Born Almighty Warrior
Chapter 25 The Chaos Manual

After unanimously agreeing on the rules, the disciples headed into the Lion King Mountains one byone. Ricky was among them and entered the mountains secretly. After all, he was no match for Jimnow. It would not be good were they to cross paths.

Once under the cover of the mountain's foothills, the disciples dispersed immediately and lookedfor their own prey. They didn't trust each other. Moreover, this place was dangerous. It would bebetter to hunt alone.

The first fierce beast Ricky encountered was a lowly boa at the sixth grade of Skin Refinement.Ricky had made great progress in just a few days. It was now a piece of cake for him to slay beastsof such a low grade.

After killing the boa, which didn't stand a chance, Ricky let its blood drip onto his ironwood, butthere were no black dots that appeared.

"It seems that what Benson said is true. Only the blood of beasts of advanced stage of SkinRefinement can leave a mark on the ironwood," Ricky murmured to himself, somewhatdisappointed.

The ironwood was very peculiar. Its trunk was extremely hard, an impenetrable fortress against anypowerful attack. Even if it was cut with a high grade tool, there would be no hint of a scratch. Butthe ironwood was especially fond of the blood of the fierce beasts.

The ironwood of different ages could absorb the blood of beasts of different grades. Black dotswould emerge on the bark when the blood met the trunk.

Ricky's particular ironwood was over a century old. It could absorb the blood of beasts at advancedstage of Skin Refinement.

Therefore, it was useless for these disciples to kill the beasts at a low grade of Skin Refinement.Instead, they had to focus their skills on beasts at a high grade.

"Well then, my next target should be the beasts at the seventh grade of Skin Refinement, and I needto practice my cultivation methods, especially the Nonuple Flame Strike and Nine-degree BodyRefining Formula,” decided Ricky.

He knew he had to get moving. Actions spoke louder than words. Ricky began looked for a beast atthe seventh grade of Skin Refinement.

Within ten days, Ricky had killed in total forty beasts at the seventh grade of Skin Refinement. Hehad also defeated some of the disciples who tried to steal his fruits. In the end, Ricky hadaccumulated more than seventy black dots on the ironwood.

However, for Ricky, the greatest achievement was that he had improved the two cultivationmethods and reached the highest peak of the sixth grade of Skin Refinement.

'lt appears that actual combat is the fastest and the most efficient way to improve my skills, * Rickythought, the realization dawning over him.

Of course, the most important contributor to his progress was his powerful spiritual meridian,although he ignored this.

As he had now reached the peak of the sixth grade of the Skin Refinement, he decided to breakthrough the sixth grade and reach the seventh.

If he was successful, two problems would be solved.

First, he could hunt more fierce beasts of the higher levels and further improve his ranking.Secondly, even if he met a cultivator of the ninth grade of the Skin Refinement, he stood a betterchance at protecting himself.

Now he needed to replace out a safe place to finish the breakthrough. He searched for two days andfinally found a secret hideaway. It was downstream a stinking river, which was filled with the stenchof decomposing beasts bodies.

Other warriors and beasts hardly ever ventured here.

Ricky found a cave and began to cultivate in seclusion.

This time, he prepared one hundred and twenty Body Refining Pills just in case.

Because when he previously broke through the fifth grade and reached the sixth, he consumedseventy-five Body Refining Pills—thirty pills more than the breakthrough before that, when he brokethrough the fourth grade and reached the fifth.

Ricky then started the breakthrough, activating his spiritual meridian and swallowing the BodyRefining Pills.

As he had hoped, he finally successfully broke through the sixth grade. Despite the large cost of onehundred and ten pills, Ricky knew it would be worthwhile if he could reach the seventh grade ofSkin Refinement.

However, something peculiar happened to his spiritual meridian when he broke through the sixthgrade of Skin Refinement.

His spiritual meridian was once like a blood-red slender serpent floating in his mind. However, themoment he broke through the sixth grade of Skin Refinement, his spiritual meridian wriggled.Suddenly, eight golden lines burst through its surface, dividing the spiritual meridian into nine parts.Now it seemed like a slender serpent whose body was divided into nine segments.

Without his noticing, his mind integrated into the first segment of the spiritual meridian.

He saw a tremendous blood-red vastness here, which was as wide as the whole world, and therewere red flames floating in every direction he looked.

These red flames did not seem to be attacking him, and he couldn't even feel any heat, as if theydidn't exist at all.

"What is this? Why there is a vast zone hidden here in the spiritual meridian? And what are thosered flames?" For a moment, Ricky was perplexed, yet he remained calm. He was not terriblyshocked.

He had been greatly surprised when he regained his spiritual meridian, so now he had becomeimmune to these and was not easily startled anymore.

Soon, Ricky saw many scarlet runes floating in the vastness. They appeared one after another, likecountless stars, beaming brightly in Ricky's mind.

Suddenly, something unexpected came into sight. There were three conspicuous words floatingamong the runes. It read, "The Chaos Manual”.

"The Chaos Manual? What the hell is that?" Ricky pondered, thoroughly confused.

"Wait! The manual... I must be dreaming! Could it really be the manual?" coming upon thisrevelation, he couldn't help but exclaim.

As a cultivator, of course he knew about the manuals and their importance.

They were important tools for the casting masters. In order to become a good warrior, one had tocontinue practicing the methods. And in order to be a good casting master, one had to hone theirskills by practicing the manuals.

Moreover, the warriors and the casting masters had a close relationship. A warrior should not onlybe equipped with skills and cultivation methods, but also a compatible and sharp weapon. In otherwords, a weapon was as important as a warriors life, and these valuable weapons were forgedprecisely by those casting masters.

The casting masters were divided into varying levels, including the Mortal Level, the Spirit Level, andthe Sage Level. Further, each level was classified into inferior, intermediate and advanced stages.

It was the dream of every warrior to be a casting master, but it was a daunting task. To be a castingmaster, they needed to have a spiritual meridian which would not only enhance their spiritual powerbut also help them practice the manuals.

However, very few warriors existed who could possess the kind of spiritual meridian that combinedthe two functions. They were one in a million.

That was why very few warriors could become a casting master, but should they succeed, theywould have an extremely high status.

Moreover, all the weapons of the warriors were forged by the casting masters, which furtherenhanced and strengthened their status.

To these respectable casting masters, the manuals held the same value as cultivation methods did tothe warriors.

But the number of the manuals was far less than the cultivation methods, and even less than thenumber of the casting masters. That was why these manuals were so valuable.

At the sight of the Chaos Manual, Ricky became thrilled, because even the manuals of the lowestclass were of high value, maybe tens of thousands or even a hundred thousand.

"Well, the Chaos Manual... The name is exciting. I'm guessing it must be worth a great deal.”Knowing that the manual was an important tool for the casting masters, Ricky immediately began tothink about how to sell it and make a killing.

However, he soon changed his mind. There was something he had forgotten to consider.

"Wait, the manual is hidden in my spiritual meridian. Does that mean that my spiritual meridiancould help practice the manuals, improve my spiritual power and even forge the weapons?

If that's true, could it be? Perhaps, it could mean that I am actually qualified and have the potentialto be a casting master?

Goodness! A casting master!? What if I actually, really succeed?”

Envisioning the future, where he would be known for his superb forging skills and became famous,Ricky was wholly ecstatic.