Chapter 172: Upgrade Complete, Qi and Blood and Mental Power Surge by Three Hundred Thousand!

At this moment, the aura radiating from Shangguan Yijian was extraordinarily powerful!

It was simply not an aura that a normal Fourth Grade Peak Martial Artist could possess!

However, his eyes were filled with pain and a ferocious look!

His eyeballs were bloodshot, and the area around his eyes was covered in bulging veins.

Ye Sanjian's Martial Dao Will was influencing him at every single moment!

It was a pain akin to being sliced by a thousand cuts!

"Disciple, now that you are going to Magic City, you should know what you need to do, right? Your master will be waiting for your good news in Haicheng!" Ye Sanjian said, seeing Shangguan Yijian off.

With a gentle smile on his face, he personally stepped forward to straighten Shangguan Yijian's collar.

At a glance, it was quite the beautiful scene of a benevolent master and a filial disciple.

"Damn old dog!!"

"I am a King-level Prodigy, a being destined to become a Martial King in the future! How could he treat me like this?!"

Deep inside, Shangguan Yijian's hatred was monstrous!

Yet, he could do nothing about it!

Ye Sanjian's Martial Dao Will not only ensured that he would be stuck at the Grandmaster Realm for the rest of his life.

It also meant he could never escape Ye Sanjian's control; he couldn't even draw his sword to end his own life!

"Ye Bai, it's all because of Ye Bai!"

"If it weren't for him, I would have already become the winner of the Ladder Tournament, the First Genius of Jiangnan Prefecture! I could have had as many women as I wanted!"

If it weren't for him, that old dog Ye Sanjian wouldn't have treated me like this! Even when I wanted a woman, I could only set my sights on that Li Qingqing!"

"Three months, the 69th floor of the Tongtian Tower, I will climb it..."

"I must watch Ye Bai die with my own eyes, and see him regret it with my own eyes!!"

In the end, Shangguan Yijian attributed all the blame to Ye Bai.

"Li Qingqing, Ye Bai's girlfriend... she is indeed very beautiful. The moment I saw her photo, I wanted to pin her beneath me."

"Before Ye Bai dies, I must make him watch with his own eyes as Li Qingqing finds pleasure beneath me!"

Nine days passed in the blink of an eye!

When night fell once again.

It had been more than eleven days since Ye Bai used the Mending Heaven Stone to upgrade his talent!

Even the Mending Heaven Stone, which consumed Spirit Stones worth 100,000 Merit Points every hour at full power, had been running for nearly ten days.

"Student Ye Bai is truly... heaven-defying!"

"He has consumed Spirit Stones worth nearly 25 million Merit Points..."

"These Spirit Stones would be more than enough to supply all the Alchemists and Artifact Refiners in Great Xia for a year! Yet, here he is, and he still hasn't finished upgrading his talent!"

Wangxing Pavilion No. 38.

Only Sima Cheng remained here.

Not long after Li Qingqing and her group left, Liu Qingtian also departed because he had many official duties to attend to.

Although Zui Xiaoyao had nothing to do, his craving for alcohol kicked in, and he left after not even two days.

Qin Churan had wanted to wait until Ye Bai woke up.

But she wasn't even a Ranked Martial Artist.

After the food in the villa ran out, she was forced to leave Wangxing Pavilion No. 38.

Then, due to her memories being sealed and modified, she stayed outside for the time being, leaving Ye Bai "alone" in the villa to recuperate!

Of course, Sima Cheng wasn't a patient man either.

And as a high-ranking official of the Shengcheng Military Department, his official duties were no fewer than Liu Qingtian's.

But he wanted to see the moment Ye Bai's talent upgrade was completed with his own eyes!

Even if his memories were destined to be sealed, he didn't want to have any regrets!

"And what's most shocking is that both his Qi and Blood and his Mental Power have already reached the Fifth Grade."

"His Qi and Blood Value has unknowingly reached the Fifth Grade Mid-Stage..."

