Chapter 135: The Reward of the Starry Sequence

On the dim platform.

In a corner, Gune sat cross-legged.

It was already the fifth day since Gune had entered the platform.

During these four days, apart from absorbing source power for meditation and rest,

Gune had spent all his other time on the cultivation of the "Hundred Threads of Source Power."

Although the seventh layer, the seventy-thread sphere, posed difficulty in condensation,

this was not Gune's limit.

In terms of source power control, Gune clearly had a vast amount of untapped potential.

Gune maintained the semi-condensed state of the seventy-thread sphere.

After about five or six hours of practice back and forth, he achieved perfect condensation of the seventy-thread sphere.

Then, in half a day, he completed perfect condensation of the eighty-thread sphere.

For many, their potential in source power control is meager; even after spending a great deal of time, they can hardly achieve significant improvement.

But for Gune, his potential in this area was quite substantial; it was just that he had never tapped into it before.

Now, after a certain amount of hard training, the improvement was astonishing.

Subsequently, after another full day of repeated practice, Gune completed perfect condensation of the ninth layer's ninety-thread sphere.

For this final layer, the tenth layer's hundred-thread sphere, Gune had already been training hard for over three days.

During this time, Gune had failed many times.

Fortunately, Gune possessed the Deep Source Anchor, which allowed him to withstand the loss of thousands of source power units each time.

"Huff..."

After a gentle exhale, Gune slowly opened his eyes.

"Since the last failure with the hundred-thread sphere, I've maintained its semi-condensed state for over ten hours, and I can feel my control over source power steadily improving."

"Now, it should be about time to succeed!"

Calming his mind, Gune turned his hand over.

"Gurgle..."

A surge of source power flowed out, coalescing into a hundred threads of source power, which then crisscrossed, touching and blending with each other.

As the process advanced, Gune could clearly feel that the pressure from the hundred-thread sphere was no longer great.

After five or six minutes,

"Hum!"

With a slight tremor,

the hundred-thread sphere, a full meter in diameter, was perfectly condensed under Gune's manipulation.

Looking at this large, beautiful sphere, Gune couldn't help but calm his mind and appreciate it.

After a long while, Gune finally pressed against the hundred-thread sphere

and absorbed it back.

Beautiful as it was, the energy could not be wasted.

Meanwhile, not far away, the War Ape crouched, its stone eyes fixed on Gune as it pondered slightly.

"In just five short days, he has already condensed the hundred-thread sphere."

"Judging by his demeanor, he still has room to spare."

"This Oya Continent is not a large-scale transcendent world, let alone a high-dimensional one. How could it produce such a terrifying genius?"

"After all, whales cannot appear in a pond; it's too unreasonable."

"Could it be... because of this 'Source Tide' on the Oya Continent that such a monstrous transcendent has emerged? That must be it; there's no other explanation."

After pondering for a while, the War Ape slowly withdrew its gaze.

"During this time, Lord Guihai has made multiple covert observations; clearly, he places great importance on this transcendent."

"If he can also complete the hundred-layer tower of essence... I'm afraid the reward will be very generous."

"I recall that since the era of darkness, when dark beings, demons, blood clans, dragons, and other intelligent life forms retreated with the passage of time, about two or three hundred thousand years ago,"

"the Oya Continent has not seen a trialist who achieved dual perfect mastery of source power and essence at the level below Transcendent Master."

"This transcendent is likely the first human in this long era."

After absorbing the energy of the hundred-thread sphere,

Gune focused entirely on the essence control manual.

"According to the control method in this essence control manual, one needs to condense a 'Tower of Essence' with a hundred layers."

"Each layer requires only a small amount of essence, and the total is not much either."

"But the demand for control over essence is very high."

"I am already a favorite of the World Essence, and my World Essence excels at such frameworks."

"Completing the condensation is not a problem; the question is how long it will take."

After thoroughly deducing and exploring the Tower of Essence in his mind,

Gune began to condense the Tower of Essence.

Unconsciously, half a month had passed.

...

Inside a mysterious, strange space,

the old man Guihai sat cross-legged in the void, surrounded by swirling mist.

