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Chapter 35

I decided to spend less time traveling with Cupid after our little field trip. It wasn’t long before Cupid went off on his own again and left me alone. I had gotten pretty comfortable being in his realm at this point so I found a cozy spot to settle in and do some studying.

I removed the old book that my soul guides had retrieved for me and read it.  The Heavenly Emperor World Technique was fascinating and far more complex that I would have expected. Only one complete copy had been found by my soul guides, so I treated it like the treasure it was.

Following the directions in the book, I pulled life energy from the air to balance all the death qi in my body. I had already learned how to draw in qi and to purify my body from the pieces of the book that I had acquired years ago, but having the entire book I was able to see that I had only been using the basics of the technique. The book went into further detail around perfecting the technique to make it much more effective and to perform it much more efficiently.

This time the life qi rushed into my body even faster than last time. Since I had become the God of Death, the amount of death qi inside me had reached staggering amounts. The balance between life and death qi would take time to restore. The imbalance of my qi caused the life qi in my body to grow rapidly. Even with my new understanding of the technique, it took a week of meditating before I felt a change in my body and black goo began to ooze from my skin as impurities left my body.

I knew making the body of a god more powerful couldn’t be an easy thing. I could feel that my bones were now harder, muscles were now stronger, and that even my organs had become more resilient. A technique so strong it could strengthen a god was truly an amazing technique.

As I sat there absorbing qi I reflected on the book. Only someone with large amounts of death or life qi could fully utilize this book. For a person lacking in either qi, this technique was useless. The entire technique only focused on one thing, which was to balance life and death qi without reducing it. I wondered who had created this technique. Was it a god? Or something even more powerful than a god?

When I stood my bones were stiff from sitting so long. My spine popped as I stood and it felt great. I bent my neck to the left and then the right causing it to pop both times. I took a hot shower to relax and get all of the black goo off.

I didn’t think I would get much stronger anytime soon and I wanted to go home to visit Nyxra, Bob, and my parents. I informed Cupid of my plans to leave when he returned to his realm again.

“If you really have to I guess that would be ok. Just keep your visit short. I’m coming with you though. Cronus would have my head if I let you go alone. I don’t even want to think about what he would do to me if you got hurt.”

I wasn’t exactly happy about it, but I really didn’t have a choice. I borrowed some nice new clothes from Cupid. Sadly everything was pink. I wanted to look nice for Nyxra. It had been a few weeks since we had last seen each other. I hoped she had missed me half as much as I had missed her. It would also be nice to go see my parents and Bob as well.

I used the shadows to wrap us up and transport us outside of Nyxra’s room. I didn’t really want to rely on Cupid for transportation since I wasn’t sure how I felt about appearing in a burst of pink hearts.

I stepped forward and knocked on the door, but there was no answer. I knocked again, this time even louder, but still no answer. I sighed as I turned to leave and almost tripped over Nyxra’s demon familiar of a cat.

“Where’s Nyxra?” I asked it.

“Meow meow yoww,” said the black cat.

“Are you talking to a cat?” asked Cupid, but I ignored him.

“Thanks,” I replied and headed towards the main dining hall.

“Meow meow meo meo meow,” said the cat as I walked away.

“What do you mean this outfit makes me look fat?” I glared at the cat that almost seemed to be snickering. Then I smiled to myself as I had an idea.

“Oh Crowley! Here boy!” I yelled. My familiar came bounding out of the shadows. He had grown more powerful as I grew more powerful. As my familiar, we were connected on a deep level.

The tiny dog ran up to the cat and started licking it. A look of pure shock ran across the cat’s face. It turned to run with my happy little dog close on its paws. No matter where the cat ran, the little dog would be able to follow and he would never run out of slobber. I loved that little