But that's still not the most important thing. The most important thing is that, thanks to this struggle on the brink of death, the Purple Qi Comes from the East Art actually broke through its first level, and the strength of my mind finally met the requirements to become a Spirit Reader.
Now, with my Spiritual Force, I can stand up to an Intermediate Warlord. With the amplification from World Destruction and the Dragon Roar Sword, my strongest attack can break through an Advanced Beast General's defenses.
From now on, when I face the Black-Crowned Golden Eagle or even an Advanced Beast General like the Sword-Beaked Dragon Eagle, I'll have the strength to put up a real fight instead of being carried off as food.
Zhang Junbao was in high spirits. His gains that night had been enormous.
Not only had he mastered the first level of World Destruction, but the Purple Qi Comes from the East Art, which had shown no movement since he came to this world, had also broken through its first level, making him a true Spirit Reader.
Perhaps it was precisely his several brushes with death in battle yesterday, combined with what he had accumulated before, that had allowed him to break through so smoothly. Most other Spirit Readers had been exceptionally gifted since childhood, and once their innate talent was exhausted, they found it hard to make any further progress.
With the Purple Qi Comes from the East Art, however, he could continually strengthen his Spiritual Force. He did not have to worry about his innate talent running out one day and making it difficult to progress, as it did for others.
After all, people like Luo Feng, who were born with solid-state Spiritual Force in their brains, were exceedingly rare. Otherwise, Babata would not have had to wait fifty thousand years to find a Luo Feng.
Although Zhang Junbao had not been born with a large quantity of solid-state Spiritual Force in his brain like Luo Feng, the Spiritual Force he had cultivated day after day with the Purple Qi Comes from the East Art was superior in quality.
An important mark of becoming a Spirit Reader was the ability to control objects from a distance. Zhang Junbao could clearly feel an invisible force of thought spreading out from his brain. Like an extension of himself, it formed an invisible hand.
His gaze fell on the stool beside him, and with a thought, an invisible force instantly seized control of it.
Although this force could not be seen with the naked eye, Zhang Junbao himself could clearly feel its presence.
Amazing. This Spiritual Force is like the divine sense of cultivators described in ancient books, and it's even more useful than divine sense.
Spiritual Force has greatly enhanced my perception. Not only can I use it to investigate without being detected, but as a means of attack, it's even stronger than my own physical strength and reacts faster.
No wonder so many people envy Spirit Readers. With power like this, they're absolutely gods of slaughter in the Wilderness Zone, with no fear at all of being surrounded by demonic beasts.
An ordinary martial artist can only deal with one target at a time, but a Spirit Reader can control multiple weapons at once. Their efficiency at killing demonic beasts increases by more than tenfold.
Zhang Junbao used his Spiritual Force to keep trying different variations. He lifted not only the chair but even the nearby desk and the entire bird's nest.
For a time, numerous objects darted back and forth under Zhang Junbao's control, working in concert with one another and taking on the flavor of a formation that combined offense and defense.
Just coordinating these odds and ends has already greatly increased my combat power. What would it be like with actual spirit weapons?
And I can use my Spiritual Force to set up the Taiji Two Forms Array or even the Eight Trigrams Array in an instant. Any enemy who blunders in will have no fate but to be strangled to death by me.
Zhang Junbao dropped all the other objects and focused entirely on controlling the Dragon Roar Sword. The sword gave a low, continuous hum and vanished from sight in an instant.
When it appeared again, it was already on the other side of the Sword-Beaked Dragon Eagle's body.
If I control a single weapon with all my strength and build up power, combining Taiji's explosive force with the power of the first level of World Destruction, I can pierce straight through the Sword-Beaked Dragon Eagle's body and even its bones.
Zhang Junbao controlled the Dragon Roar Sword and brought it back to his side. Empowered by his Spiritual Force, the sword had suffered no damage whatsoever. It had just pierced through the Sword-Beaked Dragon Eagle's bone. Both were made from the Sword-Beaked Dragon Eagle's bones, so even if the Dragon Roar Sword was tougher, the difference could not have been too great.
Yet, empowered by his Spiritual Force, it had pierced the Sword-Beaked Dragon Eagle's bone with ease. It was truly incredible.
The Sword-Beaked Dragon Eagle's skin alone had taken Zhang Junbao a long time to cut open with a spearhead, to say nothing of its bones.
Such terrifying power had quietly awakened in this uninhabited region.
Inside the building, Zhang Junbao sat cross-legged in the five-hearts-facing-heaven posture, eyes closed as he continued cultivating.
He had to strengthen himself as quickly as possible before other demonic beasts noticed anything unusual here.
Cosmic energy flowed constantly into his body through the soles of his feet, the centers of his palms, and the Baihui acupoint at the crown of his head. After awakening my Spiritual Force, I seem to be absorbing cosmic energy faster too.
Zhang Junbao's body was like a ravenous taotie, madly sucking in the surrounding cosmic energy as every cell in his body worked at a frantic pace.
Absorb, transform, grow stronger, then absorb and transform again.
A considerable amount of cosmic energy also surged into Zhang Junbao's mind as he focused his consciousness there.
Boom!
After a transformation of profound mystery, Zhang Junbao felt his very soul tremble. Then he discovered that he had arrived in a wondrous place.
This mysterious place had no visible boundaries, and seemingly endless mist swirled around him. When he looked down, however, he could not see his body.
This mist... could it be Spiritual Force? Zhang Junbao could easily sense that the power contained in the mist was the Spiritual Force he had just awakened.
At the center of this world, a mass of purple mist had gathered, and mist-like Spiritual Force constantly seeped out of it.
Zhang Junbao could clearly sense that after cosmic energy was absorbed into the purple mist, it was quickly converted into Spiritual Force and seeped back out.
This mist is Spiritual Force. Then could this mass of purple mist have been produced by my cultivation of the Purple Qi Comes from the East Art?
So that's how it is. The Purple Qi Comes from the East Art grows stronger by absorbing the purple qi that seeps out of the morning sun, and this purple qi can actually convert cosmic energy into Spiritual Force. It's incredible.
In that case, wouldn't a star like the sun be a massive natural device for converting Spiritual Force?
No wonder the ancients could enhance their divine sense by comprehending the power of the sun and moon, and even ascend to the heavens in broad daylight. So it wasn't just their imagination-it really happened.
But this purple qi is only present when the sun first rises in the morning, and it has to be refined through the Purple Qi Comes from the East Art to have this effect.
Could the so-called resonance between heaven and man, in which the human body resonates with nature and uses its power to strengthen itself, work on the same principle?
Conjectures surfaced one after another in Zhang Junbao's mind. He felt he had seemingly grasped the essence of strengthening Spiritual Force.
This era really is wonderful. It's also thanks to modern humans being able to sense cosmic energy that they can wield such power.
Ancient Earth may still hold quite a few secrets. Those ancient sages were just a group of ordinary people, yet they could explain the mysteries of how the universe operated so clearly. Was it really just because Earthlings had such great comprehension?