Chapter 290: It Begins (2/2)
This was something Xue Wei noticed when the elder left. As he went, he made a gesture to the people who had been stealthily surrounding the cell, and they stepped forward, all of them bearing sinister expressions on their faces.
“So it begins,” Xue Wei muttered to himself, and a wry smile was on his lips as he stood up, looking at the people coming towards him with vigilance.
But what happened next surprised him. They did not even unlock the cell and enter as he had expected. Instead, three men sat down in front of the cell, looking at him as if they could not wait to tear him apart.
At first, Xue Wei had been very alert because he thought the three of them would enter and beat him up, but then he remembered—these people could not beat him up. They were at most Heavenly Warriors; their physical strength would be unable to harm him in the slightest.
So how were they going to convince him to let go of his information? Xue Wei was puzzled but also curious. His biggest worry was that they would have made him into a cripple, but after realizing that even their strongest expert would be incapable of injuring him physically, he relaxed.
The reason he dared to relax was not that he was overconfident, but because he also had the golden dragon spirit within his mind. This spirit was capable of protecting him from mental attacks to a certain extent, and now it was time to see just how much protection it could offer.
The three men on the ground had their eyes closed and their hands in their laps. Spiritual energy started erupting from their minds, and energy waves came crashing towards Xue Wei.
Xue Wei was almost swept off his feet, the spiritual energy was powerful and dense, and it came at him like a tidal wave, crashing against his body and invading his mind.
The energy that surged through him penetrated his body like sparkling rays of light going deep into his skin and started wreaking havoc through his meridians, with all of them converging towards his mind palace.
Xue Wei felt himself stiffen as the foreign energy entered through every pore in his body, leaving him incapable of moving.
He expected to experience excruciating pain, but this pain never arrived. As the golden rays of light entered his mind palace, the golden dragon lazily opened its previously closed eyes and simply gulped it down.
The moment it entered the mouth of the golden dragon spirit, the body of the spirit started to shine very faintly, but the more it consumed, the brighter the light became. Soon, much purer and refined rays of golden light were burped out from the well-fed dragon spirit, and mingled with the sea of golden energy in his mind palace, increasing his own cultivation instead.
Xue Wei was astounded. What kind of ability was this? The golden dragon spirit was simply heaven-defying. To be able to easily consume the spiritual energy of what appeared to be Sky Knights and transform it into his own energy was a heaven-sent opportunity, and Xue Wei forced his rather stiff body to sit down.
The three experts were unaware that the energy they had sent out had been consumed, so seeing Xue Wei’s awkward movements alongside the fact that he was forced down, they assumed that their attack had worked.
His body was showing all the signs of having been hit by the crushing power of their spiritual energy attack, and then him sitting down, what other reasoning could be behind it other than his soul feeling the pain that lingered after being injured?
Truth was that Xue Wei’s eyes were glistening with excitement. Who would have thought that being tortured would be the reason that his cultivation base was rising?
The three men saw that Xue Wei was still holding on, however, so they continued to send increasingly powerful waves of energy, one after another towards the youngster, the waves going from being somewhat dense and heavy to what felt like rolling tidal waves at him.
They were spooked and shocked by Xue Wei’s ability to withstand their onslaught. They were, after all, Sky Knights, and when they saw Xue Wei sitting still like this, with closed eyes and a rosy complexion, they started to suspect that something was wrong.
Unrelenting from their attacks, an hour had passed like this, and Xue Wei’s cultivation had encountered a bottleneck. Just a little bit more and he would break into the fourth layer of the Earth Knight rank with his spiritual energy, but for some reason, it was as if his dragon was now incapable of producing more spiritual energy from the beams of light that it devoured.
Although more and more energy was still being poured into his body, and the dragon kept up its consumption of it, less and less was being delivered to Xue Wei, yet the dragon spirit was growing in speed.
Now, the dragon spirit was suddenly starting to shine with a radiant golden luster, the scales were much more prominent and visible than before, and the dragon seemed overflowing with vigor.
Xue Wei could sense how he was growing stronger by the minute, but he was not satisfied without managing to break into the fourth layer of the Earth Knight rank, and thus he opened an eye. He could not help but stare at the three sweating experts on the other side of the cell door.
“Is this really all that three such experts can handle?” he mocked them with a snicker on his lips, and the three men, who were on the verge of collapsing became filled with anger.
“Brat, you’ll regret this!” one of them yelled, and suddenly the group of three all summoned their remaining spiritual energy to blast it towards Xue Wei, hoping to cripple him for good.