Rapid Improvement

Of course, Chen Yuan felt that relying on Jade Marrow alone to leap across two ranks would be difficult, but he did not mind.

He had never expected Jade Marrow to let him directly break through to the War God Level. As long as it could help him advance to Advanced War General, that would be enough.

After all, there was still Dragon Blood and the Spirit of Vegetation.

Dragon Blood was enough to allow an Advanced War General to break through and become an Elementary War God, while the Spirit of Vegetation could raise an Elementary War God to an Intermediate War God.

As for after reaching Intermediate War God, he could use a Wood Bud Crystal to directly cross Advanced War God and reach Planetary Level!

It could be said that Chen Yuan had already mapped out his path before Planetary Level. All that remained was to cultivate step by step.

Over the following days, Chen Yuan spent almost every daytime session cultivating Gene Origin Energy in the Gravity Chamber, training for at least six hours a day.

Under the boost of extreme gravity, Chen Yuan's cultivation efficiency did indeed increase severalfold, though not by an exaggerated ten times. He estimated it was around seven times.

As for the reason, Chen Yuan understood it clearly. Compared with other Martial Artists, his body cells had already maintained a greater capacity for energy absorption due to Deep Sleep.

If the energy absorption capacity of other Martial Artists was set at one, Chen Yuan's was at least above three.

Because his base energy absorption was already large enough, even if he continued squeezing himself under extreme gravity, the multiplier could not possibly equal that of others.

His increase might have seemed smaller than theirs, but ordinary Martial Artists could use the Gravity Chamber to raise their cultivation efficiency from one to ten, whereas Chen Yuan's had soared from three to twenty-one.

The multiplier might have appeared lower, but the actual increase was greater!

Not to mention that after taking Jade Marrow, this could double once more, raising his cultivation efficiency to more than forty times that of an ordinary person!

Just the first six-hour training session caused Chen Yuan's strength to surge by 1,600 kilograms.

And as his body gradually adapted, the time he could spend cultivating in the Gravity Chamber each day could continue to increase.

Of course, Chen Yuan would not devote all his energy to the Gravity Chamber.

Outside of cultivation, he bought a huge stack of manuals, most of them starting at C-rank. The most expensive was the ultimate manual, the first eleven levels of Thunder Blade, which he bought for five billion.

After buying all those manuals, Chen Yuan's savings plummeted from 10.3 billion to two billion.

So every day after leaving the Gravity Chamber, Chen Yuan used his rest time to study those manuals in preparation for optimizing the Gale Sword Art.

He first finished reading Thunder Blade. As expected, the core of the manual was still stacking Dark Force to exert power, but from the tenth level onward, it added aspects of bodily control.

Chen Yuan guessed that Thor had likely already set foot on the path of orthodox force exertion. This Thunder Blade was no longer his main cultivation art. Most likely, Thor had casually optimized it, added a few more moves, and placed it in the martial arts hall.

"That makes sense. I remember Thor inherited the legacy of the Thunder World Lord. Naturally, he would switch to other powerful cultivation arts instead of stubbornly clinging to Thunder Blade." Chen Yuan set down the eleventh-level Thunder Blade manual, then picked up the World Destroyer manual beside it.

Then Chen Yuan gave a soft sound of surprise.

"This World Destroyer... was almost on the right path in its early stages."

The first level of World Destroyer combined Internal Martial Arts techniques, treating bodily control as the core of force exertion and using Dark Force techniques to enhance it.

Unfortunately, as he continued reading, Chen Yuan discovered that from the second level onward, there was more and more content on cultivating Dark Force, while the portions concerning Internal Martial Arts gradually decreased.

From the fourth level through the sixth, the only force exertion technique within was Dark Force.

"When Hong created World Destroyer back then, could Thor have led him astray?" Chen Yuan found the thought somewhat amusing.

But it was true. Compared with digging inward to develop the body's potential, directly relying on stacked Dark Force to increase one's force exertion multiplier was much simpler, and even the future path was clearer—one only needed to keep stacking Dark Force.

The orthodox path of controlling the body was far more difficult. Not only did one need to study how to coordinate all the muscles in the body, but later on, one also had to explore how to unleash power at the cellular level.

From the first few levels of World Destroyer, Chen Yuan could see that Hong had indeed attempted to use Internal Martial Arts to control his muscles, but after only a brief attempt, he turned to the more convenient Dark Force route.

