Wan Qinghe’s frustration was unknown to Li Yuan, who was still experiencing “Origin Power Entry.”
In Li Yuan’s room at Jiangbei Martial Arts University, his body underwent a special state of transformation.
It continued.
At first, Li Yuan’s consciousness was semi-conscious, but eventually, he fell asleep without even noticing.
In the silence of the night.
“Hmm?” Li Yuan, who was accustomed to cultivating at three in the morning, suddenly opened his eyes as if his body had formed a biological clock.
The next second, he was fully awake.
“Me?”
Li Yuan immediately noticed a change in himself, his vision had improved, and his body seemed to contain astonishing strength.
“My body?”
Li Yuan’s gaze swept over dozens of Divine Palace panel prompts before finally settling on the data displayed on the Divine Palace panel.
——
[Life Level: 9.6 (Pre-Entry Rank)]
Physical Quality Index: 99 (Indicates a comprehensive assessment of explosive power, endurance, speed, physique, spiritual power, and many other aspects.)
Fist Strength: 1180 kilograms
Speed: 21.1 meters/second
Spiritual Power: Level 16.4
Spiritual Awakening Level: 12.8% (Current limit 20%)
…
“This?” Li Yuan was both shocked and overjoyed.
His martial arts skills remained unchanged.
But his physical quality and spiritual power had greatly improved compared to before.
“Just five hours, and my physical quality has improved by 0.7 level? Spiritual power by 1.3 levels?” Li Yuan held his breath.
It was simply too dramatic.
In the previous three months, despite continuously taking Origin Power Essence Pills, basic blood-strengthening medicinal liquid, and practicing frantically, Li Yuan’s physical quality had improved by less than one level.
Moreover, as one progresses, the improvement in physical quality naturally slows down.
This kind of transformation was utterly astonishing.
“Hmm?” Li Yuan also noticed that the previous Divine Palace panel prompt “One chance to guide Origin Power into the body” had disappeared.
“Origin Power Entry.”
“It has this effect? To greatly transform both my physical quality and spiritual power.” Li Yuan recalled everything that happened last night and still found it incredible.
The Mind Spirit Divine Palace was truly miraculous.
Phew!
Li Yuan breathed a long sigh of relief, feeling all the fatigue erased, and a boundless strength within his body.
He opened the door and stepped out of the resting room.
Without turning on the lights.
Moonlight streaming through the windows fell on the floor, and with Li Yuan’s vision, the moonlight was enough to see everything in the Martial Arts Room.
“Phew!”
“Boom!” Li Yuan didn’t pick up the spear, which might easily wake up Gu Qiang.
He simply executed his fist technique, his fists and palms shifting, his footsteps moving, each punch he threw was forceful and resounded faintly through the air.
Powerful and vigorous!
“Exhilarating.” Taking in the strong vigor coursing through his limbs and body, Li Yuan felt excited: “If I had this foundational strength during the combat assessment yesterday, killing the Moon Demon Wolf King would have been even easier.”
A Physical Quality of 9.6 was nearly at Entry Rank.
…
After performing several sets of fist techniques and after a thorough release of energy.
Li Yuan calmed down and returned to his room to think.
“Is this the benefit of reaching a 10% Spiritual Awakening level?” Li Yuan mused.
“Does Origin Power Entry mean guiding external Origin Power into the body to promote evolution?”
“Then, the improvement in spiritual power must be because of the golden fog that appeared in the Mind Spirit Divine Palace?” Li Yuan thought back to his consciousness’s experience in the spiritual world.
The Dark Space, the twinkling starlight, the ancient indistinct sounds, the spell formulas that seared into the depths of his heart…
Li Yuan understood.
The Mind Spirit Divine Palace seemed even more mysterious than he had initially thought.
“Origin Power Entry uses Origin Power to drive evolution, so there should be no side effects.” Li Yuan mused to himself: “At least, I’m not experiencing any adverse reactions now.”
Li Yuan had heard of some forbidden medicines that drastically increase strength.
