The Limit of Spirit Power Overclocking

Just as the group was preparing to start their warm-up run, Ning Rongrong suddenly raised her hand with a tremble: "Um... I'd like to request a rest day today."

The seven of them focused their gazes on Ning Rongrong in unison.

"Is there a specific reason?"

Le Bai asked: "If not, I won't approve it."

Ning Rongrong remained silent for a moment before speaking up: "Yesterday, I tried to perform the Spirit Power Overclocking you mentioned. I didn't control it well while compressing my spirit power, and as a result, the spirit power exploded inside my body. My meridians were slightly damaged, and my whole body hurts now."

"Understood, you can rest today."

Le Bai agreed readily, then thought for a moment and added: "It was much the same for Oscar and Ma Hongjun when they first started practicing. For the next three days, you'd best not attempt to compress your spirit power again. If it explodes once more, what you'll experience won't just be simple body aches."

"I know."

Ning Rongrong pulled a bitter face: "By the way, why didn't you mention yourself and Dai Mubai? Don't tell me you two never failed?"

"How could we not?"

Dai Mubai gave a bitter laugh: "My spirit power control is worse than those three, and I failed thousands of times when I first practiced!"

Ning Rongrong: "Then why didn't Le Bai mention you?"

"Because Boss Dai's physical constitution is strong enough."

Le Bai took over: "As long as your body is strong enough to fully withstand the impact of compressed spirit power, you won't get hurt no matter how many times you fail. There's one more thing; I intended to wait until you had all mastered it before saying anything, but I'd better explain it in advance now."

"The limit of spirit power intensity you can reach through Spirit Power Overclocking is indeed determined by each person's control over their spirit power in the initial stages. However, starting from the intermediate and advanced stages, physical constitution becomes the biggest factor affecting the ceiling of Spirit Power Overclocking."

Tang San, having studied under Grandmaster, understood the theory faster than the others: "You mean that even if our control over spirit power reaches its peak, if our physical constitution doesn't keep up, we can't keep increasing our spirit power through Spirit Power Overclocking?"

"Correct, that's exactly what I mean."

Le Bai affirmed Tang San's understanding: "Take Oscar for example. His control over spirit power is already enough to support him in raising his spirit power to around level 45 through Spirit Power Overclocking. But the spirit power his physical constitution can withstand is just under level 40, so in reality, he can only raise it to around level 40."

"And what about you?"

Xiao Wu stared at Le Bai with a serious expression: "Are your control and physical constitution enough to raise your spirit power to what level?"

Seeing this expression, Le Bai immediately knew what Xiao Wu wanted to say: "Are you suspecting that I held back yesterday?"

Xiao Wu retorted: "Don't tell me you didn't?"

"Thanks for thinking so highly of me."

Le Bai gave a bitter laugh: "Maintaining Spirit Power Overclocking is not an easy task, let alone keeping it up during an intense battle. My spirit power is only level 22; being able to maintain it at around level 35 during a fight, with a momentary burst reaching level 40, is my limit."

Xiao Wu still didn't believe him: "My intuition tells me that your limit is definitely not level 40!"

"Of course it isn't. The limit in battle and a pure limit are two different things."

Le Bai held up two fingers: "In a combat state, I can only maintain level 35 spirit power at most. But when not in combat, if I focus solely on controlling my spirit power, it can be higher. My current record is over level 50, and my limit state should be close to level 60."

"That means..."

Zhu Zhuqing, who had been listening for a while, suddenly spoke up: "Your physical constitution is already comparable to a Battle Soul Master of level 60 spirit power?"

"How is that possible!?"

Le Bai corrected them again: "You all really think too highly of me and too little of other spirit masters! Even without counting the bonus from Martial Soul Possession, my current physical constitution is at most on par with a Battle Soul Master around level 52; counting the bonus after Martial Soul Possession, it would be good if I could go head-to-head with a Battle Soul Master around level 47!"

"That is already truly remarkable!"

Tang San looked at Le Bai with admiration: "You are a Support System spirit master! I simply cannot imagine what kind of brutal training you went through to reach this point!"

"Ha, it's just that you can't imagine it 'yet'."

Le Bai said with a smile: "Soon you will be able to experience that level of training for yourselves. Doesn't that make you feel a little excited?"

It sure did, so excited they wanted to run away!

"Alright, stop scaring them."

Dai Mubai said with a smile: "Don't listen to Le Bai. He's just saying that; he's actually very measured when it comes to real training."

"How much longer are you going to talk?"

Ma Hongjun had already started jogging in place: "If you don't start now, I'm going to leave you all behind!"

"Coming!"

"Wow, do you have to be so diligent, kid?"

"Hahaha, Ma Hongjun is the most proactive one when it comes to training now!"

The ten laps were finished quickly. With the support of his spirit power, Tang San ran quite easily, only reaching the point where his breathing frequency increased slightly.

However, the four senior students, including Le Bai, were already sweating, and their breathing frequencies had increased significantly—this was clearly not right!

Thinking of this, Tang San immediately began to observe the four of them carefully with his Purple Demon Eye, looking for something.

Soon, he found it: "What are those wrist guards they're wearing? All four of them have them, but when I fought Le Bai yesterday, he definitely didn't have this thing on his hands."

Tang San ran to Dai Mubai's side: "Boss Dai, can I ask you something?"

"Speak!"

Dai Mubai was panting slightly, his words clipped.

Tang San: "Is there something special about your Wrist Guards?"

"You have a sharp eye!"

Dai Mubai looked at Tang San with surprise: "In a couple of days, you'll know!"

After saying this, he immediately began to regulate his breathing, not daring to speak again.

As a result, until the morning training ended, Tang San still did not understand what Dai Mubai meant.

However, after fully witnessing the training intensity of the four senior students, all four new students, including the resting Ning Rongrong, felt a certain amount of pressure.

Ning Rongrong, in particular, had already started to lose heart: This training intensity is too exaggerated! Are the four of them really human? Could they be humanoid Soul Beasts? If I had known, I would have signed up for a different Academy...

However, when eating lunch, Ning Rongrong's thoughts changed again: So delicious! This Academy is lacking in everything, but the food in the Cafeteria is truly good! It tastes even better than the food made by the chefs hired by the sect! If I go back, I probably won't be able to eat this anymore. Should I try to take the chef back to the sect? I'll go ask in a bit.

For the afternoon, the new students rested while the senior students continued their training.

Because Le Bai had warned them that they must adjust their state in the afternoon to cope with the evening's lessons, all four of them honestly returned to the Dormitory to begin cultivating and adjusting their state.

Ning Rongrong did not want to live such a dull Academy life; she longed for a more interesting and exciting campus life!

But her whole body ached, and she was powerless: "I'll wait until my body doesn't hurt anymore to... hiss!"

Thanks to [Sword of the Enchantress] and [Only Remembering Bamboo] for the tips.