Hmm? A story about a loser?

On the morning of the fifth day of Intensive Training, the trainees gathered in front of the Experiment Building after breakfast.

Last night, it was dark and no one paid much attention, but now, in the bright morning light, they noticed that the main door of the Experiment Building was a thick black steel door, which looked even thicker than the walls. All the windows were integrated bulletproof glass, and ventilation relied entirely on the ventilation system. Even without curtains, no one could see inside from the outside.

"Could this be the legendary... one-way glass that often appears in those *****?" Yuan Dang's expression was serious, but the words he spoke were completely different from his upright appearance.

Overall, Ren Suo's roommates were relatively ordinary. They maintained a suitable distance from each other and weren't foolish enough to divide themselves into oldest, second oldest, third oldest, and fourth oldest based on age—what was the point of doing that after only five days as roommates—they just chatted a little, and didn't even reveal much about their backgrounds.

However, this Intensive Training was not military training; it was the ladder for them to step from ordinary people into the extraordinary. Even those who were usually stoic would reveal their true emotions due to excitement. In this situation, although they still held back, they also became good friends with each other. The men's embarrassing topics at night were an important part of their emotional exchange.

Although Jie Qiansi made friends with a purpose, his appearance and demeanor were indeed good, and he became friends with most people in the Eighth Team with whom he could talk; Yuan Dang was the first person to master an Intermediate Cultivation Method, graduated from a TOP2 university in Xuan Country, and usually had the demeanor of a cunning strategist. After getting familiar, he loved to spout lewd jokes; Zhao Huo, on the other hand, just buried himself in cultivation and was very ordinary.

"We're leaving at noon today, don't we need to cultivate?" Ren Suo sighed, "I haven't even completed the First Cycle yet."

Like the formation of a Qi Vortex, the transformation of a Qi Vortex into a First Cycle doesn't take too much time, but it depends heavily on aptitude. It can take as little as two or three days, or as long as a year. As for the specific reason for such a large time difference, in the Aura Cognition Class, the middle-aged scholar used this analogy: formation is like the combination of sperm and egg, while transformation is like the formation of a fetus.

Some people are born prematurely like a Seven-Star Child, while others are like Nezha who takes three years to emerge.

Currently, it has been found that transformation doesn't have much to do with aptitude. Some cultivators with low aptitude can open their Qi Vortex in just a few days, while cultivators with high aptitude can have their Qi Vortex form in the morning and transform in the evening.

The principle hasn't been researched yet, and it can only rely on luck, but cultivation can definitely speed up the transformation process, which is why Ren Suo was so eager to seize the opportunity to cultivate.

After witnessing the power of Clothing and Lock yesterday, even though Ren So had a Little Overlord game console, he still yearned to master this extraordinary power—after all, for now, the rewards from the Little Overlord game console were limited to the realm of 'normal people'. The only unexpected thing was the "Physical Fitness Optimization" which he didn't know if it helped him activate his Qi Vortex.

However, as soon as Ren Suo spoke, his roommates turned their heads one after another, with expressions of 'I understand', and with the gaze of someone looking at a loser in life, they kindly patted Ren Suo's shoulder.

Jie Qiansi: "I know, you must want to keep your distance now... there are plenty of fish in the sea."

Yuan Dang: "What's more, it's not like there's no chance, everyone is from Lianjiang City."

Zhao Huo: "Mhm mhm."

After they finished speaking, they looked at the girls in the front row of the Eighth Team again, then looked at Ren Suo, and sighed.

It was rare for Ren Suo to use his brain to think about what they were saying. Realizing that he had used a magical method to pick up girls last night was the first time Ren Suo had a breakthrough in his twenty-odd years. Usually, he was a goal-oriented person, only staring intently at his goal and thinking about nothing else.

At exactly eight o'clock in the morning, the Instructors arrived one after another. Yu Kuangtu, who had only appeared once before, also appeared again this time. He walked up to the steel door, and surprisingly, he directly grabbed the handle of the steel door with his hand and forcibly pulled the steel door open!

The trainees watched in astonishment, and the Instructors quickly took the opportunity to show off: "If 'Clothing' is strengthened to the extreme, it can even counteract the force feedback from the object it touches. This is a basic operation. You guys are too young."

Yuan Dang also murmured, "This is the most powerful Lock..."

No one objected to Yuan Dang's statement. Facing this most simple iron door, all high-tech cracking equipment was meaningless. Only the most brutal and fundamental violence could open this door!

Or, perhaps, the power of immortals and humans, beyond the imagination of mortals!

After opening the door, Yu Kuangtu led the others in first, while the others, under the command of the Instructors, lined up to enter the third floor of the Experiment Building. The teams that were not called stayed downstairs to wait.

This inspection, which was like the last day of military training, naturally caused dissatisfaction among the crowd. However, the Instructors who stayed downstairs were not just standing around. They motioned for the others to sit on the ground, while they demonstrated some derivative techniques of Clothing and Lock.

Although the trainees had learned Clothing and Lock, it was like learning 1+1 doesn't mean they could solve the Fourier equation. The Instructors' demonstration of some more advanced usage techniques also made them exclaim in awe, such as 'Partial Clothing Transformation', 'Clothing Tough Armor', 'Life-Stealing Scissor Lock', and so on...

The most impressive was the super technique demonstrated by Zhao Jingzhong: Clothing Lock Secret Method! Anyone who came into contact with Zhao Jingzhong's outer invisible Clothing would lose control of their entire body and stop, as if they had been attacked by a Lock!

It was only then that everyone realized that Zhao Jingzhong was originally a master of First Cycle cultivators. This Clothing Lock Secret Method was a top-tier technique even among the military cultivators who cultivated first. Even if they were taught the techniques within, it would take countless hours to practice, not to mention that this kind of technique might not even be learnable.

When others asked how to learn these techniques, the Instructors just smiled faintly: "You'll know when you go back."

"Why does that sound like a flag? It feels like we'll encounter danger after leaving the base."

That long-unheard-of, gender-neutral, and source-unknown voice of complaint appeared again, and the trainees downstairs immediately fell silent. They had previously thought it was some mischievous kid complaining, but now they also realized: even the instructors couldn't find who was speaking, so it was likely that the person complaining was using an advanced Aura Technique that no one could detect.

After a while, the Seventh Team came down one after another, some looking happy, some calm, completely showing no signs of what they had experienced. Zhao Jingzhong led their Eighth Team up to the third floor and waited outside a sealed room. Each person went in for a few minutes before coming out.

When it was Ren Suo's turn to go in, he found the room extremely spacious, with only Yu Kuangtu and three Black Vests sitting on one side. On the ground was a strange black brick that was a full four square meters, and next to the black brick were four soft light screens, like those used for photography, pointing at it.

Yu Kuangtu motioned for Ren Suo to enter the black brick area and said, "Run the Breathing Method, just for a minute or two."

Ren Suo followed the instructions, and after a minute or two, Yu Kuangtu and the other three raised their eyebrows.

Under Ren Suo's anxious gaze, Yu Kuangtu calmly said:

"Your Aura Breathing aptitude is 1.25."

After a pause, he added:

"The average aptitude for newly promoted cultivators is currently 1.77."