Everything in this book does not represent reality, and there are no destructive technological weapons.
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Lin City University, male dormitory building, third floor, room 302. At one in the morning, Jiang Hao secretly pulled back a corner of his bed curtain and peeked at his three roommates.
His three roommates had finished their last game of League of Legends half an hour ago, and their even breathing indicated they were already asleep.
After confirming the situation, Jiang Hao calmly closed his bed curtain.
“I need to push harder; I should be able to Breakthrough to the Qi Refining Second Layer tonight.” Thinking this, he quickly sat cross-legged on the bed, circulated his Cultivation Technique, and began refining the thin Spiritual Qi in the air.
Jiang Hao, a third-year student at Lin City University, was twenty years old and an orphan.
Five years ago, when he was fifteen, his parents unfortunately died in a car accident. He received a substantial compensation payment and a house left by his parents, which allowed him to live until now.
While he was keeping vigil for his parents, he suddenly fainted in the middle of the night. When he woke up the next day, he found a memory that didn't belong to him had appeared in his mind.
It contained Cultivation Techniques and some Cultivator abilities, including Spells and Artifact Refining.
Jiang Hao initially didn't want to bother with this unfamiliar memory, but it was like it had been carved into his mind with a chisel, impossible to shake off.
Afterward, half-believing, he tried to Cultivate according to the Cultivation Technique in the memory.
Through personal experience, he discovered that this Cultivation Technique was actually real, because during the Body Refining stage, he could clearly feel his physical fitness slowly strengthening.
A large shotput, thrown casually, could go over a hundred meters—would you believe it?
Jiang Hao had to attend school and support himself, and he could only rely on himself to explore.
He stayed in the Body Refining stage for a full four years before entering the Qi Refining, officially stepping into the ranks of Cultivators.
However, progress in the Qi Refining was even more difficult. The Spiritual Qi in the air was so faint it was almost imperceptible, making it extremely hard to drive his Cultivation.
Fortunately, four years of Body Refining had tempered his Heart-Nature to be very resilient, and he did not give up Cultivating because of the difficulties.
After a full year of accumulation, he was now just a sliver away from advancing further, reaching the Qi Refining Second Layer.
At this moment, a faint, almost imperceptible glow enveloped his entire being, and the Spiritual Qi circulating in the air was being absorbed into his body.
“Hmm?”
Jiang Hao, who was circulating his Cultivation Technique to refine Spiritual Qi, suddenly frowned. Just now, he felt the Spiritual Qi in the air rapidly increasing, and the rate of increase was also getting faster and faster.
Even without circulating his Cultivation Technique, the Spiritual Qi was drilling into his body.
“Pop!”
The sound of a bubble bursting echoed within his body, and his aura strengthened slightly.
Qi Refining Second Layer!
The Realm that would have taken an entire night of Cultivation to reach was Breakthrough in just ten minutes or so.
Because he possessed a Cultivation Technique, Jiang Hao could clearly feel that the Spiritual Qi in the air had surged by more than a hundredfold compared to before, and the surge had not stopped.
“What’s going on?” The sudden change forced him to exit his Cultivation state.
“Holy crap, what’s so blinding?” An exclamation rang out in the dormitory.
His roommates, who had just fallen asleep, were suddenly startled awake by a bright light.
“Who? Who turned on the light?” Jiang Tian, who was near the dormitory door, also spoke up.
Jiang Hao, who had just exited his Cultivation state, also felt a strong light dazzling his eyes.
“Look out the window!” Zheng Yi, who had spoken first, now pulled back his bed curtain and exclaimed as he looked out the window.
Because his position was right next to the balcony, he could see through it to the previously dark night sky, where a gigantic sphere was now emitting a strong light.
Soon, all four people in the dormitory came to the balcony and gasped in amazement at the glowing sphere that almost occupied half the night sky.
Jiang Hao felt it even more clearly than them. As the sphere in the night sky continuously emitted strong light, the already surging Spiritual Qi erupted like a geyser.
“Why is this thing getting bigger and bigger?” Mu Feng pointed at the sphere in the night sky and said.
Just as he said, the sphere in the night sky was continuously expanding, and its speed was increasing. Soon, it filled the entire night sky.
After about ten seconds, the sphere in the air seemed to be shattered by something and exploded on the spot, but without making a sound.
“It… it exploded!”
The shattered sphere transformed into countless specks of light, densely covering the entire sky.
The next instant, all the specks of light rapidly fell towards the ground.
Four of these specks accurately shot into their foreheads before the four of them could react.
“Thump!”
“Thump!”
“Thump!”
The three people other than Jiang Hao fell straight to the ground.
He, too, felt a dizzy Spell in his mind and only recovered after a long while.
He immediately sensed himself but couldn't find where the speck of light had gone. Instead, he felt an unusual change in his body.
“Qi Refining Fifth Layer. I didn’t expect this single speck of light to make me Breakthrough three layers consecutively, and it seems I’ve gained a special ability,” Jiang Hao muttered after sensing himself.
Then he suddenly remembered that his three roommates were still lying on the ground.
“Xiao Tian, Xiao Yi, Xiao Feng, what’s wrong with you?” Jiang Hao quickly crouched down and called out.
But at this moment, the three of them seemed to be asleep. If not for their breathing, Jiang Hao would truly worry that they were dead.
After calling for a long time without success, Jiang Hao could only carry them back to the dormitory and put them on their beds. Perhaps they would be fine after a sleep.
After carefully sensing them again and confirming they were not in serious danger, he finally felt relieved and returned to his own bed, re-entering his Cultivation state. He didn't know how long the Spiritual Qi surge would last, so he had to make good use of it.
However, such a huge commotion was clearly not only seen by them; it could be seen worldwide.
Across the entire world, whether human, animal, or plant, even an ordinary blade of grass or a common krill in the sea, had a speck of light integrate into it.
And all humans who had a speck of light integrate into them, except for Jiang Hao, fell into a deep sleep.
The entire world was undergoing unprecedented changes. Plants that had integrated with the specks of light were growing wildly, and animals were undergoing unknown transformations.
At six in the morning, with a roar, various screams echoed throughout the vast school campus.
Jiang Hao, who was in a Cultivation state, was once again disturbed and forced to exit his Cultivation state.
“What’s going on? Isn’t today Saturday?” Jiang Hao shook his head, pulled back his bed curtain, got out of bed, and went to the balcony to look outside.
“Holy crap!!!” Jiang Hao’s eyes widened.
Below the dormitory building, several students were running for their lives, pursued by more than a dozen other students with blood-red eyes.
In the places they ran past, three students lay in pools of blood, with several blood-eyed students tearing at them.
“What… what’s happening?!” Jiang Hao simply couldn't believe what he was seeing.
As the commotion here grew louder, more blood-eyed students rushed out from this area of dormitory buildings, all chasing after the students in front of them.
Every student who was caught was tackled, torn apart, and killed.
Soon, the entire school campus was filled with roars and screams.
And those students who had been torn apart but whose limbs were still relatively intact, after a short period, stood up and joined the chase. Their eyes also turned blood-red.
The entire school campus was a scene of Shura Hell.
