Six Months Later, Progress in Cultivation

Half a year passed in the blink of an eye.

The nights of deep winter in the southern seas were not particularly cold. The night sky above the base was covered by a splendid golden stream of light—the radiance emitted by the central temple.

Under the illumination of the Divine Arts, people could still be seen undergoing extra training on the parade grounds of several camp areas. They were all soldiers yearning to become Qi Refinement Practitioners.

After six months, the base's thirty thousand regular soldiers had long since been selected, while its one hundred thousand auxiliary soldiers had all been recruited. More than a hundred thousand people, together with the families of the various officers, had given the base the air of a place where people truly lived.

The residential district for the command headquarters stood on a coastal rise east of the headquarters building. Yang Wenqing's official residence was the seaside police villa deepest within the district.

At that moment, all the spiritual energy in the villa district was converging on the quiet room on the third underground level.

The quiet room's four walls were inset with entire slabs of blue-gray granite. Fine, densely packed runes covered the stone surfaces, converging from the four corners toward the center and forming a circular formation roughly two zhang in diameter in the middle of the room.

The foundation of the formation consisted of five superior spirit jades, embedded in the formation nodes according to the positions of the Five Elements. The five spirit jades were linked by gold wire, the threads winding through grooves in the formation patterns and connecting the five jades into a complete cyclical circuit.

At that moment, the five spirit jades were trembling at a frequency invisible to the naked eye. The trembling of each spirit