Chapter 291: Golden Dragon Spirit (1/2)

Xue Wei snickered when he felt a distortion in the air ripples appearing around him and the three experts, and crackling sounds reverberating around the room.

Although he was eager to see whether or not the golden dragon was capable of consuming this much energy, he was also slightly apprehensive when he saw just how overwhelming it was.

Well, he had aggravated the guards, so there was no turning back now. Instead of being nervous, he felt it was much better to be filled with self-confidence and trust in his golden dragon spirit.

Xue Wei felt the big wave crashing down upon him, and its energy pouring into his entire body. It made him feel as if his meridians were being ripped apart.

Although the golden dragon spirit was capable of absorbing an enormous amount of energy, there was a limit to how much energy it could absorb at once, and now the rest of the attack was wreaking havoc in his body.

Xue Wei grit his teeth as he felt the energy surging through every pore and cell, bringing with it a destructive force. Fortunately, this energy was aimed at his soul, and thus his body—which had reached the rank of an Earth Knight in Qi levels—was more or less unharmed but still left behind a scorching pain.

When the energy entered his body, Xue Wei had considered the option of forcing it out with his Qi dragons, but he felt that it would be a waste of energy—the energy that had been so kindly gifted to him.

The golden dragon spirit was eager to consume all the energy that was pulsating through his body, and although its speed of absorption was rather slow compared to the previous times, he could feel that the refinement had picked up.

The bottleneck towards the fourth layer of the Earth Knight rank was becoming looser and looser, so much so that he could feel it trembling. Then suddenly, Xue Wei felt as though something within his body had broken free, and as if a stone on his shoulder had been removed, he could breathe freely.

He had finally broken through to the fourth layer of the Earth Knight rank for his spiritual energy. The boundless energy was now pulsating through his body with a much more pleasant effect, and it made him curious about just how much difference there was between his current and past abilities.

Unfortunately, there was no place for him to test his breakthrough. Although he had three experts in front of him, all of them were Sky Knights, and a mere fourth layered Earth Knight would not even begin to match up to them.

Xue Wei’s advantage over these experts existed in his Azure Dragon spirit, his golden dragon spirit, and his high Qi levels.

Noticing that his scrunched up expression had eased a lot, the three experts became very uncomfortable. They had exhausted all the spiritual energy within their soul palace; they were at the current point rather useless as they would not be able even to kill a chicken.

Even worse was when they sensed that Xue Wei had a breakthrough in the midst of the chaotic energy that they had summoned forth. This sudden discovery left them with a mental scar for life; their minds were reeling in shock.

Who would be able to change the situation like this? Instead of being crippled, he had advanced, what kind of absurdity was this?

Xue Wei could see the sudden despair in the guards’ many eyes, and he could not help but chuckle slightly.

“Thank you for your assistance,” he said cheekily. “I could not have had such a rapid breakthrough if it was not for your assistance, make sure to send some more people my way later.”

The more he spoke, the more infuriated and confused the guards became. Their eyes were filled with bewilderment, and their bodies trembled; one of them even coughed up blood in agitation.

They were already incredibly weak due to having used up their entire body’s reservoir of spiritual energy and being angered like this, it was natural that their bodies were incapable of handling it.

Although Xue Wei was rather rude and did what he could to agitate the guards, he also remained alert. The last attack had made him realize that, although he had the protection of the golden dragon spirit, there was still a limit to how much it could protect him against.

When the three experts made an all-out attack, they had indeed caused him pain, so he reckoned that if there was a Heavenly Knight, then he would be incapable of withstanding the combined attack.

Fortunately, Heavenly Knights were relatively rare; only a few could be found amongst the guards, while every single elder of the Baili family were Heavenly Knights, and the Grand Elder was an Earth Saint.

Saint-ranked experts were incredibly rare on Yan Dalu. Spiritual energy became more and more difficult to cultivate, the stronger one became, and one needed lucky chances to have breakthroughs.

Because of this, the continent was somewhat weak compared to other continents, but even so, a few crouching tigers and hidden dragons existed in the continent—with the Grand Elder being one of them.

Xue Wei had gained much information about Yan Dalu and its citizens from the exchange that Lin Xiao and Hei Gou had initiated some time ago. He knew that the strongest expert in the entire continent was the Royal Tutor, a higher layered Earth Saint who was at a rather old age already.

The Royal Tutor and the Baili grand elder were the only Earth Saint on the entire continent. All the others were Ordinary Saints and below—even the principal of the Garden of Shadows was not an Earth Saint.

Knowing that there was an Earth Saint in the Baili family, Xue Wei was incapable of fully relaxing. He had already acknowledged that he would be incapable of withstanding a Heavenly Knight, so an Earth Saint was a heaven-defying threat.

Figuring that the guards were incapable of handling him, Xue Wei was betting on the fact that the Grand Elder would not lower himself to deal with him, but it was obvious that a Heavenly Knight would be sent his way soon, so he had to find a way to increase his cultivation base rapidly.