55: Chapter 55 Mental Power Exposed? Breaking Limits, Seven Times!

With the tacit approval of Chief Instructor Meng Xiaochuan, this major examination concluded in a manner that could only be described as dramatic.

Following that was the reward session that Lu Qingyun had been eagerly anticipating!

Although he had sold his ranking, he had made it clear from the very beginning that he was only selling the ranking itself.

And those rewards... still belonged to him!

A full twenty technique manuals, all of top-tier quality; after this haul, filling out the techniques for the Aperture-Opening Realm... should be no problem, right?

After a brief rest.

The twenty people, including Lu Qingyun, were led by Chief Instructor Meng Xiaochuan to the place where the techniques and martial arts manuals were stored.

On the way, Sima Lan took the initiative to sidle up to Lu Qingyun, her eyes sparkling with an unusually excited glow.

Unlike what others might think, being defeated by Lu Qingyun... she accepted it wholeheartedly!

Because, in terms of pure physical strength, she had been nearly crushed by Lu Qingyun!

And her most relied-upon Charm talent, no matter how many times she unleashed it upon Lu Qingyun, had absolutely no effect!

It was as if her mental energy had been completely dissolved.

This was extremely unreasonable!

The only explanation was...

"Lu Qingyun, are you... a Psychic Type Awakened?"

Sima Lan's lips moved slightly as she utilized her Psychic Power to make her voice suddenly ring in Lu Qingyun's ear.

Upon feeling this novel way of using Psychic Power, Lu Qingyun was also slightly surprised.

However, relying on his mastery over Psychic Power, it was extremely easy to achieve this, and after trying a few times, he succeeded.

"Yes, so what?"

He did not hide his Psychic Power from Sima Lan.

After all, she wasn't stupid; who would believe that someone could withstand a Psychic Type talent without being affected in the slightest if they didn't have something special regarding their own mental state!

Moreover, being a dual-type Awakened, while rare, was not unheard of.

He had already displayed the strongest talent in the Tianjiao Camp; even if Sima Lan exposed this matter, it would just mean he had one more powerful talent.

At least that was better than people randomly suspecting him of possessing some supreme treasure, which would only invite a whole host of troubles.

"Hiss—!!"

Sima Lan gasped.

Although she had already guessed it, after receiving confirmation from Lu Qingyun himself, the shock in her heart was truly unleashed!

Just by relying on the Physical Type talent he had revealed, he was able to defeat all the members of the Tianjiao Camp in a crushing manner!

And he had even nearly killed a Xiantian Martial Artist while still in the Aperture Opening Realm!

This was already shocking enough!

Yet, on top of that, Lu Qingyun still had something hidden!

Judging solely by his ability to ignore her Charm talent, Lu Qingyun's cultivation in the mental aspect must not be much lower than his physical cultivation.

If both were to be displayed together...

Sima Lan lowered her head, doing her best to hide her excited expression to avoid letting the others notice anything unusual.

Immediately after, she continued to communicate with Lu Qingyun using Psychic Power, giving him her assurance.

"Don't worry, since you don't want to expose it, I will definitely not tell anyone else about this!"

From this moment on, she felt a little flutter of excitement at the fact that the two of them now shared a secret.

In the entire Tianjiao Camp, she was the only one who knew just how monstrously talented the boy before her really was!

Afterwards, Sima Lan used this communication ability, possessed only by Psychic Type Awakened, to chat endlessly with Lu Qingyun.

With nothing better to do, Lu Qingyun also learned a lot of information he hadn't known before from Sima Lan.

For instance, regarding the Aperture-Opening Realm, ordinary people reach their limit after training one hundred and eight acupoints, at which point they can begin to attempt a breakthrough to the Xiantian Realm.

Yet, one hundred and eight acupoints is not the true limit!

Breaking the limit and entering the one hundred and ninth acupoint counts as breaking the limit once!

Following that, every thirty-six acupoints constitutes a limit break!

The first limit break is not particularly difficult; as long as one has the subsequent techniques and the resources to keep up, plus a certain amount of talent, it can be achieved.

This is where one sets themselves apart from those most ordinary Xiantian Martial Artists.

As for the second limit break, on top of the techniques, one's comprehension and aptitude must both be top-notch to potentially break through!

This is already the ranks of the prodigies!

By the third limit break, the techniques alone are enough to stop many descendants of great families in their tracks; even with the subsequent techniques, those capable of breaking into this realm are few and far between!

Even Sima Lan was not confident that she could definitely break into the third limit break.

As for the fourth... in the entire Ningan City, only one had appeared a few years ago.

"Calculating it this way... I should have to undergo seven limit breaks?"

Lu Qingyun calculated it secretly in his heart, and his face immediately twisted into a grimace.

Honestly speaking, if he could, he would really want to skip the redundant steps of limit breaking!

Wouldn't it be better to just break through directly from the Aperture-Opening Late Stage to the Xiantian Realm!?

Anyway, for him, a Xiantian Martial Artist was already at least level twenty-something.

For him, who possessed the heaven-defying mechanism of Hierarchical Severity, all these limit breaks and whatnot—if he slapped someone and they didn't die, he'd consider it a dud!

It was just a pity that he still had to level up one by one.

His current level had already reached the limit imposed by his techniques, which counted as one limit break, and any excess experience was just piling up in his experience pool.

Logically speaking, after obtaining a Xiantian technique, he could completely ascend directly into the Xiantian Realm!

But there was no need to even think about it; how could the system possibly let him soar directly from LV14 to over LV20?

"Trash system, it doesn't know how to be flexible at all!"