Translator: Silavin
“So this is enlightenment…” A flash of brilliance gleamed in Qin Yichen’s eyes, as if he had suddenly comprehended something fundamental.
Following this realisation, his mind stirred. The Yuan Energy within his body surged like tidal waves, building layer upon layer. Then, the muscles in his arm trembled violently as a stacked force erupted from his palm.
*Bang!* With a crisp sound, under Qin Yichen’s single palm strike, the stele shattered directly. In that instant, his figure flashed inside.
As his silhouette entered, the stele condensed once more, blocking the path ahead.
“What?!” Witnessing this scene, Gu Feitian and the others, who had been suppressing their inner anxiety while attempting to comprehend with calm minds, immediately felt their pupils contract sharply. Incredulous expressions burst forth from their eyes.
If Li Yuanba shattering that stele with a single hammer blow could still be rationalised with some excuse to comfort themselves, then this youth they had never properly regarded achieving the same feat left everyone struggling to accept reality.
“Damn it!! Damn it!! What gives him the right!? What right does he have!?”
Qiao Linlang roared furiously in his heart. Compared to Gu Feitian and the others, whether in strength or talent, he fell slightly short. Now, the only person inferior to him, Qin Yichen, had accomplished what none of them had managed. The humiliation burned intensely within him.
Unlike him, Mu Yanzhen, Gu Feitian, and Yao Yue, after their brief shock, settled their minds.
“That palm strike just now…”
A glimmer of comprehension flickered in Mu Yanzhen’s beautiful eyes. Whether Li Yuanba’s hammer blow or Qin Yichen’s simple palm strike, both seemed to contain the same fluctuation.
It appeared that within those attacks lay a dual-layered force.
“Is this how it’s done?” Mu Yanzhen murmured softly, her jade-like lotus root arm slowly extending.
*Bang!* With a light sound, the stele before her shattered instantly. Then, with a smile playing at the corners of her mouth, her graceful figure flashed inside.
“Stacked force!?”
This time, Gu Feitian and Yao Yue observed clearly. Sudden enlightenment immediately surfaced in their eyes.
Their talent had never been weak. During these days of quiet cultivation, they had gained insights. They simply had not realised that this stele required precisely this method to break through.
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After breaking through the stele and entering, Qin Yichen’s eyes narrowed slightly. The scenery before him seemed unchanged. The only difference was that the wordless stele now appeared to have doubled in size.
Qin Yichen surveyed his surroundings. Li Yuanba’s figure was nowhere to be seen in this space.
“Another stele?” Qin Yichen’s brow furrowed. This place seemed deliberately designed to test those who entered, forming self-contained spaces.
Without hesitation, Qin Yichen employed the same technique. His Yuan Energy stacked, and his palm pressed forward.
*Bang!* With a light sound, several cracks spread across the stele, but it did not shatter as easily as Qin Yichen had anticipated.
“Hm?” Qin Yichen uttered a surprised sound, watching the stele instantly repair itself. A trace of astonishment flashed through his eyes.
“Does it require stacking again?” Qin Yichen murmured. His mind stirred, and the Yuan Energy within surged, stacking like waves. Then, his arm muscles trembled as another burst of force erupted forth.
*Bang!* With another light sound, this time the stele shattered directly.
“As expected…” Qin Yichen chuckled inwardly. His foot stomped down, and just as Mu Yanzhen entered, he stepped inside.
In a flash, the scenery before him changed. A wordless stele twice the size of the previous one appeared before him.
“Another layer of stacking?” Qin Yichen’s eyebrow raised as he murmured.
Simultaneously, his mind stirred and the Yuan Energy within surged. Just as he stacked this Yuan Energy three times, an uncomfortable sensation suddenly emanated from his forearm, as if his arm might explode.
*Bang!* Under the triple-stacked force, the third wordless stele shattered on impact. Qin Yichen flashed inside.
As expected, the wordless stele appearing before him had doubled in size once more.
“This stacking of force is more complicated than it appears to be…” This time, Qin Yichen did not rush to break through the stele. Instead, he stood before it, gazing at his own arm while murmuring to himself.
At this moment, the originally pale skin on his forearm had become somewhat flushed. A tingling, numb sensation faintly emanated from within.
“The first layer of force can amplify an ordinary palm strike by one hundred percent. The second layer should amplify by two hundred percent, and the third layer amplifies by three hundred percent!” Qin Yichen murmured.
This amplification method was terrifyingly powerful. Martial Techniques capable of doubling one’s attack could barely qualify as Black Grade Martial Techniques!
However, compressing force this way inflicted tremendous damage upon the physical body!
If an ordinary expert attempted to compress triple the force, their arm muscles would directly rupture!
Qin Yichen’s physical body already far exceeded experts of equivalent cultivation. After tempering in the Golden Sea Lightning Concentrate, it had been strengthened countless times. Even without circulating Yuan Energy, relying solely on his physical body, he would absolutely rank amongst the pinnacle within the Martial Emperor Realm. Calling him a humanoid Artifact wouldn’t be excessive in the slightest!
*Bang!* As Qin Yichen contemplated, a fragrant breeze arrived. Mu Yanzhen’s graceful figure appeared behind him.
Qin Yichen glanced at her, discovering her expression seemed unusually solemn. Her lotus root-like jade arm appeared far worse than his own, already swollen.
“Four stacks of force!” Qin Yichen smiled faintly at her. Without further hesitation, he stacked his Yuan Energy. Terrifying force condensed within his arm before erupting from his palm.
*Bang!* With a crisp sound, under the quadruple force impact, space itself seemed to tremble slightly. That wordless stele shattered thunderously.
The fifth wordless stele measured nearly thirty metres wide.
Qin Yichen did not even rest, directly circulating his Yuan Energy, stacking layer upon layer. When he reached five stacks, the veins on his arm bulged like earthworms. At that moment, he felt the muscles in his arm transmit tearing pain!
*Bang!* The sixth wordless stele, when stacking force, Qin Yichen’s arm skin had already ruptured. Like drought-stricken rice paddies, it cracked open, blood flowing forth!
A physical body that might not even bear a single mark upon being hit by an Artifact had sustained injuries under this stacked force!