Raphael was in no hurry to complete the transaction with Sharron. They had already missed the deadline anyway.
That night, Raphael got some proper rest. The next day, he began seriously studying the cultivation art from the Western Continent that complemented the Desire Apostle.
Ever since his advancement, Raphael had been busy with Beyonder gatherings. He had not even had time to glance at his newly acquired cultivation art.
The art that complemented the Devil had been very practical. In particular, the Magma Scythe condensed according to its methods was far more useful than the Magma Greatsword.
If Raphael had not been afraid of exposing his true strength, his scythe would already have taken the heads of many opponents.
The art corresponding to the Desire Apostle was called the Seduction Technique. As its name suggested, its most important component was making the target's sexual desire erupt.
When philosophers on the Western Continent studied human desires, they discovered that hunger and sexual desire were the hardest to quell, especially when someone was starving, or when a man who had not been near a woman for a long time suddenly encountered a beautiful one.
Other desires generally ranked below those two, so those were the main desires the Seduction Technique sought to stimulate.
Generally speaking, Cultivators enjoyed a fairly good quality of life and were unlikely to go hungry. But they could hardly find a woman to have sex with before every battle just to keep that desire from being exploited. More importantly, even if they had just satisfied their urges before a fight, their sexual desire could easily be aroused again.
A full stomach satisfied hunger, but sleeping with a woman did not necessarily satisfy sexual desire. Instead, a man might keep recalling the passion he had just experienced.
Thus, on