Chapter 128: Under Arrest
The rest of the energy from the pill started flowing through his body. This time, it wasn’t flowing through his meridians. It was directly entering his flesh.
Adrian’s flesh screamed in protest as the raw energy of the Rank 5 pill surged through it. Every fiber of his body convulsed, as if set aflame from the inside. But he did not stop. He couldn’t.
It wasn’t just his flesh. Even his bones had started letting out creaking sounds. The tension they were under was enough to crush the bones of normal cultivators.
Yet, Adrian persisted. For two grueling hours, he bore with the pain, and finally, just as he was about to pass out, his persistence bore fruit.
A shockwave of force erupted from his body, sending dust scattering across the Blood Star’s landscape. Adrian’s eyes snapped open, glowing with a fierce bronze light before fading.
He exhaled sharply, his body drenched in sweat and a black gooey substance, but thrumming with newfound strength. He stood up and started flexing and stretching his body.
He had been sitting cross-legged for about four hours now, and his body was feeling a little stiff. His muscles were firm and taut, filled with amazing strength.
If someone were to inspect his internal structure, they would find that his bones had become bronze in colour. Not just surrounded by a bronze aura, they had literally become bronze.
This was the defining factor of the late stage of the Bronze body. However, Adrian wasn’t just at the late stage of the Bronze body. He had reached the very peak.
The only path forward for him was the next level of the Diamond Sovereign physique. Adrian glanced at the pill bottle that still had four more pills.
In theory, he could use these pills to increase his strength further; however, he refrained from doing so. It was different now.
He had reached the peak of both the Foundation Establishment realm, and he was also a peak Rank 1 body cultivator. The only way to get stronger now was to break through to the next realm.