Roaming the Star Abyss, entering Variegated had unquestionably been Lu Ye's greatest stroke of fortune. Had he not been in Variegated, there was no way his strength could have risen so swiftly. He would likely have had to spend a great deal of time searching for targets from whom he could hunt Dao Bones.
But Variegated was different. Large and small war zones lay everywhere, with enemies all around.
Two hundred and one...
Two hundred and two...
Two hundred and ten Dao!
As his strength increased, tempering Dao Bones consumed ever more Dao Power. Now, even with Enlightenment Tea Leaves assisting him, tempering a single Dao Bone consumed more than ten thousand units of Dao Power.
He continued tempering.
Failure. The Dao Bone shattered, then re-formed.
Another failure...
Lu Ye remained utterly composed. Though every shattered Dao Bone brought unimaginable pain, his expression did not change in the slightest. He had gone through such ordeals far too many times.
An ordinary Dao Entrant only needed to temper five Dao Bones, yet the Dao Bones he had tempered now numbered over two hundred. How could the number of his failures be any less than ten thousand?
Failure...
Failure...
Still failure...
A day later, Lu Ye furrowed his brow slightly, sensing that something was amiss.
Based on his past experience, after every failure, the selected bone would swiftly re-form and become more solid than before, until eventually it could bear Dao Power and be successfully tempered.
But this time seemed different.
After the selected bone shattered and re-formed, it seemed to undergo no change at all. That was the fundamental reason he had failed repeatedly.
And for this one Dao Bone alone, he had already spent more than thirty thousand units of Dao Power.
Lu Ye stopped tempering the Dao Bone.