Absorbing Qi [C157]
[Welcome to the shop. Searching for Fragmented Legendary Myriad of Ways cultivation technique…
[Fragmented Legendary Myriad of Ways(9th string) Dantian Core Formation realm cultivation technique. Cost: 500 BS points.]
[Fragmented Legendary Myriad of Ways(1q-Starting Soul) Nascent Soul realm cultivation technique. Cost: 1000BS points.]
[Fragmented Legendary Myriad of Ways(2q-Melody Soul) Nascent Soul realm cultivation technique. Cost: 1500 BS points.]
Shu Himo's eyelids twitched like crazy, what kind of joke was this? 2800 BS points weren't even enough to buy the 2nd fragment of the Nascent Soul realm? An increase of 500 BS point? How could this be something different from a scam?!
'To increase this much… just how much will be the first fragment for Longevity Realm?'
[The first fragment for the Longevity Realm will cost-]
'SHUT UP! Don't you dare tell me!' Were he to learn the price of that fragment, Shu Himo feared to lose his life due to the shock! Who knew how many thousands of BS points it would be?
Shivering at the thought, he made his decision. 'I will buy the fragments of the 9th string of Dantian Core Formation and the first quality of Nascent soul.'
[Detracting 500 BS points…]
[Thanks for your patronage!]
[You now have 2304 BS points!]
[Detracting 1000 BS points…]
[Thanks for your patronage!]
[You now have 1304 BS points!]
Feeling the strings of information entering in his head, he felt not only the pain of his body, but due to the loss of BS points also the pain of his mind. Sighing, he began to cultivate, planning to breakthrough firstly to the 9th string.
Seated cross-legged, he accumulated Qi from the external world and assimilated it in his body, rapidly reaching the bottleneck. Meanwhile, Phylia stood in guard toward all the sides, to make sure that no one would bother him.
Cai Xiang chuckled by seeing her behavior, however, he suddenly froze. He could feel that around Shu Himo, every strain of external Qi was absorbed quickly by him, as if it were making a race to which one could get assimilated first.
His jaw dropped in disbelief, 'Isn't this a little… no, isn't it way too fast?'
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A minute later, the reinforcement finally came, they were three Longevity Realm experts. After talking for a moment with Cai Xiang about what happened, they nodded and left, while still in disbelief. Met-2 killed by a child, who would believe that?
But what startled them even more, was that Cai Xiang did not want to explain the fight at all, saying that he swore loyalty to the child, and unless he had the child's approval, revealing his abilities was absolutely impossible.
Originally they wanted to stay and help them, however, Cai Xiang said to not worry, as they were fine at the moment. The war was after all in a critical situation, it was better if they helped in the battlefield instead of losing time doing nothing here.
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Two hours later.
*Boom!*
As such sound resounded, Shu Himo overcame the bottleneck and felt every part of his body strengthened, proving that he achieved a breakthrough. He was finally in the Dantian Core Formation realm of the 9th string!
Cai Xiang could not believe it, was he seeing wrong? Did he really achieve a breakthrough in just two hours? That's impossible! Only a moment later, he came to a realization, Shu Himo was already on the verge of overcoming his bottleneck from before… or it would make no sense!
Meanwhile, Shu Himo noticed that the pain in his body didn't vanish at all, and knew that he needed to reach Nascent Soul realm if he wanted to heal. Out of curiosity, he decided to first check the status, so he focused on it as he thought, 'Status!'
[Shu Himo, 12 Years old]
[Hp: 43%] [Mp: 7490/9990]
[Strength: 999] [Resistance: 999] [Agility: 999]
[Dexterity: 999] [Intelligence: 999] [Wisdom: 999]
[Realm: Dantian Core Formation] [Stage: 9th String]
[Skills: [Intimidation lv_2], [Hopper lv_4].]
[Unique Skills: [Steal Illusion].]
[Arcane Magics: [/Catastrophe/](-2500Mp).]
[State: Stop losing time by checking the status!]
[The maximum stats for the 9th String is 999!]
"Eh?" Max stats? Doubting his eyes for a moment, Shu Himo believed to have seen wrong, 'System, how is possible that my stats are maxed? Already from the 7th string, I had started losing points when compared to the max value!'
[Even if the body of the User ended up half-broken, it appear that it served as good training.]
Hearing the explanation from the system, Shu Himo's eyes lit up, and he decided to go immediately for a breakthrough to Nascent Soul realm! As some say, strike while the iron's hot!
The passage to breakthrough to the Nascent Soul realm consists of using the external Qi to 'wake up' the soul, jolting it awake, unlocking the potential remaining in the body.
Shu Himo then began crazily absorb the Qi existing around him, as if attempting to absorb all the Qi which existed in the world. The external Qi rushing to him was so dense that it became visible to naked eye, literally generating a whirlwind, gradually expanding.
Upon such sigh, Cai Xiang, opened his mouth in shock, "This…"
Normally, when breaking through to Nascent Soul realm, a small whirlwind would form, revealing how the Qi was rushing to the cultivator. It was known that every realm had a max potential which could be reached, and the closer to it, the stronger the whirlwind would form.
However… the whirlwind would at most be of a meter in diameter, while the one around Shu Himo already reached five meters! Not only that, but it was still expanding as if such size was not enough at all!
Just what was going on around Shu Himo?! Can that still be defined as a small whirlwind?
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A couple minutes later, in the battlefield where the Longevity Realm experts were fighting against the numerous Met-2 and Met-3. The location was about five kilometers at south from Shu Himo, so unless something unexpected happened, there was no risk of hinder his breakthrough.
The fight was intense, where neither the experts or the Met-2 and Met-3 could distract for a single moment. Even distracting for a single moment could spell death, so no one dared, and should be focused on the opponent.
However, unexpectedly, at that moment the battlefield was silent, as both sides were standing still, staring toward the north with incredulous expressions.
Eventually, one of the experts murmured in shock, "Is that... a tornado of Qi?"