As the Overflow Resurgence Spirit Pill settled inside Duan Li's stomach, the pill immediately began to show its effect.
Wuuu..
Surges of spiritual Qi from his three Dantian started to be absorbed by it. Normally, the process where the pill would be filled with spiritual Qi to the brim would take approximately 2 hours the least.
However, with Duan Li's three Dantian, coupled with his Sky grade potential, this was reduced to a mere 15 minutes interval instead!
After cultivating for a brief 15 minutes, the Pill shuddered a little before releasing a wave of spiritual Qi like a pulse, cycling clockwise throughout Duan Li's ruptured meridians and Qi pathways.
Wengg!!
As if coming into contact with a powerful tonic, his meridians and Qi pathways showed signs of being invigorated and hummed lightly!
It works!
Duan Li nodded in satisfaction.
In fact, the result was even better. Due to him consuming the Grade 8 elixir before, the medicinal effect of the Overflow Resurgence Spirit Pill seemed to multiply by at least 80 percent!
It's a pity that only a quarter of it was available, if it was full...
I reckoned that my internal injuries would be significantly alleviated!
Hais!
"M-Master.. is it.. working?" Di Rou whom was standing beside him asked worriedly when she saw that forlorn expression of her master.
Standing up from his seated position, Duan Li nodded and replied, "Yes, it is working as intended!"
Hearing this, Di Rou could finally sighed out in relief.
She was tasked by the Emperor to look after their Imperial Overseer, and if she returned while bringing such a bad news that this very important person of their's was now a crippled person, there'd sure be a hellish uproar!
"However, based on the rate of recovery, it would roughly take three months before all my ruptured meridians and Qi pathways to heal completely.. my pill forging knowledge is still quite lacking hmm.." Duan Li added with a hint of frustration in his voice.
"T-Three months? That's... already quite fast.." Di Rou almost tripped on herself.
An injury so severe that one might be better off forgetting to cultivate for the rest of their lives and toil the farmlands instead, would only take 3 months of recovery in front of her master?
Dear me! My horizons sure has widened today!
However, there were still some lingering concerns in her mind as to what might be the side effect of this, so she quickly asked.
"Are there any side effects from your current injury master? Or perhaps from the recovery pill itself?"
When Duan Li heard this question, he thought contemplatively for a while as he played with his chin before his countenance suddenly turned grim.
He nodded, "Only one!"
The serious tone and expression he used in this reply of his has made Di Rou apprehensive and she could not help but to swallow another mouthful of saliva.
Gulp!
"W-What is that side effect master? Ah! But only if you are comfortable of telling me about it! Otherwise, its fine.." Di Rou quickly corrected her words, afraid that she might be stepping off her boundaries.
Side effects also translated to weakness, and for any cultivator, no one was comfortable of telling others what that weakness was.
If by chance, this weakness was exposed to others who bore malicious intentions, then they would be thoroughly troubled by it!
However, what happened next was contrary to her expectations.
With a profound look on his face, Duan Li answered as he looked down on the ground with a serious gaze.
"I could only tap at most 10 percent of my full power with this injury, and while this pill could help me recover my powers, the nature of my severe injury would inevitably make me.." he stopped for a while as he shook his head.
After a long sigh, seeming to come into terms with it, he finally continued and looked towards the sky, ".. unable to control that 10 percent of strength!"
Hais! I fear to those who might offend me in the future..
"If I, one day, accidentally hurt my enemy for too much, I hope that you will be there to stop me!"
Duan Li said all these with a sorrowful expression.
"..." Di Rou.
Why did I even bother to ask?
"Yes, Master.."
...
After cultivating for another hour, Duan Li now has enough spiritual Qi distributed inside his body.
This should be enough for him to defend himself for a while.
"Come, let us take a look at the stone pedestal!" he waved his hand as Di Rou nodded and followed quietly behind.
Stepping onto the gazebo, they could see that now, all four symbols were lit with 4 corresponding colours; bronze, copper, silver and gold!
Brrrrr..!!
A small slab of stone suddenly rose from the center as if it has detected their presence. Within it, a spherical object that was azure in color was slotted!
"T-this!" Duan Li's eyes widened in surprise. But after analyzing it for a bit, he quickly shook his head.
No, this isn't one of the mysterious pearls!
Tetra Soul Sense!
[Stone of absolute might.]
[Could be slotted into practically any weapon to drastically improve their strength.]
[Extremely rare. Does not exist in the mortal realm.]
