A sudden enlightenment! Minor success in the Eight-Nine Arcane Arts!
"Oh? You're not reconsidering? Don't forget, you're already on the beast's kill list!"
Li Long didn't expect Lin Xiao to answer so decisively.
"This student is fearless. They are mere beasts!"
This answer made Li Long's eyes light up. Excellent, he truly is a product of Military Martial training!
"Good!"
Lin Xiao followed Li Long onto the special plane flying to the Northern Battlefield.
On the plane, Lin Xiao closed his eyes.
"System!"
"Ding, Host, I'm here!"
"Convert all the money on me into Cultivation Points!"
"Ding, detecting Host currently holds 1.3 billion gold coins, which has been converted into 13 million Cultivation Points!"
Instant riches!
Lin Xiao looked at the Cultivation Points, which had broken ten million, and became excited. Very good, I'm very rich now!
"System, exchange for the Eight-Nine Arcane Art!"
"Ding, Eight-Nine Arcane Art exchange complete. Five million Cultivation Points deducted."
At the same time, a vast amount of complex and profound scriptures appeared in Lin Xiao's mind. Every word and line revealed the mysteries of heaven and earth, abstruse and difficult to understand!
He only felt a burst of pain, dizziness, and disorientation. This was after his Mental Energy had already transformed into Spiritual Force. If it were his initial state, he might have suffered brain death on the spot!
Lin Xiao's calm face furrowed slightly. Although this kind of torment was harmless to him,
He just couldn't understand it!
Damn it, am I not a Genius?
Why is my Comprehension Ability so poor?
The Eight-Nine Arcane Art was completely imprinted in his mind. It truly lived up to its name as the first Divine-Grade Cultivation Technique since the creation of the world!
After a moment of silence,
"System, is there anything that can improve Comprehension Ability?"
"Ding, Host, there's no need to overexert yourself. The Divine-Grade point-adding service will ensure your success, adding points wherever you need them!"
...Lin Xiao inexplicably felt a sense of humiliation.
He sensed the drop of pangu essence blood suspended in the System space. His physical body was already incredibly greedy.
It was practically screaming, pointing at Lin Xiao's head and saying, 'I want to devour it!'
He looked at the '+' sign next to the Eight-Nine Arcane Art that appeared on the panel, and finally gently tapped it.
Five million Cultivation Points instantly disappeared!
And the originally dim Eight-Nine Arcane Art immediately brightened, with the words "Minor Achievement" appearing next to it!
At the same time, the originally abstruse and difficult characters suddenly became rhythmic, and Lin Xiao actually felt traces of the operation of the Great Dao within them!
He had an Epiphany!
Outside,
Ever since Lin Xiao got on, he had been closing his eyes to meditate.
Li Long nodded at this. There were no Peerless Prodigies; all the glory in front of others was exchanged for effort behind the scenes.
Possessing such unprecedented talent, if it were an ordinary person, their tail would have long been wagging to the sky. But Lin Xiao still maintained his original intention, which was very good!
Suddenly,
An inexplicable rhythm appeared around Lin Xiao, very mysterious.
"Hmm?"
Li Long, noticing this scene, widened his eyes. No way? Is this kid really such a Prodigy?
His heart was frantic. Damn it, if he wasn't mistaken, this should be an Epiphany!
He was, after all, a Martial King-level expert, and in his era, he was also a renowned Genius, a handsome young man from ten miles around!
But he had only heard of Epiphany, never experienced it!
Feeling the increasingly profound Qi flow in the air, and Lin Xiao's increasingly unfathomable figure,
Li Long finally conceded defeat!
At this moment, he truly felt a change of era!
This era no longer belonged to their generation, but to the young people!
For truly great figures, look to the present!
"It seems that in the near future, our Military Martial will once again produce a Martial Saint-level Peak expert!"
Li Long looked at Lin Xiao's face. Such a young man, so exceptionally brilliant!
A moment later,
Lin Xiao opened his eyes. Only those who had Cultivated the Eight-Nine Arcane Art truly knew its terrifying power!
Through his unremitting efforts, he finally Cultivated this Great Dao Cultivation Technique to the Minor Achievement Realm!
