Both Break Through

Inside the Ancient Civilization Gravity Room.

As Zhou Hao began absorbing Cosmic Origin Energy, it was as though his body's genes had broken through some kind of shackle. Countless cells boiled, and the excess Cosmic Origin Energy within his genes continuously gathered like droplets of water, eventually turning into streams of heat that surged through his cells and blood vessels.

In just a few dozen minutes.

More and more heat accumulated in his body, until it all continuously converged through his meridians and blood vessels toward Zhou Hao's Dantian. After gathering, the streams of heat spun frantically. The originally void location of his Dantian suddenly opened, as if the heat had found its destination, accelerating its condensation as it began rhythmically expanding and contracting.

Boom!

After three minutes of continuous expansion and contraction, a massive amount of genetic energy actually condensed into a Miniature Planet within his Dantian.

And without a doubt, this was the mark of a martial artist breaking through to the Planetary level.

The instant the Miniature Planet formed, Zhou Hao, whose eyes were tightly closed, immediately sensed the Cosmic Origin Energy released by its rotation.

This trace of Cosmic Origin Energy was extremely scorching. As it flooded into his body, he felt as if his entire body were about to melt. The bones, muscles, cells, and numerous organs in his body were melted apart by the scorching Cosmic Origin Energy before instantly being reassembled.

Such pain was nothing to Zhou Hao. Instead, the transformation brought by the restructuring of his body's genes made his entire body feel incomparably refreshed.

Yet at this moment, he opened his eyes and gently shook his head.

When martial artists broke through to the Planetary level, they would awaken different innate abilities bestowed by the universe depending on their bodies and souls. These abilities fell into eight major categories: metal, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, lightning, and light. The specific ability would manifest on the condensed Miniature Planet.

His Miniature Planet was crimson.

There was no need to say more. He had awakened a fire-type ability, and it even seemed to be temperature-type genetic energy—one of the most ordinary abilities imaginable.

Zhou Hao naturally felt disappointed.

However, he quickly came to terms with it. After all, both his soul and body were very ordinary, so awakening such a fire ability was perfectly normal. Besides, with the Sign-in System, no matter what ability he awakened, it was merely icing on the cake for him.

Boom!

Just then.

The Golden Orb in his sea of consciousness seemed to have been stimulated and once again released an incomparably vast amount of pure mental force. Put simply, if the Mental Power released by his sea of consciousness when he broke through to War God had been one hundred units, then it was now releasing nearly ten thousand units.

His body, which had already been altered by genetic energy, evolved once more under the impact of this incomparably vast and pure mental force.

However, the way Mental Power altered the body's bones and muscles was not as drastic as genetic energy. The crimson Miniature Planet in his Dantian merely became full and did not condense a second one.

At the same time.

The Mental Power in his sea of consciousness, which had remained at the War God Limit without changing for a long time, also began continuously compressing and expanding with this release.

A flicker of astonishment passed through Zhou Hao's eyes.

Could I be about to break through? As the thought arose, he hurriedly calmed his mind and focused.

The speed at which his Mental Power expanded and contracted grew faster and faster. Finally, with a boom, it condensed into a transparent Miniature Planet within his sea of consciousness. Moreover, this Miniature Planet actually began revolving around the Golden Orb.

As it rotated.

The Mental Power released by the Golden Orb gradually increased. It was as though the Miniature Planet were a black hole, frantically absorbing the Golden Orb's energy.

A massive amount of pure mental force gathered toward the Miniature Planet in his sea of consciousness.

In less than half an hour.

The mental force within the Miniature Planet in his sea of consciousness reached its limit and became saturated. The excess pure mental force began compressing and expanding again, gradually condensing a second Miniature Planet, though the speed was much slower than when the first had formed.

Another three hours passed.

After the second Miniature Planet in his sea of consciousness had completely condensed, the transformation gradually settled down.

A look of shock appeared on Zhou Hao's face. "When my martial artist cultivation broke through to the Planetary level, I never expected my Mental Power to break through as naturally as water flowing into a channel. And it even skipped a stage, directly reaching Planetary level 2nd stage!!"

After his shock.

He soon came to understand that this change was probably related to his powerful Mental Power talent.

For an ordinary Mental Power Master with exceptional talent, it was already impressive for the solid Mental Power in their sea of consciousness to last until Apprentice 9th stage.

But because he had continuously signed in to increase his talent, the solid orb in his sea of consciousness had only consumed roughly three-tenths of its energy even after reaching Planetary level 2nd stage.

He stood up.

After stretching slightly, he quickly left Jiangnan Pavilion and arrived at the Wilderness Zone.

Having both his martial artist cultivation and Mental Power break through to the Planetary level put him in an excellent mood.

He had originally planned to use the Yunmo Star lineage's Nine-Nine Consciousness Forging Method to break through as a Mental Power Master, yet he had unexpectedly broken through directly this time.

It was an unexpected delight.

Without using the Heaven-Piercing Shuttle, Zhou Hao floated directly in midair. Looking down at the abandoned city below, he made a beckoning gesture.

The Heaven-Piercing Shuttle's 1,008 curved blades swiftly floated around him.

Under the control of his mental force.

The curved blades sometimes formed a Magic Dragon Form, sometimes condensed into a shield, and sometimes took the form of Peacock Spreading Feathers.

"After breaking through to the Planetary level, controlling the advanced version of the Heaven-Piercing Shuttle really became much easier!" Zhou Hao's little face was filled with excitement. Previously, when he had been at the War God Limit, controlling the four forms had pushed his Mental Power to its limit for all but the first form. But after this breakthrough, controlling them with Mental Power felt as though a ten-thousand-pound burden had been lifted from him.

If I spar with Thor again now, even if he is at full strength, I'm confident that I can defeat him with the Heaven-Piercing Shuttle. But if I spar with Hong, I'm afraid I'm still no match for him! he secretly pondered. Thor had yet to obtain a Domain, and all of his Combat Power relied entirely on the amplification of the Nine Heavens Thunder Blade and his experience.

Even at full strength, he could at most unleash eight times the power of a Planetary level 4th stage fighter. Meanwhile, after Zhou Hao's breakthrough to the Planetary level, his mental force attacks alone had increased by around tenfold compared to before. Naturally, he was confident in defeating Thor.

But Hong was different.

With his Light Domain, he was practically invincible at the Planetary level.

Shaking his little head, he dismissed the distracting thoughts and swept his gaze across the ruined city, settling on a High-level Lord Monster. His body flashed as he charged straight toward it.

Not long after.

This unlucky High-level Lord Monster became a corpse.

At the Limit Martial Hall headquarters, aboard the Giant Starship.

"Second Speaker!" After Thor landed, the guards at the entrance hurriedly bowed respectfully.

Ice Mountain, Enchanting, and the other guards who had just come out also hurriedly saluted.

"Is the First Speaker in the meditation room?" he asked casually.

"Yes." Ice Mountain nodded.

Thor waved a hand. "Get back to what you were doing. I'll go find him."

Afterward.

He quickly arrived outside the meditation room and called Hong.

Click.

The meditation room opened.

Hong looked puzzled. "Lei Zi, didn't you go to the training camp to take on disciples? Why did you come all the way here yourself?"

Thor entered the meditation room and said helplessly, "Don't mention it. That little brat cheated when he sparred with me, and then... I lost!"

Hong: "..."

PS: Thanks to Haian 214 for the 100-coin reward. I'm begging for investments—just over a dozen more and it'll be full.