Chapter 231: Second Chrysalis
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Chapter 231: Second Chrysalis
Sage went all in. He could still train human fighting techniques using his sealed body, and while it was a massive loss of efficiency to have to learn two different sets of techniques, there was little need for him to specialize in such advanced combat arts. From what he saw in the Timeless Masters library, techniques could progress in innumerable ways. Some focused entirely on the body and its mechanics, some altered the body to control energy in special ways, others relied entirely on advanced control of energy or even transformed energy into unusual forms. It seemed there were endless permutations. He chose to give up on those that required a human form to pursue a powerful body.This chapter was first shared on the Ñøv€lß1n platform.
The lack of physical martial arts specialized for his body was not a barrier. If he needed one, he could just invent one, right? What was to stop him? In the fourth rank, a Foundation Building cultivator already had a lifespan of close to two thousand years. If he could break through and form his Core, which he was only a few stages away from, his max lifespan would jump up to more than double that.
This was of course relative to a persons rate of advancement. A non-cultivator, a rank 0, was for simplicitys sake said to have a lifespan of 100 years. This wasnt a hard number and would of course be dependent on their health or other factors. Once reaching rank 1, a Qi Building cultivator doubled their lifespan, creating a new maximum of 200. In practice it was said they could live to 200, but in fact they really only doubled their remaining years. If a person was fifty years old when they advanced to rank 1, they wouldnt have 150 years left to live. They had already used up half of their vital lifeforce. They were halfway through their life so they would actually only have 100 years left.
Once you add in other factors like illness, poor health, sickness, or other things that might drain vital lifeforce or harm a persons body it made for far more complicated calculations. Most people looked at it in a simple way: when you rank up, your remaining lifespan doubles. On the other hand, those who were approaching the end of their lives would go to Astrologers and Doctors to try and nail down an exact timeframe. The ideal maximum lifespans were something in the range of 200 for a rank 1, 500 for a rank 2, 1000 for a rank 3, 2000 for a rank 4, 5000 for a rank 5, and 10,000 for a rank 6. A Nascent Soul cultivator, rank 6, was already a world shaking figure. The most powerful people in the known world were at this level of strength. Sect Leaders, Province Commanders, Generals of the Kingdoms, and other lofty figures were the only ones to reach this height. Reaching rank 7 was only heard of in stories and it was said that those people would face a heavenly tribulation. They would be struck down, or ascend into the heavens.
The new head was far more in the style of a classical dragon than before. In the past it was much like a snake with wide set eyes on top of its head and a wide round snout with nostrils on top. The old shape fit that of a water snake or crocodile, keeping the eyes and nose out of the water and with a nose that could accommodate a distending upper jaw. Burrowing had not really been effective before, so there was no need to have the complicated jaw systems of a constrictor type snake. Most of the capability could be accomplished with a few extra jaw hinges and a separating lower mandible. It could still swallow things wider than its own head, while also being far more robust and powerful with fixed upper fangs and jaws. A dragon was said to have the head of a camel, which was very different than a snake head. Despite both having scales, the eyes were set further back from the nose and higher up with a brow and a glabella.
With the eyes placed back farther and a set of brows there was a lot more room for protection. Its whole body was now covered in thick vibrant green scales, which were quite exaggerated on its brows and cheeks. With just a squint the eyes would be heavily shielded. There was even a third eyelid, a nictitating membrane, to act as an extra defensive layer. Many of its scales were enlarged and shaped like spines and spikes around its brows, nostrils, lips, and forehead. A simple twist of the head would easily sweep aside most weapons with the forest of spikes. The eyes themselves hadnt changed, vertical pupils that were wide and wavy in the center. Black pupils with a red outline.
The ridge of its back was no longer covered in large spines and from a side view it looked like it had metallic parallelograms along its back, the leaning squares swooping from back to front. That was only half the story, as there was a matching piece on the other side and they came together on the top to form a sharp ridge. The strange blocks ran all the way down its spine to the tip of its tail. Halfway down the tail they also appeared on the creatures underside.
Between the strange spine plates, and at other places all over its body near joints, there were small crater like pockmarks, like tiny blowholes. The most unusual feature though, was its underside. The normal carp like scale pattern changed into a narrow horizontal scale pattern. The scales were also much smaller and many times more numerous.
In short, a green eastern dragon. Very small with an unusual spine ridge, but missing the hair, whiskers, and antlers.
