Being a Saint since the Age of Myth

At the same time, she finally understood why Wuxin gave her a feeling comparable to a Gold Saint.

Because he was a potential Gold Saint in the making!

Then she smiled and said to Hakurei, "Even if he cannot pass the trial, please teach him well, Mr. Hakurei. Don't let his talent go to waste."

"When the time is right, let him return to Sanctuary and obtain a Cloth of his own!"

"Yes, Lady Sasha!"

Hakurei agreed at once without declining.

Having witnessed Wuxin's talent, he would have taught him seriously even without Sasha's reminder.

Of course, that sort of instruction was still very different from taking him as a personal disciple.

Meanwhile, Wuxin followed the path down the cliff.

Only then did he finally have time to test the results of his training.

After repeated attempts, he discovered that the limit of burning his Cosmo was activating a small stellar system.

Compared to his entire Cosmo, this was merely a drop in the ocean, hardly worth mentioning.

But even so, the power he could unleash by burning his Cosmo far exceeded his former strength. The difference was like heaven and earth.

Spotting a boulder over two meters tall nearby, Wuxin had an idea. "I'll use that to test my results!"

He stopped in front of the boulder and took a deep breath. Then he clenched his fist and burned his Cosmo, drawing out a powerful surge of Cosmo energy that gathered around his knuckles.

As the Cosmo energy continued to gather, a terrifying fluctuation spread outward from his fist.

"Mm, that should do it!"

Sensing that the accumulated power had reached the limit of what he could control, Wuxin stopped gathering energy and threw a punch at the boulder before him.

Bang!

As his punch landed, powerful Cosmo energy erupted from the point of impact, and visible cracks instantly spread across the entire stone surface.

Boom!

Before Wuxin could examine it further, the entire boulder shattered with a crash. Countless fragments shot in every direction, knocking loose quite a few rocks from the nearby cliff as well.

"Oh no, it's going to collapse!"

Seeing a section of the cliff above begin to shake, Wuxin was startled and immediately took off running.

Rumble!

Before he could get far, a large section of the cliff above collapsed. Like the heavens falling, it crushed everything in its path, unstoppable.

At the sight, Wuxin dared not slow down and ran even faster.

Fortunately, he had already learned to burn his Cosmo. Using its power to boost his bursts of strength, he increased his speed to an incredible level and finally escaped before the landslide could bury him.

Only after he was completely out of danger did he have time to look back at the collapsed area.

The spot where he had just conducted his experiment, along with nearly ten meters around it, had been completely buried by the landslide.

"That was close!"

"Looks like I still underestimated my current strength."

"Once I reach the bottom of the cliff, I'll have to get properly acquainted with my strength. I can't let another blunder like that happen!" Still shaken, he wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

For the rest of the journey, Wuxin no longer rashly tested his Cosmo's destructive power. He only used it to enhance his bursts of strength as he traveled, immediately increasing his speed more than tenfold.

In fact, by using bursts of Cosmo energy, he could easily leap over ten meters at a time, and even treacherous terrain could hardly obstruct him anymore.

A journey that would originally have taken several days took him less than half a day, and he reached the bottom of the cliff.

The mountains blocked the light, leaving the bottom of the cliff dim, but Wuxin still clearly saw the thick layer of white bones covering the ground.

Strangely, though, the bones were piled in an uncanny heap directly beneath the cliff, while very few could be seen elsewhere.

"Something's wrong!"

Wuxin immediately sensed something unusual about the accumulation of remains.

But he soon realized that these must have been enemies who had invaded Jamir. After Hakurei and the others killed them, their bodies had been thrown down from above, causing the remains to pile up in one place.

Aside from that, he also noticed that the air in this area seemed somewhat foul, containing something strange that he could neither describe nor explain.

There were even a few eerie blue flames floating at the very center of the pile of bones.

"Phosphorescent flames?"

He recognized them at a glance. They were the same things he had seen earlier from atop the cliff.

"Phosphorescent flames igniting on their own mean there's plenty of corpse qi here."

"Looks like I'd better stay as far away from here as possible until I can control my Cosmo energy proficiently!" Wuxin backed away, his brow furrowing.

He was not very familiar with controlling Cosmo energy, yet his innate talent happened to be closely aligned with the power of death. If he rashly used Cosmo energy in a place with such dense corpse qi, he feared he would instantly create a vast expanse of phosphorescent flames.

When that happened, he feared he would be in danger himself.

He retreated nearly a hundred meters in one go, stopping only after he was well away from the Land of White Bones. Only then did Wuxin stop.

"Controlling the remains will have to wait. I'll need to think it through slowly."

"Right now, my most urgent task should be to become proficient at controlling my own Cosmo energy first!"

"That's the foundation. I absolutely can't cut corners!"

With a clear plan in mind, Wuxin used the rocks on the surrounding flat ground to slowly test his strength while also becoming proficient at controlling his Cosmo energy.

