Chapter 2576: Chapter 2576: Heavenly Veins Transformation

"Haha... then thank you."

Upon hearing Liam King’s words, Ace Fenning’s eyes suddenly lit up.

You must know that both he and Liam King had only just ascended to the ’Spiritual Heaven’, a realm among these heavenly planes, mere thousands of years ago.

Without any background or supporters, they remain at the lowest level of Spiritual Heaven.

Now things are slightly better, but they can only show off their superiority in front of some ascenders who had just ascended or not long ago ascended.

In ’Spiritual Heaven’, if you don’t have any background or backing, the only way to change your fate and climb higher is to rely on yourself.

Whether in Spiritual Heaven or other heavenly planes, strength speaks the loudest, and respect the powerful!

In front of the strong, the weak are like ants!

Under such circumstances, they try to utilize all available time for cultivation, hoping to improve their power as soon as possible.

Only with further improvement in their strength can their status in Spiritual Heaven correspondingly improve, allowing them to overlook more people.

Instead of only being able to overlook some ascenders who have just ascended to Spiritual Heaven or not long ago ascended.

"And you... thanks. If it weren’t for you, Liam King wouldn’t have taken the initiative to ask me to switch shifts."

After casually thanking Liam King, Ace Fenning glanced at Wyatt Barnes, gave a faint smile, and left with a group of ascenders who had just left the Ascension Pool and surrounded Liam King.

After Ace Fenning and his companions left, the Ascension Pool, about the size of a football field, contained a group of ascenders who had not yet become ’Heavenly Immortals’ or regained consciousness, leaving only Wyatt Barnes and Liam King as the two conscious individuals.

"Since you want to wait... then take your time."

Wyatt Barnes casually glanced at Liam King, whose eyes were filled with fury towards him, and said lightly.

After speaking, Wyatt completely ignored the further rising anger in Liam King’s eyes, closed his own eyes, and felt the gentle energy contained in the waters of the Ascension Pool...

It was a force similar to Immortal Origin but very different from it, touching his body and giving him a very warm feeling.

Just like soaking in a hot spring.

"Since Uncle Ernest specially reminded me to not rush to leave the Ascension Pool after ascending to the heavenly planes and to refine the ninety-nine Heavenly Veins in the pool as much as possible... it must be greatly beneficial for me."

Although he had only met Ernest Summer once and was not familiar with him. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

But because Ernest was his wife Keer’s uncle and had saved his life, Wyatt didn’t doubt the truth of Ernest’s advice.

"But... how should the Heavenly Veins be refined?"

"Could it be that absorbing the strength of the Ascension Pool, letting it merge into my body, while circulating it through my ninety-nine Heavenly Veins, will refine them?"

Without hesitation, Wyatt Barnes immediately opened his mind and body to absorb the gentle currents of power from the Ascension Pool, letting them flow through his ninety-nine Heavenly Veins.

"Hmm?"

However, even slowing down the circulation on purpose, Wyatt noticed no refining effect on his ninety-nine Heavenly Veins from the pool’s power.

Half an hour passed without any effect.

"What’s going on? Why is there no effect at all?"

"Could Uncle Ernest be deceiving me?"

After an hour, Wyatt opened his eyes, feeling puzzled.

At this moment, the surrounding group of ascenders still hadn’t become ’Heavenly Immortals’, so they hadn’t regained consciousness either.

In the cleared state, only him and that silver-armored youth by the edge of the Ascension Pool, Liam King, remained.

As soon as Wyatt opened his eyes, he found Liam King staring at him with a cold, murderous look, as if wanting to tear him apart!

However, Wyatt just glanced at him indifferently, then refocused his attention entirely on his ninety-nine Saint Veins...

"Logically... Uncle Ernest had no need or reason to lie to me."

Wyatt smiled wryly.

"That’s it!"

Suddenly, as if remembering something, Wyatt’s eyes lit up, "I might... try using the Divine Ability ’Minor Devouring Technique’ to devour the power within the Ascension Pool."

"By using the Minor Devouring Technique, my absorption rate of the pool’s power will become astonishing... perhaps under such circumstances, the pool’s strength could refine my ninety-nine Saint Veins."

With this idea in mind, Wyatt closed his eyes again and directly performed the auxiliary Divine Ability ’Minor Devouring Technique’.

A black vortex appeared, aligning with his body.

Because his body was surrounded by white mist in the Ascension Pool, Liam King standing at the edge didn’t notice anything unusual.