No one could see his true appearance.

Before the old man Guihai stood seven statues of various creatures.

There was a War Ape, a Darkwing Elf, a Goblin Merchant, a Serpentfolk, a human, and others.

These intelligent beings were statues, but they possessed their own consciousness and life.

Among these seven statue beings, the War Ape suddenly opened its eyes.

Then it bowed to the old man Guihai in the misty void and spoke.

"Lord Guihai, that Gune Lawrence condensed the ninety-eighth layer of the Tower of Essence a few days ago."

"Just now, he came out of his practice state and began absorbing source power. He seems about to condense the hundredth layer of the Tower of Essence."

The War Ape reported truthfully.

"I know."

A deep voice came down from the mist.

Then, the old man Guihai in the mist looked into the depths of space.

There, Gune was condensing the Tower of Essence.

The old man Guihai was not at all surprised that Gune had condensed a hundred-meter-tall Tower of Essence.

In fact, the old man Guihai had already spied on Gune's life trajectory many times during this period.

If he had to find a word to describe Gune's previous experiences, it would be "unremarkable."

There was almost nothing extraordinary about this Gune.

Yet, under such an unremarkable life trajectory, such a "monstrous transcendent" that the entire world could not produce had been nurtured.

He could even easily kill top geniuses from large-scale transcendent worlds who had cultivated essence manuals.

Clearly, his talent was unimaginably high.

It could be said that his talent surpassed any genius of any transcendent race that the old man Guihai knew.

"Can a 'Source Tide' also nurture such a transcendent?"

"Regardless, such a monstrous genius is indeed worth cultivating well."

...

In a dim, quiet corner of the platform,

Gune, calm and focused, looked at the Tower of World Essence before him, about two meters tall but with a full hundred layers stacked, and breathed gently.

"After half a month of effort, I've finally succeeded," Gune said softly.

"Although it took a long time, my control over essence has skyrocketed."

"Before, I could only control about ten percent of the runic essence in battle."

"Now, I can probably control forty percent of the runic essence in battle without issue."

"Although in ordinary battles, I usually only use two or three percent of the World Essence. Now, with such solid control over World Essence, my true strength has increased significantly."

"When facing a Transcendent Master, I now truly have some ability to resist."

As he thought, Gune turned around and spoke.

"War Ape Sen..."

The words caught in his throat.

"Senior Guihai!"

Gune said smoothly, bowing at the same time.

The stone-carved War Ape had disappeared.

In its place stood a humanoid figure wearing ordinary black robes, with eyes slightly larger than a normal human's, and grayish-black skin.

This person was the famous old man Guihai.

He was said to be a powerful demigod-level existence.

Above Transcendent Master, the three levels of Divine Envoy, Ancestral Spirit, and Saint, and then the peak of those, followed by the "demigod" realm, and then the true divine realm.

The old man Guihai inspected the framework of World Essence that Gune had condensed, then nodded slightly.

"You are very good!"

The old man Guihai spoke gently, with a kind smile on his face.

As he spoke, his gaze fell upon Gune's face.

"You must have guessed some of it. This is a trial ground for transcendents," the old man Guihai said softly.

"I guessed some of it," Gune nodded lightly.

"In fact, it has been a very long time since anyone, or any intelligent being, has completed the mastery of source power and runic essence in such a short time on this stone platform."

"In fact, most intelligent beings, below the level of Transcendent Master, cannot even perceive runic essence, let alone control it."

"Even in large-scale transcendent worlds, it has been a very long time since a transcendent with talent as excellent as yours has appeared."

"The only pity is that your transcendent profession seems a bit weak."

"Would you like to obtain the Starry Sequence of the Blood Curse Master?" the old man Guihai said softly.

Hearing this, Gune was taken aback.

Who wouldn't want the Starry Sequence?

Earlier, Gune had been thinking about returning to the Transcendent Association to inquire about such information.

He wanted to see if the Blood Curse Master profession could be further promoted, even to a higher-level Starry Sequence.

Gune had never expected this moment to come so suddenly.