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Chapter 231: Second Chrysalis
Sage went all in. He could still train human fighting techniques using his sealed body, and while it was a massive loss of efficiency to have to learn two different sets of techniques, there was little need for him to specialize in such advanced combat arts. From what he saw in the Timeless Masters library, techniques could progress in innumerable ways. Some focused entirely on the body and its mechanics, some altered the body to control energy in special ways, others relied entirely on advanced control of energy or even transformed energy into unusual forms. It seemed there were endless permutations. He chose to give up on those that required a human form to pursue a powerful body.This chapter was first shared on the Ñøv€lß1n platform.
The lack of physical martial arts specialized for his body was not a barrier. If he needed one, he could just invent one, right? What was to stop him? In the fourth rank, a Foundation Building cultivator already had a lifespan of close to two thousand years. If he could break through and form his Core, which he was only a few stages away from, his max lifespan would jump up to more than double that.
This was of course relative to a persons rate of advancement. A non-cultivator, a rank 0, was for simplicitys sake said to have a lifespan of 100 years. This wasnt a hard number and would of course be dependent on their health or other factors. Once reaching rank 1, a Qi Building cultivator doubled their lifespan, creating a new maximum of 200. In practice it was said they could live to 200, but in fact they really only doubled their remaining years. If a person was fifty years old when they advanced to rank 1, they wouldnt have 150 years left to live. They had already used up half of their vital lifeforce. They were halfway through their life so they would actually only have 100 years left.
Once you add in other factors like illness, poor health, sickness, or other things that might drain vital lifeforce or harm a persons body it made for far more complicated calculations. Most people looked at it in a simple way: when you rank up, your remaining lifespan doubles. On the other hand, those who were approaching the end of their lives would go to Astrologers and Doctors to try and nail down an exact timeframe. The ideal maximum lifespans were something in the range of 200 for a rank 1, 500 for a rank 2, 1000 for a rank 3, 2000 for a rank 4, 5000 for a rank 5, and 10,000 for a rank 6. A Nascent Soul cultivator, rank 6, was already a world shaking figure. The most powerful people in the known world were at this level of strength. Sect Leaders, Province Commanders, Generals of the Kingdoms, and other lofty figures were the only ones to reach this height. Reaching rank 7 was only heard of in stories and it was said that those people would face a heavenly tribulation. They would be struck down, or ascend into the heavens.
The new head was far more in the style of a classical dragon than before. In the past it was much like a snake with wide set eyes on top of its head and a wide round snout with nostrils on top. The old shape fit that of a water snake or crocodile, keeping the eyes and nose out of the water and with a nose that could accommodate a distending upper jaw. Burrowing had not really been effective before, so there was no need to have the complicated jaw systems of a constrictor type snake. Most of the capability could be accomplished with a few extra jaw hinges and a separating lower mandible. It could still swallow things wider than its own head, while also being far more robust and powerful with fixed upper fangs and jaws. A dragon was said to have the head of a camel, which was very different than a snake head. Despite both having scales, the eyes were set further back from the nose and higher up with a brow and a glabella.
With the eyes placed back farther and a set of brows there was a lot more room for protection. Its whole body was now covered in thick vibrant green scales, which were quite exaggerated on its brows and cheeks. With just a squint the eyes would be heavily shielded. There was even a third eyelid, a nictitating membrane, to act as an extra defensive layer. Many of its scales were enlarged and shaped like spines and spikes around its brows, nostrils, lips, and forehead. A simple twist of the head would easily sweep aside most weapons with the forest of spikes. The eyes themselves hadnt changed, vertical pupils that were wide and wavy in the center. Black pupils with a red outline.
The ridge of its back was no longer covered in large spines and from a side view it looked like it had metallic parallelograms along its back, the leaning squares swooping from back to front. That was only half the story, as there was a matching piece on the other side and they came together on the top to form a sharp ridge. The strange blocks ran all the way down its spine to the tip of its tail. Halfway down the tail they also appeared on the creatures underside.
Between the strange spine plates, and at other places all over its body near joints, there were small crater like pockmarks, like tiny blowholes. The most unusual feature though, was its underside. The normal carp like scale pattern changed into a narrow horizontal scale pattern. The scales were also much smaller and many times more numerous.
In short, a green eastern dragon. Very small with an unusual spine ridge, but missing the hair, whiskers, and antlers.
