Chapter 457: One Fist to Split a Mountain!
Upon hearing the familiar robotic voice in his head Khal closed the scroll in his hand and decided to take a walk for the first time after more than a year!
"My muscles are pretty numb..." once on his feet, Khal stretched his limbs for a few seconds before he walked out of the small wooden building and raised his head toward the sky.
"Nothing changed at all..." mumbling quietly as he saw how everything was the same as it was more than a year ago Khal sighed and started to walk around in slow steps.
After a year and a half, his appearance changed quite a lot. His hair was so long that it easily reached the middle of his waist, but instead of giving him a rather unpleasant look strangely his charm got boosted!
He also became an inch taller which was quite surprising while his body also became more refined despite him doing no exercise for almost two whole years!
[It seems to learn about the soul has its advantages too.]
"Un." Khal nodded as he agreed with Nova’s statement.
"It seems this ancient scroll not only strengthens my soul and reinforces my Soul World, but it also makes slight changes to my body."
[Moreover, although your cultivation base has not increased at all, I can still sense how your whole aura became even greater than before!]
"Yeah, for some reason I feel like I could easily obliterate a whole mountain with a single fist if I wish to," Khal exclaimed out loud as he raised his right hand and clenched his fingers into a tight fist.
"Bah! This guy is just way too arrogant! A little success and here we are, it went all over his head!" Nefia in the separate space sneered with disgust when he heard Khal’s words.
Even the other Lords except for the always nonchalant Selenia and Hale looked at Khal with ridicule, but soon their complexion changed drastically.
Under the mocking gazes of the five Supreme Existence and the indifferent eyes of the remaining two, Khal suddenly swung his arm downward and slammed his fist into the ground.
At first, nothing happened, but a second later cracks began to spread in two directions with outrageous velocity, one running north toward the right of Khal while the other south toward the left, and even before one could have blinked twice the mountain top and perhaps the entire mountain to the bottom was snapped into two with a massive explosion!
"I-Impossible! There is no way he has just done that with a single strike!" the Lord of the Fifth Realm stood up from pure shock while the faces of the other Lords changed drastically.
"Damn! Are you kidding me?" completely oblivious by the fact he just dumbfounded the strongest existences in his current world, Khal raised his fist and carefully looked down the seemingly bottomless abyss he has just created!
[You... Did you use any of your essences?]
"I... Didn’t... Huh? Why do I... Feel so weak all of a sudden?"
Paff!
Even before Khal could have a guess what happened with him suddenly his vision turned dark and like a marionette puppet whose strings had been cut he fell weakly to the ground.
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A week later...
On the very top of a mountain whose peak was slashed into two halves in the middle, a young man with long hair and an extensively handsome face lay at the edge of the deep ravine, just a single meter away from falling into the seemingly bottomless abyss where death was inevitable!
"Urgh... My... Head..." suddenly, just as a gentle breeze appeared from the distance and hit the face of Khal, the eyelids that until now were tightly shut slowly opened, revealing two beautiful emerald green eyes that gazed toward the sky rather weakly.
[Sigh... Thank Lord you are finally awake. I thought you would never wake up.]
The very first thing Khal heard when he pushed himself slightly up and held his head with a somewhat painful grimace was Nova’s voice, allowing him to understand he had not died and was still alive.
’How long have I been knocked out?’ using his powers to recover from the pain he was feeling, Khal slowly stood up and started to walk toward the wooden building.
[You have been unconscious for a little more than seven days.]
’That long?’ Khal was dumbfounded but soon understood the reason why.
The moment he slammed his fist into the ground he sensed how all of a sudden something within him got activated hence gaining an immense amount of strength despite him activating none of his Power Cores nor did he channel any essence into his strike.
’Was that my soul?’ Khal wondered as he sat down into a lotus position once he was inside the wooden temple.
[It is very likely, yeah. It seems you have gained the ability to form a sort of connection with your soul which upon activation can boost your strength to greater heights.]
’Yeah, but it also seems if I do decide to do that as a result I will be knocked out cold on the spot.’ Khal thought bitterly in his heart.
Furthermore, he could even feel how his soul got weaker than a week ago which needed at the very least another seven days of recovery if not more!
"I wonder if I can keep reading the scroll or not," Khal mumbled and decided to give it a try.
However, the moment he read the first three letters in the scroll which no longer had any negative effects on him, he watched with great shock how his weakened soul slowly but surely started to recover!
Furthermore, this healing effect became even stronger and faster the longer he stared at those letters!
"This..." Khal was dumbfounded to see his soul getting recovered just in a few hours but soon that feeling turned into satisfaction and excitement.
Then, once his soul was fully healed in just three hours which originally would have required seven days, Khal quickly focused on the next letter that instead of healing his soul tried to shred it into pieces!
