Chapter 230: The Remaining Problems
Translator: Irene Editor: X
It had not occurred to Ai Hui that the longsword in his hand could actually absorb heaven and earth elental energy.
However, he had no ti to care about this now. He was engrossed in the thrill of reaching the Inner Elent level. That enveloping, incorporeal barrier had suddenly disappeared, and he felt indescribably relaxed.
A whole new world presented itself in front of him.
The dark, ice-cold elental energy world was now fresh and lively. tal, wood, water, fire, earth. Agile, warm, lively, ever-changing, and full of vitality. They were so richly colorful and brought endless changes,
Ai Hui was like an ignorant youth who had just barged his way into a multi-colored, multi-faceted forest and saw the sunlight, dewdrops, and countless lifeforms.
He was moved beyond words.
The brightly-colored elental energy was incomparably attractive and had firmly captured Ai Hui’s heart.
At that mont, he had forgotten about battling and killing. He was like a curious young man, lingering and losing himself amid these five mutable elental energies.
It was hard to mull things over because the changes were too rapid.
What attracted Ai Hui the most were the five delicate elental rings. Each was connected head to tail, like perfect color rings. Each elental ring was different, yet equally captivating. Their circulatory changes were endless.
The heaven and earth elental energy was like a vast, boundless ocean. It rippled and drifted. Breathtakingly dazzling, these fine circulations were like pearls spread throughout the ocean.
Ai Hui relished this mont, feeling the energy so clearly for the first ti
It was a completely different experience from that of the sword embryo. The latter was a state of absolute calm and free from emotions, as if in his eyes, there was no life and death in heaven or on earth. Now, he was like a wistful fellow, able to deeply feel the exquisite changes occurring within the elental energy and sense the faintly discernable, yet omnipresent breath of life.
With a pensive look on his face, Ai Hui figured that it was probably this breath of life that produced the diverse Avalon of Five Elents.
Amid the vast ocean of elental energy, Ai Hui also noticed a familiar odor. The specks of silver light were like fragnted and scattered stars. They were tal elental energies.
He could feel the tal elental energy-rich ground beneath his feet, but this elental energy was so substantial and heavy that stepping on top made him feel so small and insignificant.
The elental energy cleansed his body without interruption as he felt his body change. The tal elental energy poured into his lungs and they beca like strong and tough bellows made from tal mbranes. Each expansion and contraction brought abundant vitality and powerful breaths. The wood elental energy entered his liver and thriving life force flooded every single part of his body. The fire elental energy filled his his heart, making each heartbeat warm and powerful like a slting furnace as well as providing it with limitless force. Voluminous water elental energy perated his kidneys like a sudden convergence of cloud-mist from all different directions, producing quiet raindrops that nourished all living things.
Change was so magical! Ai Hui exclaid in admiration, deeply moved by the mystical creator of it all.
The influx of heaven and earth elental energy would not cause imdiate changes to his body, but with consistent nourishnt and ti, his body would undergo an all-around improvent.
It was also at this ti that Ai Hui finally understood why few would engage in body tempering before achieving Initial Completion.
After Initial Completion, the nourishnt brought by the heaven and earth elental energy into an elentalist’s body was holistic. Tempering on this basis would then produce twice the result with half the work. Plus, the elentalist would be more sensitive to elental energy after Initial Completion, enhancing the effect of tempering.
Ai Hui was engrossed in the beauty of it all when he suddenly sensed that sothing was amiss.
The longsword in his hand.
The fact that it could absorb the heaven and earth elental energy was shocking, but he had not had ti to notice since he was too absorbed in the mont. He imdiately roused when the longsword started to show precarious signs.
When Ai Hui placed his attention back on the longsword, he instantly sensed trouble.
This longsword was thrown to him by Shi Xueman. It was the most ordinary and standard kind of longsword. Heaven and earth elental energy poured into the longsword violently and incessantly, quickly exceeding the sword’s endurance level. A crack started to appear on the sword surface and the clear, bright light ray penetrated through it.
More and more cracks surfaced.
Ai Hui’s heart sank. This was the crucial mont of advancent. During a breakthrough, one could feel many subtle, wonderful things that were usually difficult to detect. It was a rare opportunity.
Who knew that the longsword would not be able to handle the energy flow at this critical juncture.
Damn it!
Even Ai Hui, who was usually a calm fellow, felt like cursing now. He had thought that it was a good thing for the longsword to open the palace door but who would have thought...
The number of cracks increased, and in the blink of an eye, the sword body was filled with dense fissures.
Not good!
The longsword in Ai Hui’s hand exploded before he could even cry out in alarm.
In a flash, the longsword was ripped apart by the violent surge of elental energy. The burst of elental energy swallowed the shattered pieces, turning them into fine powder before they could even disperse.
Ai Hui’s body jerked. The light whirlpool in between his brows dimd, but carried an indescribable familiarity, causing him to stare blankly.
It was as if his mind had sprinted over a vast area of light, flown far away in the blink of an eye, withdrawn, and disappeared like lightning before fully experiencing everything.
