Chapter 1573: Chapter 1573

Chapter 1573: Chapter 1573: Breakthrough

As the night slowly brightened, a stream of divine sense flowed from He Ao’s fingertip, splitting into eight and falling into the east, south, north, west, southeast, southwest, northeast, and northwest directions.

Upon touching the ground, these eight divine senses formed eight different patterns, attaching themselves to the floor.

Soon after, slender lines of divine sense overflowed from these eight patterns, forming a regular octagon.

And He Ao stood right in the center of this octagon.

As they connected, intricate lines spread from these patterns, converging beneath He Ao’s feet.

He Ao opened the window.

At the moment the dawn’s brilliance spread from the horizon, the intricate lines finally converged completely beneath He Ao’s feet.

It seemed as if an invisible storm surged between heaven and earth, a certain power in the void vibrated, akin to a hurricane, gathering toward the window.

The girl, biting into her sandwich, instinctively lifted her head to look at the young man standing by the window.

The hanging curtain swayed with the breeze, blowing toward He Ao.

At this moment, He Ao finally bit into his sandwich.

As the meat and egg-wrapped food swallowed down, subtle energy slowly seeped out, dropping into He Ao’s throat.

This thin stream of energy, guided invisibly, fell into He Ao’s chest cavity.

At this moment, a large mass of energy had already gathered in the chest cavity.

This is the energy brought by the dawn.

The array He Ao just set at eight positions was an energy gathering array, known in the Martial Arts World as a ‘Spirit Gathering Array,’ which could rapidly attract surrounding energy, forming a concentration multiple times higher than the original area.

The energy brought by dawn was inherently much higher in concentration.

The combination of the two gathered a large amount of energy in He Ao’s chest cavity instantly.

In martial arts terms, the energy inhaled is ‘Heaven Qi,’ and the energy contained in the food he just ate is ‘Earth Qi.’

At the moment the ‘Earth Qi’ entered the chest cavity, He Ao mobilized the ‘Heaven Qi’ stored in the chest cavity to suppress the Earth Qi and envelop it, compressing violently.

The immense pressure from inside out caused several blood vessels to burst beneath He Ao’s skin, seemingly about to rip apart his flesh.

But He Ao remained indifferent, continuing to press down, and after a brief pause, the first strand of ‘Heaven Qi’ was compressed into the ‘Earth Qi,’ forming a simple fusion gas.

Following this, starting from this fusion gas as the core, the surrounding ‘Heaven Qi’ subtly changed, beginning to fuse.

He Ao directed these fused gasses to flow into his heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys.

The breakthrough from ‘Qi Induction’ to ‘Essence Refinement and Qi Transformation’ is to fuse the Qi of Heaven and Earth, then use it to temper internal organs, gradually integrating the Strength of Heaven and Earth with one’s essence, refining it into personal strength.

He Ao’s original cultivation method, understood from childhood books, involved gathering a lot of Heaven and Earth Qi, and then, relying on external force or bodily strength, forcibly fusing them.

The method of the Martial Arts World in the Trapped Destiny Plate was different.

They would collect extraordinary plants and animals, transform them through a special method into a special energy elixir called ‘Qi Refining Pill,’ consume this pill to obtain a lot of ‘Earth Qi,’ and then, with breathing techniques, use ‘Earth Qi’ to counter the ‘Heaven Qi,’ forcibly fusing them to ‘breakthrough.’

The method He Ao was now trying was one he created after discussions with a martial arts elder.

This method neither required high physical fitness and talent, like the method from his little books, nor the entire-elixir system as support, like the Martial Arts World, making it resource-intensive.

The entire method’s core is a high ‘fault tolerance rate.’

He Ao referenced the Martial Arts World’s method of forcefully fusing Heaven Qi using Earth Qi, forming a small fusion core, which led to the conversion of other Earth Qi.

He reversed the entire method, using a large amount of ‘Heaven Qi’ to fuse a small amount of ‘Earth Qi.’

‘Heaven Qi’ could be obtained through breathing exercises, and He Ao cleverly used the Spirit Gathering Array to swiftly gather a large amount of ‘Heaven Qi.’

Even without large amounts of gathering, this Heaven Qi could temporarily stay in the body near the chest cavity through continuous breathing exercises, slowly accumulating, only taking more time.

