140: Chapter 140, Level 11 Scholar, Scholar Experience Revamp

It was not merely about making a selection, but hoping that these talented juniors could, upon the foundation of their predecessors' wisdom, make the choice most suitable for themselves that would lead to the pinnacle.

For over ten consecutive days, he studied tirelessly, forgetting to sleep or eat, as the viewpoints colliding and merging in his mind were like the stars.

The deeper he went, the more iron-clad Li Wen's conviction became.

The final choice was already on the tip of his tongue—the "Nine Heavens Divine Body".

This divine Cultivation Technique, ranked among the twelve super-grade techniques, had cultivation requirements so harsh they were daunting.

The demand for "extreme guidance of lightning power" and the long-term tempering of "extreme focus of mind" were like two insurmountable chasms, blocking countless talented individuals outside the door.

However, these two thresholds, which might be lifelong problems for other geniuses, were as fragile as a facade in the face of Li Wen's absolute advantages.

A Primordial Spirit that could control things down to the finest detail and observe the minutest of things was the ultimate method for guiding and manipulating lightning.

And the [Absolute Focus] that had reached the lv9 Realm, with its three hours of extreme effect time, was sufficient to handle the mental settling and control required for Cultivate.

With a Primordial Spirit to master lightning and Absolute Focus to stabilize his mind—if he possessed such advantages yet hesitated, not daring to touch the "Nine Heavens Divine Body" that symbolized the pinnacle of martial glory, Li Wen himself would consider that utterly foolish.

With his mind made up, the subsequent classics he perused all revolved around the "Nine Heavens Divine Body".

Every time he read the cultivation notes of his predecessors, and every time he savored their insights and expositions on the Dao of lightning, Li Wen's understanding became fuller, making the most solid preparations for the upcoming foundational tempering.

This morning was no different from any other.

Li Wen had his precisely prepared energy breakfast in the quiet room of his townhouse, then reconnected to the virtual pod, his consciousness sinking into that Xinhuo World composed of knowledge and experience.

His gaze swept rapidly over the classics regarding the "Nine Heavens Divine Body" and the cultivation insights recorded on the light screens, the massive amount of information efficiently classified, absorbed, and deduced by his Primordial Spirit, while the scholar experience for the Scholar profession steadily ticked upward.

However, today was ultimately different.

Just past eight o'clock, Li Wen voluntarily exited the immersive state, his consciousness returning to his Physical Body.

June 25th, for millions of high school Seniors across China, was a day to be remembered for a lifetime—the day the national college entrance exam results were released.

Even though he had already stepped into Kindling University a step ahead, Li Wen still kept this in mind at all times.

With his fingertips tapping on his wristwatch light screen, he familiarly entered the query website and input his name and exam number.

The page refreshed instantly, and the concise yet dazzling data appeared before his eyes:

Chinese: 150, Mathematics: 150, galactic common tongue: 150, History: 100, Politics: 100, Geography: 100, Total Score: 750, National Ranking: 1

As expected, all full marks.

His heart barely rippled before instantly returning to calm, as if this was only natural.

What truly stirred up the wind and clouds was the torrent of information that exploded in his Sea of Consciousness, manifested by the power of the panel, at the exact same moment the results page fully loaded.

[Your Chinese achieved first place in this national college entrance exam, scholar experience +5000] [Your galactic common tongue achieved first place in this national college entrance exam, scholar experience +5000] [Your Mathematics achieved first place in this national college entrance exam, scholar experience +5000] [Your History achieved first place in this national college entrance exam, scholar experience +5000] [Your Politics achieved first place in this national college entrance exam, scholar experience +5000] [Your Geography achieved first place in this national college entrance exam, scholar experience +5000] [Your overall ranking achieved first place in the country, scholar experience +30000]

The dense notification prompts washed down frantically like twelve golden waterfalls.

The accumulated experience points instantly shattered the shackles of his profession level.

[Profession: Scholar lv9 (22814 → 82814/25600)] [Profession upgrading—] [Profession: Scholar lv10 (57214/51200)] [Profession upgrading—] [Profession: Scholar lv11 (6014/102400)]

lv9 → lv10 → lv11. Two consecutive levels!

"Boom!!!" It was as if the dome of his Sea of Consciousness was suddenly breached by a violent torrent of the galaxy.

An unimaginable, unprecedentedly vast and pure spiritual energy, like a super stellar core that had been dormant for billions of years suddenly awakening and erupting, exploded and surged within Li Wen's consciousness space without reservation, with unparalleled grandeur.

The silvery-white spiritual torrent was no longer a trickle, but had turned into a monstrous wave, violently sweeping and scouring every inch of the boundaries of his Sea of Consciousness.

