Chapter 224 – Against the High-Graded (2/2)
Bai Qing did not take no for an answer, he changed the topic a few times, asked about Ye Wei’s background and past cultivation in hopes it will soften the young Runemaster. But he soon found out that the conversation continued only out of politeness, that Ye Wei had no intention of taking the vial. After making sure the initiate held no grudge, Bai Qing left reluctantly but peacefully.
After Bai Qing’s departure, more than ten parties came. Each one representing an influential power, paid Ye Wei a visit. All of them bore valuable gifts like primal essence elixirs, materials for soul weapon crafting and even mid-Earth grade scrolls.
The nonstop stream of visitors were all well mannered but none of them managed to even enter the villa before they were turned down by Ye Wei.
“I need some peace…” Ye Wei frowned and mumbled, before heading into the courtyard to activate the villa’s lock. ‘I am not strong enough to get myself involved with these super families. They want to befriend me for my potential. But I will make just as many enemies as I make friends…’
“Now I won’t hear a sound from the outside!” He stretched his arms back, relieved that he could take a break from delicately refusing representatives of some of the biggest powers of the dynasty.
“I did enter the black dragon list as an initiate and got nine howls in the process, but I am still a condensed prime Warrior. Should I one day become a god’s prime Warrior I will need a tougher gate and a lot of servants to deal with all of the visitors…”
“Maybe I should just become a hermit like Master Yi!” Enjoying the moment of tranquility, he paced around the courtyard and spoke to himself. “I haven’t really lost anything by turning them down. The gifts they wanted to give me were nice but I have to work harder myself to earn them. I will learn more that way.”
“However, I will eventually have to attach myself to one of those families. I have to make friends with one of them before they all see me as a threat.” Ye Wei clenched his fist. “Or I will just get up to a returned prime level as quick as possible so I don’t have to worry about pleasing these people. But before then I think they might deliberately give me a hard time just to show me their authority.”
Ye Wei paced quicker as he became a little anxious, “They might think I am disrespecting them on purpose.”
“They won’t do anything openly but they will surely try to influence my decision somehow…”
“Considering that some of the veterans think I’ve broken their tradition and that I am a contestant to be the strongest cultivator here due to the howls, I will be challenged physically and mentally.”
“With the kind of influence they have, it will be easy for the superpowers to rough me up through hands of others!”
“If I deal with the inner demon right now I will be able to directly breakthrough when I figure it out…” Realizing it would be time consuming to to prepare his mental state for the attempt, he decided to leave rerouting his Qi flow while being pushed to his limits during combat.
‘This way I will be able to breakthrough quicker when my body is ready!’ The young Runemaster took a deep breath as he cleared his mind from distractions. He sat himself down in the middle of the training chamber.
“Bring it!”
Ye Wei shut his eyes tight, and held his breath to condense his focus. The silver energy ball in his dantian began to spin, the ten cracks on its surface shone golden as the rotating motion sped up. A surge of Qi then rushed out of the dantian and filled his meridians, caused an aggressive shock that put him into another level of his consciousness.
“High grade inner demon!” The darkness did not nullify Ye Wei’s sharp senses, just less than a second after he felt a disturbing presence he felt a sudden drop of temperature. Before he could react he was trapped in a shell of condensed energy, in front of a ghostly figure.
Neither Low nor mid-grade inner demons that Ye Wei had faced were powerful enough to take touchable form, but his senses suggested that the pressure he felt came from an actual physical being only meters away from him.
Only seconds after noticing the alarming presence, Ye Wei was confronted by an enormous shadow that seemed to have emerged from the nether he was trapped in.
Unlike the other inner demons encounters, the pressure left a cold, tingling sensation on his skin just like what he experienced while fighting the Black Scale Progenitor’s descendant.
But unlike the last high-grade inner demon encounter when he was immediately overwhelmed by fear and passed out, Ye Wei was able to remain calm and collected.
“GHROWLL”
Immediately after materializing, the demon squeezed a chilling scream out of its lungs and lunged at Ye Wei
A suffocating sense of fear grew in Ye Wei at the startling momentum of the approaching demon; Images of demon hordes and beast packs ravaging human cities filled his mind; images so vivid he could almost smell the bloodshed.