The Heavenly Road: God Hunters

Ch68 Starts Training

Asta left the Hansu Capital to head somewhere in the Valley of the Stone Country together with his teacher, now they were on their way to practice increasing his strength.

“Sial! This bear is very strong, it will be quite difficult for me to defeat it if I do not use all my strength, Asta's inner”.

Asta was made difficult against the bear who could withstand the blows reinforced with body compound even with just one hand, bearing the bear's hand as if neutralizing the pressure of his attack.

Several times Asta was hit by the bear so that then he activated his spirit essence and used techniques in the book of the fire god of darkness, the light-eating fire to avoid his attack.

The bear suddenly went berserk and increased its strength even more than before.

“Celaka-!!”

“Duarr..!!! Duaarr..!!! Duaarr..!!! Duaarrr..!!”

Asta rushed back to avoid the attack instead of receiving it directly, but still he hit it directly.

“Even his attacks still hurt me even though I used techniques to turn my body into fire!! Akh-!!” Not only did the rhythm of the attack and its movement increase rapidly but the strength of its attack power actually increased drastically, the light-eating fire technique could not withstand the attack as powerful as the bear.

Asta coughed and then spewed fresh blood, blood rushing out of his mouth, “Uhukk-! Uhuk-!! Uhuk-!! You-!! Fuck-!!!” Asta clenched his teeth and began to strike back at the bear.

But as before the blow as powerful as Asta neutralized by the bear hand pads. The bear then hit Asta until it bounced into several trees behind him.

“Uhuk-!! Shit-!”

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“Hahahaha Zaru and Ace are seen enjoying the view of Asta fighting with the bear.

On the other hand Flares evaluated his ability to make attacking decisions which he thought was quite rash, unlike when he fought desperately with Hao Chen.

“What does it do..?” muttered Flares wonder why Asta did not bring out his sword technique.

“Don't be surprised if he doesn't use his sword at all, he looks underestimating but the fact is he's not like that,” Ace told Flares in astonishment.

“Good! That's what my student should be doing,” Flares smiled proudly over it.

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Back again to Asta who is facing an supernatural animal, the Lonely Honey Bear.

“Uhukk-! Uhukk!! Honey Bear Loner is indeed as troublesome as this my punch is completely neutralized by the bearing of his hand. If it wasn't for the Thorn Claw maybe my entire attack wouldn't have had any effect on him,” Asta muttered softly.

“Son, can you hear me?”

“Who?”

“You don't need to know who I am. But if you want to defeat him listen to my words,”

Asta was silent for a moment before replying,“This voice is not from the teacher or Zaru and Ace. Who and where exactly did this voice come from, Asta's inner”.

“I heard what you said about me, I am neither your teacher nor your pet. But if you want to win then there's no other decision but to follow my lead,”

Asta opened his eyes wide unexpectedly his mind read,“it depends on what you will say next, if I think that way can be done then I will do if I can't ya how else,” reply Asta.

“Alright then. First, you learned a different aura technique from the two Celestial Books, didn't you? Then take them both out,”

“No. Although I learned the aura techniques from the Celestial Book but my comprehension was still lacking so it was still far from its original strength. If I take it out now the bear will definitely feel challenged do you want to kill me?”

The figure was silent for a moment,”Second, use the technique of the highest layer of Raga Compound,” he continued speaking. Asta didn't bully him at all and ignored him.

“Three, draw both auras of yours and then center them on one of your hands, then unite them into your attack in one strike,”

Listening to his third suggestion Asta began to be a little interested in his direction.

“Fourthly, you understand the basis of the technique of mountain crushing blows, if you can combine it into the third blow of the mountain crusher then it is better. You remember the event where you first activated your spirit essence and burned the forest with a mountain-destroying technique right?”

“You-?! How do you know that?!!” while trying to avoid the bear attack Asta tried to turn his face in all directions.