They completely overdraw the potential of life.
“My spiritual power has improved so much.”
“The stairs in the Mind Spirit Divine Palace, let’s try them again now.” Li Yuan closed his eyes and his consciousness surged into the Mind Spirit Divine Palace.
Only three seconds later.
Li Yuan opened his eyes again, a look of shock in them: “The white jade staircase? It’s gone?”
The white jade staircase that suddenly appeared in the Mind Spirit Divine Palace a few hours ago.
It had now disappeared.
The Mind Spirit Divine Palace had returned to normal.
“Could it be that the entrance to the second layer only appears when I have the opportunity to guide Origin Power into my body?” Li Yuan speculated.
He looked at the Divine Palace panel again.
“Reaching a 10% Spiritual Awakening Level grants one chance for Origin Power Entry, so could reaching 20% perhaps grant another chance for Origin Power Entry?” Li Yuan harbored speculations.
And a sliver of expectation.
If my physical quality has improved by 0.7 level this time, what about next time? Wouldn’t that directly push me to Entry Rank?
Reaching a 25% awakening? Spiritual guidance? Li Yuan felt it was still a bit far for him, especially since the current display showed a maximum awakening of only 20%.
And Li Yuan didn’t yet know how to raise the limit.
But Li Yuan was very clear about how to increase the awakening level from 12.8% to 20%—by killing Star Realm Creatures.
“It seems.”
“I need to find more opportunities for real combat like today.” Li Yuan murmured to himself.
He was very satisfied with his combat performance from yesterday.
He had fought with all his might.
Not having pushed his Spiritual Awakening level to 20% was within Li Yuan’s expectations.
Time passed.
“First, the Mind Spirit Divine Palace must continue to be explored and tried; it’ll probably be my biggest trump card for rising to power.” There was a sparkle in Li Yuan’s eyes: “Second, my spiritual power level has surged, matching the characteristics of my spiritual power talent. No matter,”
“Third, my physical quality skyrocketed overnight and if I don’t hide it, it will definitely attract attention.”
“At least for the next few days, I can’t participate in any physical testing and must avoid drawing any attention. I’ll just wait for the April adjustment exam to disclose it.”
Reveal it during the April exam? Li Yuan wasn’t panicking at all.
“As long as they can’t detect my Mind Spirit Divine Palace, in the end, it will all be attributed to my exceptional talent.” Li Yuan said with a calm smile.
In this world, there are many special treasures and unparalleled geniuses… An improvement of one level in physical quality within a month is not without precedent.
It’s not like it increased by 10 levels at once.
“Thinking about it that way…”
A slight smile appeared at the corner of Li Yuan’s mouth: “There are nearly three months left until the college entrance exam.”
“As long as there are no side effects from the Origin Power entering my body.”
“I, am fully hopeful that before the college entrance exam, I can elevate my physical quality to level 10.0,” a glint flashed in Li Yuan’s eyes, “just like Wu Dongdong.”
“Both physical quality and martial arts skills maxed out.”
Previously, Li Yuan had planned to raise his physical quality to level 10.0 by this September.
Now? He can at least be three months ahead of schedule.
Martial arts cultivation has its golden age, one is from age 16 to 20, and next is from 20 to 30.
The older you get, the more your body functions will gradually decline.
After thinking everything through.
“Three thirty? There are three and a half hours left until the seven o’clock assembly?” Li Yuan glanced at his smart ring watch.
“My cooldown time on the Starry Skies Fighting Network has passed, let’s try and see if I can break through to the Fallen Star rank with 300 points in one go.”
Once reaching the Fallen Star rank with 300 points.
Then, Li Yuan’s contract with the Starfire Martial Hall would be upgraded directly from B to A level.
Whoosh!
Li Yuan sat down in the virtual network cabin, connecting his consciousness.
He entered the Starry Skies Fighting Network directly.
Personal space.
“Master, long time no see.” The voice of the girl in purple was soft: “I’ve missed you so much.”
