72: The changing world

Later.

"Ding! Detected Female Lead Qu Huaixuan's favorability (white) has reached 100!"

"Do you wish to add her to the Villain Family?"

"Yes!"

It was almost subconscious.

Chen Tianming said in his mind.

"Ding! Congratulations to the Host for successfully adding Female Lead Qu Huaixuan to the Villain Family!"

"Host successfully subdued Female Lead reward: Rejuvenation Pill *1, Essence Cultivation Pill *1"

"Congratulations to the Host for receiving rewards: Spirit Gathering Array Plate *1, Minor Realm Advancement Card *1"

"Spirit Gathering Array Plate introduction: It can gather the spiritual energy in the air within a certain range of the array plate."

A flash of light appeared in Chen Tianming's hand.

A porcelain plate-sized.

An ancient-looking array plate appeared in his hand!

The array plate as a whole seemed to be made of bronze.

But it felt much heavier in his hand.

A faint earthy yellow light emanated from its body.

There was a depression in the middle.

And all around, countless patterns and strange beast designs extended.

"An array plate that can gather spiritual energy, doesn't that mean that as long as it's activated, the speed of ability cultivation will greatly increase?" Chen Tianming's eyes lit up.

"What a good item!"

Now, because the spiritual energy is currently in the recovery stage.

The problem of slow cultivation speed due to sparse spiritual energy has also been solved!

Chen Tianming played with it for a while.

His gaze suddenly fell on the depression in the middle of the array plate.

A hint of doubt couldn't help but flash in his mind.

"System, what is this groove?"

"Why does it always feel like something is missing?"

"Replying to Host, the Spirit Gathering Array Plate is an array plate created by a Cultivator. Generally, a spirit stone needs to be placed in the middle of the array plate for it to operate."

"However, this array plate is a system reward and does not require consuming spirit stones to activate. Each time it is used, Host only needs to silently chant 'activate' in his mind!"

"What the hell?"

Chen Tianming was shocked!

"So convenient?"

"No!"

"That's not the point!"

"This array plate is actually something used by Cultivators?"

It wasn't strange to him that the system could obtain items from Cultivators.

The ability cultivation manuals he had obtained before were stolen from who knows which world.

"However, isn't this thing for Cultivators?"

"Is it useful for ability users?"

"Hiss... Wait, spiritual energy recovery... Could it be that this world will eventually enter the Cultivation stage, and ability users appeared when the spiritual energy recovery was relatively low?"

As soon as he said this.

Even the system seemed surprised by Chen Tianming's reaction!

It didn't expect him to deduce the truth so quickly!

After a while.

It finally replied.

"What Host said is correct. In fact, the emergence of ancient martial artists was essentially also due to spiritual energy recovery, but at that time, spiritual energy recovery was still at a very low stage."

"Currently, spiritual energy recovery is about to enter the middle stage."

"As for Cultivators, they will appear in the later stage of spiritual energy recovery."

Chen Tianming frowned in thought.

"How do I feel that the development speed of the spiritual energy middle stage is much faster than the initial stage?"

"Ancient martial artists started appearing in ancient times, right?"

"It took hundreds of years to develop from the initial stage to the current stage."

"Although the spiritual energy changes in the middle stage of spiritual energy recovery are still slow, they are much faster in comparison."

"Replying to Host, this is like a plastic bag full of water with a hole poked in it. Under pressure, the hole will get bigger and bigger, and the water will flow out faster and faster."

"The early stage of spiritual energy recovery is the slowest, and it will get faster and faster afterward."

The system answered everything it knew, very thoroughly.

This was the most Chen Tianming had ever spoken to the system in such a long time!

Of course, even if he had questions before, the system could hardly answer them, as it hadn't evolved to this level yet.

Chen Tianming continued to ask: "Where does spiritual energy come from? What will happen when spiritual energy recovery reaches its end?"

"..."

A moment of silence.

Clearly, the system didn't know the answer to this question either.

Alright.

Chen Tianming didn't actually expect the system to be able to answer this question right now.

He just asked.

As a seasoned novel reader.

He quickly accepted and digested the information he received.

Worrying about anything now was useless.

Improving himself was the most important thing.

Once he became invincible.

It wouldn't matter what the world turned into...

He muttered a few complaints in his mind.

Chen Tianming then turned his attention to another reward.

"Use the Minor Realm Advancement Card!"

Boom!

A muffled sound erupted within his body!

Countless blood qi boiled!

Chen Tianming felt as if the blood in his body was burning!

The mud pill in his Dantian compressed again.

Spinning rapidly!

Chen Tianming felt as if his body had evolved once more!

Every cell seemed to be reborn!

When the blood qi condensed to its extreme.

The blood pill in his Dantian completely solidified.

Chen Tianming finally stepped into the legendary Transformed Strength martial artist realm!

At this moment.

Chen Tianming seemed to have returned to his true self.

Clearly standing there.

Yet he seemed to not exist.

If one didn't look closely.

It was easy to subconsciously overlook him.

The internal energy within his body could also be freely retracted and released.

He could even deform the internal energy.

Condensing internal energy weapons!

Lightness Skill, walking on water.

Crossing the river on a single reed...

In short, everything that martial artists were said to be able to do in legends or TV dramas.

He could do it all now!

Except for large-scale destructive weapons like missiles.

The current Chen Tianming was fearless of any hot weapons.

Undoubtedly.

This was a sublimation!

Chen Tianming let out a long breath!

His eyes contained a deep charm.

He secretly clenched his fists!

His heart surged with emotion!

"An eighteen-year-old Transformed Strength martial artist, even in the history of this world, I must be the first case, right?"

"I wonder what kind of scenery the final Land Immortal realm will be!"

After a long while.

He finally suppressed the thoughts in his mind.

He casually took out the Spirit Gathering Array Plate.

And silently chanted in his mind:

"Activate!"

Buzz...

The earthy yellow light of the array plate emerged.

Countless spiritual energies quickly began to gather in the room!

Chen Tianming's AFK cultivation panel prompt changed from the original [Cultivation +1] to [Cultivation +3].

"Three hundred percent cultivation speed?"

Chen Tianming nodded secretly.

He was quite satisfied.

At this moment.

Qu Huaixuan, who was beside him, also seemed to sense something.

And slowly opened her eyes...

The moment she saw Chen Tianming.

She couldn't help but fall into a brief trance...

Chen Tianming was clearly still him.

But for some reason.

She always felt that the person in front of her had changed somewhat.

"What, you don't recognize me?"

Chen Tianming smiled.

He casually pulled Qu Huaixuan out of the covers.

And pressed her onto his lap.

"I didn't... Mph..."

Qu Huaixuan hadn't even had time to speak.

When her mouth was blocked.

Her eyes, which had not yet fully woken up, quickly became hazy again.

After another bout of passion...

Chen Tianming left the pills for Qu Huaixuan.

After imparting her the ancient martial arts and ability cultivation techniques.

Under Qu Wan'er's reluctant gaze.

He turned and left.

...

On the other side.

In a certain room.

Yan Yu sat on a chair.

Holding the pill Chen Tianming had given her.

Looking conflicted...