Monarch of Evernight - Chapter 1034

Chapter 1034

me, a gravitational force began dragging him into the depths of the void .

Qianye had already watched Ji Tianqing and Li Kuanglan forming their origin crystals, so he had a good idea of what to expect . He was also clear that the longer he stayed in the well, the greater the drain on his origin power would be . Hence, he didn’t resist the force and accelerated downward along its trajectory .

Qianye had fallen hundreds of meters in the blink of an eye, and the deeper he went, the greater the dragging force . At the same time, several forces landed on his body, attempting to tear his flesh apart . Those spatial shearing forces might cause injury if the person didn’t channel origin power for protection .

It wasn’t so bad yet at this point . The shearing forces weren’t all that powerful yet, and even ordinary experts could deal with them . But the deeper he went, the stronger the stress would become, and there was no known limit to it .

Li Kuanglan had already told him that even a divine champion would find it hard to bear the shearing forces at five hundred meters, and that no one really knew how bad it was beyond a thousand .

Qianye possessed the powerful constitution of an ancient vampire and could only be superior to an ordinary divine champion . According to Li Kuanglan, he should be able to reach five hundred meters without a problem . But Qianye’s origin power cultivation was much weaker than a divine champion’s . His body might not be torn asunder at five hundred meters, but he would have to return before long or risk having insufficient energy to get back .

Li Kuanglan had Qianye to save her, but there was no one who could save Qianye .

To play it safe, Qianye descended to two-hundred meters, where Ji Tianqing and Li Kuanglan were at before, before lowering his speed . He descended an additional fifty meters and stopped to condense his origin crystal .

Qianye clutched the Storm Pearl in his palm and observed it carefully . The misty clouds in the pearl were rolling about constantly, almost as though they had come alive inside the Constellation Well .

Qianye was already quite knowledgeable at this point, but even then, he couldn’t help but admire the Li family . The Jingtan Li Clan’s Storm Pearl was beyond a fine craft, and that wasn’t the only thing their family produced . Their Stillwater Rebirth wasn’t inferior to the pearl at all .

If they hadn’t lost so much strength during the divination factional conflicts, the Jingtan Li Clan’s fame wouldn’t be limited to where it was today .

Qianye’s perception permeated the Storm Pearl immediately after sensing it . Qianye felt that his consciousness had merged with the pearl—the pearl was him; he was the pearl . As his perception was amplified through the Storm Pearl, the stars he could only vaguely sense a while ago became much clearer . It almost felt as though they were within arm’s reach .

Qianye’s eyes fell upon a dark red star . Although this star was inferior to the Seven Radiants, it gave Qianye a sense of familiarity and great clarity . The moment his gaze came into contact with the star, it felt as though an invisible hand had grabbed onto his consciousness .

This star was hot, vast, and heavy, with a power akin to slow-flowing lava . In terms of attribute, its energy was closer to the peak of daybreak and not so far off from the origin of chaos, either .

Origin power in this position couldn’t be considered very pure, but it could easily produce some special abilities . Although Qianye felt that the star power from this star was variegated and impure, that was only relative to Venus Dawn . To ordinary experts, an origin power of such purity was already enough for them to cultivate right up to the threshold of the divine champion realm . They could even try crossing it, but the chances of success would be quite low .

It came as a pleasant surprise that he could sense this big star . Its power would most likely congeal into an origin crystal with a pretty good ability . As for the upgrade to one’s cultivation and physical attributes, that would depend on how much star power he could absorb . Because the power each star could contribute was fairly limited, the amount absorbed would be decided by how many stars he could sense .

At this moment, he had been in the Constellation Well for a fair length of time . Qianye felt that he could hold out fairly long, but he didn’t want to end up with unexpected problems and lose the chance to draw upon this big star . As such, he simply locked onto the red star and waited as a cloud of red starlight gathered toward the Storm Pearl .

Since he had managed to draw upon the star’s power, Qianye followed the usual method by activating a bit of his Venus Dawn and slowly injected it into the Storm Pearl . Using this as a guide, he tried establishing communication with the nearby stars .

The moment Venus Dawn entered the Storm Pearl, Qianye’s perception erupted all of a sudden . It swept over countless stars like a tempest and attracted the attention of countless celestial bodies . This feeling was like dropping food into a calm pond, suddenly drawing out a swarm of fish .

In the blink of an eye, Qianye was overwhelmed and didn’t quite know how to deal with everything . Neither Ji Tianqing nor Li Kuanglan had warned him of such a situation when they were teaching him their techniques .

He forced himself to calm down as he responded to them one by one . With each response, a star would flicker and send forth specks of starlight . In the blink of an eye, Qianye had responded to dozens of stars; there were dozens of starlight waves surging into the Storm Pearl . The number of stars he was communicating with was several times that of the two girls, but there were at least hundreds more he hadn’t responded to . As the number of responses increased, some of the faraway stars also began to flicker .

