BOOM!
Huang Shi, on the other hand, was completely focused on his breakthrough. The moment he realized the true nature of his crimson lightning, his second sun finally started to shine with a crimson light just as bright as his first sun.
CRACK!
After waiting for a couple more moments, Huang Shi heard something break within him, like a boundary had been smashed to pieces or a limiter on his body had just been removed.
WHOOSH!
All of the violent crimson lightning was suddenly absorbed straight into his second sun. Even the divine punishment lightning that was currently bombarding the stone cavern from the outside was not free from the ordeal; like a magnet, his second sun started to drag the lightning from the top of the mountain straight into itself, converting the divine punishment into calamity lightning in the process.
Before long, the Second Sun had become the source of his calamity lightning as the crimson sun slowly started to stabilize. Now, he instinctively knew that if he wanted to progress in his [Calamity Lightning Sunfyre Body], he no longer needed to let lightning from the heavens bombard his body; he simply needed to let his body slowly absorb the crimson lightning from his second sun, and it would progressively become stronger over time.
[Calamity Lightning Skin Refinement]
[Progress: 84/100]
DING!
[Congratulations to the host for awakening his Second Sun]
[Crimson Sun Unlocked]
[Second Sun Innate Ability – Crimson Destruction]
[Description: When calamity lightning comes into contact with a physical force, it breaks it down and destroys it.]
Huang Shi was reading the description of his new ability when suddenly he started to tremble, as he once again started to realize how absurd the abilities of his Nine Suns were.
Fucking hell, my first sun had the ability to burn off spiritual energy and vital energy, and now my second sun can fucking destroy even their bodies! I'm definitely gonna be insanely OP!
However, this was not the end of Huang Shi's boon. All of a sudden, a large amount of very expensive pills suitable for the Nascent Profound Realm appeared in the middle of his palms.
I need to make sure that I have enough ability to win the martial arts competition even at a lower cultivation level. This will show definite proof to the elders of the sect that I am a talent worthy of cultivating, which will make it easier for me to enact my plans of revenge against the sect.
Huang Shi instantly swallowed ten pills all at once, now aiming to strengthen his spiritual energy cultivation so it was at least on par with his fleshy body.
BOOM!!
Once again, a large amount of spiritual energy burst out from Huang Shi's body before being absorbed by his two suns. After waiting for a couple of minutes, a crack once again resounded inside of him as he had the feeling of breaking through a barrier.
Second level of the Nascent Profound Realm…
Huang Shi felt he had just enough spiritual energy left within him for another push, so he began to gather the remaining essence inside his dantian for a second round.
WHOOSH!!
Once again, a massive amount of spiritual energy concentrated on his two suns, saturating them until they were full to the bursting point. Before long, he felt the familiar sign that he was about to break through. However—
Shit... I underestimated the amount of spiritual energy a person with a heavenly physique needs to breakthrough into the next cultivation realm.
This was something Huang Shi had already expected. He knew that the universe was governed by laws, and one of those laws was balance. His system had gifted him with a heavenly physique, and his instincts told him that even among the heavenly physiques of this universe, his Nine Primordial Sunfyre Physique was unique and special.
This gave him a suite of powerful abilities and talents that would be the envy of anyone; just his ability to gather different types of Sunfyre within his body was something that would make anyone in the universe mad with greed.
In fact, he had a feeling that if the powers of the divine realms found out a person with his talent was born here, they would do everything in their power to either recruit him or kill him to avoid being usurped in the future.
However, this also had its drawbacks: the amount of spiritual energy he needed to breakthrough was astronomical. For a normal cultivator, even a single pill of the ten he had just consumed would have been enough to rise from the 1st level of the Nascent Profound Realm all the way to the 9th level.
This meant he needed almost 100 times the resources of an average person to advance. In fact, this was exactly why those born with heavenly physiques in the lower realms were often doomed to die in obscurity; the lower realms simply did not possess the resources to cultivate an individual of that caliber. Only those with heavenly physiques born in the divine realms ever truly had the chance to realize their full potential.
Fuck... what do I do now? If I fucking fail this time, all of those pills would be wasted!!
Huang Shi gritted his teeth as he checked his remaining Scum Points. He knew he had garnered a substantial haul from his interactions with the different people he met and interacted with—most important of them all was Bai Xinyue, after all even the system had said that she was the Protagonist, pissing her off had to be worth something right?
[Scum Points: 45,807]
But after spending them on those ten high-grade pills, his remaining points were a measly:
[Scum Points: 230]
I'm doomed!
Just as Huang Shi was about to fall into despair at his failure, he felt something being pushed into his mouth. It was a pill. He didn't know what it was, but he could immediately feel the potent spiritual energy inside of it. It wasn't as pure as the pills he bought from the system, but it was enough.
CRACK!