When Minos said those words, everyone around that level of the headquarters cultivation tower fell silent, looking forward to the beginning of his breakthrough.
He turned to his wives and nodded to them, indicating that he would begin in a moment. "Well, that's my time. I hope I don't disappoint everyone."
Oswald, Maisie, and the other individuals there who were closest to Minos knew that this was him being modest, so they said nothing, while those who knew the sovereign least spoke words of support.
Minos ignored the many comments and entered the cultivation room, quickly removing most of his clothes and staying only with his underwear.
He then sat down on a cultivation cushion. He made a meditative position before removing the Saint-grade medicine from his spatial ring.
As he did so, Emperor Stuart looked around that place. He saw each of those people in that place with him with their eyes closed, circulating their cultivation techniques to take advantage of the opportunity as soon as possible.
'Time to get started...' Minos thought to himself as he looked at the medicine in his hands. 'After that, everything will change!'
He inhaled the air in the surroundings deeply and closed his eyes. Then he began to eat that medicine, doing so with an expression of disgust.
Spiritual medicines had terribly bad tastes, so even someone already used to eating these items would feel disgusted.
Since Minos had not eaten many such resources, his resistance to it was not high, and soon his face was pale, with him forcing himself not to vomit.
He had sealed off his senses before he began to 'taste' that medicine that looked like a pear, but that only diminished the terrible taste to an 'acceptable' level.
'The taste is still terrible...' He thought as he swallowed the first few pieces, feeling chills run through his body.
But after struggling for some time, Minos swallowed the last piece of that pear, shivering and sweating.
With that done, he began to focus on the medicine inside his body.
After he ate that, he could not wait for long, or his body would try to absorb the energy from this resource. But Minos could not allow this since such a thing had more than 20 times the amount of energy that his body could support!
Because of this, Minos had to hurry to use this energy to his advantage. Instead of absorbing it to strengthen his soul, he had to direct it to help the evolution of his cells.
That was a tedious job because of the millimeter precision that Minos had to have, at the same time as what he had to endure pain. But that was not difficult. He just had to suppress his body and make the medicine energy slowly 'wash away' all his cells!
Solar God Breath!
Minos activated his cultivation technique and began circulating his soul's spiritual power through his body, slowly beginning the process of directing the medicine energy into the 'washing' that his cells would need.
As he did this, his body became increasingly reddish to the people watching him.
Simultaneously, a stream of colorful spiritual energy was slowly forming in his surroundings, almost as if he were an extremely beautiful and brilliant quasar.
Then the evolution began!
Minos meticulously followed the process of using the energy released by the medicine to evolve his Physical.
As every part of his body was immersed in a 'cloud' of spiritual energy, almost all concentrated in a 2-meter radius space of his, his soul was increasing in size!
Because of the special conditions for raising a Physique's rank, Minos could only accomplish such a thing after reaching level 70.
His mutated Physique would only 'open the doors' for such an evolution during stage advancement.
However, Emperor Stuart could not wait for that to happen to begin the process, as he would risk missing the opportunity.
But he was already only one step away from reaching the limit of spiritual power to reach level 70. So, when the process was happening in his body, he broke through his limit and reached the 8th stage!
With this event, every cell under pressure from the Saint-grade Medicine spiritual energy began to transform as extreme pain spread throughout Minos' body.
With that, Minos' appearance began to change, with him expressing pain as every muscle in his body contracted.
Emperor Stuart's soul was expanding and contracting like a heart. But unlike what would happen with that organ, his soul became a little more voluminous each time this happened!
That was not at all comfortable for Minos, but it was through this that he would grow stronger. Thus, he held on tight while the people in the area watched his evolution happen.
'Impressive!' Oswald noticed the amount of energy being sucked into Minos' body. 'His soul will be about 30% stronger than that of an ordinary level 70 Spiritual Saint...'
Minos' mother did not have as good senses as his father. Still, she could also sense that Minos' level 70 was different from that of 'ordinary' people.
Then she put aside her weakness to smile in satisfaction at seeing her son becoming so powerful.
While Minos endured all this suffering under the observation of those many people, his soul began to stabilize, reaching a volume equivalent to 100% of his body.
Crack!
Red beams of light began to enter Minos' body, with the typical sound of level advancement resounding through that area, making those people realize what had just happened.
'Your Majesty is already at level 70!' Several people within that room thought as they struggled not to lose control over their cultivation techniques.
While people like Abby's father and mother were trying not to pay more attention than they should to Minos' advancement, changes in his body began to happen!
Black goo began oozing out of his skin in large quantities, almost as if he had a tar source under his own skin...
As the impurities poured out of Minos' body, he was shaking and using his arms to keep from collapsing to the ground.
"Ahhh!" Emperor Stuart's first cry of pain resounded through that place.
He then vomited blood, almost entirely black, as if it were another substance.
But as he felt the spiritual cleansing generated by the stage advancement happening in his body, he quickly felt that his Physique was about to advance in rank!
During this initial moment, he was enduring the pressure of the spiritual energy of that medicine. As soon as he had touched level 70, the evolution of his Physique was activated.
The two processes were happening simultaneously. Because of this, the spiritual cleansing of his fleshy body and soul was much more efficient than it would be in other people who tried it differently!
As a result, the number of toxins released was not small, spreading a strong odor throughout that place...
