57: Chapter 55 Awakening in the Wilderness [Fourth Update]

"Awakened?" Fang Yu was both surprised and delighted. After taking the red star pill for the third time, his life level had risen to Rank 22.3, yet he still hadn't unlocked the first stage, which had left him quite puzzled.

He had originally thought that there would only be hope after taking the red star pill a fourth time.

Never had he expected.

Right here in the Wilderness Area, very abruptly, the first-stage Awakening had initiated.

"Is it because my Soul Rank just reached Rank 25?" Fang Yu had a sudden realization. The Soul referred to Mental Energy, and a powerful Physical Body nurtured a powerful Soul.

Recently, his life level had been increasing extremely fast, but his Mental Energy growth had been relatively slower.

However.

There was no time for Fang Yu to think too much.

In that mysterious place where his consciousness had arrived, his massive Star Phase had already thoroughly awakened. Its pitch-black body resembled a sheep, yet it was entirely hairless, with only a pair of giant mouths occupying nearly half the length of its body, looking exceptionally terrifying.

At this moment, the awakened Star Phase roared up to the sky, and endless purple light bloomed.

Even this mysterious place was trembling.

"Roar~" The roar of the Star Phase seemed to be transmitted from endless distant spacetime, like the sound of the Dao, echoing throughout this mysterious place and shaking Fang Yu's mind.

Whoosh!

Fang Yu's consciousness was completely immersed in that roar. In a trance, he felt as if his consciousness was faintly merging into one with the Star Phase.

"Roar~ Bow~" Another roar sounded, and the massive Star Phase actually stood up. Like a human, its two hooves knelt forward, performing one special movement after another.

It was not a dance!

It was more like an ancient sacrificial ritual.

...

"Hmm." Xiong Meng, who was on guard duty, instantly noticed Fang Yu's abnormality. He saw that Fang Yu, who had originally been lying on the ground resting, had silently sat up cross-legged.

Whoosh!

Whoosh! Fang Yu's palms were open and placed flat in front of his chest, and his head was slightly raised as if looking up at the high sky, but his eyes were tightly closed.

"Brother Fang?" Xiong Meng asked tentatively, but received no response from Fang Yu.

Daring not to hesitate,

Xiong Meng immediately woke up Bai Chen, Qin Yang, and Xia Yao. Everyone gathered around Fang Yu, looking in astonishment at Fang Yu, who was sitting cross-legged in silence with his head raised toward the sky.

"Xiong Meng, what's going on?" Bai Chen said in a low voice.

"I'm not sure." Xiong Meng quickly explained, "He was fine just a moment ago, but suddenly I saw Brother Fang sit up and strike this posture. He didn't respond when I called out to him. Fearing something might be wrong, I didn't dare to move Brother Fang."

"Could he be Cultivating something?" Qin Yang asked doubtfully.

"I'll try." Bai Chen stepped forward, attempting to touch Fang Yu, but when he was still one meter away, he felt an invisible resistance hindering him from moving forward.

At the same time, deep down, a sense of danger arose in Bai Chen's heart.

It was as if bad things would happen if he got any closer.

"This?" Bai Chen was shocked inside.

"Captain?"

"What's the situation?" Xia Yao, Xiong Meng, and the others became even more puzzled and curious.

"Do not get close to Fang Yu. Fall back three meters." Bai Chen stepped back, keeping his eyes fixed on Fang Yu, and said in a low voice, "If my guess is correct, Fang Yu should be Awakening his Star Phase, and the Rank of the Star Phase he is Awakening shouldn't be low."

"Awakening his Star Phase?"

"This?" Everyone was startled.

"This is just my guess." Bai Chen did not explain too much, shook his head, and said, "Regardless of the situation, temporarily abandon all hunting plans, protect our Brother Fang Yu in all aspects, and wait for him to wake up."

"Xia Yao, Xiong Meng, you two move 100 meters to both sides to stand guard and issue early warnings at any time if something happens."

"Qin Yang, you stay here with me," Bai Chen said.

Under normal guard duty, a distance of twenty meters was generally fine, enough for a resting Martial Artist to wake up, pick up weapons, and counterattack... But Fang Yu was currently in a coma-like state with no perception of the outside world, so the warning distance naturally had to be further to prevent Vicious Beasts from suddenly closing in and harming him.

"Alright."

"Understood." Xia Yao and Xiong Meng immediately moved into action. After more than ten days of getting along and dozens of joint battles, they already regarded Fang Yu as a true brother in their hearts.

This kind of brotherhood forged between life and death was very special and extremely rare.

"Captain, won't Fang Yu be alright?" Qin Yang stood to the side holding a bow, quite worried.

"Hard to say," Bai Chen said. "But all we can do is stay by his side... If he still doesn't react for a long time, we'll consider taking him back to the base."

"Mhm."

As elite students, their vision and cognition were much higher than those of Xia Yao and Xiong Meng.

...

Fang Yu's consciousness attached to the Star Phase, and along with the Star Phase, performed a complete set of sacrificial movements. In a trance, his consciousness seemed to rise up, stepping into the boundless starry sky.

In this vast starry sky,

there floated one unimaginably gigantic star after another.

On each star, a towering entity with a vast aura and a blurry figure coiled. These towering entities were like high mountains; most of them were not humanoid, mostly being beasts, while many were similar to plants, and there were even some in the style of weapons, such as a giant sword stabbed directly into a huge flame star...

Fang Yu's consciousness was faintly guided, continuously heading toward the depths of the starry sky.

The deeper he went, the larger and more dazzling the stars became.

The entities coiling on those stars also became increasingly towering and vast.

"That is? The Moon-Howling Celestial Wolf?"