Of course, with resource support, the Spirit Gathering Array could speed up the upgrade process.

The small amount of Earth Qi meant less resource consumption, only needing some meat or food to complete the promotion, not requiring extra purchases of large amounts of food or elixir system support.

This dramatically lowered the cultivation threshold, allowing those without money or talent to slowly cultivate through hard work.

The main focus is on a high fault tolerance rate.

Of course, the method has its shortcomings. Whether it’s eating talent as in little books or buying elixirs with money in the Martial Arts World, there is a quick digestion and growth period at the breakthrough moment.

He Ao’s created method wouldn’t have such a significant enhancement initially, and even at the breakthrough moment, there wasn’t much enhancement. However, it can slowly increase over time without impacting future cultivation.

Subsequently, one could enhance by pure breathing exercises to absorb Heaven Qi, consume blood food to enhance Earth Qi, or combine both for the quickest speed.

This could work for both the poor and the rich.

The core remains, a high fault tolerance rate.

Talent will enhance cultivation speed, but those with less talent can still cultivate slowly.

Of course, the method is not entirely flawless, and the effects after the breakthrough are somewhat different from He Ao’s original conception, but there are no fundamental issues. He Ao already has some ‘optimization’ plans in mind.

Indeed, one has to practice personally, after all.

After confirming the feasibility of this method, He Ao took a deep breath, forcefully enlarged the energy circuit with divine sense, and began breathing exercises.

This purely divine sense-expanded Spirit Gathering Array had good effects but was costly with short activation times, usable only for a few minutes, so it couldn’t be wasted. Thɪs chapter is updated by 𝔫𝔬𝔳𝔢𝔩⁂𝔣𝔦𝔯𝔢⁂𝔫𝔢𝔱

The originally calming ‘wind’ stirred again, and continuous energy in the void began pouring into the Spirit Gathering Array, then tirelessly flowed into He Ao’s body.

Using divine sense to expand energy circuits is somewhat like ‘pulling seedlings to help them grow,’ yet quite intense. Together with Loren’s naturally good talent, surprisingly the cultivation speed was maxed out.

He Ao felt the energy accumulating in the chest cavity, flowing into limbs and organs.

In his field of view, the physical fitness on the personal attribute panel visibly jumped up quickly.

Finally, when the number reached 70, the Spirit Gathering Array completely dissipated, and the growth gradually stopped.

In just a few minutes, physical fitness increased by nearly half.

Although the base wasn’t large, most of it was due to the Dawn Energy and Spirit Gathering Array, but honestly, this cheat-like cultivation feeling was quite pleasing.

Currently, the numerical increase isn’t much because the level is low, yet as the Martial Arts level increases, energy absorption speed will also increase correspondingly.

He Ao continued eating his sandwich, took a sip of milk, withdrew his divine sense, and started examining the damage caused by the divine sense expansion of the energy circuit.

Although he wanted to keep cheating, at this accelerated cultivation speed, it might even be possible to go directly from mortal to B-level peak in this Copy World.

Since he had no bottleneck, his rank was truly at the Martial Arts B-level peak, and his power could be maximized upward.

Martial Arts promotion didn’t require rituals or secret medicine, just straightforward upgrades.

Of course, it’s just a thought.

Then He Ao’s mind paused slightly along with the recollection of divine sense.

It seems the body is undamaged?

What does that mean? The divine sense isn’t completely drained, and it’s still strengthening?

Generally speaking, in the case of mild ‘expansion,’ because of the interference from enhancing the divine sense, it is not easy to detect damage when there is divine sense.

This is also one of the drawbacks of this method. If you’re not careful, you can overdo it, leading to physical harm that affects practice for a long time.

He Ao sensed again, and the divine sense had already been completely drained.

It wasn’t the ‘illusion of health’ caused by enhanced divine sense.

So what was the reason?

He Ao closed his eyes slightly, gathered his spirit, and felt the changes in his body.

The power of the Super Memory gathered deep within his soul, enhancing his will.

Vaguely, he could sense some anomalies within his body.

But these anomalies were so faint.

What was tangled around the body, causing the expansion of divine sense but no ‘damage’ as a consequence?

Wait, anomaly? Abnormal?

He Ao lifted his wristband and unlocked it.

He was just about to search for specific circumstances when he saw a few unread messages.

