#13 - Awakening Star
Jun Wu Xie returned to the Hunter Union to find Yue Yao asleep.
He sat before her bed, watching over her for an entire day.
She didn't wake up during the two meal times.
"Why is Yue Yao so sleepy?"
He felt something was wrong and asked Qin Keqing about it.
Qin Keqing told him that Yue Yao had been quite sleepy for the past two days.
"Your life in the Xiao family these past six months must not have been good, right?" Qin Keqing sighed and said, "I heard that before you recovered, she went outside the city every day to gather herbs for you, is that true?"
Jun Wu Xie nodded, feeling a pang in his heart.
"She's too young, suffering from long-term severe malnutrition, and working every day. She probably has some hidden ailments. When you have the opportunity in the future, find a doctor to give her a good check-up."
……
Jun Wu Xie watched over Yue Yao, who woke up in the middle of the night, ate something, and fell asleep again shortly after.
"Senior, what's wrong with my sister?"
Jun Wu Xie entered the Eternal Shrine and sought help from the mysterious woman.
"Her condition is very bad, but she's temporarily fine. If you want to save her, you need to find a skilled physician for her as soon as possible."
Jun Wu Xie's heart tightened: "Is it... is it that serious?"
"Indeed, it could be life-threatening. If you want to save her, then hurry up and cultivate, defeat Xiao Xu, obtain the Great River Selection Token, and join the Great River Sword Sect. In a sect like that, there should be doctors who can treat her."
"I understand!"
Jun Wu Xie took a deep breath, eliminated the distracting thoughts in his heart, and consumed a large number of Initial Spirit Pills. The vast spiritual energy turned into blood essence, tempering and nourishing his body.
Five days later.
His extreme boundary accumulated to its peak. He stepped into the Soldier Tomb, enduring life-and-death forging, and broke through to the minor perfection stage of the extreme boundary, his physical body strength reaching a new level.
After that, he left the Eternal Shrine. Seeing that Yue Yao was being taken care of by Qin Keqing, he felt relieved and entered the Eternal Shrine again, consuming Lesser Spirit Pills to continue cultivating.
The effect of the Lesser Spirit Pills was several times stronger than that of the Initial Spirit Pills. This was a true rank one, low-grade Spirit Pill.
With sufficient resources, he was determined to break through to the Congenital Realm in one fell swoop!
Another seven days passed, and the extreme boundary of minor perfection accumulated to its peak. He entered the Soldier Tomb again, beginning to break through to the final great perfection stage of the extreme boundary.
Time passed quickly.
Unknowingly, Jun Wu Xie had been in the Eternal Shrine for nearly twenty days, and all the Spirit Pills on his body were used up.
On this night, the sky was dark, with no stars or moon visible.
But gradually, dense stars appeared, incomparably brilliant, illuminating the night almost as bright as day.
The endless starry sea presented a magnificent and astonishing scene.
Those stars actually began to rotate, as if there was an axis at their center, and the stars closer to the center were disintegrating one by one, as if being swallowed.
Those starlight converged towards the center, where there was a deep abyss vortex, disintegrating and swallowing all the stars.
This scene alarmed the entire Qingyang City, alarmed the entire Great Zhou Kingdom, alarmed the entire Eastern Wilderness, the entire world!
……
Inside the Eternal Shrine, Jun Wu Xie frowned. He sensed his Natal Star, but he couldn't see it, which made him very puzzled.
He was certain that his Natal Star was at the center of the vortex guarded by all the stars, but he couldn't see it, as if it had fallen into the dark void abyss.
"Senior, what's going on?"
Jun Wu Xie was a little anxious, suspecting that there was a problem with his breakthrough.
"Even the most brilliant low-grade Natal Star can't be put on the stage. The most powerful Natal Star can devour myriad stars and devour light. Unless you have powerful pupil techniques, you can't see it."
Jun Wu Xie:……
This was the first time he had heard that a brilliant Natal Star was low-grade. Probably only the mysterious woman dared to say such a thing.
In any case, he knew that there was no problem with his cultivation, and that his Natal Star was very strong, which was enough.
"You're in the Congenital Realm now. How do you feel?"
"I feel great!"
Jun Wu Xie slightly released his blood energy, which enveloped his body like golden flames. He only felt that every inch of his flesh was full of power.
His current physical body was already close to the strength of a rank one, high-grade spiritual weapon!
"You can now cultivate martial techniques."
The mysterious woman flicked her finger, and strings of martial technique secrets and words poured into his brow like starlight.
"Two sets of martial techniques, both of which are growth-type martial techniques. The difference is that the first set of martial techniques consumes less energy and can be used for a long time during battles. The second set is a killing martial technique. Currently, only the first move is taught to you. It is usually used when you have the belief of a sure-kill strike against the target, and it requires a lot of essence, energy, and spirit to use."
Dragon-Tiger Force! First Move of the Seven Kill Fist: Mountain and River Severance!
"The Dragon-Tiger Force can be used with fists or palms, and the intent of the fist or palm can enhance its power. The Seven Kill Fist is different. You need to condense killing intent, military intent, and invincible belief to bring its power to the extreme of the current realm."
"Do you understand?"
"I understand."
"Then let's begin. Comprehending in battle is the best way to grow."
After the mysterious woman finished speaking, a graceful phantom appeared in the void.
"Senior, this is…"
"My simulated shadow."
The moment the mysterious woman finished speaking, the phantom attacked, a dragon and a tiger condensed on its left and right, killing over.
With a bang.
Jun Wu Xie was directly knocked back more than ten meters. Before he could get up, the phantom attacked again, the dragon moved and the tiger ran, its power terrifying.
In a moment, he was covered in wounds, his body feeling like it was about to fall apart.
"Senior, you're cheating! You're simulating your shadow to fight me, and your realm is so high!"
"The shadow I simulated is in the same realm as you, and it only used less than one ten-thousandth of its strength. You're simply too weak."
Actually being looked down upon, he couldn't bear it. He hardened his heart, determined to subdue her phantom.
He got up and fought against the mysterious woman's phantom.
As a result, he was always in the mode of being beaten, but he learned how to evade attacks in extreme situations and comprehended some of the essentials of this martial technique from his opponent's Dragon-Tiger Force.
The sparring continued for six days, and Jun Wu Xie was brutally ravaged.
He had mastered the Dragon-Tiger Fist and Mountain and River Severance.
Calculating the time, today was the day of the talent selection competition.
He left the Eternal Shrine. The time was just morning, and a servant from the Hunter Union came in with breakfast.
Jun Wu Xie patiently fed Yue Yao a bowl of lean meat porridge before taking her out.
As soon as they left, Qin Keqing also went out, along with the Cloud Elder who appeared and disappeared from time to time.
Qingyang City was extremely lively.
In the central square of the city, the battle platform was more than ten meters high, surrounded by a sea of people, very noisy, all commenting on the contestants.
The layer closest to the battle platform was occupied by people from the City Lord's Mansion and the four major families, as well as two unfamiliar faces, two old men with sharp eyes and brilliant light. One of them was wearing official robes, and the other had a sword pattern embroidered on his cuffs.
The old man in official robes looked at the old man with the sword pattern embroidered on his cuffs beside him: "Elder Qi, who do you think will win your sect's selection token this time?"
"Lord Wu is asking the obvious." Elder Qi's gaze fell on Xiao Xu, who was high-spirited in front of the Xiao family: "Is there anyone in Qingyang City who can compete with the one with the Heavenly Fate Spiritual Veins? Such a genius, even if he arrives at my Great River Sword Sect, will be a leader among men!"
