Kindling Breathing Technique, Nighttime Incident

After Jiang Yuan woke up, his head throbbed terribly. He felt dazed and muddle-headed, and it took him a full half minute to recover. Even thinking made his head hurt.

This time, the cost was far greater than when he had previously deduced the body tempering technique!

But the results were equally rewarding.

He checked the description.

Kindling Breathing Technique (SSS): Using breath as the guide, the body burns like kindling, endlessly renewing itself. Purifies and absorbs all energy particles from the outside world, elevates one's potential, breaks through shackles, and evolves one's life level.

Effect 1: Every one of your attacks carries the Power of Kindling, containing purification and destruction. Attack power increases by 100%, and damage reduces an enemy's self-healing recovery by 50%.

Effect 2: Cultivation speed increases tenfold, recovery ability increases tenfold. After being injured, you can rapidly repair and heal yourself. As long as the flame in your heart remains unextinguished, your stamina will never run dry.

Effect 3: After body, mind, and will achieve harmony and unity, there is a certain chance of igniting your own Miracle Fire during the evolution of your life level, triggering a miracle.

Simple, direct, and brutal!

Yet it contained power beyond imagination.

The tenfold increase in cultivation speed and recovery ability alone was enough to crush nearly every breathing technique on Blue Star.

Not to mention the attack boost and its built-in grievous wound effect.

"An SSS-Rank breathing technique really is absurdly powerful."

Jiang Yuan sighed in amazement.

Even if an ordinary warrior with a trash Awakened Talent cultivated it, given enough time, they would probably become an incredible top-tier powerhouse.

"Let's test the effects."

Jiang Yuan immediately sat cross-legged and began regulating his breathing as he cultivated.

With every inhale and exhale, he adjusted his rhythm and gradually entered the proper state.

He slowly sensed another side of the world. Countless glowing particles appeared in the surrounding void, each in different colors: lightning particles, fire particles, dark particles, radiation particles... They filled every corner of the world in boundless abundance.

Meanwhile, he seemed to transform into a chaotic vortex, radiating a majestic suction force as he greedily swallowed all those energy particles.

As vast quantities of energy particles poured in, Jiang Yuan's magnetic field energy rose at a visible rate. The blood and qi within him grew increasingly surging, his cells rejoiced, his marrow emitted light, and his body density continued to increase.

Ten minutes passed.

Within the deepest darkness of Jiang Yuan's body, a tiny spark appeared. It was warm, pure, brimming with vitality, and filled with hope.

"The first step, igniting the kindling flame, is complete."

At the instant the kindling flame ignited, his physique and bone marrow became crystal-clear. Pure motes of light radiated from the mental domain between his brows, faintly showing signs of opening. His biological magnetic field surged dramatically, and a vast life force spread from his body. The withered flowers and grass in the pots on the balcony came back to life, sprouting from yellowed decay into lush green growth. Blades of grass emerged, and flower petals bloomed.

7:44 p.m.

Jiang Yuan emerged from cultivation and opened his eyes. A faint golden gleam flashed through them, leaving his gaze pure and clear, with a crystalline luster.

"Check my panel."

[Character: Jiang Yuan]

[Race: Human.]

[Age: 17]

[Level—Unranked]

[Class: Martial God (Mythic)]

[Talents: Infinite Amplification (Primordial), Supreme Analysis (Divine), Wood-Burning Fire (E-Rank)]

[Stamina: 690]

[Strength: 700]

[Speed: 680]

[Spirit: 680]

[Luck: 5]

[Passive Specialty: Limit of Strength (All attributes increase tenfold under normal conditions)]

[Active Skills: God Avoidance, Star Explosion, God Speed]

[Cultivation Techniques: Ripple Force Technique, Immortal Body Tempering Technique (sss), Kindling Breathing Technique (sss)]

[Equipment: Crimson Bracers (Rare)]

For every 1-point increase in his base attributes, the effects of [Limit of Strength] turned it into 10 points.

The training during this period had increased his blood and qi, raising all his attributes considerably. As a result, his four core attributes had risen by another huge margin!

"This passive specialty is seriously outrageous," Jiang Yuan muttered in amazement.

Perhaps once he became a Tier-One Martial Artist, all four of his core attributes would surpass one thousand.

"Even without using skills, Xia Qinghou and those prodigies probably couldn't take a single punch from me."

Jiang Yuan clenched his fist, sensing the terrifying power contained within it. His heart surged with excitement.

"Once I become a Tier-One Martial Artist, as long as I'm not facing bizarre abilities involving the mental domain, curses, or karma, even a Tier-Four Martial Artist will be worth fighting."

Crack.

The sound of a door opening came from outside the room.

"I'm back!"

The moment he heard the girl's cheerful voice, Jiang Yuan knew Mo Xixi had returned.

"Ha! Ah! Hey!"

Hearing the sounds outside, Jiang Yuan could not resist opening the door. He saw Mo Xixi, still dressed in her school uniform, standing on the living room sofa and practicing some unknown fist technique.

Jiang Yuan: "...What are you doing?"

"I'm practicing martial arts." Mo Xixi looked completely serious.

"Where did you learn that fist technique? It's so... ugly, and completely useless." Jiang Yuan crossed his arms and commented.

"Senior Chen Zi taught me! How is it ugly? I thought it looked really good when she did it."

