61: Chapter 61 Military Region Sub-region and Base Sub-region

After activating the Breathing Technique,

Ye Hai's three attributes increased directly by a percentage!

And this was merely the result of one month.

He looked back at his status panel.

[Evolution Path: Self-Metamorphosis]

[Evolution Rank: Existence Type Tier 1 (SS-Class Evolution)]

[Metamorphosis Aspect: Peerless Azure Dragon]

[Physical Strength: 1658 (+45)]

[Neural Response: 1092 (+62)]

[Cell Strength: 1634 (+79)]

[Mental Will: 737 (+27)]

[Elemental Affinity: 192 (+35)]

[Thought Perception: 605 (+91)]

[Divine Soul Strength: 152]

[Cultivation Progress—]

[Quzhuo Method (Body Tempering Technique), Water Breathing Overlapping Method (Breathing Technique)]

The extent of attribute increases from the Breathing Technique indeed couldn't compare to the Body Tempering Technique.

Even though over the past thirty days,

almost every moment of every day,

he had been in a state of maintaining the Breathing Technique,

the increase in each attribute was only in double digits.

After all, the Breathing Technique was different from the Body Tempering Technique and Visualization Technique.

It was a method focused on slow and steady progress, gradually nourishing one's body.

Some Evolvers might spend five or ten years... or even decades,

habitually remaining in the state of their Breathing Technique.

And the total attribute gain accumulated over those years... would actually be far greater than that from the Body Tempering Technique.

It just couldn't be achieved overnight.

The scenario of greatly increasing one's strength in just a few months

simply didn't align with the logic of the Breathing Technique.

Of course...

the concept of time didn't align with Ye Hai's logic either.

"Before, for the sake of a single Stone Diagrams... I could rewrite over a decade of the past..."

"Now, going from quantitative change to qualitative change with the Breathing Technique... I can do the same..."

Ye Hai was delighted with this improvement in focus.

The Water Breathing Overlapping Method was not as simple as merely increasing those three attributes;

it brought him into a state of intense concentration.

One should know that

many factors contributing to powerful strength

do not show up on the attribute panel.

For example, if Comprehension Ability were an attribute, everyone's would certainly be different,

yet no such attribute exists on the panel.

Focus was the same.

After activating the Breathing Technique,

one could eliminate all distracting thoughts and fully immerse themselves in whatever they were doing, unleashing their attributes to a higher level.

Whether in combat or at rest...

the focus brought by the Breathing Technique was an exceptionally good buff.

Furthermore, whether one was an Esper or a Metahuman...

it could be applied perfectly.

And as one used the Breathing Technique deeper and more proficiently, the enhancement of focus grew higher as well,

providing an increasingly greater boost to overall strength.

Just as Ye Hai was about to use his diary to rewrite the past further and make his Breathing Technique even stronger,

there was noise outside.

Someone was knocking on the door.

Ye Hai stuck his head out to look, and it turned out to be Lin Zishan.

At this moment, tiny, translucent beads of sweat covered the tip of Lin Zishan's nose.

She had just run over from outside.

Her Physical Strength attribute of less than one hundred points was too low, leaving her panting heavily from exertion.

"What happened?"

Ye Hai frowned at Lin Zishan and reminded her, "This is my private space..."

Fortunately, the diary was a special Soul-grade holy artifact

that only Ye Hai himself could see.

"Some people treated us like raw recruits and provoked us..."

"Wei Tong has a bad temper. She clashed with some geniuses from the military region and suffered a small setback..."

Lin Zishan frowned as she explained the situation.

It turned out that during this period of cultivation,

Wei Tong and Lin Zishan

had gone out several times to look for Dieshan and ask about relevant matters,

which caught the attention of several Genius Evolvers from the military region.

Lin Zishan was surrounded by a few military geniuses,

and her best friend Wei Tong naturally couldn't stand by and watch, so she got into a sharp argument with them.

However, Wei Tong's strength was somewhat lacking, so she suffered a minor loss during the conflict.

She was even held back and prevented from leaving, getting entangled in the confrontation.

Fortunately, some Senior students from Zhangjiang Base stepped in

and temporarily defused the situation for Wei Tong.

Seeing that things were looking bad, Lin Zishan immediately came to Ye Hai for reinforcements.

"How are you two so good at causing trouble?"

Ye Hai grumbled,

"Bothering me normally is fine because I'm soft-hearted..."

"Why go and provoke people from the frontline military region who risk their lives every day?"

