The afterglow of the setting sun was like molten gold, splashing on the huge pits of the ruins, stretching the figure of Lin Yi very long.
He stood in the center, like a needle in the sea, and announced the beginning of the Q&A in a calm voice.
Although Lin Yi majors in the rules of the gold system, after all, many principles are similar.
Moreover, during his thousands of years of mercenary career in his previous life, his comrades practiced all kinds of rules, and they often discussed with each other.
Therefore, with his experience in his previous life, and Rule Comprehension who has now reached the fifth level of Xingxuan, it is more than enough to guide these little guys who have not yet started.
After a short silence, according to the order of questions marked by Xuanji, Elizabeth, who was standing at the front, took the lead and bowed slightly. Her ice-blue eyes were full of thirst for knowledge and awe, and she asked loudly:
"Principal, I am very familiar with my special skill "Frost Silence". I can also feel the pull of the prototype of the rules, but I always feel that there is an invisible barrier between me and I cannot truly master it and turn it into an extension of my own will."
"Excuse me, I am so close to opening this door of rules. What is missing?"
Her question goes to the core and represents the common bottleneck of the top players in the field.
Lin Yi looked at her, his eyes seeming to penetrate the chill lingering around her. "Rules are not external objects, but the resonance of your own soul will and the essential frequency of the universe. You perceive it and pull it, but you do not truly understand it, let alone integrate your heart with it."
"For the time being, let go of your obsession with pushing the door open. When you no longer regard it as just a force, but as a part of your existence and a manifestation of your will, that layer of barriers will melt away."
Elizabeth's body trembled slightly, a flash of surprise flashed in his eyes, and he bowed deeply. "Thank you Principal for your guidance."
Immediately afterwards, Chen Yu took a step forward. His temper was more urgent and his questions were more direct.
"Principal! My Void-Cleaving Slash feels that its power has reached a bottleneck. I know this involves the superficial rules, but this thing is too abstract! How can I really cut out some ways?"
He made a gesture of swinging a knife.
Lin Yi's mouth seemed to move slightly. "Space is not empty. It has its toughness, folds, and even nodes. Your knife should not only think about cutting matter, but also try to sense the flow of space and find those "lines" that are inherently fragile or easily distorted."
"Using your mind to guide source energy is not about cutting with brute force, but like a butcher cutting an ox. When you swing a knife and it feels like it's not hitting something, but "cutting" something, that's when you've started."
Subsequently, some Stardust level fifth- and sixth-level experts also asked questions. Most of their questions focused on how to master special skills.
A strong man from Russia, as tall as a bear, used the stiff Xia Language and asked, "Principal, I feel that I have reached the end of my "Earthshaking Strike" stunt, but I have not been able to truly master it. How can I more effectively conduct the power to the depths of the earth and control the range and shape of its explosion?"
Lin Yi replied, "The earth carries all things and has its own pulsations. Your strength should not be rough hammering, but to find the "resonance point" of the earth, just like plucking the strings. Feel the frequency of the earth under your feet, and let your energy fluctuations match it, so that you can control it like an arm."
His answers are often to the point and go straight to the essence.
Moreover, Lin Yi does not directly give specific steps, but points out the direction and concepts, which need to be understood by the questioner.
But it is this kind of high-level guidance that often makes both the questioner and the observer feel suddenly enlightened, and many long-standing confusions are suddenly revealed.
When it was the turn of the "Mountain Cat" team, several people pushed each other around, and finally Nightingale stepped forward under the encouraging eyes of Old Cat.
She is not as majestic as the strong ones in front of her, but instead has a hint of restraint belonging to a struggling person at the bottom.
"Principal Lin, I have been stuck at the peak of Stardust level Tier 3 for a long time. I feel that Soul Power and source energy control have reached the limit, but I have never been able to break through that barrier and advance to the fourth level. May I ask, what am I missing?"
Her question represents the voice of many Yuan warriors who have average talent and rely on hard work to climb the ladder step by step.
Lin Yi's eyes fell on her, a little less profound than before, and a little more peaceful.
