Chapter 46: Two and a Half Months, the Surge in Spiritual Power
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After completing the condensation of blood and qi, Xu Yuan returned to the academy.
Following Mu Ye's advice, he decided to further refine the formation array.
Meanwhile, Mu Ye returned to Tiantou City to consult Zhen Hua, asking him to help arrange for a spirit soul from the Spirit Pagoda—one that would be highly compatible with Xu Yuan.
As his uncle, Xu Shengqun naturally had the ability to arrange this himself. However, Xu Shengqun didn't want Xu Yuan's dual martial souls to be exposed too early, so he avoided personally handling it. Instead, he was only responsible for screening out premium spirit souls from the Spirit Pagoda. As for how to obtain them, for now, it would have to go through Zhen Hua.
Back at the academy, Xu Yuan tested his spiritual power.
'347.'
Almost 350 points of spiritual power.
Just three months ago, Xu Yuan's spiritual power had been only 260.
In these three months of cultivation, Xu Yuan had broken through in the Great Devouring Heaven and Earth Technique, using it to rapidly replenish and enhance his strength while ensuring rigorous training. Additionally, he had experienced a small epiphany during his time in the Sea God Pavilion, which also contributed to a minor boost in his spiritual power.
Coupled with the recent condensation of blood and qi and his breakthrough in soul power, these successive factors caused his spiritual power to increase by nearly 100 points in just three months!
But even this wasn't the most remarkable part. For Xu Yuan, the key to his surge in spiritual power lay in the condensation of blood and qi. The immediate feedback to his spiritual power after completing the condensation wasn't particularly noticeable. The greatest benefit came afterward—now that his physical body had been tempered by blood and qi, it no longer constrained the growth of his spiritual power.
"Next, I'll focus on cultivating my brain martial soul. Let's see what its limits are!"
Zhen Hua's efficiency was exceptionally high.
With the face of the continent's only divine craftsman carrying significant weight, on the third day, Mu Ye called Xu Yuan to inform him that as soon as his spiritual power reached 500 points and entered the Spirit Sea Realm, he could absorb his first spirit soul for his brain martial soul.
Having mastered blood and qi, Xu Yuan now had more projects to work on in his cultivation.
Using blood and qi to test and adjust his refined contract formation arrays was merely an extension of his earlier work on contract development. On top of that, Xu Yuan added the practice of blood and qi cultivation and the adjustment of using blood and qi instead of soul power to execute the Great Devouring Heaven and Earth Technique.
After switching to blood and qi circulation, Xu Yuan tried to incorporate the Five-Element Spear Spirit as five elemental forces into the technique, which also served as preliminary integration between blood and qi and the Five-Element Spear Spirit.
Time flowed steadily.
In the blink of an eye, two and a half months had passed.
In just two and a half months, Xu Yuan's spiritual power surged past another hundred points, reaching 460!
This was the result of shifting his meditation focus.
Such rapid progress fully demonstrated the extraordinary talent of his brain martial soul in enhancing spiritual power.
It was precisely because of this monstrous spiritual power talent that Xu Yuan had proposed, in his earlier plans, to cultivate his brain martial soul not for physical enhancement but for spiritual advancement, using it as a breakthrough point for forming spirit rings.
If there were other significant factors contributing to his rapid increase in spiritual power, one might attribute it to the previous constraints he faced. At that time, Xu Yuan had already begun focusing on improving quality. One can imagine how much his spiritual power had been suppressed by the limitations of his physical body.
By prioritizing the refinement of quality and removing the body's restrictions, his spiritual power naturally began to rebound explosively.
Additionally, there was the Body Sect's secret method!
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Meditation Space
Xu Yuan's consciousness gazed at the nearly fully condensed shadow of his brain.
In the past year of cultivation, his progress hadn't been as significant as it had been in these two and a half months. This was a major reason for the rapid rise in his spiritual power.
Though the Body Sect's secret method wasn't originally designed for cultivating spiritual power, for Xu Yuan, it could serve that purpose.
At this moment, the shadow of his brain was nearly solidified.
Today, Xu Yuan aimed to fully materialize it, allowing his brain to take form within the meditation space alongside his Tianyuan Brush martial soul.
Once fully formed, there would be a significant breakthrough.
Xu Yuan was filled with anticipation.
