The Spirit of Vegetation

After leaving Hong's place, Ji Yun was overjoyed.

Signing the contract with Limit Dojo was secondary; the most important thing was that there was indeed a higher realm beyond artistic conception. This realm was a goal, driving Ji Yun to keep advancing, climbing, and eventually reaching it.

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After signing the contract, Ji Yun officially became a core member of Limit Dojo, with an annual activity budget of 9 billion. Only someone like Ji Yun, who was certain to reach the peak of High-Level War God and had a great chance of breaking through to surpass War God, could receive such treatment.

However, although it was simple to reach an amplitude of 1.6, Ji Yun did not want to leave the Elite Training Camp just yet.

It must be known that the Ancient Civilization Gravity Room was also very helpful for the training of High-Level War Gods. Before fully utilizing it, Ji Yun would not give up this opportunity. Moreover, Ji Yun wanted to try reaching an amplitude of twenty to obtain that ancient civilization equipment, the Black God Set.

Ji Yun was ranked second this month, and second place had 60 hours per month to use the gravity room, as well as plenty of time to use the Trial Tower. As long as Ji Yun made a breakthrough in punching power, not only would his punching power level increase, but his Trial Tower level would also see a new boost.

Reaching an amplitude of twenty was not difficult, as long as Ji Yun seized the time.

For Ji Yun, this Elite Training Camp was a shortcut to improving his strength. Here, there were the best training equipment and various auxiliary treasures, which could greatly shorten the time needed to enhance strength. Sometimes, time was also an opportunity.

This month was still February.

Every year, in January and February, the Elite Training Camp allowed students to go home. In the other ten months, nine were very safe—either in the training camp or in the strictly monitored Wilderness Zone, City 1001. During these nine months, deaths in the training camp were rare.

It had only taken Ji Yun a few days to achieve second place in Limit Dojo.

It was only February, and Ji Yun had little fear of the life-and-death adventure in August. In his view, with treasures and equipment to assist, becoming a High-Level War God before August was extremely easy. Perhaps Hong had also seen this, which was why he set the time limit for this year instead of a longer term like other contracts.

Ji Yun only needed to break through his punching power level within the next two months to easily obtain the reward.

A month and a half later.

On the rooftop of Yanjing Pavilion, Ji Yun's residence.

Unlike other students who liked to play and laugh together during breaks, Ji Yun preferred to sit alone on the windowsill on windy days, quietly savoring the taste of the wind.

The air was filled with a faint fragrance, calming the mind, while the gentle breeze flowed slowly with tranquility.

Ji Yun, dressed in a loose white silk robe, sat cross-legged in meditation, quietly experiencing his newly breakthrough in force exertion.

Since Ji Yun could not hunt Lord-level monsters, nor even fight them—because if the training camp caught him displaying War God-level strength, they would automatically graduate him, causing him to lose his benefits—

Without the tempering of life-and-death situations, it was hard to improve rapidly. Fortunately, Ji Yun's last breakthrough in force exertion was several months ago. His recent trips to City 003 and the battlefield over the past few months had given him enough accumulation, and combined with this month's intense training in the Ancient Civilization Gravity Room, he finally made a breakthrough.

Yesterday, while training with his spear in the gravity room, Ji Yun had an insight. With the help of the gravity room, his physical fitness improved.

When he first arrived at the Elite Training Camp in early February, Ji Yun's punching power was around 22,000 kg. After a month and a half of extended training in the gravity room, Ji Yun had increased his strength by nearly 18,000 kg!

Now, Ji Yun could punch with about 40,000 kg. This was already the physical fitness level of a High-Level War General.

The improvement in physical fitness enhanced his understanding of strength and his training speed. It also allowed him to withstand higher gravity multipliers.

It was while training with his spear under 20 times gravity that Ji Yun made a breakthrough in force exertion, reaching the fourth level of the Fierce Wind force exertion method—4.0 times force multiplier.

The next day, Ji Yun entered the Trial Tower.

In the virtual space.

The boundless silver alloy ground, with the only towering seven-story pagoda in the distance, was the Trial Tower.

Ji Yun suddenly appeared on the ground.

"I want to conduct a punching power force exertion test," Ji Yun said. This punching power level test could be done in the virtual space—whether in the Challenge Room's virtual space or the Trial Room's space—by simply calling out to the virtual space's intelligent system.

