25 Breakthrough (2/2)
”If I do become an Ascended Mortal, hehehe. Shi clan, prepare on handing your Sky grade technique to me as a gift.”
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After Shi Li and Moddy went back to the inner depths, Shi Li opened his map and went back to where the corpses he killed were and picked it up. Afterwards, he opened his storage and stored the corpses there since beast corpses sell for a lot, according to The Azure Dusk Continent book.
Not long after, they continued to hunt for beasts at the Skin Tempering realm, may it be at the First Stage or at the Third Stage. Moddy would use the Enhancement Waltz and Harmony Bind, and Shi Li would use the Heaven's Waltz in attacking.
As Shi Li got used to utilizing the movements in an attack, his understanding of the technique increased as well. After this hunt, Shi Li was able to use the first four movements in sequence, allowing him to kill beasts even at the First Stage of Bone Tempering with ease!
For the next few days, it became a routine of Shi Li and Moddy hunting in the inner depths, Shi Li and Moddy entering the special space for Shi Li to enhance his comprehension on the Heaven's Waltz's 16 movements, and then taking a short rest and hunting yet again to incorporate more movements from the Heaven's Waltz into his attacks.
Even though it may seem monotonous, each day of continuous practice gave both Moddy and Shi Li a surprise. On the third day of their routine, Shi Li noticed that every four movements infused into the attack would increase the attack power by onefold, in exchange for a longer amount of time to attack since there are four movements to use.
On the fifth day of their routine, Moddy noticed that its skills had increased by a level, allowing beasts at an even higher realm to be pummeled into pieces without a problem.
On the seventh day of their routine, Shi Li finally comprehended the tenth movement of Heaven's Waltz, which made his aura appear to be one with nature. Not only that, he was even able to borrow a bit of power from nature into his every attack, thus increasing his combat prowess even more.
On the ninth day of their routine, Moddy was able to control its Aurora Blast to only affect certain parts of a beast, reducing the times Moddy turned a beast into ash.
On the tenth day of their routine, Shi Li finally comprehended the twelfth movement of the Heaven's Waltz, which made his aura appear to be with nature. Not only that, he could also borrow a bit of power from nature to infuse into his every attack, thus increasing his power a bit more.
On the twelfth day of their routine, Shi Li was able to use the first thirteen movements of Heaven's Waltz into his attack, increasing the power of the attack by threefold.
And on the fourteenth and final day of the routine, Shi Li and Moddy faced up against a beast at the Third Stage of Bone Tempering.
”[Harmony Bind]!”
A ray of silver light surrounded the beast's body and tightened itself, making the beast roar in pain and anger.
”[Enhancement Waltz]!”
Shi Li's body emanated a faint gold light as he visualized the movements of the Heaven's Waltz in his mind. Not long after, Shi Li charged towards the beast at extremely high speed, stopping yet again just a few centimeters away to use that momentum as the power on his fists.
”[Heaven's Waltz: Sixteen Worldly Sonatas]!”
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Four explosions, which were actually sixteen smaller explosions in one explosion, occurred within the beast's body, turning every organ and bone within the beast into mush and powder.
And then, Shi Li grabbed a small pile of leaves and vines to shove it into the beast's mouth and threw the beast corpse into the storage.
”How much do you think this beast corpse would sell, Moddy?” Shi Li looked at Moddy who was still up the tree branch.
”Nya...I would say around 70 gold coins-nya!” Moddy replied as it jumped down the branch and went towards Shi Li.
”Yeah, I'd say around that much as well.”
As the both of them were continuing to go back to the center area, Shi Li's body instantly emanated an aura so grand and vast that it scared all the nearby beasts to running away.
Shi Li felt that his body had a limitless amount of energy in store, but he knew that it was his breakthrough coming.
”Moddy, create a barrier around us! I'm gonna break through to the Second Stage!”
Moddy hurriedly beat the drums as it used the Enhancement Waltz and Aurora Blast skills in tandem, forming a barrier of light that would injure anyone who got close.
Shi Li looked at the barrier and sat cross-legged on the ground as a few words popped up in his mind.
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Would you like to break through to cultivation realm D-2?
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'Yes.'
Shi Li closed his eyes as he felt that the limitless energy was being spread throughout his body, and was being absorbed by every cell in his body as well. His skin compacted itself and his internal organs were strengthened a bit by the energy as well. A small layer of dark skin was formed on top of Shi Li's body, to which Shi Li cleaned off by going to a nearby river.
After checking that there were no problems with his breakthrough, he checked the screen that opened up in front of him.
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Congratulations to User for reaching cultivation realm D-2 (Second Stage of Skin Tempering)!
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