XuanHuan 7
Nie Tian was himself a Vital Vein at the ninth level three years ago. He was definitely able to awaken with his talents his vital spirits whose power could not be underestimated.
It was his nine destroyed vital veins that deprived himself of the ability to awaken the vital spirits.
The vital veins held great significance to a Kung Fu learner. It was a very foundation, which, if ruined, would contribute to the awakening of the vital spirits.
With the recovery of the nine vital veins of Nie Tian as well as the creepy tenth vital vein, the vital spirits would be awakened in all its possibilities.
Nie Tian intended to spare three days to awaken his vital spirits, for he assumed that the Bloody Bats would have appeared by then.
It would be better to awaken the vital spirits before they showed up.
Very soon, Nie Tian arrived at a cliff, found a cave and walked into it after making sure that there was no spirit monsters.
Upon entrance, Nie Tian sealed the cave with his spiritual deployments, so as not to be disturbed from any spirit monsters or other Kung Fu learners.
Nie Tian measured the cave and found it very spacious and ideal for cultivation.
He would waste no more time but embark on his cultivation.
On the first evening, Nie Tian was not in a hurry to awaken his vital spirits. He was preparing himself for the awakening of the Star Power.
Sitting cross-legged, Nie Tian led his mind into the Boundary of Galaxy, feeling every trace of Star Power.
That night passed by quickly.
The following day, when the dawn just broke, Nie Tian opened his eyes and learned that his tenth vital vein had caused the power of four stars to be awakened.
What an evening had offered was the power of two stars or the doubled power of Nie Tian.
And the Killing Mundra would be a fatal strike for Ba Ziliang.
"It seems that the more progress I make, the easier the awakening. The spiritual grans on the Star Stone should have different benefits. Some can enhance power and some speed,"murmured Nie Tian, in his assumptions.
There were nine hundred billion spiritual grains on the Star Stone that looked exactly the same. But on a closer look, there was a nuance for each.
Nie Tian inferred that the nine hundred billion spiritual grains were different, hence different improvements along with the awakening.
"Could it be possible whether the spiritual grains are different in their attributes, just like the vital power," Nie Tian smiled gently to his bold guess.
Now that Nie Tian had awakened the spiritual grains of the four stars which boosted the power and speed, outweighing ordinary Vital Veins at the ninth level and equaling a Vital Spirits at the second or even third level.
Nie Tian reached his Storage Bag for several Vitality Consolidating Pills and Vitality Circulation Pills and wolfed them down.
These pills came from the Bloody Bats and were able to help Kung Fu learners recover their strength and mental power.
"Ultimate Warrior Formula. First level. Golden Heavenly Realm." Having felt the recovery of the mental power, Nie Tian seized the moment to sit cross-legged again, close his eyes and start his practice of Ultimate Warrior Formula.
The cultivation of a Kung Fu learner enlisted martial formulas and martial skills.
They were categorized as per the rank into Heavenly, Earthly, Black and Yellow, from higher to lower. And each rank was further divided into three levels, i.e. advanced, intermediate and junior. There were all together twelve levels.
In terms of the martial formulas, the higher the level was, the faster the cultivation and the greater the future achievements.
Each level for the martial formulas would mean a one-time quicker cultivation.
That could lead to an exponential increase in power, which was very scary.
A Kung Fu learner at the Black Rank of martial formulas would be eight times quicker in terms of cultivation than someone at the Yellow Rank of martial formulas.
That was eight times.
What did that mean?
You would be much more rewarded from your one-day cultivation than that taking seven days of others.
If you were practicing the martial formulas of Heavenly Rank, that could mean hundred-fold and thousand-fold advantage. That was incredible.
However, the martial formulas were very rare to find.
A local family, as insignificant as the Nies, had only a martial formula of Yellow Rank at the lowest level, and a limited variety of martial skills that ranked the lowest level too.
Even so, the Nies made it to the Top Three Families of Moyang City with all these, based on which the formidableness could be imagined.
Nie Tian practiced Ultimate Warrior Formula, a martial formula in his previous life.
The Ultimate Warrior Formula was obtained from the Dark Tower Mountain by Nie Tian in the Forbidden Place of the Heaven. Its violence and power was unmatched and dominating. The ninth level would be the threshold for the Dominating Warrior that was able to tear apart the Void and stomp on the welkin.
But Nie Tian was not aware of the levels of the Ultimate Warrior Formula. He was a Monarchic at the ninth level in the previous life, he could only push the Ultimate Warrior Formula to the fifth level, Black Heavenly Realm.
Nie Tian had an assumption that the Ultimate Warrior Formula could be an over-Heavenly martial formula as legend had it.
And it was because of Ultimate Warrior Formula that Nie Tian in his previous life could outreach anyone else and become the top warrior god of the heaven.
Ultimate Warrior Formula being functioned, the vital power welled up from the vital veins, breezed over the underbelly and traveled around the body.
As the vital power was pumped up, Nie Tian's body became a vortex that slowly absorbed the energy between the heaven and earth.
The energy just flooded into his underbelly.
