Spirit Crossing Method, Breaking Through Level 20, Eight Levels in Half a Year!

Lin Yue brought Su Fan to a workstation.

A long metal table stood there with a chair, surrounded by various tools. It looked like a workbench.

"You'll study here from now on. As for the Core Array materials—"

Lin Yue scratched her head.

Her brain was still a little muddled from just waking up.

She held her head and thought for a while before suddenly realizing.

"They're here."

There were more than twenty workstations in the institute. She ran to one of them and rummaged through a box beneath the table.

Several Storage Bracelets were inside. As she poured Soul Power into them, a huge pile of research materials appeared.

After searching through the materials for a long time, she handed Su Fan a stack.

"This is Detailed Explanation of Level 1 Soul Guidance Arrays."

After Su Fan took it, she searched for a while longer and pulled out another stack.

"This is the difference between the construction of Core Arrays and auxiliary arrays."

"This is the basic technique for combining arrays."

"These are advanced techniques."

"Mm, these will do for now."

Lin Yue wiped away nonexistent sweat from her forehead. Turning back, she looked at Su Fan, who was holding a pile of materials taller than his head, and smiled. "These are handwritten drafts from when I was studying. They include the processes where I made mistakes in my derivations. Remember to read the conclusions at the back first. Don't force yourself to understand incorrect lines of reasoning."

Upon hearing that, a cold sweat appeared on Su Fan's forehead.

Was this really the current state of Soul Engineer development in the Dou Ling Empire?

"There aren't even standardized teaching materials."

Carrying the materials back to his workstation, Su Fan began organizing them.

After a tiring day, Su Fan felt as though his brain were swelling.

He had spent the entire day studying the manuscripts Lin Yue had given him. They were indeed filled with content related to Core Arrays, but some parts were right while others were wrong. Before reading them, he had to flip to the back to check whether the answer was correct before trying to understand them.

Lin Yue spent the entire day writing and drawing, seemingly designing a new Core Array. Su Fan secretly took a couple of looks, only to feel dizzy from the countless incomparably complex lines within.

Perhaps because Su Fan had woken her up, Lin Yue was listless during the day and kept yawning.

After Su Fan left, she had already stayed up for an entire day, yet she was full of energy instead and continued burying herself in her work.

"Mm, Core Arrays aren't that hard to understand."

Su Fan had learned quite a lot today.

For example, the Level 1 Energy Gathering Pattern.

He had thoroughly figured out every node and turn within it.

Without using any rare metals, he directly performed Void Engraving.

"First, there needs to be a starting point."

Su Fan focused and manifested an Aperture before himself.

After roughly comparing the positions, he condensed another seven Apertures.

Starting from the first Aperture, the Soul Power he controlled began to spread, passing through the other six Apertures along a particular route.

In the end, a complete pattern was drawn.

The next moment, as he activated the pattern, he could sense the surrounding spiritual energy of heaven and earth faintly gathering toward those Apertures.

"So I'm actually a genius at this."

Su Fan was secretly delighted.

He had succeeded on his first try!

Su Fan was full of enthusiasm as he continued attempting other Level 1 patterns.

After completing one outline outside his body, he began a new challenge.

Just now, he had used Apertures as nodes to inscribe array patterns across a vast space.

Now, he wanted to shrink the pattern into the space that an Aperture the size of a fist could contain.

That was right. He wanted to inscribe the pattern inside an Aperture.

Step by step, trying again after each failure, Su Fan spent a fulfilling night.

Whenever his Soul Power was depleted, he meditated to recover it before continuing his attempts.

He discovered that this not only did not affect the speed of his Soul Power cultivation, but seemed to improve it slightly.

The next day.

He arrived at the institute, used his key to open the door, and got straight to work.

Lin Yue slept on bedding spread across the floor of the institute, still snoring away. Who knew what time she had gone to sleep last night?

Su Fan silently read through her manuscripts, greedily absorbing knowledge about Core Arrays.

The fifth day.

He began inscribing Energy Gathering Patterns within the Apertures in his body.

During meditation, whenever Soul Power flowed through the corresponding Apertures, it circulated inside them according to the Energy Gathering Pattern before flowing out again.

As the cycle repeated, Su Fan felt his cultivation speed faintly increase.

The thirtieth day.

By then, the number of Apertures Su Fan had condensed had reached twenty-one.

That day, he tried integrating his soul skill into them.

Only nine of the illusory Apertures condensed inside his body remained within him, while he manifested another nine Apertures in the outside world.

Under the effects of his first soul skill, Space Jump, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth outside gathered into those nine Apertures and was directly transported into Su Fan's internal meridians.

Only then did Su Fan realize how inefficiently the human body absorbed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

Unfortunately, using Space Jump to directly send outside spiritual energy into his meridians placed immense pressure on them.

Even with all his Apertures operating together to help bear the burden on his meridians, Su Fan only managed to hold on for one night.

That night, he broke through to Level 15.

Yes, in just one month, Su Fan's Soul Power had risen from Level 14 to Level 15.

"My cultivation speed is insanely fast, but my meridians hurt a little."

Directly channeling spiritual energy into them caused some wear to his meridians, but it was not serious enough to affect his cultivation. Su Fan still knew his limits.

It took a month for his meridians to recover.

The good news was that his meridians had become tougher.

Then, he began using Space Jump to assist his cultivation once more.

He called it the Spirit Crossing Method.

As the sun rose and the moon set.

In the blink of an eye, Su Fan had spent half a year at Dou Ling Royal Academy.

Su Fan was eight years old.

His Soul Power had also reached Level 19.

He was only one step away from Level 20!

Even Su Fan himself felt a lingering fear at such progress.

"I'm not going to fall into some demonic path, am I?"

Over the past few days, Su Fan had often been plagued by paranoid suspicions.

But after carefully examining his body, he became certain that he had not developed any hidden ailments.

He had even asked Lin Yue to examine him.

Lin Yue's martial soul possessed detection abilities, yet she found nothing unusual about Su Fan's body.

After the director of the Academic Affairs Office learned of Su Fan's cultivation progress, he summoned him there and carefully examined him once.

After the examination, he asked Su Fan to join the Dou Ling Team as a reserve member for the time being.

"Your task is to cultivate diligently. Your Soul Power Level is still too low. The academy gives team members even better benefits than elite students. For example, you can apply for one Mystic Water Pill and one Soul Ascension Pill."

Su Fan expressed his gratitude to Director Chi.

Director Chi merely waved his hand.

"Cultivate well. Helping the academy achieve a better ranking in the Soul Master Tournament will be the best repayment."

"I will!" Su Fan said seriously.

Su Fan immediately applied for the Mystic Water Pill.

That very day, Director Chi handed the Mystic Water Pill to him.

The Mystic Water Pill was not limited to a single dose, though the first dose had the best effect.

Furthermore, the higher one's Innate Soul Power, the weaker its effect became.

Su Fan's Innate Soul Power was only Level 1. His aptitude was terrible, so even if he took the Mystic Water Pill a second time, its effects would not be worse than when a soul master with Innate Soul Power at Level 6 or 7 took it for the first time.

With the Mystic Water Pill's assistance, Su Fan broke through to Level 20 in one stroke.

Half a year ago, after absorbing his first soul ring, his Soul Power had reached Level 12.

Today, half a year later, he was at Level 20.

Eight levels in half a year!