Chapter 234 – Return (1/2)
Chapter 234 - Return
“I would just give it up now, if I were you. Someone powerful is behind all this. Someone you don't want to cross.” Shi Kun spoke slowly, with great intensity.
“I could not care less, I am here to become stronger.” Ye Wei replied without hesitation.
“Does the name Qing Mu ring any bells? You might know him by his nickname, the Spiritualist!” Qian Dao joined in with a disdainful voice. “If you don't know the name then you should memorize it now, because he runs this place!”
“I didn’t want to drop any names but Qian Dao is absolutely right, if Qing Mu doesn’t want you to to get a return prime stone, then you just don't.” Shi Kun threatened, “He will make your life here a living hell without moving a muscle.”
“Do you mean the fifth strongest cultivator here?!” Ye Wei was both surprised and worried. ‘And I was just starting to think these three were mad at me for beating their friends or something…’
‘I haven’t done anything to Qing Mu, he is one of the top cultivators here, why does he care if I get a return prime stone or not…’
“Qing Mu, the Spiritualist, wants the stone that you are holding right now!” Shi Kun said loudly and clearly, wanting to soften Ye Wei in front of the initiates so they would recognize his authority and mercy. “This can still end peacefully! It’s your choice!”
“I will give you it if you ask nicely.” Ye Wei chuckled as his glare turned cold. ‘Nobody can stop me from breaking through, not even the strongest cultivator on the Black Dragon List!’
“Crack”
The black crystal shattered into shards as Ye Wei tightened his grip.
“How dare you!”
“You brought this to yourself!”
“Knock him out cold! Don't let him absorb the stone’s energy!”
The trio yelled furiously as they launched themselves towards Ye Wei.
‘If you are not going to show me respect, you will not see my mercy!’ Shi Kun’s eyes fired up while his hands made hundreds of seals. ‘Mid-Earth stance, Polar Mountain Punch!’
The golden runes turned black as soon as they left his hand, condensing and forming a matt black energy layer that covered his knuckles. The layer enlarged, the dark outline of his fist became the size of a small mountain.
‘The stance that got me into the Black Dragon Valley will knock you out of the list! You won’t be able to defend your place if you are lying in bed!’
‘Elemental Cleaver!’
‘Nonary Shadows!’
Qian Dao and Zhou Huan used their best stances. Both of them were mid-Earth stances but weaker than Shi Kun’s strike.
Like the trio, most of the cultivators living in the Black Dragon Valley knew at least one simple mid-Earth stance, while the top three hundred all had a peak mid-Earth stance in their arsenal.
Shi Kun’s dark landslide, Qian Dao’s phantom blades and Zhou Huan’s unstable shadow clones were simultaneously approaching Ye Wei. The whole realm trembled as the balance of energy was disturbed by the returned prime Warriors’ strikes.
Inside the eye of the storm, Ye Wei stared at the incoming attackers with empty eyes. He was occupied by an overwhelming sensation, the surge of energy that escaped from the return prime stone shards.
He could not explain or describe what he felt but he was emulating the pulsation of the surge involuntarily.
‘My Qi never really decay once I spend it, I can recompress the residue and return it to my meridians!’ A moment of clarity inspired Ye Wei, his gaze regain focus as his mind brightened. ‘All I need to do it to compress the residue energy in my system and establish a flow, that way my meridians will sustain pressure…’
His grunt lingered while his meridians strengthened to hold the new-found energy, the surge flowed through his whole body and completed a circuit as it reached his lower stomach, overloaded his dantian.
The silver ball in his dantian grew in size exponentially; the golden fissures widened, corroding away the silvery surface and transforming the Qi storage from the top layer to the core.
“Zoom! Zoom!”