Lin Zishan was rendered speechless by Ye Hai's words, left thoroughly silent.

After a long silence, she finally said,

"I feel like those people aren't just picking on us for no reason; they seem to have a purpose..."

"They just want to test the mettle of geniuses from our base."

"They don't seem particularly malicious."

"And Senior Dieshan saw it and didn't intervene..."

"He must want to encourage competition among our younger generation or something..."

"How about you go over and take a look..."

In fact,

the population born in Jinding Base didn't all reside within the main bases.

Many children were born directly in the various military regions.

From the moment they were born,

these children stayed on the frontline military regions with their parents...

or lived with their parents' comrades.

From their earliest memories, they were exposed to all kinds of brutal frontline warfare

and had never lived in the comfortable main bases.

Only on occasional vacations could they visit the rear bases to play.

This type of child was small in number and was referred to as "Military Region Descendantss".

This was in contrast to the "Base Descendantss" born in the city bases.

However, each military region generally had anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand Military Region Descendantss.

Growing up in hard conditions gave these Military Region Descendantss strong and resilient Heart-Nature,

along with a sharp edge and fierce aura that Base Descendantss lacked.

At the same time, they had significant shortcomings in academic knowledge.

They often practiced various methods rigorously from childhood, almost all having built a solid foundation since youth.

Once they underwent their first evolution,

their strength would take off rapidly,

far outstripping the rate of progress seen in Base Descendantss.

Even S-Class Evolver Wei Tong, who had also trained her body since childhood,

suffered quite a setback when facing this group of Military Region Descendantss.

At present,

Lin Zishan could only ask the strongest among them, Ye Hai, to step in and resolve this conflict.

Around three in the afternoon,

the ruins of Jinchuan Military Region were quite lively.

Around the area, a large group of Tier 2 and Tier 3 Evolvers were eating their meals while watching the commotion.

Right in the middle of the crowd was Wei Tong.

Anxious at this moment, she clenched her fists tightly, her fluffed-up tail held high.

With resentment in her eyes, she glared furiously at the group of Military Region Descendantss opposite her.

Just moments before,

a group of Military Region Descendantss had come over to provoke her and Lin Zishan.

With her fiery temper, Wei Tong naturally wasn't going to pamper them.

So she got into a fight with an A-Class evolved Military Region Descendants from the opposing side.

Wei Tong originally held an attribute advantage,

but the "sparring" in her eyes...

and the "sparring" in the eyes of these Military Region Descendantss were two completely different concepts.

The opponent's brutal fighting style caught Wei Tong off guard, leaving her unable to adapt.

Even while holding dual suppression in both talent and attributes, Wei Tong ended up taking a minor loss.

It wasn't a major issue;

she simply failed to maintain her balance during the fight, tricked into falling flat on her rear.

As a result, Wei Tong snapped on the spot.

Being beaten by someone of a lower evolution Rank...

This was way too insulting!

So she clenched her fists, wanting to continue sparring with them.

Seeing that Wei Tong was about to suffer another loss,

a group of Senior students from Zijie High School stepped in

and directly held Wei Tong back.

"Junior Sister, don't be angry. They've practiced martial foundations since childhood. Don't waste your breath arguing with these roughnecks."

"You study knowledge in class, so you're not even on the same track as them. Junior Sister, let's take it easy."

"They had people guiding them in Breathing Techniques from a young age and learned quite a few Martial Skills, which is why their strength is higher early on after evolving..."

This group of Senior students from Zijie High School frantically tried to give Wei Tong a way out.

Yet Wei Tong ground her teeth in frustration, so agitated that even the tail behind her stiffened.

The group of Military Region Descendantss opposite didn't harbor much real malice,

but they held certain opinions regarding Base Descendantss who were raised in the cities.

To be able to grow up in a comfortable, carefree, and happy environment,

yet be completely pathetic when it came to combat capability...

When Base Descendants rookies reached the battlefield, they were truly green recruits... hardly any could adapt right away.

Thus, Military Region Descendantss felt a degree of resentment towards Base Descendantss.

And the way they wanted to vent this emotion was simply by giving Base Descendantss a thorough beating.

This year, about two hundred Military Region Descendantss had reached adulthood.

However, seemingly benefiting from the spirit of the era,

among these two hundred or so Military Region Descendantss...

there actually emerged three A-Class Evolvers and one S-Class Evolver.

And the one who defeated Wei Tong was actually one of the weaker ones among the three A-Class Evolvers.