How much longer did he need? Would he want to wait for his next breakthrough after achieving Summoner of Spirit?
The lock of my heart is saturated...
Li Hao thought back to a short conversation he’d held with Manager Yu. Martial masters released their potential when they broke their locks, a potential that devoured their internal force. However, supernaturals had a hope of converting back to martial dao, so long as they did not break their locks of the five organs. If the source of their internal origin, the source of a martial master, remained, then there was a chance of converting back.
Or perhaps, one still had a chance of converting back if only one lock of the five organs was broken. But for someone like Sky Sword who’d broken two and fully set foot into Arcanus, a return conversion was exceedingly difficult. It would be very, very hard for him to return to martial dao!
Various thoughts floated through Li Hao’s mind. There’d always been someone to help him—Silver Moon martial masters unsealed themselves again and again for him. He would’ve died many times over if not for sword energy. Each time, someone else paid the price of keeping him alive.
Had they ever given thought to what might happen if their locks completely shattered and weren’t suppressed in time? Wouldn’t that mean all of their previous cultivation efforts were down the drain? There was a grave risk every time Hong Yitang and the others took action. Had they truly never given thought to the consequences of Li Hao not being able to help them in time?
Outsiders only knew that they’d benefited from each instance of disaster. How many considered the dangers contained?
Li Hao chuckled softly after some moments of furious thinking. People were willing to ride into danger for him, but he was overcautious about taking any action. How was he supposed to follow his heart in this manner?
A chain snapped, the one of his left arm! Energy surged out as a vast quantity of energy gathered upon his left arm. Li Hao had encircled himself with a variety of high rank mysterious power stones. He devoured the vast energy emanating from them.
The young man had come to a decision! Today, he was going to break his locks and become a supernatural! He would break the ones of his limbs, spine, and zifu. Six locks were needed to set foot into Arcanus—he would leave the ones of his five organs to retain some chances of converting back.
Regular people couldn’t locate the locks of their zifu and spine, but Li Hao could. Therefore, most people had to break two locks of their organs to set foot into Arcanus, but the young man did not need to do so.
Indeed, Li Hao was about to commence the unthinkable. Though he was a premier existence on the path of martial dao, he chose to break six locks and ascend to Arcanus! He would keep only the lock of his organs to contain the source of his internal force!
He instantly snapped the second lock—the ones he was breaking weren’t saturated. Supernaturals didn’t need to consider that step and Li Hao’s locks were also exceedingly strong. His were much stronger than a regular person’s.
With two locks broken, Li Hao was a bonafide supernatural as mysterious power once more rushed into his body.
As for energy attribute... It was unattributed. The energy wasn’t part of the five elements because Li Hao hadn’t broken one of the locks of the organs.
Panther abruptly appeared at the door. Shock was written across its doggy face. It didn’t choose to absorb the mysterious power for once. Instead, it gaped at the human. What... are you doing?
“Go keep watch. Devour whatever energy leaks out and don’t let it spread. I can’t have any attention drawn here!”
“Arf arf arf!” Panther called out, as if reminding Li Hao not to do this.
The dog slunk off with its tail between its legs. Despite its unwillingness to move, it was forced to back down by Li Hao’s glare. It reluctantly shuffled out of the mountain cave, slapping the rhinoceros down with an angry paw.
The chains could not be broken! Even if a return conversion was possible, Li Hao would find it more difficult to progress in martial dao in the future. Take Hou Xiaochen and the others, for example. Although they had broken through their bottlenecks, they’d spent a very long period of time before connecting the supernatural locks again, due to having undergone a conversion process back in the day.
Li Hao did not need to take this step. His road ahead was very long since he’d yet to encounter any bottlenecks.
Panther couldn’t dissuade the young man from his chosen course. In fact, Li Hao believed that his teacher would support him if the old man was here. It wasn’t like he was fully severing his path.
Three locks, four locks...
The first four of the limbs were easily broken. Strong unique power rushed out of the limbs to devour his internal force. Four locks meant he was a Solar, a cultivation realm out of reach for most. However, it was as easy as drinking water for Li Hao. The special power surging out was very violent, but the young man’s highly fortified body permitted it to rampage where it would.
Tremendous mysterious power roiled within his body. His four limbs were furiously devouring internal force to convert it to formidable mysterious power. Li Hao’s Solar cultivation level was different from regular supernaturals. It was stronger!
