Chapter 103 - 92: Qi Condensation and Divine Tempering Method, [Spirit Strike]

Chapter 103: Chapter 92: Qi Condensation and Divine Tempering Method, [Spirit Strike]

On the rooftop, Zhang Ji was sunbathing, lying on a machine that resembled a massage chair.

This machine was custom-made and cost 380,000.

It had no other function besides strapping a person in and subjecting them to high-frequency vibrations.

According to experiments, its highest frequency could shatter all the fascia in a piece of pork in a short time.

It could kill lab mice and the like in seconds.

Even a monkey couldn’t last long.

For Zhang Ji, however, it was just right.

After he removed all the crystals from his body except for the True Qi Nourishing Spirit Skill, the machine could vibrate an Iron Body Skill crystal out of him every five hours on average.

He could withstand a higher frequency, but it wouldn’t produce any additional effects.

After all, the body needed time to convert energy into essence.

For now, this was his limit. He would have to obtain the "Great Eater Skill" to improve further. However, considering the native boss on that island was quite strong, Zhang Ji planned to cultivate two more crystals first.

With the [Ark of Hope], if he had a steady supply of refined Yan Fruit liquid, he should be able to improve a bit more.

Zhang Ji had already asked Zhou Hao to get him Yan Fruit seeds, the Blue Bamboo Root needed to grow Blue Bamboo Shoots, as well as earthworms and Bees.

They were expected to be delivered tomorrow.

When they arrived, Zhang Ji would move to the Gathering Light Tower to cultivate.

He estimated that by the end of the month at the latest, he would be able to cultivate the advanced crystals for his Iron Body Skill and True Qi Nourishing Spirit Skill.

.....

During dinner, Zhang Ji ate the corn he had previously planted in the [Ark of Hope].

Each kernel was astonishingly large, about the size of a thumb.

The texture of the pure white kernels had changed somewhat.

They were sweeter and starchier, but not necessarily tastier—just not bad.

But it was clear that this stuff contained a greater amount of food essence.

"Sect Leader, this is a gift I prepared for you."

Just as he finished an ear of corn, Bai Xiaoxiao brought Zhang Ji a gift.

It was a small sculpture of roast duck with rice. You could put sandalwood incense inside, which would make it look like a steaming plate of roast duck rice.

Zhang Ji’s expression was grim. "Thank you," he said.

It was true that he liked roast duck rice, but his affection for it was of a different kind.

What he liked was the memory that roast duck rice brought him; he liked reminiscing about the past.

Every time he ate it, he couldn’t help but recall the old days, recalling the moment he had mustered the courage to fight.

.....

「The next day.」

Zhang Ji received the Yan Fruit saplings and seeds, the Blue Bamboo rhizomes, a case of earthworms, and several boxes of Bees that Zhou Hao had arranged to be delivered.

Zhang Ji casually marked out a plot of land and buried the saplings and seeds. He did the same with the rhizomes. As for the earthworms, he just dumped them out along with the soil they came in.

As for the Bees, he just left their boxes there and placed some sugar water nearby. That was all it took.

Once the plants here grew and flowered, the Bee colony would become self-sustaining. He wouldn’t need to deliberately raise them.

When the time came, he could also get a taste of the honey made from Yan Fruit blossoms.

After finishing these tasks, Zhang Ji set off from the club and went directly to the Gathering Light Tower.

The power storage room at the Gathering Light Tower had also been completed. Next to it was a Sunlight Room, personally designed and supervised by Iver.

It was filled with all sorts of lamps that simulated sunlight. Once activated, the adjacent power storage room could convert electrical energy into simulated sunlight via the Sunlight Room, which Zhang Ji could then absorb.

The simulated sunlight was a little different from the natural sunlight refracted by the Gathering Light Tower. In any case, Zhang Ji’s Dela bloodline didn’t fully accept it; he could only absorb about seventy percent of it, but it was still usable.

This solved the problem of him having no sunlight to absorb at night.

Now he could cultivate by "sunbathing" at night. Combined with the Moonlight Cup absorbing moonlight, the total effect was equivalent to about forty percent of cultivating at the Gathering Light Tower during the day.

With these boons, Zhang Ji’s cultivation progressed at a divine speed.

During the day, he would refine primordial qi on the Gathering Light Tower and practice the True Qi Nourishing Spirit Skill. At night, he would enter the Sunlight Room and practice the Iron Body Skill while lying on the machine.

And as if on cue, the heavens smiled upon him. The next several days were all sunny. Even if the sky wasn’t perfectly cloudless, sunlight still shone down on him most of the time.

「May 19th, 12:37 PM.」

Atop the Gathering Light Tower, Zhang Ji, who was sitting cross-legged, suddenly opened his eyes.

At that very moment, he had obtained his tenth True Qi Nourishing Spirit Skill crystal.

His Spirit’s intensity was now astonishing. In terms of sheer quantity, it had reached an incredibly powerful level. Zhang Ji could even use his Spirit to slightly disturb physical matter like tree leaves, creating small air currents.

Furthermore, if he closed his eyes, he could now vaguely perceive his surroundings within a radius of several meters using his Spirit.

However, it was just a world of blackness filled with lines, points of light, and waves.

He wasn’t quite used to this form of perception yet.

With a thought, Zhang Ji’s consciousness entered the Limited Space.

The ten True Qi Nourishing Spirit Skill crystals had been extracted and placed here by him.

The green light from these ten crystals was deeper and far more profound than that of the nine Iron Body Skill crystals beside them.

[Notice: Do you wish to synthesize 10x True Qi Nourishing Spirit Skill (Fine) Fighting Skill Crystals?]

"Synthesize!"

As Zhang Ji willed it, the ten crystals crashed into one another, entangling and merging. A dazzling blue light flashed, far brighter than when he had synthesized the "Five Forms True Skill."

[Notice: Successfully synthesized 1x Qi Condensation and Divine Tempering Method (Excellent) Fighting Skill Crystal.]

Seeing the blue fighting crystal made Zhang Ji’s heart race with excitement. He immediately absorbed it into his body.