Chapter 231: Second ChrysalisSage went all in. He could still train human fighting techniques using his sealed body, and while it was a massive loss of efficiency to have to learn two different sets of techniques, there was little need for him to specialize in such advanced combat arts. From what he saw in the Timeless Masters library, techniques could progress in innumerable ways. Some focused entirely on the body and its mechanics, some altered the body to control energy in special ways, others relied entirely on advanced control of energy or even transformed energy into unusual forms. It seemed there were endless permutations. He chose to give up on those that required a human form to pursue a powerful body.This chapter was first shared on the Nvl1n platform.The lack of physical martial arts specialized for his body was not a barrier. If he needed one, he could just invent one, right? What was to stop him? In the fourth rank, a Foundation Building cultivator already had a lifespan of close to two thousand years. If he could break through and form his Core, which he was only a few stages away from, his max lifespan would jump up to more than double that. This was of course relative to a persons rate of advancement. A non-cultivator, a rank 0, was for simplicitys sake said to have a lifespan of 100 years. This wasnt a hard number and would of course be dependent on their health or other factors. Once reaching rank 1, a Qi Building cultivator doubled their lifespan, creating a new maximum of 200. In practice it was said they could live to 200, but in fact they really only doubled their remaining years. If a person was fifty years old when they advanced to rank 1, they wouldnt have 150 years left to live. They had already used up half of their vital lifeforce. They were halfway through their life so they would actually only have 100 years left. Once you add in other factors like illness, poor health, sickness, or other things that might drain vital lifeforce or harm a persons body it made for far more complicated calculations. Most people looked at it in a simple way: when you rank up, your remaining lifespan doubles. On the other hand, those who were approaching the end of their lives would go to Astrologers and Doctors to try and nail down an exact timeframe. The ideal maximum lifespans were something in the range of 200 for a rank 1, 500 for a rank 2, 1000 for a rank 3, 2000 for a rank 4, 5000 for a rank 5, and 10,000 for a rank 6. A Nascent Soul cultivator, rank 6, was already a world shaking figure. The most powerful people in the known world were at this level of strength. Sect Leaders, Province Commanders, Generals of the Kingdoms, and other lofty figures were the only ones to reach this height. Reaching rank 7 was only heard of in stories and it was said that those people would face a heavenly tribulation. They would be struck down, or ascend into the heavens. The new head was far more in the style of a classical dragon than before. In the past it was much like a snake with wide set eyes on top of its head and a wide round snout with nostrils on top. The old shape fit that of a water snake or crocodile, keeping the eyes and nose out of the water and with a nose that could accommodate a distending upper jaw. Burrowing had not really been effective before, so there was no need to have the complicated jaw systems of a constrictor type snake. Most of the capability could be accomplished with a few extra jaw hinges and a separating lower mandible. It could still swallow things wider than its own head, while also being far more robust and powerful with fixed upper fangs and jaws. A dragon was said to have the head of a camel, which was very different than a snake head. Despite both having scales, the eyes were set further back from the nose and higher up with a brow and a glabella. With the eyes placed back farther and a set of brows there was a lot more room for protection. Its whole body was now covered in thick vibrant green scales, which were quite exaggerated on its brows and cheeks. With just a squint the eyes would be heavily shielded. There was even a third eyelid, a nictitating membrane, to act as an extra defensive layer. Many of its scales were enlarged and shaped like spines and spikes around its brows, nostrils, lips, and forehead. A simple twist of the head would easily sweep aside most weapons with the forest of spikes. The eyes themselves hadnt changed, vertical pupils that were wide and wavy in the center. Black pupils with a red outline.The ridge of its back was no longer covered in large spines and from a side view it looked like it had metallic parallelograms along its back, the leaning squares swooping from back to front. That was only half the story, as there was a matching piece on the other side and they came together on the top to form a sharp ridge. The strange blocks ran all the way down its spine to the tip of its tail. Halfway down the tail they also appeared on the creatures underside. Between the strange spine plates, and at other places all over its body near joints, there were small crater like pockmarks, like tiny blowholes. The most unusual feature though, was its underside. The normal carp like scale pattern changed into a narrow horizontal scale pattern. The scales were also much smaller and many times more numerous. In short, a green eastern dragon. Very small with an unusual spine ridge, but missing the hair, whiskers, and antlers.
