Chapter 202 – Sacred Marks (1/2)

Chapter 202 -Sacred Marks

After entering nine-star condensed prime level, Ye Wei was extremely spirited. He briefly consolidated his cultivation and used the third Supernova evolution to see if he could reach the stars.

With the ancient hand seal, Ye Wei’s will-force was able to stretch five thousand miles against the planet’s gravity.

‘Still not enough…’ Ye Wei frowned, deflated. He could now sense the stars’ energy better but his will-force was still not strong enough to draw the energy back to him.

‘Here in Supreme Yu Palace I can absorb primal energy more than a hundred times faster than I do outside, I should just keep my head to it, if I keep up my pace, I will be able to power through to ten-star condensed prime level very soon!’ Ye Wei clenched his fists, rethought his strategies

“Try again when you broke though, no stressing Ye Wei.” He muttered to himself.

Only one minor breakthrough away from having to stand before the returned prime gauntlet, Ye Wei was starting to worry about the major breakthrough he will soon have to overcome if he wanted to go further with his cultivation. Minor breakthroughs can be overcome by hard work but major ones requires cultivators to defend themselves against inner demons, to be able to figure out on their own how they can efficiently and safely route the energy their gain resulted by their dantian and Sentient upgrade.

Ye Wei was focused, put all the frustrations to the side and cultivated.

Two days passed in a flash, the young Runemaster sat still and became one with nature. After twenty more days, he was still in the same position. He did not eat or sleep, lived off the energy he consumed.

Undisturbed by the outside world, the young Runemaster just sat still and cultivated for a whole month, Helian Jieyuan had occasionally been out of the palace to patrol but kept it quiet so Ye Wei could keep focus.

“Crack!”

Ye Wei shivered and the whole palace shook. The silver ball in his dantian was now covered by ten golden cracks.

“You are already a ten-star condensed prime Warrior!” Helian Jieyuan muttered to himself as he sensed the Qi disturbance, shocked by the speed of Ye Wei’s improvement. ‘I have tried cultivating without any disturbance too but even then I was not able to push myself that hard!’

‘I am cultivating fifty times normal speed here, but the Drakehead was a Ye’s flesh and blood, and this kid is using the Ye Yu’s formula…’ The royal look at Ye Wei and thought. ‘This must be why he is getting more out of this palace.’

“Ten!” Ye Wei opened his eyes and shouted excitedly, “if I still can’t channel the stars’ energy I will just try again when I am a returned prime Warrior!”

The young Runemaster was trying his best to remain calm, but behind the calm he was dreading for the major breakthrough.

‘I will get through eventually but how long am I going to be stuck for? A month? A year?’

“Let’s go!” Ye Wei exhaled slowly and filled his lungs with fresh air. He activated the third Supernova evolution, made the ancient hand seal. The texture of his Qi and will-force immediately transformed.

“Zoom!”

His will-force quickly condensed and became thread-shaped, shot upwards to the sky.

“It can go further!” Ye Wei muttered to himself, pointed his bloodshot eyes up at the sky. “I have to hold on to it, I can keep pushing!”

‘One thousand, two thousand…’ Ye Wei grounded his teeth, kept channelling his wiil-force despite the dizziness he felt. ‘Six thousand, eight thousand!’

The thread of will-force stopped stretching at twelve thousand miles above ground level, but Ye Wei still could not channel the stars’ energy.

“No! This can’t be it!”

Ye Wei’s face was pale as a sheet, but his determination kept him going. He ignored his pain and changed hand seal, used his life energy to power his will-force.

Although bleeding out of his mouth and beginning to faint, the strand of will-force still managed to stretch and climbed to a staggering fourteen thousand miles altitude.

‘I am still not strong enough…’ Ye Wei’s will-force was weakening, becoming thinner and struggled to hold up in space.

Just when he was about to faint, a golden glow filled his Sentient.

“Zoom! Zoom!”

The mystic mount’s ancient energy freshened his body, his fading senses and consciousness awakened from fatigue.

“Swoosh!”

Ye Wei’s will force was empowered by the golden energy, the strand shook and rapidly stretched longer through space debris.