Under everyone’s gaze, nine round stones slowly condensed in front of Ye Chu. The nine round stones circled around him, forming a ring. The sight was truly striking.
Ji Die and Ye Jingyun exchanged a glance. After seeing that no more round stones formed beyond the nine in front of Ye Chu, they thought his intent pattern had successfully condensed.
Just as they expected, Ye Chu did not condense any more round stones. The nine round stones surrounded him and kept rotating. At this moment, Ye Chu’s eyes remained tightly closed. Brilliance surged over his body, and spiritual energy from the surroundings continued to pour into him in terrifying amounts.
Ye Chu sat cross-legged in the distance with his eyes closed. After condensing the nine round stones as his intent pattern, he still felt his primordial spirit brimming with energy. Forming the nine round stones had not drained much of his primordial spirit power at all.
Only after sensing the abundant primordial spirit power did Ye Chu realise that, judging purely by the talent of his primordial spirit, he was absolutely astonishing. He could compare to a human genius, or even surpass one.
Feeling the intent pattern circling around him, Ye Chu’s expression remained calm. Inside his sea of qi, the black iron trembled. Brilliance shook within the sea of qi, expanding it and enhancing the innate talent of Ye Chu’s body.
Ye Chu knew clearly that his talent could improve slowly, but it could never leap forward in one step. With the state of mind of his primordial spirit combined with the brilliance of the black iron, Ye Chu suddenly opened his eyes wide. A sharp light shot out from his pupils.
“Nine stars in alignment, changing heaven and earth, forming a strange phenomenon!”
Ye Chu suddenly roared. With his shout, the nine round stones circling around him abruptly spun faster. They aligned violently into a straight line. Stunning light burst from the round stones. The nine round stones hung above Ye Chu’s head. Spiritual energy surged around them, resembling nine stars suspended in the sky.
The light from the nine round stones connected into a straight line. This beam of light seemed capable of piercing through ancient and modern times. It carried a world-shaking state of mind. Patterns flickered and trembled endlessly. The void erupted with seven-coloured radiance, accompanied by continuous thunderous roars.
Seven-coloured light surged outward. With Ye Chu at the centre, countless stars appeared out of thin air around him. The nine round stones sat at the heart, aligned in a line. All the light seemed to serve only as a backdrop for them.
Strange phenomena of heaven and earth appeared around Ye Chu. Seven-coloured mist swirled, clouds began to form, starlight twinkled. The nine stars aligned, piercing through past and present. In this moment, everything in heaven and earth seemed to pale in comparison. The nine stars in alignment hung grandly across the sky, dazzling and brilliant.
“Heaven and earth phenomenon!” Ji Die and Ye Jingyun could no longer stay calm. Their bodies stiffened. They stared fixedly ahead with eyes full of shock and disbelief. Their eyes widened as they looked at Ye Chu in astonishment.
Swirling mist, seven-coloured light, stars filling the sky, nine stars in alignment. It formed a vast and majestic scene, as if creating its own starry immortal realm, rivaling the splendour of heaven and earth.
Every detail showed that Ye Chu’s intent pattern was a heaven-and-earth phenomenon. This made the two women stare with wide eyes, their faces filled with incredulity. “This is impossible. A heaven-and-earth phenomenon!”
The two women found it unbelievable. The meaning behind a heaven-and-earth phenomenon was far too immense. Ye Jingyun possessed terrifying talent, yet even she had never condensed a heaven-and-earth phenomenon. As for Ji Die, when she achieved hers back then, it was not solely due to her own talent. Her master’s influence played a major role.
Yet right now, standing before them was a young man they had once looked down on and ignored. He had actually condensed a heaven-and-earth phenomenon. Feeling the light that seemed to pierce through ancient and modern times, the two women felt deeply shaken. They stared blankly at Ye Chu.
“This is impossible. Innate talent is decided by the heavens. Even if a rare treasure increases one’s talent somewhat, it cannot possibly reach this level. This is already enough to contend with human geniuses!”
