Astral Odyssey: Dying Ember

(Edited) Legacy World 1.3

ZhangYong and WangWei had been eating when they sensed a fluctuation in the air.

A person in the Heaven realm would be able to detect such fluctuations in the air whenever someone broke through from one realm to the next. The higher level one was, the more sensitive they would be to such fluctuations.

This was possible because a breakthrough results in a sudden sharp and large intake of energy from the surroundings. If they were sensitive enough, they could identify the exact realm that a person broke through to.

A handful of other people at the celebration looked up from eating or paused in their conversations at the same time. However, they soon ignored it and continued with what they were doing.

Noticing their odd behaviour, Hui Shan looked at WangWei and Zhang Yong quizzically. However, WangWei turned the unspoken question over to ZhangYong to answer by looking at him.

ZhangYong calmly answered, "It's just Sky realm."

Hui Shan relaxed but Wang Wei remained alert like Zhang Yong. "HuiShan, do you know anyone invited who's around 12 years old?"

"En, but from what I know, they've all broken through to Sky realm already." As soon as she answered the question, she caught on to their worry and started contemplating along with them.

Was this person a late bloomer or a genius?

"Isn't it also weird that there'd be a breakthrough here and now? Who'd cultivate during a party?" Hui Shan's question inadvertently made Zhang Yong recall the girl by the cherry blossom tree.

"I'll do a proper investigation later. Let's eat." Zhang Yong said.

Meanwhile, Xinyi was searching through her courtyard for something that she could use as a substitute weapon.

Now that she broke through to Sky realm she was curious about the experience of fighting with spiritual energy. Her curiosity led her to practice her martial arts even though it would break her routine.

At Earth realm, attacks are simply significantly stronger than the attacks made by people who do not have spiritual cultivation. It was beginning from Sky realm that attacks would begin to release a little spiritual power. This made it possible to land an attack without needing to make direct contact with the target.

Since she was a neglected character, her courtyard looked dull and was pretty much basic. There were weeds among the small bushes with small white flowers. Besides the white stone table, well, and self-built stove, there was only a run down tool shed hidden in the far corner of her courtyard.

After rummaging through the shed for a while, she found some bamboo poles and broken or rusty gardening tools. She chose the pole that looked in the best condition then started warming up before treating the pole as if it was a spear.

Unbeknownst to XinYi, BaoBao had disconnected their telepathic connection to sulk by himself. He looked at the bamboo pole with disdain and compared it to the plethora of weapons in the system market. If only the system market was available for her to use...

The sun began to set.

The birthday celebration was coming to an end.

Xinyi was only beginning to get used to having a pole as a weapon and assimilating her spiritual energy into her attacks through a weapon. Very faint scratch marks were left on the floor and brick walls that surrounded the courtyard.

Since she got used to it, she decided to try maximising the output of spiritual energy in her next attack. She did a 360 degrees spin to use the momentum in her attack.