The Lineage's ancestral grounds were indeed an unfamiliar place to Wei Yi.
The previous "Wei Yi" had never been here either.
In fact, ordinary members of the Wei Lineage only had one chance to enter this place to cultivate unless they rendered an extraordinary service.
Feeling the dense Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi drifting through the space, Wei Yi could not help marveling. These ancestral grounds truly were an excellent place to cultivate. Unfortunately, he only had three days.
If someone could cultivate in this environment for two or three months, even a person with the poorest aptitude would definitely see a substantial increase in cultivation.
"Forget it. I'd better make the most of my time and cultivate."
Wei Yi paid no attention to the others.
He planned to find a suitable place to sit down and begin cultivating.
At that moment, however, Wei Yuan came up to him, stared at him coldly, and declared, enunciating every word, "Wei Yi, I won't lose to you."
Wei Yi froze for a moment.
Then he nodded. "Oh, I know."
And that was that...
Seeing Wei Yi's dismissive attitude, Wei Yuan could not help gritting his teeth and clenching both fists, his face filled with humiliation and anger. He wanted nothing more than to give Wei Yi a vicious beating on the spot. Fortunately, he had not lost his reason.
Leaving aside whether fighting was even allowed here, if they really came to blows, he himself would most likely be the one getting beaten.
"I will defeat you! Just you wait!"
Leaving those words behind, Wei Yuan immediately turned and left.
It was as though he feared Wei Yi would humiliate him again if he stayed a moment longer.
"Still just a child."
Watching his retreating figure storm away, Wei Yi could not help shaking his head with a chuckle.
Without taking the matter with Wei Yuan to heart, Wei Yi found a place to sit down.
He immediately began circulating the Purple Cloud Manual.
The powerful effects of a middle-grade profound-tier cultivation technique soon became apparent.
The surrounding Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi was instantly absorbed, while Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi from elsewhere surged toward him with incredible speed.
Within moments, Wei Yi was completely enveloped in a thick layer of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi.
At the same time, the game system's notifications kept ringing out.
"Ding! Player Wei Yi absorbed a wisp of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi. Cultivation EXP +10." "Ding! Player Wei Yi absorbed a wisp of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi. Cultivation EXP +9." "Ding! Player Wei Yi absorbed a wisp of soul essence power. Bloodline EXP +10." "Ding! Player Wei Yi absorbed a wisp of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi. Cultivation EXP +12."
These figures alone showed that cultivating here was far more effective than cultivating outside.
When cultivating outside, absorbing a wisp of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi generally only added three or four EXP, but here it added around ten.
And the frequency was much higher too.
By Wei Yi's estimate, cultivating here was roughly ten times as effective as cultivating outside.
That was undoubtedly an astonishing figure.
In other words, cultivating here for three days was equivalent to cultivating outside for thirty days-and thirty days without any rest or a single minute wasted at that.
He could well imagine that once these three days were over, his cultivation would definitely improve considerably.
But compared with the growth in his cultivation, Wei Yi was happier about absorbing soul essence power and gaining bloodline EXP.
Although his bloodline EXP increased much more slowly than his cultivation EXP, with every increase, Wei Yi could clearly feel his bloodline power growing stronger.
Time passed like this without anyone noticing.
All twenty-one Wei Lineage disciples were absorbed in cultivation.
Neither Wei Yuan nor Wei Wu, Wei Hong, and the others came to trouble Wei Yi.
They were no fools. They all knew how precious their time was now. Besides, the competition for the young master's position was already over, so troubling Wei Yi further would serve no purpose.
Seizing every minute and every second, everyone did their utmost to improve their strength.
Suddenly, a strange rhythmic vibration rippled through the Lineage's ancestral grounds.
Hum...
Ripples enveloped the entire space and spread toward the area beyond the ancestral grounds.
Wei Tianyang, who sat outside the ancestral grounds resting with his eyes closed, noticed first. His eyes snapped open, and an incredibly dazzling gleam burst from his dark pupils.
Immediately afterward, the three great elders opened their eyes one after another.
They were the Wei Clan's strongest experts after Wei Tianyang, and they too soon detected the unusual disturbance within the ancestral grounds.
"What happened?"
"I just felt a presence that made my heart tremble. What was it?"
The dozen or so remaining Wei Clan martial artists also sensed something and could not help speaking up.
Wei Tianyang and the three great elders, however, said nothing. They stared fixedly at the ancestral grounds, sensing the source of that mysterious presence.
Meanwhile, inside the ancestral grounds, the bloodline power within Wei Yi began surging uncontrollably.
A mysterious runic totem appeared.
It enveloped Wei Yi completely, more powerful and terrifying than ever before, as though he had donned a suit of bronze armor.
It caused the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi throughout the space to tremble violently. The other twenty Wei Lineage disciples woke one after another, unable to hide the shock in their eyes as they all turned toward Wei Yi.
Wei Yi himself, however, remained wholly immersed in cultivation.
"Ding! Player Wei Yi's bronze bloodline EXP is full. Automatically advancing to silver bloodline."
The system notification rang out.
Wei Yi clearly felt the bloodline hidden within his body immediately begin to boil and burn, far more intensely than during its first awakening. His entire body seemed to catch fire. The mysterious runic totem flashed with an incredibly dazzling light, illuminating the entire ancestral grounds. At its center, Wei Yi stood lofty and beyond reach, like the central existence itself.
At the sight, Wei Yuan and the others could not help widening their eyes and drawing in sharp breaths.
Suddenly, there was a boom.
That terrifying presence erupted in full.
The bronze light instantly transformed into a silver radiance.
The bronze armor that had enveloped Wei Yi's body also transformed into silver armor.
The bloodline power Wei Yi wielded increased severalfold at once.
A terrifying presence shot into the sky. Even the restrictions on the ancestral grounds could not stop it. The air currents above the entire Wei Lineage churned in response. For a time, the winds and clouds shifted, and a phenomenon manifested between heaven and earth. Wei Tianyang and the others waiting outside could not help being shocked.
"A phenomenon of heaven and earth."
"A bloodline awakening! It's a silver bloodline!"
"Someone in our Wei Lineage has finally awakened a silver bloodline again!"
Everyone could not help cheering.
Although experts who had awakened gold bloodlines had once appeared among the Wei Lineage's ancestors, that had been during its greatest heyday. Afterward, even bronze bloodlines had become uncommon, let alone silver bloodlines.
Take Wei Tianyang, for example. He had actually only awakened a Bronze-Rank Bloodline, but his powerful cultivation made his bloodline power stronger, which was why he could easily suppress Wei Yi.
Now that Wei Yi's bloodline had evolved into a silver bloodline, suppressing him again would no longer be so simple.
That was because a silver bloodline could innately suppress a bronze bloodline.
"It's Wei Yi."
"To think it's him."
"It really is a Silver-Rank Bloodline."
Everyone opened the entrance to the ancestral grounds. Seeing the situation inside, their gazes immediately converged on Wei Yi, each wearing a different expression.
Even the ever-composed Wei Tianyang could not help clapping his hands and laughing.
"Good lad! You truly haven't disappointed me."