"The Sun-Swallowing Python?" Fang Yu saw the towering figures coiling on two of the stars. One was a celestial wolf howling at the sky, its silver radiance shrouding the entire star and giving people an endless icy feeling.

The other massive star was coiled by an unimaginably huge flame serpent, with only its snake head raised high into the starry sky, its eyes revealing endless coldness.

These were what Fang Yu recognized.

They were Upper Astral Constellations recorded in the "Void Hundred Phases".

"Where on earth is this place?" Fang Yu was shocked in his heart.

From his line of sight, there were dozens of stars similar in size to the one where the Moon-Howling Celestial Wolf coiled, not to mention how many there were that he couldn't see... Yet the Upper Astral Constellations recorded by the Blue Moon Alliance numbered only twelve.

His consciousness was still moving forward.

Finally,

his consciousness came before an even more gigantic flame star. The four sides of this massive star were empty, and atop the star, a towering figure likewise coiled.

It

was almost identical in image to the Star Phase that Fang Yu himself had visualized, similarly possessing a pair of giant mouths. The biggest difference was that the towering figure on the star was entirely fiery red.

Whereas Fang Yu's Star Phase was pitch-black.

"Roar~"

'Fang Yu' opened his mouth, and the roar echoed in the endless Void Realm, seeming to also awaken the towering figure on that star, which slowly opened its eyes.

"Roar~"

It responded with a roar!

Hum~ That star forged from endless flames and magma immediately trembled... Fang Yu's consciousness instantly dissipated.

...

Beneath the cliff of the Primal Star,

Bai Chen and Qin Yang were watching the scene before them in shock. They saw wisps of naked-eye-visible 'fiery red light' gathering and surrounding Fang Yu's entire body.

"Star Power materialization?"

"It's fiery Star Power." Both of them were incomparably shocked. They knew very well what this scene represented: Fang Yu was indeed experiencing the initial Awakening of Star Power.

Star Power in the endless starry sky was essentially divided into many subtle categories.

The Star Power contained in red star grass and dragon-shaped grass tended to be neutral... However, Martial Artists absorbing external Star Power usually only absorbed the category that best suited themselves.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Gradually, a large amount of fiery Star Power faintly formed a blurry snake shadow between Fang Yu's brows. The snake shadow was entirely crimson red, coiled into one, and had a rather ferocious charm.

On Fang Yu's chest, arms, back, and legs, countless fiery red bright spots faintly flickered. At a glance, there were probably dozens of fiery red bright spots.

"It's the Red-Scaled Snake!"

"The Intermediate Astral Constellation, Red-Scaled Snake."

Bai Chen and Qin Yang exchanged glances, simultaneously recognizing what Star Phase Fang Yu had awakened, and their hearts were filled with shock.

Fang Yu Awakening an Intermediate Astral Constellation did not surprise them too much.

"For his initial Awakening, the number of star apertures born should have exceeded forty." Bai Chen said in a low voice, with shock on his face: "Awakening an Intermediate Astral Constellation, how could so many star apertures be born?"

"I counted!"

"It should be 46 star apertures." Qin Yang said quickly, his eyes likewise filled with shock: "Incredible! Truly incredible. An Upper Astral Constellation is barely like this when first awakened."

Both of them clearly understood the significance of the number of star apertures.

Awakening a Star Phase essentially meant that the Star Phase projected onto the human body, opening the 'star apertures' within the human body so that Martial Artists could absorb the wandering Star Power in the heaven and earth starry sky through the star apertures.

Simply put,

the greater the number of star apertures born, the higher the Rank of the Star Phase, and the higher the efficiency of absorbing Star Power and refining the body. The number of star apertures represented talent.

The number of star apertures was not unchangeable.

The stronger the strength, the more star apertures of the human body would gradually open... But that was a matter for after becoming an Earth Martial Artist.

Before becoming an Earth Martial Artist, however many star apertures Martial Artists initially awakened, the number of star apertures basically would not change afterward.

Under normal circumstances,

those who awakened a lower astral constellation generally had fewer than 5 initial star apertures. Therefore, this type of Martial Artist had lower Star Power absorption efficiency and slow life level improvements. Without external force, it was not easy for their life level to reach Rank 20.

Those who awakened an Intermediate Astral Constellation generally had about 10 initial star apertures, rarely exceeding 15. Their Cultivation efficiency would be much higher, and the hope of becoming a Senior Martial Artist would greatly increase.

Those who awakened an Upper Astral Constellation generally had more than 40 initial star apertures. The Cultivation efficiency of this type of Martial Artist was naturally much higher than the previous two. Even without relying on any Heaven And Earth Treasures, becoming a Senior Martial Artist was very easy, and with just a little skill talent to assist in excavating bodily potential, they could reach Rank 39.

Some martial dao geniuses with astonishing Star Phase talents could have initial star apertures reaching 60 or even over 80, and their Star Power absorption efficiency was even more exaggerated.

And Fang Yu,

who had clearly awakened an Intermediate Astral Constellation, judging from the opened apertures... was definitely at the standard of an Upper Astral Constellation. This misalignment naturally puzzled Bai Chen and Qin Yang.

However!

No matter how puzzled they were in their hearts, it didn't prevent them from figuring out one thing.

"Fang Yu is about to soar to the skies." Bai Chen said with some emotion and a smile: "Micro-level Blade Technique represents astonishing skill talent, coupled with such a powerful Star Phase, he will soon become a student of the Earth Academy... His future is boundless."

"Even without Awakening a Star Phase in the past, his skills were already so strong. In the future, he will definitely be even stronger." Qin Yang rarely said a few extra words: "This kind of talent is much stronger than Xia Tao's."