Soaring Strength, Preparing to Depart

Inside the cave dwelling in the mountainside.

Qi Yuan took out a Dragon Vein Fruit.

The entire Dragon Vein Fruit was only the size of a longan, jade-green all over and crystal-clear like a gemstone.

Yet upon closer inspection, faint, mysterious dragon-shaped veins could be seen beneath its translucent skin.

Qi Yuan tossed the Dragon Vein Fruit directly into his mouth.

"Crunch~"

The instant he bit through the Dragon Vein Fruit's skin—

A burst of vigorous life force, countless times richer than the life energy contained within a Wood Sap Crystal, erupted at once!

The entire Dragon Vein Fruit digested rapidly like liquid, and immense amounts of life-filled energy flooded madly into his body!

Every cell that had just undergone an essential transformation and was now in an extremely weakened state immediately began ravenously devouring that energy!

Bloodline Evolution involved the restructuring of cells and the release of potential.

During this process, the life matter stored within the cells was consumed in great quantities.

The overall quality of the cells improved, but their internal energy decreased. This left every cell in an utterly famished and listless state.

Now, nourished by the vigorous life force contained in the Dragon Vein Fruit, those cells absorbed it frantically and recovered at a rapid pace!

In less than half a day, the energy of an entire Dragon Vein Fruit had been completely absorbed.

By then, the weakened state in Qi Yuan's body had long since vanished!

Every one of his cells had absorbed sufficient energy. His vigorous life force field surged like a tsunami, causing even the air throughout the cave to tremble continuously!

Yet Qi Yuan did not stop there.

After his Bloodline Evolution, not only had his speed of absorbing energy for evolution increased, but the limit of how much he could absorb at once had also risen enormously!

He directly took out a second Dragon Vein Fruit and threw it into his mouth!

Boom!

An incomparably vast burst of vigorous life force erupted once more, driving his physical energy toward an even greater peak.

Finally—

As the immense life force contained within the second Dragon Vein Fruit was about to run dry, his physical strength seemed to reach some sort of limit!

"Crack~"

It was as though an invisible shackle had shattered!

Within his dantian space, incomparably powerful Gene Primary Energy surged wildly from every part of his body like an erupting tsunami!

The pure Gene Primary Energy rolled like ocean waves, then gathered frantically, forming a massive "water sphere."

The "water sphere" expanded and contracted without end, until the whole world seemed to contain nothing but that single "water sphere"!

With its final contraction, the entire dantian space rumbled—

A brand-new "star," radiating endless dazzling light, was finally formed.

To prepare for the Apprentice Mercenary Assessment one year later.

The entirety of Lei Bao Star, from Hugo the lord down to Qi Yuan and the other Guards, even including the planetary-level slaves mining Thunder Crystal Stone in the mines, entered an unprecedented state of busyness.

Hugo was busy doing everything he could to rapidly increase his own strength and that of his subordinates.

Those pitiful planetary-level slaves, meanwhile, were busy mining more Thunder Crystal Ore, striving to provide their masters with greater "economic" support!

Amid such bustle, Qi Yuan's life continued steadily as usual.

After consuming Dragon Origin Essence to strengthen his bloodline, his efficiency in absorbing, converting, and cultivating energy soared.

With the Dragon Vein Fruit providing ample energy as well, he hardly needed to waste much time accumulating and increasing his cultivation.

He instead poured more of his energy into cultivating and comprehending secret techniques!

Naturally, the one he invested the most effort into was the Lightning Secret Technique, "Thunder Light," which he had just obtained.

Lightning was inherently an energy of unparalleled violence and ferocity.

The Thunder Domain was constructed from countless strands of the most violent lightning energy.

Yet the essence of the secret technique "Thunder Light" was to compress this utterly violent energy almost without limit, eventually condensing it into a sharp "Thunder Light" like the edge of a blade.

Just imagining it was enough to know how difficult that would be!

Leaving aside how to compress the immense power of an entire domain into something as sharp as a blade, even if he succeeded by chance, whether he could maintain that state for long was another enormous problem.

One small mistake, and the incomparably compressed and condensed violent lightning energy would suddenly erupt, leaving even him in for a world of hurt!

Aside from absorbing a Dragon Vein Fruit every half month to raise his cultivation, Qi Yuan spent most of his remaining time comprehending the secret technique "Thunder Light."

Yet even so, his progress in comprehending "Thunder Light" remained slow. He could never find the balance needed to maintain the form of "Thunder Light."

Left with no choice, he changed his approach.

Don't forget, I've got a cheat!

Although the contents of the secret technique "Thunder Light" could not be passed on, he could focus on controlling his domain instead!

The greater his proficiency with the domain and the stronger his control, the more effective his cultivation of "Thunder Light" would naturally become!

Thus, over the following year.

Other than one occasion when he used the return function to turn all the Wood Sap Crystal "salary" he had saved up into Dragon Vein Fruits.

He used all of his other eleven return opportunities on "imparting cultivation experience"!

Furthermore, every time he taught, he made his cultivation insights into the Thunder Domain the main subject of his lesson.

During each lesson, he spared no effort, striving to impart every bit of domain-related knowledge he possessed to Cang Fan as thoroughly as possible!

With Qi Yuan teaching so meticulously and wholeheartedly, Cang Fan was naturally deeply moved, triggering critical rewards again and again!

Successfully imparted Thunder Domain cultivation experience to disciple!

Triggered a 60x critical reward.

Return reward: Large amount of Thunder Domain cultivation insights!

Successfully imparted Thunder Domain cultivation experience to disciple!

Triggered a 50x critical reward.

Return reward: Large amount of Thunder Domain cultivation insights!

With the system's extremely high-multiplier returns, Qi Yuan's comprehension of domains soared at an incredible rate, as though he were riding a rocket!

After only the first return, his comprehension of the Thunder Domain had reached the second level!

His control over the domain increased enormously as a result, and when he resumed comprehending the secret technique "Thunder Light," his efficiency indeed improved considerably!

After confirming his hypothesis, Qi Yuan naturally put even more care into teaching Cang Fan again.

Wholehearted instruction after wholehearted instruction, high-multiplier return after high-multiplier return.

Qi Yuan's comprehension and control of the Thunder Domain surged at an astonishing rate, while his understanding of "Thunder Light" advanced by leaps and bounds.

Amid this immensely fulfilling cultivation, where he could see himself growing stronger almost every day.

A year passed quietly in the blink of an eye.

On this day, after Qi Yuan finished another lesson with Cang Fan.

His expression suddenly changed, and he swiftly accepted an incoming call request on his armguard light brain—

"Come to the Castle and Gather immediately!"

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