Chapter 348 (2/2)

This fluorescent paint-like substance had cost Fang Xingjian close to 100,000 gold. This was also the most crucial factor in cultivating the mystical prints.

Fang Xingjian dabbed some of the pigment with his finger and drew many graceful lines on his arms in accordance to the instructions for the mystical prints. The lines eventually formed special figures.

These figures continued to stack and group together, forming many formations.

Although it was just the first level of the mystical prints, it was already extremely complicated. Fang Xingjian continued to draw on his arms carefully, filling them up with densely packed images and incantations which no one could understand.

Even for someone of Fang Xingjian’s cultivation, it took him a whole three hours before he completed the drawings on his arms with the fluorescent liquid.

At the next moment, Fang Xingjian closed his eyes, bringing the Prodigious Astral Divine Powers Waves to a stop. He then adjusted the fluctuations in his body, changing into the unique fluctuations depicted on the records for the mystical prints.

The ether particles in the surroundings seemed to be seething with excitement in just a short moment, and their fluctuations got increasingly stronger. The mystical prints on Fang Xingjian’s arms emitted an increasingly bright fluorescent glow, and after becoming as bright as possible, they disappeared.

‘Is it ready?’

Fang Xingjian opened his eyes and took a look. The mystical prints he had drawn on his arms had already disappeared. It was as if the liquid had permeated deep into his body.

‘It’s this simple?’ However, Fang Xingjian suspected if he had done something wrongly. He shook his head and started circulating his Prodigious Astral Divine Powers Waves once again, as well as activating his Heaven’s Perception, to check out the effects.

After re-activating the Prodigious Astral Divine Powers Waves and the Heaven’s Perception, Fang Xingjian’s body trembled, and his bones let out loud explosive sounds. He felt as if the blood throughout his body was flowing crazily. The ether particles in his body and outside his body continued to have exchanges, and the efficiency of his cultivation increased to become over twice as much as before.

Previously, after attaining level 22, the progress of his ether synchronization rate, which had been at 30%, had started to slow down. However, the mystical prints used a special method to allow the special materials to seep into the body, changing the quality of Fang Xingjian’s body and his vital signs. This allowed his comprehension of ether particles to advance at a tremendous pace after circulating his Waves.

Although there were no longer the benefits which the materials themselves could provide, such effects of changing one’s aptitude were clearly more heaven-defying.

‘This feeling… It’s as if my aptitude has changed. My body is now better able to accept and control the energy and information exchanged between ether particles.’

Ether particles formed everything in the universe. With Fang Xingjian’s changed aptitude and improved level of appreciating ether particles, his level of comprehension toward all areas had also gotten stronger. It seemed that the effects of changing one’s aptitude for the better could be said to be heaven-defying.

Sensing his body’s condition, Fang Xingjian was confident that in at most another half a month, his synchronization rate would increase from 34% to 40%. He would then be able to advance another level and become a level 23 Conferred Knight.

Therefore, Fang Xingjian immersed himself in tough training, without meeting anyone at all. He continued to cultivate and synthesize his Lightless Sword while tempering his attributes. When he was free, he would eat the delicacies Zhou Xingwen sent him.

Fang Xingjian felt that the strength of his body and the cultivation of his sword arts were both progressing rapidly. He had also gotten an increasingly deeper appreciation of the ether particles.

Half a month passed by. In the middle of September, he successfully synthesized the Lightless Sword into the Phenomena Sword Formation and attained the Prodigious Demolition Sword. Additionally, his ether synchronization rate also reached 40%. He could now advance to level 23.

Fang Xingjian opened his eyes, and in that instant, his pupils turned pitch black. Through his Heaven’s Perception, the entire world became extremely agitated.

He could sense that regardless of whether it was his body, each inch of his skin and flesh, or even every part of all the material substances in the world… They all seemed to be seething with excitement and fury while releasing their fluctuations.

‘Is this how it feels like to be able to sense the prowess of the heavenly thunders and that of the terrestrial magnetism after reaching a 40% synchronization rate? So, this is the power of the heavenly thunders and terrestrial magnetism which form the most basic powers of all material substances.’

[1] A legendary giant fish from the Chinese mythology which was said to be able to transform into a roc.