114: Chapter 114 The First Case in Great Xia

"Go! Hurry up!"

Great Elder Lu Anguo, that old man, had immense strength. He dragged and shoved Li Zhengyang directly into the high-level medical room on the top floor of the headquarters.

Lei Qianjue followed behind, panting.

"Great Elder, take it easy. This hand of mine still has to sign multi-billion dollar deals."

"Shut up!"

Great Elder Lu Anguo rushed into the medical room and ordered the medical directors, "Bring out the latest brain activity scanner! Hurry!"

The directors were startled.

This Great Elder was usually calm and composed; for him to be this anxious today, could it be that some commander's brain had exploded?

The directors scrambled into the inner room and pushed out an expensive medical pod.

"Lie down inside," Great Elder Lu Anguo said, pointing to the pod door.

Li Zhengyang stepped in and lay down.

The medical pod closed, and the scanner activated.

Blue light scanned from top to bottom, and the data on the screen beside it began to jump wildly.

The head of the medical department, wearing glasses, glanced at the screen and his mouth fell open, unable to speak.

"Are you mute?" Lei Qianjue, having an impatient nature, leaned in to look.

On the screen, the red line representing brain activity had pushed the coordinate axis to its limit, faintly showing a tendency to go beyond the screen's edge.

"This is impossible..."

The director pointed at the red line with trembling hands.

"The brain activity of an ordinary martial artist is within 5 units, while the peak for an innately awakened Psychokineticist is around 20 units. His peak data... it shot straight to 100 units!"

Great Elder Lu Anguo grabbed the director by the collar: "Stop talking about data! Is it Psychic Power?"

"Yes! Absolutely!"

The director was shaken until he was dizzy. "The upper limit is extremely high. Preliminary assessment indicates he has already crossed the threshold of a First-Grade Psychokineticist! The most terrifying part is that his Psychic Power still has huge room for growth!"

No one in the medical room spoke.

Great Elder Lu Anguo let go, took two steps back, and stared at Li Zhengyang, who was picking his fingernails inside the pod.

Lei Qianjue smacked his lips, breaking the silence: "Old Lu, has there ever been a precedent for cultivating Psychic Power acquired later in life since the founding of Great Xia?"

"No."

Great Elder Lu Anguo's tone was firm: "Why is 'Nine Layers of Soul Locking' classified as a forbidden book? The human brain simply cannot withstand such a brutal method of opening. Everyone who practiced it in the past, without exception, had their brainstem ruptured on the spot."

He paused, his tone becoming complex: "Psychokineticists are rare because cultivating Psychic Power is extremely mentally taxing. Those few innate Psychokineticists in our Great Xia who are treated like living ancestors spend every day in seclusion meditating; their martial arts cultivation at best only reaches the Martial King level."

"But this kid is a Martial Venerable!" Lei Qianjue slapped his thigh, finally realizing. "A Seventh-Grade Martial Venerable combined with a Psychokineticist? What does he have in his brain?"

"What's the big deal?" Li Zhengyang pushed open the pod door and sat up. "Good talent makes learning everything fast."

The talent to spend money is also a talent.

Just then, the door to the high-level medical room was knocked on urgently.

A logistics department staff member, sweating profusely, walked in holding a metal box with both hands.

"Minister Li, the 'Tiangang Twelve Blades' you ordered from the internal mall have arrived. It came via the urgent top-secret channel."

Li Zhengyang jumped off the testing pod and took the metal box directly.

"Let's go, find a place to test the new toys." He carried the box in one hand and walked out the door.

Great Elder Lu Anguo and Lei Qianjue hurriedly followed.

They also wanted to confirm with their own eyes just how much kinetic energy acquired Psychic Power could generate in terms of object manipulation.

Ten minutes later.

A top-secret testing ground one kilometer beneath the headquarters.

The venue was five kilometers long and wide, with the floor and walls entirely covered in high-strength energy-absorbing coating.

In the center stood a dozen humanoid targets made of Xuanwu alloy.

These were special targets specifically for Martial Venerable-level commanders to test lethality.

Li Zhengyang stood a hundred meters away and tossed the metal box onto the ground.

Clack.

The lid popped open.

Inside, twelve flying daggers were neatly arranged.

The entire body was pitch black, shimmering with a cold light.

Lei Qianjue stood in front of the explosion-proof window in the rear observation room and pressed the communicator: "Zhengyang, first test armor penetration with a single flying dagger. Don't use Qi and blood energy, just use pure Psychic Power."

Li Zhengyang didn't say anything.

He didn't even raise his hand.

In his sea of consciousness, Psychic Power suddenly surged out.

Hum!

The twelve flying daggers in the metal box emitted a crisp chime and simultaneously floated into the air.

Go.

Li Zhengyang's thoughts shifted slightly.

Without warning, twelve streaks of black light vanished from where they were.

The speed was too fast.

Even an old-school Martial Venerable like Lei Qianjue only caught a trace of the flying daggers' trajectory, seeing only the twelve ripples of distorted air left in mid-air.

Swish, swish, swish, swish!

On the special Xuanwu alloy target a hundred meters away, twelve penetration holes instantly appeared.

The flying daggers didn't lose momentum; after piercing the first target, they traced weird right-angle lines in the air, piercing through three more targets behind it in succession.

Finally, they stopped in mid-air, flew back silently, and slowly circled around Li Zhengyang.

The whole process took less than three seconds.

In the observation room, Great Elder Lu Anguo and Lei Qianjue held their breath.

That was half-a-meter thick Xuanwu alloy!

If Lei Qianjue were to slash it with his war sword, he would need to use fifty percent of his Qi and blood energy to even make a dent.

Li Zhengyang didn't even move his hand; just by using Psychic Power to control objects, he had completely pierced through this special alloy.

"This penetration power... this speed..." Lei Qianjue was still a bit uncertain. "Did you really not use any Qi and blood energy?"

"Why would I use Qi and blood energy?"

Li Zhengyang controlled the twelve flying daggers to weave back and forth between his fingertips.

"Psychic Power control has no blind spots, and combined with the material of these flying daggers, killing invisibly is a perfect match."

The efficiency could indeed double.

Before, when encountering a tide of demon-men, he had to carry a spear and charge in for hand-to-hand combat.

Now with these twelve flying daggers, he could just stand there and sweep with his Psychic Power, and the fodder within a hundred-meter radius would be decapitated instantly.

"Good! Too good!"

Great Elder Lu Anguo slapped the windowsill.

The old man suddenly turned around, pushed open the observation room door, and walked to the center of the testing ground.

He ripped off his outer robe, tossed it aside, revealing the training suit underneath.

His bones cracked and popped all over his body.

Martial Saint-level Qi and blood energy soared to the sky, and the surrounding air was baked and distorted by this high temperature.

Lei Qianjue was startled, rushed to the glass, and banged on the window: "Great Elder! What madness is this!"

Great Elder Lu Anguo ignored him and raised his finger to point at Li Zhengyang, who was a hundred meters away.

"Zhengyang."

"Use your flying daggers, aim at me, and attack!"