Mu Shen opened his eyes after a long hours of sleep. What indeed has happened? How long had it been exactly?
He had slept, disregarding his own safety, knowing fully well that even the seventh floor has its own dangers. But then he froze.
A distant sound came from the sixth floor and he shivered. He remembered the jade slip that he had failed to snatch. Mu Shen's eyes turned icy cold and he quickly dug through the cosmic rings and brought out so many star crystals.
He started cultivating as the crushed crystals emitted a mist of drifting essence which he absorbed into his being.
That took twenty eight hours.
The distant sound resounded once again and it caused the entire tower to vibrate under it's firm foundation.
Mu Shen's eyes opened and his Sixth Sense Technique instantly spread as darkness encrouched all around him taking him deeper and deeper into oblivion.
However, he couldn't source out the cause of the sound. It was a mystery and Mu Shen was guessing that it was this same unseen foe whom had attacked him in the sixth floor.
'Is it trying to break into the seventh floor?'
A chill suddenly crawled down his spine.
But that is Impossible, unless someone has taken something precious from that floor. Mu Shen sighed.
Who knows what would have happened if he had taken that jade taliman from the sixth floor. He would have died, no doubt. Mu Shen immediately heaved a sigh of relief and he stood up.
The mist of drifting essence was thick in the air and Mu Shen struggled to absorb them all so that they don't escape into thin air and they didn't and now, it was time to become a sentinel.
A human's potential is limitless, but what limits them is their very own body. Only when they can break past their limits will they become unfathomable. And to break past the body's limit, one have to either breakthrough… increasing one's domain relm is a key factor. And another key factor is, experiencing near-death situations.
Mu Shen had not yet experienced anything yet since, his life had only just began but he believes that the moment his knowledge and experience increases, he would become so powerful and unfathomable.
Another thing now is; to become a Sentinel, one has to possess a formcast model. This one helps to recreate the body once it is destroyed by the excessive essence energy manifestation.
Mu Shen did not have a formcast model. And he knows that it is a key factor so, he immediately dug through the four cosmic rings again.
Fortunately, Bai Wangyuan had a formcast model.
Mu Shen felt as if his energy had reached the peak and is about exploding. The feeling of gaining a bottle neck. He immediately unleashed it and the void suddenly distorted around him.
Mu Shen was beaten by the unbearable pain of having his body destroyed by the excessive energy. Then, he attached the formcast model on his body and it melted into him.
Mu Shen knew that the forming and breakthrough process was unbelievably long, but he had to endure. This was the price for power— pain, curses and even death.
Mu Shen felt chills.
Suddenly a rune manifested in Mu Shen's body. Mu Shen was shocked. He stared at the glowing runes, wondering what the symbols were. And then, his face paled.
Ten locks manifested by the runes and Mu Shen understood what it was.
'A seal? Am I Sealed?'
The seal glowed much brighter, instantly suppressing Mu Shen's breakthrough. The price for failure is also another thing to consider. His power would reduce undeniably and there would no longer be another chance to become a Sentinel. Plus, if he is unlucky, the formcast model might not even recreate his body and he would simply die.
Mu Shen's pupils shrank. His powers we're dwindling, and his strength was also shrinking down.
How on earth will he even salvage this situation? How was he even sealed in the first place?
He suddenly remembered that he had lost a century's worth memories. 'Is that related?'
The blinding pain filled his mind. The fact that he was feeling the pain and in the end, he would fail made him so uneasy.
All of a sudden, the sky changed drastically as that distant sound he had previously heard thundered deep within the seventh floor.
Mu Shen was horrified.
The Unseen foe, he must have decided to finish Mu Shen off. But wait, he had simply escaped the Sixth floor like any other person would do. So why was he being followed?
And then, Mu Shen saw a figure cladded in thick black darkness and holding a scythe which ended in an angular tip. The man in darkness stretched out his hands revealing an ancient jade slip.
When Mu Shen saw the jade, it suddenly dawned on him. He had crushed the jade but he had not gotten anything from it. Mu Shen did not forget that his strength was dwindling rapidly. But then, the voice of the man entered his ears:
"Return back the invincible Technique!"
Mu Shen's eyes widened. 'An Invincible Technique?'
The next minute, the black clad figure moved in a whirlwind of motion and his foot landed smack on Mu Shen's chest, it was exactly where the first seal is sitted and it instantly shattered.
The force pushed Mu Shen back, his body sliding on the roof and crashing upon the nearest altar.
The next set of enemies rose. The Slumbering Mummies, they rushed towards the black clad figure in a frenzy, unleashing torrent of attacks that shattered the void around.
However Mu Shen was horrified and surprised. In one way, the Unseen foe had been a blessing and also a curse. If it had not come, Mu Shen might have failed to breakthrough. He felt the weakness vanish from him and it was reinvigorated with tremendous strength. His domain relm has increased from as Seeker to a Sentinel and after all that was done, a new set of fear settled deep at the bottom of his heart.
He would never be able to breakthrough without the assistant of a top powerhouse. The chill remained there, uncanny and deadly.
Without wasting much time, he stared at the jade slip beside him and grabbed it, then he vanished into the nearest exit before both the black clad figure and the Slumbering Mummies decides that he's going to be their targets.
Every floor became a struggle. Mu Shen either had to run for his life or fight to the death. On the seventh floor, the black clad figure and the Slumbering Mummies still fought in a stalemate, never giving in to the other while Mu Shen had climbed up to the nineth floor. All these took three weeks.