“Freely only. I am the devil of your heart, I live in your subconscious and know everything you do,”

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The heart demon is a reflection of the nature of a cultivator created under the subconscious and settles in the sea of souls. As time goes by the heart demon will get stronger so it will be more difficult to control.

At that time his choice was only two, either get rid of him or join him. From herein lies the difference between a demon path cultivator who chose to join his heart demon instead of the other heavenly branch path.

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Asta was surprised to open his eyes wide,“Isn't this too early to break through the sacred realm? But the method you described earlier I'm a little interested. I'll try it,”.

“You want to get rid of me? Hahaahaha. Although I did become the demon of your heart but my understanding of cultivation was far from you, you were only a fingernail of mine,”

Asta did not reply again and prepared to try the technique that his heart demon directed. The bear who was already in a state of rampage coupled with Asta which displayed two techniques of aura became increasingly angry.

“It looks like he's gone. I can no longer feel the air of its existence nor listen to its chatter,”

In the first experiment Asta failed because it turned out that the process of uniting two techniques of aura and focusing it into his punch was not an easy matter. Moreover, he had to do it in a short and precise time.

Several times Asta collided blows with the bear and failed repeatedly until his body was unable to receive damage again, the flames of war like useless before the bear attack.

Asta was sitting under the tree feeling the pain in his body, the bear did not give him a chance to rest at all.

“Tekhnik Spirit, Mountain Crusher”

Spontaneously when he was only able to move one hand Asta finally managed to master the technique and gave him the name Mountain Destroyer.

Asta's punch met with the bear's punch, the Lonely Honey Bear was thrown far back and immediately died instantly. After that, Asta can breathe slowly.

“Finally done too,”

When Flares and the others were on the move to prevent the bear from attacking him further they did not expect Asta would give a powerful strike that ended the bear's life.

“His body is seriously injured but fortunately there are no internal injuries that will endanger his safety,” Zaru said after checking his condition.

“Where does he learn the method of combining techniques of spirit and aura, does he want to die,” said Ace astonished by the technique.

Flares walked towards the bear's corpse and looked at the scar from Asta's previous attack.

“Not wrong anymore. This method is the method he found, it turns out that at that time I was not dreaming,” Flares turned her face to look at Asta who was unconscious.

“I can ask him later after he wakes up,”

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Asta opened his eyes looking out,“Where is this?” ask him to yourself.

He tried to get up from the expanse of grass, he walked towards the light highlighting his eyes.

“This, it's beautiful. Where exactly is this..?” a moment out Asta greeted with views of waterfalls everywhere with a stretch of grassland full of various plants, not even a few medicinal plants growing there.

“How about your body condition,” said Flares appeared from the side surprising him.

Asta was surprised to catch his breath,“Teacher, you are a habit,” Asta clucked annoyed at the behavior of his teacher, “I've been fine, but where is this?” asta continued asking.

Flares seemed to think for a moment, “Maybe we are on the border between the Land of Fire with the Valley of Stone Country,” his answer sounded less convincing.

“Then where are the two of them.?” ask Asta to find Ace and Zaru.

Flares pointed towards them with her chin, Asta turned his face to see what the two of them were doing there.

Ace and Zaru seem to be fighting a technical battle, Asta who notices him understands that they are not really serious about fighting because if they are, then the place will not be able to withstand the shock.

“Muridku, this place is filled with various valuable medicinal plants we can use it for your training materials,” Flares said.

“Persis as I want to tell teacher, but my stomach is hungry as much as I want to eat first,” Asta said.

“Eat? There is no food if you do not finish the exercise first,” Flares said forbid it.

Asta gawked at it,“Why do it like that?” his protest.

“Don't much pleasantry immediately remove the twin dragon furnace, this time your exercise theme is to make a tier 2 Blood Vessel Pill,”

Asta according to take out the furnace, after which he searched for the ingredients around the place. Soon he finished finding the materials he needed.

