Tyler was an avid reader of cultivation novels in his previous world. So when he was reborn in the cultivation world, he was extremely excited.

He even prayed to the Heavenly Dao to give him above-average talent and some good luck every night before sleep.

But when he lost his parents at the age of six, he realized either his mana or luck would be boundless.

But every action had an equal and opposite reaction. If he were to be given boundless luck or mana, he would be stripped of something.

He didn’t care.

It was normal to lose something to gain something more important. He was sad about the loss of his parents, but he didn’t stop praying for above-average talent.

Because his goal was rather simple.

He wanted to go out for adventures where he would find treasures and opportunities that would improve his strength.

That’s why he prayed for good luck.

Without good luck, it was almost impossible to survive in the cultivation world, especially during those adventures.

As an avid reader of cultivation novels, he had read different types of protagonists.

But there were mainly three types.

Low-Key, Arrogant, and Adventurous!

Low-Key type of protagonists often inherit a treasure or system that allows them to improve without doing much.

Sign-in, Space-based treasures, and attribute-based system were the major cheats for these protagonists.

Arrogant types of protagonists were similar to the low-key in terms of cheat, but their actions and background would often be very high.

If Low-key type protagonists were often humble, kind, carefree people, arrogant-type protagonists were often villains.

So, Tyler only liked Adventurous types of protagonists.

They could be humble but also have their own pride. They didn’t stay in one place to improve their strength, nor do they gain strength very easily.

Every level, every realm would be a struggle, but they also had a certain type of cheat that made them different than other people of their worlds.

What Tyler loved about adventurous types was the blood-pumping feeling of danger they go through and the relaxing excitement when their realm improves.

Even the smallest improvement would make him feel excited.

He would even go to their wiki page to find their cultivation progress. That was just him as a reader.

So, imagine how incredible he felt when he came to this world and got a chance to choose an adventurous path.

But now, he was reduced to a mixture of the first and second type.

He didn’t need to leave his home to improve his cultivation, but at the same time, he also found that his parents were more powerful than he had imagined.

He still wanted to become an adventurous type. He already had a powerful cheat that made a difference.

So, he just wanted to leave this place and go on an adventure.

But the problem was that he couldn’t even reach the next realm.

He wasn’t sure what would happen if he reached the next realm. What he said to Daisy wasn’t completely true.

He just wanted to give Fire Empress a heads-up.

That’s right! His goal was to make the Fire Empress understand his rule. At the same time, he also wanted to check the limits of this tower.

He wanted to see just how far he could push this tower.

After all, they were not destined, but the tower couldn’t leave him. So, knowing how much he could force this tower would help him in the long run.

Many of the protagonists of adventurous types could remain weak and trash for years. So, why couldn’t he?

Since he admired them so much, why should his mind and heart be any weaker than theirs?

He wanted to test their limits while also testing his limits.

A month, six months, a year, two, a decade, he wasn’t sure.

It could even be a lifetime.

He only had one goal for this test.

He must make sure that the nine ticking bombs in his body don’t explode.

They were his greatest problems.

As for dual cultivation and women?

He didn’t mind dual cultivation. He did feel he no longer had any chances of liking it because of how much it was forcing him.

But he wouldn’t just ignore it completely as long as he could solve those nine bombs.

Since he already had two women, why should he be confined with nine women?

Why must they be nine?

Why couldn’t they be six or eighteen?

Just because of the tower? Just because of the fate?

He was a goddamn cultivator. He was born to defy fate. He was born rebellious.

Humans were rebellious by nature, but the cultivation only amplified their rebellious nature.

How could he be satisfied with the fate that others had written for him?

Since he was born in this world, he must defy his own fate.

This was his conviction.

But this was also a gamble.

He wasn’t sure if they would give up first. Without the Fire Empress binding vow, he would never enter the next realm.

That meant his journey could pretty much end within just a hundred years.

"Young Master, do you want to absorb the True Dragon Blood now?"

Daisy asked, looking a bit pale.

Tyler nodded as he sat cross-legged.

"If I absorb this, I might be able to reach the ninth level. You managed to hold on for two rounds, so my mana has filled three hundred and forty parts of the Mana Circuit."

"Twenty more parts and I will reach the ninth level, which is also the peak of the Mana Condensation Realm."

"Since I am already so close and my Mana Circuit isn’t constrained by this speed, I shouldn’t waste this opportunity."

Hearing that, Daisy nodded, injecting some of her mana into the spatial ring and releasing a small glass bottle.

He took the bottle in his hand and saw a small portion of liquid at the bottom. Although it was just a drop, it was quite a big drop.

He raised the bottle and released the liquid into his mouth.

The moment it reached his mouth, he felt a violent energy.

This time, he didn’t have a guardian to control the impact of this energy. He immediately noticed an impressive amount of dragon aura.

He realized why dragon techniques were needed to absorb the dragon blood. Without something to utilize and control that dragon aura, the user’s soul could be harmed.

The energy wasn’t as enormous as the previous dragon blood, but it no longer had that constraint.

Without that constraint, Tyler began to feel the real pain of refining such a high amount of energy.

This only lasted for a few minutes. With his previous experience, he didn’t need hours or days to adjust to his situation.

’Wow! Young Master has already gotten that energy control. Even with a dragon technique, the feeling of refining the dragon blood feels like bathing in magma.’

’And, that’s just heat. The sheer pressure released by the dragon blood can only be pushed back by the dragon technique.’

’But even then, it releases more than enough shockwave to impact one’s mental capacity. So, people refining the dragon blood take a few days just to adjust to the dragon blood.’

’It seems like Young Master’s adventure in that place was quite successful.’

The dragon energy was so enormous that it was leaking out of his body, creating a red coating of bubbling energy.

The high density of the energy was making it impossible to dissipate into the air, and its heat was melting the bedsheets.

Fortunately, Daisy was present.

By releasing her mana, she managed to cover the bed in ice, defending against the heat of the dragon energy.

’That was the blood of the True Dragon. Any true dragon is above the sixth realm, which is why this blood is Seventh Grade Treasure.’

’But Young Master is consuming the energy from this treasure much faster than I expected. What are these scales?’

’Is this some sort of transformation? Treasured Dragon Body Technique doesn’t like this. So, Young Master must’ve chosen something else.’

’And, it seems stronger than the Treasure Dragon Body Technique.’

Daisy thought to herself as she watched red scales slowly forming around his body. The first scale appeared on his chest.

Because his body was naked, she could see where exactly those scales were being produced.

The second scale appeared next to it, and the third scale appeared pretty quickly.

Of course, it wasn’t exactly quick. Each scale took at least ten minutes to form, but from Daisy’s perspective, it was quite fast.

Tyler’s strength was also improving rapidly.

Just with the creation of his first dragon scale, he had reached the second level of True Dragon Transformation Technique.

In this level, he needed to forge eighty-one scales that would completely cover his body in dragon scales.

But by the time he had over thirty percent of energy left, he only managed to create twenty-seven scales.

So, he had successfully reached the Early Stage of the Second Level of True Dragon Transformation.

Then, with the remaining energy, he began using his Harmony of Nine Phoenixes.