In an instant, a punching power testing machine appeared out of thin air beside Ji Yun.

"Student Ji Yun, please proceed with the punching power force exertion test quickly," an electronic voice echoed across the silver ground.

Ji Yun stood casually in front of the punching power testing machine. In the virtual space, his body's normal brute force punch was a standard 10,000 kg, with an error of no more than 10 kg.

He threw a casual punch, instantly tearing through the air. Four consecutive Hidden Forces surged through his body into his arm and fist, the speed skyrocketing, carrying a sharp sound that seemed to cut through the air and create a vacuum, slamming heavily into the punching target.

"Thud~~" The punching target let out a dull sound and shook violently.

Numbers appeared on the display—"40026 kg".

"Punching power force exertion level 4.0. Congratulations, Student Ji Yun. Your Combat Power Amplitude is now 18," the electronic voice said without any emotional fluctuation.

"With a 4.0 force exertion level, I wonder if I can get my Trial Tower level to 5.0."

It was easy to calculate: to reach an amplitude of 20, both the Trial Tower level and punching power force exertion had to progress simultaneously. Last time, Ji Yun had a Trial Tower level of 4.5. Without a doubt, Ji Yun was very eager to see if he could pass the fourth floor.

Two hours later...

"Really troublesome," Ji Yun muttered as he walked out of the Nine-Fold Tower Trial Tower.

The fourth floor was different from the first floor's grasslands, the second floor's desert, and the third floor's battle with flying monsters. The fourth floor involved fierce combat with sea monsters in the vast ocean!

Fighting sea monsters in the water reduced a human martial artist's strength by thirty to forty percent!

Unfortunately, even with his breakthrough in force exertion, Ji Yun only achieved a level of 4.9. This was because the key to breaking through the fourth floor, while related to force exertion, was not entirely dependent on it.

Why was it said that breaking through to the fifth floor would grant the position of Inspector?

Because surpassing War God was a leap in life level, allowing better use of bodily energy, a qualitative difference from ordinary martial artists. Although a being surpassing War God might have worse force exertion than a War God martial artist, the bodily energy they could unleash was still far higher than that of a High-Level War God. The gap in life level was hard to bridge.

"Now my Combat Power Amplitude is 19.6," Ji Yun silently calculated.

"There are still half a month until April 1st. I can apply for the reward."

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Evening.

Ji Yun returned and opened his laptop. It was already around seven in the evening. After washing up, Ji Yun quickly pulled up the contract document he had signed with the Limit Dojo from his laptop. This was a scanned copy of the signed contract.

The contract clearly listed a phone number. Once Ji Yun's Combat Power Amplitude met the requirement, he could call this number to claim his reward.

"Beep—beep—" Ji Yun dialed the number.

"Hello." A deep voice answered.

"Hello, I'm Ji Yun from the Elite Training Camp," Ji Yun said calmly. "I signed a contract with the Dojo earlier. The contract has two clauses. If I meet either one, I can call this number to receive the corresponding reward from you, correct?"

"That's right!" the deep voice replied.

"Good. My Combat Power Amplitude has exceeded 16, meeting the first clause."

"Please wait a moment, Trainee Ji Yun. Let me check." The voice unexpectedly carried a hint of respect.

After just a moment, the voice's tone rose. "Congratulations, Trainee Ji Yun. Your Combat Power Amplitude is now 19.6, and the current time is March 17th, 7:09 PM, which falls before April 1st, meeting the clause's reward conditions. Your reward is... a full set of SS-class Combat Suit and weapons, any one manual of your choice, and a portion of Vegetation Spirit."

"I see." Ji Yun nodded to himself.

"Please, Trainee Ji Yun, provide me with the detailed specifications for the full set of Combat Suit and weapons you need, as well as the name of the manual you wish to choose," the deep voice continued.

"I need a set of SS-class Combat Suit, sized according to..." Ji Yun quickly relayed the specifications for his Combat Suit and the Wind Lifter Spear's size and style, along with auxiliary tools like a Communication Watch, binoculars, and a backpack.

"As for the manual..." Ji Yun hesitated for a moment.

Even training with Fierce Wind wouldn't help much now. He had already obtained the first five levels' force application methods, and the artistic conception of the last two levels of Fierce Wind was indescribable. So what should he choose?

After a moment's hesitation, Ji Yun said, "I choose World Destroyer."