And then the underbelly transformed the energy into the vital power and stored them in the vital veins.
If a Kung Fu learner had his vital spirits awakened, more vital power would fit in.
The vital power within the body was a source of power for a Kung Fu learner.
It traveled around the body and completed a cycle.
The higher the rank of the martial formulas, the quicker it was to complete the cycle and the more the energy was absorbed.
That explained why the Kung Fu leaner practicing martial formulas at the higher rank achieved a quicker cultivation.
In the following two days, Nie Tian did not spare himself with a rest from the cultivation.
He would have the vital power filling the nine vital veins. Only then would the mark of vital spirits be engraved.
Two days later, Nie Tian felt that time was right. The nine vital veins had already been filled with energy, like nine soldiers ready to combat.
"Now would be the most crucial moment." Nie Tian administrated several Vitality Consolidating Pills and Vitality Circulation Pills to make sure that the physical strength and the mental power were at the best.
"Awakening of vital spirits. Here we go." Nie Tian sat cross-legged, wasting no time.
The vital power in the nine vital veins flooded and surged in the underbelly.
Nie Tian had to expand the space of the underbelly first, in a preparation for the awakening of the vital spirits. As long as the space was large enough, it would be likely to awaken the vital spirits.
Moments later, Nie Tian forced the underbelly to expand by multiple times.
The space amounted to almost several cubic meters now.
"The space of underbelly has been created. Time to stimulate the mark of the vital spirits." Nie Tian smiled gently and knew it perfectly clear what the awakening process was all about.
Generally speaking, to awaken the vital spirits required proper instructions from someone with a senior cultivation.
But Nie Tian was a man of rebirth. The awakening of vital spirits was not a big deal for him.
"Vital power, impact." Nie Tian found the converging point of the nine vital veins without much effort. And that point was where the mark of vital spirits lied and where the vital spirits were to be awakened.
The mark would shrink as the Kung Fu learner aged. If a Kung Fu learner failed to reach the ninth level of Vital Veins before thirty, the mark would be gone, so would be the chance to awaken the vital spirits.
The nine vital veins impacted the mark of the vital spirits the way river crashed against the dyke.
It was at this point that intense pains were felt from within and hit every inch of body.
Nie Tian felt every single piece of muscles and bones were about to rip and break. His body trembled with the intense pains.
Anyone else would fear that something might have gone wrong and thus decide to give up the act.
But Nie Tian knew it that the body being torn apart signified the awakening of the vital spirits.
It meant a qualitative leap for the Kung Fu learner, like a butterfly out of cocoon and a phoenix in its resurrection. It was a process of unbearable pains.
"Hang in there. Almost done." Nie Tian gritted his teeth and pulled through it with tremendous will. His body was soaked in sweats but his belief was never abandoned.
With the impacts of the nine vital veins, the mark of the vital spirits seemed to respond. It was like a sprout breaking out of earth and a squab cracked open a shell. The underbelly was pervaded by blasts and blasts of breaths of life.
"It's so close now." The sweat streamed down from Nie Tian's face. He did see the light and he wanted it done.
"Come on." Nie Tian yelled within himself. The tenth vital vein also pulled it weight. The Star Power came like the last wave of flood that broke the dyke.
It hurt.
At that moment, the pains of the body multiplied by times. Nie Tian's body shook hard and he almost fainted out.
"What pains," Nie Tian had underestimated the pains the awakening of vital spirits might cause.
It was rather amazement than the pains that seized Nie Tian.
He knew it that when the vital spirits were about to wake up, the more pains one took, the more horrible the vital spirits would be.
The vital spirits of his in the previous life was the Ultimate Monster at the paramount ninth level.
But the awakening of the Ultimate Monster would be a lot more relieving.
Was there a even more terrifying vital spirit on top of one at the paramount ninth level in this world?
"Whatever vital spirit it is, I will bring it to reality." Nie Tian gave out cries and shook even harder. There was an attack of tearing pains. They were too intense that Nie Tian almost break his own teeth.
"Hell yes." Nie Tian thundered, with a twitched face.
The pains grew intenser, as if to rip every inch of his body and soul.
Nie Tian had been hurt in the two lives. But not a single experience would arouse the same pains. Nobody could ever imagine the pains of souls being torn apart if he had never experienced it.
"You damn heaven. You wanna see me tap out? No fucking way." Nie Tian roared and was about to go mad.
He knew that if he could not sustain the pains, the vital spirits would remain asleep.
His revenges for the previous life and this life would never be sought.
Besides, he would be destined to life with disgrace otherwise.
He would even be stalked and slain by people like Nie Santong, Ba Ziyang and Ba Ziliang.
It was not a life to be lived by Nie Tian.
The moment witnessed a steel-like resolution tempered.
Nobody could stand in the way when he determined to become stronger, not even the heaven.
"Ahh," a horrible growl was heard when Nie Tian somehow shook his body. The next second, he was in a thrilling silence.
The mark of the vital spirits was printed.
The vital spirit was awakened.
"My vital spirit, is... " Nie Tian got frozen the moment the mark was printed. His heart almost stopped beating when he saw it, "a coffin."