Chapter 15 - Advancing to the Sixth Stage! (1/2)

Streams after streams of Celestial Chi coursed within Ye Chen’s body while they made their way into his dantian. As the volume of Celestial Chi in the dantian rapidly rose, Ye Chen could already feel the distance between the rank barrier and his ever-rising Celestial Chi closing.

Generally, even the most gifted warrior with bewildering speed in cultivation would need at least two months to advance from the peak of the Fifth Stage to the Sixth Stage. Thus, given how recent his last Stage Advancement was — he had just attained the Fifth Stage a few days ago — Ye Chen was not too preoccupied with breaking through the rank barrier at the moment. Instead, he was more focused on accruing and condensing his Celestial Chi as a preparation to tear through this rank barrier in one push but only when he was ready.

He was working toward condensing his Celestial Chi when he realized he was close to breaking through the rank barrier. Cracks began to show on the barrier, as if they would break with just the slightest touch.

Ye Chen’s heart skipped a beat in consternation. ‘What’s going on?’

The rank barrier’s situation was akin to a water dam while Ye Chen’s Celestial Chi was acting as the water that had reached the dam’s maximum capacity. Although the water may be still and inert, its sheer volume was enough to push the dam to the breaking point.

The dam was about to break until suddenly, it did! It crumbled in a loud crash!

Ye Chen could feel his own Celestial Chi racing like unruly waves of the sea. He had attained the Celestial Chi Sixth Stage!

Chi Gale State!

Ye Chen gave a low growl and his Celestial Chi instantly radiated from within his body. Once a pugilist had attained the Chi Gale State that was enabled through breaking into the Sixth Stage, any impact of a martial art technique could be accentuated by several folds!

He did not expect his rank barrier to crumble so easily despite his deliberate inertness. Lowering his chin, Ye Chen began to wonder — could it be that his body, baptised by the strange Celestial Chi from the Flying Dagger thus attaining Pure Yang State, had become much more adept in Stage Advancement? Or did the unique property of his Celestial Chi, unfound in the Celestial Chi everyone else had accrued, greatly eased the process of Stage Advancement?

Well, no matter what the reasons were, you cannot find fault in progressing through a Stage!

He returned his attention to the Nine Astra Skies discourse. With the First Grade Thunder Emperor Technique’s fully developed, Ye Chen found himself facing two choices: either he continued to develop Second Grade Thunder Emperor Technique so that his Celestial Chi Stage could be advanced as quickly as before, or he could start to train himself with the other few techniques until he had mastered all of their First Grade. The cost of the latter option would be the deceleration of his Stage Advancement but the upside was obvious. The combined power of Nine Astra Skies was no doubt far more superior to just Thunder Emperor Technique itself!

After a brief analysis of choices, Ye Chen decided to train with another technique from the rest of the chapters that were featured in Nine Astra Skies. This time, he was going to train with the Wind-style cultivation system called Wind Grace Technique.

He was not sure how long it would take for him to master the First Grade Wind Grace Technique. After all, he was only quick in mastering First Grade Thunder Emperor Technique because it was related to his old friend, the Inner Thunderclap Energy Cultivation technique. Out of his own familiarity with the Thunder-style cultivation system, Thunder Emperor Technique became very easily understood.

However, he now found himself in uncharted territory. Naturally, Ye Chen became a lot more attentive so that he could be certain of his understanding with regards to the Wind Grace Discourse. The last thing he wanted was to train the wrong way.

At this moment, a few silhouettes dashed out from the Patriarch Residency and flitted toward Ye Chen’s residency.

It was his father, granduncle, and uncles. Ye Chen quickly stood up in standby.

Ye Zhantian and the rest were eyeing him at an immediate speed upon meeting the young man. Their expressions were flabbergasted.

“Father? Granduncle? Uncles? Is there anything amiss?” Ye Chen asked questioningly. To see that many people filling up the space in his room with their eyes glued onto him made him a little uncomfortable.

“Chen… Did you… Did you just advanced a Stage?” Ye Zhantian asked skeptically. He knew that Ye Chen had only attained the Fifth Stage a few days ago. So even in Ye Zhantian’s most forgiving estimation, Ye Chen should only be able to reach the Sixth Stage after a month or two.

Previously, as Ye Zhantian and the rest were absorbed in their study of the Thunder Emperor Technique, they had picked up some sudden, violent stir of Celestial Chi pulses. Moreover, it was with exclusive characteristics of one who had attained the Sixth Stage as well as the Chi Gale State. Now, each and every pugilist of the Zhan cohort had attained at least the Seventh Stage, so who else — within the perimeter of a few hundred yards — could these pulses belonged to?

It did not take long before they suspected Ye Chen of being the one. Hence, they rushed out of their residency and came to confirm with the young man.

Ye Chen finally understood why they had come so frantically. The intense Celestial Chi pulses he had emitted when he broke through the rank barrier had served as a bell.

“Yes, that was me. I had just attained the Sixth Stage, Father.” Ye Chen nodded.

By this point, Ye Zhantian, Ye Changxuan and the rest were staring at each other in disbelief. Since a few days ago, when his meridian channels were just recovering, Ye Chen had been plowing through the Stages; advancing from one to another in an abnormal speed was enough to make these old-timers sweat cold. Then, it started to become clear that Ye Chen’s development was far more than sheer ‘genius talent’.

“This kid right here… is special. The family’s glorious future lies in the hands of this young man!” Ye Changxuan remarked as he watched Ye Chen with affection.

Ye Zhantian, Ye Zhanlong and the rest of the group bobbed their head in united agreement, their eyes shone with unconcealable happiness. For these past few days, Ye Chen had brought on nothing but delightful surprises!

Seeing Ye Chen receiving high praise from the seniors made Ye Changxuan heaved a long sigh of relief in his heart. With Ye Chen’s talent and character, the old man was sure that he would only achieve incredible, legendary feats in the future. The Ye family was going to rise again!