My Journey to Immortality Begins with Hunting

Li Yuan had been stuck at the fifth rank bottleneck for quite some time. With his eyes half-closed, he sensed the change immediately. His senses, which had once been limited to two kilometers, now spanned more than five kilometers.

He willed the power inside him to move. Five strands of source blood circled around the spherical ancestral seal beside his heart. The sphere began to rotate, generating a force that cancelled the pull of the earth.

Li Yuan’s feet left the snow and he drifted skyward. Suspended in the whiteness, he drew a long breath. “I’m flying... This feels incredible.”

First, let’s test my agility. A single thought and the rune released bursts of power in precise vectors. He shot up, down, left, and right like a man fitted with hidden thrusters.

No wonder fourth rank martial artists can create a domain, Li Yuan mused. The domain must be the same force from the spherical ancestral seal, simply projected outward. Right now, it only affects my own body; after fourth rank, it probably blankets a wider area.

First-time flyers were allowed a bit of play.

Li Yuan chased after birds in the snow-choked sky, hoping to pat one on the head just to see its reaction. Of course, in weather like this, there were no birds—barely even people—but the notion made him grin all the same.

Now, let’s see how fast I can go! With another push, the five strands of source blood spun faster and faster.

Whoosh! A streak of light ripped across the sky, crossing more than a thousand feet in the blink of an eye.

Li Yuan dove, reversed, climbed again, leaving after-images in the swirling snow. When he finally stopped, he was exhilarated. “Definitely quicker than running. A breakthrough really is a breakthrough, though flying burns more energy too.”

FInally, it was time to test his power.

Each technique leans in its own direction. After breaking through into fifth rank, those differences become even more pronounced, Li Yuan reminded himself.