Insight and Perfect Level

After leaving the governor's office, Li Qi headed toward his room.

He walked as he thought.

Come to think of it, the governor's so-called special approval for me to enter the Stellar Training Camp probably doesn't exist. I never received any notice, and he didn't show me the supposed order.

The governor gave me one year to raise my combat techniques to the Perfection Level. Clearly, Perfection Level combat techniques are the minimum requirement for the Stellar Training Camp.

So this should be a provocation. But does this even count as one?

Li Qi stopped before a corridor window and looked at the various flowers blooming across the grassland outside.

Yes, the governor does intend to reward me, as long as I can meet the requirement, but...

His hands clenched tightly. The flowers outside were beautiful, but he had no mood to admire them!

The enormous gap in strength and status has made me feel the helplessness of weakness! Not motivation!

I lived in a peaceful country in my previous life, and on a peaceful planet in this one. It made me forget that the world had never truly been peaceful!

At that moment, he recalled a dark joke from his previous life: small countries were peaceful only because America had not come after them!

Taking a deep breath, Li Qi turned and continued toward his room.

From this morning onward, I had no choice!

Either I become strong, one step at a time! Or I die on the road to becoming strong!

Many people had discussed the anomaly that occurred on the grassland that morning, and Li Qi had naturally heard about it as well.

After asking around, he calculated when the anomaly had appeared. It matched the time when he broke through to the Planetary Level and awakened his special ability.

The anomaly had been caused by him!

And if he could calculate it, then the empire, with its immense power, could naturally calculate it as well!

Thus, he knew he had entered the empire's upper echelon's field of vision.

When he spoke with the governor earlier, part of it had been an act, but not entirely.

He truly wanted to enter the Stellar Training Camp, because getting in would mean he was no longer in danger and that the ranch crisis could be resolved.

Of course, he was safe now as well, but the feeling of being powerless to decide whether he lived or died was truly unbearable!

Back in his room, Li Qi sat beside the bed and recalled the relationship between Perfection Level techniques and domains.

Perfection Level combat techniques pursue control: control over everything in the surrounding environment, even the enemy's and one's own combat rhythm.

At the same time, Perfection Level combat techniques are the prototype of a domain. However, comprehending a domain does not necessarily require Perfection Level combat techniques.

Because only after comprehending Artistic Conception can one go further and comprehend a domain. Once one comprehends a domain, one automatically masters Perfection Level techniques!

Li Qi knew very well that Artistic Conception, domains, and Laws corresponded respectively to the Universe Level, Domain Lord level, and World Lord level. As long as one comprehended the former, there would be no bottleneck in breaking through to the latter!

Of course, for those lacking resources, even accumulating energy was difficult. Even if they comprehended high-level techniques, they still could not advance further.

The Ranking Trial is about to begin. My techniques are close to the Perfect Level, which is enough to handle it.

Besides, methods that are inconvenient to use normally can be used in the Ranking Trial!

He was not worried about the approaching Ranking Trial, because Mental Force users held a great advantage at the Planetary Level.

Several days later.

Virtual Universe, Kuka Planet Special Training Camp.

The Ranking Trial was underway.

In one competition arena, two figures clashed in the sky above a grassland.

Li Qi held a war blade, with eight Bone Spikes orbiting around him as he fought fiercely against his opponent.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...!

His opponent's combat techniques were stronger than his, especially in explosive power. Li Qi was struggling to hold on, so the eight Bone Spikes shot toward his opponent from every direction.

Seeing the eight Bone Spikes restrain his opponent, Li Qi said helplessly, "As expected, my close-combat techniques are still far inferior to those of warriors at the same level."

His close-combat techniques were poor, putting him at too great a disadvantage against students who were Planetary Level warriors.

Thus, whenever he could no longer hold on, the eight Bone Spikes around him would attack and restrain his opponent.

The restrained student shouted, "Hey! Li Qi, don't go too far!"

The student was deeply frustrated. In terms of close-combat techniques, he far surpassed Li Qi, yet this was already the several time he had been restrained by those Bone Spikes.

If not for the Bone Spikes restraining him, he would have cut Li Qi down long ago in close combat alone.

The student roared, "Either use your Mental Force user methods, or fight me properly in close combat! What's the point of constantly using such disgusting tricks?"

Li Qi ignored him. He merely used his Mental Force to recall the Bone Spikes before advancing to engage him in close combat again.

Seeing Li Qi advance for close combat, the student's heart leaped with joy. He shouted, "Good!"

He slashed out with his blade. Purple Gene Origin Energy covered his entire body, and amid the faint crackle of lightning, he tangled with the approaching Li Qi in battle.

In barely more than ten seconds, he had suppressed Li Qi. In just a few more seconds, he would defeat him.

"Ha ha! Die!"

On the verge of defeating his opponent, the student burst into laughter. After being disgusted so many times before, he could finally get his revenge.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...

Just as he laughed smugly, the eight Bone Spikes shot toward him from every direction once more.

"Bastard!"

Seeing this, the student flew into a rage. His war blade whirled, knocking several Bone Spikes away, while his body flickered as he dodged the remaining ones.

Without battle armor to protect him, he could not ignore the Bone Spike attacks of a Mental Force user at the same level.

"Disgusting! Absolutely disgusting!"

The student shouted, "Li Qi Royce! You win this time! Just you wait!"

After angrily leaving behind those harsh words, the student conceded defeat and left the competition arena.

This battle had truly disgusted him to the extreme!

He knew that Li Qi, as a Mental Force user, held the advantage and possessed greater actual combat ability than him.

If Li Qi had defeated him using Mental Force user methods, he would have had nothing to say.

But Li Qi had fought him with mediocre close-combat methods, and whenever he was losing, he used Mental Force user methods to restrain him. Once he had adjusted himself, he would advance and resume close combat.

That style of fighting was simply toying with him!

At least in that student's eyes, after being toyed with like this today, a grudge had been formed.

Li Qi looked in the direction his opponent had vanished and thought, That's the fifth one.

In truth, he knew very well that fighting that way would offend his opponents, yet he had still done it.

That was because he had carefully selected all five students he offended.

Although they were classmates who had attended lessons together, all those opponents were among the weakest. Otherwise, they would not have ended up serving as his close-combat sparring partners.

As for his next opponents, he took them extremely seriously. After these five battles, my close-combat techniques have improved somewhat.

But my next opponents are stronger. I must focus on using object-control attacks if I want to defeat them.

After several days of fighting, the Ranking Trial ended. Relying on his identity as a Mental Force user, Li Qi ranked near the top.

The students ranked in the last few places were eliminated and forced to leave the Special Training Camp. Among them were the five students he had offended earlier.

After the Ranking Trial ended, Li Qi resumed his usual training and continued honing his combat techniques.

Combat techniques were unlike Gene Origin Energy and Mental Force cultivation. The former required vast amounts of time and energy spent honing oneself through battle, while the latter only required continuous cultivation and accumulation.

A month later, Li Qi successfully raised his combat techniques to the Perfect Level. Without relying on Mental Force support, he could now use the surrounding environment in battle.

After his combat techniques broke through to the Perfect Level, his close-combat skills also advanced by leaps and bounds. He had gone from only being able to bully classmates at the bottom of the rankings to now matching students of middling strength in the Ranking Trial.

However, his force amplitude was still low...

There will be only one update a day for the next two days. Let me write the outline for Volume Three.