73: Yang Chen's research

Chen Qing quickly got up to help pour water.

He noticed that the teacups here had been replaced with alloy ones, he didn’t know if his Great Master had changed them or if his Senior Brother had done it.

Yang Chen took a sip of tea, finally regaining some composure, and asked, “You’re back? Your Senior Sister told me you went on a mission, is it completed?”

“It’s completed. However, this is my first time entering the Qi Ling Star Battlefield, and I encountered some unexpected changes.”

“Are you talking about the battlefield being sealed off?”

“Yes!”

Although Yang Chen rarely left his home, with Yan Ling as a messenger, he was aware of the situation.

“You don’t need to worry too much about this. The Qi Ling Star Battlefield borders our Chinese Region, and there have been several instances of it being sealed off in history.

Each time it’s sealed, high-ranking Federal officials intervene. The old man guarding the gate is actually a Federal agent specifically sent to handle such matters.

Your Senior Sister kept coming to me a few days ago, asking me to go save you.

Actually, there’s no need to worry too much. Whenever the gate is sealed, the Yao Beasts inside also hide, it’s not targeting us humans.

Heh heh, if it were really targeting you, kid, don’t blame me for not warning you, your Great Master doesn't have the ability to retrieve you from Qi Ling Star.

If something like that really happens, you’d better be careful!”

Chen Qing nodded, the Yao Beasts inside had indeed hidden.

But Great Master, who was it that said you’d take responsibility if anything happened?

As if knowing his thoughts, Yang Chen waved his hand: “Don’t expect me to always bail you out. Before doing anything, consider if you have a way out. I see you’re a bit unsettled today, I guessed you must have encountered a major crisis on Qi Ling Star.”

Chen Qing was surprised, his Great Master could even tell that?

“Heh heh, don’t be surprised. As long as someone is human, it’s easy to expose yourself when you encounter a major event, not to mention you didn’t intend to hide it from me.”

Chen Qing’s face became bitter. He was indeed a bit scared afterward. He had been too careless this time, perhaps he felt inflated because he had the System, and almost lost his life.

He was human after all, and humans fear death, especially when it’s due to such carelessness and underestimation of the enemy!

“Chen Qing, you are a smart person, so I believe I don’t need to preach any grand principles to you. After this incident, I believe you will also grow, and this is my most basic requirement for you and your Senior Brother.”

Chen Qing nodded and smiled: “I understand, Great Master.”

Yang Chen saw that the gloom in his eyes had disappeared, knowing that he had truly learned his lesson.

“Oh, right. The last time I looked for you, there was something I wanted to ask. Didn’t you raise your life force to the limit of an S-Rank ability during the non-Martial Artist stage?”

Chen Qing nodded.

“You are also my student now, and you are qualified to participate in my research project.

Your Senior Brothers and Senior Sisters have all participated in my project before, but they were all stubborn and only focused on Cultivating, and later nothing came of it.”

Chen Qing’s heart stirred. Although he didn’t think his mind was necessarily better than his Senior Brothers and Senior Sisters, he was still very interested in his Great Master’s years of research.

“This project I’ve been researching recently has been going on for many years, it’s about increasing the non-Martial Artist limit.”

Chen Qing chewed on this sentence, keenly noticing Yang Chen’s choice of words.

He didn't say helping people reach the non-Martial Artist limit, but increasing it!

Increasing the non-Martial Artist limit?

Wouldn't that break the shackles of talent, allowing people with poorer talent to achieve a fundamental improvement?

If it could truly be done, this would be a grand project that could change the future of humanity!

He himself had the Ice God Space, which allowed him to increase his limit. Was his Great Master trying to create a System?

“Great Master, can the non-Martial Artist limit be artificially increased?”

“Originally, no, but over the years, the Federation has had quite a few cases of researching this project.

I have statistically analyzed and organized this data over the years and discovered a phenomenon!”

Yang Chen’s eyes brightened, and he continued: “To increase the non-Martial Artist limit, it’s nothing more than finding a way to increase life force!

And once the non-Martial Artist limit is reached, which is the theoretical limit set by the ability Rank, it becomes very difficult to Cultivate life force further.

Martial Artists at the intermediate Rank will discover that as Mental Energy increases, the speed of life force Cultivation also increases.

So what if humans could Cultivate Mental Energy during the non-Martial Artist stage?

Therefore, I spent several years investigating the Cultivation experiences of hundreds of thousands of non-Martial Artists in the Federation before they Breakthrough to Martial Artist.

Guess what?”

Before Chen Qing could answer, he answered himself: “Among these people, all those whose abilities had some boost to Mental Energy, or who were naturally strong in Mental Energy, took a shorter time to Cultivate to the non-Martial Artist limit!

Hehe, Chen Qing, do you know what this means?

It means that as long as humans can Cultivate Mental Energy during the non-Martial Artist stage, they can increase the non-Martial Artist limit!”

Chen Qing frowned, was his Great Master’s idea too simple?

If this was just the conclusion, the Federation couldn't have failed to discover it for so many years, right?

“Great Master, doesn’t the Federation lack Cultivation Techniques that allow non-Martial Artists to Cultivate Mental Energy?”

Yang Chen’s smile remained, and he said: “There are no Cultivation Techniques in that regard. But there are other ways!

I previously had your Senior Brothers and Senior Sisters try to push their physical limits and stimulate their own potential. I believed at the time that this would help increase their Mental Energy, thereby speeding up their Cultivation.

Their Mental Energy did indeed increase, but I found that the degree of increase was extremely limited, making it difficult to significantly aid Cultivation.

But later, their speed of life force Cultivation still significantly increased.

Don’t you think this is strange?”

Chen Qing frowned, it was a bit strange indeed.

His Mental Energy was considerable now, and he could clearly feel the influence of Mental Energy on Cultivation speed, but if it was just a slight increase in Mental Energy during the non-Martial Artist stage, the impact would actually be negligible.

“Therefore, I boldly speculate that the root cause of the increase in Cultivation speed is not Mental Energy! Or rather, Mental Energy is not the only thing that can increase the speed of life force Cultivation during the non-Martial Artist stage!”

The more he spoke, the more excited he became, his face beaming with enthusiasm.

“Why does fighting, pushing the body’s potential, suddenly accelerate the increase of life force? I suspect that during the non-Martial Artist stage, there exists an unknown body-refining method!”

Body-refining method?

Chen Qing pursed his lips, and a scene of himself increasing his non-Martial Artist limit in the Ice God Space appeared in his mind.

During that time, he followed his Senior Brother’s advice and constantly fought in the Ice God Space, pushing his body to its limits, facing death several times.

At the time, he subconsciously attributed the increased life force to the rewards from killing Yao Beasts.

Now that he thought about it carefully, even setting aside those rewards, the extra life force he Cultivated during that period also significantly increased.

Could it be related to the body-refining method his Great Master mentioned?