Breakthrough! Martial Artist! System!

Time slowly passed.

In the blink of an eye, three days went by.

Late at night.

Inside the high-end single dormitory assigned to Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan was not resting.

He sat cross-legged on the bed, eyes tightly closed, keeping his breathing in a peculiar rhythm.

Inhale.

The airflow poured into his nasal cavity like a wandering dragon, circulating along the route Su Qingxue taught.

Exhale.

Wisps of grey impurities, invisible to the naked eye, were expelled from his body through his pores.

This sensation was wondrous to the extreme.

Lin Yuan could clearly feel his cells cheering and leaping with joy.

"Break!"

Two hours later.

Lin Yuan let out a low roar from the bottom of his heart.

"Boom!"

A muffled sound, imperceptible to ordinary people, exploded inside Lin Yuan's body.

His meridians instantly widened.

The energy that had originally been wandering about suddenly contracted at his dantian, transforming into a miniature Qi Vortex.

The Qi Vortex slowly rotated, continuously feeding back into his limbs and bones.

It worked!

A First-Stage Martial Artist, Early Phase!

Lin Yuan abruptly opened his eyes.

Two flashes of cold electricity seemed to sweep through the dark room.

He clenched his fists, feeling the explosive power within his body, and a satisfied smile pulled at the corners of his mouth.

If he faced that testing machine now, his fist strength would definitely multiply several times!

Just as Lin Yuan prepared to get up, take a shower, and wash off the grime covering his body.

A sudden change occurred.

[Ding!]

[Detected that the host has stepped onto the path of the Transcendent Realm!]

[Heaven Rewards Diligence System is binding with the host...]

[Binding progress: 10%... 50%... 100%!]

[Binding successful!]

A cold mechanical voice rang out in the depths of Lin Yuan's mind.

Lin Yuan froze in place entirely.

His heart beat wildly out of control.

A system?

The kind of system found in online webnovels?

He swallowed a mouthful of saliva, pushing his nerves to their absolute limit as he tried to remain calm.

"System?"

"What functions do you have?"

"Can you directly drop a full-level divine equipment set?"

Lin Yuan probed tentatively in his mind.

Silence.

Dead silence.

The system gave no response whatsoever, acting just like it had crashed.

Lin Yuan called out several times in succession, even altering his approach to hurl a couple of curses, but there was still no movement at all.

Does it lack intelligence?

A moment later.

Lin Yuan rubbed his chin, his gaze turning sharp.

Compared to an intelligent system that would issue tasks and threaten to obliterate the host at every turn...

He actually preferred this kind of dead object acting purely as a tool.

Without thought, there was no threat.

With a slight flick of his thought.

A transparent light curtain visible only to Lin Yuan materialized before his eyes.

[Host: Lin Yuan]

[Strength: First-Stage Martial Artist, Early Phase]

[Cultivation Technique: Basic Breathing Technique (Mastery Realm 7%)]

[Martial Arts: None]

[Treasures: None]

The information was extremely crude.

Yet Lin Yuan's gaze remained fixed on the "7%" trailing behind the Basic Breathing Technique.

Heaven Rewards Diligence...

Lin Yuan chewed on those four words as lightning flashed across his mind.

Could it be?

This system had no other functions.

Its sole purpose was to completely digitize his hard work?

As long as he put in the sweat, he was guaranteed a hundred percent return in progress, and he would never encounter a bottleneck?

One cent of effort, one cent of harvest!

To verify this crazy guess.

Lin Yuan didn't even care about taking a bath anymore.

He sat back down cross-legged, closed his eyes, and entered cultivation mode once more.

This time, he was even more focused than before.

Time ticked away second by second.

The dry, repetitive breathing and the cyclical circulation went on and on.

Until the belly of the fish turned pale outside the window.

Only then did Lin Yuan let out a long breath of turbid air and stop cultivating.

He felt his whole body's bones aching with soreness, but his mind was excited to the extreme.

"Open the panel!"

Lin Yuan chanted impatiently in his heart.

The transparent light curtain materialized before Lin Yuan's eyes once more.

[Host: Lin Yuan]

[Strength: First-Stage Martial Artist, Early Phase]

[Cultivation Technique: Basic Breathing Technique (Mastery Realm 11%)]

[Martial Arts: None]

[Treasures: None]

11%!