Torrents of shock surged in Ye Jingyun’s heart, especially in Ji Die’s. Before this, although she had been amazed by Ye Chu’s miracles and felt his future achievements might be considerable, she never believed he could surpass her.
But now, looking at the heaven-and-earth phenomenon in front of her, she lost all confidence. This showed that Ye Chu’s talent was no weaker than hers.
“How did he do it?” Ji Die stared at Ye Chu. She knew Ye Chu had changed dramatically since three years ago. She also knew she could no longer judge him with the same eyes as before. Yet this transformation was simply too exaggerated. If anyone heard about it, who would believe it?
The two women retreated a few steps. Their eyes blazed as they gazed at the void in front of them, where a heaven-and-earth phenomenon resembling nine stars piercing the sun had appeared. Their hearts could not calm down. Giant waves surged within them.
The vibration of the nine stars in alignment frantically drained Ye Chu’s primordial spirit power. Spiritual energy from all around gathered near the nine stars, creating a starry backdrop. Ye Chu felt the terrifying consumption of his primordial spirit power, but he could still endure it for now.
At this moment, the brilliance of the black iron shook. The patterns Ye Chu had merged into the round stones suddenly flashed. With the flashing of the patterns, grass and trees suddenly sprouted on the nine round stones. Flowers bloomed in profusion across them, as if ten thousand flowers vied for beauty. The scene was breathtakingly beautiful, incomparably gorgeous. One could even smell the fragrance wafting through the air.
This sight made Ji Die and Ye Jingyun stare even wider. Ten thousand flowers blooming in rivalry, appearing together within the same phenomenon. Was this another kind of phenomenon?
Ji Die could not be sure. She only watched as grass, trees, and countless flowers kept blooming on the black stones until they covered the entire surface of each round stone. In their eyes remained only the dazzling beauty. Their hearts had already gone numb.
After the nine round stones bloomed with ten thousand rival flowers, Ye Chu’s primordial spirit power could no longer hold on. He felt mentally exhausted. His whole body sat there, on the verge of fainting.
Ye Chu gritted his teeth and forcibly resisted the wave of weakness. He gazed at the scene of nine stars in alignment and ten thousand rival flowers before him, merging his state of mind into it.
Ye Chu did not know how good his intent pattern was, but he figured it surely could not be bad. He also did not know whether this counted as a heaven-and-earth phenomenon intent pattern. Sensing the weakness of his primordial spirit, Ye Chu finally stopped trying to forge it further. The intent pattern slowly shrank, merged back into his body, and entered his sea of qi.
As soon as the intent pattern entered his body, Ye Chu felt the weakness vanish abruptly. His sea of qi filled with power. The force seemed ready to burst the sea of qi apart. The intense swelling pain made Ye Chu suffer terribly. Feeling as though his sea of qi was about to explode, his expression changed drastically.
He had overlooked one problem. His sea of qi had limited capacity, but his primordial spirit was terrifyingly powerful. The power brought in by the newly condensed intent pattern far exceeded the limit of his sea of qi. It could very well rupture it completely.
Just as Ye Chu felt extreme terror, the black iron continued to tremble in his sea of qi. Its brilliance poured into the sea of qi. The previous sensation of swelling and rupture disappeared entirely. The intent pattern of the nine stars in alignment hung within the sea of qi. The power it contained flowed into the sea of qi, yet there was no feeling of rupture at all. It only felt full, reaching its absolute limit.
Ye Chu breathed a sigh of relief. He noticed that the black iron rested upon the nine stars in alignment, suppressing the intent pattern. The state of mind of the intent pattern gently nourished the black iron in return. The patterns fed back from the black iron also nourished the intent pattern, forming a perfect cycle.
This feeling brought Ye Chu great comfort. He sensed that he had truly transformed at this moment. Compared to before, it felt like an entirely different level.