Loren set a 24-hour do-not-disturb, so all messages were not displayed. He didn’t have many friends, and no one would message him. If the coach couldn’t reach him, they would directly call.

So his inbox was generally filled with advertisements.

He Ao clicked to take a glance. Most were indeed advertisements, but one unknown number left a single line:

[I’m Reid, see this and call back immediately regarding your address.]

The message was sent at midnight last night, a time when He Ao seemed to have already passed out.

Reid, from the Abnormal Association last night?

After a brief pause, He Ao directly lifted his wristband and dialed the number back.

After about thirty seconds of busy tone, the call was answered.

“Hello, who is this?”

A somewhat drowsy voice followed.

“It’s Loren,” He Ao replied calmly, “What’s going on?”

“Loren, you’re awake?” The voice on the other side instantly became alert, “How’s your health?”

“Still okay,” He Ao quickly asked, “Is there a problem with the house I’m staying in now?”

“You should be at the underground doctor’s, I hope you haven’t gone home,” the voice on the other side immediately became serious, “You might not have noticed, but the rental apartment you’re living in is itself an ‘anomaly.’

Upon hearing this, He Ao turned his head and looked behind.

A girl with fluffy hair was now sitting backwards on the chair, her legs straddling it as though riding a horse, her chest against the chair back. Her head peering over the chair’s top, she was eating a sandwich while looking at He Ao.

At that moment, the voice on the other end of the call grew a little distant, as if tinkering with the wristband, then suddenly said, “You didn’t record this, did you?”

“No.” He Ao was slightly stunned, then directly answered. Loren didn’t have the habit of recording calls.

“Alright, this information is confidential; just listen, don’t record,” the voice quickly said, “Anomaly X3-297: Immutable House···”

He Ao quietly listened to the narration about ‘Immutable House’ and turned his gaze to the girl who’d almost finished her sandwich.

The girl noticed He Ao’s gaze, lifted her head, and gave a sly smile.

“That’s about it,” the voice on the phone concluded and then said slowly, “although this anomaly hasn’t resulted in any known deaths, it’s still dangerous. We’ve actually asked the apartment management not to rent out this room, sigh,”

He sighed lightly, “In any case, once you’re well, it’d be best if you moved out as soon as possible.”

“I’m doing fine here,” He Ao shook his head slightly, “I probably don’t need to move, at least for now,”

He paused slightly and then smiled, “But I’ll consider it, thanks for the heads-up.”

“Alright,” the voice didn’t insist, speaking softly, “You arrange accordingly; call this number directly if you need anything, it’s my private line.”

“Thanks for the trouble.” He Ao smiled.

“It’s nothing,” the voice swiftly replied, “just contact me if there’s anything.”

“Alright.” He Ao hung up the call.

He glanced down at the wristband.

It was clear that the other party intended to ‘recruit’ him, showing goodwill.

However, if investigating ‘abnormalities,’ this so-called Abnormal Association should be a good entry point.

Rubbing his brow, He Ao gathered his thoughts.

In any case, the immediate problem should be tackled first.

The ‘information’ Reid just mentioned gave him a vague suspicion.

At this point, the little girl had finished the sandwich and was looking at He Ao with eager eyes at the sandwich he was almost done with.

He Ao raised his hand, pointed to the milk on the table.

The little girl turned her head, glanced at the milk, and hesitated for a moment.

“Don’t like milk?” He Ao asked, looking at her with some curiosity.

“Doesn’t taste very good.” The girl hesitated.

Nevertheless, she turned, holding the milk cup, closed her eyes, and chugged it down.

Children’s taste buds are more sensitive than adults’, able to taste things adults cannot.

He Ao walked to the cutting board, sliced the sandwich, and handed her the untouched half.

The girl looked at the sandwich He Ao handed over, hesitated, swallowed, and then waved her hand, “You eat it, big guy, you’re injured,”

She paused, perhaps realizing the nickname might not be the best choice but waved her hand anyway, “We can split it. I’ve already had my half.”

Seeing her determined look, He Ao smiled, took back the sandwich, and ate it quickly “I still don’t know your name?”

“Sylvie!” The girl nodded, watching He Ao eat the sandwich, giving another sly smile.

He Ao observed her actions, smiled, “I’m Loren,”

He moved to the dining table, looked at the girl before him, and curiously asked, “Sylvie, did you apply some kind of ‘influence’ on my body?”