Condemning the Heavens Chapter 184

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The days ticked by one after another while Bai Tianyi was doing his best to absorb the soul energy of the dead Moon Prince. 

The soul energy was then refined into spiritual energy and added to Bai Tianyi's strength.

Soul energy and spiritual energy was like the Heaven and Earth essence and Qi. 

Soul energy was the raw energy, and only when refined would it turn into spiritual energy. 

This was a process that took time, and although Bai Tianyi could absorb quite a lot of soul energy, he was not able to consume all the soul energy in one go and was forced to slowly refine it. 

While he was refining it, Xue Wei was waiting patiently together with Bai Tainyi, waiting by his side to protect him. 

Although Bai Tianyi was strong, he was currently fully focused on digesting the soul energy and thus he could not focus on anything else, resulting in him being worried. 

Xue Wei did not worry about Wang Xiaoyun and Hei Gou. The grave had been left alone for a long time, for someone to suddenly come across it would be very unlikely as they had closed it after themselves, but he missed the both of them.

Now that he had finally found Wang Xiaoyun again, and he missed her a lot, just being by her side was enough to make him feel happy.

He also missed Hei Gou. Those two had traveled together for a long time. Although he was narcissistic and outspoken, he lifted the mood and made things feel much more easy and fun. 

He had already spent months inside the tomb to succeed in the trials. He also had been in the heart of the tomb for an extended period of time, and now he was waiting for Bai Tianyi to finish his absorption of energy before he could reunite with the others.

Bai Tianyi was refining the energy as fast as he could. The more energy he got, the stronger he would become, and he, who had once been a supreme expert who stood at the apex, was eager to once more get to the rank he once had before. 

"I wonder why Tianyi hasn't shared any of his techniques with us," Xue Wei suddenly muttered when he looked at the legacy left behind by the Moon Prince. 

The Moon Prince was not as strong as Bai Tianyi was at his peak, so it was obvious that he would be getting even stronger abilities from the sword spirit if he was interested in sharing them.

Thinking like this, Xue Wei was excited. He could not wait for his friend to awaken from his cultivation so he could ask him, and as if he had sensed Xue Wei's excitement, Bai Tianyi opened his eyes. 

"Done?" Xue Wei asked curiously. He was interested to see how much Bai Tianyi's strength had risen since he started absorbing the energy from the dead Moon Prince, but to his disappointment, the sword spirit seemed more or less the same as before.

"I have stored the entire soul energy of this expert within my body," Bai Tianyi said as his face twitched. He could guess what Xue Wei was thinking, and he wanted to whack him on the head. Raising his strength took time!

"It takes time for me to refine it all. Just like you constantly refine the Heaven and Earth essence, I will be refining the soul energy. I am quite sure that this soul energy alone will be enough to make me a Heavenly Warrior ranked expert." 

"That's not bad from one single dead guy," Xue Wei was astounded, but Bai Tianyi sighed. "He used to have much more soul energy," he said a little disappointed, "but he has been using it as a source power for the age-restricted formation for so long, that more than ninety percent of his soul energy has already been consumed."

"If he had not done this, then I would have been able to fly all the way to the Heavenly Knight rank."

Xue Wei was shocked when he heard this. "So if we find a few graves like these, you should be upgraded very fast, should you not?" he asked breathlessly, but this time Bai Tianyi shot him a glance with disdain.

"Why are you so stupid?" he asked with spite. "Graves are hard to come across, there is only a handful of supreme experts in the entire world, spread across all the many continents." 

"Do you think that it is easy to get your hands on tombs and graves of old supreme experts?" 

"The only reason we got this one was because of the formations. It was simply impossible for it to be found by someone with no knowledge of formations. Other experts have other tests, but most of them are about pure strength, and they have long since been unearthed."

Xue Wei suddenly understood what Bai Tianyi meant. It was true that they had come across a legacy and a grave this time, but it would not necessarily be possible for them to be this lucky in the future.

"I guess I was too muddleheaded," Xue Wei shook his head with depression.

"What about you then?" He asked as he suddenly remembered his thoughts of before.

"What about me?" Bai Tianyi frowned as he wondered what Xue Wei was talking about now.

"You were a supreme expert too, do you not have a legacy you can pass on to me?" 

"I do have some skills," Bai Tianyi said after thinking for a bit of time, but then he shook his head, "but they are all made for when you are much stronger than you are now. The earliest I can teach you would be when you are an Earth Knight, then you might be able to handle a few of my skills, but it will be hard."

Xue Wei was at first slightly disappointed, but after thinking it through, he suddenly understood that it was not as terrible as he thought. It was only a matter of time before he would become an Earth Knight, as long as he did not die early. 

