Chapter 7 - The Second Energy Meridian (2/2)

Thought the wisp who just attacked a demon beast with a higher cultivation level than himself and let it get close to test his never tested before defense skills, indeed, Krune is a very 'cautious' wisp.

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A week later on the top of a big tree with thick foliage, Krune was resting from another battle he had around an hour ago against a demon python. Wisps are considered the weakest race of the universe, but it wasn't like they didn't have any good trait as a race, one of them is their immunity to any bodily poisons, unless the poison is also able to also affect the spiritual energy, wisps will find it no different than air or water, that demon python tried to use a poisonous fog against Krune, but in the end it turned out to be the easiest battle he had so far.

'I already have five demon cores, it should be more or less enough to create the second spiritual energy meridian, even if I need more spiritual energy for the second it shouldn't be that much'

Krune pondered a little more and decided that it was indeed the case, he is also at the peak of the 6th stage, the battles he had had stimulated his potential and understanding of the use of the Energy Meridian, he just need to find a secluded place where he wouldn't be disrupted during the second Spiritual Energy Meridian formation, Krune finished to restore his spiritual energy and immediately set off to find it.

It didn't take long to find one, this forest is the lair of several beasts and the majority have their own lairs where they could rest, with Krune's intelligence it didn't take long for him to find one of those. The owner of this one was a 6th stage Qi Condensation Blood Eyed Rabbit, although this type of rabbit is quite fast, it couldn't compare with the Three Tails Demon Leopard from back then, Krune got rid of it without alarming anyone and used his earth wall to seal the entrance. As a wisp, Krune has absolutely no need for air, also, spiritual energy is all encompassing, as long as special formations aren't in place to prevent the flow of spiritual energy, anywhere you go in this world will have the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, things like walls of caves are the same as empty air to it.

'With this Blood Eyed Rabbit demon core, now I have two 7th stage demon cores and four 6th stage ones, it should suffice, there is a bottleneck between the 6th and 7th stages of the Qi Condensation, although I'm confident to achieve a breakthrough, I will take quite some time with just a single Spiritual Energy Meridian, I better create my second Spiritual Energy Meridian first'

With everything in place, Krune started with the creation of his second one, he already had the experience from creating the first one, but even though he hasn't failed the creation of the second one yet, it was still taking a lot more time to finish than the first Energy Meridian.

'As I thought, just like when I was creating the pseudo meridians, every time I start a new one it will take longer form, seems like the fused Energy Meridians follow the same principle as the Pseudo ones.'

”Click”

This was the second time that Krune has heard this sound, the demon cores were already with him and just as expected, the second Spiritual Energy Meridian immediately started to absorb the spiritual energy from the surroundings, this thing looked like a bottomless hole, Krune could feel that in a shorter time than the first Energy Meridian creation, the spiritual energy around him had already vanished after the creation of the second.

'Impressive, I wonder how this technique was created at all, its just the second Energy Meridian but the consumption of spiritual energy is definitely much higher than before!

But I'm prepared this time.'

Krune brought the demon cores close and the second Spiritual Energy Meridian absorbed their spiritual energy like there was no tomorrow.

”Crack...”

”Crack...”

”Crack...”

”Crack...”

Soon, all four 6th stage cores were gone but the absorption didn't seem like to stop at all.

Krune started to get nervous, he put a lot of effort to gather those six demon cores after all, if he used all of then and the meridian still break after that, he would want to cry but would have no tears... literally.

”Crack...”

The first 7th stage demon core was gone, and just when the energy of the second 7th stage core was half consumed, the flow of energy finally started to slow down, but in the end it was still not enough in the finish the formation.

”Crack...”

The last demon core became powder and the Energy Meridian still needed some more energy otherwise it would break apart, fortunately Krune was at his peak at moment and he immediately used his own spiritual energy to finish the job. Finally, after consuming almost all of Krune's reserve of spiritual energy, the second Spiritual Energy Meridian was complete, and just like before, it shone for some time before settling down, he could finally let out a sigh of relief.

'Alright, that was more dangerous than I expected, even six demon cores were not enough to finish its formation completely, in the future I better get enough cores so that even if it goes above my predictions, I will still have enough to spare.

Let's try out the results'