A Blessing in Disguise

Chapter 93

Under the Fifth Elder's pressure, only about half a minute had passed before beads of sweat appeared on Ye Yun's forehead and slid down his face.

By then, more than half the true qi in his body had been depleted. Every part of his body felt numb and weak, as though he would be unable to hold on the next moment.

The only thing left in Ye Yun's heart was the unyielding belief that he refused to lose, and it supported him as he endured.

Time passed second by second. Every second felt like a year to him.

Finally, just as his true qi was about to be completely exhausted, the minute was up. The Fifth Elder promptly withdrew the pressure enveloping him.

In an instant, Ye Yun felt his entire body lighten. He collapsed to the ground at once, waves of emptiness surging through him.

That one minute might have seemed very short to others, but to him, it had felt incomparably long.

"Kid Ye, I really couldn't tell! You've got some real skill. You actually endured a full minute under my pressure." Looking at Ye Yun collapsed on the ground, a trace of admiration flashed through the Fifth Elder's eyes.

One had to know that the pressure he had released just now was no less than facing an Early True Essence Realm martial artist head-on.

Once a martial artist reached the True Essence Realm, the division of realms became vastly different from that of the Qi Refining Realm.

The True Essence Realm was divided into four minor stages: early, middle, late, and completion.

The difference in strength between each stage was as vast as heaven and earth. The Fifth Elder was a Late True Essence Realm martial artist, and even if he had released only half