110: Intermediate War God level

thousand-year willow heart, a non-renewable Heaven And Earth Treasure, can significantly increase human cell activity and physical fitness, helping a Martial Artist Breakthrough their Realm.

The aura emitted by the thousand-year willow heart made one feel refreshed. Qiao Yu sat cross-legged, feeling a refreshing and comfortable warm breeze on his body, as if his Soul had been sublimated.

Just as Qiao Yu was wondering how to use the thousand-year willow heart, he caught a glimpse of the gift box containing it, with a corner of the instruction manual peeking out.

After reading the instructions, Qiao Yu followed the method described to pierce the shell of the thousand-year willow heart and poured the spirit of grass and wood liquid inside into his mouth.

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Qiao Yu only felt a warm current flowing from his throat down his esophagus into his abdomen, and then through his Dantian to all parts of his body.

In an instant, Qiao Yu felt his entire body's muscles and bones trembling. He could clearly perceive that after drinking the spirit liquid, his limbs and bones had undergone changes at the cellular level.

Just when Qiao Yu thought the effects of the thousand-year willow heart were only so-so, he actually felt the genes within his body undergoing a transformation.

Some originally useless or defective genes were optimized, and the remaining genes were rearranged, optimized, and integrated.

The fungus in his body even extracted the original excellent genes of the thousand-year willow heart and fused them into its own body, forming a new type of gene.

These were only invisible changes at the cellular and genetic levels. The visible changes on the surface of his body were Impurities being expelled through his skin pores, forming a foul-smelling black substance.

Under the nourishment of the thousand-year willow heart, Qiao Yu's strength was also increasing at a rapid pace.

Qiao Yu could even feel that the fungal nest and those Fungus Monsters a hundred miles away were receiving the same nourishment, as Qiao Yu was originally one with them.

However, the Fungus Monsters given to the Organization only replicated the original genes of the monsters and were not optimized. After all, Qiao Yu didn't want to get into trouble with the Organization because of this.

While his body was being nourished, Qiao Yu could feel the fungal nest and Fungus Monsters a hundred miles away constantly feeding back wisps of energy, returning to his body in an indescribable way.

At the same time, every single fungus seemed to produce a wisp of Soul. This Soul energy continuously converged into Qiao Yu's Soul lake like water being transported through a pipe.

Qiao Yu's Physical Body strength continued to increase, and his Soul was also expanding. The Soul, which was originally just a lake, became as vast and magnificent as an ocean after receiving Soul feedback from billions of fungus cells.

Qiao Yu had always known that every single fungus cell could enhance his Soul strength, but he was previously limited by his physical fitness not being able to keep up, so his Soul strength could not be further enhanced.

The Soul energy that each fungus cell can withstand is limited.

"I was a bit worried before about how to hide my identity as an Acquired Psycher Master if my Soul energy became insufficient in the future. Now it seems I was overthinking it. It turns out the number of fungi was already enough for my Psychic Power to reach a higher level, but it was restricted by my cell strength. But why didn't it force an increase in physical fitness through Psychic Power like Luo Feng did?"

Thinking of this, Qiao Yu was actually a bit curious. He guessed this should be the difference between Innate and Acquired Psycher Masters.

After understanding this, Qiao Yu let go of the burden in his heart.

The Sea of Consciousness of most Psycher Masters is like a liquid, and his Sea of Consciousness was the same. However, the Psychic Power of some exceptionally gifted Psycher Masters is solid. For example, Luo Feng's Psychic Power is a solid sphere, and the Psychic Power that branches off from it is enough for him to use for a long time.

While Qiao Yu was thinking, his Physical Body strength was also continuously climbing, advancing triumphantly all the way.

First, he broke through to Elementary War God, followed by Elementary God of War Peak. The shackles of Intermediate War God were thicker, but they only held him back for a moment before being broken through, reaching the Intermediate War God Level.

Qiao Yu quietly felt the changes in his body and Soul. After an hour, he felt the physical improvement begin to slow down until it stopped, and he slowly exhaled a mouthful of turbid air.

"Whew!"

Qiao Yu saw that the Rank on the System panel had already increased to Intermediate War God Level. He didn't expect to cross two Realms directly.

At the Intermediate War God Level, he already possessed 128,000 kg of punch force. A full-force punch could probably collapse a dam.

Since Psychic Power does not feed back as quickly as the body, but instead flows slowly into Qiao Yu's Sea of Consciousness like a trickle, his Psycher Master Rank would likely need some time to reach its Peak—that is, Advanced War God Level Peak. He was only one step away from stepping into the Planetary Level Psycher Master Rank, but Qiao Yu was in no hurry.

Qiao Yu stood up and stretched. His bones crackled like popping beans. Out of the corner of his eye, he caught sight of the shriveled transparent heart shell on the ground, and an idea sprang to mind.

"Since fungi can replicate weapons, battle uniforms, and even generate monsters, can fungi replicate and generate a thousand-year willow heart?"

Qiao Yu was puzzled and asked the System.

"System! Is this operation feasible?"

"[In response to the host, the replication and generation of plants and other organisms require the analysis of the original genes or materials of the relevant organism before accelerated growth and replication can be performed.]"

"Oh? It's feasible!"

Hearing the System say this, Qiao Yu felt a little excited.

If he could find the original thousand-year willow tree of this thousand-year willow heart and then perform genetic analysis, wouldn't that mean he could have a steady stream of thousand-year willow hearts?

Qiao Yu felt that this idea was truly feasible. Although spirits of grass and wood were rare, they were indeed renewable. The so-called spirit of grass and wood was merely an ordinary plant that had accumulated a large amount of cosmic energy, reaching a qualitative change from a quantitative one, resulting in genetic changes.

Therefore, spirits of grass and wood can be completely cultivated artificially. In the original work, the patches of spirits of grass and wood on Misty Island were cultivated by Babata to attract powerful experts.

Spirits of grass and wood might not be considered very precious treasures in the Universe, but for the current Earth Martial Artists, they are top-tier treasures.

A single spirit of grass and wood can allow an ordinary person to unlock their genetic lock and directly reach the Warlord Level, while Martial Artists who were originally at the Warlord Level can rely on the spirit of grass and wood to break through to the War God Level.

Moreover, unlike the gene medicines developed by humans themselves, it doesn't have various side effects.

However, those treasures that seem incredibly precious to people on Earth and the so-called strength Breakthroughs are equivalent to kindergarten children when placed in the Universe.

Even the world's number one and number two strongest experts like Hong and Thunder God are just beginning apprentices when looking at the Universe.