Chapter 14: Applying attributes

After three days of experimentation, Wuxin finally achieved a basic command of Cosmo energy and could send it shooting out as fist radiance.

More importantly, by using Cosmo energy to enhance his bursts of power, his fist radiance had also reached the speed of sound.

This was an extremely important threshold, as well as the basic measure of combat strength for the Sixth Sense, Manas.

At this point, his combat strength had undergone a qualitative transformation, reaching a supernatural realm where even catching bullets barehanded was no problem.

After all, among modern firearms, most bullets traveled at only around twice the speed of sound, and even the fastest did not exceed ten times the speed of sound.

Yet in this world of myth, the speed of sound was only the basic measure of Sixth Sense combat strength.

That was because even among those with the Sixth Sense, combat strength could differ as greatly as heaven and earth.

If speed were used as the yardstick, the lower limit of the Sixth Sense was the basic speed of sound, while its upper limit was infinitely close to the speed of light.

The speed of light was a very special benchmark, so the Sixth Sense could only approach it infinitely without attaining it. That was a realm only the Seventh Sense could reach.

But if the speed of light was merely mentioned, most people knew it was fast without knowing exactly how fast, or how great the gap between it and the speed of sound was.

In fact, the numerical value of the speed of light was approximately three hundred million meters per second, while the speed of sound was a mere three hundred and forty meters per second-a difference of more than eight hundred and eighty thousand times.

It was precisely this enormous numerical difference that created such a vast disparity in combat strength among those with the Sixth Sense.

Just imagine: how could someone with the Sixth Sense who had only just reached the speed of sound have any room to fight back against someone with the Sixth Sense whose speed was infinitely close to light? They could only take a one-sided beating.

More importantly, speed could also greatly enhance a Saint's combat strength.

Analyzed according to the principles of mechanics, the destructive power of Wuxin's punch was almost equivalent to momentum, and momentum was the product of mass and velocity. The greater the speed, the greater the momentum.

One could imagine just how terrifying the destructive power of those Gold Saints who possessed light speed was.

Tearing apart the earth and sky with their fists was no exaggerated legend!

Now, Wuxin had crossed that threshold called the supernatural and gained the possibility of becoming a legend.

"Now, it's time!"

Looking toward the Land of White Bones beneath the cliff, Wuxin dispersed the Cosmo energy in his hand and strode over.

For some reason, he had a strange sense of familiarity with Cosmo energy.

It was precisely by following the guidance of that strange familiarity that he had managed to control Cosmo energy as naturally as his own limbs in just three short days.

"Could I have encountered Cosmo energy before, or even mastered it?" He arrived at a bold conjecture.

He had absolutely no recollection of himself, so this conjecture was not impossible.

"Maybe my lost memories have something to do with Cosmo energy too!" He reached a further judgment.

Much of his memory was missing, but what was missing was precisely everything related to himself, while things unrelated to him remained perfectly intact.

Such a targeted problem was clearly someone's doing.

However, his missing memories also made it difficult for Wuxin to deduce any further useful, concrete information, as though an abyss had cut off the road ahead.

"Forget it. There'll always be opportunities to slowly get to the bottom of this!" Unable to figure it out, he could only choose to set it aside for now.

With his current strength, he was not yet qualified to investigate that.

But now that he had mastered Cosmo energy and entered the supernatural realm, he believed that as long as he kept working hard and growing stronger, he would one day solve the mysteries surrounding himself.

Before long, he reached the outskirts of the Land of White Bones.

"My Cosmo energy will ignite the phosphine in the air. For now, I'd better not go too far in!" He stopped.

Then he opened his right hand, burned his Cosmo, and tentatively manifested a wisp of Cosmo energy in his right palm.

The instant that cold, sinister wisp of Cosmo energy manifested, several eerie blue phosphorescent flames lit up beside him and rapidly spread outward.

"Just as I thought!"

Wuxin could not help furrowing his brow at the sight.

His Cosmo energy had an extremely high affinity with the death attribute, so it could easily ignite the phosphine in the air.

It was fortunate that he had had the foresight not to venture rashly into the Land of White Bones. Otherwise, he would probably have already been engulfed by dense phosphorescent flames.

"Looks like before trying to control the remains, I should first learn to rein in my power further and reduce its interference with my surroundings!" Wuxin immediately formed a plan, dispersed the Cosmo energy in his palm, and retreated.

Without the interference of his Cosmo energy, no new phosphorescent flames ignited nearby, and the expanding sea of fire abruptly stopped.

Watching the eerie blue flames ahead slowly die out, Wuxin analyzed, "My Cosmo energy's interference with phosphine mainly comes down to two aspects."

"One is the spread of energy fluctuations. The other is the effect the energy's own attribute has on its surroundings."

The spread of energy was easy to understand. Like the sun in the sky, even though it did not approach the ground, its own energy still radiated in the form of sunlight and affected the ground.