Blood circulated at a faster speed as the sound of waves crashing upon the shore traveled through the air. The first four locks were simple, the fifth and the sixth would be much harder. One of them was of his spine, the other of his zifu. The latter released energy of the body and might have something to do with the wind attribute.
Li Hao had enhanced his body after absorbing wind energy. The lock of the spine could possibly be traced to the thunder attribute. He’d fortified his bones after devouring that attribute’s energy. Both of these locks were tied to elemental attributes. If both were broken, it might give rise to a wind and thunder Arcanus.
However, the collision of the two elements would be the greatest problem faced by numerous supernaturals. On the other hand, this thorny issue was of no significance to Li Hao’s organs, body, and bones.
He swiftly converted internal force to mysterious power. The power released by the breaking of a lock was very special—it wasn’t just mysterious power. There was no time for Li Hao to study it in detail as he had his eyes set on the fifth lock of the spine!
Breaking a lock of the bones would make him a thunder supernatural. He would be a Nova after this lock. The young man locked onto his target with his mind. It’d been bullshit when he told He Yong that he couldn’t do so—he just didn’t want to deal a blow to Southern Fist’s confidence.
Li Hao hesitated in this moment. It would be so much harder to return to the path of martial masters after he became a Nova.
However, he proceeded with resolution and smashed through the lock. When it came to power, all power was power, whether it came from the self or outside sources. There were people who took the ancient path of energy to its peak all the same.
Thunder and lightning danced through the sky.
Outside the mountain cave.
Thunder ripped through the firmament, along with the sound of chains breaking. Panther smacked the rhino into howling with pain. The monster spirit’s roars intimidated the rest of the mountain so much that everything fell silent.
There were powerhouses keeping an eye on the proceedings from the foot of the mountain. When it came to these major monster spirits, those on the ground still kept a careful eye on them. It wasn’t out of a desire to kill, but to ensure that they knew as soon as possible when a monster spirit left the mountain.
At the foot of the mountain.
Numerous people were hiding in a small dip in the terrain. “This Jade Moon Rhinocerous sounds a little different its usual. What’s going on?”
“It sounds like thunder on the mountain peak!”
“Is the major monster spirit about to ascend?”
“Who knows, perhaps it’s having a good moment with a female monster spirit, heh!” The group of people chortled, but didn’t dare go up for a look. That was a Nova level monster spirit! As for thunder and lightning at the mountain peak... That was a very normal occurrence. It was also the monster spirit’s territory, so they would leave him to it. They just needed to know where the monster spirit was going when it left the mountain.
That last discharge was very loud, but the crowd chose to ignore it, knowing that a major monster spirit lived on the mountain.
Inside the mountain cave.
Lightning crackled around Li Hao. As he thought, thunder supernaturals were part of the unique attribute system. They might have shattered the locks of their spine at birth, which gave the young man some other thoughts.
Wind, thunder, and other unique supernaturals might be able to set foot into Arcanus if they broke just one lock of their five organs. The strain on their five organs wouldn’t be too great. Only Arcanus of the five elements would endure unimaginable pressure. Perhaps the unique supernaturals would be much more stable as Arcanus.
Of course, the wind and thunder attributes also required mighty bone structure and physical bodies. That was a difficult prerequisite for supernaturals and overloading their capabilities was a normal occurrence.
Li Hao understood full well that, compared to the rest, it was easier for these unique supernaturals to ascend to Arcanus. Therefore, there might be Arcanus like them in existence at the moment who were moderately strong, but endured much less strain on their bodies. Not everyone would be like the old Steadfast Duke. His cultivation level was truly unstable.
It was now that Li Hao truly sensed the might of supernaturals. Thunder and lightning exploded within his body, racing through internal force to transform it into thunder mysterious power. The unattributed mysterious power in his body began its transformation as well, shaking the young man with the tremendous impact!
If it wasn’t for his formidable body, he might’ve been burned to a crisp by lightning the second he set foot into Nova. Mysterious power stones crumbled around him and transformed into current son power that surged into his body. Thunder mysterious power raged through Li Hao; Stellaris emanated rays of sword energy to pacify, calm, and suppress it.
The young man’s bones vibrated as he momentarily turned purple, lightning shooting out from his hair.