"Limits are often not real limits, but the boundaries of your cognition, or the underestimation of your own potential deep in your heart. The difference between the fourth level and the third level is that the soul's penetration and integration of source energy are further."
"You are too obsessed with control, and only rely on control to forcibly restrain the source energy, but you have forgotten that source energy is an extension of life and soul. Try to relax, feel the flow of source energy in your body, trust it, guide it, rather than control it. Sometimes, what is needed for a breakthrough is not stronger power, but a change of thought, a breakthrough in self-perception."
Lin Yi paused and added, "Your foundation is very solid. What you are missing may be just an opportunity, an epiphany to fully integrate the past accumulation. Don't worry, it will fall into place naturally."
Nightingale savored every word carefully, feeling that a tight string in his heart seemed to loosen a little.
She saluted solemnly. "Thank you!"
Several people asked questions later, and Lin Yi answered them all in a concise and comprehensive manner.
The entire Q&A process lasted for nearly two hours. The setting sun had mostly sunk into the horizon, leaving only the gorgeous sunset glow in the sky.
When the last questioner left with satisfaction and thoughtfulness, Lin Yi looked around the audience and spoke slowly.
"Today's battle marks that we have initially acquired the ability to clean out our nests and regain lost ground. But our journey should not stop here."
He paused and dropped a piece of news that was enough to detonate the circle of energy users around the world:
"To this end, I announce that preparations for the "Star Core level Special Training Class" have officially started."
There was an uncontrollable exclamation and commotion below.
Star Core level, that is the realm that countless origin warriors dream of!
Lin Yi continued, "The special training class aims to systematically cultivate and guide those with potential and break the bottleneck of Star Core level Rule Comprehension. The registration period is one month."
"There is only one condition for registration: to initially touch the threshold of the rules. To put it bluntly, it is to master a unique skill."
"There are no restrictions on identity or nationality. As long as you are a member of Blue Star Community and meet the conditions, you can submit an application through Merit System and undergo preliminary review by Xuanji."
"The final list will be approved by me personally."
As soon as the words fell, the entire ruins fell into silence at first, and then a lively discussion broke out.
Chen Yu clenched his fists suddenly, eyes burning with flames of war. "Finally. Here we are!"
Zhou Yuxuan didn't say anything, but he had already begun to think about the registration matter in his mind.
Elizabeth took a deep breath, and underneath his cold face was a surging fighting spirit.
Andre looked up to the sky and shouted, "Star Core level, I'm here! No one can rob me!"
Even the "Mountain Cat" team, which had just received guidance and had not yet calmed down, temporarily suppressed their personal joy and was shocked by this grand plan.
Old Cat murmured, "Star Core level special training class. This is the real opportunity to change your destiny."
As if the news had wings, it instantly spread to every corner of the world through the communication equipment of everyone present.
Inside the East Peak Military Academy, the elite students who have not yet left school are excited and are checking whether they meet the conditions.
English London Tower, Elizabeth's deputies immediately began to compile a list of domestic eligible persons.
America At a certain military base, the younger brothers of Andre cheered as if they had already seen the scene of their boss breaking through Star Core level in the future.
On the ice field of Russia, in the castle of France, and in the industrial zone of Junkerd.
Every member of Blue Star Community, those strong men who have long been famous or hidden among the people and have mastered unique skills, whether they are loners honing in the wilderness, officers serving in the army, or guests of some big forces, all submitted their registration applications through Merit System without hesitation as soon as they received the news.
A storm sweeping across the world's top combat forces has quietly taken shape.
One month later, after strict screening by Xuanji and final confirmation by Lin Yi, a list of more than seventy people was officially announced.
Chen Yu, Zhou Yuxuan, Elizabeth, Andre and other acquaintances are clearly on the list. There are also some folk masters or foreign experts who are not well-known but have indeed mastered powerful stunts.
They gather again from all over the world to the East Peak Military Academy.
Special training class officially opened.
However, this three-month special training was not the enlightenment that outsiders imagined, but an almost cruel and targeted training.
