Cult of the Sacred Runes by Mad Snail

FULL INDEX - COMPLETE LIST OF CHAPTERS:
Synopsis and Starting Chapter
Chapter 2 – From Dream To Reality
Chapter 3 – The Forbidden Stances
Chapter 4 – Triple Tidal Palm Technique
Chapter 5 – Soul Perception
Chapter 6 – Three Mistakes
Chapter 7 – Refinement
Chapter 8 – Perfection, Quintuple Tidal Palm
Chapter 9 –Dragons Don’T Associate With Snakes
Chapter 10 – Fiery Sun Quencher
Chapter 11 – Two Star Student
Chapter 12 – Perfect Falling Star
Chapter 13 – The Du Family
Chapter 14 – The Ye Family
Chapter 15 – Dinner Party
Chapter 16 – The White Tiger’S Assault
Chapter 17 – Minor Changes
Chapter 18 – Perfect Assault
Chapter 19 – Gift From The Heavens
Chapter 20 – Myst Stance
Chapter 21 – Bothersome
Chapter 22 – Seven Star Condensed Prime
Chapter 23 – Runicle
Chapter 24 – From Whom?
Chapter 25 – Ye Wei’S Talent
Chapter 26 – Entry Exam
Chapter 27 – Peerless
Chapter 28 – Flaming Golden Lotus Stance
Chapter 29 – Master Yi’S Dilemma
Chapter 30 – Blossom
Chapter 31 – Best Served Warm
Chapter 32 – Trump Card
Chapter 33 – Forbidden Swords
Chapter 34 – Butterfly Effect
Chapter 35 – Mystic Tiger
Chapter 36 – The Rise To Fame
Chapter 37 – Mysterious Youth
Chapter 38 – Seven Star Warrior
Chapter 39 – Concession
Chapter 40 – Bones
Chapter 41 – The Ichor Palm
Chapter 42 – Master Yi
Chapter 43 – Rain
Chapter 44 – Legacy
Chapter 45 – It’S Not Fair
Chapter 46 – One Point Six Million
Chapter 47 – Four Star Student
Chapter 48 – Proposal
Chapter 49 – Decision
Chapter 50 – Cracks
Chapter 51 – Return To South Star
Chapter 52 – Conflict
Chapter 53 – Martial Families
Chapter 54 – Punishment
Chapter 55 – Gifted
Chapter 56 – Dragon
Chapter 57 – Sealed
Chapter 58 – Sorry
Chapter 59 – Caretaking
Chapter 60 – Promise
Chapter 61 – Bloodmist Valley
Chapter 62 – Talents From Ning City
Chapter 63 – Rune Barrier
Chapter 64 – Silver Moon
Chapter 65 – Bulwark
Chapter 66 – Prodigies
Chapter 67 – Iron Talisman
Chapter 68 – Purple Chiffon
Chapter 69 – Deeper
Chapter 70 – Effigies
Chapter 71 – Impasse
Chapter 72 – Green Veil
Chapter 73 – Golden Puppets
Chapter 74 – Last Resort
Chapter 75 – Functions
Chapter 76 – Blood Cocoon
Chapter 77 – Seven-Star
Chapter 78 – Jade Crystal Wall
Chapter 79 – Crazed Scramble
Chapter 80 – Mirages
Chapter 81 – Interspatial Runes
Chapter 82 – Rewards
Chapter 83 – Secret Realm
Chapter 84 – Scrolls
Chapter 85 – Primate
Chapter 86 – Frozen In Time
Chapter 87 – Woods
Chapter 88 – Eighty-One
Chapter 89 – Abyss
Chapter 90 – Glacial Temple
Chapter 91 – Close Combat
Chapter 92 – Enter The Temple
Chapter 93 – Understanding
Chapter 94 – Supernova
Chapter 95 – Results
Chapter 96 – Second
Chapter 97 – First Round Elimination
Chapter 98 – Breakthrough
Chapter 99 – Stars
Chapter 100 – Karma Tower
Chapter 101 – Second Chamber
Chapter 102 – Temptation
Chapter 103 – Four Chambers
Chapter 104 – Home
Chapter 105 – Farewell
Chapter 106 – New Face
Chapter 107 – Polaris Academy
Chapter 108 – Seven-Star Warrior
Chapter 109 – Crossfire
Chapter 110 – Root Prison
Chapter 111 – Lineup
Chapter 112 – Qi Xiu
Chapter 113 – List
Chapter 114 – Tri-Solar School
Chapter 115 – Chosen Ones
Chapter 116 – Floating Light
Chapter 117 – First Opponent
Chapter 118 – Gathering Of Talents
Chapter 119 – City Lord Chen Yuan
Chapter 120 – Materializing
Chapter 121 – Selenic Descend
Chapter 122 – Triple Selenic Punch