"Oh? This is an extremely good stuff!" Duan Li's eyes sparkled as he threw a question to Little Sword.
"Little Sword, can you use this as well?"
The Little Sword then promptly replied, "En! I definitely can young master. However, considering that my full power is currently sealed, it would not prove that much of a boost for me being an Eternal weapon. Normal weapons though, could greatly benefit from it!"
Hearing this, Duan Li cupped his chin, "Is that so.." and pondered for a moment, before storing it inside his spatial ring.
"Well, that's for another time then! Now, where is the exit portal?"
As if his words were being listened to, a temporal vortex suddenly appeared not far away from them.
"Finally.. let us return to the Jiu Empire!" Duan Li said as he put his hands behind his back and entered the vortex.
Weengg!!
...
High up above the mouth of the huge volcano, two silhouettes were observing Duan Li's activity from the beginning to the end.
"To think that he could even beat that overpowered talisman! Never before in my life had I even thought of that as something that could be done!" Dugu Liubai stared at the holographic screen with widened eyes.
He knew full well that the final trial was rigged from the start. Therefore, to even overcome a rigged trial that none should have been able to beat..
What a monster!
The Will of the Grand Immortal seemed to inconspicuously chuckled.
"It's only expected of him to do so." he said with a hint of pride in it.
Without turning his back, the Will then said to Dugu Liubai, "My role here is done. I have to request of you to not said a word about my appearance here."
"Lord's words is my command!" Dugu Liubai replied fervently.
"En! Take this as my gift." a sliver ray of light seemed to be shot out from his forehead, before entering Dugu Liubai's head.
Wongg!!
T-This!
He immediately sat down cross-legged and cultivated this mysterious energy.
Crack!
A chime reminiscent of a chain being cut in half could be heard.
Second Shackle released!
Entering Omnipresence realm state!
BOOMMM!!
Opening his eyes wide in disbelief, he soon broke out into a celebration and jumped around.
"Hahahaha! I have finally ascended to the second realm!"
Then, quickly stepping out from his elation as fast as it came, he prostrated to the ground as if worshipping, his voice shaking with veneration, he said, "Thank you Lord! This lowly one is honored to receive such a gift!"
The Will of the Grand Immortal waved his hand dismissively. "It's nothing."
Hmm?
Crackle!
The sky above them started to darken, and as if just realizing, Dugu Liubai's forehead began to sweat.
"Oh no! I forgot to do my preparation for the Heavenly tribulation!" he said with a horrified voice.
As he still has a long way to release the second shackle before, he never did any sorts of preparation beforehand at all. After all, who could expect that the gift from the Grand Immortal would be so formidable?
"Heaven's Will? To appear before me.. Impudence! Now scram!"
This word 'scram' of his seemed to carry an archaic authority that resonated with the whole realm!
Huuu!!
The dark clouds then quickly scattered into the 8 cardinal direction as fast as they could before they even coalesced together, as if they just met with their grandfather who came after them with a beating stick!
"..." Dugu Liubai.
...
Hello monday and hello again my readers! Hope everyone is doing fine! So here is the first chapter for this week! ;) Enjoy and thanks for reading!
Wengg!!
The silhouette of a person with his hands clasped behind his back appeared vividly on the temporal vortex as it hummed behind the big red temple gate.
"He's here!" exclaimed a group of people as they waited with anxious looks on their face.
This was the underground cave where the entrance of the Eternal Maze was located.
Tap! Tap!
"Huh? Why is everyone here?"
Upon stepping out from the vortex that connected the two worlds together, Duan Li was surprised to see that a crowd had already gathered before him.
"Foolish boy! Do you know how long you have been gone? You had us worried!" exclaimed the Principal, Bian Tianyu with an agitated voice.
"What? It's probably two days at most.." Duan Li shrugged off his shoulder after he thought about it.
"It's almost a week." this time, it was the calm voice of the Vice-Principal, Zhang Xi who spoke.
Hearing this, Duan Li's raised his brows.
A week?
The time dilation this time around was quite stretched out it seems..
Does that mean that subsequent regions after this would have an even more dilated time lapse?
"Kid, I seriously thought that you needed a rescue or something, so I was thinking about sending a group of elite people to come and fetch you. Thankfully, that wasn't necessary." a majestic voice spoke out as he led a group of powerful cultivators at the Foundation Establishment realm behind him, along with several familiar faces.
"Paying respects to your Majesty!" Duan Li swiftly cupped his fists together and bowed a little upon the approach of the other party.
It was the Emperor of the Jiu Empire, Jiu Xian Ping!