"Then you're doing it wrong."

Mo Xixi turned her head and glared at Jiang Yuan, puffing up her cheeks. "I'm not doing it anymore!"

"If you're not exercising, why did you come bother me?"

When she saw Jiang Yuan, she suddenly froze, then leaned closer and examined him carefully.

Jiang Yuan was thoroughly confused by her stare. "What is it?"

"Brother Yuan, don't you seem a little different from before?"

"How am I different?"

"You seem better-looking than before, and your skin looks better too." Mo Xixi circled Jiang Yuan as she inspected him, occasionally reaching out to touch him.

Jiang Yuan slapped her hand away and calmly said, "Maybe it's because of my class transfer."

"That's so nice. I want to class transfer and awaken my talent soon too." Mo Xixi pouted, looking deeply envious.

8:30 p.m.

Jiang Yuan and his aunt's family sat around the table, talking about what had happened that day while the television in the living room broadcast the news.

[We interrupt with urgent news. An explosion has occurred at Longhu Building in Nanjiang City. Relevant agencies are on their way to handle the situation. Nearby residents are advised to remain cautious.]

"Longhu Building? Isn't that nearby?" Mo Lingfeng said.

Mo Xixi ran to the balcony. "It really is! It's on fire."

Jiang Yuan also walked onto the balcony and looked outside.

A distant high-rise building was ablaze, the raging flames casting a scarlet glow across the night sky. Several Sky Shuttles and aircraft were heading in that direction.

"There have really been nonstop incidents today," Tao Yufeng said. "Xixi, and Xiao Yuan, you two need to be careful too. Try not to go to places with few people."

"Got it," Mo Xixi replied, drawing out her voice.

Jiang Yuan suddenly remembered his agreement with Guan Xiaoxiao and checked the time.

It's already this late.

He stood up. "Auntie, a classmate is looking for me. I'm heading out for a bit."

"Remember to come back early," Tao Yufeng reminded him.

"Mm."

At the same time.

On a hundred-meter-tall building beside Longhu Building, a young man in a black uniform put away his sniper rifle and spoke into his wristwatch with an ugly expression.

"Captain, we failed."

"The target was injured and vanished. She left my line of sight."

A steady male voice soon sounded from the wristwatch.

"Alright, I understand."

"All personnel, attention. The target has been lost. I repeat, the target has been lost."

"All team members, search the Dragon Lake area."

"The target is a Tier-One Martial Artist registered with the Martial Artist Association, possessing a C-Rank Natural Talent Sequence. She class transferred into an Assassin, and her ability has undergone an unknown mutation."

"The danger rating has been raised to Level Two."

"Received."

"Received."

"Received."

Inside a clock tower several hundred meters tall in the center of Nanjiang City.

Patrol Bureau office.

Zhang Wei, the leader of Patrol Bureau Team One, sat at his desk with bandages wrapped around his chest and sighed.

Across from him sat a girl eating a spicy hotpot bowl. She exhaled while eating.

"So spicy, so spicy!"

The girl had a waist-length head of ethereal blue hair, gathered at the ends. Her eyes were covered by a strip of black satin, yet even without seeing her full face, the exposed portion alone revealed a beauty one in ten thousand.

When she heard Zhang Wei sigh, she asked curiously.

"Brother Wei, what's wrong?"

"Nothing much. It's just that over a dozen cases suddenly occurred in the city tonight. Ordinary men went mad and stabbed their family members, some women publicly burned their own children to death, and the rest were riots caused by Martial Artists suddenly going berserk."

Zhang Wei had a terrible headache.

Although those Martial Artists were only Tier One and Tier Two, so they were not major threats, their sudden outbreaks without any apparent cause had still inflicted great harm upon ordinary people.

"I was only gone for a year, and Nanjiang City has already become this chaotic? Riots, crimes, and even King Realm creatures descending. That's terrifying."

"You have no idea. When I took the Sky Rail back this afternoon, I saw the Void Cavity in the sky. It scared me half to death."

"I never even saw a scene like that in Imperial City."

The blue-haired girl chattered on nonstop.

Zhang Wei's head hurt from all the noise.

"You were doing perfectly well studying in the Imperial Capital. Why did you suddenly come back?"

"What? I'm not allowed to come home and visit relatives during vacation? So spicy."

"Tell me the truth."

"I came to recruit students and earn some credits."

"..."

"If you were going to return, you should have come back earlier. Then so many things wouldn't have happened." Zhang Wei sighed.

"How was I supposed to know?"

As the blue-haired girl spoke, she set down her spicy hotpot bowl with a satisfied expression. "I'm full."

Zhang Wei looked at the girl before him with a complicated, emotional expression.

Yan Runan, nineteen years old, a second-year student at Divine Martial Academy, a Level 39 Tier-Four Class-Transferred Warrior, holder of an S-Rank sequence talent, and a legendary class—Eye Technique Master. Any one of those credentials would leave outsiders stunned. She was undoubtedly a proud daughter of heaven.

"Now that I'm full, I feel like moving around. I'll help you out too."

Yan Runan volunteered eagerly.

Zhang Wei was just worrying about not having enough manpower.

"Then go to Dragon Lake. Help me investigate why these Martial Artists have collectively gone berserk, or whether someone is controlling things from behind the scenes."

"No problem." Yan Runan was brimming with enthusiasm.