Chapter 49 (2/2)

In the middle of the wanton destruction, construction, and reinforcing, music composed from the hoarse and anguished howls were uncontrollably exuded from Tang Xiu’s throat.

Suddenly, without even preparing his mental force, Tang Xiu had entered into a cultivation state as the extreme twisting muscles on his face gradually calmed down.

Tang Xiu hadn’t even noticed that, when he entered cultivation state, the moon this night was at its brightest, as he was sitting in the courtyard bathing under the moonlight.

The moon shone, bright and dazzling, as the stars filled the vast sky like birdsongs and fragrant flowers accompanying the fluttering cheerful music.

Suddenly, from hundreds of millions of miles away at the end of the dome of the sky, the countless stars transformed into specks of starlight like blooming fireworks. It rained down from the sky above the South Gate Town as it completely enveloped it.

Since the South Gate Town’s location was far away from the city, coupled with the scene occurring late in the night, many people hadn’t realized this magnificent and bizarre phenomenon.

Tang Xiu’s body was just like a huge magnet as it continued to attract the starlight from the sky to enter his body.

Tang Xiu’s practice time today was particularly long as he absorbed an unprecedented large amount of starlight into his body. It was as if it was caused by the body refining medicinal liquid.

Along with the increase in starlight absorption, the star energy inside Tang Xiu’s body also slowly increased.

Five spheres…

Six spheres…

Seven spheres…

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When Tang Xiu suddenly opened his eyes, he found that the first light thread of the dawn from the horizon had already fallen into his courtyard. At the same time, an extremely invigorating feeling spread throughout his body as he was unable to control his voice and moaned.

Tang Xiu looked down and saw that the body refining medicinal liquid in the boiler had long turned transparent. It was as if it was just like a pot of boiled water with some black residues at the bottom of the pot.

Tang Xiu stretched out his arm a bit as he heard a burst of crackling sounds. At the same time, he also felt that his body was extremely comfortable.

Tang Xiu then jumped out from the pot in the next moment.

Crackling and rattling sounds resounded as Tang Xiu jumped out from the pot. 2 big footprints had been carved in the large iron pot that had been especially bought by Tang Xiu from the food market last night. At the same time, Tang Xiu also saw that the blue stone under his feet also had 2 cracks.

“Could it be that my height grew?” Tang Xiu suddenly felt for the first time that his angle and field of vision seemed to be unusually different from before. He walked toward the door for a bit and realized that his height really had increased by quite a bit.

Tang Xiu’s height previously was only 1,67 meters. But after he had soaked himself in the Body Refining Liquid, his height grew by nearly 10 cm overnight.

In fact, the biggest change Tang Xiu had was not his height, but his strength.

Tang Xiu was quite astonished when he found that his strength had an explosive growth. It was nearly 10 folds stronger than previously.

Tang Xiu looked around as he saw a giant stone teapot decoration in the courtyard. There was a line carved on the stone teapot _“worthless things will become extremely valuable in time of need”_ [1]. Tang Xiu smiled as he stretched out his hands to hold the teapot’s body and easily lifted it up.

This giant stone teapot was 500 kg in weight. Tang Xiu estimated that his strength had at least reached 1500 kg, and that was only the strength of his arms.

Apart from the increase in his height and arm’s strength, Tang Xiu’s Spiritual Sense also had been enhanced sharply.

Tang Xiu’s Spiritual Sense could only cover a few meters scope around him before. He also had to completely concentrate to be able to achieve it. But now, his Spiritual Sense was able to completely envelop nearly 100m in radius, and Tang Xiu also didn’t need to concentrate beforehand.

“9 stars. I actually have 9-star spheres inside my body right now. 9 in the _Heavenly Art of Cosmic Genesis_ is the peak. That means that I have reached the peak of the Vitality Tempering stage. So the next stage would be Skin Strengthening stage?” When Tang Xiu observed his body with his Spiritual Sense, he found that the Star Spheres inside his body had increased to 9 spheres from the previous 4 spheres. Therefore, he couldn’t help but exclaim out loud.

Although he had long known that cultivating the _Heavenly Art of Cosmic Genesis_ , which was a peerless secret cultivation method from the God Race and Demon Race, would enhance strength very fast, but when Tang Xiu really felt the effect of this cultivation method, he was quite scared.

“At present, I only have brute force. I don’t know for how much my defensive power has been enhanced by. Only when I complete the Skin Strengthening will I have the invulnerability and will be barely able to fully protect myself.” Tang Xiu quickly awakened from his surprised condition due to his strength promotion.

His state of mind had returned to normal. But Tang Xiu was stunned when he prepared to put on his clothes.

Because not only was Tang Xiu’s height had increased, but his body was also bigger and became sturdier. He couldn’t wear his previous clothes.

“Ah, I have no choice but to buy new clothes.” When Tang Xiu looked at his short old clothes that didn’t suit him anymore, he had no choice but to take out a phone from his old clothes to ask for help.

Just when Tang Xiu saw a list of dense missed calls from his phone’s screen, a look of puzzlement expression emerged on his face.

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[1] The raws for this line only had 4 characters 一壶千金 (Yī hú qiānjīn) literally a pot of a daughter or a thousand jin (500kg) pot. However, the line is also a metaphor that means _worthless things usually become extremely valuable in time of need_. Usually used as a reminder in decorative carvings. I used the metaphor here since the villa was designed in Chinese architectural design.

[2] Cultivation level in the novel in advance:

Cultivation level for normal cultivation method could be found later. It’s just like in other novels…

Qi Refining à Foundation Establishment à Gold Core à Nascent Soul à bla bla bla ????

For the Heavenly Art of Cosmic Genesis… well, it’s quite different and confusing even though I’ve read the latest raws. Firstly, the author had stressed out that it was a different cultivation method, thus the cultivation level’s power was also unknown. Secondly, the author will (only shortly) explain later (takes hundreds of chapters) that a certain stage in Heavenly Art of Cosmic Genesis is comparable with a certain stage in normal cultivation method. Thirdly, it seems that the author will prolong the story… even the previous gambling scene spends too many chapters.

*[Long Taos]: side characters in Chinese operas who perform acrobatics and fight scenes

*[12.47 to 13.07]: don’t ask me about the tree sap