But Liam King soon frowned.

Because he clearly saw:

The white mist from the Ascension Pool around the purple-clothed ascender he loathed began to ripple and then swirl, almost completely obscuring the figure of the purple-clothed ascender.

"What is he doing?!"

Liam King’s face darkened, yet he couldn’t see what Wyatt Barnes was doing, and his heart grew increasingly irritable.

"Haha... it actually works!"

At this moment, Wyatt Barnes, who had unleashed the ’Minor Devouring Technique,’ quickly discovered:

The forces he absorbed into his body from the Ascension Pool, through the Minor Devouring Technique, surged numbly through his ninety-nine heavenly veins, completely out of control, bringing great pressure to his heavenly veins.

Under such pressure, the ninety-nine heavenly veins continually tore and healed...

In this manner, the cycle kept repeating.

During this process, Wyatt Barnes personally experienced the piercing pain, as if each tear in a heavenly vein was a knife cutting into his internal organs, and he could only silently endure the agony.

However, as the heavenly veins tore and healed continuously, they became increasingly resilient.

It proved that Wyatt Barnes’ approach was effective.

The ninety-nine heavenly veins in his body under his relentless forging continued to transform...

Over time, they underwent a transformation akin to a phoenix’s rebirth!

Wyatt Barnes was wholly absorbed in the forging of the ninety-nine heavenly veins within him, yet was completely unaware that:

Around him, as time passed, batches of ascenders were appearing.

Of course, these ascenders were newly arrived and had yet to achieve ’Heavenly Immortal,’ thus were in a similar state of unconsciousness.

It was not just that.

Even the ascenders who should have awakened as ’Heavenly Immortals’ after ascending to this ’Spiritual Heaven’ have shown no signs of awakening up to this moment.

At some point, beside the Ascension Pool, those clad in silver armor were no longer only Liam King.

Beside Liam, three others in silver armor appeared: a middle-aged man and two young men...

Currently, these three were baffled, looking at the large group inside the Ascension Pool.

"What’s... what’s going on?"

"Usually, at this time, there should already have been three batches of ascenders successfully achieving ’Heavenly Immortal,’ and awakening... but now, there’s no sign of any awakening among the four batches gathered together!"

"Liam King... who exactly is the ascender entangled in the constantly spinning white fog? I feel... that it’s related to the lack of awakening of the three batches that should have already achieved ’Heavenly Immortal.’"

...

The silver-armored middle-aged man and the other two silver-armored youths focused their gaze on Liam King, eyes uniformly filled with confusion.

They had been there for a while, also knew why Liam King remained.

"You’re overthinking it... could a newly ascended like him possibly affect other ascenders’ achievement of ’Heavenly Immortal’?"

Liam King looked at the indistinct purple figure wrapped in the constantly spinning white fog, showing a disdainful expression.

"Logically, that’s true... but how does one explain this situation?"

"I really don’t think it’s a coincidence."

"Unfortunately, Divine Sense can’t probe the situation inside the Ascension Pool... otherwise, we’d use Divine Sense to determine if this purple-clad ascender is causing trouble."

...

Listening to Liam King, the silver-armored middle-aged man and the other two silver-armored youths couldn’t help but furrow their brows.

Wyatt Barnes knew nothing about the outside situation.

Right now, he is still unaware that by using the Divine Ability ’Minor Devouring Technique’ to nearly plunder the Ascension Pool’s energy, he drastically affected the surrounding ascenders’ achievement of ’Heavenly Immortal’.

The energy in the Ascension Pool, though constantly gestating, was completely seized by him as soon as it emerged.

In this situation, the surrounding ascenders got nothing.

Until Wyatt Barnes noticed:

The ninety-nine heavenly veins within his body stopped getting injured, only then did he open his eyes, his face blooming with a radiant smile...

"My ninety-nine heavenly veins are already incomparable to when I first ascended to this Spiritual Heaven!"

At this moment, Wyatt Barnes clearly sensed the transformation within his heavenly veins.

Now, not only have his heavenly veins become resilient, their width has also expanded significantly...

If his original Saint Vein was as thin as a small snake, now each one of his Saint Veins is as thick as a python.

Completely incomparable!

As Wyatt Barnes was delighted by the transformation of his ninety-nine heavenly veins, he ceased the Minor Devouring Technique; the white fog surrounding him gradually dissipated, revealing his form entirely.

"Hmm?"

Suddenly, Wyatt Barnes noticed several sharp eyes fixated on him.