The core location of the special training is the "Advanced Comprehensive Cultivation Tower" that has just completed final debugging.
The next three months, for the more than 70 people selected as Star Core Special Training Class, were a strange time that compressed time to the extreme and kept reincarnating between pain and ecstasy.
East Peak Military Academy The newly built "Advanced Comprehensive Cultivation Tower" has become their temporary home and their common "purgatory".
In the early morning, the sky is still dark.
There is no rallying cry, but invisible pressure is more effective than any order.
Chen Yu rubbed his still swollen temples and walked out of the assigned rest cabin, and happened to bump into Zhou Yuxuan coming out of the next door.
"How's it going, Lao Zhou? How long did you last in "that room" last night?"
Chen Yu yawned, with a hint of exhaustion in his tone, but also a hint of unnoticeable excitement.
The "room" he mentioned refers to the training room in the tower specially designed to withstand the pressure of the Lin Yi rules.
Zhou Yuxuan's eyes were slightly blue and black, but his eyes were extremely bright. "Forty-seven minutes, three minutes longer than the day before yesterday. It feels like my brain is being beaten repeatedly under a forging hammer, but every time I push it through, I feel that my understanding of the rules has become clearer."
He paused and looked at Chen Yu, "What about you? How is your melee combat?"
Chen Yu grinned, showing his white teeth, and said with a bit of fierceness, "Hey, don't mention it. Yesterday, I was almost crushed by the invisible pressure to burst the source energy, but for a moment, I felt that my knife really "cut" something, not air, but something deeper. Although it was only for a moment, the feeling was unmistakable!"
He waved his arms and imitated the action of swinging a knife, attracting the side glances of some foreign students passing by.
In the restaurant, everyone was silently eating the high-energy nutritious meal accurately prepared by Xuanji according to each person's body data. Few people spoke, not because they didn't want to, but because they were mentally exhausted far more than physically.
Andre was holding a bowl that was bigger than his face, pouring some kind of pungent egg white mixture. After drinking a sip of it, he faced the man sitting opposite, who was sipping a special iced jelly. Elizabeth yelled, "Hey, in yesterday's virtual battle, your move "Absolute Domain" was too abnormal! As soon as I got close, my speed was reduced by 70%. How do you play this?"
Elizabeth raised his eyes, his ice blue eyes calm and calm. "Your will is not pure enough and is easily disturbed by the external environment. If you can condense it into one, my field may not be completely restricted."
As she spoke, a wisp of cold air lingered unconsciously on her fingertips, causing a layer of white frost to quickly condense on the edge of the water glass on the table.
Andre scratched his messy hair and muttered, "Pure. To put it lightly"
But there was not much discouragement in his eyes, instead they were burning with more fighting spirit.
Morning training is usually conducted in groups.
Sometimes in the virtual tactical confrontation room, facing all kinds of strange enemies simulated by Xuanji.
Chen Yu once came out with a pale face and complained to Zhou Yuxuan, "Damn it, today I met a defensive leader Stardust level Yuanzheng Abyssal Beast. I slashed at him with a knife and almost took off my own arm. How can I fight this thing?"
In the afternoon, it is often more boring, but also crucial energy control training.
In the high-level area of Source Energy Control Advanced Training Tower, students are thrown into various extreme environments.
Elizabeth spent three consecutive days, spending several hours every day, trying to stably build a perfect ice crystal shield in the turbulence filled with violent source energy.
Failure, fragmentation, reunification, and so on.
When she finally succeeded, even with her coldness, the corner of her mouth couldn't help but curl up with a slight arc.
The biggest headache for Chen Yu is using source energy threads to thread the needle under the super-gravity superimposed interference force field.
His sword skills, which are good at opening and closing, appear particularly clumsy in the face of this kind of training that requires extreme precision and patience.
Several times he almost wanted to smash the damn training equipment out of temper, but when he saw even Andre grinning and sweating while trying to stabilize a dozen energy balls with different attributes at the same time, he gritted his teeth and endured it.
In the evening, there will be a battle arranged by Lin Yi.