Carefully feeling the changes happening deep within his body, he felt his physical body had sublimated, as if every drop of blood, every cell, was filled with endless power!
That drop of pangu essence blood had not yet been absorbed. He was worried that absorbing it on the plane might cause problems.
"Lin Xiao, was that an Epiphany just now?"
Senior Li's greeting came from beside him, with a hint of envy in his voice.
Lin Xiao looked up. He wasn't quite sure either, only feeling that he had been in a very strange state just now. All the parts he didn't understand suddenly became clear!
Listening to Lin Xiao's explanation, Li Long nodded. Yes, it was an Epiphany!
The envy was now impossible to conceal.
"It seems you've gotten stronger, kid!"
At this moment, Lin Xiao seemed a bit more reserved compared to before. The absolute powerful fluctuations he used to emit were no longer noticeable, but Li Long would not think that way.
This kid Lin Xiao was even more terrifying!
"Senior Li, how much longer?"
"Hmm, about an hour or so. Lin Xiao, your Cultivation has already reached the Fifth-Rank Middle Stage, and you're not far from Breaking Through to Sixth-Rank! Do you know anything about what's beyond Sixth-Rank?"
Hearing this, Lin Xiao shook his head.
His progress speed in less than a year had been too fast, growing from an ordinary person who was nothing to a powerful Fifth-Rank Middle Stage Martial Artist!
It could be said that his one year might be an achievement that ordinary people could never reach in a lifetime!
However, this also had a rather fatal flaw: his knowledge was too scarce!
Three years of high school accumulation were skipped directly by him. He had never even encountered much of the knowledge in textbooks. When he first entered the Geng Meridian Source, he didn't even know what the Ten Thousand Races of the Starry Sky concept was!
"It just so happens that we have time now, so I'll briefly explain it to you."
Li Long sat down, looking at the young man in front of him.
"The first to Sixth-Rank of Martial Artist is considered the first stage, or rather, from the moment of Breaking Through to Sixth-Rank, everyone's trajectory might already be set!"
"Many Martial Artists might only be able to Break Through to Sixth-Rank in their entire lives, or even fail to reach Sixth-Rank, the fundamental reason being their talent!"
"And once you Break Through to Sixth-Rank, the gap will appear!"
"A Sixth-Rank Martial Artist can soar through the clouds. This is a symbol and also the first threshold for us Awakened Ones to embark on the Great Dao, or it can be understood as a watershed!"
"Beyond Sixth-Rank, each Rank is a new heaven!"
"To Break Through from Sixth-Rank to Seventh-Rank, there is a hard requirement, and that is Mental Energy!"
"This is why I initially said that everyone's trajectory would be set!"
"Mental Energy is born when one Breaks Through to Fourth-Rank. It can be understood as a certain concretization of human consciousness."
"But most people only know they possess such a thing, yet they don't know how to use it, or rather, can't use it."
"However, the Mental Energy of Seventh-Rank experts has undergone earth-shattering changes, reaching a qualitative transformation. It is no longer the original stagnant mud."
"In the world of Seventh-Rank, they have a new exclusive term: Spiritual Force!"
"Lin Xiao, do you know how terrifying the power of a Martial King-level Spiritual Force is?"
Mid-sentence, Li Long looked at the carefully pondering Lin Xiao and smiled slightly.
The existence of Spiritual Force is something that people who haven't reached that level cannot access. This is also why there have always been examples of low-Rank Martial Artists winning against higher-Rank opponents, but never a Sixth-Rank winning against a Seventh-Rank!
As an experienced person, although Lin Xiao had already shown extraordinary abilities, Li Long still adhered to an old way of thinking, the perspective of someone who had been through it—that new recruits still needed constant encouragement!
However... he suddenly furrowed his brows, his eyes instantly becoming extremely sharp, and his tone seemed somewhat chilling!
"Which Fellow Daoist is it? Please show yourself!"
In his perception, a strange Spiritual Force had appeared. Could it be that a Martial King was ambushing them along the way?
But Lin Xiao's next sentence almost choked him to death!
"Uh, Senior Li, is the Spiritual Force you're talking about this?"