Breakthrough to Planetary Level

"Oh, you've finally decided to break through."

Instructor Oris was a man.

He knew Li Qi's bottleneck had loosened more than ten days ago, but Li Qi had never submitted an application.

As an instructor, he could not force a trainee to break through either. If anything went wrong, he could not bear the responsibility.

Oris took a box from the freezer and placed it on the desk. "These are the Red Dew Fruits you'll need for your breakthrough. There are fifteen inside. See if that's enough. If not, you can apply for another five."

Hearing this, Li Qi went along with it. "I'll apply for another five and make it an even number."

Oris did not mind. As long as he asked, most trainees would take the opportunity to apply for another five Red Dew Fruits, and he had long since prepared for that.

He put away the box on the desk and took out another box that gave off waves of cold air. "This box contains twenty Red Dew Fruits. Scan the identification code on it with your communicator, and you can take it away."

"Thank you, Instructor Oris."

Li Qi took the box, scanned the identification code with his communicator, thanked him, and prepared to leave. But after walking out of the office, he turned back.

Oris asked curiously, "Trainee Li Qi, is there something else?"

Li Qi scratched his head. "Instructor Oris, I'd like to apply for another set of breakthrough resources."

"Another set?"

Oris showed a puzzled expression, but quickly came to a realization. The trainee before him was a psychic.

"Are you planning to break your psychic power through to the planetary level first, then break your physical fitness through to the planetary level as well?"

"Yes." Li Qi nodded.

"Fine."

Oris agreed and took out a box giving off cold air. "After you apply for the breakthrough resources, some information will be sent to your communicator. I suggest you read it."

Li Qi nodded and thanked him. "Thank you, Instructor Oris."

"Go on. I hope that after your physical fitness breaks through to the planetary level, you'll gain a powerful special ability," Oris said.

Li Qi thanked him again, took the two sets of breakthrough resources, and returned to his room to prepare for his breakthrough to the planetary level.

Back in his room, Li Qi placed the two sets of breakthrough resources aside and sat cross-legged on the floor.

He opened his communicator and carefully examined the two newly received messages. He opened the one titled "Detailed Explanation of Psychic Breakthroughs."

Looking at the information on the communicator, Li Qi thought, To break through to the planetary level as a psychic, I need to compress and condense part of the psychic power in my sea of consciousness, then detonate it just as it transforms from liquid into solid.

The detonated psychic power will form a singularity, drawing all the psychic power in my sea of consciousness into it. What I need to do is compress that drawn-in psychic power and form all of it into a miniature planet.

After reading the first message, Li Qi turned off his communicator without checking "Detailed Explanation of Warrior Breakthroughs."

"Time to break through."

Li Qi brought the box containing one set of breakthrough resources to his side. When he opened it, a wave of cold air rushed at his face.

He took out a Red Dew Fruit, stuffed it directly into his mouth, chewed it a few times, and swallowed the icy juice and flesh.

Then he took out another Red Dew Fruit and swallowed it. Only after consuming ten Red Dew Fruits in total did he stop.

The effects of the ten Red Dew Fruits were obvious. Before long, he felt mentally invigorated, so he closed his eyes.

Sea of consciousness.

Within the transparent mist formed by psychic power, Li Qi saw countless droplet-like liquid forms of psychic power, along with a small amount of solid psychic power, scattered throughout his sea of consciousness.

Gaseous, liquid, solid.

All three forms of psychic power were present in his sea of consciousness.

Gather!

Li Qi murmured inwardly.

The droplet-like liquid psychic power scattered throughout his sea of consciousness began to converge, gathering toward its center like soldiers responding to an order.

Splash, splash...

The droplets converged, forming tiny streams that flowed in from every direction toward the center of his sea of consciousness.

At the center of his sea of consciousness, those tiny streams flowed into a rotating transparent water sphere. As it continued spinning, the sphere gradually grew larger.

As it expanded, it not only gathered liquid psychic power, but also absorbed the gaseous psychic power floating in the air, forming several transparent dragons of mist.

Begin compressing.

The transparent water sphere formed from psychic power stopped drawing in liquid and gaseous psychic power. It began spinning rapidly, slowly shrinking as it rotated.

As the transparent water sphere shrank, the scattered psychic power within it became denser, with signs that it was gradually merging together.

Now!

Explode!

Suddenly, Li Qi's thoughts jolted.

Within his sea of consciousness, the compressed transparent water sphere violently exploded. The psychic power that had nearly condensed completely transformed into mist, rapidly spreading in all directions like the aftershock of an explosion. In moments, the mist filled his entire sea of consciousness.

Then, at the former center of the transparent water sphere, where the explosion had been strongest—

Like the collapse of a star, a black hole formed!

With the singularity as its core, endless gravitational force began pulling the gaseous, liquid, and solid psychic power within the sea of consciousness toward it.

It spun wildly. All the psychic power in his sea of consciousness was drawn together, then condensed and fused.

Buzz!

With a tremor through his sea of consciousness, all gaseous, liquid, and solid psychic power vanished.

Only darkness remained, like a universe that had lost every source of light—empty, dark, and deathly still!

Suddenly, at the singularity where the psychic power had converged, a sphere of light slowly rose.

Like a star in the dark universe, it illuminated the entire empty, dark, deathly still cosmos.

The sphere of light was incomparably beautiful. It had a thirty-two-faced crystal at its core, supported by countless pyramid-shaped crystals. A halo surfaced around it, making it all the more dazzling.

