Chapter 264: A Blessing in Disguise (2/2)
Li Ruoer's eyes turned into two pools of molten anger, ”You still think that I wouldn't kill you?”
At this critical moment of her cultivation, Li Ruoer's soul energy was volatile. By then, anger had burned away the thread of order she needed to control the chaotic energy, and her soul energy quickly took control of her body, as it expanded through the air towards Wang Tong. The tremendous soul energy slightly ruffled wang Tong's mind, but his body seemed to crave it like a kid craving for treats.
”Good, ”Wang Tong thought to himself ”Come at me now!”
Wang Tong yearned for the recovery of his soul energy. He didn't even mind risking his life for it.
”Hey, you! I will slap your sassy a*s if you don't hit hard this time!” Wang Tong gave Li Ruoer a scornful look.
Li Ruoer's body trembled as boiling soul energy seeped out from her body; she could no longer control the power inside of her. She yanked her hand up and caused a gust, which blew Wang Tong to the edge of the wall. Despite the pain in his muscles and joints, Wang Tong felt the wave of energy was as refreshing as a dampening mist blow over a dry field.
Wang Tong then knew that this could be his only chance, as long as his body could survive Li Ruoer's attack.
”Wang Tong! You asked for it!”
Li Ruoer's GN force weighted on Wang Tong like a smothering blanket. However, as his soul energy absorbed more soul energy, Wang Tong felt the sea of consciousness was slowly coming alive.
Wang Tong finally saw a sliver of hope as well as the full extent of Li Ruoer's real power. Her soul power had reached over 300; Wang Tong reasoned that if he didn't dodge this attach in time, he might be in danger.
He struggled to make up his mind as to whether he should run away or stay. After all, he had promised himself to never back away from danger. Finally, he mustered all of his courage and gritted his teeth as he darted toward the exit.
It was locked.
Li Rouer's body floated in the air. Her eyes burned with a purple luster, and hair tossed around by the intense soul energy that spilled out from her body. Bottles, cups, phone, and lamps rattled violently under the influence of the invisible power.
Wang Tong wished helplessly that Li Ruoer would forget about him amidst her trance.
With a full sweep of her arm, Li Ruoer attacked Wang Tong with her soul energy directly. This was the most potent form of attack the Tactics of the Enchantress could unleash.
Wang Tong's body tensed up as Li Ruoer's soul energy surged into his dantian, but Wang Tong didn't seem to be in any mortal danger. His sea of consciousness gulped down one wave after another of the soul energy from the enchantress. Although at one time, Wang Tong felt he was about to drown in the flood of energy, as his sea of consciousness picked up its speed of absorbing soul energy, the drawing sensation quickly went away.
Wang Tong's soul energy was recovering rapidly while the Enchantress's soul energy was depleted by the second. A few moments later, the enchantress finally used up her power and fell back to the ground.
Wang Tong still couldn't move his body, so he stood still and let his body recover. He heard Mr. Wannabe's voice calling out to him, ”Kiddo! What a miracle! You have connected all your GN nodes in your body! Ha! You would be able to walk the divine path in no time! I wish I had this much luck” His last sentence was practically a grunt.
Due to the complicated structure of the human's GN node, only a few GN nodes could be used at one time. However, it was not the case for the most potent fighters such as an Einherjar, who would be able to use all of the GN nodes at the same time, resulting in an exponentially increased damage output.
Li Ruoer's soul energy had been the key that unlocked the mechanism in Wang Tong's body, that would allow the utilization of all GN nodes.
Wang Tong felt an intense heat rise inside his dantian, eventually culminating in an explosion within his sea of consciousness. Wang Tong soon registered that this explosion was not destruction, but creation like the thunder of early Spring, signaling the genesis of a brand new world.
Wang Tong tried the Tactics of the Blade and found it ran exceptionally fluidly. The smoothness resulted in a newfound clarity in the movement of the GN nodes, that enabled Wang Tong to see the moments in his mind.
He no longer needed to prime the 256-node version of the tactics by first running the eight nodes, then to the 16 nodes, all until the number of nodes eventually reached 256. With the new soul energy, he could start at any number of nodes he wanted to.
With all the GN nodes connected, there would be no more bottlenecks of cultivation that Wang Tong could not surpass. As long as he continued his training and cultivation, he would be guaranteed to become an Einherjar, and the first person in history that achieved the status of Einherjar through his own diligence.