World Destroyer was known as the most powerful combat secret technique in the world. Ji Yun hoped to draw inspiration from it and improve himself, but more importantly, its creator—Hong—was a Domain-level powerhouse. Perhaps he could glimpse the path to the Domain through this technique.

"Alright, I understand."

"The Elite Training Camp is located within the headquarters base city. The reward should arrive at the camp's main entrance within an hour. You can go there to receive it," the deep voice said.

"Within an hour?" Ji Yun was startled. He hadn't expected it to be so fast.

"Finally, congratulations on obtaining this reward, Trainee Ji Yun. I hope you continue to work hard and achieve a Combat Power Amplitude of 20 soon to claim the other reward." After saying this, the deep voice hung up.

One hour later.

"Click, clack~~" Ji Yun slipped into the underground secret chamber and twisted the alloy door's lock shut. Using a Vegetation Spirit was a serious matter. To avoid interruptions, it was best to use it inside the underground secret chamber.

"Crack," the light switched on, illuminating the entire secret chamber.

The password case was large.

It was divided into an upper and lower layer. The upper layer held neatly folded Combat Suits, the Wind Lifter Spear, and other items. Ji Yun took them all out and set them aside, then looked at the lower layer.

The lower layer contained only two boxes. One wooden box, one jade box.

"I've heard jade can preserve life activity. It seems the jade box holds the Vegetation Spirit."

The other wooden box should be—

Ji Yun easily opened the first wooden box. Inside was a thick manual and a stack of discs. The manual's cover simply bore two characters—World Destroyer.

"Not bad." Ji Yun closed it again, set the box aside, and opened the jade box.

The jade box opened with a twist. Inside, resting on a high-end silk cloth, was a blood-red, gleaming ginseng. This ginseng was extremely human-shaped. Ji Yun had eaten ordinary ginseng products before, but such a vivid, blood-red, crystal-clear ginseng was a first for him.

Under the light, the blood-red ginseng looked somewhat eerie.

Ji Yun gently placed the Blood Ginseng back in the box.

Beneath where the Blood Ginseng had rested was an instruction sheet. Ji Yun picked it up and read carefully: "Blood Dragon Ginseng! An extremely rare Vegetation Spirit, originally a guardian plant of a King Rank Monster, the Blood Dragon King. After the Dojo Master slew the Blood Dragon King, he used its heart's blood to irrigate this ginseng, transforming it into a new Vegetation Spirit—the Blood Dragon Ginseng."

"When consuming, peel off the outer skin. The inner flesh can be taken orally."

"My punch force is around 40,000 kilograms. After taking the Vegetation Spirit, it should at least double, reaching 80,000 kilograms." Ji Yun murmured to himself.

Inside the underground secret chamber, Ji Yun sat cross-legged on the floor.

He had just carefully peeled the skin off the Blood Dragon Ginseng and was ready to consume it.

"Alright." Ji Yun's mind was calm as he slowly picked up the Blood Dragon Ginseng.

Ji Yun opened his mouth. Swoosh! The mesmerizing Blood Ginseng vanished into his mouth in an instant. The ginseng was about half a palm in size, but its inner flesh was sparse—only half that.

He swallowed it in one gulp. The Blood Ginseng slid down his esophagus into his body, and immediately a sensation of 'dry heat, boiling' spread throughout his entire being, even making his soul tremble.

"My whole body feels a bit tingly and itchy, but not painful."

"So refreshing."

"I feel like every bone, tendon, and muscle in my body is vibrating." Ji Yun looked down at himself. With the naked eye, he could see his skin vibrating at an incredibly fast, minute amplitude. In this vibration, faint gray-black substances oozed out from his pores.

This feeling was wonderful...

A warmth spread through his body, but it wasn't the unbearable kind of heat.

At the same time, it felt as if all his flesh had detached from his bones, losing control. He could only faintly sense the continuous tremor, like a massage.

Inside Ji Yun's body, the essence of the Blood Dragon Ginseng—the surging, boundless energy and life force—instantly merged into every part of him. This life energy caused the cells in his bones, tendons, and muscles to undergo astonishing changes, like a sapling growing into a towering tree.

At that moment.

Countless cells within Ji Yun's body were undergoing incredible transformations. His genes developed rapidly, constantly perfecting themselves, discarding useless genes and reintegrating perfectly. This process was swift—a metamorphosis of life's very level, genetic optimization, and reselection.

Cell activity skyrocketed.

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