Paragon of Sin

into two separate crystals with a thought.
With no obstacles to speak of, the young woman could only gawk in surprise as he passed her.

In a few breaths of time, he arrived at the 158th step while the young woman was still on the 112th step, having already halted her movements as her mouth was agape with shock and utter disbelief.
The others below felt something strange course through the air.
They looked up to see the tall, imposing backside of Wei Wuyin ’s figure as he stood upright on the last step.

”… ” There was silence throughout.
Even the crowd went completely quiet, not a single whisper or murmur.
The abrupt event left many unsure how to react.
Their gazes fixed on Wei Wuyin ’s lone figure as he stood on that last step.

Wei Wuyin didn ’t mind the attention, keeping the crystals filled with elemental energies and desolate power.
He lifted his gaze to see the hooded figures all staring at him, especially the blind woman whose gaze was a little odd.
But when he saw her beautiful face up close, he couldn ’t help but find her quite pleasing to look at.

The blind woman gathered her bearings first, speaking to Wei Wuyin but her voice rumbled through True Desolate.
”Young One, you have ascended the stairs, come to receive your Demi-Mortal Blessing and the right to become a Holy Child! ” Her words were filled with a holy flavor as if she was bestowing Wei Wuyin a divine right.

Wei Wuyin faintly smiled, taking the final step and arriving at the edge of the mountain alongside the dozens of hooded figures.
He felt their gazes on him, but not a single one used any of their spiritual sense or an ocular spiritual sense to inspect him.
The lack of invasive actions made Wei Wuyin realize how serious they were taking this trial, not trying to allude to any hint of foul play.

Woosh! Wizz! Zum! 

When he took that final step, a series of odd sounds emanated from beneath his feet, prompting him to look down and find a large runic ring encircling his feet.
It rotated with multicolored light and gave off a peculiar radiance.
Wei Wuyin inspected this with his Celestial Eyes, finding that it contained some pure energies he ’d never seen before.

The energies within the runes started to undulate and expel outwards in a mist that glowed white.
This was the so-called Demi-Mortal Blessing, and the mist was visible to all, giving off a similar feeling as the mountain itself.
Wei Wuyin felt intrigued as the mist attempted to integrate within his body.

”Receive the Demi-Mortal Divine Blessing; receive your right! ” The blind woman said passionately, informing Wei Wuyin to absorb the mist into himself.

Wei Wuyin ’s smile lifted higher as a result, looking at the blind woman for a moment before absorbing the mist without hesitation.
He knew this glowing mist wasn ’t something bad.
In fact, it could be considered amazing and extremely rare.
Unfortunately, it didn ’t have much benefit to himself.

It was a unique material of heaven and earth he ’d never seen but heard of called Boundless Essence Mist.
It was described in a particular written recording of an old alchemist who sought to find various unique mists produced innately by the world.
Unlike other materials used in alchemy, mist was a very delicate material, and many were under the assumption it couldn ’t be used as proper material in its mist state, that it had to be condensed into liquid or solid form beforehand.

But the old alchemist felt that this wasn ’t proper, that special mists wasn ’t just a byproduct of water or wind energies, but its own special existence like herbs, stones, or liquids.
That they had unique properties that could be similarly extracted for optimal and amazing usage.
It was a wild idea, almost completely against common sense, but he later made a concoction method that could use pure mist to concoct certain products, extracting these ’unique ’ qualities without harming the mist ’s foundation through conversion of state.

He had discovered and studied Boundless Essence Mist because it was said to be the byproduct of water and wind energies and dense astral essence, but he refused to believe that.
He was right; Boundless Essence Mist was misunderstood and had unique properties beyond just pure astral essence, water and wind energies.
It ’s state of existence was also special, akin to stones, liquids, and herbs that could store unique and unseen qualities.

This verified a principle in Alchemy that was accepted but not fully understood: Nothing was impossible.

Wei Wuyin absorbed the Boundless Essence Mist, storing it within his body, and ’receiving ’ the Demi-Mortal Blessing.
After absorbing the mist, he was startled by the amount of Boundless Essence Mist there was.
He frowned for a moment, then tapped his foot against the ground, a wisp of void force penetrated the ground beneath everyone ’s notice.

Afterwards, he relaxed.
This Boundless Essence Mist unique property could concoct a theorized ninth-grade, low-tier pill.
It was one of the few theorized ninth-grade products outside of the King of Everlore ’s verified recipes, named the Boundless Purity Pill.
It was expected to be able to purify the body to an extreme limit, increasing one ’s affinity with elemental energies as well. 

There was practically none in the present-day starfield after the old alchemist ’s experiments, so he was shocked to see it here.

While he received the Boundless Essence Mist, he saw a familiar figure arrive beside him.
It was the young woman! She had a faint pout and solemn light in her eyes.
She couldn ’t believe that Wei Wuyin had hidden himself so well.

She wasn ’t sure how many high-level Intents Wei Wuyin had comprehended, properly mixing with the other elemental Intents, but it was more than three. 

Who was this guy?!