Chapter 51: Chapter 51 - Lighting Forest 12th Trial

Everyone in the pagoda didn't know what to do. Not a single person in the room could say freely that they could cause the same explosion, even the elders that were 8th or 9th level.

After Kyle started freely dropping everyone gasped, but Volta suddenly stood up and started laughing non-stop, nearly rolling on the floor.

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Kyle has been knocked out a lot for the past couple of months, this feeling of waking up from the total abyss and barely being able to understand where he was or what happened.

This was annoying, but considering what was happening around Kyle, this adaptation skill was more than necessary.

As Kyle woke up, he could feel very different than before. The first thing that he felt was freezing cold, considering that his body has been strengthened and changed over and over again with the level ups and cultivation, him getting cold was very unnatural.

Right now as he opened his eyes, he could see that this was a room with no exits and everything was covered in snow.

The snow was even falling from the ceiling even though it was made out of white stone as well. This place was magical, for sure.

Kyle suddenly understood that he was not lying on the stone or snow but was actually put into the kneeling position with both his hands and head secured in confines.

In front of him, there was a fully white habit that looked like a human. This rabbit has an ember mark on its forehead.

"Woke up? Finally." Rabbit only looked at him but somehow already was sitting next to Kyle. The movement was so fast that it was impossible to track.

Kyle was lost in his thoughts, and panicky tried to get his body out from this confines.

"Don't even try. You have destroyed nearly 95% of the Embers proving ground in the continent of Unica. Were you sent by some of the enemy sects? Tell me the truth, or you will meet your end." Kyle tried to say something but couldn't even get any words out as it seems that his jaw was also locked with some qi.

"Oh, so you are actually a newly born practionist? And you are from Earth? Interesting." Kyle tried to say that, but couldn't. It seemed that this rabbit in front of him could read his mind.

The rabbit seemed more human than any human that he has met so far. This rabbit has excluded a certain feeling of status and intelligence.

"The punishment for such a grave deed is instant death, but the upper echelon of the Embers decided to spare you and give you a chance to join them instead. I personally think that this is too good for such an ignorant and destructive boy… Either way, it has been decided." Rabbit rotated its hands in a circle, and a black oval appeared in front of Kyle.

The rabbit looked at the portal and then back at the Kyle. "See you around, Kyle." The rabbit steeped into the black circle, and it started disappearing, which caused Kyle to be the only thing left in this space.

At the last second, when the oval was already reduced to the dot and was about to disappear, inside Kyle's ears another message resounded. "Welcome to the 12th trial of the Ember's trials. Leave this place in 12 months by penetrating the border with your soul force. Otherwise, you die. First, you might want to free yourself from the confines. Have fun!"

'Is it me or did this last words sounded happy? As if he was laughing at me trying to achieve what was demanded.' Kyle confusedly said.

But considering that Kyle couldn't even talk or move a single finger, it was more than justified.

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Kyle now was as skinny as the mummy, and he was still trying to get rid of the confines. Right now, it was around a week since he arrived in this white space.

Kyle right now couldn't move qi outside of hi qi at all, the only thing he could do is to try breakthrough with his own power.

The worst thing was, that even though Kyle was a cultivator and has already achieved the Foundation Establishment realm, he still was short of the Golden Core realm. The craziest thing is that his experience gauge that was inside the system was full, and he could break through at any point but the confines that the rabbit placed on him prevented him from achieving it.

Kyle couldn't eat or drink anything, so his only source of nutrition was the qi that he was passively and actively collecting with his attractive force.

Kyle thought that he would die for certain, but around an hour ago, Kyle finally was able to separate the qi into energy that he could supply to his stomach and the energy that he could give to the dantian. This was a game-changing event as now. He could survive forever and anywhere by providing his body with water and food from the air. As long as there was qi, just like here, he would be able to survive.

Kyle focused his mind on what his plan of breaking away from this place was.

'First thing that I must focus on is to get my body in the optimal state. All this striving did me no good. After I do that, I will try to use the wave of conviction and lighting step together. Maybe this qi fluctuation will allow me to break off the confines. If that doesn't do it, I will have to try something else.' Kyle knew that the body had suffered too much damage, and now that he could "eat" qi, he could build himself and the muscles up again.

Kyle focused on that, and after around 3 hours of continuous eating, he couldn't consume any more nutrition. He finally, after 3 weeks felt full of food. 'This is the best feeling ever. I missed this so much.'

Kyle carried on doing this for a while and after 21 hours was fully restored to his optimal condition. He also noticed that this separated qi was much purer and improved the quality of the qi in the dantian as well as made it so that he would be less tired, and 3 to 5-hour sleep would be enough to restore his energy.