“Teacher I've found all the ingredients according to the ones in the book, just in case I take very much for a few tries,” Asta showed his teacher, he nodded. The process of mixing begins.

In the first experiment Asta directly succeeded in creating a blood vessel pill but with the effectiveness and efficiency of the pill only about ten percent of the original, but Flares actually smiled proudly.

“We stop first compounding it, let's fill the energy first,” invite Flares.

“Oyy!! Are you guys done?! It's time to eat!!” asta shouted, Call Ace and Zaru.

“Teacher where is the bear? I'm sure I killed him earlier,”

“Teacher has put it in your ring, you just check it,” Flares said.

Asta nodded slowly while making a fireplace to roast the meat, Ace who was in charge of chopping the meat some parts to make it easier when baked, while Zaru who was in charge of making the seasoning.

Then the four of them ate greedily before returning to activities.

“Now your stomach is filled again right? Now is the time to practice making the level 2 blood vessel pill perfectly,” Flares said, Asta nodded quickly.

Asta put the ingredients back into the twin dragon furnace and started the smelting process.

This time he was in a hurry because he wanted to quickly rise into a tier 2 pill concocter so he lost control of his fire and blew up the furnace.

Flares looked at him annoyed, a single blow flew over his head,“Don't be in a hurry! Didn't you listen to the teacher's teachings?!” Flares upset.

“If you stay like that it will be difficult for you to concoct the sacred pill, the process of concocting medicine is a process that must require high control and haste is not a condition for concocting pills,”.

“Holy pill...?” Asta repeated his teacher's words in wonder.

“Holy Pill is a miracle created by a medicine compounder, a pill whose efficacy will continue to increase over time. It takes a high proficiency and understanding of concocting medicine to be able to create a holy pill,” explained Flares.

“So difficult?” ask Asta curious.

“Of course. Even more difficult than forging spirit artifacts, holy pills are marked by strokes on the pill, the more strokes the higher the pill efficacy increases,” Flares continued.

Asta nodded in understanding the intent of his teacher's remark on how difficult it was to create a holy pill like his teacher had said.

“If you can create a tier 7 medicinal pill with just 1 stroke can become a level 7 concocter. But creating a stroke on a level 1 pill is not an easy thing especially the level of 7.”, he explained.

“It turns out that the path of a medicine concocter is more difficult than that of a forger,” the inner Asta in his heart.

Finished knowing about the holy pill Asta began the practice of concocting pills back with the supervision of his teacher.

Flares teaches you the steps you should take and consider getting better results when concocting a pill. Because concocting a pill is not just about fusing ingredients and putting them together.

After trying many times Asta still did not get satisfactory results, at the highest he could only make pills with 20 percent efficacy than the original.

“It turns out that concocting pills is more difficult than forging weapons, even though the process of forging and concocting the same,” Asta gasped for fatigue after several times trying to concoct the blood vessel pill.

Flares laughed when she heard him complain,“Although it is exhausting but the name is learning you know now what your shortcomings are and how you handle them,”

Asta chuckled limply above the meadow trying to restore his blooming breath.

“Rushing just like that?” ace sneered at him.

“Level 2 only and you're exhausted like that? The pills you need to form a master body are even more absurd the level have you given up now? Weak!” Zaru sneered.

Listening to the sneers of both of them Asta's face immediately turned red,“Who said give up?!” ask Asta back.

“Indeed not only so unreliable has given up, only 2 level pills only,” Zaru sneer.

“What did you say just now?!” Asta immediately woke up with an annoyed face, “Stay here and see I will show you that I can make it, I can make it,” he shouted with annoyance then put back the ingredients of the pill and immediately started concocting the medicine back.

While grunting angrily Asta put the pill ingredients into the furnace and began the process of smelting the ingredients, but suddenly his legs exploded causing Asta's face to turn black.

Ace and Zaru laughed it off loud,“You're better off with that on your face,” Ace said and laughed. Asta could only endure his embarrassment in front of the two of them.