Sign-In System: Starting With Invincible Physique

Chapter 59: Explosive Advancements

The liquid essence of the lake surged into Rhain’s body like a tempestuous storm.

The dark void within his dantian rotated madly, generating an irresistible vortex that attracted more and more of essence.

Liquid essence surged toward him from every direction, as if an invisible black hole had opened at the center of the pool.

Under this unimaginably massive influx of power, the barrier of the ninth level of the Essence Awakening Realm began to losen.

While Rhain was lost in his cultivation, inside the majestic grand hall, a scene of blatant looting was taking place.

"Piercing Water Sword Art... Rare-Grade."

"Earth Armour Technique... Rare-Grade!"

"A Rare-Grade weapon... My God!

"Take it all! Leave nothing behind!"

Their sect and family had fought bloody wars over a single rare-grade resource for decades.

Now, they were casually stuffing it in their spatial ring

After nearly an hour of thorough searching, the outer halls had been systematically emptied.

Every spatial ring among the group was filled to capacity with plundered resources.

Having utterly emptied the hall, the group practically scrambled back out the towering stone doors, their burning gazes locking onto the vibrant garden surrounding the shimmering lake.

"Careful! Be absolutely careful! Do not damage the roots!"

Every single herb planted in this garden was at least of the Uncommon-Grade, with many reaching the Rare-Grade.

To these elders, picking these herbs felt like holding fragile pieces of priceless treasures.

As they harvested the glowing plants, their gazes uncontrollably drifted toward the center of the shimmering liquid essence lake.

What they saw left them utterly spellbound.

The serene lake had been sharply divided into two extremes.

On one side, Rhain sat cross-legged like an immovable deity.

The liquid essence surrounding him had formed a pitch-black whirlpool.

On other side, a transcendent glacier of blue ice was rapidly expanding.

Seris’s delicate figure was enveloped in a dreamy silver-blue light, turning the liquid essence around her into sparkling ice.

"What kind of freaks are they..." Maren unconsciously let a few words escape her lips.

"The amount of essence Rhain is devouring... it would cause a peak Essence Condensation Realm expert to explode," Torin muttered. "But his body... it’s like a bottomless pit."

After a while, footsteps echoed from the entrance.

The dispatched members had returned, bringing Victor, Bria, Hale, and several other young disciples and low level elders from both factions.

When they saw the magnificent garden and the shimmering lake of pure essence, their breathing stagnated.

Maren immediately turned around.

"Don’t just stand there!" Maren ordered, pointing a finger at the shimmering water. "That lake is formed of pure liquid essence! Get in there and cultivate! This is the greatest fortune of your lives!"

Victor and the others didn’t dare to hesitate.

They jumped into the lake, carefully wading into the farthest corners, avoiding the pitch-black vortex and the freezing region of ice.

As soon as they sat cross-legged in the water, the overwhelmingly pure essence rushed into their bodies.

Less than an hour later.

An hour passed.

CRACK!

A crisp sound echoed from Victor’s body.

A dense, refined aura erupted from his frame.

Essence Condensation Realm—Level 1!

He had finally broken through!

Just moments later, another crack echoed.

Hale’s aura surged, a golden light wrapping around his body. He, too, had stepped into the Essence Condensation Realm!

Bria and the other disciples also made massive progress, their auras climbing to the absolute peak of the Awakening Realm.

But soon, their faces turned pale.

"I can’t... I can’t take it anymore!"

A disciple rushed out of the lake, collapsing onto the grassy bank, panting heavily.

The vast essence bloated his meridians to the breaking point.

Unable to endure the pressure, many of them scrambled out of the lake, gasping for air.

Victor, Hale, and Bria followed shortly after, sitting on the shore to stabilize their new realms.

They sat on the grass, looking back at the lake with awe.

They had barely lasted one hour.

Rhain and Seris had been in there for hours, and they were still absorbing the essence.

Time flowed silently.

Four hours later.

Suddenly, the temperature plummeted drastically.

All eyes snapped toward Seris.

She had just consumed her final Purple Striae Soul Fruit.

