Chapter 99 – Stars (2/2)

Mo Ya’s Qi sword brought with it a whirlwind causing Lin Zi Yan’s robe to flutter and her hair to scatter in the breeze. She sighed as her life flashed before her eyes.

Her parents, her family, her childhood… She could remember all the tiny details of her life. Of how her mother used to braid her hair… Ye Wei also appeared in her mind. How the shy boy brainlessly entered her training room, how they held hands and took a walk towards the setting sun at South Star Academy. She was happy that he was one of the last things she thought about.

“Get behind me! I will not let him touch a hair on your head while I am still breathing.” A familiar voice sounded in her ears as she gently turned her head to see that Ye Wei’s determined eyes were only a few inches away from hers.

Ye Wei grabbed Lin Yan’s waist and dragged her behind him right before the sword was going to land on her head.

‘Power of the cosmos…’

Primal energy condensed into nebula shapes around Ye Wei’s body, and the Qi within him was arranging into constellation patterns as the surge of energy began to rotate and flow. His meridians continuously compressed then expanded his Qi forming it into a raw explosive energy only found from the birth of stars.

After merging with the figure, Ye Wei’s body was strengthened, and the power of his Supernova stance overflowed as he threw his fist towards the large Qi sword.

“Bang!”

The moment Ye Wei’s fist hit the sword a thundering rumble filled the hall and two visible, conical waves of recoiling force exploded from the point of impact.

Everyone raised their heads and turned from Lin Zi Yan to the source of the explosion. They were shocked to see Ye Wei’s silhouette blocking what they thought would end their lives.

The Qi sword was over thirty meters long, yet Ye Wei, with his average build, was standing under it, somehow holding it firmly. It seemed that the sharp edge was not able to cut through.

“How, How is this possible?!” Jin Yan couldn’t quite figure out how a mere Student could hold Mo Ya’s sword in place. He knew he couldn’t take on Mo Ya alone even before the breakthrough.

“This is…” Hong Xun, Xue You, and the rest of the Warriors widened their eyes and looked at Ye Wei with shock.

None of them could understand how Ye Wei overcame the cultivation deficit between them to go against this green sword everyone feared.

“Little Wei!” Lin Zi Yan was stunned. She noticed Ye Wei was fighting without a scroll in his hand, which even if he did would take more than a medium-grade scroll to fight Mo Ya.

“What is this madness?” Mo Ya frowned. He never thought Ye Wei, the boy who he didn’t even notice before today could so easily make his first fight as a condensed prime Warrior difficult.

“Crack! Crack!”

The green blade suddenly emitted a cracking sound seemingly caused by Ye Wei’s fist, as the cloud of Qi around it thickened and formed a shape of nebula-like clouds.

Under the pressure the green sword started breaking, and from the middle of Ye Wei’s fist numerous fractures ran along the blade to the pommel and to the sword tip, then suddenly it shattered with a deafening sound.

Seeing the Qi sword shattered, Ye We quickly rushed towards Mo Ya leaving a blur in the air after disappearing.

“How is this possible?!” Mo Ya’s laughing face froze with unconcealed shock. He thought Ye Wei had used a scroll or a mystic arm to temporarily stop his stance but was not so sure now.

“You deserve death!”

Ye Wei reappeared in front of Mo Ya in a flash. ‘You disgusting, treacherous waste of a human life!’ Ye Wei said while coldly staring into Mo Ya’s shocked eyes.

“You…”

Mo Ya stared at Ye Wei in disbelief. Before he could finish his sentence, a blinding blue light in the shape of a fist appeared in front of him. He immediately lifted his sword to his chest with the reflex and speed of a condensed prime Warrior; he attempted to defend himself against the fist’s deadly momentum.

Ye Wei’s fist left a trail in the air like a shooting star, and it created a bell-like sound as it landed on the sword. The fearsome force crashed right through Mo Ya sending him flying like a stringless kite towards the jade disc.

“Bang!”

A rusty sweet taste filled Mo Ya’s mouth as he realized it with his own blood.

“That is an incredibly powerful stance…” Mo Ya thought while looking at Ye Wei with incomprehensible surprise and horror. ‘How can a Student possess such power?!’

‘Is this the power of Supernova stance’s amplifying effect!?” Ye Wei looked down at his hands in shock; he could not believe how heavy his tiny fist hit.

After Ye Wei was granted the figure’s energy from Pu Yuan, his strength could match a peak ten-star Warrior, and with the Supernova stance his strength tripled!

With that kind of power, it was not a surprise that he could knock Mo Ya down even through his sword!

‘I had the strength to strike down a condensed prime Warrior from just the basic form of the Supernova stance…’ Ye Wei started to understand what Pu Yuan meant.

‘So this is the power of the cosmos… Now let me try the second evolution of this stance.’ Ye Wei narrowed his eyes and redistributed his will-force to three hundred and fifteen different places around his body. He was enjoying the feeling of powerful energy slowly flowing through his veins..

As Ye Wei changed the runic array in his body, the constellation patterns rotated, expanded, and brightened and two halos appeared over the top of his head emitting a fierce pressure wave.