Blue Phoenix Chapter 31 - The Tournament Begins!

Hui Yue was no longer the petite and effeminate boy he had been when he started to attend the Royal Academy. He was now a few centimetres taller than he had been when he arrived. The biggest change was, on the other hand, that his face, although still incredibly feminine, no longer resembled a girl’s but a feminine boy’s.

The more Qi Hui Yue gathered, the more he matured. Currently these were still small and subtle changes, in spite of this Hui Yue was aware that a major change would happen to his body once he broke through the bottleneck to the disciple rank.

Throughout the different breakthroughs Hui Yue should expect his body to be enhanced greatly, however, the magnitude of the changes varied from person to person depending on the purity of the qi contained within the body.

Nonetheless, it had to be understood that Hui Yue’s body was anything but ordinary. The fact that Hui Yue had opened the Chong Mai meridian was enough to ensure that he would no longer follow the usual route for enhancements to his body.

The opening of the Chong Mai meridian usually required a large burst of spiritual power and it would normally be something that most Master ranked cultivators would focus on as soon as they managed to break through to Master rank.

The reason these Master ranked cultivators would open this meridian would usually be for nothing more than the sake of seeing what one of the additional eight meridians granted.

Upon reaching the Master rank, cultivators are capable of refining their Qi into spiritual energy, and upon doing this, most cultivators would see no other use for their basic Qi, much like most lower ranked cultivators only saw essence as a way to gain higher and finer Qi.

Essence was an energy that was looming around in the world, absorbed by cultivators and refined into Qi. Every cultivator, no matter which rank, relied on this essence to gain in strength.

However, for a cultivator ranked Master or above, essence was not the only thing which needed refinement. For those who had unlocked the midd

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