Chapter 126 - Avoid Acting Out Of The Way

The next day,

At noon, Yang Zhai and the others were about to reach the Ma clan. They had set for the Ma clan in the morning.

"So, brother, did you find out who were the people who attacked us?" Elder Jun Nie asked elder Yu Ane.

"Nope, they are not saying anything," Yu Ane replied.

"Sigh, in my opinion, you should have just killed them. They can prove to be dangerous if they get free." Elder Jun Nie sighed and said to Yu Ane.

They were talking to each other while running. Their speed was not at all fast and could be said that it was rather slow. The reason was the four rank 1 cultivators, they were slow. And of course, others could not pick them up just to go faster. And there was no hurry, so they went with the four rank 1 cultivators' speed, enjoying the scenery on the way.

"Nope, we can't kill them, it's because we don't know who sent them, and it can be dangerous if the enemy is in the dark while we are in the open; thus we need to find out by investigating them." Elder Yu Ane replied.

Academy leaders were not fools. They had become academy leaders and elders, not just by chance or a stroke of luck. They understood after seeing the black-cloaked men that they came prepared specially for them. Thus, they did not kill them.

And Yu Ane and Yu Ene became even more alert after hearing boss Zu's last words. If what he said was right, then they could not take his words lightly. Therefore, Yu Ane and Yu Ene captured them instead of killing them.

"So, what are you going to do with them?" Elder Jun Nie asked.

"Well, we will leave this to the clan leader. He will surely be able to think of something." You Ene replied this time."

"Oh, we have reached the Ma clan." Elder Jun Nie said.

All of them stopped in front of the Ma clan's main gate. This was also a village and was called Ma village. There were rock walls built around the village.

"Welcome back, elder Jun," 

Two disciples came out of the village gate and bowed before greeting Jun Nie.

"Hmm, go show our guests their rooms." Elder Jun Nie nodded and said whilst pointing behind him at the Bai clan people.

"Okay," the two disciples nodded.

"Brother Ane and Brother Ene, I think you should rest for today, and we will deal with the other matters tomorrow. After all, I think you might want to take care of some things yourself." Elder Jun Nie turned around to look at the academy leaders and said.

"Alright,"

Yu Ane and Yu Ene agreed without any hesitation. After all, they had to deal with some other matters themselves as well. Such as trying to investigate the black-cloaked men, informing their clan leader about their situation, and they also wanted to talk to their disciples.

"Very well then, you two, show them the way." Elder Jun said to the two disciples, before leaving with other Ma clan members who had just returned with him.

"Here, esteemed guests."

The two disciples led the Bai clan members to their rooms.

"Esteemed guests, if you need something important, you can call us through the servants anytime. Now, if you are not in need of anything, allow us to take our leave." The two Ma clan disciples said this to the Bai clan people before leaving.

…..

In the late afternoon, Yang Zhai was sitting in the room that he was given. 

He pulled out a rank 2 Blue Gem and placed it in his hand.

"Let's begin," 

Yang Zhai began to absorb the essence of the Blue Gem.

When he did that, a mysterious feeling entered his arm, after which this feeling began to travel toward his whole body. After traveling through the body, this feeling entered his aperture.

When this happened, Yang Zhai looked into his aperture and saw nothing apart from his essence water, lines, and aperture walls. 

However, the essence water inside his aperture slowly began to turn purplish-blue. His aperture walls also began to turn purplish blue. The red lines were stable and did not get affected, but it was an entirely different story for the orange line as it was continuously moving between aperture walls and the essence water. 

His eyes were seeing everything purplish blue in front of him; thus, he tried to keep his eyes shut as much as possible and the hand in which he was holding the Blue Gem also turned purplish blue, and his arm was also growing strange patterns on it. Not just his arm, but from wherever the strange feeling passed in his body had strange patterns growing on the surface of the body. Such as his body from his arm to his abdomen and then to his face had purplish blue patterns.