"My spiritual power is nearing 500 points, but the rate of increase has started to slow down. There are still 40 points left. Hopefully, this breakthrough in the secret method will directly push me past the 500-point bottleneck."
Taking a deep breath, Xu Yuan began to circulate the Body Sect's secret method.
Blood and qi infused into his brain.
Meditating, visualizing.
Boom!
Within the meditation space, his brain completely took form, floating alongside the Tianyuan Brush at the center of the space.
As it solidified, Xu Yuan's perception during meditation changed entirely.
At this moment, his awareness of his brain became far more vivid.
Even more astonishing than his perception of the external Tianyuan Brush martial soul during meditation.
"According to the Body Sect's teachings, once the visualized body martial soul solidifies, it must resonate with the spiritual sea."
The Body Sect records stated that body martial souls were inherently flawed. The fact that they could only be sensed through consciousness in the meditation space and couldn't manifest physically revealed that their connection to the spiritual sea was extremely weak.
By solidifying the visualized body martial soul in the meditation space and then artificially resonating it with the spiritual sea, the body martial soul would undergo a significant transformation—a kind of first evolution. Its quality would experience a small improvement.
This was also the key to ensuring that body martial soul users, despite starting with low-quality martial souls, could cultivate to the level of Soul Elder or Soul King and attempt a second awakening of the body martial soul.
"The resonance step—I've already completed it," Xu Yuan realized. Upon sensing his spiritual sea, he found that the moment his brain solidified, it naturally connected with the spiritual sea.
His mind became crystal clear.
Xu Yuan felt as though his thoughts had suddenly become much more fluid.
Keep in mind that even before, his brain martial soul had significantly enhanced his cognitive abilities, making his thinking far surpass that of adults. Yet now, he still experienced this sudden clarity, indicating that the improvement in his mental capacity was even more profound.
"My spiritual power must have surpassed 500 points!"
Xu Yuan prepared to test it.
Although the dormitories at Shrek Academy weren't equipped with spiritual power testing devices, his uncle Xu Shengqun, being a Spirit Envoy, had sent him a set of testing equipment via a storage-type soul-guided device shortly after he settled into his dormitory.
This was done to facilitate Xu Yuan's spiritual power cultivation.
Putting on the helmet, Xu Yuan's spiritual power surged with unprecedented activity. He fully unleashed his spiritual power without needing any stimulation, and the helmet's sensors immediately detected the fluctuation.
'523'!
A breakthrough!
Xu Yuan looked at the number and smiled.
Seven years old, Spirit Sea Realm!
"Spiritual power is the foundation of my confidence compared to those two freaks."
With his spiritual power breakthrough, Xu Yuan immediately dialed a call.
"Hello?"
"Teacher, I'm ready to fuse with a spirit soul."
"Huh?" Mu Ye was momentarily confused.
What's going on?
Isn't it only been two and a half months?
Mu Ye remembered informing Xu Yuan about the spirit soul successfully obtained from the Spirit Pagoda. At that time, Xu Yuan's spiritual power was only at 350.
"I've completed the cultivation of the Body Sect's secret method," Xu Yuan explained.
Mu Ye suddenly understood.
In that case, it seemed plausible?
"Since you've broken through, find some time to come to Tiantou City."
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Author's Note: Let's calculate. This actually isn't too outrageous.
Although Gu Yue's spiritual power was only 270 at ten years old, I feel her numbers at this stage shouldn't be taken at face value.
Take, for example, the interpretations I provided. Spiritual power growth is restricted by physical conditioning. She hasn't shown the physical advantages of the Silver Dragon King early on. Even though the Silver Dragon King may not excel in physical strength, it certainly wouldn't be weak. Perhaps there was an issue with her transformation, or she deliberately sealed off this aspect, choosing to only display her elemental control abilities early on.
The protagonist's rapid increase in spiritual power is due to the condensation of blood and qi, combined with the medicinal bath and the Body Sect's secret method, which temporarily boosted his physical conditioning. Now, his physical condition has reached or even surpassed Gu Yue's at thirteen years old. Such a spiritual power figure isn't exaggerated.
Additionally, in the original Soul Land III, the early stages took place in Donghai City. Numerical descriptions in novels often include exaggerations. A ten-year-old with over 200 points of spiritual power might be described as "inhuman."
Lastly, this is the spiritual power talent I set for the protagonist. As mentioned earlier, the growth rate accompanying physical development is over ten times that of an ordinary person.
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