Chapter 17 - The Universe (2/2)

”This should be the most difficult part of your foundation, where does your confidence comes from? Don't be hasty, you already spent half a year, take it easy to be sure that no mishaps will happen.”

Krune looked at Ruik a little surprised, it seemed like Ruik was concerned that he might die, he couldn't help but think that by now he already considered this Two Headed Demon Snake as a friend, they were first bounded by a contract, but he felt like Ruik wouldn't try anything even if the contract wasn't there.

Ruik also noticed it and felt weird, the demon snake didn't know how to deal with this feeling and shooed Krune away to hide it's embarrassment, Krune left while laughing out loud. His mood and confidence improved even more now.

Six months of coexistence can change one's heart.

But then Krune remembered what Ruik asked and quickly came back to explain, even though the snake was trying hide it's face it still paid attention.

”So, it's basically because I'm a wisp, you might not know but different from you guys, because I don't have a blood and flesh body, my soul is one with my core, for example, if you had failed your Foundation Establishment breakthrough, your core would break and you would be able to cultivate again, but If I fail, I will die, it does indeed seems like much worse.”

”But it's exactly because of that that we wisps understand out cores hundreds of times better than you guys do, it's not a misconception to say that wisps live inside their cores, and the planet in my universe foundation just so happen to need a core too. I intend to build the core of my planet the way I understand my own core.”

”First, it will ensure compatibility and stability, it will be easy to manipulate.”

”Second, not only that is the place where I will nurture my future core for the Core Formation realm, it is also the place where my soul will reside after the breakthrough, so, the more familiar I am with the place, the better it will be.”

This time, Ruik couldn't help but show it's face again, it's just that this time it didn't look embarrassed, but astonished.

”You wisps really have a hard time, don't you?”

It couldn't be helped, that's the fate of a race which doesn't have a corporeal body.

Krune simply laughed it out

”Don't worry, I'm confident I will succeed. If I don't believe myself, why should anyone else do so?”

Suddenly, Ruik thought about one thing and decided to warn him

”Now that I think about it, since you said that your soul is one with your core, the process of breaking the interior of your core is bound to be a very dangerous process, at the very least it is probably going to be extremely painful, you better keep that in mind.”

Krune simply agreed with the snake

”I know, I have long since understood this fact, so you could say that I've been preparing myself from the moment you told me about breaking the interior of the core to create the foundation.”

Ruik simply nodded it's head and didn't say anything more, this is, after all, a hurdle that Krune will have to surpass on his own, no one will be able to help him with that.

As expected, it didn't take long for Krune to finish the last part of his preparations, with the core of the planet having the same shape as his inner core, everything else was easy to think and finish theorizing.

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A month later, Ruik, Lakin and the Lizard Dragons were in front of the cave room with the spiritual vein lake, Krune was looking at them tenderly, those are his friends and in a certain way, his family.

In the last month, Krune went out to gather spirit stones for his breakthrough, demon cores would not do because they lose spiritual energy with time, so he assaulted quite a few 8th and 9th stage Qi Condensation beast lairs which had spiritual veins, he didn't kill any of the beasts, only gave them a beating and took away their spirit stones, he also avoided attacking any Foundation Establishment beast lairs, it was to prevent those beasts to come back for revenge while he was in the process of breaking through. For his surprise, Ruik had also gone out to help him gather spirit stones for him, Ruik tried to hide his real feelings though.

”My contract says that I need to protect you, so by going out and gathering spirit stones will reduce the number of spiritual veins that you need to attack, that's all.”

Krune simply laughed and didn't point it out.

In the last seven months, Lakin had finally created all his nine pseudo energy meridians, and with Krune's help and pointers, he now had his first Spiritual Energy meridian. Krune still couldn't understand why Lakin, as a wisp too, took so long to reach this step. Lakin was very dedicated in his cultivation to the point that he was already at the 7th stage of Qi Condensation even though he has only one Spiritual Energy meridian, so he could only tell him to keep the hard work, even if he is much slower than Krune, he is still a far cry from any other wisps in this world.

As for the Lizard Dragons, the oldest one has already reached the 8th stage of the Qi Condensation, once it breaks through the 9th stage, it will finally finish forming it's conscience and be able to think straightly. The other ones were all at the 7th stage with the youngest having just breakthrough it. This group already had the power to protect the spiritual vein lake on its own.

”Alright everyone, the time has come, I will ask for you stay outside and don't come in the spiritual vein lake room, I will need to focus and the process can't be interrupted, also, I have no idea how long it will take to finish the process so there is no need to keep waiting for me outside, just go out and do your own things.”

Lakin shouted out loud

”Master, you will definitely succeed!”

The Lizard Dragons only roared at him.

Krune looked at Ruik and transmitted his thoughts to him using Divine Sense.

”Ruik, if I fail in my Foundation Establishment brea-”

Before he could even finish saying what he wanted, Ruik cut him off.

”Shut up! I'm feeling sleepy, tell me what you want later.”

It then turned around and left.

Krune was taken aback, he then just laughed once more.

'Seems like I will have to succeed no matter what.'

Krune used his earth element to close up the entrance to the spiritual vein lake and started the process of breaking through.