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It was also exhausting but more mental than physical.
I could feel my mental stamina disappearing, my head becoming lighter and lighter, my eyes dropping and even my exhaustion melting away in the eternal bliss of sleep.
Just as I was going to lose consciousness once more, it happened again. As if muscle memory my Veins automatically started to pump the Spiritual Essence straight into Dantian like it did with vitality before.
The unruly energy became tame almost docile under the control of my Veins and entered the Dantain where a small explosion went off like a mini Big Bang. It shook my whole body, jolting me awake. I'm sure if my body wasn't this strong my internal organs would be injured.
After the Big Bang went off the energy inside my Dantian convulsed and started expanding in every direction.
The sight was beautiful it looked more like the birth of a Universe with twinkling spiritual essence spreading every direction than the expansion of a sea.
The Spiritual Sea continued to expand surpassing the 1-meter mark of Mortal-level talent to the 9-meter mark of a peak Empyrean-level talent. At that point, the expansion stopped as if some kind of barrier prevented it from going further. The invisible barrier held for quite a long but the spiritual essence kept poring inside the Dantian. Its quantity kept increasing and momentum kept building.
And then it happened.
*Crack!* *SHATTERED!!!*
Like a procaine glass, it shattered, unable to stop the increasingly massive energy.
With no stoppage the Spiritual Essence once again starts expanding and this time countless times faster than before.
It only slowed down when it hit the 90-meter mark and completely stopped at the 99-meter mark. I can feel another barrier but this time it was hundreds of times stronger. And the remaining spiritual essence wasn't nearly enough to build up momentum to break it.
"I think this is already enough…"
And it truly was! If the 9 meter was is the peak of Empyrean-Tier talent then 99 should be the peak of Divine-Tier.
I wanted to end the process and complete my Ascension to Tier-1 but something told me I would regret this decision in future very much if I stopped it here.
Trusting my instincts I took control of the remaining Spiritual Essence and molded it into a drill. I started rotating the drill as fast as possible, trying to puncture a hole through the barrier.
But the luck wasn't in my favour because not only, it did not do anything to the invisible barrier but the amount of spiritual essence lessened. And it did not help with my mental exhaustion peaking even my physical one.
"I… need… more… energy." Even speaking became a task.
I thought of using the Spiritual Essence stones but I knew it won't help. It isn't pure enough to supplement my spiritual essence.
The spiritual essence converted from the vitality is one of the purest forms of spiritual essence that cannot even be supplemented by Empyrean-Tier resources, maybe Divine-Tier could but I doubt even the Royal family have anything in Divine-Tier.
I need something now… something that has a huge quantity and quality of energy and can be quickly converted through my Spiritual Veins.
But what…?
The only thing I can think of is my SEV but can it be even used like that…?
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…Shit! I'm losing consciousness… no time to waste.
"Status." The moment I uttered the familiar blue sheet appeared before me. I quickly willed the SEV like I do when increasing my stats and it responded to my will. The SEV turned into spiritual essence without wasting even a second and entered my Spiritual Sea.
The SEV immediately started plummeting while the purest form of spiritual essence I have ever felt magically appeared in my Spiritual Sea.
It merged my remaining Spiritual Essence and started accumulating and building momentum.
I let the process continue and waited for all my SEV to turn into Spiritual Essence. When it did I willed it to attack the barrier. I didn't control it to take any shape because I didn't have energy left but thankfully I didn't have to because as the accumulated spiritual essence collided with the barrier the ninth time it happened again.
*CRACK!!!* *SHATTERED!!!*
The invisible barrier shattered like the barrier before.
And the spiritual essence expanded once more and hit the 100-meter mark. The moment it happened millions of bells rang inside my very soul followed by an ancient and authoritative voice whispering in that shook my very being.
'BEYOND PERFECT SPIRITUAL SEA'
*BOOM* An explosion followed the voice indicating the completion of my Accession and the start of my body's metamorphosis.
All the spiritual energy inside the room and spiritual essence inside the Spiritual Essence stone embedded into the walls rushed towards me.
My body hungrily started to devour the energy and began changing from the cellular level.
Unfortunately, I was too exhausted to observe and was brink of blacking out again.
But before I blacked out I willed my space ring and brought out all the Spiritual Essence stones accumulated in these five years.
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After Magnus lost consciousness the Whirlwind of energy revolved around him. The tens of thousands of Spiritual Essence Magnus brought out also broke down and entered his body.
The whole process lasted an hour and throughout all, Magnus slept peacefully without waking.
While Magnus slept peacefully inside the misty room outside of it wasn't so peaceful. No, it was chaotic.
After his metamorphosis was completed the whole sky of 41 Divine Spiritual Domain turned golden and started raining down Heavenly Merit.
The leading figures of the 41 Domains looked at the sky
with multitudes of expressions. Some had a grim expression, some had a calm look, and some even had excitement written on their faces.
Despite their different expressions, one thing was clear they knew what the gold sky meant. And each of them was looking forward to what follows after this.
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