Supreme Devil Lord: I Can Refine All Energy-Chapter 67: Path Of Cultivation

Elena, noticing his incredulous expression, smiled bitterly in her heart, realizing her teachings were going to become a hindrance to him. So, she wore a solemn expression on her face and said,

"Listen, Eric. The path of cultivation is ruthless and unforgiving. While, as a human being, it’s important to be considerate and kind to others, especially to those weaker than oneself, one should never show mercy to or pity one’s enemies. As your father used to say, ’Showing mercy to your enemies is the stupidest thing you can do.’ And since we are not to be merciful to our enemies, there is no need to feel guilty. Do you understand what I am trying to tell you?"

After a moment of silence, Eric heavily nodded, "Yes, I understand, Mom."

"Good. Now go in, take a bath, and come to the dining room for dinner." Elena smiled, ruffling his hair.

Nodding his head, Eric went inside the house after smiling at Hannah, who had been standing awkwardly by their side all this while.

...

When he arrived in the dining room after taking a bath, everyone was sitting around the dining table, waiting for him.

"Can we start now?" Frank grumbled when he saw Eric and, without waiting for Vivian’s response, started eating.

Vivian and Hannah smiled awkwardly at Elena and Eric before Vivian said, "Come eat; food is getting cold."

A short while later, Frank and Hannah were done eating. While Hannah waited for Riya to finish, Frank, after wishing their mother and everyone else a good night, went to his room.

A few minutes later, Riya and Hannah were also gone, leaving Elena, Vivian, and Eric.

"I heard you killed someone today, a Warrior?" Vivian asked; though she appeared calm, Eric could see she was a little worried.

Putting his spoon down, Eric looked at her and nodded, "Yes. He was a Warrior. However, you don’t need to worry about anyone coming to take revenge for him. I’ll handle everything."

Vivian sighed, "I can’t help it."

Eric didn’t say anything and just nodded, understanding her situation.

After a few moments of silence, Vivian exhaled a deep breath and said, "I’ll believe you."

Simply nodding in response, he started eating again after indicating Elena to do the same.

...

After returning to his room, Eric didn’t waste time. Taking off his robes, he sat cross-legged on the ground and closed his eyes.

[Refined Energy: 203]

’Let’s begin the second tempering.’ He inhaled deeply and willed the system to start releasing the Refined Energy for him to use.

The same thing happened. He felt extremely good for the first few seconds as the Refined Energy started circulating within him before he started feeling pain, which gradually increased, causing him to clench his jaws and fists tightly to stop himself from screaming and disturbing others.

Time passed, and the pain he felt continued to increase. Thanks to his experience during the first tempering, however, he had become somewhat used to it and managed to stop himself from screaming despite the pain becoming more fierce than what he had endured during the first tempering.

When the second tempering was completed, he was completely drained, both mentally and physically, and directly fainted.

...

"Argh!"

A groan echoed in the room when Eric tried to open his eyes after regaining consciousness, only to feel pain.

A moment later, he realized why this was so. His entire body was once again covered with impurities that had solidified during the hours he was asleep.

"Fuck! I should have cleaned myself before fainting." He cursed while trying to get up, feeling the pain caused by the hardened impurities trying to stop him from moving.

He tried to peel the impurity scales off his eyes, but they were glued tightly. He felt if he forced it, his eyelids would tear along with them, so he stopped and moved toward the bathroom relying on his memory.

Stumbling into bed and walls a few times, he finally entered the bathroom and arrived beside the bathtub. Unfortunately, however, there was no water in it.

Tsk!

Clicking his tongue in frustration, he used 2 RE and bought 80 liters of water.

’This much should be enough...’ He thought and started cleaning himself.

...

Over half an hour later, Eric left the bathroom, his skin all over his body completely red due to all the hard scrubbing he had done.

He then cleaned the place he was sitting earlier, wore his robes, and fell onto the soft bed, wanting to rest.

Knock! Knock!

Unfortunately, just then someone softly knocked on his door.

"Big Brother... Are you cultivating?" Riya’s low voice sounded. Clearly, she wasn’t being too loud in case he was cultivating.

He smiled wryly at this. If he was cultivating, just this would have been enough to distract him. Still, he didn’t blame her and started to get up to open the door when his gaze fell on the back of his palm, which was red.

Immediately, he dropped the idea and called out instead, "No. What is it?"

Outside, Riya sighed in relief before she frowned and knocked on the door, hard this time, and shouted, "Why aren’t you opening the door then?"

"I... I’m doing something. Tell me what’s up?"

When she heard this, Riya’s senses tingled. Narrowing her eyes, she banged on the door again. "It’s very important. Quick, open up."

Inside the room, Eric sighed. He could tell there was nothing important. She must have thought he was trying to hide something, which he was, and she wanted to know what it was.

He thought about ignoring her, but thinking back to the times when he tried to hide some things and she got upset, not talking to him for several days, he sighed in defeat.

Creak~

Riya was getting impatient and was about to shout again when the door opened. She was about to rush inside the room to see what he was doing when she noticed his face, neck, and exposed part of his hands that he was trying to hide were crimson red.

Her pretty eyes went wide in worry for a second, and she hurriedly checked if something was wrong with him. Once she saw nothing seemed wrong, she pointed at him with one hand and with the other held her belly as she burst out in loud laughter.

"Pfffft~ Hahahaha! What happened? Why are you red like a monkey’s bottom?"

Eric’s lips twitched in annoyance before his eyes glinted. He hurriedly stepped toward her, but Riya seemed to know what he was going to do and quickly covered her cheeks before looking at him with a smug look on her face. 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

"Tch!" Eric clicked his tongue and turned around, walking back to the bed. Riya followed him in, still laughing.

"Alright, stop now." Eric sat down before asking, "Why are you here?"

Riya laughed for a few seconds more before she said, "Yeah. Mom told me to check up on you to see if you had woken up and were not cultivating. Since you are not, come out and eat something. You already missed breakfast."

"Hm? It’s already afternoon?" Eric was a little surprised. He didn’t feel that he had slept for too long.