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The next day, early in the morning..
"Where are you bringing us all so early in the morning?" Shen Murong asked as he yawned out loud.
He had been cultivating non-stop yesterday, and only slept for about an hour before continuing to cultivate from dawn.
As a result, he entered Level 8 of the Foundation establishment realm and was only half a step away to reach Level 9, before Duan Li called him to gather around with everyone else.
"You"ll know soon.." Duan Li replied shortly.
Shifting his sight onto Shen Lu, the latter had also managed to step up onto the Level 5 of the Foundation establishment realm. A great clarity could be seen reflected in Shen Lu"s eyes.
As a Strategist cla.s.s, it was compulsory for him to practice the Skill art called Roc"s Encompa.s.sing Eye. This was an important skill art to be used as a radar during a group battle to identify the position of the surrounding enemies.
The higher his cultivation states were, the more further and deeper he could see with his eyes!
It was similar to a Soul sense, but of a poorer quality. This was because the user had to stay still during usage and the skill requires a long activation time to use.
w.a.n.g Xiolun on the other hand, hadn"t yet made any advancement in his cultivation and was still at the Level 3 of the Core formation realm. It was understandable though, because at his realm, reinforcing one"s foundation was far more important than just raising one"s cultivation levels.
Right now, the aura exuded by w.a.n.g Xiolun was deep and unfathomable. Furthermore, this subtle Qi fluctuation around him indicated that it won"t be long before he would finish consolidating the Early stage of the Core formation realm.
By the side, in contrast to the rugged expression of his previous three followers, Xiahou Yu"s face was bright and filled with vigor.
At first sight, Duan Li suspected that she had not cultivate yesterday at all, only eating fried chicken the whole day. After all, who wouldn"t be suspicious when her face was entirely devoid of fatigue unlike the others?
But when Duan Li peered closer into her Qi fluctuation, he found out that she had actually already reached the Level 9 of the Qi Condensation realm!
"At this rate, she would be able to catch up with everyone else in no time.." Duan Li nodded in satisfaction after his initial surprise.
"Furthermore, it seems that the Monster Core that I had gifted her yesterday was quite effective in helping her shoot through her bottlenecks faster than I expected.." thought Duan Li as he cupped at his chin.
After all, when entering the Late stage and Pinnacle stage of any cultivation realm, that was the moment when one had to push even harder at their bottlenecks no matter how talented one were.
This was just like Shen Murong right now, whom was currently experiencing a steep challenge in trying to breakthrough to the Level 9 of the Foundation establishment realm.
To put it into an a.n.a.logy, the difficulties was akin to someone whom was eating to their fullest, to the extent that their stomach got extremely bloated. Yet, they still needed to force themselves and eat 10 more plates of rice slowly but constantly, trying their best to not throw up in the entire process!
In other words, a cultivator"s body would experience a very slow growth in their cultivation at this stage due to the oversaturation of spiritual Qi in their body.
This was because the body needed to "digest" the spiritual Qi properly first, before they could absorb more of it. In addition, they had to maintain this state of fullness until they breakthrough to the next level while enduring such a stifling sensation in that duration of time.
Otherwise, the acc.u.mulated spiritual Qi would just dissipate out of their body, and they had to do it again from the beginning if they want to push to the next level.
However, there are special cases where this limitation could be overcome to a certain extent, such as consuming high grade Spirit Digestion elixir and Spirit Reconstruction formation, albeit these would come at a steep side-effects later on.
The other way was to have a medium that could bypa.s.s this "digestion" process, and this was through absorbing spiritual Qi from a higher Star ranked Monster Core.
For example, the 5 Star ranked Monster Core that Duan Li gave to Xiahou Yu, inside it contains a very high density of spiritual Qi. Once absorbed, this spiritual Qi would immediately expand instantaneously in a single burst to ram furiously at one"s bottleneck!
The only thing that Xiahou Yu had to do at this point, was to absorb a small part of it slowly at a time. Not only would this continuous barrage at her bottleneck would make it crumble faster, it was not stifling as well when compared to the usual "digestion" method.
The ultimate way however, was to have an innate body that was more naturally in-tuned to the spiritual Qi, called the Innate Spirit Fetus body. This was a body that thrives on spiritual Qi and would have no difficulties in digesting them at all, enabling the person to soar in their cultivation rapidly as easy as drinking water.
