Rise Of The Infinite Sovereign-Chapter 417: Nascence

{Granting designation to the Universe Soul Space...}

{Designation granted}

{The Sovereign Universe is established}

{Calibrating Universe Functions...}

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Watching the notifications pop up one after the other, Ezra waited for it to be done, but nothing else popped up even after an hour.

’I don’t have time for this’

With other things to do, Ezra decided to ignore it for now, leaving Viprus to take note of the changes and repair it for him later.

Activating <Gatekeeper>, Ezra exited the Sovereign Universe to appear back in the secret realm.

Appearing in the Alchemist’s Tomb, he leisurely got into a lotus posture to begin cultivating.

Reminiscing about the past few hours spent with his mother, a smile lingered on his face.

Looking around at the wide expanse of bright green grass in every direction, Ezra inhaled and exhaled slowly.

’I’ll bring Frederick here once I become a Nascent and maybe Valentine as well’

He got right back to cultivating.

With the compilation of atmospheric energy, his special physique, Soul Concentration Pills, Energy Concentration, or rather Energy Gathering Pills, top tier Astral Elixir and Energy Purification Pills, Ezra’s cultivation speed as well as the purity of his energy was as good as could be.

His foremost objective was to breakthrough into the sixth rank.

’Let’s try breaking through in one go!’

Closing his eyes, Ezra ingested the pills one by one, placing himself in a state of utmost mental clarity as he began absorbing large amounts of energy.

He did it as an attempt to test his limits and he intended to stop the moment he felt any discomfort.

Going forward, it took a while, but Ezra eventually hit his limit.

With his limits established, he was able to mark a consistent amount of energy to absorb, which made his cultivation flow easier.

He also noted that his limit for energy absorption increased by a certain amount with every breakthrough.

It was impossible for him to absorb such a large amount of energy at his former ranks.

Like this, Ezra cultivated for an unknown amount of time.

Having refined his soul with origin energy, it was now almost fully refined into a gaseous state.

He could also feel another major advancement in soul refinement not far away, which would mark the entry to another stage, and a breakthrough into a minor realm.

Ezra couldn’t help but be excited, the sixth rank was right around the corner.

Onward!

After an unknown amount of time, his energy absorption hit a roadblock.

There was no more space in his soul to accommodate more energy.

This connoted that he had reached the limits of his current realm.

It was time for a breakthrough!

Taking a few seconds to calm himself, he began fusing the energy into his soul, refining it to a completely gaseous form to accommodate more energy.

This process could not be automated, it had to be done manually.

At this stage, rushing through breakthroughs was ill advised, it was much more preferred to take one’s time going through it slowly.

In this aspect, while Ezra didn’t feel like it, the speed of his refinement was definitely faster than most.

Already saturated with energy, the refining was smooth and straightforward, drastically reducing the needed time.

Threading his energy into his soul, he soon completed the refinement.

Upon completion, Ezra’s soul experienced a shift, expanding as much as possible as it transitioned into a fully gaseous state.

Like this, Ezra broke through to the sixth and final rank of Transcendence.

Immediately, he started feeling the changes.

His energy reserves experienced a drastic increase, and without testing it, he could also sense that his elemental affinities had also been substantially strengthened.

More time passed as he stabilized his cultivation.

Rather than opening his eyes and taking his time to examine the changes in his body, Ezra continued to cultivate.

Reaching rank six without pausing his cultivation gave him the confidence needed to try the same thing with breaking through to Nascence.

While it is an utterly absurd thought, there was no harm in trying.

Ezra continued his cultivation.

For one, just like how his energy reserves drastically increased, so did the amount needed to breakthrough, but Ezra was unfazed.

In order to break through to Nascence, one had to fill their gaseous souls with energy and then refine it into the ember of a star.

This increased one’s energy to the third level, Nova Essence, the essence of pure stars.

At the start of the sixth rank, Ezra took things slowly, grasping the little changes within himself.