“Shut up.”
“Rank matching fight.” Li Yuan directly clicked on the light screen, and just three seconds later.
Match successful.
Li Yuan disappeared, already entering the battle space.
…Five minutes later.
Inside the battle space, the sixth opponent was turned to nothingness by Li Yuan’s two spears.
“Congratulations… Points +4.”
“Your rank points have reached 1000, points can no longer be increased…” the system voice rang out: “Would you like to participate in the promotion match?”
“I will participate,” Li Yuan declared loudly.
Hum~
Li Yuan’s figure vanished from the arena, starting his sixth Fallen Star promotion match.
…
The familiar ocean, the familiar islands, the familiar silhouettes of the Fish Spirit Clan warriors.
Li Yuan, holding a long spear, appeared.
“Roar!”
“Roar!” All twelve Fish Spirit Clan warriors stared at Li Yuan with killing intent.
“Seeing you guys really warms my heart,” Li Yuan said with a slight smile, “sadly, this is the last time.”
The Fish Spirit Clan warriors were all stunned; they didn’t understand Li Yuan’s words.
But they could sense that Li Yuan was smiling.
Boom!
Like a gust of wind, Li Yuan ‘drifted’ towards the group of Fish Spirit warriors.
“Boom!”
“Roar!” More than a dozen Fish Spirits finally galloped forward, swinging their arms like blades of war, rushing towards Li Yuan.
“Bring it on.” Li Yuan grinned, and his long spear burst forth, with countless light shadows blossoming, the air itself seemed to be torn apart by the sweeping spear shadows.
Stellar Illumination from the Stellar Techniques.
“Puchi~” “Puf!” “Puf!”
Wherever the long spear went, Fish Spirit warriors had their heads pierced, and they were turned into nothingness right after.
A total of twelve spears!
The battle was over.
Having broken through spear technique and movement technique, and after experiencing the combat assessment, facing the dozen or so Fish Spirit warriors, Li Yuan had become quite composed, with not a single worry in his heart.
Three seconds later.
“Congratulations, Guardian Yuan, you have passed the promotion match, you have reached the Fallen Star rank, you are eligible to receive a reward of 500,000 Blue Star Coins.” The system reminder sounded by Li Yuan’s ear.
“Congratulations, Guardian Yuan, you have entered the ‘Blue Star Young Heroes Ranking’, ranked globally at number [181], in Xia Country District at number[42], in Jiangbei Sub-district at[5], you can inquire about the detailed list in the following manner…”
…
Swish! Li Yuan had returned to his personal space.
“Congratulations, master, on making it to the Blue Star Young Heroes Ranking,” the girl in purple said excitedly, “On the entire Blue Star, there are less than two hundred who have made the list.”
“What is the Blue Star Young Heroes Ranking?” Li Yuan asked directly.
“Please look, Master.”
Soon, with Xiao Yu’s explanation, Li Yuan understood that other than the qualifications to be listed, this ranking followed the same rules as the ‘Blue Star Youth Ranking.’
The only difference was that you had to reach the Fallen Star rank to be listed.
“That is to say, besides me, there are four more in Jiangbei province?” Li Yuan murmured to himself.
Besides Wu Dongdong, Wang Yu, and Tian Dazhuang, was there another?
But Li Yuan didn’t care. There were countless geniuses in the world; what mattered was to improve and surpass himself.
“Continue.”
“Fallen Star rank match.” Li Yuan directly started his first Fallen Star rank match: “Anyway, it’s 0 points at Fallen Star now, if I lose, it’s still 0 points.”
“No risk of demotion.”
“What’s there to fear!”
…
Li Yuan had no idea that at the moment his Starry Skies Fighting Network rank broke through to ‘Fallen Star’.
The corresponding departments in the Jiangbei Provincial Martial Arts Hall, Starfire Martial Hall ‘Jiangbei Sub-hall’, and Starry Sky Martial Hall ‘Jiangbei Sub-hall’, all received an urgent notification.