"Well be happy about what you have gotten already," Bai Tianyi said, and Xue Wei snickered as he forgot about his disappointment completely, "It was a good result after all!" 

"Well then let us get out of this grave, it's so depressing not to see the sunlight and hear the birds sing after a few months!" Xue Wei sighed, as he looked at the ceiling of the tomb. 

He had grasped every single eternal fire crystal in the tomb, and he had taken everything of value. 

The storage ring on his finger was bursting with treasures, and Xue Wei truly felt he had benefitted greatly. 

The duo walked towards the door and they opened it they found that it did not lead back to the rooms where the trials had been held, but directly towards the room where Wang Xiaoyun was waiting for them.

Looking around, Xue Wei was a little surprised. There were no signs of Hei Gou; only Wang Xiaoyun was waiting for them.

When she saw the door opening, she jumped to her feet, a sweet smile fluttered across her lips, and her eye shone brightly.

"Welcome back!" she said happily, "I have waited for months for you to return, I missed you so much!" Her words carried with them eagerness and happiness. 

Hearing her happiness, Xue Wei was happy too, and his heart was filled with warmth, but at the same time, there was a bit of worry. "I missed you too," he said as he opened his arms and embraced the woman who was so excited to see him again.

"But where is Gou?" He suddenly asked, and Wang Xiaoyun's face turned hard and hostile in a moment within Xue Wei's embrace, but since her face was pressed against his chest, no one noticed it. 

"He is out," she said after hesitating for a bit. "We did not know how long you needed to be within the trials for, so he has gone to check whether or not the groups of Primordial Beasts have decided to leave the formation."

"I see," Xue Wei felt relieved. Although he did not want to doubt Wang Xiaoyun, he knew of her hatred for beasts. It was possible for her to have acted against him when no one was there to stop her, especially since she had been forced to relive the death of her family. 

"Let us leave this place and regroup with Gou; then we have to rush back to the Black Iron Fortress and hand over the Seven Star Nightflower." Xue Wei said as he buried his head in Wang Xiaoyun's hair and felt at peace. 

"We could also keep the Seven Star Nightflower for ourselves and head towards the center of the continent," Wang Xiaoyun said, but Xue Wei shook his head.

"I promised I would do what I could to get the Seven Star Nightflower for him. If I had not been able to find the flower, then we could have proceeded, but now I have found it I have to hand it back. A man keeps his promises."

"It could be dangerous," Wang Xiaoyun reminded him, but Xue Wei was adamant about returning it to Wan Qiang. 

"I have a few things I am unsure about," he suddenly said with a bit of a frown on his face. 

"These Primordial Beasts were all sent here because of someone they called Elder Wan."

"The Primordial Beasts were looking for the Seven Star Nightflower."

"The Primordial Beasts had been warned that there would be someone in the way that might cause problems with their task."

"Wan Qiang did everything he could to make the younger geniuses of the Skyward Empire kill each other."

"There are so many things that do not add up. Is Wan Qiang the Elder Wan that the beasts were talking about? But if he was, why is it that he is known as the most outstanding expert in the Skyward Empire? If he truly wished to cause chaos, then he could just kill everyone."

Bai Tianyi and Wang Xiaoyun were quiet when they heard this. "You said that primordial beasts have been hiding from you in the past?" she asked and Xue Wei shrugged his shoulders.

"I do not know if the Primordial Beasts has avoided me, to be honest," he said honestly, "since I have not been close to any of the beasts, but I do know that Fierce Beasts have hidden from me." 

"Could it be that you have some bloodline like me, a Wayfarer, that is noticed by the beasts?" Wang Xiaoyun asked curiously, but Xue Wei just shrugged his shoulders.

"I don't know," he admitted, curious as to what Wang Xiaoyun had to say.

"I am thinking, maybe Wan Qiang is a Primordial Beast, and he noticed you, and then he sent you to the Seven Star Nightflower to have you killed by the Primordial Beasts?"

"I don't think so," Xue Wei sighed. "When we left the city, Wan Qiang saved us more than once, and he has been very friendly and kind towards me."

"If he truly wished to see me dead, then he did not have to make a move, and I would have died by now."

"Also, I do not think that Primordial Beasts can sense anything strange from me," he continued. 

"Hei Gou feels nothing from me and the other Primordial Beasts felt nothing either. They all see me as a very ordinary human."

The two were discussing as they were walking out of the tomb, but Bai Tianyi was silent throughout the entire discussion, a knowing smile played on his lips, and his eyes glistened with entertainment. 

Chapter end