As he thought about the Killing Pathway, he said to himself, "The Killing Pathway also has a lot of Branch Metac, which will greatly enhance my strength. This is icing on the cake since it won’t restrict what I can use the new Divine Metac for."
"If I fuse the Core Metac of the Killing Pathway, the Weapon Seed Core Metac, with the Space Tear Metac, I should be able to get a spatial weapon of some type."
In no time, he found himself scratching his chin as he thought to himself, saying, "I wonder which one I should pick."
When he couldn’t make a decision, he shrugged and said, "Anyway, if I want to pick anything, I can only wait until I reach the Heavenly Battlefield."
Since he would have to wait until he got to the Heavenly Battlefield to get the cultivators of the other sect, before he could take their Core Metacs for himself, he decided to put off his decision for a while.
His plan for this heavenly battlefield is to be as stealthy as possible, and he plans to achieve that by relying on the Mind Hunter Pathway, so he decided to focus on that for now.
In order to achieve his goal of relying on the Mind Hunter Pathway, he expanded the kinds of Branch Metacs to buy. The fact that the offering of Branch Metacs was more diverse here also encouraged him to do this.
He got the usual Mind Stab Metac and the Mind Shield Metac. But he also got the Mind Spike Metac, Mind Bomb Metac, Mind Node Metac, Sensory Hijack, and the Mind Network Metac.
It was after he got these ones that he bothered to get the Hypnotize Metac, the Memory Read Metac, the Thought Reading Metac, the Concentration Metac, and the Quintuplet Mind Metac.
Finally, in order to enhance the help that the Rewind Metac provides for his power, he got the Weaken Metac. This Weaken Metac is a buff Metac. It is used to weaken a target or enemy.
The best part of this Weaken Metac is that it uses the power of his soul to weaken the target, so its effect is similar to a mystical curse. He was glad to see this because it would also improve his power by bringing his soul into the output of his power and would convert a portion of his power into a curse component that is difficult to guard against.
After he learned this, he said in admiration, "Where have you been all of my life?"
By life, he was referring to the last timeline. He didn’t find the Weaken Metac the last time he roamed the market.
Even if he had found it back then, he would still have been a little surprised to discover the Weaken Metac. This is because he didn’t expect to find something in the pathway of Dual Cultivation that could help him in a fight without trying to make the target have sex with him.
But after checking its function, he became sure that the main purpose of this Weaken Metac is related to sex somehow. He is willing to bet that the true purpose of the Weaken Metac is to make a target less resistant when they are about to be raped.
He doesn’t plan to do any raping, but he plans to use the Weaken Metac to weaken an enemy while fighting them. So he bought it.
This marked everything that he needed for the upcoming battle. But he didn’t leave after buying this. He still spent time roaming the market learning about the available Branch Metacs.
He decided to do this after discovering new Branch Metacs that weren’t available in the market when he came to the heavenly city a month into the future in the previous timeline. The Weakness Metac is one of the new Branch Metacs that he discovered.
Apparently, what he saw in the previous timeline was not every Branch Metacs that was available. So he decided to invest some time to update his knowledge of Branch Metac before leaving.
He spent nearly five hours doing this. But once he finished, he returned to the barracks in the sect grounds to wait for the commencement of the Heavenly Battlefield.
When he returned to the sect grounds, he heard some people talking about the Heavenly Battlefield that was being held this month. From what he heard as he passed by, he learned that a Heavenly Battlefield is usually held every month, but the sect prepares for it two months ahead of time.
He also learned that preparation for the Heavenly Battlefield before his own ended just yesterday. That meant that if the day of awakening had been moved to one day earlier, he might have been able to make it.
This possibility amused him a little bit, but he didn’t dwell on it too much. He shrugged after hearing the information and said to himself, "Even if I can go back in time to a time before I awakened, I still won’t be able to make the Heavenly Battlefield because I need time to strengthen my body, soul, and mind."
But he was interested in what these people knew about the Heavenly Battlefield, so he stopped to chat.
There were three of them talking with each other. Two of them were men, and the last one was a woman.
He said, "I overheard you talking about the Heavenly Battlefield and became curious. Do you know how many people survived the one that just ended? I mean the one that just descended to Earth in our victory."
Instead of replying, they examined warily for a while. After they were sure that he didn’t plan to attack them, they decided to answer his question.
The woman was the one who replied. She said, "I heard that more than 66% of the people from our sect who went died."
This made him say, "So more than 66 of us died? That doesn’t sound so bad."
One of the men, the one with the black hair, chuckled and said, "You do know that means two in three soldiers died, right?"
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