However, for some reason, everything that the Blue Gem had was being absorbed by his body and then by his aperture, even its aura was turning into a strange feeling before traveling to his aperture. The purplish blue patterns were changing continuously. His aperture and essence water had also turned completely purplish blue.

The Blue Gem in his hand was slowly decreasing in size. Yang Zhai tried to fully focus on the feeling and on the changes which were happening in his body. He wanted to comprehend this feeling if he could.

His aperture walls trembled before suddenly a wave was released from his aperture walls and spread in the essence water. After this, waves after waves were being released inside the aperture from all four sides of his aperture.

Then, a blinding white light appeared in the whole aperture and nothing could be seen. 

After a while, the light disappeared and everything returned to normal. The purplish blue color in his aperture had already disappeared. His aperture walls had become transparent again; however, as always, nothing could be seen through this transparent wall. 

But, there were two dark orange lines in his aperture now. His lines were dark just as his previous orange and red lines because the cultivation he had absorbed from the Blue Gem was pure, free of any impurities or faults.

He had reached rank 2 mid-stage

His aperture and the essence water had grown stronger. But, his body was still the same as before, it had not grown any stronger, as Yang Zhai had expected.

He opened his eyes and looked around, his vision had returned to normal, and he could see everything clearly now. After that, he looked at his hands and his body, and he saw no purplish blue patterns anymore.

The Blue Gem had already disappeared, and not even a little bit of evidence of it being here existed. The Blue Gem had completely disappeared, or it could be said that it had been completely absorbed by Yang Zhai.

"Oh, five hours passed, as expected of Blue Gem, it is truly marvelous. It never ceases to amaze me." Yang Zhai thought and began to experiment. He had not expected that so much time passed.

He activated the orange line and his physical strength grew. Furthermore, he punched in the air and confirmed that there was no problem when he activated the orange line. After that, he activated the other orange line and there was no problem with the other line as well.

"Let's activate both of them together." Yang Zhai thought and activated both lines together.

"Huh," Yang Zhai's expression turned serious. Two lines of blood were coming out of the corners of his mouth.

"It seems that my body is not strong enough to endure this much strength." Yang Zhai sat down and thought.

His body was bleeding from several places. However, it was not that serious because Yang Zhai had stopped at the right time. His skin was ripped slightly from several places. His muscles were also hurting a little.

It was just like how a person who had not exercised for a long time and suddenly one day out of motivation exercises too much and then that person's whole body hurts for a week or two, some even have cramps. Just like this, Yang Zhai's weak body was not meant for this much strength and this was the case when he had stopped before even the essence of the two bulls could enter his body. 

And combining with his normal strength that he had gained through Strength Ka, this strength was no joke. After all, he even defeated a Moon bull easily with just the strength that he had gained through the Strength Ka, which meant that he was stronger than a bull without even using the Moon bull's ability.

And a bull's strength was no joke. 

"From Earth's point of view, bulls are extremely strong on an objective level, and adult bulls may weigh between 500 and 1,000 kg (1,102Ibs and 2,204 lbs), with some bulls weighing up to 3000 lbs (1360.777 kg), they are strong enough to flip cars, and is estimated that they can pull roughly their own weight. That's a lot of pulling power!" Yang Zhai thought.

Of course, Yang Zhai could not pull that much weight. Bulls had stronger bodies, their builds were different, they had four legs to distribute the pressure and weight, and many more reasons that Yang Zhai did not have in his body. But, if he could make his body stronger, then it would be another case; otherwise, he would simply be hurting himself. After all, he had bull's strength, he simply needed to make his body stronger.

It was already good that he was able to hold two bulls' power in his body. 

If he really tries to act out of his way and lift something of this much weight thinking that he had two bulls' strength, then his body would not be able to endure this much pressure. His muscles, skin, bones, and veins were still not strong as a bull's.

"I should avoid using two orange lines, my body cannot endure this much strength. If I want to use this strength, then I need to make my skin, muscles, bones, and veins stronger. Before that, I should avoid using more than one orange line." Yang Zhai thought.

After understanding everything, he sat down and pulled out the second rank 2 Blue Gem.


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