Chapter 227 – Four Bolts (2/2)

While Ye Wei was focused on his task, the elders went aside and chattered as they waited.

“What do you guys think? Will he be able to spot it?”

“He is a three-star Runemaster, so no.”

“Exactly, it will be a stretch even if it was just a Myst stance.”

“Just wait and see, some talents are not meant to be catagorized by this ancient rank system.” Elder Qing Ming shook his head, he noticed Ye Wei’s pure and honest gaze when they met. To the elder, the fact that Ye Wei did not hold back his thought was a sign that the youngster saw something he failed to notice.

Respecting their leader’s opinion, the others stopped commenting, relaxed themselves and watched Ye Wei’s each move.

“This is a bit sloppy, whoever invented this stance should really be more careful while putting the runes together. This rune is completely unnecessary to the sequence, it’s almost like drawing legs onto a sketch of a snake.” Ye Wei pointed at a rune towards the end of the sequence and shook his head.

Apart from the Elder Qing Ming who smiled and felt positively intrigued, the Qings’ faces turned white when they heard Ye Wei’s words, surprised to hear such degrading comment on the patriarch’s own creation.

‘Did I just say something I shouldn’t have?’ Ye Wei soon noticed the reactions, feeling slightly embarrassed.

“Qing Yao, Qing Yao, would you like to try making the stance without the rune Ye Wei pointed out?” Xue Er was not too childish not to ignore the tension, she pulled Qing Yao’s arm and suggested. “We’re not doing much right now either way.”

Qing Yao did not take Ye Wei’s comment as an offense, instead she tried to look the stance in Ye Wei’s point of view as Elder Qing Ming hinted, but she just did not see how the rune was redundant.

“Sure. we’ll see what happens.”

“Disperse!” She pointed at the particular rune and grunted, eliminating it from the sequence.

“Bang!”

The whole length shook as the rune vanished, the sequence started rejoining itself and the Qi flow was not disrupted.

“Huh?” Qing Yao frowned in surprise as the sequence did not break down and disappear as she expected.

“This is strange, the stance seems to be fine without that rune. Strange… Very strange!”

The elders were all gasping, dumbfounded.

“I was there when the patriarch made this stance, he tested each of these runes multiple times, How can this happen?”

Elder Qing Ming kept quiet and still, observed the Qi flow as the sequence reconnected completely.

“Qing Yao, try activating the stance!” Xue Er exclaimed with a big smile on her face.

“Yea, right away!” Qing Yao looked at Ye Wei with slight uncertainty, then pointed her finger to the sequence’s starting point.

“Boom!”

Her golden Qi flowed through the entire sequence, every single rune shone bright and started rattling, a cracking sound filled the courtyard as the blurry light cleared up and became bolts of condensed energy.

“One, two, three, four!?” Qing Yao was shocked by the bolts that appeared in the air, her bell like voice trembled in disbelief. “There is an extra bolt! How could this be?”

‘Haha, that’s not the impressive part, all of these bolts were condensed a bit differently, the stance is fifty percent stronger.” Elder Qing Ming smiled, satisfied by the result. “He amplified the Qi flow by removing that rune. This is now a peak-high Earth stance!”