Chapter 123 – Star Shifter Formula
Chapter 124 – Black Flare
Chapter 125 – Searing Selenic Palm
Chapter 126 – Fame
Chapter 127 – Demon
Chapter 128 – Selenic Ironbark Seal
Chapter 129 – Black Scale Progenitor
Chapter 130 – Three-Headed Jackal
Chapter 131 – New Challenges
Chapter 132 – Class
Chapter 133 – For The Title
Chapter 134 – Lion’S Fall
Chapter 135 – Monument Stance
Chapter 136 – The Jade Quest Walls
Chapter 137 – Round One
Chapter 138 – Sensitive
Chapter 139 – Creative
Chapter 140 – High-Level Spirit Stance
Chapter 141 – Rites Of Righteousness
Chapter 142 – Runic Badge
Chapter 143 – Sky Stance, Zodiac Sword
Chapter 144 – Sonic Runes
Chapter 145 – Jian Chen
Chapter 146 – Zhoutian Sword Notion
Chapter 147 – Half Bloodmoon Assassination Sword
Chapter 148 – Zodiac Sword, Peerless Presence
Chapter 149 – High Level Myst Stance
Chapter 150 – Flesh And Bone
Chapter 151 – Third
Chapter 152 – Reveal
Chapter 153 – Demon King
Chapter 154 – Qing State’S Seven
Chapter 155 – Vermillion Essence Runes
Chapter 156 – The First Rune
Chapter 157 – Exchange
Chapter 158 – Lu Family, Qing State
Chapter 159 – Forgotten Treasure
Chapter 160 – Supreme Dragon Ridge
Chapter 161 – A Young Runemaster’S Past
Chapter 162 – Cultivate
Chapter 163 – Slippery
Chapter 164 – Ye Wei Strikes Back
Chapter 165 – Line
Chapter 166 – Madman
Chapter 167 – Joint Force
Chapter 168 – Depth
Chapter 169 – Four
Chapter 170 – Spirit Flame
Chapter 171 – No Survivors
Chapter 172 – Five
Chapter 173 – Supreme Palace
Chapter 174 – Ambush
Chapter 175 – Brutal
Chapter 176 – Escape
Chapter 177 – North Barren Mountains
Chapter 178 – Pack
Chapter 179 – Split
Chapter 180 – Thundercrack Stamp
Chapter 181 – Mind Compass
Chapter 182 – The Gathering
Chapter 183 – Huyan
Chapter 184 – Report
Chapter 185 – Starfall
Chapter 186 – Exposed
Chapter 187 – Cosmic Rage
Chapter 188 – Result
Chapter 189 – Chase
Chapter 190 – Blood Shadow Stance
Chapter 191 – Seventh Selenic Stance
Chapter 192 – Helian
Chapter 193 – Speed Of Light
Chapter 194 – Help
Chapter 195 – The Battle Of Green Moon City
Chapter 196 – Secret Weapon
Chapter 197 – Demon Lotus
Chapter 198 – Greater Transmutation Array
Chapter 199 – Lu
Chapter 200 – Heritage
Chapter 201 – Eternal Star
Chapter 202 – Sacred Marks
Chapter 203 – The Tenth Mark
Chapter 204 – Beast Wisdom
Chapter 205 – Quiet Departure
Chapter 206 – Number Ten
Chapter 207 – Onwards
Chapter 208 – Million Stars Palace
Chapter 209 – The Black Dragon Listing
Chapter 210 – There Are Rules
Chapter 211 – Stepping Up
Chapter 212 – First In Ten Years
Chapter 213 – Ice Sword Print
Chapter 214 – Next
Chapter 215 – Precursor
Chapter 216 – Black Dragon Valley
Chapter 217 – A Gathering Of Stars
Chapter 218 – Grave Purging Strike
Chapter 219 – Amplification
Chapter 220 – Not So Special
Chapter 221 – The Dragon'S Howl
Chapter 222 – Muse
Chapter 223 – Wu Shuanger
Chapter 224 – Against The High-Graded
Chapter 225 – The Qing Family
Chapter 226 – Recruit
Chapter 227 – Four Bolts
Chapter 228 – Please Stay
Chapter 229 – Mid-Grade Earth Stance
Chapter 230 – Is It Easy?
Chapter 231 – Ancient Cloud Realm
Chapter 232 – Interception
Chapter 233 – Return Prime Stone
Chapter 234 – Return
Categories Genre: Action, Adventure, All, Fantasy, Martial Arts, Mature, Ongoing, Romance, Xuanhuan Status: Ongoing Tags Authors: , Alternative names: Sacred Rune Way, Shén Wén Dào, 神紋道,