Once he was confident in having grasped all the new changes in his body, Ezra stepped into high gear.

Accelerating, he confirmed that the limit of his energy absorption had marginally increased.

Time flew by as Ezra focused on cultivating.

His tongue soon grew tasteless as he continuously ingested pills, but Ezra refused to let up.

Stubbornly holding on, he continued to cultivate, unwilling to break out of his trance.

Perhaps because he hadn’t broken from his trance of cultivating, Ezra’s energy absorption was smoothly increasing and so was his cultivation.

There were no hiccups or bumps, just smooth progression.

At some point, even Ezra was unnerved by it, but decided to regard it as a positive factor and continued cultivating.

After who knew how long, his body had gone completely numb from sitting still and his tongue barely held any taste from continuously ingesting the same combination of pills.

Nearing the limits of his endurance, Ezra felt himself close upon the final quarter of the sixth rank.

The discovery shocked Ezra without him realizing it.

’How long have I been cultivating?’ he wondered.

Since the start of his cultivation marathon, this was the first time Ezra would have a deviating thought, but he quickly wiped it away, focusing on the fact that he was now close to the end of the realm.

This discovery motivated Ezra to muster up enough willpower to continue cultivating.

Alone in the expanse of his consciousness, time flowed by unceasing.

At one point, Ezra even tried calling upon Zydrax since he lay in his consciousness, but there was no response, so he gave up on doing that.

With that said, all Ezra could do...was to continue cultivating.

The only thing that kept him enduring was the fact that he was nearing a breakthrough...

And even that source of motivation soon died out as the distance between near completion and actual completion grew longer as time passed.

In the end, all Ezra had was his discipline holding him from halting his cultivation, and the fact that he could feel that he would surely regret it should he do such a thing.

He endured, and endured, and endured...until finally!

Through the endless droning task of cultivating, Ezra felt himself hit a wall! Origin energy could no longer be absorbed.

His mental activity that had been at a continuous low for who knew how long rose up to the peak as he sought to confirm what he hoped was the case.

Was he truly there? Has he truly reached realm completion?!

A short while later, Ezra was ecstatic and energized.

He had done it! He had really reached realm completion!

Jubilating for a while, he eventually calmed down.

It was time for the breakthrough he’d been seeking for so long.

The first step at this juncture was to gather both the soul and the accumulated energy together as a collective entity.

This process entailed no difficulty, but called for time and patience.

Having endured so much till the moment, this was a breeze for Ezra.

Then, one had to shape the collective, forcing the elements even tighter together.

Ezra got through this part easily as well.

After that, with the soul and energy held tightly to each other, one would then begin refining it all together with the energy of the consciousness to form something else entirely.

This process took much longer than the others.

Ezra was forced to contend with his massive soul as well as the massive amounts of Origin Energy he had accumulated, slowly refining them as one.

Moreover, he had to watch for mishaps, as they could make or break the stability of his soul at the Nascent-rank.

But compared to what he had already suffered to reach this point, this much was nothing.

Time passed with Ezra slowly refining them with his consciousness while taking breaks in between to recover, before going at it once again.

Going at it little by little, eventually, the last sliver of his soul was refined.

On cue, it let off a bright burst of light that forced Ezra to awaken.

His eyes opened wide as he beheld the changes happening to him.

Observing his refined soul, it began to let off a bright red light reminiscent of fire.

Ezra immediately understood what was happening.

’Soul Ignition’

It is a process where one’s soul would light up like a flame to complete the refinement process at the cusp of achieving Nascence, akin to the reshaping of metal with fire.

It is said to connote the power and potential of Nascent by how bright and deep the flame’s color is, as well as the size.

Right now, the fire igniting Ezra’s soul looked large and bright enough to light up a campfire, with a deep red teal that looked like it was taken out from a painting.

With the appearance of the flame, this process would lead to the completion of the soul refinement without the need for manual input, resulting in the creation of a star’s ember.

With this, Ezra officially stepped into the realm of the powerful.

The Nascent realm.