They were like liquid starlight possessing life, carrying the logic of knowledge, the sharpness of insight, and the profundity of understanding, frantically attempting to expand this spiritual territory.

A clear sensation of distension came from his Sea of Consciousness; that was the sign of space being forcibly stretched and reshaped by the massive power.

At the center of this tumultuous storm of pure Mental Energy, the tiny Primordial Spirit figure, which had been crouching at the Origin of his Sea of Consciousness and emitting a gentle silver light, suddenly opened its eyes.

Its brilliance was unprecedentedly intense, like a miniature sun rising in the Sea of Consciousness.

At the center of the tiny figure's brow, the two mysterious runes that originally represented the second layer of the Primordial Spirit Realm, which had been faint, suddenly shone brightly, like brands injected with molten lava, gleaming and frantically absorbing the pure spiritual Origin surging in like a tide.

Against the backdrop of his expanding Sea of Consciousness and the raging spiritual storm, Li Wen's sensory ability surged frantically in all directions like floodwater released from a dam.

The originally clear two-hundred-meter world of "seeing" instantly broke through its precise boundaries to over three hundred meters.

And that vague field of sensing the aura of heaven and earth spread at an unprecedented speed, easily crossing the previous five-mile boundary and rapidly covering a range of nearly seven miles.

The auras of all living things around him, the fluctuations of energy particles, and the microscopic trajectories of air currents all unfolded slowly in his perception like a scroll, clearer and richer.

The two illuminated runes at his brow flickered violently, even beginning to faintly outline and interweave the illusory silhouette of a third, more complex and profound rune.

A powerful feeling of palpitation, as if about to break free from some invisible shackle, was clearly transmitted from the tiny Primordial Spirit figure.

"Hoo—" Sitting cross-legged on the meditation cushion in the quiet room, Li Wen's body trembled slightly, his breathing heavy and long, each breath seemingly containing a massive tide of Mental Energy.

He concentrated all his mind, operating the concealment technique taught by the principal. The tiny Primordial Spirit's light dimmed slightly, the fluctuations of the runes at his brow were forcibly suppressed, and the terrifying Primordial Spirit pressure, which was about to reach a critical point, was firmly constrained within his Sea of Consciousness, not leaking a single bit to affect the outside world.

Under the guidance of the Primordial Spirit, the vast waves of the Sea of Consciousness began to rotate, compress, and settle in an orderly manner—the silhouette of the third rune, representing the third layer of the Primordial Spirit, became clearer and more solid amidst the flickering light.

He was only a thin layer of window paper away from breaking through to the third layer of the Primordial Spirit, just one opportunity away from a natural success.

It is estimated that the next time the Scholar profession upgrades to lv12, it will be the time for the Primordial Spirit to break through to the third layer.

Li Wen slowly opened his eyes, the divine light within his pupils contained, deep as an abyss.

Outside the window, the morning light of the Xinhuo Ancestral Vein was just right.

The brief clamor brought by being the national top Scholar had quietly dissipated, and the higher steps leading to the path of gods and demons were clearly revealed before his more powerful spirit and Primordial Spirit.

Li Wen felt the unprecedented clarity and vastness in his mind, as if he could easily perceive the subtle fluctuations of the material world and the energy plane.

This joy had not yet faded when another thought rushed into his mind impatiently.

"Scholar level—finally broke through to lv10."

Li Wen's eyes suddenly lit up; he immediately recalled a key node in the game from his previous life.

In the game settings, reaching lv10 in a profession was a watershed moment.

At that time, the game ushered in its first major version update, and the most important change after the update was that the ways to obtain experience points for all professions became richer and simpler.

Before this, for every profession to break through to lv10, one needed to go through a relatively long and difficult accumulation period.

"I was worried before that if the scholar experience acquisition mechanism hadn't changed, I would be stuck after rising to lv10 and unable to make any progress—now it seems I was overthinking it."

Li Wen's heart suddenly cleared, his thoughts flying, "This time, directly crossing over lv10 to rise to lv11, the way to obtain experience must have been synchronized and updated."

He instantly grasped the key: "The root cause lies in myself. It seems this version update is triggered by being bound to my level as a 'Scholar'. Only when I truly reach the threshold of lv10 will the restrictions be lifted and the experience acquisition method optimized. If I delayed in breaking through, I might have been stuck in that original version forever."

Having figured this out, Li Wen no longer hesitated.

His figure flickered, and he rushed into the study like a gust of wind.

His gaze swept quickly over the bookshelf, and he casually pulled out the martial arts theory book he had perused last time—"Appreciation of Basic Domains".

This book's theory was profound, involving the preliminary construction principles of space and energy fields, and had an important guiding effect for Martial Artists in constructing their own Domain.

Li Wen calmed his heart and focused, opened the pages, and quickly immersed himself in it.

