Chapter 202 – Sacred Marks (2/2)

‘Sixteen thousand, eighteen thousand, twenty thousand miles…’

Within a breath’s time, Ye Wei’s will-force was twice as far as it was. It kept reaching outwards to the unknown with no signs of slowing down.

“The stars!” Ye Wei feel the constellations’ energy with his Sentient, shouted with joy “I am connected!”

‘I need to be quenched by the starlight…’ The young Runemaster swapped hand seal to draw the immense energy form the among the stars back at himself.

“Bang!” A large, sparkling pillar of amber light connected Ye Wei to the stars.

“This is it!”

Ye Wei stood up in the starlight, smiled in sheer happiness as he pushed himself past the first obstacle of learning the Eternal Star stance.

‘Now I can start using the star’s energy to strengthen my body!’

‘From what I can gather, there should be four steps in the absorption stage, the will-force should be thin as a thread to start with, then a pillar, next level would be thick as a river and in time I should be able to draw energy from the stars as much and as fast and I wish.’ Ye Wei thought to himself, surprised that he was on the second step with the help of the mystic mount presence in his Sentient.

Surrounded by starlight, the first runic pattern in the Ye Wei’s mind began to move, his hands were moving voluntarily, making a new hand seal.

Once the hand seal was made, the cells in his body began to engulf the energy. His skin, bones, muscles and his organs hardened.

“What stance is the kid learning? The energy disturbance he is causing is ridiculous! It’s almost as strong as cosmic energy” Helian Jieyuan stopped cultivating, opened his eyes to see an unfamiliar sight, a pillar of starlight.

Ye Wei’s body shook as the surge of energy entered him, a layer of icy crystals was forming on his surface of his body.

The starlight was quickly absorbed by Ye Wei’s body, the first runic pattern melted into his blood, disappeared as the light faded.

“Crack!”

Ye Wei casually clenched his fist, caused a small Qi explosion under the water, a muffled shrill sound filled the palace as he tensed his muscles.

‘My body strength is comparable to a three-star returned prime Warrior!’ Ye Wei slowly relaxed his grip, satisfied by the immediate result.

“How did you do that!? You have only been here for a month and your body strength tripled! Was the stance you practiced given to you by your family?” Helian Jieyuan, the knowledgeable royal, was surprised and curious.

“Eternal Star!” Ye Wei answered with a smile on his face.

“Are you sure? I thought that stance was lost in time!?” The royal lost his voice. “It’s one of the strongest Sky stance of all time!”

“You have heard that name before?” The youngster was interested, wanted to learn more about the stance.

“Of course, it is a famous stance in a certain group of cultivators who studied the history books,” Helian Jieyuan chuckled and spoke, “about a thousand years ago, mankind was going through a difficult time. The continents were scotched by a horde made up of a few billion demons.”

“Supreme Ye Wei single-handedly fought and defeated six demon emperor's, afterwhich he chased the leading progenitors all the way back to the abyss where they came from.” The royal played with his beard as he told the story.

“Supreme Ye Yu was recognized as the strongest cultivator since the sages after that battle, he gained schools of disciples too. Although he disappeared after failing his Supreme transcendence, his influence lived on.” Helian Jieyuan took a deep breath and continued. “For hundreds of years after his disappearance, demons were actually too scared to cross over to our side of the land.”

“What? Six demon emperors and a progenitor?!” Ye Wei gasped and said. ‘Will I ever be at that level?’

“Haha, you are the inheritor of the Eternal Star stance, you should prepare yourself to fight demons and beast!” The royal Grand Elder patted Ye Wei’s shoulder and said in an encouraging tone.

“Yes sir! I am a Ye and I will live up to my family name!” Ye Wei nodded, said sincerely.

“You can start training soon, there are three-star returned prime level demons and beasts around the area, I can catch one for your when you are ready for it!” Said the Grand Elder in a joking tone.

“My cultivation is nothing comparing to Supreme Ye Yu and yourself, please don’t make fun of me…” Ye Wei blushed and muttered.

“I have cultivating for three hundred years, and Supreme Ye had been doing the same. Don’t you dare compare yourself to us.” The Grand Elder squinted his eyes and said.

The young Runemaster realized he just spoke nonsense and tried to change the subject. “Sir, you have been cultivating here for a while. Have you ever seen the sacred mark?”