Chapter 33 (1/2)

Translator: Henyee Translations  Editor: Henyee Translations

In the end, Cui Xiao didn’t continue expressing his gratitude and left with his face cramping.

Shen Zhe was filled with regret. He said goodbye to Ling Xueru and returned to his dormitory while feeling exhausted.

He had been preparing for the illumination of his stars since noon and had yet to eat something. The two consecutive lightning strikes had significantly improved him, but he had also been drained and heavily wounded.

Cui Xiao was different. Most of the electricity passed through his body and entered the soil.

Shen Zhe, on the other hand, absorbed the magnificent electricity. It was still too much despite the sturdiness of his body.

His veins were burning in pain as if they were being ripped apart.

He took a hot bath and changed to clean clothes.

He was starving afterwards.

He couldn’t go to a restaurant with the heavy storm outside. He then noticed the remaining herb liquid as he wandered in his dormitory.

He had made five bottles of herb liquid with the materials that Lu Zihan offered. Three bottles had been given away, one had been taken by him and there was one last bottle left.

It wasn’t food, but the tremendous spiritual energy in it could help with his hunger and his wounds.

“Let’s see if I can reach the eighth stage of body polishing…”

Shen Zhe swallowed the herb liquid while sitting cross-legged on the bed.

Gu! Gu! Gu!

The herb liquid turned into a warm stream that entered every cell in his body.

While it had been highly effective the first time, it wasn’t working as strongly since he had already reached the seventh stage of body polishing.

“Power of the stars…”

The two stars in his body shined, and their magnificent power circulated along his broken veins, changing and improving his muscles.

“What a pure power…”

He didn’t know how the power of the stars worked for others, but his stars provided infinite power and nurtured his body after being illuminated by lightning. He was closer and closer to the peak of the seventh stage.

“Break!”

Shen Zhe raised his eyebrow after a long time passed.

BOOM!

Cracks burst out from inside his body and power flowed everywhere in a domineering manner.

“It worked…”

Shen Zhe clenched his fists, finding the situation hard to believe.

All the books in the library said that there were only seven stages in body polishing.

It was a rule and a law.

The eighth stage was only a made-up concept created by his obsessive-compulsive disorder. He never expected it to happen for real. Little did he know that two bottles of herb liquid and the power of the stars would make it work!

He looked inside his head.

The second pencil was not reduced. He had one last chance to use it.

He had changed his fortune twice by reaching a correct answer and illuminating stars with lightning.

The pencil was not shortened, which meant that he had made the breakthrough on his own.

It was based on his determination, the magnificent power of the stars, and the herb liquid he had concocted.

“Spirit Concentration, Skin Hardening, Veins Practice, Blood Practice, Bone Practice, Organs Practice, and Marrow Practice… The seven stages of body polishing are not real perfection!”

Those were just individual units; grasping them was not the end. One had to integrate them into a whole!

“I will call the new stage… the Stage of Unity!”

After reaching that stage, Shen Zhe finally understood why it was so challenging to become a Connate by body polishing.

How could someone gather his skin, muscles, veins and bones to break the Postnatal Barriers and condense the Connate Aura if those parts were not connected?

Those who weren’t Connate could not compete with level-one Mages or Martial Artists however strong they were. So, why would they work hard?

Besides, the bodies of Mages and Martial Artists would also grow sturdier as their level rose. They didn’t have to waste their time on bodybuilding at all.