Reforging Tides

The ninth-grade White Fang Fish Flag before him was the old rival that had often fought the giant crab for territory and resources in its memories.

Following the guidance of those memories, Jing Qian found the Fish Flag with ease and killed it effortlessly.

In less than half a day, he had gained another harvest of White Fang resources.

After refining the third Tide Destiny Constitution, the foundation of his cultivation was complete, and his tactical system had begun to take shape.

With extreme flexibility combined with the transcendent spatial power granted by the Sumeru Destiny Constitution, he was virtually invincible among those of the same grade.

Like the Fish Flag before him, which possessed no bloodline inheritance and was a pure, ordinary ninth-grade creature, it had easily become a helpless chicken for the slaughter, entirely at Jing Qian's mercy.

And his current combat system was also exceptionally well suited to his temperament.

He had practiced the sword for many years and had long since melded sword intent into his bones. He pursued the principle of the sword striking like a dragon, killing with a single blow.

What he sought was fierceness and precision, agility and ruthlessness!

With the aid of Destiny Constitutions, he felt that his combat abilities had been liberated in every aspect. His strength, speed, and combat intelligence had all reached unprecedented heights.

He stood in the sea, Magic Power swirling around him like a sharp sword fresh from its sheath, its edge fully exposed.

What he had fused was clearly the Tide Destiny Constitution, yet it possessed none of water's softness. Instead, it revealed an icy, frosty severity.

Jing Qian adjusted his condition, then picked up the Iron Skewer and went forward to dismember the enormous Fish Flag.

He could carry only a limited amount of supplies, so he kept just a large, succulent chunk of fish belly and threw the rest onto the seafloor.

Afterward, he returned to the Void Realm once more, sending his divine sense straight into the Destiny Stele Space.

A thread shot out, dragging the newly emerged Fish Flag soul onto the barrier of the Safe Zone. After a barrage of attacks, it was killed outright.

He directly absorbed its Destiny Essence and memories.

Jing Qian had already developed a standard procedure!

Being his enemy was undoubtedly terribly unlucky. Dying once in the real world was not enough; after turning into a ghost, one had to be tormented all over again. Even death could not bring peace!

There was not even any water inside the Destiny Stele Space. No matter how powerful a fish was, it had no way to use its strength there.

The Fish Flag soul was easily subdued by Jing Qian and completely transformed into nourishment for him.

Nourished by its Destiny Essence, he successfully condensed his fifth White Fang Destiny Essence.

He had also gained another ninth-grade Fish Flag Destiny Constitution Refinement Method, one that could provide the augmentation of a fish's strength.

In addition, he had effortlessly grasped the terrain information of the surrounding sea.

There were no unexpected gains. A sunken ship like the one in the giant crab's memories was merely a low-probability event and was not commonly encountered.

For him, however, the primary purpose of rushing to hunt this Fish Flag was to truly experience the practical effects of the Destiny Forging Opportunity.

Inside the Destiny Stele Space, Jing Qian moved the Tide Destiny Constitution onto the Destiny Stele, where it transformed into a rune shaped like a wave.

He then fled the Void Realm, carrying half of the White Fang fish bones, and sank into the seafloor once more.

This was his second time refining the Tide Destiny Constitution. Everything was already familiar, and the process went incomparably smoothly.

A surge of Magic Power rippled through the sea as Jing Qian successfully condensed the Tide Destiny Constitution for the second time.

At that moment, one Tide Destiny Constitution was in his sea of consciousness, while another was on the stele.

Even before using the Destiny Forging Opportunity to fuse the two Destiny Constitutions, he could deeply feel his own strength increasing.

Jing Qian did not hesitate. His divine sense leaped into the Destiny Stele Space, and then he covered the Destiny Stele with his palm, using his authority as its host to activate the Destiny Forging Opportunity.

In an instant, a power of extremely high rank sprang from the Destiny Stele and shattered the Tide Destiny Constitution rune inscribed upon it with a single strike.

The newly formed Tide Destiny Constitution was also struck by this power and smashed apart in one blow.

The runes of the two Tide Destiny Constitutions scattered and collapsed, losing their form.

Yet under that mysterious power, the remnants of the two Destiny Constitution runes actually began a new fusion.

This was precisely the miraculous effect of the Destiny Forging Opportunity!

And so, a new Destiny Constitution rune quietly came into being. Though it still took the shape of a wave, it had been completely renewed.

Jing Qian looked toward the information on the Destiny Stele:

Host: Jing Qian

Lifespan: 150 years

Destiny Essence: 5.72 (White Fang)

Destiny Constitutions: Sumeru (Golden Root), Sewing Souls and Weaving Spirits (Azure Wing), Tide (Azure Wing 2/10)

Destiny Forging Opportunity: 0

Gazing at the completely renewed information on the Destiny Stele, Jing Qian felt an indescribable surge of exhilaration.

The Tide Destiny Constitution had indeed fused successfully under the miraculous effect of the Destiny Forging Opportunity, and its grade had risen.

It had now embarked on the path of advancing to Azure Wing. It needed only eight more Destiny Forging Opportunities to undergo a qualitative transformation.

He felt the even more surging power of the Tide Destiny Constitution in his sea of consciousness, as though waves were repeatedly crashing against the shore of his heart.

For a moment, a cultivation path forged from mountains of corpses and seas of blood unfurled before Jing Qian.

In cultivation, whether in swordsmanship or anything else, Jing Qian had always pursued perfection. It was simply in his nature.

As long as there was even the slightest hope of reforging and raising the grade of all his Destiny Constitutions, he would never let it pass.

And this was destined to be a process that demanded both relentless grinding and lavish spending.

Judging by the Destiny Forging Opportunity's temperament, this so-called grinding and spending probably meant killing until the air itself ran thin and his heart turned black!

Jing Qian was not worried about anything else now. He was worried only about whether there would be enough enemies to supply what he needed to reforge his Destiny Constitutions.

But when he thought of the boundless ocean before him and its inexhaustible marine life, he felt that he was merely troubling himself with needless worries.

The road ahead was long. He still had to keep his feet on the ground and work hard with all his might!

Jing Qian leaped out of the Void Realm, landed in the sea, and rode the Tide Destiny Constitution as he swam away.

The fleet coming to pick him up might already be on its way. He had to take this opportunity to push himself a little harder.

Every increase in his strength gave him another sliver of control over his own fate.

Before half a day had passed, he traveled a thousand miles in a day and slew another fish!

Kill!

Seventeen thousand two hundred li due south of Crimson Pearl Island stood a Destiny Island, its cherry blossoms in full bloom.

Along the narrow island's gentle slope, a perpetually burning Azure Lamp stood every hundred meters.

The lamplight illuminated the cherry blossoms, yet made them appear eerily ghostlike.

That was because the base of every Azure Lamp was shaped like a lifelike beauty.

When an object resembled a human too closely, it was hard to prevent a trace of ghostly aura from emerging, setting the imagination racing.

At the center of the island stood a shrine called the Resting Fox Shrine, the core of power on the island.

At that very moment, furious shouts rang out from within the Resting Fox Shrine:

"Idiots! Worthless trash!"

"What face do you have to return and see me?"