Rise Of The Infinite Sovereign-Chapter 433: Seed Formation Stage

Thinking, Ezra lures the crustacean to a slope and once it sent the razor arms after him, he releases a large amount of energy in the form in the form of lightning.

Augmenting his speed by coating himself in white lightning, Ezra rises above the spinning arms within the blink of an eye and strikes them down.

The razor arms had no choice but to scatter, impale themselves into the ground.

Just like this, Ezra turns the situation around, gaining a massive advantage.

Panicking, the crustacean tries halts its advance towards Ezra at once, and aims to create distance.

With his speed still bolstered by lightning, Ezra refuses the crustacean any leeway to wriggle out of the critical situation, charging towards it like a lightning bolt.

Regardless of the crustacean’s wishes, Ezra arrives in front it within five breaths and attacks, bringing down Skyfall on its head.

Not one to die peacefully, the crustacean utilizes its two remaining arms to parry the strike, and follows up with a counter strike, forcing Ezra to be on guard.

In such a small space, Ezra turns Skyfall into its twin swords form for more maneuverability.

Tussling in a one on one, Ezra covers the ground with ice to gain an advantage, but the crustacean simply pierces through the ice with its legs, stabilizing itself like a pole.

If anything, the frozen ground simply cut off its path of retreat as it would slip if he did, forcing the crustacean to stand and fight.

All of sudden, it superheats its skin, coating its entire body in blazing flames, burning the edges of Ezra’s clothes.

With nowhere to run, the crustacean increased the intensity of its attacks, getting a few wounds onto Ezra’s body, it was determined to end things here.

Nevertheless, Ezra refused to back down either, releasing waves of ice energy outwardly and onto Skyfall to counteract the flames.

All while still using lightning.

Sparks fly as man and beast clash weapons, a faceoff with at least fifty strikes each minute.

Holding his ground against the crustacean, Ezra gradually gains an edge over it as his speed plus the freezing effect forced the crustacean on the back foot of their exchange, cracking its shell in many places.

But using both lightning and ice so extravagantly rapidly used up his energy, so he needed to end things quickly.

Yet, Ezra couldn’t land the decisive blow thanks to crustacean’s nimble movements.

Feeling the difficulty, frustrates creeps into Ezra’s heart.

’Tch! It’s those damn eyes’ he thought, looking right at the two eyeballs moving like snakes, surveying his movements.

’How can I...?’

Brainstorming, the answer comes to Ezra.

’That will work...but I’ll only have one clear chance’

Putting his thoughts into motion, Ezra allows the crustacean a deep slash across his right arm.

Hissing in pain, Ezra suddenly swings the bleeding arm, tossing multiple droplets of blood into the crustacean’s line of sight.

Unsuspecting, the blood droplets successfully splatter onto the crustacean’s left eye.

Toxic as it was, the poison within Ezra’s blood isn’t lethal to such a creature, but it’s definitely strong to cause an itch.

In such a high speed battle, such sudden disruptions proved fatal.

The moment the itch kicked in, the crustacean staggering, faltering.

Ezra, expecting this outcome, transforms Skyfall into its scythe form and spins, slashing the socket line and thus cutting off the itching eye.

*Krrrrri!*

Registering the attack, the crustacean hurriedly backup, losing sight of Ezra-with the ice having melted thanks to its fire-and takes a defensive stance to protect its left eye.

Instead, one of its legs is hacked off with Ezra’s follow up strike, rendering it unbalanced.

The moment it wobbled, Ezra gave his final strike, an overhead swing.

He pierces the crustaceans head with Skyfall like a pickaxe digging into the earth, snuffing out its life in one go.

Instantly, the crustacean goes limp, its lively limbs swaying on the ground like reeds in the wind.

Huff. Huff. Huff

Gasping, Ezra nonchalantly drops Skyfall, dropping the crab’s corpse.

Cleaning his sweat, Ezra gazes at the crustacean’s corpse, his chest still heaving from exertion, before taking another look at the other beasts.

Like before, none of them had moved from their territory, much to Ezra’s relief.

But now, their gazes was focused on him.

Shrugging, Ezra takes a last look at the crustacean’s corpse as it dissipates into essence, leaving behind the familiar set of shards and a molten core for him to pick.

’That was difficult’ Ezra laments.