Ai Hui’s eyes opened wide as he realized that that indescribable familiarity felt a little like the sword embryo’s explosion, just much lighter and shorter.
So short that he could not even react in ti.
He did not know why, but during that short mont, his mind felt sothing. Unfortunately, that scene flashed past his head like lightning and left only fuzziness.
It was as if underground...
Ai Hui snapped out of it. Perhaps blood fiends wanted to infiltrate Central Pine city from underground, but he did not worry too much about it. While Central Pine City was not able to prevent blood fiends from encroaching from underground, the tight security would still be able to detect the first signs of danger.
He was only concerned about himself right now.
Only a bare sword hilt remained in his hand. The worst thing was that his mont of enlightennt had been disrupted.
Everyone, not just Ai Hui, was startled by this sudden change of events. They were still shaken by the fact that Ai Hui’s sword could open a palace door, but in the next mont, it exploded.
For a mont, all were in a daze.
Ai Hui reacted the fastest. Although he was annoyed, he checked his body imdiately. This was partly due to his experience, since his training had always been rough and situations always erged. Many things, such as the sword embryo, had been created carelessly and by chance.
To him, having all kinds of situations surface from training were common occurrences.
He was still able to keep calm in the face of problems.
Shi Xueman and the rest were nervous. Being disrupted when undergoing a breakthrough had consequences. If lucky, there would simply be no breakthrough, but if unfortunate, one could get severely injured. Right now, having placed all their faith in Ai Hui, everyone wished that they were the ones who failed instead of Ai Hui.
Ai Hui’s role was not replaceable. What they really hoped for was an intact and unhard Ai Hui.
No one dared to even exhale, for fear of disturbing Ai Hui.
The atmosphere turned heavy and stifling.
Ai Hui opened his eyes after a while.
"How is it?" Shi Xueman could not help but ask, her eyes filled with concern.
Ai Hui noticed the worry in Shi Xueman’s eyes and his heart ward up a little. Iron lady was being petty for not paying him the money, but she was actually a decent person. He nodded his head. "Still okay."
Still okay?
Shi Xueman stared blankly for a little while before expressing her discontentnt. "What does that an?"
"Still okay, aning the result isn’t too bad." Ai Hui noticed that Shi Xueman’s eye was twitching. As if he had seen her steely muscles throbbing under the armor, Ai Hui was startled and added quickly, "It’s more complicated. Simply speaking, Initial Completion was a success. There is an increase in elental energy and it is mostly all sorted out, but there are many remaining problems with my body."
Shi Xueman felt a little more at ease, but was still curious. "Remaining problems?"
Just then, Ai Hui’s right arm spasd uncontrollably. This sudden change shocked everyone present, including Shi Xueman.
"Look," Ai Hui didn’t seem to mind as he said with a calm expression, "the remaining lightning within my body flares up intermittently."
In response for scaring him with her twitching eyes, Ai Hui decided to return the favor. "I am "The Lightning Blade," how can I not carry electricity? You’d better stay far away from , Iron Lady. Steel conducts electricity so don’t bla if you get electrocuted."
Shi Xueman’s eye started twitching again. Steel... but she endured. Focus on the greater situation!
She continued, "Any thods to remove it? Any other issues?"
"As for the remaining lightning, so far no. No big issues." Ai Hui saw Shi Xueman’s face darken and quickly added, "There’s sothing wrong with my sky palace, hand palaces, sea palace, and elental energy."
"You call that ‘no big issues?’" Shi Xueman glared at him, as if she saw a ghost. "There’s sothing wrong with four out of eight palaces and you’re telling there’s no big issues? Sothing also went wrong with your elental energy. Is there anything worse than this? Body as well. Any other parts of your body with no issue?"
She simply could not understand. Each problem seed extrely serious to her. This fellow was usually exceptionally calm and cautious, so why was he acting so thoughtlessly right now?
Everyone was dumbstruck. They did not expect Ai Hui’s body to be hit with so many problems. He was badly damaged.
"Now that you ntion it, it does seem pretty serious." Ai Hui smiled ekly. "Actually it’s not that severe."
He really did think that it was not serious. For example, his hand palaces, sea palace, and body problems were related to the remnant lightning. The problem with his elental energy was that the elental energy pills had not been tested, so the result was unknown. Finally, the sky palace’s issue was related to the sword embryo’s remaining motions.
As compared to when he just woke up, his battle strength had recovered significantly. Things were taking a turn for the better.
Throughout his training journey and experience, he had had to deal with even more challenging issues, so this was not a big deal to him.
Things were really much better now that he was more knowledgeable. Plus, he was starting to understand a rough idea of the ongoing events.
Just then, a mournful-sounding alarm went off from far away.
The flash of fuzziness from before ca back to him.
The blood fiends were indeed invading the city. He felt slightly at ease since the alarms sounded.
Soon, however, his pupils constricted. A bright red signal rocketed up and across the black sky.
Soone was asking for assistance!
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