After his Mental Energy and Primordial Spirit soared again, his understanding of the text, analysis of concepts, and deduction of internal logic had all reached a brand-new height.

Theories that were once obscure and difficult to understand, at this moment, under the blessing of his powerful Spirit Attribute and "One Proof, Eternal Proof", became clear and logical.

He was not just reading, but efficiently absorbing, dismantling, and reconstructing his knowledge System.

[You seriously studied "Appreciation of Basic Domains" for ten minutes, scholar experience +10] [Profession: Scholar lv11 (6014 → 6024/102400)]

The golden notification box quietly appeared in his field of vision.

"As expected." Li Wen's eyes bloomed with irrepressible joy, and he closed the book, "It increased tenfold directly."

This improvement in efficiency could be considered a timely rain.

If this thing didn't update, he estimated that it would be very difficult to obtain scholar experience points in the future.

It was just because, in a supreme martial arts institution like Kindling University, the entire focus was on martial arts Cultivate, divine magic techniques, and actual combat.

Cultural courses? That was in a state of being almost completely left to one's own devices.

Unlike ordinary colleges that had systematic courses, the cultural learning mode of Kindling University was extremely special.

At the beginning of the semester, they only distributed books containing a large amount of martial arts theory, secret technique analysis, and even different types of knowledge, with no mandatory classroom teaching.

Students relied entirely on self-study, and if they had any difficulties, they could go to the Xinhuo World to seek the explanation of a Virtual Mentor.

The "textbooks" here had long since departed from the scope of high school mathematics and Chinese; they were all knowledge fortresses related to high-level martial arts.

If it weren't for the convenience of allowing students to understand various techniques later on, it was estimated that even this would be canceled.

The further one went with Cultivation Techniques and classics, the more they contained the supreme principles of heaven and earth, the true meaning of the Dao, with archaic and profound meanings, and mysterious logic.

If one couldn't even understand the books, how could one talk about understanding, mastering, and applying them?

Li Wen had a deep understanding of this.

In the past ten-plus days, he had only spent less than a day studying the core information of thirty-six divine magic techniques, leaving other geniuses who were still struggling to study them dumbfounded.

And when subsequently checking the cultivation notes and insights of his predecessors, while others needed to spend several days or even longer to finish one book, he, relying on his profound accumulation and the efficient learning characteristics of a Scholar, could easily digest one or two books a day.

This was partly due to the advantage brought by the "One Proof, Eternal Proof" passive, but more importantly, it was the terrifying foundation of cultural knowledge he had built in the past half-year, without stopping for a moment, racing against time.

Those efforts at Qingshi No. 3 Middle School that were considered useless, at this moment, erupted with astonishing value.

"Scholar—this is its true super-model aspect in this world." A strong sense of self-confidence surged in Li Wen's heart, "In the early stages, it might just be accelerating Cultivate, but as it gets to the later stages, when facing increasingly unfathomable Cultivation Techniques, secret techniques, and the true meaning of the Dao, this terrifying advantage in understanding, deduction, and learning ability will be infinitely magnified."

Having verified that there were no more worries about obtaining scholar experience, a heavy stone in Li Wen's heart fell to the ground.

But he was more eager to experience another huge improvement—the 110% Comprehension Ability bonus brought by Scholar lv11.

He almost impatiently turned and rushed into the spacious and bright martial arts room.

The room was decorated simply and practically, with various standard weapons placed against the wall.

Li Wen's gaze was sharp; he precisely pulled out a standard fast saber with moderate length and a straight blade from the weapon rack; this was his best choice for practicing the Flowing Rainbow Blade Technique.

Taking a few steps to the center of the martial arts room, standing on an open space paved with special metal Materials, Li Wen took a deep breath, and his mind instantly sank into the depths of his Sea of Consciousness.

"[Absolute Focus]—Activate!"

In an instant, the clamor of the outside world and the distractions in his heart seemed to be completely wiped away by an invisible hand.

Li Wen's pupils contracted slightly, everything in his field of vision lost its color, and only the cold, faintly glowing fast saber in his hand became the only focus of the world.

The sense of time became blurred yet precise, and space also seemed to stagnate.

All senses existed for the blade.

An invisible force enveloped his whole body, every inch of muscle fiber in his Physical Body, every path of Qi and blood circulation, reached an unprecedented state of harmony under the precise control of his Primordial Spirit.

A heart-palpitating absolute silence permeated the air.

Li Wen moved.

The blade light suddenly rose, like the first ray of Lve Ying tearing through the night curtain at dawn.

"Flowing Rainbow - Lve Ying!"

Fast! So fast that it exceeded the limits of visual capture.

His whole person seemed to turn into a faint, invisible shadow.