297: Chapter 295 Peak of Qi Refining

Six weeks later.

A lot of things happened during these six weeks.

The full-staff training of the Spirit Control Technique entered a normalized stage.

Among the more than two thousand three hundred First-Order Martial Artists, over one thousand eight hundred had stably mastered Elementary control.

Among them, a batch showed particularly outstanding performance—mostly veterans with previous experience in operating heavy machinery. The precision of their spiritual power control was already close to the level of Second-Order Martial Artists, lacking only a Breakthrough in cultivation.

The number of Second-Order Martial Artists increased from sixteen to eighty-seven.

This number was a bit slower than Su Mingyuan's expectation of two hundred people in three months, but Tao Zhe said this was normal—the Breakthrough from the first order to the second order required sufficient accumulation of spiritual power, and the production of the realm breaking pill was also limited, making it impossible for everyone to Breakthrough simultaneously.

All eighty-seven Second-Order Martial Artists had mastered remote control.

Among them, the remote distance of eleven people exceeded five kilometers, and the furthest one reached seven kilometers—that person's Root Bone was Grade A, and their Divine Sense talent was exceptionally prominent.

Over in the Zombie World, the breeding farm was expanded once again.

The stock of Fourth-Order zombies exceeded two hundred, and the monthly output of Fourth-Order crystal cores stabilized above eighty.

The production of First-Order and Second-Order crystal cores rose sharply, which was enough to support the current Cultivate consumption.

Trade with Cang City in the Yaowu World had completely normalized.

Zhao Hu had almost become a half-resident liaison officer, running back and forth between Cang City and the Forward Base twice a week.

Cang City exchanged herbs, Pill Formula, and animal skins for Daxia's compressed food, medical supplies, and ironware.

City Lord en own's injuries had recovered by seventy to eighty percent, but he still could not fight at full strength.

Over in the Main World, the universal Root Bone detection was basically completed.

The data of 1.4 billion people was all poured into Tianheng.

The final result—one hundred and thirty-one people with SS-Grade Root Bone, all of whom were already Cultivate in the Yaowu World.

For SSS-Grade Root Bone, besides Chen Rong and Lin Wan, three more people were screened out.

The three people had been sent into the Yaowu World and were currently receiving basic Cultivate.

But they had just started, and it was still early before they could be of any use.

As for Chen Rong and Lin Wan—

Today was the forty-second day.

Yaowu World Forward Base, dedicated Cultivate room.

The Cultivate room was a standalone building located in the deepest part of the base. All four sides were thickened skyfall steel walls, isolating external sound and energy interference.

The indoor area was not large, approximately sixty square meters. The floor and walls had both undergone spiritual power isolation treatment.

Chen Rong sat on the left side of the Cultivate room, cross-legged, with his hands placed on his knees. His breathing was extremely slow—about three times per minute.

Lin Wan sat on the right side in the same posture, but her breathing was even slower—only twice per minute.

The two were separated by about five meters.

In the monitoring room outside the Cultivate room, Tao Zhe stared at the real-time data on the screen, having stared for three hours.

Su Mingyuan stood behind him, similarly staring at the screen.

There were two sets of curves on the screen.

On the left was Chen Rong's spiritual power accumulation curve.

On the right was Lin Wan's.

Both curves were climbing slowly upwards.

Starting from the starting point of the third order, passing through the fourth order, they were now approaching the critical line of the Fifth-Order Grandmaster.

"Almost."

Tao Zhe said, his voice very soft, as if he was afraid of disturbing the two people inside.

On the screen, the critical value of the Fifth-Order Grandmaster was marked with a red dashed line.

Chen Rong's curve was still about three percent away from that dashed line.

Lin Wan's—two percent.

"Can they reach it today?" Su Mingyuan asked.

"According to the growth rate of the past six weeks—" Tao Zhe calculated quickly, "Lin Wan will be within about four hours. Chen Rong is slower, it might take six hours."

Su Mingyuan nodded slightly.

He moved a chair and sat down.

"Then let's wait a bit longer."

Four hours was a long process.

But for those who Cultivate, four hours meant nothing. During these six weeks of closed-door Cultivate, Chen Rong and Lin Wan's longest consecutive meditation exceeded seventy-two hours.

