Will Engraved

"Could I use Iron Will to record it?" Wang Ji suddenly thought.

If there was anything that could record this manual, Iron Will was the only possibility. After all, it was the only treasure related to the soul and the spirit.

"How do I use it?" Wang Ji pondered.

Maybe he should try engraving the manual onto Iron Will?

From the perspective of his soul, Iron Will was a magnificent, enormous object, hundreds of meters long, wide, and tall. The translucent, eight-sided crystal completely shielded Wang Ji's consciousness. Yet the crystal shimmered with a metallic sheen. Wang Ji controlled his consciousness as he drew closer to Iron Will. Then he shaped his Spiritual Force into an engraving chisel and, with a thought, carved a character onto one of Iron Will's flat sides.

Wang Ji did his best to keep the characters neat. Along the edge of one face, he carved tiny, rice-grain-sized characters. Each page was the size of an A4 sheet, with a gap between pages and a page number on each. In the blink of an eye, he had engraved an entire page.

Engraving with his thoughts was countless times faster than carving by hand.

"Flip, flip, flip..." The sound of pages turning.

"Scritch, scritch, scritch..." The faint sound of the mental chisel.

It took Wang Ji five whole days to engrave the manual's more than eight hundred pages. The whole thing covered a large area six meters wide and three meters high on one face of Iron Will. Of course, compared with the entire face, it only took up a thousandth or two.

Wang Ji felt dizzy. Even in the instance, he couldn't hold out any longer.

His body in the outside world was still on the spacecraft. As for a fivefold amplification, there was no way Wang Ji could manage that in thirty days! Even twice was a stretch! Exit! Exit!

The right approach was to master it outside first, then enter the instance and clear it in one go. Exit!

In the blink of an eye, Wang Ji's mind returned to his body. He appeared inside the spacecraft at the bottom of the pit.

"You've been meditating for twelve hours. Did you make any progress?" The colonel beside him watched Wang Ji nervously as he asked.

Wang Ji grinned. "I did!"

What was the point of keeping a manual hidden away? Hadn't even Hong's World Destroyer been made public? Besides, the era of the vast universe would arrive soon. City Lord Luo was like a wild horse with the reins cut, racing ahead at full speed. In two or three years, these things wouldn't be worth a damn. If he didn't make good use of his influence now, what would he do later?

He'd set an example first. Then he could shamelessly ask City Lord Luo for manuals later!

Sharing meant helping everyone prosper. Get it?

Without waiting for the colonel to ask, Wang Ji said, "A ray of light entered my brain. Did you see it?"

The colonel stared blankly at Wang Ji and shook his head. "No..."

"Then a cultivation technique appeared in my mind. Of course, I only got part of it."

The colonel wore an expression that said, "I haven't read much, so don't try to fool me." Wang Ji said, "It's called 36-Fold Waves. I only have the first nine stages."

Of course, he only said he had the first nine stages. Otherwise, how would he find an excuse to come back here later? Besides, keeping something in reserve was only natural.

Wang Ji continued, "Each stage can double your physical abilities. Nine stages mean nine times!"

The colonel's face flushed with excitement. "Excellent!"

Wang Ji added, "It doesn't just increase strength. It also multiplies speed and physical defense by nine!"

"What!" The colonel shot to his feet and asked in disbelief, "Is that true?"

Wang Ji stayed at Meidu Military Base for three whole days, transcribing a copy of the manual. Naturally, it only contained stages one through nine, and was over a hundred pages long.

In a spacious, plain office, an elderly man with a calm demeanor carefully leafed through the manual Wang Ji had written. He nodded in admiration. "Excellent! Excellent!"

"Since Councilor Jia has checked it and found no problems, the manual must be genuine!" the head of Meidu Military Base said with a smile.

"This young man did well! We mustn't shortchange him," said the elderly man, Councilor Jia.

"We won't. But this manual came from a ruin, after all. It wouldn't be appropriate to give him too much..."

Councilor Jia said, "Then give him one manual of his choice, one S-Class Combat Suit, one portion of Dragon Blood, and two portions of Jade Marrow!"

The base chief was aghast. "Isn't that too much? That's nearly three hundred billion!"

Councilor Jia said calmly, "The cost is only a little over a hundred billion. But without this young man, would we have gotten the manual? How long would it have taken? So it's absolutely worth it!"

"Fine! Let's do it!"

When Wang Ji received all these things at Meidu Military Base, he was completely dumbfounded.

"C-can I sell them for money?" Wang Ji asked foolishly.

The military district commander burst out laughing. "You young people! Strength is what matters. But if you want to trade them for money, that's fine too."

Wang Ji hugged the alloy case. "I was kidding! Please forgive my foolishness, sir. Of course, it's better to use them myself. For the manual, I'll choose World Destroyer."

"Good. We'll have it delivered to you shortly."

Wang Ji took a military aircraft back to Jiangnan Base City without a hitch. He headed to the military district villa.

"So this is Dragon Blood and Jade Marrow!" Wang Ji looked at the three vials in the glass test tube: one red and two green.

"Use it! Use the Dragon Blood!"

Wang Ji locked the villa's basement, lay down on the wooden floor, and evenly smeared the Dragon Blood across his chest.

"It hurts!"

"An excruciating pain!"

Wang Ji wanted to pass out, but Iron Will wouldn't let him. So he suffered through agony, fully conscious. It was half an hour before the pain gradually eased.

Wang Ji stood up and wiped away the powdery residue from his chest. His body had turned a healthy bronze color, as if he'd been sunbathing. He looked more masculine. Wang Ji clenched his fist. His strength had never been greater.

"Bang!" "40,200 kg!"

"I used to be just under 17,000 kg. Now I'm at 40,200 kg—that's a 2.3-fold increase! Not bad. Not amazing, but not bad either."

He was now an Advanced War General. The threshold for an Advanced War General was 32,000 kilograms. He was already past it.

"From here on, my training should focus on 36-Fold Waves and Mist Sword. One is a force-amplification technique, and the other is sword comprehension. Mist Sword doesn't offer much force amplification, but it leads straight to the Artistic Conception Level. That's one of the strengths of Earth's manuals.

"As for 36-Fold Waves, that's my weakest area. Plenty of intermediate and advanced War Generals have a force-amplification level of two times or even higher. So even though I look strong now, I might not be able to beat an experienced intermediate War General."

"Everyone else gets to punch above their weight, killing everyone in their path. But all I'm qualified to do is beat up weaklings. This is ridiculous!" Wang Ji sighed.

Time to shut myself away and train hard in 36-Fold Waves!

"If I go out and fool around again, I'm a dog!" Wang Ji vowed. "Whether it's the Wilderness Zone or the military district, I'm not going anywhere!"

"Ring, ring..."