Sign-In System: Starting With Invincible Physique-Chapter 23: Essence Awakening Level 7

Chapter 23: Essence Awakening Level 7

Rhain stepped through the arched wooden gateway of his new courtyard.

The space was immaculate.

Smooth white stone tiles. A large bedroom which was spacious and elegantly decorated, with a comfortably soft bed.

A seperate room for the kitchen in the side.

There was even a small meditation room, for training and cultivation.

Rhain stood in the center of the courtyard and let his gaze travel slowly over every detail.

When he was satisfied, he moved to the meditation room.and sat down cross-legged on the polished wood, and closed his eyes.

It was time.

He delved into his consciousness, unlocking the flood of information the System had imprinted earlier.

Abyssal Sovereign Technique (First Form).

The knowledge unfolded in his mind with absolute clarity.

The sheer complexity of the technique was staggering.

It was as if an ancient, sentient library had opened its doors and poured its entire contents directly into his consciousness.

It was an Epic-Grade cultivation art, perfectly tailored to his unique physique.

The manual was vast, outlining the precise essence routing pathways for the first four major cultivation boundaries: Essence Awakening, Essence Condensation, Spirit Manifestation, and Core Formation.

Even Harmon Vael, the Sect Master of the Azure Cloud Sect, was only at the Spirit Manifestation Realm.

This technique paved a completely unobstructed path to a realm beyond anything this entire region had ever seen.

Rhain adjusted his breathing.

Without wasting another breath, he began to circulate the technique according to the profound routes of the Essence Awakening Realm.

He activated his dantian.

The void awoke.

But this time, it was different.

Guided by the Abyssal Sovereign Technique’s circulation route, he gentle, constant suction became a maelstrom.

The dark void in his dantian spun with a ferocious, insatiable hunger.

The Aetheric Essence in the courtyard was violently dragged towards his body.

The air rippled, distorting around his body as a visible vortex of dark energy formed.

His absorption rate, already terrifyingly fast, multiplied.

It was hundreds of times faster than what any ordinary disciple could achieve!

If the elders of the Azure Cloud Sect were to witness this scene, their jaws would absolutely drop to the floor in shock.

Rhain settled into the silence, as he cultivated, completely forgetting about the outside world.

.......

Five days passed.

Over these five days, Rhain’s life was incredibly monotonous.

He did not leave the courtyard. He barely moved from the meditation pavilion.

Aside from bitterly cultivating, he only paused his circulation for the System’s daily sign-ins.

The System remained as reliable and silent as ever.

Ding!

[Daily Sign-In Reward: Uncommon-Grade Essence Gathering Pill x1.]

[Daily Sign-In Reward: Uncommon-Grade Essence Gathering Pill x1.]

[Daily Sign-In Reward: Uncommon-Grade Mind Calming Pill x1.]

[Daily Sign-In Reward: Uncommon-Grade Blue Steel Sword x1.]

[Daily Sign-In Reward: Uncommon-Grade Essence Gathering Pill x1.]

Five days. Five sign-ins.

Not a single Common-Grade item.!

All of them were Uncommon-Grade.

Either his promotion to the Inner Sect and the denser ambient essence of the location had improved the prize pool, or the 7-day milestone had permanently elevated his baseline rewards.

Regardless, he accepted them with a smiling face.

During those five days, the courtyard doors opened only once.

Maren had come to visit him.

She talked for a while about his cultivation, and if he needed something. However, she didn’t answer clearly when he asked about Roderick.

It was cryptic message; the matter was resolved.

Regardless, it was enough to know. Rhain did not care about the details anyway.

Maren did not stay for long. She simply delivered him a bottle of Common-Grade Essence Pills, and ten Uncommon-Grade Essence Gathering Pills.

It was a fortune by the standards of the Azure Cloud Sect.

For instance, an Inner sect disciple only gets one common grade Essence Pill.

It was clear that Harmon was trying to nurture their new prodigy.

Rhain had accepted them politely.

But upon inspecting them later, his evaluation was ruthless.

Garbage.

Compared to the flawless, jade-green pills provided by the System, the sect’s pills were clouded, dull, and completely riddled with toxic impurities.

Consuming them required hours of careful refinement just to expel the waste products from the bloodstream.

To the Abyssal Sovereign Physique, they were practically useless.

It was the evening of the fifth day.

During this period of isolated training, Rhain consumed two of the System’s flawless Essence Gathering Pills.

Combined with the absorption rate of the Abyssal Sovereign Technique and five days of bitter, uninterrupted cultivation, a crisp crack finally echoed within his body.

He had successfully broken through to the seventh level of the Essence Awakening Realm!

Rhain slowly opened his eyes. He let out a long breath and subconsciously whispered.

The Abyssal Sovereign Physique is truly a bottomless pit...

Five days of uninterrupted, monstrous absorption. Two flawless Uncommon-Grade pills.