Behind Seris, the surrounding essence coalesced, forming a phantom image of a silver crescent moon.

The liquid lake beneath her instantly froze into blooming, crystalline lotus flowers made of pure ice.

"What’s going on?"

Everyone stared at the breathtaking scene with wide eyes.

Victor, and Hale were even more shocked, they did not have such vision when they broke through.

Crack!

The barrier shattered.

Seris’s aura erupted, sweeping across the garden.

She had finally stepped into the Essence Condensation Realm.

But before anyone could even congratulate her—

RUUUMBLE!!!!

The entire Hollow Realm trembled.

The pitch-black vortex surrounding Rhain abruptly collapsed inward, compressing into an infinitesimally small point before violently exploding outward!

The sky above them seemed to literally darken.

Everyone’s expression changed and they hastily retreated, forced away by a heavy, pressure that felt like an entire mountain range pressing down on their spines.

The Abyssal Sovereign Physique had reached its breaking point.

Rhain’s dantian expanded, the dark void tearing apart and reforming into a liquid ocean of pure darkness.

CRACK!

Essence Condensation Realm—Level 1!

It continued to rise, reaching all the way to the peak of Essence Condensation Realm, level 1.

Rhain slowly opened his dark grey eyes.

He stopped just a hair’s breadth away from the second level.

He was not satisfied.

Without any change in expression, Rhain reached into his robes and pulled out the small wooden box Dorris had given him.

He popped the latch, and the rich, overwhelming fragrance of the Rare-Grade Marrow Cleansing Pill wafted into the air.

Rhain simply tossed the ivory-white pill into his mouth and swallowed.

At that exact moment, a few dozen paces away, Seris’s delicate face turned slightly pale.

With Rhain unleashing his Physique for the next push, the gravitational pull of his dark essence became exceedingly berserk.

Combined with the fact that she had also reached her limit after hours of absorption, she could no longer endure it.

She gracefully stood up and lightly stepped off the frozen lotus flowers, walking onto the grassy shore.

Despite being in the essence pool for so long, her robes were entirely dry, repelling the liquid entirely.

In the center of the rapidly depleting pool, the Rare-Grade pill dissolved inside Rhain’s stomach.

CRACK!

Within less than five minutes, the first barrier shattered.

Essence Condensation Realm—Level 2!

But the essence contained in a Rare-Grade pill was not simple.

CRACK!

The dark aura pulsed once more before it finally settled into a state of perfect stillness.

Essence Condensation Realm—Level 3!

The berserk suction force suddenly vanished.

The pitch-black vortex that had dominated the center of the lake dissipated into nothingness.

Rhain slowly opened his dark grey eyes and stood up.

The Azure Cloud Sect and Graves family experts standing on the shore stared at Rhain unblinkingly.

Rhain calmly stepped out of the lake.

Despite just entering the first level of the Condensation Realm, the oppressive pressure naturally rolling off his body was shocking.

Even Level 8 and 9 experts like Noran and Torin felt an invisible weight pressing down on their chests just from standing near him.

Torin, Roderick, Maren, and others stepped forward to congratulate him one by one, with the looks of deep respect and awe.

Faced with the passionate congratulations and reverent gazes of the crowd, Rhain responded with polite smile.

Then walked straight toward Seris.

"Condensation Realm," Rhain said, his dark grey eyes softening slightly. "Not bad."

Hearing his praise, Seris’s delicate face bloomed into a dazzling, beautiful smile.

"It is all thanks to you, Rhain," she said softly, her pale purple eyes filled with deep gratitude.

Rhain simply swept his dark grey irises over the group.

"Are all the resources stored?" He asked.

"Yes!" Roderick nodded heavily, patting the spatial ring on his finger. "Our spatial rings are already packed to the brim."

When they thought about the hundreds of Rare garde martial arts, weapons, and herbs, their hearts accelerated like a horse galloping.

Their sect, and family was going to change entirely, and it was all thanks to the only one person, standing before their eyes.

Rhain.

They all looked at Rhain with venerating gazes as if they were looking at a god.