Without hesitation, Ye Qiyan pulled the stopper from the bottle of [Sacred Honey Syrup].
A sweet fragrance washed over him, and a feeling of comfort welled up inside him, like being bathed in the warm midday sun in a world blanketed in snow and ice.
Though he had yet to drink it, he knew it would taste wonderful.
"What a shame. For something at level 10, I'll have to wait until my next self-Ascension before I can Ascend it."
He felt a little regretful, but that was all.
There was no reason to forgo improving himself now for the sake of an item's future.
What he needed was those 50 points of maximum Stamina.
Only with a higher maximum Stamina could he Ascend more items.
He drained the bottle in one gulp.
Warmth traveled down his throat.
Ye Qiyan felt his body heating up.
Wisps of sacred radiance swirled around him.
"So hot..."
The burning heat in his body made him instinctively undo his collar.
Lisette and Eve, who had been waiting quietly nearby, approached with concern and helped remove his increasingly sweat-soaked clothes, exposing his body directly to the air.
The source of this burning heat was the bottle of Sacred Honey Syrup Ye Qiyan had drunk, but it also came from the Astral Sacred Crest.
Blood seemed to flow through its golden-red, star-colored patterns.
A holy pattern appeared on his back, but before it could fully manifest, the Astral Sacred Crest pulled it in and devoured it until it had completely merged into the crest.
Afterward, a few faint traces of holy color appeared amid its golden red.
As Ye Qiyan's body temperature gradually dropped, he could clearly feel that the Astral Sacred Crest had actually grown stronger after he drank the Sacred Honey Syrup?
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