The instant this sphere of light appeared, an invisible and peculiar fluctuation continuously radiated from it.

Buzzz—!

The fluctuation traveled from the sphere of light in his sea of consciousness to Li Qi's body, then spread beyond him.

"I've finally broken through to the planetary level!"

"So this is the gravitational pull of a miniature planetary magnetic field?"

Li Qi looked at the miniature planet constantly rotating in his sea of consciousness. His body broke free from the planet's gravity and floated in midair.

"According to the information, after breaking through to the planetary level, psychics can use psychic power to strengthen their bodies. Let's try it first."

After testing flight, he moved his thoughts. Streams of refined psychic power spread from the miniature planet and filled his entire body.

When planetary-level psychic power spread through his body, Li Qi felt his formerly stable body undergo earth-shaking changes!

The bones, marrow, meridians, muscles, fascia, skin, and everything else in his body underwent unbelievable transformations at that moment. The genetic code within his body rapidly broke down and recombined!

This was a leap in life!

This feeling! It's wonderful!

The leap in life filled Li Qi with incomparable pleasure, an indescribably wonderful sensation.

The most immediate change was that his vitality had become even more vigorous. He could survive without breathing, and his body could continue becoming stronger.

Previously, once his physical fitness had reached the peak of the ninth apprentice level, it could no longer improve. His life level had determined the limit of his physical fitness.

But after breaking through to the planetary level, his life level had undergone a leap. This made his physical fitness as foundational as that of an infant, allowing it to continue growing.

"My psychic power has broken through to the planetary level. Next is my physical fitness."

Li Qi muttered to himself, then suddenly felt something was wrong with his words. "My life has already undergone a leap, and my physical fitness has reached the planetary level too. Can I still complete a warrior's breakthrough?"

Filled with doubt, he opened his communicator and began reading "Detailed Explanation of Warrior Breakthroughs."

After reading for a while, he finally understood. Breaking physical fitness through to the planetary level was merely a customary term. A warrior's breakthrough meant breaking genetic energy through to the planetary level.

Genetic energy came from cosmic energy. Because every person's body and soul differed, the cosmic energy they absorbed also differed.

But the final conversions all belonged to the eight major attributes: metal, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, lightning, and light. None of those eight attributes was superior or inferior to another.

Special abilities originated from genetic energy and gifts bestowed by the universe. They were likewise divided into eight major attributes, and each attribute contained both strong and weak special abilities.

For example, the metal-attribute special ability Diamond Body. A strong version could reinforce every part of the body until it became exceptionally tough, while a weak version only made the skin, flesh, and bones slightly harder. The difference between the two was like heaven and earth!

Seeing the final introduction to special abilities, Li Qi clicked his tongue. Although the original novel mentioned that special abilities varied in strength, the gap is far too huge.

He closed the communicator amid his amazement and prepared to break his genetic energy through to the planetary level.

But when he thought of the vast difference in special abilities, he could not help praying, I hope my special ability won't be too weak.

After praying, he swallowed all ten remaining Red Dew Fruits from the first set of breakthrough resources, then swallowed all the Red Dew Fruits in the second set as well.

Only now did he understand that the breakthrough-assisting effects of Red Dew Fruits were extremely useful for a genetic energy breakthrough, while they were much less effective for a psychic power breakthrough.

So he simply swallowed all the Red Dew Fruits at once. This would provide greater assistance in breaking his genetic energy through to the planetary level.

After completing his preparations, Li Qi stood and performed the movements taught in "Detailed Explanation of Warrior Breakthroughs."

There were two sets of movements in "Detailed Explanation of Warrior Breakthroughs." One consisted of twelve movements for opening the dantian, while the other consisted of nine movements for condensing a miniature planet, with the latter needing to be repeated three times.

The moment he performed the first movement, his body grew slightly warm. As he continued through the movements one by one, the cells throughout his body seemed to boil. The unabsorbed genetic energy within his cells began converging like droplets, forming streams that flowed into the dantian in his abdomen.

When Li Qi performed the last of the twelve movements, all the streams of genetic energy gathered in his abdomen and spun into a sphere.

Boom!

As he completed the final movement, the sphere of genetic energy in his abdomen instantly exploded!

The dantian, which had not existed before, was opened by the explosion of genetic energy. Within the newly opened dantian was only emptiness, along with countless wisps of mist-like genetic energy.

After opening his dantian, Li Qi did not pause and began performing the second set of movements.

When he completed the first movement, the mist-like genetic energy at the center of his dantian began rotating.

As he continued through the movements, the mist-like genetic energy at the center of his dantian spun faster and faster. By the time he finished the first round of nine movements, all the genetic energy in his dantian had gathered together and undergone multiple compressions.

When he completed the second round, the genetic energy in his dantian had transformed into liquid, becoming a rotating sphere that continued compressing toward a solid state.

When he completed the third round of movements, only a miniature planet remained in Li Qi's dantian—a green miniature planet made of countless hexagonal crystals. This miniature planet also emitted waves of peculiar fluctuations.

"Success!"

Feeling the birth of those fluctuations, Li Qi was overjoyed.

Now let's see what my special ability is!

With a thought, the green miniature planet in Li Qi's dantian released genetic energy that spread throughout his body.

At that moment, a strange phenomenon occurred in the Special Training Camp. A flower seed that a trainee had brought from home, one that had only recently taken root and sprouted, was now growing at a visible speed!