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Total Chapters in book: 234
Estimated words: 437645 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 2188(@200wpm)___ 1751(@250wpm)___ 1459(@300wpm)
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Chapter 65 – Bulwark

Chapter 65 – Bulwark

From the surprise of acquiring the valuable pills to facing the four Warriors, Ye Wei’s countenance changed dramatically, and judging by the pressure he could sense, each of them were stronger than himself.

Handing over the valuable pills was out of the question, and Ye Wei did not reach for the pills in his interspatial bag, he was looking for the Mystic scrolls. His small movements did not escape Lin Zi Yan’s eyes, she held Ye Wei’s hand in place and slightly shook her head.

Lin Zi Yan then turned to look at the four warriors, and a flash of purple appeared in her eyes which helped her read their cultivation level. She could tell their cultivation in one glance. The two of them in the middle were five star Warriors whereas the other two on each side were four star Warriors.

Without warning, the four star Warriors quickly stepped forward and lifted their hands as strings of glittering light came out of their fingers. “Give us the pills!”

“In your dreams!” Lin Zi Yan grunted. Her will-force and Qi rushed out of her body simultaneously towards her finger using this she finished drawing a sequence of runes before the four star Warriors could.

“You asked for this! Don’t blame us if you die!” The Warriors shouted, and they flicked their fingers releasing two dark, three-inch rune daggers towards Ye Wei and Lin Zi Yan. They penetrated the cold air in the room and parted the thin mist above the floor into three sections while cracking the jade tiles.

The daggers were homing in; they got close enough for Ye Wei to feel how sharp the rune daggers’ edges were.

This was the moment Lin Zi Yan was waiting for. She placed her hand on Ye Wei’s shoulder then injected Qi into the rune sequence. The stance activated and a cloud of light appeared around her.

“Shadowshift!”

The stance turned Ye Wei and Lin Zi Yan into shadows while leaving holograms of the two where they stood. With a burst of speed, they escaped the stone house before any of the four Warriors noticed.

The piercing rune daggers went through the holograms and landed on the wall behind them. “That stance was not a shield those are holograms!” But they realized what happened too late and the four blue robed Warriors’ smiles dissolved. Blinded by rage, they then started to hysterically scream while searching the house for Ye Wei and Lin Zi Yan. They had completely eliminated the possibility of them escaping the house as they thought the door was well guarded.

They started arguing and blaming each other, and the shouting was shaking the house and echoed into the tunnel. None of them could get over the fact that a girl and a skinny boy got away from them so easily with their treasure, the resentment was maddening.

“Zi Yan, what stance was that?” Ye Wei asked Zi Yan as they blended into the crowd in the tunnel heading deeper into the Bloodmist catacombs.

“Mid-level Spirit stance Shadowshift, it’s not anything fancy really. Would you like to learn it? When you’re a seven star Student, I will teach you it!” Lin Zi Yan said laughingly at Ye Wei’s shocked face. He was still trying to figure out the mechanics of the Shadowshift stance.

“Yea!” Ye Wei nodded without the slightest hesitation. The stance was not a powerful one, but its practicality made it a valuable asset for whoever could master it. It was usable both offensively and defensively, and of course for escaping as Zi Yan just demonstrated.

There are billions of stances, each one of them takes a lot of practice to master, and each one of them was invented for a special niche. A common cultivator could master around forty stances during his whole life; therefore, it was wise to pick up something he saw a use for.

“Yea that would be nice, but I need to get to seven star level quickly!” Ye Wei took a Silver Moon pill out of his bag, then put it into his mouth. The pill melted in his mouth and entered his body as a warm surge of energy found its way into his meridians then traveled to his Sentient.

Lin Zi Yan took a Silver Moon pill too. Although it’s a common practice to sit down and cultivate after taking quencher pills to absorb the energy efficiently, they could also use their effects to move around quicker thus increasing the chance of them finding what they needed in the tunnels.