However, from the seventh level of World Destroyer onward, its main cultivation method returned to bodily control, and until the end of the tenth-level manual, it expounded on how to perfectly control the body.

That was right. The new version of World Destroyer, like Thunder Blade, had also raised its upper limit from six levels to ten.

"Hmm... Thor has the inheritance of the Thunder World Lord, while Hong even has the Time World Lord Luo as his teacher. Sure enough, they both ended up choosing orthodox force exertion methods."

After studying those manuals, Chen Yuan felt that he had gained a great deal. If he used this material to optimize the Gale Sword Art, he could at least raise its force exertion limit to above ten times.

But Chen Yuan was not in a hurry to optimize it. On one hand, he wanted to wait until the Gale Sword Art reached Completion Level. On the other, he had bought a large number of lower-tier manuals that he had yet to read, and he planned to finish them all before beginning the optimization.

After all, Chen Yuan felt that low-level manuals were not necessarily worthless. One person's ideas were limited, but many minds were stronger. Perhaps some manual would give him inspiration.

Besides, his Gale Sword Art had itself been optimized from the Spirit Wind Sword Art. Naturally, Chen Yuan would not look down on low-level manuals.

Thus, Chen Yuan spent the following days reading manuals. It was not until late at night that he finally put down his books and took out the Consciousness Induction Helmet.

"Time to temper my swordsmanship in the Trial Tower."

After one night, the proficiency of the Gale Sword Art improved, and Chen Yuan's force exertion also rose slightly.

Thus, over the next few days, Chen Yuan maintained this cultivation routine—entering the Gravity Chamber in the morning, hiding in Jiangnan Pavilion to read in the afternoon, and entering the Trial Tower at night.

Luo Hai occasionally came to spar with him. After all, during the few days since arriving at the Training Camp, Luo Hai had fought every student near the top of the rankings, not even sparing Yu Qinglan, who was also from Jiangnan Pavilion.

Then Luo Hai discovered that Chen Yuan really was more durable. Every fight with him lasted the longest, so Luo Hai came to challenge Chen Yuan more and more frequently.

Chen Yuan naturally welcomed this, because sparring with Luo Hai meant he could witness Hundred Fierce Blades more often.

Aside from that, Jiang Fang also came to Jiangnan Pavilion to guide him a few times. But after discovering that Chen Yuan's Force Exertion Level had exceeded four times, she suddenly lost interest and told Chen Yuan to cultivate on his own, no longer interfering much.

Under such intense cultivation, Chen Yuan's strength advanced by leaps and bounds. His power increased day by day, the proficiency of the Gale Sword Art steadily rose, and even the proficiency of his Meditation Method grew rapidly with the aid of the Gravity Chamber.

Time flew by.

Ten days after Chen Yuan arrived at the Training Camp, on December 10th, the medicinal effects of the Jade Marrow vanished.

At that time, the proficiency of his Gale Sword Art had reached 83%, his Force Exertion Level had risen to 4.6 times, and the proficiency of his Meditation Method had also soared to 74% with the aid of the Gravity Chamber.

After discovering that the Jade Marrow had stopped working, Chen Yuan specifically consulted Jiang Fang about it.

"You're saying that after using Jade Marrow for only ten days, its medicinal effects were gone?" Jiang Fang naturally knew the effects of Jade Marrow and could not help asking curiously, "How much strength have you reached now?"

Chen Yuan looked at the panel and answered, "Around 37,180 kilograms."

"You gained nearly 20,000 kilograms in ten days!" Jiang Fang's eyes widened. "And you still have the nerve to say the Jade Marrow is gone? What do you think Jade Marrow is, a Wood Bud Crystal?"

"So... I cultivated too quickly and used up the Jade Marrow's medicinal effects ahead of time?" Chen Yuan asked hesitantly.

"What else could it be?" Jiang Fang rolled her eyes at him. "Jade Marrow is merely a cultivation-enhancing potion worth 30 billion, and it only works below Planetary Level. Do you really think it's some miraculous elixir?"

"The medicinal power in one portion of Jade Marrow is limited. Ordinary Martial Artists simply need a month to digest it all."

"I really don't know how you cultivate. Your efficiency is several times that of other people." Jiang Fang gave Chen Yuan a strange look. "Personally, I think the fact that Jade Marrow managed to support your cultivation for a full ten days has already far exceeded its own value."

"I see." Chen Yuan understood.

In other words, there was nothing wrong with the Jade Marrow's quality. Its effects had simply been used up.

So he could use Dragon Blood without worry.