For any other genius in the Azure Cloud Sect, that sheer volume of concentrated energy would have easily pushed them straight through the ceiling of the Awakening realm and directly into Essence Condensation.

For Rhain, it barely filled the yawning void enough to cross a single minor boundary.

The exponential cost of the Sovereign-Grade physique was staggering.

But he didn’t care.

The resulting foundation was an unbreakable monolith.

He was at Level 7, but the density of his essence was so profound that even an Essence Condensation Realm would be crushed if they traded blows.

Rhain stood up.

His joints popped quietly. His body felt light, completely purged of fatigue.

He looked around the empty courtyard, feeling very bored.

"I should go out for a walk..." he soliloquized.

Rhain smoothed the front of his new inner disciple robes.

He hadn’t stepped outside since moving in.

Five days has passed, and Seris also has not come to visit him.

So, he decided to check himself.

She was the only person in this sect he actually cared to monitor.

...

The outer sect cafeteria was bustling with noise, filled with the murmurs of disciples eating their morning porridge.

However, at a corner table, a girl sat quietly by herself, her surroundings seemingly isolated from the noisy crowd.

It has already been five whole days...

Seris woodenly poked at the congee in her bowl with a pair of chopsticks, completely lacking any appetite.

She stared openly into space with a vacant gaze.

Ever since he was promoted to the Inner Sect, I have not seen him even once...

Is it because he is now an Inner Disciple?

And I am only an outer disciple at the second level of the Essence Awakening Realm...

She lightly bit her pink lips.

No! How could that be possible!

She shook her head, trying to dispel those dark thoughts.

Rhain was not that kind of person.

But the anxiety in her chest refused to settle.

Suddenly, the noisy murmurs of the cafeteria died.

All disciples in the cafeteria stopped their tasks as their eyes locked on a figure.

Seris blinked, pulled from her restless thoughts by the sudden silence.

She looked up.

And froze.

Walking through the double doors of the mess hall was a young man in deep purple robes.

Inner Disciple robes.

It was Rhain. But at the same time, it felt like looking at someone else entirely.

The purple robes fit him perfectly, highlighting a physique that had noticeably filled out and refined itself in just five days.

The lean, dense muscle forged by his terrifying cultivation speed was evident in the broadness of his shoulders and the effortless, confident grace of his stride.

How could he have changed so much in just a short span of five days?

Seris was left completely dumbfounded. Her pale violet eyes were wide, her chopsticks frozen halfway to her mouth.

Rhain walked unhurriedly, ignoring the countless gazes, and came straight to her table.

He looked at her dazed face and smiled, "Why are you looking at me with such a silly expression?"

"Ah! Rhain! You... You came!"

Seris instantly came back to her senses.

But then, a fierce flush of heat bloomed across her cheeks—whether from the sudden embarrassment of being caught staring, or the lingering anger of the past five days, she couldn’t tell.

She violently turned her head away, and curled her lips, "I don’t want to talk to you."

Rhain simply pulled out the bench and sat down directly across from her.

He rested his arms on the table, completely unbothered by the hundreds of eyes secretly watching them.

"And why is that?" he asked calmly.

Seris kept her eyes glued to the wall. "It’s been five whole days, and you did not come to see me even once."

Her voice was filled with resentment.

Rhain scratched his nose and explained with a bitter smile, "I was so lost in my cultivation these past few days that I completely forgot the time."

He paused, looking at her stubbornly turned profile.

"But if I didn’t come," Rhain continued, "you could have just come up to see me."

Seris snapped her head back to face him.

Hearing his words, Seris angrily tilted her head back to glare at him with her pale violet eyes.

"Y-y-you... How could I possibly come to see you!" she demanded, her voice rising just enough to make the eavesdropping disciples at the nearest tables flinch. "Outer disciples are not allowed to enter the Inner Sect! The guards would not allow me."

She pressed her pink lips together, and looked down at her cold congee.

"I’ve been coming to this cafeteria for every single meal for five days, because this is the only place where an outer disciple could see an Inner Disciple. But you did not even come to the cafeteria once!"

Rhain stared at her.

He was instantly defeated. He slapped his forehead as he finally realized the problem. "Ah... I actually completely forgot about that rule. It is my fault, I am really sorry."

Watching Rhain’s sincere apology, the heavy grievances that had built up in Seris’s heart over the past five days immediately melted away like snow under the morning sun.

Her beautiful eyes softening as she looked at his apologetic expression, "You... you really just forgot?"

"I truly forgot," Rhain said with a face full of earnest sincerity.

Seris let out a soft snort, and turned her nose up.

"Hmph! Then... you have to promise me! In the future, no matter how busy you are with your training, you absolutely cannot forget to come and see me! Otherwise... otherwise I will never talk to you again!"

Rhain looked at her funny expression, and forcefully suppressed a chuckle as he placed his hand upon hers and seriously spoke, "I promise."