Lin Yuan pushed open the door to the cultivation room, and the lights flickered on automatically.
This room was far more luxurious than any cultivation room he had ever been in before.
The floor was paved with deep gray energy-absorbing stone bricks, which felt soft and elastic underfoot.
Four massive sensor screens hung on the walls, providing real-time monitoring of source energy consumption, ability fluctuations, physical load, environmental interference, and other data, all clearly visible at a glance.
The room was twenty meters long and wide, offering a spacious environment.
...
“Luo Shu.”
Lin Yuan called out to the empty air.
A pale blue ring of light instantly lit up on the ceiling. The ring slowly descended, condensing into a phantom of an open ancient bronze book in front of him.
The pages flipped gently, and a calm male voice spoke: “Luo Shu is online. Student Lin Yuan, how may I assist you?”
‘Luo Shu’ was the exclusive artificial intelligence of Magic City Academy. Every student dormitory was equipped with an independent terminal, as Jiang Ruyuan had told him that afternoon.
Next, Lin Yuan retrieved the Purple Thunder Profound Pulp Fruit from his space ring. He walked straight to the center of the cultivation room and sat down cross-legged.
He issued a series of commands, enabling a full ‘do not disturb’ mode, locking the villa’s main door, and refusing all external visitors.
The pages of ‘Luo Shu’ slowly closed, and a pale gold energy field spread from the walls, completely enveloping the entire cultivation room.
Simultaneously, the villa’s external defensive array was activated.
Outside the courtyard, the broad-leaved tree wrapped in Glowgrass swayed slightly.
Lin Yuan opened his palm, and the fist-sized Purple Thunder Profound Pulp Fruit hovered quietly above it.
Silver lightning patterns flowed slowly over the deep purple skin, emitting dense lightning energy.
He took a deep breath and, without further hesitation, shoved the Purple Thunder Profound Pulp Fruit into his mouth.
The fruit melted the moment it touched his tongue.
There was no hint of sweetness or sourness; only scalding-hot lightning pulp surged down his throat and into his body!
It felt as if an entire thundercloud had been compressed into liquid and forcibly poured into his dantian!
In the next second, the violent energy exploded within his dantian, transforming into a mass of dark purple thunderclouds.
The D-rank Pale Thunder ability within him triggered automatically. Silver-white lightning erupted from every pore of his body, attempting to resist this foreign force.
But before the terrifying energy of an S-rank spirit fruit, Pale Thunder was powerless and was instantly scattered.
It was a case of absolute overwhelming strength; the silver-white arcs of electricity were immediately blown to pieces.
Silver-white lightning and dark purple lightning pulp collided violently within his meridians. The aftershocks caused the energy-absorbing stone bricks on the floor to light up one by one.
“Damn it!”
A wave of pain, far exceeding that of ten rounds of bone tempering, swept through Lin Yuan’s entire body.
His three-colored bones lit up instantly, with the light from the golden bone patterns being the most dazzling.
Silver-white space-time power followed closely behind, and several blood-red threads were also forcibly activated.
Four different powers were now in a chaotic mess inside his body.
Lin Yuan gritted his teeth and used all his strength to guide them, slowly pulling the scattered lightning back onto the right track.
An unknown amount of time passed.
The violent thundercloud in Lin Yuan’s dantian finally settled down completely.
It wasn't that the energy had been exhausted, but rather that it had been thoroughly tamed.
After countless collisions, the dark purple lightning pulp and the silver-white Pale Thunder began to fuse perfectly.
Neither devoured the other; instead, they intertwined and merged completely.
During the fusion process, the color of the lightning underwent a continuous transformation.
It shifted from a mix of silver and purple to a pale gold, then slowly transitioned into a dark gold.
When not a single stray arc of electricity remained in his meridians, the system panel popped up automatically.
【Lightning Ability: D-rank “Pale Thunder” → C-rank “Profound Gold Pale Thunder”】
【Profound Gold Pale Thunder: C-rank lightning ability, containing the power of Profound Gold, combining the violence of thunder with the sharpness of metal.
Exceptional piercing power, possessing a natural armor-breaking effect against energy shields and monster carapaces, with an added Thunderous Aura counter-shock.
Source energy core capacity increased, source energy recovery speed increased.】
Lin Yuan slowly opened his eyes and raised his right hand, spreading his fingers.
A ball of dark gold lightning slowly condensed in his palm. Its aura was heavy, and its power was staggering.
Lin Yuan looked down to check his current status.
Tier 2, Level 1 cultivation; C-rank Profound Gold Pale Thunder ability; Ten Rounds as One · three-colored bones.
The trip to Hangzhou, though dangerous, had brought him truly astonishing opportunities.
His Pale Thunder had only been upgraded to D-rank for a day before this spirit fruit forcibly pushed it to C-rank. His source energy reserves and recovery speed had both increased significantly.
More importantly, he could truly feel the remnant intent Fang Qing had mentioned!
It wasn't a combat technique or a cultivation method.
Rather, it was a faint fragment of the lightning law from heaven and earth, quietly perched in the center of the thundercloud in his dantian.
Although Lin Yuan had the system and could use Ability Points to increase his combat technique proficiency...
Having this lightning law fragment would allow him to increase his proficiency in lightning-type combat techniques even faster, which could also reduce the consumption of Ability Points.
...
The C-rank Profound Gold Pale Thunder had completely stabilized in his meridians.
Lin Yuan didn't rush to stand up. He looked down at the silver-white plain ring on his left index finger.
The Space-Time Covenant was significantly brighter than before.
The surface of the ring was no longer dim; it now had a faint layer of flowing light.
He hadn't noticed it in the hospital room during the day, but now that he sensed it carefully, he realized the seal within the ring was completely different from a few days ago.
Lin Yuan immediately called up the system panel.
【Space-Time Covenant Seal Unlock Progress: 56%】
The last time he checked, the progress was only 1%. Now, it was more than half!
Refining the red phantom had actually added 55% to the unlock progress. This was far faster than him actively pouring in space-time power every day.
“Refining that remnant soul was dangerous, but it added 55% to the progress. It’s hard to say if that was a bad deal or not.”
Lin Yuan shook the ring, complaining even as the corners of his mouth curled upward.
At his previous speed, reaching 55% progress would have taken at least several years.
Lin Yuan withdrew his gaze and calmed his mind.
There was no rush with the Space-Time Covenant; for now, he could only continue to slowly inject space-time power into it.
Right now, there was something more important—refining the residual energy from the red crystal.
Most of the residual energy was still wandering through his meridians.
On the train, a small amount of energy had automatically seeped into his bones, already pushing his physical strength to a new level.
His space-time ability was still stuck at Tier 1, Level 7. Tonight was the perfect time to refine the remaining energy and push for Tier 1, Level 8.
Lin Yuan closed his eyes again and sank his consciousness deep into his meridians.
The pale silver-white light mist of the S-rank Space-Time Ruler slowly rose from his dantian, spreading throughout his body along his meridians.
The red residual energy was scattered across his joints and meridians, glowing with a faint, dark red light.
He had been so busy before that he had no time to deal with it.
Now, in the safety of his villa’s cultivation room, he could finally refine this energy in peace.
Space-time power slowly enveloped the red energy, beginning to refine it bit by bit.
The process was much smoother than expected.
The silver phantom had already crushed all the will within this red energy, leaving only the purest energy essence.
As he refined it, a surge of warm energy flowed into his space-time ability.
The pale silver-white light mist in his meridians grew brighter, and his perception range began to expand slowly.
From twenty meters, it expanded to twenty-one meters, twenty-two meters...
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