Divine Emperor of Death

Princess Isabella became panic-stricken as he held her, but as a few seconds passed, she realized that he didn't do anything to her other than embracing her.

She calmed down, and her hands that were hanging freely and flustered left to embrace him back as well. She felt her heartbeat rate increase even further, echoing in her ears. 

However, when she realized that they were the only two who were here, alone in a newly makeshift renovated cultivation chamber, she delusionally felt as if the entire world was hers!

But that further increased her heartbeat as her blood rushed to her head, almost making her feel dizzy.

Noticing that she was unusually warm and feeling that her heartbeat was even sound to him, Davis took his arms away and moved back from her embrace.

And then... Witnessing her crimson face that became flushed with surging blood, he momentarily became dumbfounded.

Was her vitality too high to become like this? Or is Princess Isabella just that shy when it comes to accepting her womanly feelings? After all, he had already made her kiss and even made her experience heaven once.

Looking at his reaction, Princess Isabella became utterly embarrassed.

Her confidence as a Martial Master came crumbling like a dam that broke and shattered into many rubbles.

She embarrassingly lowered her head and could only find solace at the fact that this happened only because of her affectionate and womanly feelings towards him. She, who was once a woman who feared no man, finally 'feared' this man.

She ultimately realized that these womanly feelings were not something she could suppress quickly, at least when in front of him.

Davis took a deep breath, trying to calm himself down. 

Whenever he took a deep breath, he was able to calm himself down. At least, most of the time, he was able to because he had fine-tuned himself to calm down after taking a deep breath.

It was a habit in his previous life and well as this life because he had made sure to cultivate this calming reflex.

He had to calm down because Princess Isabella looked too seductive and charming for the current him. She's a beauty who could even stir even a stoic and dull man's lust while much less needs to be said about him.

Davis utterly suppressed the lust that grew in his mind, heart, and his lower body. Once he calmed down, he looked at the still red-faced Princess Isabella and uttered in a calm tone, "Our marriage will happen according to your wishes, Isabella..."

Princess Isabella looked taken aback before she slowly calmed down. It took her a few seconds, but her face eventually became natural, and only then did she nod her head after the short yet long silence.

"How do you want the marriage to be?" Davis asked with a smile as he raised his brows.

Princess Isabella thought for a second.

Numerous thoughts flashed across her mind.

The Grand Sea Continent, the Ruth Empire, her royal father, her half-siblings...

However, only her royal father, Mark Ruth, remained in her thoughts. As for the others, no one came to her mind as she was a recluse.

"I want my royal father to witness our marriage... I don't have any other requirements..." 

Davis became stunned at hearing her requirements, but he smirked, thinking that she didn't state of having the marriage at the Ruth Empire's Capital. 

That meant that she was clear on being married off to the Loret Empire, married to Davis Loret, instead of having him marrying into the Ruth Empire.

After all, she was once the Empress, and because of it, there should be numerous complications in her marriage, but she discarded all of it or didn't even deign to put it in front of her thoughts.

"As you wish, Isabella..."

Davis smiled before he uttered with a bold look on his face, "Watch me breakthrough to the Law Manifestation Stage after refining the Derelict Extinction Lightning..."

He then descended and sat cross-legged on the surface.

Princess Isabella widened her eyes at his confidence. 

She felt that she had to say something to warn him. Still, after witnessing something like that strange and evil energy, even she thought that it shouldn't be a problem for Davis to suppress and ultimately refine the Low-Level King Grade Lightning Elemental, Derelict Extinction Lightning without encountering issues.

'... Even if the Lightning Elemental is in his Soul Sea, he shouldn't face trouble with that dark energy residing in his Soul Sea...'

She had many questions and no answers, but the only thing she knew is that she shouldn't prod into his secrets.

'Is that perhaps, his master's will?' 

Princess Isabella assumed that it should be the case but didn't think he was hiding out of his own will. However, it wasn't Davis felt like hiding it. He just felt as if the time wasn't right.

Considering that he hadn't even spoken about it to Natalya yet, he felt that telling it to Princess Isabella sooner meant that he favored her more.

In the future, he didn't want them to think that way, so he felt that after marrying Princess Isabella, he could call both Natalya and her to reveal his revealable secrets.

Favoritism... He wanted to avoid that and treat them equally as much as possible.

As for Evelynn, she already knew since he had chosen to place his trust in her. Except for Fallen Heaven's existence, she knew almost everything about him.

Davis sensed the Derelict Extinction Lightning still be submissive in his Soul Sea. He felt a little disoriented at its meekness. Such a mighty Lightning Elemental, a fruit of the heavens, got scared of Fallen Heaven's death-like energy.

Did that mean that Fallen Heaven was more powerful than the heavens? 

'No... This King Grade Lightning Elemental can in no way represent in the heavens... I doubt even the legendary Immortal Grade does...' He arrogantly mused.

Taking a deep breath, he closed his eyes and locked away all his stray thoughts. Using his soul force, he enveloped the Lightning Elemental and started to refine it.

And as he expected, due to the dark hazy chains already encasing and imprisoning the Lightning Elemental, it didn't even display a hint of an adverse or aggressive reaction. 

This unfortunate circumstance of the Derelict Extinction Lightning let Davis freely act and refine it to his heart's content.

In the past, when he refined the Fallen Extinction Lightning, his father and mother took the brunt of the refinement process, so he only felt a little portion of the brunt, but even that made his meridian points and pathways almost seared.

And due to his already developed Soul Sea, he was instructed to bring in the Fallen Extinction Lightning into his Soul Sea rather than his undeveloped dantian. After refining and assimilating it, he moved it to his dantian in the later stages and successfully absorbed its energy and comprehended its properties.

He was going to do the same thing, except he was going to simultaneously temper his soul and send the refined energy to the dantian by circulating it in the meridians during the refining process.

This process would ensure that no energy from the black ball of lightning end up wasted!

Without delaying, Davis started to refine the Lightning Elemental with his soul force. Its outer layer became a wavy surface as energy began to be extracted and purified from it.

Davis instantly brought a bit of that refined energy towards his Soul Essence and made it stir!

Abruptly, he felt a tingle before pain enveloped his soul!

Davis clenched his teeth and repeated the process. He did it bit by bit so that he didn't get overwhelmed or pulsed to death.

By using his incredible skill in multitasking borne from his Soul Forging Cultivation, he didn't forget to send the majority of the refined energy to his dantian by energy circulation.

The meridian point known as Yintang was the only meridian point present between his eyebrows, right alongside his glabella. This Yintang meridian point denoted the single meridian that directly connected to his Soul Sea, becoming the only viable and safe pathway to the other meridian points and dantian for energy to circulate.

Davis used this meridian point and pathway to send the refined energy towards his dantian. At the same time, he experienced pain in the meridian pathways that circulated the refined energy.

However, thanks to his incredible resilience and strengthening of his meridians through Body Tempering Cultivation, his meridian veins successfully transported the refined energy to the dantian without being torn.