Ye Wei’s body was still taking in the pill’s effects despite being on the move which strengthening his physique. Ye Wei absorbed only about thirty percent of the Silver Moon pill’s effect, and his dantian and Sentient were rumbling more vigorously than when he took the Fiery Sun Quencher.

He was overjoyed, but he didn’t show that on his face. ‘I can become a five star Student in a day with the help of these pills. Although I might not be able to use stances, I can still try to create my own and refine them to improve my Sentient!’

The three meters wide tunnel was a mess. People were swarming in and out of the stone houses on the sides, and there were brawls everywhere. With such proximity, it was impossible not to know when others had found treasure, and it was unavoidable people would fight over them. Laws and rules don’t really apply in places like Bloodmist Valley.

Ye Wei and Lin Zi Yan, however, did not need to involve themselves in the madness, for ordinary people it was not an easy thing to crack the rune barriers. The couple worked out a system; Lin Zi Yin was responsible for creating smoke screens with her stances and general security while Ye Wei would crack the barriers and take what was inside the stone houses. Within a few hours, Ye Wei’s Interspatial pouch was filled with treasures and rare goods.

They came across a wide variety of herbs, pills, medicines, and even found some Qi crystals, but they couldn’t find any Welkin Leaves.

The tunnel went deep underground. The length of it meant it was impossible to search each and every stone houses, and bearing that in mind Lin Zi Yan was starting to think they should go deeper into the tunnel where the area might be less contested. Then they could take their time searching instead of having to worry about defending themselves all the time.

But she was not the first nor the only person with such idea. A few hundred more experienced Warriors were already further down the tunnel. Lin Zi Yan and Ye Wei found themselves in a pretty much empty section of the tunnel.

A rune barrier vibrated then Ye Wei and Lin Zi Yan came through the wall finished searching another stone house. “Nothing too special here either!” The term special has since lost its meaning because the things they got their hands on were incredibly valuable, but just were not what they were here for.

The trip would be pretty much meaningless unless they found what Master Yi told them they needed to get ahold of.

“We should head towards the end of the tunnel and see what’s happening down there, and hope there is still something left for us.” Lin Zi Yan said slightly nervously as she realized they might have been too late.

‘It was definitely a statue of a Selenic spirit beast, even a ton of Welkin Leaves cannot compare to the real treasure we could find here if this place is what I think it is.’ There was a ghostly purple fire in Lin Zi Yan’s eyes as her mind wandered. ‘If Ning City sent people here, they would most likely be after those.’ It was getting hard for Ye Wei to catch up as she was running quicker and quicker.

About an hour passed, and the tunnel was starting to widen the pair had been running at Ye Wei’s full speed this entire time. Their path was getting brighter, and they started to hear noises echoing in the tunnel which indicated they were reaching the end. They looked at each other while slowing down their pace making sure their steps weren’t heard.

The tunnel led them to a spacious hall. It was at least a few times wider than the Ye family arena. All the tunnels actually led to the same place like streams and rivers flowing into the sea.

Lin Zi Yan had a glance at the place and noticed there were at least three thousand people who made it here.

Luo Wu Xue, Lu Chao, Hong Jun, and Xue Yao were right on the frontlines. They stood in the middle of the hall right in front of a hundred meter tall round rune shield that protected the temple from any external disturbance.

The temple was not the only thing under the shiny shield. A lot of weapons, shields, and armors were suspended in mid-air, and a lot of these goods had a shine on them that indicated they weren’t ordinary artifacts.

The people in the hall were too focused on the shield, so Ye Wei and Lin Zi Yan snuck in unnoticed. They were discussing how to break through the rune shield. In their minds, they were clear that as long as the shield stood, they didn’t have a chance to lay their hands on those treasures. Now it was the time to work together instead of killing each other.

The strongest Warriors on the scene including Lou, Lu, Hong, and Xue adjusted their positioning and started drawing runes in the air.

Fire, ice, wind, Qi swords, and spirit beasts crashed into the shield in a matter of seconds. They all focused their fire on where they estimated the weak spot to be. But the light shield bounced the attacks off instantaneously.

The arranged attack created some ripples on the shield, but that was all. The rune shield was not damaged in the slightest.

“That’s pretty far off…” The purple light in Lin Zi Yan’s eyes intensified, and she sighed and shook her head.

The effort was repeated by the group of elite Warriors at the hall, but the situation remained the same. The only difference was now the Warriors looked tired and drained.

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Total Chapters in book: 234
Estimated words: 437645 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 2188(@200wpm)___ 1751(@250wpm)___ 1459(@300wpm)
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