While in terms of status he was practically higher than the Emperor, it was still not an official matter.
In addition, even if his title were to become official later on, he would still feel the need to show the proper etiquette when greeting the other party.
An Emperor is an Emperor after all. At least, he would be spared from having to kneel before the latter during any official ceremony or events.
The Emperor shook his head with a slight chuckle, "No need to be on ceremony. How was your adventure in the.. hmm?"
The Emperor suddenly stopped between his words as a frown was etched onto his forehead. He then inched closer towards Duan Li as he shot a piercing gaze onto the latter, as if scanning him.
"Your body's internal state.. " the Emperor said in a low voice after a while with a troubled expression.
Oh?
The Emperor seems to be able to detect that I am grievously injured..
Maybe soul sense?
'If that is so, then the other Nascent Soul realm experts here should be able to notice the same thing as well..'
Therefore Duan Li nodded as it was pointless to hide anyway.
"Yeah, most of my meridians and Qi pathways are ruptured. However, don't worry too much about it, I will recover fully in about 3 months." Duan Li replied with a hint of helplessness in his voice.
Hearing this, the Emperor was a little bit doubtful.
3 months of recovery for meridians and Qi pathways broken beyond recognition?
What method of sorcery did he used?
Usually, people would wail in despair if such a situation were to occur to them, but this kid here..
The more the Emperor thought about it, the more incredulous his expression seems to become. However, upon recalling on what kind of person he was dealing with here, the Emperor's gaze soon landed onto an open area to the side, as if lamenting somehow.
Hais!
Main characters sure has it easy..
He believed that there were chosen ones in the world, and Duan Li was indubitably that very same person.
Still, this had caused him to be much more wary of the vortex before him than ever before.
"Was the trial really that difficult? As you are now, you have already seemed to reach the pinnacle stage of the Core Formation realm.. a whole realm from where you were before entering the maze.. but for even someone like you to turn into such a state.." the Emperor subconsciously swallowed his saliva.
"We would have taken in quite the loss if we had sent them in to help him.. worse case, everyone would just die.. " Fei Jin Fang, the Supreme Knight of the Emperor, shook his head as he sighed out in relief while looking at the people behind them.
These people were the selected, best of the best from the younger generations which they were about to send in before.
"I agree. The amount of resources we have put to nurture these young elite troops of the Jiu Empire would be for naught. To think that the level of the trial would be so insane." Liu Sheng Juan, the most richest person in the Jiu Empire, nodded to the latter's statement as he cast a complicated frown towards the vortex.
The reason why these three Big Guns of the Jiu Empire said all these with utmost seriousness was because naturally, they knew full well of how overpowered Duan Li was.
After all, even a Pinnacle Nascent Soul realm expert, a renown member from the Dark Sect even, has fallen under his might.
Realizing that they might have misunderstood the whole situation, Duan Li quickly waved his hand, "Well, the trial wasn't actually that difficult, my current state is but from a different story.." he said as he scratched his head, feeling a little bit embarrassed.
...
After he explained the event from the beginning to the end, the three big guns of the Empire had finally calmed down.
"So that was the case.." the Emperor said with his mouth twitching is disbelief.
He was actually fine all the way during the trial, only to messed up at the very end, hence arriving at his current state..
Haaa!
"Alright, we shall hear more of the story next time. For now, I think you should go back and rest at your residence court. All of your followers should be waiting for you too." the Emperor said.
He then added, "But before you go, make sure you remember this. I've set the date of your coronation as the Imperial Overseer of the Jiu Empire two days from now on, so it would be best if you could recover for as much as you can before then."
'Two days from now on? I'm not sure I'm really ready though..' Duan Li cupped his chin.
Liu Sheng Juan by the side then continued after the Emperor, "There are envoys from the other Empires around, and they would surely try to poke their noses on where it did not belong. Make sure to not get into too much trouble, if you can."
Huh? Why does it seems like he was looking at me as if looking at a troublemaker?
Duan Li could not help but to have some shades of grey on his face as he thought on what he did wrong.
Fei Jin Fang, the Supreme Knight then seemed to recall something as well before saying, "As for your identity, you need not be too concern about it. We shall handle the more difficult stuff for you."
Hearing all these, Duan Li could only sighed out helplessly.
Hais!
I should have been more low profile..
...
In this following arc, some of the other Empires will be introduced, expanding the world further! Btw if you like this novel, consider supporting me at Patre0n by searching my name there! Enjoy and thanks for reading! ;)
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