Chapter 57 - Do I Look Like Some Villain? (1/2)
Leaving Krune's non sense aside, Yusa focused on the Spiritual Energy Meridian for the next days, in the end, it was as Krune expected, other races can also create them, as it was her first meridian, it didn't use too much spiritual energy, but the real test would come after it, is it possible to use the Spiritual Energy Meridians together with the normal meridians of a blood and flesh body? The answer was no, it can't. Yusa tried to use both, but once the Spiritual Energy Meridian started to work, it would occupy all connections to the dantian, in the end, her normal meridians would become just decorations.
”I think it is because the Spiritual Energy Meridians are much stronger than any meridian of your body, you can see that since a single meridian alone already does the job of several normal ones, but for that to happens, it needs all connections, for now try to form the next Spiritual Energy Meridians, you are already at the Foundation Establishment after all and have enough spirit stones, once you create four or five meridians, see if it is better than using all your normal opened meridians together.”
Yusa nodded.
”After you finish that, we can check how good your control over the energies is, the Myriad Energies Technique should improve your control over the elements even more than before too, you should be able to see through flaws and be more perceptive to the elemental energies.”
Yusa accepted that and started creating her next spiritual energies meridians, although it would take some time, it should be very beneficial for her, not to mention that now that she completed one of them, the next ones would be easier to create.
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Krune returned to his room and resumed his Divine Sense training, he was planning to try the last two tests to become a legacy disciple soon, with his control over the Divine Sense and his constant tempering of the soul with tribulation lightning, Krune's prowess could already be said to be at the top between the soul races.
He was looking at an anti-Divine Sense formation in front of him, one of the skills of the All Encompassing Soul Technique was the Formation Penetration skill, the ability to be able to see through formations that block the Divine Sense.
'If I get successful his time, I will try the legacy disciple tests.'
The skill worked by focusing in a single point of the formation and then pierce through it, just like a needle, after going through the Divine Sense would spread again, the point where it pierced through would be the connection between Krune and what was inside.
Krune concentrated on his Divine Sense and gathered all in a corner of the formation, before, all he could do was to expand and contract his divine sense, but after months of training, he can know change the format of his Divine Sense just like his spiritual energy. After enough was gathered, Krune shot his Divine Sense forward and it instantly passed through the formation, his Divine Sense soon expanded on the other side while keeping the link with him, Krune could now see what was behind the formation.
'Success! Although Hasik said that the formation isn't very high level, it is still not something that can be broken through without alarming others that easily, and the more proficiency I have, the more powerful this ability will become!'
The main use of this ability wasn't simply seeing what is behind the formation, but being able to see without causing damage to the formation to not alert the people inside, that's the real use of the Formation penetration skill.
Krune took a deep breath and left his room, he sent a message to Ao and Shinja that he was going to try the legacy disciple test now, but asked to not bother Yusa for now while she is creating the next Spiritual Energy Meridians.
In the Order Hall, Hase Hasik was looking at Krune, he looked very pleased with Krunes progress over the past 10-11 months, his improvement was going much smoother than Hasik expected.
”So, you wish to try the legacy disciple test now, are you sure about that?”
Krune nodded, he wouldn't come here without being confident enough.
”Very well, as you probably expected already, the next test is Divine Sense miscellaneous uses and the last one is Divine Sense combat, in the first test you will be asked to complete a few task of the side uses of Divine Sense like the Formation Penetration and Elements Changing View, you don't need to pay too much attention to this test, because there was very few people who specialized in side uses of the Divine Sense in the past, you only need an accomplishment rate of 30% or more to pass, otherwise the biggest majority of the contestants in the past wouldn't even be able to reach the last test.”
Krune understood that logic, it's just like the other side occupations like alchemist, formations or blacksmith, in the end there isn't a lot of people who work on them, the majority has always walked the combat path only after all.
”Alright, I'm going to teleport you over, good luck.”
The surroundings around Krune changed for an instant, and when he noticed, he was already in another room, surprisingly, it was the paintings room from the first test to become an ordinary disciple, before he could ask what is happening, the robotic like voice of the test spoke again.
”Legacy Disciple first Miscellaneous Divine Sense test, Formation Penetration test, all paintings are completely covered by anti-Divine Sense formations, in the test the contestant will need to pierce through the formation and find which image the painting is about and how many marks are hidden inside. The pass condition is to be able to accurately tell three paintings, damaging the formations will give you a low accomplishment rate, not damaging the formations will give you a high accomplishment rate.”
Krune understood now.
'I see, this time there is no side without formations, the painting is completely locked.'
Krune also noticed that there was only three paintings this time and no reward was mentioned, but that was to be expected, this is the legacy disciple tests, to become a legacy disciple and gain access to all the resources is the best reward that could be there.
'No wonder Hasik said to not pay much attention to the miscellaneous tests, if I don't care for the accomplishment rate, I can simply pierce through the formations without caring for any damage, maybe even destroying them completely and then check what is inside, this would be several times easier than seeing what is inside without damaging the formation.'
Krune wasn't planning to go for a low rate though, not to mention that he was very confident, he could see that this test had again adjusted to his cultivation level, after he broke through the 5th stage, his Divine Sense became even stronger!
Krune gathered his Divine Sense in a single point and pierced through the first painting, as soon as he touched the formation, he noticed one thing.
'So easy! The level of the formation in this painting is much lower than the ones I was practicing back in the training room. How come there wasn't any formation of this level back there?'
Although Krune was curious, he didn't waste time thinking about it, he swiftly called the number of hidden marks and which image it was.
”Correct.”
And then, Krune moved to the next one, back in the Order Hall, Hasik was looking at that with a smile on his face.
'Seems like I did the right thing in changing the formation of the training room, at first I was afraid that he would give up because of the difficult of piercing through the formations there, I told him that those formations are of low level but that was a lie, they can't be considered top notch but they are definitely not weak either, but in the end he was still successful in piercing through in just a little less than a year, compared with the formations in the legacy disciple test, those formations in the training rooms are several times harder to see through, this test will be a walk in the park for him.'
'Cough, cough, not to mention that if I had left the weaker tools and formations in the training rooms, he would have probably destroyed everything.'
Krune, of course, had no idea about that, he just felt awkward with how easy the test was going on, he pierced without damaging the last formation of the of the test and called out its contents.