298: Chapter 298 Gun Qi Formation!

"BOOM!!!"

A deafening roar echoed as dust filled the air.

As the dust settled slightly, it was revealed that the hard boulder was not split in half.

Instead, starting from the central point of contact, it had completely turned into countless fine particles, falling like rain to form a small mound.

Qin Yan slowly withdrew his long spear, the ten-foot Spear Light retracting into the weapon.

With a slight thought, he summoned his status panel:

【Spear Technique: Fourth Stage (10%)】

"Finally... Perfection."

After receiving the infusion of one ten-thousandth of Spear Dao Profundity, his talent for Spear Techniques skyrocketed, and his cultivation efficiency more than doubled.

Coupled with these past two days of relentless training and the assistance of Skill Points, he had finally pushed the progress of his Fourth Stage Spear Technique to the theoretical limit—10%!

"The Fourth Stage Spear Technique has reached Perfection, and the ten-foot Spear Light is complete.

The embryonic form of Destructions End Spear Qi has also been firmly grasped... everything is ready!"

Qin Yan gripped his long spear tightly, feeling the surging blood energy within his body and that restless, destructive Spear Intent.

"Next is the attempt to take that most crucial step: to completely fuse the embryonic Spear Qi with the foundation of my Spear Technique, to truly condense a complete 'Destructions End Spear Qi' that belongs solely to me, and to step into the Fifth Stage of Spear Technique in one go!"

The Fifth Stage was a qualitative threshold.

Once successful, his combat power would undergo another leap.

Without further hesitation, he sat down cross-legged in this quiet corner, placing the long spear horizontally across his knees.

He closed his eyes, focused his spirit, adjusted his breathing, and brought his condition to its peak.

A moment later, Qin Yan opened his eyes, which shone with a brilliant light.

He stood up and gripped the spear once more.

He did not immediately swing it but stood quietly, his mind fully immersed in comprehending the "spear."

The fragmented insights brought by the Profundity infusion surfaced one by one in his mind.

The spear is an extension of the arm, a vessel for the will.

Spear Qi is the manifestation of the rules of the Spear Dao, the perfect fusion of will and energy.

Destructions End Spear Qi represents termination.

What he needed to do was to completely fuse his own understanding of the Spear Dao with the embryonic Destructions End Spear Qi.

To refine a true Spear Qi—one that could leave the body to attack enemies and could continuously grow!

"Begin."

Qin Yan whispered.

He slowly raised the Ink Trace Spear.

The ten-foot golden Spear Light erupted once again!

At the same time, he began carefully guiding that wisp of embryonic destructive Spear Qi to slowly cover the Spear Light.

At first, the two were like oil and water, clearly distinct and even somewhat repelling each other.

The destructive Spear Qi was domineering and fierce, wanting to devour everything; while the perfected Spear Light was balanced and condensed, possessing its own stable system.

But Qin Yan was neither impatient nor restless. Relying on the superior understanding brought by the one ten-thousandth of Spear Dao Profundity, he slowly adjusted their frequencies bit by bit, searching for a point of resonance.

Time passed quietly in the stillness.

Qin Yan's figure was almost frozen, with only an occasional, barely audible hum emanating from the spear in his hand.

On the spear, the golden Spear Light and the dark red destructive aura sometimes intertwined, sometimes separated, like performing a silent dance of break-in.

He didn't know how long had passed—perhaps several hours, or perhaps longer.

The embryonic dark red Spear Qi no longer tried to completely invade the Spear Light but began to "inlay" itself within the structure of the Spear Light, like setting ruby patterns into a golden vessel.

The golden Spear Light also stopped rejecting it and began to accept these dark red patterns as part of itself.

Finally—

At the moment the last trace of dark red flowing light completely merged into the golden Spear Light.

"Boom!"

A brand new, completely different aura erupted from the spear tip!

Wild joy surged in Qin Yan's eyes!

"Now is the time!"

A brilliant light shone in Qin Yan's eyes as he shouted in a low voice, "Destructions End Spear Qi, emerge!"

His wrist flicked, and the long spear thrust forward!

Shoom—!

An incredibly condensed, three-foot-long qi blade, entirely Presented a dark red destructive color, instantly detached from the spear tip and shot forth!

This qi blade was not a condensed beam of light like Spear Light, but a more agile, more substantial "qi" that contained a clear destructive will and fluctuations of rules!

It flew as fast as lightning, its piercing sound sharp and grating. Wherever it passed, the air was easily sliced, leaving behind a brief, dull gray trail.

"BOOM—!!!"

The dark red Spear Qi accurately struck a thick cyan jade mural several zhang away.

After the dust settled, Qin Yan walked forward to inspect it.

He saw that the cyan jade mural had already shattered into pieces of cyan bricks.

On the surface of the bricks lingered faint traces of dark red destructive aura, slow to disperse.

Looking at this spear scar and sensing the blood energy consumed and the power unleashed by that projectile Spear Qi, a relieved and confident smile slowly spread across Qin Yan's face.

Destructions End Spear Qi, initially formed!

The gate to the Fifth Stage of Spear Technique had opened for him!

What followed would be the meticulous work of constantly nurturing and strengthening this Spear Qi, and exploring the deeper wonders of its application.

On his martial path, within Canglin Ancient Peak, he had once again stepped onto a solid and new level.

Qin Yan immediately opened his status panel to check.

【Level: Third Grade Limit】

【Blood Refining: jade blood Realm (Blood Demon Nest)】

【Blood Energy: 2315 Cal】

【spirit: 78 Hz】

【Body Tempering Technique: Indestructible Blood Demon Scripture (First Layer Perfection)】

【Spear Technique: Fifth Stage (1%)

Spear Qi: Destructions End Spear Qi (first grade)】

【Alchemy: First-Grade Alchemist (34%)】

(Second-Grade Alchemist: Unlocks at 7 Hz spirit)

【Skill Points: Points】

【Note: As long as you work hard, you will reap rewards】

"Finally... I've reached the Fifth Stage."

Qin Yan slowly exhaled a turbid breath, a sense of indescribable achievement welling up in his chest.

The Fifth Stage was a watershed in Martial Arts Skill.

If the Fourth Stage and below represented the realm of "technique"—refining moves, mastering energy, condensing Spear Light, still lingering on the surface of power application—

Then starting from the Fifth Stage, it entered the domain of "intent"—Spear Qi, Spear Intent, Spear Domain. These were the materialization of true martial intent, the initial touch of a certain "Dao."

And from the Fifth Stage onward, the difference in combat power brought by different grades of Spear Qi would be dramatically amplified.

Taking Spear Technique as an example, based on the information Qin Yan obtained from Modu University of Martial Arts's archives:

At the initial phase of the Fifth Stage—

Third Grade Spear Qi: Equivalent to an additional 200 Cal blood energy burst, and provides a 1.5x amplification effect on the user's own base blood energy.

Second Grade Spear Qi: Equivalent to an additional 300 Cal blood energy burst, with a 1.7x base blood energy amplification.

First Grade Spear Qi: Equivalent to an additional 400 Cal blood energy burst, with a 2x base blood energy amplification!

What did this mean?

It meant that between two Fifth Stage spear cultivators with the same base blood energy, if one mastered Third Grade Spear Qi and the other mastered First Grade Spear Qi, the latter's actual combat power would far surpass the former's!

Moreover, this gap would further widen as their realms increased—because the base blood energy amplification was multiplicative, and the power of the Spear Qi itself would also grow with deepening understanding of the Spear Dao.