Chapter 439: Chapter 356: Awakening [2]
As the Black Banner fluttered, the faint figure of a two-headed white bear seemed to fade away from within it.
Hu Qi’s face was slightly pale. However, compared to the first time he used the Black Banner upon arriving in this world, the backlash was significantly less severe now that he had reached Qi Blood Perfection.
Hu Qi looked down at the corpse at his feet and waved the Black Banner in his hand.
In an instant, the two-headed white bear’s incredibly tough hide was torn open as if it were paper, creating a massive gash.
He looked down and could clearly see the giant bear’s enormous, crimson heart, which was still beating.
Thanks to the potent Life Force of a Tier Three Wild Beast, its body had not yet died, even though its soul had been extracted by the Black Banner.
It still maintained a certain level of Vitality and activity.
Seeing this, Hu Qi didn’t hesitate. He leaped into the wound and made his way to the two-headed white bear’s heart.
He used the Black Banner to tear an opening and slipped inside, letting the blood completely envelop him.
The heart was massive, about the size of a house—more than enough room to accommodate Hu Qi.
The heart was still beating powerfully, and surging Qi and Blood enveloped Hu Qi.
He immediately sealed off his breathing, entering a state of Turtle Breath.
’Whether I can awaken successfully all comes down to this!’
Hu Qi closed his eyes and began the awakening ritual, following the method he had learned from Iron Bear.
He calmed his mind and focused, sketching a simple hexagonal pattern in his thoughts.
According to Iron Bear, this was an indispensable part of the awakening ritual.
For an ordinary person, sketching this Rune was no easy feat. A single stroke could drain most of their energy.
Moreover, the blood of a Wild Beast was no ordinary liquid; each type contained a unique power.
The blood of this two-headed white bear, for example, was incomparably cold. It was frigid enough to freeze an ordinary person stiff and could even cause their bodily functions to fail from necrosis. To concentrate and sketch a Rune under such conditions would be next to impossible.
But for Hu Qi, this posed no difficulty at all.
He had already reached Qi Blood Perfection, with a physical body comparable to that of a Tier Two Evolver. Combined with his Apostle Level essence—even a mere sliver of it—he was far beyond what an ordinary person could ever hope to match.
The instant the pattern was successfully sketched in his mind, an invisible suction force emanated from it.
A special kind of power within the surrounding blood began to slowly converge inside his body.
After this continued for a few seconds, the suction force suddenly intensified dozens of times over.
An invisible vortex seemed to form around Hu Qi’s body.
This was because Hu Qi found the suction from the pattern’s effect too slow and had decided to directly activate his Spirit Devouring Talent.
THUMP THUMP THUMP—
The white bear’s heart, which had been calming down around Hu Qi, suddenly began to beat violently.
If one could see through its flesh, they would discover that the blood and Vitality within the white bear’s body were continuously converging toward its heart. Its once-massive frame began to shrivel rapidly.
It was like a deflating ball.
「A few minutes later.」
The two-headed white bear, once as large as a small mountain, had vanished without a trace.
In its place lay a shriveled, withered bearskin.
RIP!
The bearskin ripped apart. Two hands tore through the hide, and a figure covered in blood stood up from within.
The figure glanced down at the blood covering his body, then leaped without hesitation, plunging into a nearby lake with a SPLASH.
Water splashed high into the air. A moment later, the lake’s surface gradually grew calm again.
Not long after, a figure slowly emerged from the water.
He was like a small mountain, towering at two-point-three meters tall.
Just by standing there, he exuded a suffocating, oppressive aura.
He had a powerful, broad-shouldered build. His upper body was bare, and every inch of his exposed muscle looked like meticulously carved rock, with the fibers intricately intertwined.
His originally black hair had grown longer and turned a pure white. It cascaded like a waterfall over his broad shoulders, shimmering with a cold glint in the sunlight.
And his eyes had completely transformed into a deep, dark blue.
Like two blocks of ancient, ten-thousand-year-old ice, the chilling aura they emanated seemed capable of freezing everything around him, making one shudder.
’Is this what it means to be an Evolver?’
Hu Qi stretched his body.
Instantly, a series of popping and cracking sounds rang out.
He could now clearly perceive the wondrous changes occurring within his body.
Every cell, every inch of skin, and every bone in his body surged with unprecedented vitality and power.
At the same time, a dreadful, bone-chilling cold lay hidden within.
The source of all these changes was located in his chest, precisely where his Essence Element Divine Treasure had been.
Now, the Essence Element Divine Treasure was gone, replaced by a constantly writhing ball of silver light.
With every breath, Hu Qi could keenly sense countless particle-like points of light swarming toward him from all directions.
Most of them entered the silver light, while a smaller portion lingered in his body, strengthening it.
These points of light were a dazzling array of colors.
However, the grayish-white points of light were the ones that gathered in the greatest numbers.
As for the particles of other colors, their reaction was comparatively muted, showing little activity.
’Ethereal Wanderer?’
Hu Qi’s eyes shifted slightly.
Only now, after truly becoming an Evolver, did he tangibly experience the difference between this world’s Ethereal Wanderer and ordinary Heaven and Earth Primordial Energy.
Ordinary Heaven and Earth Primordial Energy originated from the world’s source; it was semi-transparent and completely imperceptible to ordinary people.
This Ethereal Wanderer, however, while sharing some of the functions of Heaven and Earth Primordial Energy, was categorized into far more detailed attributes.
For instance, the red particles represented scorching heat, the earthy yellow ones represented heaviness, and the grayish-white points of light he was devouring possessed the attributes of cold and annihilation.
’My current strength seems to have far surpassed the limits of a Tier One Evolver...’
Thinking of this, Hu Qi’s gaze subconsciously summoned the Crimson Panel.
