Neko [Heavenly White Tiger]]

[Ability: Incubus Touch, Incubus Aura, Incubus Celestial Eyes, Incubus Fluid, Incubus Dream, Polymorph, Dragon Transformation, Incubus Transformation]

His bloodline and physique had reached the pinnacle of the Heaven Grade, the highest tier before the Saint Grade threshold.

The Incubus Dragon Lord’s power was now fully realized, a fusion of seduction and destruction that made him a hybrid of two ancient lineages.

He dismissed the status window and walked to the window, looking out at the city below.

The frost on the glass was already melting, the room temperature slowly returning to normal as his aura settled.