It went up by 4 percentage points!

"Holy shit!"

Lin Yuan couldn't help but curse out loud.

A surge of wild joy washed over him like a tsunami.

His guess had come true!

As long as he was willing to grind, his proficiency would genuinely tick upward.

There were no thresholds, and no need for some illusory epiphany!

At this moment.

Lin Yuan finally understood one thing.

Su Qingxue believed that his past life had no background and no high-tier cultivation techniques.

The reason he was able to slaughter his way through the Beast Tide relied entirely on that heaven-shaking, earth-shattering, defying-the-heavens comprehension.

It was precisely because of this.

The top brass of the military also believed he was a peerless monster only seen once in a century.

But in reality?

Lin Yuan was indeed a genius!

He only spent half an hour to initially sense spiritual energy.

He only spent three days to step into the martial arts threshold and become a true First-Order Martial Artist.

Such a cultivation speed was definitely a one-in-ten-thousand super genius!

Yet his past life was different!

The past-life him had no resources and no good cultivation methods.

His cultivation time was even one or two years later than others.

Under such circumstances.

Even if the past-life him was monstrous, it was impossible to surpass geniuses nurtured by the state!

The only explanation was.

The past-life Lin Yuan had similarly awakened the Heaven Rewards Diligence System.

As long as he grinded day and night.

Even the most common Basic Breathing Technique could be grinded by him to a supreme realm that ordinary people could not comprehend.

This was the truth of the matter.

However.

Lin Yuan would not speak of this secret.

Let Su Qingxue and the military continue to maintain this wonderful misunderstanding.

Very quickly.

Lin Yuan jumped down from the bed and walked to the window.

Gazing at the vast Gobi Desert outside the base, Lin Yuan's fists clenched tighter and tighter.

There was still half a year left until the full Spiritual Energy Revival!

He not only awakened the system early, but also had the entire country as his backing.

This lifetime.

He must guard everything he cared about!

Right.

It's time to choose a cultivation method.

After a long while.

Lin Yuan withdrew his gaze and murmured softly.

Su Qingxue had said so.

Chief Nie had also guaranteed it.

As long as he became a First-Order Martial Artist, he could freely choose cultivation methods.

Clutching this thought.

Lin Yuan took a cold shower, changed into a clean training uniform, and strode out the door.

He was going to get the high-tier cultivation method that belonged to him.

More than ten minutes later.

Lin Yuan arrived at the underground training ground.

At this moment, several figures were already seated inside the training ground.

They were all future powerhouses brought here by the military within the past three days.

Only.

Because spiritual energy had not yet fully revived.

And they had only cultivated for two or three days.

Some of those future powerhouses had even failed to sense the existence of spiritual energy.

Of course.

There were exceptions to everything.

There were also four people whose performance made even Lin Yuan take an extra glance.

Ye Qingshan, one hour and forty-eight minutes, successfully sensed spiritual energy.

Song Qingyin, one hour and fifty-five minutes, successfully sensed spiritual energy.

Chu Tiankuo, two hours and twenty-sept minutes, successfully sensed spiritual energy.

Xiao Zhan, two hours and forty-six minutes, successfully sensed spiritual energy.

Although the talent of these four could not compare to Lin Yuan.

There was no doubt.

They were also among the top geniuses of Dragon Country.

At the same time.

Seeing Lin Yuan walk into the training ground.

Everyone inside the training ground revealed a trace of complex expressions on their faces.

After arriving at the Northwest Base.

They learned about the matter of the Spiritual Energy Revival.

Yet Lin Yuan only spent half an hour to successfully sense the existence of spiritual energy.

Such terrifying talent made their hearts immensely shocked, and they even birthed a bit of awe.

"Why are you here?"

"Did you encounter any cultivation bottlenecks?"

Su Qingxue arrived by Lin Yuan's side and asked with some doubt.

Because Lin Yuan's cultivation had already initially stepped onto the right track.

Coinciding with the arrival of Ye Qingshan and the others.

Su Qingxue had let Lin Yuan cultivate on his own, turning to instruct Ye Qingshan and the others instead.

At this moment.

Lin Yuan actually appeared here.

This could not help but make Su Qingxue suspect whether Lin Yuan had encountered any difficulties.