Reincarnated as a World

Chapter 26 Anatomy Refinement

Ch.26 Anatomy Refinement

Raiko was a Tiger created in the South of the Eastern Forest. He wasn’t all that special in the beginning. In fact, his innate ability was quite lacking compared to his brothers and sisters which resulted in him being disregarded. Even then, it wasn’t to the point where they outright ignored him or attacked him, they just didn’t care about him either way.

A very average Tiger.

He could have just lived life like that, he didn’t have any lofty goals and he wasn’t in any way deranged like the Crying Ghost, it wouldn’t be a terrible life, just a very mundane one.

Unfortunately, he encountered Drako of the snake clan.

After that near death encounter, Raiko seemed to have become a little wary about leaving his cave, even refusing to go and hunt. He lived in the outskirts of the tiger territory so no one ever looked for him.

But this situation only lasted 3 days before he was actually visited.

By Drako.

With overbearing arrogance he would bully the tiger day after day, finding it amusing that there was actually a predator that didn’t resist a beatdown. It’s what happened the first time which is what got him intrigued and why he followed the tiger here.

In truth, Raiko was just really, really afraid of pain, so he would always just focus on defence when being attacked but if he had the advantage he would shamelessly act like some kind of ferocious predator.

Eventually 8 months passed and yet, each day he was left almost dead and unable to leave when Drako left for the day. If Drako didn’t feed him essence rich herbs and carcasses, he would have long since left this World.

But at this point Raiko was absolutely livid. He hated that fiery looking worm, he hated his resplendent scales, he hated his imposing size. Why couldn’t he, Raiko- stand out like that and bully others?

At the very least, when the essence nourished his body it would automatically target the injuries and in the process, granting endurance to those locations. And since there was no place that hadn’t been assaulted, his entire body was fully remade tougher and tougher each day.

Even more, splitting your attention between energy cultivating and anatomy cultivating was counterproductive most of the time. Only the most talented sons and daughters of prestigious families could afford to do so.

But this was Eridel’s World where it was easier to find a World Tree than it was to find a single regular herb so who knows?

After all, that’s exactly what was happening right now to some random Tiger in the wild.

The process of repeatedly destroying and healing your body with essence. The crudest way of Anatomy Refinement but it is what it is. This was what happened to Raiko until he entered stage 1.

But it was not over yet. The benefits of increasing your physical strength wasn’t the only gift Anatomy Refinement had to offer, in fact, it was the second gift that had many people risking their lives to attempt it even if most gave up.

Suddenly, Raiko started to feel an itchiness all over his body that made him choke on his roar and it soon became quite unbearable. He even began rolling and thrashing around in an attempt to alleviate the discomfort that was rapidly becoming pain.

His screams were quite unlike the previous majestic roar, now it was like a squealing pig that was being butchered.

But soon, the culprit of this change of events revealed itself.

A black and viscous liquid began to leak out of the pores all over the Tiger’s body like it was blood which was a horrifying sight to see. Also, the disgusting smell of it didn’t help the situation at all, it had to be one of the most rankest smells in existence.

But to tell the truth, it wasn’t all that unfamiliar. This is what happens to all Enlightened Species in the Body Refinement realm but not on the level it was happening now.

In fact, the stuff would only leave the body during excrement (making it especially smelly), not all over the pores like it was doing now and it would NEVER leave the body at the rate it was doing now, only doing so by small amounts (not even an 1000th of the current visible) in each of the 9 Body Refinement breakthroughs.

It was all disgusting and horrendous but this is what all Cultivators dreamed about.

The removal of impurities.