Qianye hesitated for a while, but he ultimately resisted the urge to continue . He only maintained his connection to the red star and the several dozen others, constantly pouring origin power into the Storm Pearl to integrate with the incoming star power .

Every wisp of Venus Dawn origin power could combine with several wisps of star power, and once combined, they would gradually condense into crystalline granules .

At this point, Qianye became somewhat doubtful . He had seen Ji Tianqing and Li Kuanglan combine origin power and star power at a two to one ratio . At that rate, for the same amount of origin power, the amount of crystallization they could produce was not even half of Qianye .

The more star power he could condense, logically, the better it should be . Qianye thus pushed his misgivings to the bottom of his heart and continued focusing on forming an origin crystal .

After an unknown length of time, Qianye suddenly opened his eyes . Floating in the void before him was a light red origin crystal . The crystal was the size of a fist, so much larger than the thumb-sized ones Ji Tianqing and Li Kuanglan had produced .

Qianye grabbed the origin crystal and flew upward without careful examination .

The moment he started flying, Qianye sensed hundreds of small consciousnesses calling out to him, asking him to stay . Each of them released a wisp of origin power that latched onto his body . They were extremely weak and almost negligible—even hundreds of them added together couldn’t slow down his movements—but that drew Qinaye’s attention .

These minuscule consciousnesses came from the weaker stars Qianye had communicated with . The stars Qianye had responded to would release some power to drag him back, stopping him from leaving . A couple dozen was fine, but if thousands or tens of thousands of them were to be involved, it would no longer be a string but a net instead . That was enough to make Qianye quite miserable .

Qianye’s body trembled as scarlet gold flames erupted around him, catapulting him toward the entrance like a rocket . The Constellation Well could disperse origin power, but Venus Dawn was one of the three peak origin power types, so the dissipation was quite slow .

Qianye flew faster and faster, rushing out of the well in the blink of an eye . Having lost all restraints abruptly, he shot dozens of meters into the air before coming to a stop and descending to the ground .

At this moment, Ji Tianqing and Li Kuanglan were seated side by side, discussing something intimately .

Seeing Qianye appear, they got up to welcome him . A shifty-eyed Ji Tianqing said mischievously, “What, are you disappointed because there’s no big meal?”

Li Kuanglan’s face went red . Qianye was also startled for a bit before coming back to his senses .

Ji Tianqing pursed her lips . “Boring . Come on, show us what good stuff you produced . ”

Qianye passed the light red origin crystal over . Ji Tianqing gasped upon seeing the crystal . “So big! This must be a high-grade origin crystal!”

Li Kuanglan was the one who grabbed the crystal first . She broke into an immediate frown before tossing it to Ji Tianqing . That short moment of contact had left a small charred patch on her palm . There was an extremely powerful reaction between this crystal and her icy origin power .

Ji Tianqing channeled a layer of origin power to protect her skin as she received the item . A plume of light-red origin flames erupted as she tried injecting origin power into the crystal . Their surroundings became akin to a scorching summer day as soon as the flame appeared, proving just how powerful the blaze was .

“What a strong flame!” Ji Tianqing was stunned as she retracted her origin power and flipped the crystal about in her hand . “This is a fairly good one among high-grade origin crystals . Unfortunately, the purity of the flame and the amount of star power isn’t sufficient to be classified as top-grade . ”

She regretfully shook her head and only came to after seeing Li Kuanglan’s odd expression . How rare was a top-grade origin crystal? How could it be so easy to obtain? The two of them had to go all out just to produce a medium-grade origin crystal .

At first, Ji Tianqing was thinking that they would’ve made a tidy profit if one of the seven remaining pearls would produce a high-grade origin crystal . That was because they had Qianye on their team . If it were just the two of them, all they could do was hope for medium-grade .

She studied the crystal for a good while before putting it into her spatial storage reluctantly . She then patted Qianye’s shoulder, saying, “With this origin crystal, the problem of Kuanglan’s icy sword would be half-solved . Take a good rest and try harder tomorrow, make some more high-grade origin crystals and we’ll be rich!”

Qianye didn’t know whether to laugh or to cry . High-grade origin crystals weren’t rocks they could just pick up everywhere .

It was already late at night, and Qianye was also somewhat tired . He naturally wouldn’t object to taking a rest .

The three sorted out their items, and just as they were about to find a place to spend the night, a voice came from the forest, “This is the Constellation Well . Rest assured, those people from the Empire shouldn’t be here yet . How can they be as fast as we are? You can take your time condensing an origin crystal here . Tonight will be peaceful at the very least . ”

Anwen walked out of the woods while talking, and was completely stunned to find Qianye’s group .