18: Chapter 18 Breakthrough! The fastest Foundation Establishment realm ever reached!

However, the reward for success was excellent; Li Mo could learn a new talent again.

One must know that since the Spirit Awakening, everyone could only possess one talent starting from the age of fourteen!

Furthermore, they could only have this single talent for their entire life!

Even if an occasional exception appeared, it would at most be two talents.

Li Mo had only heard of one person so far who was able to possess two talents.

That was Marshal Chen Han, who saved all of humanity two hundred years ago.

It was said that he possessed two talents.

From this, it was evident that the more talents one had, the greater their advantage.

Not to mention that Li Mo could also upgrade all the talents he acquired to SSS-rank through the Devouring Emperor Body!

Therefore, having such an opportunity, Li Mo would naturally not miss it.

"This mission! I accept it!" Li Mo said through gritted teeth.

Reaching the Foundation Establishment Realm within a month might be impossible for others, but for Li Mo, it was not that difficult.

First of all, the four years from age 18 to around 22, which is when the average person attends a Martial Arts University, was almost the time in a person's life when they advanced the most rapidly.

For example, many students with excellent talent at Starry Sky University would reach the Foundation Establishment Realm during these few years, and there were even many who reached the Blood Transformation Realm.

If one had not reached the Blood Transformation Realm after graduating from Starry Sky University, they could not be considered a genius with good talent.

However, once this age was exceeded, for some unknown reason, the speed of advancement would instead become slow.

According to scientific research, the conclusion reached was that human body cells would accelerate the absorption of spiritual energy during these four years and continuously expand their own power.

After four years, the cells' absorption speed of spiritual energy would slow down.

As for the reason, it was currently unknown.

Secondly, do not forget that Li Mo previously possessed an SS-rank talent.

During the years he lost his talent, he had been training diligently day and night.

Although the system returned the cultivation Li Mo had lost, Li Mo had not lost the cultivation experience he had accumulated over those years.

There were also tricks to cultivation; for instance, there were methods for which time of day was suitable for cultivation, and how to absorb spiritual energy while training, among other things.

All the cultivation experience Li Mo had accumulated helped him train better.

As long as Li Mo put in some hard work during this month, reaching the Foundation Establishment Stage should not be difficult.

In the time that followed, Li Mo worked even harder, one could even say he was sleepless and tireless, completely devoting himself to training.

Under such hellish bitter training, a month passed quickly.

Li Mo himself was almost unaware of the passage of time; he only knew that under such bitter training, he seemed to have finally touched the threshold of the Foundation Establishment Realm!

One day, while Li Mo was wielding his spear on the drill ground, he suddenly felt a flash of inspiration in his mind, and a massive force surged into his entire body like a warm current.

Li Mo did not know this was a precursor to breaking through; the next moment, his entire body suddenly went numb, he involuntarily dropped the spear in his hand to the ground, and immediately collapsed.

This scene gave the surrounding recruits a big fright.

"What happened to Li Mo? Could something have gone wrong?"

"I saw him training like his life depended on it this past month! Is it possible he suffered a backlash?"

"What do we do? Is there anyone who knows medicine? Someone, come and take a look!"

As Li Mo's roommate, Xu Feng was the first to jump out.

He lifted Li Mo up, intending to take him to the infirmary.

Fortunately, Head Instructor Su Xiaoxiao had been nearby and ran over immediately upon seeing this scene.

"Don't move him; he is breaking through!"

"When breaking through, a person's body, internal organs, and even cells are like they are being shattered and reorganized, so he is extremely weak!"

"Generally speaking, there must be someone guarding during a breakthrough, and he must absolutely not be moved recklessly, otherwise it is easy to have qi deviation and go into demonic possession. Xu Feng, you first help him up and let him sit upright."

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Breaking through?

Hearing these two words, everyone present was shocked.

It had only been a month, and among the crowd, those who trained quickly had only improved by one minor realm.

Those who trained slowly remained at their original realm!

Li Mo was originally at the seventh rank of the Hidden Edge Realm; reaching the ninth rank of the Hidden Edge Realm in a month was already extremely heaven-defying!

Everyone did not expect that he would actually break through his realm and directly reach the Foundation Establishment Realm!

"Holy cow! Is he that awesome? He reached the Foundation Establishment Realm just like that?"

"Is he even human? I've never heard of anyone advancing realms this quickly."

"Too terrifying! Comparing people just makes one angry!"

Everyone sighed with emotion, but while complaining, they also helped straighten Li Mo's body.

Then, Head Instructor Su Xiaoxiao sat behind Li Mo and infused a burst of true qi into his body, helping Li Mo organize the turbulent spiritual energy within him.

The military originally had cultivation methods regarding breakthroughs, but that stuff was basically only officially distributed after three months of recruit training.

Because since the New Daxia Calendar, no recruit in the military had ever been able to reach the Foundation Establishment Realm during the recruit training period!

Even those at the ninth rank of the Hidden Edge Realm were very rare!

Originally, breaking through was extremely troublesome and required a lot of preparation.

If it weren't for Head Instructor Su Xiaoxiao having experience, Li Mo would probably have been in some trouble.

I don't know how much time passed, but the turbulent spiritual energy inside Li Mo was finally completely organized. The violent spiritual energy filled his body, even causing all of Li Mo's skin to turn bright red, looking somewhat frightening.

But this was extremely normal; after a martial artist reached the Foundation Establishment Realm, spiritual power would merge into the blood, and reaching the Blood Transformation Realm meant having these spiritual powers merged into the blood all absorbed by the body's own cells.

Therefore, Li Mo had now reached the Foundation Establishment Realm!

The next second, Li Mo slowly opened his eyes, and the first thing he did was thank everyone.

"Head Instructor Su, thank you."

"Everyone, thank you for your concern."

Although Li Mo's consciousness had been blurry and his whole body weak just now, he could fuzzily feel everyone's actions.

At least in this military camp, there was no backstabbing, no insults or disdain; everyone was genuinely helping each other.

"What are you thanking us for! Li Mo, you are truly awesome!"

"Yeah! Our Recruit Camp actually produced someone who reached the Foundation Establishment Stage in just a month; we all share in the glory."

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At this time, Head Instructor Su Xiaoxiao stood up and helped Li Mo up: "There's no need for thanks. You just broke through, your body should be extremely weak. You don't need to train today; I will write a note for the cafeteria to prepare some nourishing food for you."

Li Mo nodded and did not refuse; his body was indeed weak right now, partly because he had just broken through, and partly because he had indeed been too diligent these days.

Fortunately, the result did not let his hard work down!

Not only did he break through three realms consecutively within a month to reach the Foundation Establishment Realm, but he also completed the mission three days ahead of schedule!

At this moment, the system's mission completion prompt immediately sounded in Li Mo's ears.