Chapter 99: Wind Spirit Wings

[Runes]

Secret Crossing Runes: 32.

Repeat Runes: 10.

Demonized Runes: 10.

Holy Shadow Runes: 15.

These are all the runes Gune currently possesses.

Many powerful beings, upon advancing to Divine Envoy, Ancestral Spirit, or Saint rank, will condense corresponding high-level runes.

For example, Divine Envoys condense [Faith Runes].

Faith Runes!

They accelerate the condensation of faith power, while also giving some feedback to believers, granting them some protection, making believers more steadfast in their faith, thereby providing more faith power.

Ancestral Spirits condense [Faith Runes] and [Ancestral Space Runes].

The function of the former is essentially the same as that of the Divine Envoy path, but it acts on the many beings within their own Ancestral Space, strengthening their faith in themselves.

The latter can accelerate the expansion of the Ancestral Space and enhance its stability.

If the Ancestral Space is not stable enough, and the opponent has corresponding countermeasures, they can directly shatter the Ancestral Space, causing a significant loss of strength.

If enough Ancestral Space Runes are condensed, the Ancestral Space will become very stable.

Then, whether in combat or when using the Ancestral Domain to suppress,

their strength will be even greater.

At the same time, there are other types of runes that also need to be condensed.

Such as [Divine Power Runes]

which can automatically absorb divine power, speed up recovery, and increase the upper limit of divine power capacity.

Or the corresponding type of [Essence Runes].

For example, Gune can condense [World Essence Runes], [Darkness Essence Runes], and [Destruction Essence Runes].

These can enhance the clarity of essence perception to a certain extent, allowing for a higher level of essence comprehension.

But for Gune, these runes that enhance essence comprehension are not very useful.

Mainly because Gune's own clarity of essence perception is extremely high.

Normally, conventional Divine Envoys and Ancestral Spirits have a clarity of essence perception between 10 and 30.

A rune that increases clarity by about 10 points can greatly increase their clarity of essence perception.

Especially when their perception of essence reaches a critical point and they cannot perceive it more deeply, such an essence rune can elevate their level of comprehension, allowing them to comprehend more essence.

But Gune's clarity of perception, by his initial estimate, is at least 1000 points.

And this is only for the clarity of Darkness and Destruction essence.

The clarity of World essence perception is even beyond measure by numbers.

An essence rune that increases clarity by ten points has a negligible effect on Gune.

One reincarnation of Gune increases the number by several times that amount.

Therefore, Gune has no need to waste his carrying capacity on these unimportant runes.

"Secret Crossing Runes don't need further improvement. Repeat Runes too, upgrading them is meaningless."

"Demonized Runes, hmm... there's no need to upgrade them either, since I no longer have Dominator flesh to digest."

"Increasing digestion speed is pointless."

"I'll upgrade them later when I get harder-to-digest flesh of Old Ones or even Ancient Gods."

"It seems I still need to condense Holy Shadow Runes."

After some deliberation, Gune steadied his mind and began condensing Holy Shadow Runes.

During this long period of idling,

the Hurricane Mother Tree produced a Wind Spirit Fruit every month or so.

These fruits were naturally digested by Gune one by one.

As a result, Gune's speed naturally increased greatly.

Gune's current speed is comparable to that of a third-order peak Divine Sense Ancestral Spirit when bursting with divine power.

It can be said that speed is no longer Gune's weakness.

And next, speed will become Gune's advantage, and a great one at that.

"Fifteen Holy Shadow Runes." Gune narrowed his eyes.

"I wonder how many runes I can gather this time. Let's begin condensation."

"But when condensing, the wind spirit power will burst forth, and it will be very dense. Hmm, better to keep a low profile. Besides... I've faintly sensed someone spying in the shadows, though very covert, probably using some powerful treasure. Unfortunately, they've been discovered by me."

With this thought, dark mist began to bloom around Gune.

Soon, an area fifty meters in radius was completely shrouded by endless black fog.

Then, the World Principle descended, isolating the black fog from the outside world, and formed a three-layer framework within the misty region.

On one hand, it blocked external probing of Gune; on the other, it prevented the wind spirit power from being sensed by the outside during condensation.

This condensation of Holy Shadow Runes would greatly enhance Gune's speed, giving him enough capital to ensure survival when exploring the Emoke Ancient God Mountain in the future.

Having done all this, Gune finally settled his mind and began the condensation of the Holy Shadow Runes.

When he had condensed fifteen Holy Shadow Runes before, Gune was still at the Ninth Order of Transcendence.

Now, not only had he broken through a major realm, but he had also reached the peak of the Third Order of the Saint Realm.

At the same time, Gune's Cthulhu embryo had taken shape and was growing robustly.

Moreover, the Blood Sea had already expanded forty to fifty times its previous size.

The increase in carrying capacity was unimaginable.

This would cause the Holy Shadow Runes Gune condensed to explode in number, and would also bring him an astonishing increase in speed.

As Gune condensed,

the sixteenth.

the seventeenth.

...

One after another, Holy Shadow Runes were condensed by Gune.

And the wind spirit power that emerged increased with each rune.

The more wind spirit power, the faster Gune became.

When Gune finished condensing the nineteenth Demonic Rune,

the wind spirit power generated by this nineteenth Holy Shadow Rune alone was more than the total of the tenth through fourteenth runes combined.

"With nineteen Holy Shadow Runes condensed, my speed already far exceeds those Spirit Ancestor powerhouses renowned for speed."

"I wonder what changes the condensation of the twentieth Holy Shadow Rune will bring."

"When the tenth was condensed, wind spirit power was born, greatly enhancing my speed under its boost. I hope the twentieth will bring some new changes."

Half an hour later.

Whoosh~~

Like a hurricane, wind spirit power howled wildly around Gune.

The mere birth of this twentieth wind spirit power alone increased the wind spirit power generated by the previous nineteen by about three times.

After crossing a threshold, the increase directly showed a substantial rise.

If not for Gune's World Principle framework and the concealment of the Dark Principle,

a huge hurricane storm would have formed within a radius of over ten kilometers, centered on Gune.

Wind spirit power is inherently capable of stirring wind force.

The violent wind spirit power continuously rotated around Gune.

After several minutes, the vast wind spirit power gradually stabilized.

Then, the massive wind spirit power gathered behind Gune, forming a pair of extremely light, ethereal wind spirit wings.

"Wind Spirit Wings."

Feeling the pair of wind spirit wings behind him, Gune narrowed his eyes.

"It's actually the Wind Spirit Wings. This is a qualitative leap." Gune couldn't help but exclaim.

"Without using the Wind Spirit Wings, with just my speed, I can easily leave any powerhouse of the same rank far behind."

"And once I use the Wind Spirit Wings, even experts bursting with Fourth Layer Divine Power won't be able to catch up."

"Moreover, the Wind Spirit Wings possess the marvelous ability of wind spirit traversal."

"As long as there is wind—whether it's wind from air currents, wind from source power currents, or wind from other forms of currents—"

"I can easily traverse and cross through them, effortlessly breaking free from various suppressions, seals, imprisonments, and other means."

"After all, the essence of the wind spirit traversal ability of wind spirit power is precisely this: to evade dangerous areas."

"I can finally rest assured about speed, and I've gained some means to avoid danger."

"Moreover, these twenty Holy Shadow Runes are clearly not my limit. Continue condensing."

Having obtained the Wind Spirit Wings, Gune settled his mind again and began subsequent condensation.