Taking his rewards without disturbances for the first time, Ezra rises, conceals himself and leaves for the sovereign universe, appearing on planet Ketta to continue cultivating.

With two molten cores and almost twenty shards in his grasp, Ezra now has more than enough nova essence to advance to the next stage.

And so, with a heart pounding from excitement, Ezra begins cultivating by grinding both molten cores at once.

While more molten cores would have little effect on his fire mastery or its potency, it should still result in some interesting effects.

Other than that, the nova essence is of a higher purity than the shards, so it took more time to completely grind it, to the point Ezra felt he should have waited to recover his strength before starting.

Anyway, he transfers the blood into his bloodstream, facing less resistance before initiating the blood storm and fully integrating the essence into his body.

As the volume of nova essence is higher than before, the process of integration is also longer, with very little steam rising from Ezra’s body throughout this entire process.

Upon achieving equilibrium, a red glow covers the surface of Ezra’s skin, causing his hair to rise, before receding moments later.

As it does, Ezra lets out a breath, opening his eyes to the world once more.

As the nova essence completed integration, Ezra instinctively felt that something.

He had reached the nova absorption limit of the current stage. Unless he advanced to the next stage, his body would not be able to store anymore nova essence.

Ezra grins. ’Good’

He planned to advance anyways, so this situation worked out in his favour.

But for one, he desperately needed to rest.

The earlier battle and the integration of two molten cores worth of essence had exhausted him both physically and mentally.

But rather sleep on dirt once again, Ezra teleports to his bedroom in the Niton royal castle and lays on his bed to sleep.

’How comfortable...

Compliment the change of environment, he falls into a blissful sleep within the span of a minute.

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Awaking hours later, Ezra sits up and simply observes, looking around his room for good while.

Feeling the bed sheet, Ezra notes a lack of dust-indicating that it had been cleaned no too long ago.

Ezra smiles as a result.

’Should I check on mom?’ Ezra contemplates. But shakes his head soon after, ’No, I’ll do that once the expedition is over. For now, I should focus on advancing’

Making his decision, Ezra teleports back to planet Ketta, where he finds the shards of nova essence lying on the ground.

Chuckling at his forgetfulness, Ezra takes a lotus posture and resumes cultivation.

Now well-rested and energized, Ezra initiates the process of advancement.

Pushing his concentration to the max, Ezra sets his attention on a section of his bloodstream, precisely his right arm.

For starters, he grabs the nova essence within each blood cell of a single finger, and pulls them out, extracting the nova essence into six tiny clusters.

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These seeds, now formed, are infused into the veins like how a dry cloth absorbs water to strengthen them.

The process of advancing into the seed formation stage is to simply infuse as many veins in the body with nova essence made into the shape of beads.

This infusion would result in the creation of ’Stellar Veins’, a pertinent trait that serves as a founding characteristics of a stellar body.

The second stage focuses on Vein fortification.

The shape of bead is used, because it allows for relatively equal distribution of nova essence across the entire body, else there will be an imbalance, which would negatively impact one’s cultivation going forward.

At the start, the process is tricky and tedious, but with Zydrax’s guidance, Ezra naturally gained proficiency in it, allowing for smoother and faster progress.

Completing the right arm took him almost an hour, he left arm took him just above thirty minutes and his pace only increased from there.

But like with the essence refinement, vein fortification ate up chunks of his mental energy, forcing him to rest after every two sections he completed with his head throbbing heavily from such heavy ordeal.

During this time, Ezra would do some natural meditation to recover his strength, taking an hour or more, before resuming cultivation.

But Ezra is unperturbed because Zydrax had clearly explained the difficulty to him before he even collected the first molten core.

So he embarks forward, persistent in his ways with only the goal in mind.

The average higher being would need three days to complete their vein fortification, but the hell Ezra endured in the secret realm, cultivating for six weeks with no end in sight while only chasing his goal had increased his mental strength and fortitude threefold.

Even if becoming the first fledging sovereign had put him in the exceptional category, his mental fortitude was still lacking.

But with that taken care of, Ezra had become a total enigma in regards to his peers.

An entirely different breed.

Even Zydrax can make a loose estimate on how fast he would rise and how strong he would become, because unlike others, his power grew not linearly, but exponentially, following an unpredictable pattern.

Which is why by the sixth hour mark, Ezra completed his vein fortification to no one’s surprise.

Officially becoming a second step nascent.