Following shortly, the percentage of the fusion experienced a gradual rise.
In one hour, the fusion rate increased to nine percent.
By the third hour, the synthesis was elevated to thirty-five percent.
Compared to Origin’s absolute and instantaneous escalation speed, this so-called Absolute Liberation Leveling pill was still like a joke.
When the tenth hour elapsed, the fusion rate finally climbed to one hundred percent synthesis as the eighth passage became a complete and connected whole!
At the same time, the last vestiges of the pill efficacy that refused to die out tried pushing themselves to the next level in order to initiate the synthesis process of the final ninth pathway!
Alas, while he stayed at the very brink, just as the remaining potency of Absolute Liberation Leveling was about to push him beyond the eighth level to the ninth, an intense resistance, unlike anything Virus had experienced so far hindered the path of the last traces of the energy from the pill!
‘The third taboo!’ Sensing it, Virus concluded at once. Right now, out of nowhere, at the blocked entrance of the seventeenth and eighteenth passages, an intense quiver that was shockingly dealing internal damage within him had materialized!
Cough!
The vibration force inside him was so unbelievably potent that it didn’t take long before Virus puked blood due to a part of him being damaged.
When he was about to break through to the seventh level, the first taboo, the easiest one, had attempted to block his path. Albeit, it was utterly incapable in the end.
Subsequently, at the time of his breakthrough to the eighth level, the second taboo was an even raspier barricading force that had temporarily hampered his way. And yet, in the end, Virus came out on top in a rather laid-back style.
And now, he was against the Third Taboo!
‘The inhibiting force from the heavens must be at least a few hundredfolds more severe than the second taboo which honestly makes it scary even for me.’
It was at this time that Virus finally realized just how much the Heavens were against the Ninth Level of Liberation!
If they ‘disliked’ the seventh level and ‘hated’ the eighth level, they didn’t just ‘abhor’ the ninth level, rather, it was so bad that they simply ‘did not allow’ the existence of the ninth level!
Calculating the possibility of him triumphantly shattering the restriction and forcing his way to the ninth level without any assistance, Virus noticed that his chances were initially less than five percent. And that five percent existed only because it was him, Virus!
‘Damn, that would’ve been extremely hard! And time-consuming!’ With some beads of sweat covering his forehead, Virus felt like he had just dodged a bullet. However, soon, he felt as if a second bullet was shot at him!
Cough!
Puking more blood, much to his disbelief, Virus noticed that despite having swallowed an absolute type of pill that could assure the breakthrough eventually, he may not survive that long in case the breakthrough process took long enough.
‘This damn pill is too slow! My insides will be messed up to death before it can actually help me fucking breakthrough!’ One rudimentary scrutiny was all it took before Virus knew for sure he could not sit still any longer or what awaited him at the end was nothing but death!
‘I can’t remain passive anymore!’ Pondering that, Virus entered a deep state of meditation before gathering his entire focus at the ending point of his eighth pathway!
Next, assembling every bit of his cultivation energy, together with the undying force of the Absolute Liberation Leveling, he bashed everything into the vibration force!
Bam!
The wall of obstruction shook wildly. But sadly, it did not shatter!
“Again!” Shouting that out loud, Virus pushed all his energy and assimilated it with the undying energy of the pill before crashing them all to the wall once more!
BAMM!
Cough! Pfft!
Frankly, this time it was his own violent attack on the barrier that harmed him. And worse yet, the invisible wall set up by the heavens had only shown a few cracks on itself!
Gritting his teeth and ignoring the internal damage and pain, a pure rage was shooting off Virus’ being as he collected every bit of energy from every corner plus the undying force and assaulted the wall with bloodshot eyes behind his closed eyelids. “BEGONE!”
BOOM!
The entire world within his physique was shaking so hard that Virus had no sensations left anywhere in his being as he passed out!
And yet, although gravely impaired and wrecked, the wall of the heavens was standing tall, the heavens had come out on top!
Despite Virus’ active efforts together with the assistance of the surefire pill which was known to nearly break all common sense as it had an absolute effect of raising the cultivation level of the consumer to precisely one percent fusion rate of the following level, Virus had still failed as he was forced into unconsciousness.
Although Virus had failed and one may assume that to be the end of the road for him, that was not the case at all. As a matter of fact, even while Virus remained unconscious, the Absolute Liberation Pill’s heaven-defying undying force continued eating away at the seriously weakened third taboo as it gradually made it weaker and weaker.
Moreover, on the plus side, due to Virus’ unstoppable strikes, the wall had grown so feeble by now that it could no longer worsen Virus’ injuries. So, in a way, it was Virus who had been the winner!
Meanwhile, the heaven-defying undying might of the pill proceeded to slowly but surely erode the taboo until finally, it was so fragile that it naturally crumbled away like wet thin paper.
Boom!
Internally, a thundering noise reverberated in Virus’ physique inside his pathways as wild energy charged into his seventeenth and eighteenth single passages and promptly fused them to the state of one percent!
Ninth Level of Liberation, broken through!
Now, Virus was at the very peak level of Liberation, having achieved something that was nothing but a myth, a never-seen-before legend, in his past life in the future!
