Chapter 77 – Seven-Star (2/2)

The quiet dantian was filled with dense primal energy, and it was vibrating at a mysterious frequency. With this vibration, Ye Wei’s dantian was expanding at a pace.

In a matter of moment, Ye Wei’s dantian was twice as big as it was before he had been trapped in the cocoon.

To expand one’s dantian takes an alarming amount of primal energy, and in a matter of seconds, Ye Wei had swallowed three whole Silver Moon pills.

Ye Wei’s Sentient was red, so it absorbs Qi at a very slow rate. If it wasn’t supported by pills or external energy, just from normal training Ye Wei would not be able to gather enough Qi without two to three years’ time.

Luckily Ye Wei had enough pills on him. A total of one hundred and eighty-nine Silver Moon pills, and that was way more than enough for his seven-star breakthrough.

Feeling the pills’ effect fading, Ye Wei took one Silver Moon pill after another as if they were candy.

Time passed slowly while Ye Wei took pill after pill. Under this enormous influx of Qi, Ye Wei’s dantian kept expanding.

Two times, three times, four times, five times!

When Ye Wei’s dantian has enlarged five times its original size, his expansion speed started to slow down. Four more hours passed until his dantian was finally seven times as big as its original size, and when his growth stopped he was a seven-star Student!

Seven times!

Ye Wei’s dantian expanded seven times its original size. Now his dantian was multiple times larger than an ordinary seven-star Student’s it is even comparable to a nine-star Student’s dantian.

Before attempting his breakthrough, Ye Wei used the energy from the crystals to expand his dantian to its maximum size. After using them, he had a good foundation to build on which is what let his dantian grow so much more than an ordinary six-star Student’s usually would.

Suffice it to say it’s impossible to widen one’s dantian to its limit without an unimaginable amount of energy.

“Pff!” Ye Wei who sat in a lotus position in the cocoon, opened his eyes and slowly exhaled. Immediately after he clenched his fist and felt the vast energy in his body. His face showed a happy smile.

‘My cultivation is just a seven-star Student, but when it comes to my Sentient size and my dantian, I am as good as an ordinary nine-star student!’

‘Stances! I can finally try to use mystic stances!’ Ye Wei’s eyes were glittering. He had been waiting for this day for too long, far too long.

‘I still don’t believe that I can’t use mystic stances!’ Ye Wei thought about how he failed Master Yi rune consonant test. About how he scored zero which meant that he could never use stances, and he bit his lips. The happiness in his heart and the excitement from his breakthrough was replaced by nervousness.

‘No matter the result, I will overcome my fate!’ Ye Wei kept biting his lip as his eyes shone with determination. He was ready to try and use a mystic stance.

‘The White Tiger’s Assault is a low-level Myst stance, Triple Plunder Sword is a high-level Spirit stance, and Windrift Steps is also a high-level Spirit stance with my current cultivation I would not have enough will-force or Qi to use any of these high-level stances. The stance I refined with Zi Yan though, Triple Tidal Palm is a mid-level Spirit stance; I can try that instead.’ Ye Wei thought, and started to picture the way Triple Tidal Palm was formed and the rune sequence that was used.

At the seven-star Student level, the will-force in Ye Wei’s Sentient and the Qi in his dantian could only support a low-level Spirit stance. There was hope, but Ye Wei was not sure if he could successfully perform the mid-level Spirit stance, Triple Tidal Palm.

‘Mid-level Spirit stance, Triple Tidal Palm!’ Inside the three meters tall cocoon, Ye Wei stood up and held his breath so he could focus better. He slowly raised his finger as strands of will-force were forming on it. At the same time Qi rushed out of his dantian.

With will-force as a quill and Qi as ink, Ye Wei started drawing mystic runes!

In the air, rune after rune was drawn by Ye Wei stroke after stroke.

“Eh?” While drawing the runes, Ye Wei was startled. He widened his eyes and stared at the runes. They were disappearing before he could even finish drawing them.

‘I’m too careless!’ Ye Wei slapped his forehead and shook his head while smiling embarrassingly.

Ye Wei had underestimated how difficult it was to perform a mystic stance; understanding how the runes are drawn and where they should be in the sequence is not enough.

To successfully complete a mystic stance one has to draw the runes quickly and perfectly coordinate their Qi flow. Only when both criteria were met will one see success.

It takes a lot of time to train if one wants to master a stance because determination and will are limited; therefore, no cultivator would be obsessed with how many mystic stances they learned but instead they would spend their time on perfecting the few they knew.