But of course, the Innate Spirit Fetus body was something that one was born with and could not possibly be obtained in any other way. Those who possess this type of innate body were usually heralded as the Children of Tian (Heaven) and would have hundreds of cultist following behind them as devout believers.
The last known person whom was identified as the Children of Tian was several hundred years ago. Therefore, the Innate Spirit Fetus body was an extremely rare existence and since then, none has appeared for a very long time even until the present day.
However right now, Duan Li"s followers that had all received his blood essence were slowly showing such traits that usually only existed in the Children of Tian with their Innate Spirit Fetus body, albeit only at a fragment.
This was because, in addition to the 4 people of his initial followers, the 5 new recruits that had entered his party yesterday and bathed in his blood essence last night were also showing signs of similar traits as well!
"That blood essence was truly peculiar.. just the effects alone wouldn"t make me think twice in dipping myself in it once more, if only I could ignore the immense amount of pain and agony from it though.." Wei Shang said as he sighed in the end, with Wei w.a.n.g nodding to his older brother"s statement.
"Indeed." Fei Longwei said in a short sentence to voice his agreement.
For him, that was the first time that he had ever felt such an amount of pain from a body tempering process. But as a result, his physical body right now was at the Pinnacle stage of the Foundation establishment realm, a skip of one level from his cultivation realm at the middle stage!
"Not only does the blood essence allows us to directly reach the Pinnacle stage in one go, our innate potential seemed to be raised as well. Right now, I could feel that my Qi cycle had increased by a few folds!" Xu Rong added as her eyes gleaming with excitement.
Even Guo He had to agree with them, although he felt immensely regretful in partaking that body tempering process.
As he was the weakest of them all, only at the Level 2 of the Foundation establishment realm, the two level jump in his physical body state directly to the Pinnacle had him crying like a baby!
It was utterly embarra.s.sing as his tragic cries was heard by Xu Rong that was separated only by a wooden divider between them.
Hais!
...
Arriving at the Princ.i.p.al"s office, everyone had sweats drenching at their backs except Duan Li.
W-Why are we meeting with the Princ.i.p.al and Vice-Princ.i.p.al so early in morning?!
Could it be that they were about to be reprimanded for the Duel match yesterday?
There are even some Senior Teachers of the academy here!
And who is that scary looking person besides the Princ.i.p.al?!
Gulp!
"This is quite the large party you are bringing to me. I hope you have sufficient reason for this. Otherwise.." Liu Sheng Juan said to the Princ.i.p.al as his brows twitching and his tone threatening.
"Relax, I guarentee with my life that everything here has a reason and would only be worth it to be unveiled later on. You just have to trust me on this." the Princ.i.p.al replied casually.
"The reason why I accepted this has nothing to do with trust, but was because you agree to sell all your a.s.sets to me if this turns out to not worth my time. As for your meager life, I don"t care a single bit about it." Liu Sheng Juan said in contempt.
Hearing this, the Princ.i.p.al"s veins popped out from his temples as he shot the latter with a thug-like gaze and lifted his chin up.
"Has anyone ever told you that your words are such an annoyance and infuriating?"
Liu Sheng Juan snorted as his lips curled into a smirk, "I"ll eliminate anyone whom has a problem with that."
Both of their gazes seemed to spark some lightning in between them.
Suddenly..
Thud!
Right now, both of their faces was only inches apart, thus when the Vice-Princ.i.p.al gave a kick to the Princ.i.p.al from behind, the both of their lips almost touched with each other!
Huuu!!
Thankfully, as a Nascent soul realm expert, their reaction time could only be described as heaven-defying and they managed to swerve their heads to the side in the last moment and avoided the devil"s kiss.
"Y-You dare..!" the Princ.i.p.al bellowed out.
"Courting death..!" Liu Sheng Juan shouted.
They both shot the Vice-Princ.i.p.al with a savage look as if ready to pounce on the other party at any moment now, although the latter"s only reaction was to continue sipping at his cup of tea casually as if not caring about the two figure in front of him at all.
Watching the whole situation playing in front of them, Duan Li and his party couldn"t help but to shout within their minds.
What the h.e.l.l is going on here?!
...