Sima Cheng didn't know how Ye Bai managed it; he was clearly upgrading his talent, yet his Qi and Blood and Mental Power continued to rise.

Especially after Ye Bai officially refined the Monkey Wine and underwent a full-body Blood Changing to enter the Fifth Grade, the speed of that improvement was terrifying!

Sima Cheng could only attribute everything to Ye Bai's God-Level Talent.

After all, it was an unprecedented God-Level Talent that, just by being exposed, could trigger a full-scale war between the Three Great Alien Races and humanity!

As for him, he no longer dared to estimate how much longer Ye Bai's talent upgrade would take.

He only knew that for every extra hour Ye Bai stayed, this terrifying record—which was already destined to have no predecessor and likely no successor—would grow by another hour!

"Swish!"

However, after a few more hours passed and the hour hand pointed to one in the morning.

The Mending Heaven Stone, which had been continuously emitting a dazzling white light, suddenly retracted its radiance!

"Are the Spirit Stones not enough?"

"No, that's not right, Ye Bai, he's awake?!"

Sima Cheng was startled at first, then became incredibly excited!

Finally, he had finally waited for it!

The total time taken was more than eleven days; to be precise, 280 hours!

He had finally witnessed the successful upgrade of Ye Bai's talent!

"Where am I?"

Ye Bai himself was a bit dazed at this moment.

Yet, for the past ten-plus days, he had no memory of everything that had happened in the outside world.

After the Mending Heaven Stone was activated, he felt his consciousness leave his body and go to a space where all surroundings were pitch-black void.

There, the only thing he could see clearly was a stream flowing gently beneath his feet, emitting a hazy divine light!

Moreover, he could do nothing; he could only stand in place and let the stream wash over him, and then, he did not know when, the stream changed into a slightly larger river, and finally, it turned into a surging, long river with tossing giant waves.

There seemed to be no Concept of time there; he felt as if he had only stayed for a short while, yet he also felt as if he had stayed there for an unknown number of years...

"Student Ye Bai, this is your home. Have you forgotten about the matter of you using the Mending Heaven Stone to upgrade your talent?"

Sima Cheng leaned in with an excited face.

"Oh right, I was in the middle of upgrading my talent..."

Valid memories finally surfaced in Ye Bai's mind.

He was immediately a bit expectant: had 【Reset】 successfully upgraded?

And what was the deal with the upgraded 【Reset】?

However, after carefully sensing for a while, he discovered that 【Reset】 could not be used.

"Hmm?!

Did I use Reset in my subconscious?!"

"Wait, during the period I was upgrading my talent, could it be that I was still exploiting system bugs due to muscle memory?!"

Ye Bai was immediately startled, and his gaze changed completely!

【Name: Ye Bai】

【Qi and Blood: (Fifth Grade Mid-Stage)】

【Mental Power: (Rank 5 Early-Stage)】

【Martial Technique: Explosive Blood Combat Method (Perfected), Burning Blood Secret Art (Perfected), Nine Extremes Spear Technique (Great Success Level), Seven Star Heavenly Dipper Steps (Great Success Level), Blood Sacrifice Art (Perfected), Moon Breaking Spear Technique (Great Success Level), Flowing Cloud Spear Technique (Great Success Level), Grasp of Ice Scar (Proficient), Ice Cloud Meteor Step (Proficient), Ice Meteor Art (Proficient)】

【Martial Dao Will: None for now】

【Lifespan: 1800 years, 2 months, 3 days, 16 hours remaining】

【Talent: Reset...】

He waited to look up and check the panel.

He did not view all the information on the panel completely.

Merely seeing the current Qi and Blood Value and Mental Power clearly was enough to make his expression change drastically!

Qi and Blood Value at Fifth Grade Mid-Stage, over three hundred and ten thousand!

Mental Power had also broken through one hundred thousand points, entering the Fifth Grade!?