389: Chapter 389 Peak of the Fourth Rank!

One by one, valuable High Grade spiritual pills...

...were swallowed and refined by him like flowing water, transformed into the purest Five Elements True Qi.

They nourished the seeds and pushed his realm steadily toward that barrier.

As the light outside the window gradually faded, night quietly fell.

Qin Yan also reached his final pill refinement of the day.

Before him, five jade bottles were already empty.

The last five elemental spiritual pills lay quietly in his palm.

"Success or failure depends on this one move."

Qin Yan's gaze was solemn as he swallowed the last five pills all at once.

"Buzz, buzz, buzz—!"

The seeds emitted high-frequency tremors, as if cheering, yet also as if enduring immense pressure.

"Rumble—!!!"

Inside Qin Yan's body, it was as if muffled thunder was rolling!

The Five Elements True Qi, accumulated to the extreme, finally broke through an invisible boundary!

In the next instant, even more violent blood qi erupted from every pore of his body!

This time, the blood qi was no longer simple dark red, but an intertwining of five colors, dazzling and brilliant!

This process lasted for about fifteen minutes.

Finally, the churning five-colored blood qi smoke suddenly retracted like a whale drinking water, all sinking back into Qin Yan's body.

All anomalies subsided.

Silence returned to the training room, with only the rich lingering energy and pill fragrance in the air proving everything that had just happened.

Qin Yan slowly opened his eyes.

In his eyes, five-colored brilliance flowed like substance for several breaths before slowly withdrawing.

His entire temperament seemed to have undergone a subtle change.

He lost some of the sharp edge of a newcomer to the Fourth Rank and gained some of the steadiness and restraint of a mountain peak.

He lightly clenched his fist, feeling the surging, seemingly endless, majestic power within his body.

The corners of his mouth finally curled into a smile of relief and immense satisfaction.

"It really wasn't easy... finally, Fourth Rank Peak!"

From just entering the early stage of the Fourth Rank to now standing at its peak, he had spent a huge sum of twenty thousand academic credits!

"For an average student, it might only take about four thousand academic credits."

"By exchanging for about twenty single-attribute spiritual pills, they could advance from the early stage of the Fourth Rank to the peak."

"However, the time they would need is likely several times longer than mine."

"Even with resources, they would need a long time to digest, adapt, and stabilize."

"But I, with the mystery of my cultivation method and the toughness of my body, can take pills almost continuously without interruption, maximizing resource efficiency!"

That he could complete the leap from the early stage to the peak in just over a day was certainly due to the massive amount of resources.

But the heaven-defying effect of the Five Elements Primordial Scripture was the key among keys.

"Luckily I participated in the Hidden Dragon Assembly and gained a large batch of resources, otherwise... how could I have broken through so quickly."

Qin Yan sighed with heartfelt emotion.

Without that windfall, relying solely on regular school supplies and missions...

...it would probably have taken him years to accumulate to such a level.

With his realm stabilized at the Fourth Rank Peak, Qin Yan turned his attention to the Five Elements Primordial Scripture itself.

He clearly felt that although the five elements seeds above his five internal organs had grown to the limit of his current realm...

...the connections between them had also become much tighter.

But there was still a considerable distance from the "mutual generation of the five elements, endless cycle" state of Perfection described by the cultivation method.

"According to the information from the cultivation method's inheritance, if I want to break through to a Fifth-Rank Martial Artist..."

"...the cultivation progress of the first layer probably needs to reach 2% or even higher."

Qin Yan estimated, "Although my True Qi accumulation has reached the Fourth Rank Peak, my cultivation method's realm is still far off."

"So, the focus of my cultivation next should shift from pure resource stacking and True Qi accumulation..."

...to diligent daily cultivation and the tempering of martial techniques."

Having understood this, Qin Yan did not slack off in the slightest.

He checked the time; there were only a few hours left until late at night.

"I can't waste it. I need to hurry and practice one last round of Spear Techniques; I can still gain forty Skill Points."

While the night was not yet deep, he picked up the ink trace long spear once more.

The wind of the spear rose again, but with an added sense of steadiness and agile exploration compared to before.

...

Time flew by like a white stallion passing a gap.

In the blink of an eye, ten days had quietly slipped away in day-after-day diligent cultivation and martial technique practice.

The calendar turned to August 8th.

In the evening, having finished a day of fulfilling training, Qin Yan looked down at the smart bracelet in his hand.

There was a message from his teacher on it, sent a few days ago:

[Xiao Yan, gather at Martial Arts Field No. 3 on the morning of August 9th. Prepare to head to the Zhenhai Battlefield for support. Be sure to be prepared.]

The message was concise and clear.

"As expected, what must come will come."

Looking at this message, Qin Yan wasn't very surprised; instead, he felt a sense of calm.

He had long been mentally prepared for being sent to the Zhenhai Battlefield for experiential support.

Whether from school regulations and customs or from his teacher sending battlefield information in advance, it was inevitable.

"But this Five Elements Primordial Scripture... is just too difficult to level up!"

Qin Yan couldn't help but complain to the air.

The "resentment" in his heart toward that cultivation method couldn't help but surface again.

In these ten days, aside from the Skill Points gained today...

...all the Skill Points gained from daily training at other times were used to push the cultivation method.

With an income of about 20 points daily, over ten days plus previous leftovers, he had invested over 2,000 Skill Points.

Specifically used to increase the progress of the first layer of the Five Elements Primordial Scripture!

However, the result left him somewhat speechless.

On the panel, the progress of the first layer of the Five Elements Primordial Scripture had only laboriously climbed from 1% to... 16%!

Moreover, as the progress increased, the Skill Points required for each 1% increase clearly grew!

The consumption for a 1% increase in the later stages was nearly several times that of the initial stages!

"No wonder among the many brilliant geniuses in the history of Modu University of Martial Arts, very few could truly practice this cultivation method to a profound level..."

At this moment, Qin Yan truly experienced the "scammy" nature of this cultivation method.

Its massive demand for resources was only the first threshold.

The subsequent terrifying requirement for "insight" was the deep abyss that truly discouraged countless geniuses!

Without a BUG-level method like the panel to forcibly instill comprehension...

...grinding by relying solely on one's own perception, the time and energy spent would be simply unimaginable.

"It seems that wanting to break through to the Fifth Rank in the short term is quite unrealistic."

Qin Yan shook his head, temporarily suppressing this helplessness.

Collecting his thoughts, Qin Yan called up the panel and began to examine his current state.