One time, Chen Yu, who had always been at a disadvantage, the blade of his blade unexpectedly grazed Elizabeth's cheek and cut off several of her golden hairs.
Of course, he was immediately stabbed through by Elizabeth's "Frost Whisper" sword.
The teamwork task to be practiced in the evening is more like an adventure.
They were divided into several groups and thrown into simulated mission environments. They either fought against each other to compete for certain key resources, or worked together to fight against the powerful humanoid Abyssal Beast.
In such tasks, individual bravery often has to give way to teamwork.
Zhou Yuxuan's analytical ability shines, and Andre's violent charge also requires the support and cover of his teammates. Chen Yu's assault and Elizabeth's field control must be in perfect harmony.
The process of quarreling, running-in, and finally trusting each other is a precious practice in itself.
Three months passed quietly amid the extreme oppression day after day, the support among peers, and the increasingly clear understanding of the rules.
When the training was over, the students walked out of the training tower and looked at the seemingly unchanged sunshine outside, feeling as if they were in another world.
They are less impetuous and more calm. Although the once indestructible barrier has not been broken, it is already full of cracks.
They know that they need to walk the next road by themselves to hit the final bottleneck.
The end of the Star Core level special training class is not an end, but the prelude to a new era.
The students returned to their respective positions with a tempered will and a deeper understanding of the rules, like pebbles thrown into a calm lake, causing ripples among the global energy user hierarchy.
Today, East Peak Military Academy and even the entire military, scientific research, and production chain of Blue Star Community are able to operate efficiently on their own and handle most matters.
Therefore, after Lin Yi personally laid a solid foundation for this group of seed students, he handed more of the burden of teaching and daily management to the mature administrative and teaching system with Nie Chang, Zhou Yuxuan and others as the core, as well as Xuanji, whose computing power and intelligence are constantly improving.
After all, Lin Yi knows very well that with his current Source Energy who has just entered Star Core, he cannot kill the large number of Star Core level Abyssal Beast in the main nest alone in a short time.
After Star Core level, even if there are no bottlenecks, it will take at least fifty or sixty years of hard work to reach the next level.
However, Lin Yi doesn't want to wait that long at all.
Then, there is only one way.
If the source energy is not enough, rules will come up.
Lin Yi couldn't help but recall the power of the realm that he had experienced with his life.
When he was reborn, he was wiped out by Rule Domain without any resistance. How powerless he was. Now, he has high expectations for the field.
The power of the domain, even Star Vortex level like him, who is new to Star Vortex level, cannot resist, let alone these Star Core level Abyssal Beast.
Lin Yi thought to himself, "As long as you can master the field, even if Source Energy can only maintain it for a short ten breaths, it will be enough."
After he made up his mind, he reinvested more of his energy into self-cultivation.
Of course, Lin Yi has not stayed away. He still holds the general direction of civilization's progress. He often participates in Xia Country's highest-level meetings and high-level community meetings, regularly takes the lead in organizing operations to clear giant lairs, and has listed the Star Core level special training class as a regular training held every five years.
However, Lin Yi spent more time on cultivation.
This practice is not only about comprehending the rules, but actually spends more time honing his skills.
Lin Yi is now well aware of his talent on Rule Comprehension. Rather than sitting around for a long time without knowing what to do, he might as well spend more time honing his skills in applying the rules in combat.
Therefore, he turned into a stream of light at every turn, killed the main nest, and found those Star Core level Abyssal Beast to confirm what he thought.
Only after using Spiritual Enlightenment Qi, Lin Yi will spend most of their energy on comprehending the rules during the afterglow of enlightenment.
Time, in his cycle of honing his skills - having an epiphany - comprehending the rules - honing his skills, seems to have lost its daily scale.
In the blink of an eye, it has been forty years.
Forty years is a long journey for an ordinary individual life.
It's enough to make a newborn baby enter the realm of enlightenment and make a young man in his prime grow white on his temples.
Forty years is usually not worth mentioning for a civilization.
However, for Blue Star, earth-shaking changes have also occurred in the past forty years.