After that night, the situation returned to normal. Some of them decided to take a rest while the other wanted to do some closed door meditation.

The morning came and the dew on the leaves made the air fresher. This time was the best for Ye Yingyuan to cultivate in his room. But for some reason, he frowned.

‘Why is it that she sleep here too!?’ Ye Yingyuan protested about something but just continued his own meditation.

Both Manstein and Ye Yingyuan could feel the energy in the air was absorbed by Ye Yingyuan’s body, trying to assimilate these free energy to become one with the energy in his body. The process was slow because this needs more care and caution.

One step wrong and something unwanted could happen. As the new energy assimilated themselves, Ye Yingyuan started to circulate his energy to every part in his body and then returned it again to its previous place.

This was like the blood that circulates from the heart to the entire body and then returned once again to the heart!

And fortunately, the spiritual veins were actually so close to the blood veins, making this easier for the process of circulating it. But unfortunately, most of Qi Condensation cultivator could not realize this because of their cultivation base.

Only when someone reached Nascent Soul that they started to have the ability to check their own bodies with their soul. But even with that, they should not be able to see it all because they need someone else to do it.

But here Manstein, checking the body of Ye Yingyuan from time to time. This could also become his reference when he cultivated too.

As soon as the energy already circulated for the thirty-third time, these energies condensed one by one. Manstein could see the multi color that resembled the energy started to gather at several points.

There were twelve points and it indicated that the cultivators already reached the level to ascend to the next stage.

‘According to the information that I gathered so far, this is the suitable condition for ascending to the next stage. Twelve energy points merge together to form a pillar that marks the early stage of Foundation Establishment stage.’

Manstein just observing without interfering the process. But at the same time, he felt that something from above started to accumulate and prepared to descend to that place.

‘What is this feeling?’ Manstein checked the condition of the body before finding out that the energy reacted to some kind of stimulant. But the reaction these energies gave was to defend themselves!

Then Manstein could see the movement in the room. ‘Oh, she woke up.’

The condition was rather coincidental that Li Ling had awakened when Ye Yinyuan was meditating. When her eyes laid upon him, she could feel the other’s energies as well as the state that he currently in.

“Hmm..” but for some reason, she felt something from above too just like Manstein. This feeling was getting stronger every second that passed.

And not only them that felt this sensation but also everyone in the residence. This made the sensation because this was a good chance to watch something that they could only see in the story or from the tale.

The entire sky above Xuan City darkened and then the temperature dropped from normal even in the autumn. It was as if they were in the middle of the storm in the winter but this was not the time yet!

“Someone is going to have the breakthrough.” When looking at the sky, Wei Liang commented and remembered that there really someone who had reached the peak of Qi Condensation stage.

“Oh, I forgot! Junior Brother!” Wei Liang hastily went to the place where Ye Canghai was but when he moved about, he found out that Ye Canghai was standing in the yard, his face solemn.

At the same time in a closed dimension, two people were fighting. The male was constantly launching several punches towards the other person but the other person seemed like just standing there without moving.

But when the punch almost landed on the person, the male lost his target!

‘Where!?’ before his question even popped up, a sudden pressure could be felt by him in the area near his abdomen. He could only see the legs that were struck there before he flew from his position.

The strength behind the kick was strong that the male let out blood flowed from his mouth. He felt the taste of his own blood and after realizing this, he wiped the blood that leaked from his mouth.

“Your punch was good but you still aren’t careful when an unexpected happening. This gap can be used against you to the extent that you should already die at this moment!”

It was the sound of another person that shouted at him. The voice that the person produced was loud but with it, a desire to got stronger was ignited!

“Yes, Mother!”

This was another session where the mother sparred against the son. Well, at least they did all of this in a separate dimension that no one could notice it.

The sudden revelation made him more prepared to countermeasures. Yes, this was the training that Ye Qingcheng had with his mother. There were several reasons for this but the most important thing to do was to investigate the cause of the change.

It happened at the full moon at last month where he started to feel that something was wrong with his body. At that time, only his mother was present so the first one to know the truth was only himself and of course her mother.

Then Ye Qingcheng’s figure charged towards Yu Feng while increasing the momentum.

‘Let’s see what you got there!’ thought Yu Feng while seeing the movement that Ye Qingcheng executed. The footsteps were perfectly done and then he moved like a flowing water in this dimension that had a limit of a kilometer.

Then Ye Qingcheng stopped his movement all of a sudden and revealed his right arm launching a fist. This fist carried several kilos of powers toward the target.