The Cultivate speed of SSS-Grade Root Bone was inherently a form of violence.

For those who Cultivate with ordinary Grade A Root Bone, going from the third order to the fifth order required more than a year.

Grade S required about six months.

Grade SS took about three months.

While SSS-Grade—six weeks.

This was the crushing superiority of talent.

By the third hour, Lin Wan's curve began to accelerate.

It was no longer rising at a constant speed—it was getting faster and faster.

"Spiritual Qi is spontaneously condensing." Tao Zhe's eyes lit up, "Her Meridians are beginning to produce a siphon effect—the higher the density of spiritual power in her body, the faster the speed of absorbing external Spiritual Qi. This is a typical phenomenon before a Breakthrough."

The third and a half hour.

Lin Wan's curve touched the red line.

Then crossed the red line.

At the same moment, changes occurred inside the Cultivate room.

Through the explosion-proof glass window of the monitoring room, Su Mingyuan and Tao Zhe saw—

The air around Lin Wan began to condense.

It was not a metaphor.

It was truly condensing.

Within a three-meter range around her, the water vapor in the air was frozen into fine ice crystals in an extremely short time, floating in the air and slowly rotating.

The readings of the temperature sensor were dropping—on Chen Rong's side on the left of the Cultivate room, it was still a normal twenty-two degrees, but the temperature around Lin Wan had already dropped to minus fifteen degrees, and it was still continuing to drop.

Minus twenty.

Minus thirty.

Minus forty.

The ground began to freeze.

A thin layer of white ice spread outward from where Lin Wan sat cross-legged, like a blooming ice flower.

"Fifth-Order." Tao Zhe's voice was a bit tight, "She has reached the Fifth-Order. Qi Refining Peak."

Su Mingyuan looked at the figure surrounded by ice crystals behind the glass window.

Lin Wan's expression had not changed from beginning to end.

From start to finish, there was no fluctuation on her face.

Her brows were slightly furrowed.

Her breathing was extremely slow.

It was as if all the changes around her had nothing to do with her.

Then Chen Rong's side also began.

His curve caught up—faster than expected.

The spiritual power fluctuations released when Lin Wan made a Breakthrough were like a signal, stimulating the Spiritual Qi inside Chen Rong's body to accelerate its operation.

Two SSS-Grade individuals who Cultivate in the same room, their spiritual power fluctuations would influence and catalyze each other.

Tao Zhe had theoretically deduced this possibility before, but he didn't expect the effect to be so obvious.

Chen Rong's curve began to climb rapidly.

Thirty minutes later, his curve also touched the red line.

Then crossed over.

The right side of the Cultivate room—Chen Rong's half—became a completely opposite sight to the left side.

It was not ice.

It was electricity.

In the air around Chen Rong, small blue-and-white electric arcs began to crackle and flash.

The electric arcs were not emitted from his body—it was that the lightning-attribute Spiritual Qi inside his body was so powerful that it overflowed. The Spiritual Qi molecules in the surrounding air were activated by his spiritual power field, spontaneously producing a discharge phenomenon.

The crackling sound became denser and denser.

Like popping beans.

On the ground one meter in front of Chen Rong, gravel was burned black by the electric arcs, and the air was filled with the smell of ozone.

An incredible picture appeared inside the Cultivate room—

On the left, ice.

On the right, electricity.

Two completely opposite forces were released simultaneously in the same room, and the middle five-meter space became the boundary line between ice and electricity.

The ice crystals floating near that line were shattered by the electric arcs, and the electric arcs darting near that line were frozen and extinguished by the cold air.

The two forces suppressed and cancelled each other out, forming a visible layer of distortion at the boundary—the air was torn apart by the two extreme temperature differences, producing violent convection.

A layer of water mist condensed on the explosion-proof glass of the monitoring room.

Tao Zhe wiped it with his sleeve and continued staring at the data.

"Both of them have reached it," he said, "Fifth-Order Grandmaster. Qi Refining Peak."

Su Mingyuan stood in front of the glass window, looking at the scene of half ice and half electricity inside.

He watched for about ten seconds.

Then he turned and walked toward the door.

"Notify Sun Liang to prepare the medicinal property analysis of the foundation establishment pill."

He pulled open the door.

"Starting from today, we enter the Foundation Establishment preparation stage."