Blood Qi Stage Six!

As the Bodhi Divine Tree appeared, an aura unknowingly enveloped Chen Feng.

Chen Feng immediately felt his mind calm down, and he was no longer as tired.

All sorts of stances continuously surfaced in his mind as his body shifted without pause—sometimes fierce, sometimes gentle—even as sweat poured down like rain.

As time passed, Chen Feng discovered that his former stances had not been very accurate. Now, he could easily achieve the most standard form.

His understanding of the Body Tempering Technique also grew deeper and deeper.

Hmm?

Something was wrong.

As Chen Feng cultivated, he suddenly sensed countless specks of light appearing between heaven and earth. He had to know that when he cultivated in the past, he could not sense even a single one.

"What the hell? What are these little white dots? Could it be that I trained myself too hard?"

Chen Feng closed his eyes again and focused, carefully sensing them. Hmm? They were there again?

"What's going on? This never happened when I cultivated before. What's happening now?... No, could it be!"

Chen Feng trembled all over in confusion. "Could this... be vital energy?

Teacher said that vital energy is white, though there are other colors as well. But even sensing ordinary white vital energy at the beginning is already exceedingly difficult.

The white things before my eyes are vital energy?..."

Chen Feng's heart was shaken!

He sensed them carefully again.

And it really was true. He could sense that white radiance, and it felt incredibly comfortable.

This...

Chen Feng's entire body began to tremble. He knew this was absolutely not his eyes playing tricks on him.

"I really sensed vital energy!"

If someone like him were discovered at school, they would be treated like a monkey in a zoo.

Just think about it—others had to struggle bitterly until Blood Qi Stage Nine before they could barely touch the threshold of vital energy. Yet here you were, directly sensing the vital energy of heaven and earth, beginning to absorb it, while your Blood Qi soared all the way upward?

"I heard that the powerful races beyond the domain can absorb the vital energy of heaven and earth from the moment their children are born. They do not have a Blood Qi Realm at all; only the human race has the Blood Qi Realm as a standard.

And I seem to have become more spiritually perceptive through the influence of the Bodhi Tree.

But summoning a Martial Soul each time requires a certain amount of Soul Power, so my consumption is rather high. Still, being able to absorb vital energy saves me a huge amount on Nutrient Fluid."

Chen Feng was overjoyed.

A single bottle of Nutrient Fluid at the pharmacy cost tens of thousands. His family simply could not afford it.

This was also why Chen Feng's cultivation had been so slow. Without money, there really was no way around it.

But now, he could sense vital energy and make up for the shortcoming that had put him behind others.

Before long, Chen Feng sensed the vital energy of heaven and earth being drawn in and entering his body.

His cultivation rose directly from Blood Qi Stage Three to Blood Qi Stage Four.

"Holy shit, that fast?"

Chen Feng's eyes widened. "That's not right. Even after absorbing a drop of Nutrient Fluid worth twenty thousand, it wasn't this fast. Is this vital energy really this fierce?"

Chen Feng could clearly feel vital energy entering his muscles and meridians, nourishing them. Like a dried-up riverbed suddenly receiving moisture, it was only natural for his improvement to be so fast.

What Chen Feng did not know was that the vital energy he sensed was densely packed. From the very beginning, there were already several hundred specks. Even those geniuses who could sense vital energy could only perceive seven or eight tiny dots.

They could only absorb those few dots. Even so, they were much faster than ordinary people. Even taking supplements could not match such speed.

Right now, Chen Feng could sense several hundred specks of vital energy—dozens of times more than a genius!

This was an astonishing matter!

As he cultivated, Chen Feng sensed white specks of light continuously entering his body through his pores with him at the center. His entire body felt incomparably refreshed, and every inch of muscle, bone, sinew, and skin was being tempered.

Very soon, he rose from Blood Qi Stage Four to Stage Five.

Buzz.

An hour later, he rose from Stage Five to Stage Six.

In such a short time, Chen Feng had advanced three stages of cultivation.

This was something he had never even dreamed of before.

In truth, Chen Feng's training intensity and the high-intensity training his body endured had accumulated to a certain point. Every morning, he got up at five and ran to school at a full sprint.

At school, he also cultivated diligently every day. Unfortunately, his body had been unable to keep up. In fact, his foundation had long since become extremely solid.

Now, with the replenishment of vital energy, he directly broke through to Blood Qi Stage Six.

His hearing, vision, sensitivity to smells, and even his sense of taste all improved along with the strengthening of his body.

He distinctly felt a surge of energy rush straight to his head. He could now hear subtle sounds that had once been inaudible, as though he had entered a brand-new world.

Chen Feng was exceptionally excited.

Bang!

He threw a punch, and it seemed to carry the sound of wind. Its force was far stronger than before.

Most students at school were generally around Stage Two or Stage Three. I'm at Stage Six now. Aside from a few geniuses, I'm already among the very best.

Heh heh, who would have thought that I awakened Nine Divine Tree Martial Souls, and the very first Bodhi Tree would have such miraculous effects? I'm actually a naturally gifted genius too. Heaven has treated me well!

Still, one must be humble. Ahem, ahem.

Chen Feng estimated that it was getting late, so he decided to head back first.

On his way back, he heard students around him discussing how Jiang Shiran was the only genius in this test.

There were also a few others who were not bad, such as those who had awakened weapon Martial Souls, ordinary beast Martial Souls, or support-type ones.

Of course, there were also people around him talking about him. Chen Feng turned a deaf ear to it all, excitement filling his heart.

After leaving the school gates, he walked alone down the street.

Although this world was prosperous and had many powerful people, because of the war, the Great Xia Nation allowed people to have four or five children.

The more children one had, the more government subsidies one could receive. Some married couples even had six children just to receive subsidies.

Only with a flourishing human population could humanity survive in a world of countless races.

Only with more people and a constant stream of powerful descendants could peace be maintained.

But the aftereffect was... it was far too crowded.

Some residential complexes were packed together so densely that there were no parks at all inside. Some apartments were tiny, less than thirty square meters.

Having an apartment in such a complex was already good. Some people lived in tiny tube-like rooms where they went years without seeing the sun.

Once there were too many people, land became scarce. There was no other way.

Owning an eighty-square-meter home here was practically the accumulated achievement of several generations.

Chen Feng passed through some prosperous districts filled with high-rises. The homes there received sunlight and were eighty square meters, even a hundred square meters. He envied such homes, but unfortunately, he was dirt poor.

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