But to his surprise once again, Yu Feng just used her finger to deflect the incoming strike. “Too bad~”

This made Ye Qingcheng had an unstable emotion stirred inside his heart. At that time, he also felt this kind of sensation, the sensation to battle! The feeling reached the peak at that time and even he lost control entirely.

If not for his mother bring him to this dimension then he would run amok the entire city. Now what they were trying to do is to figure out the cause and get over with it.

“Argh!” several kicks followed soon after but to disappoint him again, the kick even missed the initial target and instead the leg was grabbed by the opponent. Then the scene where he had been thrown replayed over again.

“How’s that? Can you suppress it?” even as someone who already experienced as Yu Feng asked with concern. ‘This is not just some emotional instability. What is the reason for this!?’

As the confusion increased, she kept her composure and attacked him once again. While this was only like one sided battle but this was also, in fact, a form of training for both of them.

But they would miss the event at the outside world eventually.

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Li Ling who was the nearest from Ye Yingyuan trebled in fear. It was because there were twelve ice needles floating that aimed at the direction where Ye Yingyuan was sitting.

“Yingyuan, what is that!?” because she never encountered something like this, she could not help but muttered the same words sometimes.

But for Ye Canghai who was watching outside, his eyes focused on the room where Ye Yingyuan was. His gaze could penetrate the obstacles and directly saw two people were standing before the needles of ice.

“The tribulation, it has arrived.” Ye Canghai could not do anything or to be exact, forced himself not to do anything.

This was the first tribulation for every Qi Condensation cultivators. The twelve levels of Qi Condensation actually the standard for breaking through to the Foundation Establishment stage but there was some rare occurrence.

And the number of needles showed the level and the condensing qi that the cultivators produced when they attempted to break through. The challenge in this tribulation was not small for someone at this stage.

“What should I do? What should I do?” struggle between to destroy the needles or to defend made Li Ling confused. She grabbed her saber and stood between Ye Yingyuan and the needles.

‘But I have the feeling that I should not interfere with even the needles. Why?’ she wanted to protect Ye Yingyuan but her instinct told her that this was the event that could affect Ye Yingyuan’s future.

Then a transmission was sent to her by Wei Liang. ‘Little girl, you better get out from there.’ That was the content of the transmission.

She felt reluctant to leave but she pondered in her mind what Ye Yingyuan will do. But because Wei Liang realized that the girl still stood in her place, he could only send the second transmission. This was the warning that if she interfered, the tribulation would be more severe!

‘I’m sorry.’ Forcing herself to walk away from that place, Li Ling took a last glance at Ye Yingyuan who sat crossed leg there. In her heart, she hoped that this boy would overcome the tribulation.

“Come here, quick!” Wei Liang and Ye Canghai attracted Li Ling to come at their side. Together, they watched as the sky send the cold winds to the place where Ye Yingyuan currently was.

Li Ling placed her hands on her chest, praying in her heart that Ye Yingyuan could get out from that place.

Manstein had the feeling that this phenomenon was by no means ordinary. There was something dangerous within the needles but he could not know for sure because this was his first time seeing the tribulation.

‘It is said that the danger in every tribulation exists in many forms and kinds but because I never witness it myself, I’m not sure.’

The cold wind then swept through Ye Yingyuan. Ye Yingyuan clearly felt that cold winds and shivered, his eyebrows frowned and the twelve energy points started to merge in a certain place in his body.

As the points moved and the process of merging started, the needles suddenly shot and pierced Ye Yingyuan’s skin. To be exact, the needles aimed towards those energy points!

Ye Yingyuan gritted his teeth because the pain really made him feel like he was bitten by a dozen of the beast. Not only that but the needles also prevented the energy points to merge!

‘This ice needles was like the inhibitor that prevented enzyme to get the substrate, making it harder for these energy points to merged. Not only that but the cold sensation also reduced the effectivity of the energy to merge together and slowly eat the energy. This is really vicious to the core!’

Manstein bitterly laughed inside. Will he also face this in the future?

Ye Yingyuan tried his best to force the energy points to gather at one point. Luckily, some of the points were close to each other and then it started to merge.

‘This is really hard!’ Ye Yingyuan tried his best to merge them and started to form a pillar. This would be the foundation of the next stage so Ye Yingyuan needed to preserve until the end!

The merged energy formed the lower part of the pillar. It was solidified at the lowest part but because there were some energy points that still not arrive yet, the pillar forming halted. Ye Yingyuan then directed these remainings energy points to the place where the pillar had taken formed.

But the needles devoured the energy within the energy points making it weaker over time.

‘Quickly control them to the pillar! I felt that the more time passed, the more you are at disadvantage!’ advised Manstein. Now, the battle to overcome the tribulation begun.