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Chapter 52: Chapter 52 - Breaking off the confines

Now Kyle had a body at nearly optimal condition. Him not being able to move for a week made so that his muscles started detonating, but overall this was the best he could muster.

Kyle now with full force, tried moving his qi. He moved it to the hands and to the legs. After that, he moved the lighting energy to the hands and the feet as well. Nothing was noticeable really changed as he did this multiple times, but this time his body was ready for the final push that he wanted to do.

Kyle concentrated and used up all the energy to utilise the Wave of Conviction and Lighting step together at the same time.

At first, the qi couldn't really exit his body and stayed silent no matter what Kyle did, but as Kyle continuously pushed the qi and energy, a small sip slipped out through the barrier that was around him. Suddenly as a small wisp flashed, this small opening in Kyle's left hand made so that more and more energy tried to escape, fully annihilating the whole barrier around his body.

With the barrier fully destroyed, but Kyle still locked in the kneeling position, the lighting step and wave of conviction fully realised uncontrollably. Kyle still couldn't move and put himself in the right stance. That is why he suddenly started spinning uncontrollably. After hitting the walls at least 10 different times, a part of the handcuff broke, and all of the pressure got released.

"AH!" Kyle breathed out and dropped on the ground and started gasping with full motion. His stomach rising and falling.

His body was numb and pained from spending the week in the still position. He first stretched his body.

'I can't waste any more time. I need to think of the next thing to do. First is full recovery.' Kyle got into the meditation position and adjusted his chaotic thoughts.

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After a while, Kyle was finally able to breathe freely. 'This feeling of being able to move is so nice. I never appreciated it enough.' Kyle looked at him moving his hand back and forth and grinned like a stupid person.

'Alright, so the rabbit said something about spirit force and that I need to use it somehow.' Kyle tried scanning his memory, and the manuals that he had for the spiritual power mentions, but he couldn't find anything.

After browsing through the systems manual, he finally was able to find something. The Spiritual force was something that one would get after reaching level 5.

'I think I am able to achieve level 3 if I want right now as the energy has stopped blocking my pearl system. But how am I supposed to reach level 5 passively in a year in this small space?' Kyle looked around the white room, and he couldn't see anything noticeable.

Except for the snow that kept on slowly falling from the ceiling, everything was motionless and had no energy.

'I must be missing something. This has to be a hard challenge as this the 12th Trial of the Embers, but it shouldn't be impossible…' Kyle bite his lip while thinking.

'Either way, the best course of action is breaking through right now, and then I can maybe talk to the pearl again, or I even might get some benefit from breaking through.'

Kyle's dantian was all ready for the breakthrough. The qi was organised in the neatly stacked sphere that was barely not touching the pearl. Kyle concentrated on the core that he now had, and he utilised both the breathing technique and the movement technique. In addition to this, he utilised the qi movement that book has specified. Striking down with full power with the qi straight at the sphere that was inside his dantian.

That seemed like someone insane to do. Harming ones dantian would mean becoming a cripple which in turn would make one useless for the entire life. But considering how amazing and rare the book was and considering what Kyle had already experienced form the book, there was no reason to doubt it.

Kyle willed the small qi to separate from the insides of the sphere and with a bang slammed at it with full power. At first, nothing happened, but then Kyle realised that the world outside of him became dark. When he looked up, he saw a hammer the same size as his body, fully gold in colour, slamming from the roof at him. Instead of crushing him, the hammer went into his body and into his dantian.

The sphere got smashed by this hammer, and a resonating DING resounded. Kyle's body shook, and the sphere instead of destroying and ripping his dantian to pieces started vibrating and turning colour. At first, it started pulsating with different shades of azure, red and white but after it started turning into the colour of deep, bright yellow. Not the same yellow that Kyle would see in the jewellery shops back on earth on the gold pieces. It was the colour that was so deeply yellow and magical that he couldn't stop examining it.

After a while, the pulsating and colour change stopped, and the sphere became as hard as the metal.

'Let's try this!' Kyle willed and a sharp pieces of qi flew out from the sphere and went through the meridians and into his hand. Kyle willed and this sharp qi that looked like a golden stick flew out. He pushed this golden stick out, and it struck the white wall.

There was no boom or any indication that it was powerful. Instead, now in the wall, there was a deep hole that went so far that Kyle couldn't feel his qi anymore. The hole quickly started to reform, and soon a perfectly white wall was again in its place.

[ Congratulations on reaching Golden Core realm ]

[ Congratulations on reaching level 3 ]

'This has finally happened…' Kyle was overjoyed.

It was known to everyone that getting to level 3 or Golden Core realm was extremely hard. So hard that elders would try and try again but would fail. But here, Kyle, who was just in his 20-s, was able to do this amazing feat.