I Am Overlord

Every drop of the spring was condensed energy. If other's found out about these pouches, they would fight Xiang Shaoyun for this.    

But here we have Xiang Shaoyun, the serial spendthrift, who was quenching his thirst with it.    

Whether it was a spiritual drink or a simple drink, over-drinking always caused problems. This was a well know and accepted fact.    

However, Xiang Shaoyun wasn't drinking the spring water in the hopes of condensing more star energy. Instead, he was doing so in hopes of filling his Quasar Sea.    

The energy from Earth Star Spring was molded into a ball by Xiang Shaoyun. This ball then straight up went for the nine stars in his body.    

The condensed strand from before was slowly dissipating, but because of the ball, it began liquifying. Slowly, it was turning into a liquid form, looking quite mystical.    

After an unknown amount of time, the Earth Star Spring's energy was digested and formed a single drop of liquid—a single drop of Quasar Sea!    

Xiang Shaoyun had yet to reach the stage where he could enter his consciousness and explore the drop. But since he was connected to the Quasar Sea's drop with flesh and blood, he could feel it.    

"Is this little thingy really a Quasar Sea drop? It's even smaller than my pinky finger; did I fail?" Xiang Shaoyun said as a depressed look appeared on his face.    

From the books he had read, Xiang Shaoyun believed that the Quasar Sea was a wast ocean that could encompass everything. But what he had formed now was just a single drop. There was simply a difference of heaven and earth between what was created and what he had read.    

"It looks like I failed! In the end, my strength was still not enough," said Xiang Shaoyun, dejected.    

After a while, he threw this matter in the back of his head and began meditating. It was another four hours before he woke up from the meditation.    

"Now that I have reached the Astral Force Stage, I have to consolidate my strength. Only by increasing my strength will I be able to transform energy into the Quasar Sea. Besides, I gotta start practicing powerful combat skills. If I had powerful combat skills, I could have unleashed them in the previous battle. The outcome would have been different then. Right now, other than the Wolf's Auric Feral Sword skill, only the Astral Asunder can deal some damage. As for the other skills, they are of no use now, " Xiang Shaoyun thought.    

After that, he began looking through the combat skills that he had memorized. These were all top-tier combat skills that belonged to his family. Anyone one of them could triumph all the combat skills from the Hall of Martial Arts.    

After a while, he remembered a unique combat skill—Thunderous Fist!    

The Thunderous Fist condensed energy into lightning. The attack was like a thunderbolt—fierce, domineering, and capable of annihilating everything.    

Moreover, its specialty rested on the fact that it could be leveled up.    

What did leveling up mean?    

It meant that its strength could be increased over time. At its weakest, it was equivalent to a third-grade skill. At its strongest, it could go toe to toe with even a seventh-grade combat skill.    

This was what made the Roaring Fist special!    

The Thunderous Fist was split into three stages. First Stage—turn energy into thunder and form an attack using that thunder. Second Stage—this step involved tempering one's fist from the converted lightning. After that, the user's fist could punch out like lightning. Third Stage—for this step, the user must become one with heaven and earth and call for natural lightning. Once the user could lightning at will, all under heaven would be for him to annihilate.    

With his current cultivation accomplishments, Xinag Shaoyun could begin training in the first step.    

To cultivate the first step to completion, one must have an Astral Transformation Stage cultivation. However, Xiang Shaoyun had no other low-level cultivation to train in, so he decided to go with it.    

Xiang Shaoyun once again went through the first step of the Thunderous Fist. Within minutes, he had memorized the theory and diagrams related to the skill.    

Without wasting any more time, he began practicing the skill.    

For cultivating all the steps of the Thunderous Fist to completion, his fist must be extremely tough. Otherwise, he won't be able to withstand the heavenly thunder in the future.    

Bang bang!    

Xiang Shaoyun then used the Thunderous Fist's first step to punch the tree in front of him.    

A little of his true potential was awake right now, so his fists were now as strong as second-grade weapons.    

He did not feel much pain from punching the tree trunk like that.    

Moreover, a hole appeared in the trunk due to his star energy. After losing its center of gravity, the tree soon toppled.    

"Seems like the tree trunks aren't tough enough. I should practice on rocks!" Xiang Shaoyun muttered and went to look for walls to practice his punches.    

The hardness of the rock wall could never be compared to a tree trunk. With every punch that Xiang Shaoyun threw, his fists burned with pain. It would have been a lot less painful had he used his star energy to envelop his fists, but he wouldn't be able to strengthen his fists then.    

Had any ordinary cultivator tried it, their hands would have been mangled by now.    

Xiang Shaoyun, on the other hand, looked like a masochist, terrifying nonetheless.    

"Sturdier the fist; stronger the Thunderous Fist!" Xiang Shaoyun only had this one thought in his heart!    

After an entire day of punching a stone wall, his hands were a gory mess.    

He applied the herbs, swallowed some Blood Mushrooms to replenish his blood energy, and sank into meditation.    

Little White was wandering around obediently and helped Xiang Shaoyun catch some food.    

Xiang Shaoyun was very confident in Little White. Even though it was just a tiny bit, it was at least a medium demon. Even though he looked small, he was still an Intermediate Demonic Beast. Unless he encountered a Greater Demonic beast, he would not be in any danger.    

Thus, Xiang Shaoyun stayed here for about half-a-month.    

He practiced his first power during the day and meditated during the night. Occasionally, he would look for demonic beasts to increase his combat experience.    

Slowly, his strength was rising. He was now at the peak of the first grade.    

His meteoric rise was thanks to his nine-star talent. Also, a significant factor was his hard work as no amount of talent could compensate for hard work.    

A mortal's success depended 99% on his hard work and 1% on his talent. On the other hand, a genius's success depended 70% on his hard work and 30% on his talent.    

But what about a genius who did 100% of the hard work? Won't he just write history?    

Xiang Shaoyun was undoubtedly the last type, placing all his efforts into increasing his strength.    

In this half-a-month, he had lost count of the times his fists were mangled. Fortunately, he knew how to concoct medicinal elixirs, and leaking into them a drop of the Earth Star Spring, turned them supreme healing pastes.    

Now, his fists were wrapped in a white cloth and were smashing a rock. Soon, purplish energy began leaking out from his fists, and at the same time his burst with power. The aura surrounding his fist was thunderous.    

Bang!    

A fist enveloped in purple energy landed on the rock, and the rock exploded.    

The might behind his fists may force even third-grade Astral Force cultivators into retreat now.    

This was the result of small completion in this combat skill.    

This was also the result of his half-a-month long training arc.    

After using this move, Xiang Shaoyun's energy reserves drained out. It just went on to show that using such a top-tier skill as a mere Astral Force cultivator would drain his energy reserves.    

Only because of his strong foundation was he even able to cultivate the skill.    

"Two times, with my current strength, I can at most use the Thunderous Fist two times. But consequently, it should be enough to deal with a fourth stage Astral Force cultivator," Xiang Shaoyun said to himself.    

Just as Xiang Shaoyun was about to pack his bag and return to the Hall of Martial Arts, he felt someone approaching.