Day after day, night after night…seven days passed in the blink of an eye!
Dawn. The appointed day. Bai Yunfei once more awoke from his stupor. After mentally adjusting himself, he glanced at the skies outside, then lowered his head. He raised his right hand, clenching it strongly, then shut his eyes again, carefully sensing things.
A moment later, Bai Yunfei once more opened his eyes, a hint of surprise in them. But then, he frowned once more, a look of worry appearing.
“I need just a bit more. I can sense that with just a bit more, I’ll enter the Soul Sprite stage! But I’m caught at this critical juncture…will I have enough time?” Thoughts flashed through Bai Yunfei’s eyes as he considered the current situation. “Most importantly of all…at the Soul Sprite stage, for my soul’s elemental attribute, I’ve already decided to choose fire, but if something changes…”
“Still, the next stage is right before me. If I stop now and fight Zhang Zhenshan as a late-stage Soul Warrior…” Bai Yunfei’s frown grew even deeper was he mentally struggled with what to do. Moments later, a vicious look on his face, he revealed a hint of determination and madness in his eyes. “If I’m going to do it, then I’m going to do it all the way! I made my decision seven days ago; how can I shirk back at the final instant! I have a few more hours before the afternoon…I can do this!”
Waving his wrist, he pulled out a long saber, swept it with his gaze, then murmured softly to himself, “Upgrade!”
In an incomparably practiced manner, he spent tens of minutes upgrading items before finally exhausting his soulforce and passing out on his bed.
The sun slowly rose. Hints of sunlight seeped through his thin window screen, shining into his room. One hour. Two hours…
Slowly, the little room seemed to begin to change slightly.
Bai Yunfei still seemed to be asleep on the bed. His breathing was regular, and there was nothing strange about it. Then…what was different?
As time flowed on, the difference in the room became more and more apparent…it was the light!
Under the bright light of the sun, the room should have been illuminated already. But at some point in time, a faint red light stealthily appeared, growing increasingly apparent. It slowly deepened into a crimson color, and then other colors slowly began to emerge as well. The colors appeared out of nowhere, increasing in number and richness. Towards the end, the entire room had transformed into a rainbow color…and then the light slowly began to flow about. Moments later, all of the light focused in one region; the region around Bai Yunfei!
After spending some time swirling around and ‘inspecting’ Bai Yunfei, finally a hint of crimson light slowly left the ‘squad’ of light and gracefully flew towards his chest, then slowly merged into his body.