Acknowledging a Master, the News Spreads, a One-Week Speedrun to War God?
Li Jing took out the Cloud-Touching Vine seedling and, following the method for making it acknowledge a master, used a tiger thorn to cut his palm.
Blood welled out in a thin stream, and the emerald-green Cloud-Touching Vine seedling reached out and wrapped around him to absorb it.
Once the acknowledgment was complete, a wondrous connection formed between Li Jing and the Cloud-Touching Vine, as though their consciousnesses were resonating.
The Cloud-Touching Vine's slender tendrils gently touched Li Jing's wound, vaguely conveying distress for him.
As a plant life-form, the Cloud-Touching Vine did not have very high intelligence.
Even after advancing to Immortal, its intelligence would only be comparable to an ordinary human's.
It would acknowledge only one master in its life, and if its master died, so would the Cloud-Touching Vine.
"All right, Moyun, it's just a small wound. It'll heal soon!"
Li Jing smiled and stroked the Cloud-Touching Vine, then made the muscles around his wound contract. The bleeding soon stopped.
He poured healing medicine on the wound, and it quickly scabbed over.
With Li Jing's physique, which was comparable to Planetary Level First Stage, it would not take long for him to recover completely.
After treating his wound, Li Jing took out one of the Wood Bud Crystals he had just won in the draw and gave it to the Cloud-Touching Vine to absorb.
He hoped it could quickly reach the Planetary Level and become an important source of support for him.
Unfortunately, unlike Luo Feng, he did not have Hu Yanbo's inheritance and its abundant wealth.
When Luo Feng's Cloud-Touching Vine was still a seedling, Babata had fed it a blood-red fruit that Hu Yanbo had prepared long ago, one worth far more than the Crimson Chaos Copper Mother Fragment.
Not only had it turned from emerald green to blood-red, but its potential had also greatly increased.
For now, Li Jing could only nurture his Cloud-Touching Vine by ordinary means and see whether he could draw a relevant treasure later to make up for what it lacked now.
If that did not work, he could only wait until later and raise another vine with greater potential.
After the Cloud-Touching Vine acknowledged him as its master, Li Jing took out the Fire Meteor Wheel, the top-grade second-tier psychic weapon he had just obtained.
The Fire Meteor Wheel was silver-white throughout, adorned with fiery red secret markings. It was shaped like a flying wheel and could be separated into 36 blades.
It had two forms. The basic form, Heaven-Burning Vortex, required a Mental Power Amplitude greater than 12.
When attacking, the Fire Meteor Wheel spun at high speed to form a flame vortex. It could cut at close range or attack from a distance, releasing searing heat upon contact with its target.
When defending, it spun to produce a flame barrier that could withstand energy and physical impacts.
The second form, Meteor Break, required a Mental Power Amplitude greater than 30. The Fire Meteor Wheel separated into 36 diamond-shaped fire blades.
In attack mode, the 36 diamond-shaped fire blades formed a meteor shower of fire. They could also recombine into a cone-shaped Meteor Drill, similar to the Mountain-Drilling Awl of Luo Feng's Sky-Escaping Shuttle, spinning at high speed with both penetrating and burning effects.
In defense mode, the 36 fire blades circled to form a spherical fire array. The blades spun at high speed, crisscrossing one another and able to refract and devour energy attacks to a certain extent.
It could attack and defend, and aside from lacking a dedicated flight form, it was practically perfect, worthy of its status as a top-grade second-tier psychic weapon.
Its attribute was fire, which suited Li Jing as well. Barring any surprises, it could serve him for a while.
"First, let's see how powerful it is!"
Based on my previous test, I can currently control 14 throwing knives to attack at once, each with maximum force. My Mental Power Amplitude should be 14 times, enough to meet the requirements for the Fire Meteor Wheel's first form, Heaven-Burning Vortex.
After practicing for a while according to the secret control method that came with the Fire Meteor Wheel, Li Jing successfully grasped the trick to its first form, Heaven-Burning Vortex.
"Heaven-Burning Vortex, go!"
Under Li Jing's control, the Fire Meteor Wheel became a fiery red streak of light and shot straight toward an abandoned building in the distance.
It spun continuously in flight, and a flame vortex rose out of thin air.
When it struck the abandoned building, the vortex's diameter abruptly expanded to a hundred meters.
Under Heaven-Burning Vortex's powerful attack, the abandoned building was instantly razed to the ground, and even the ground turned to molten rock.
Li Jing clicked his tongue inwardly. Its power was no small matter. Now, relying on his Spirit Reader abilities alone, he could contend with a Planetary Level powerhouse.
"The test is complete. Get my War God strength certified, then head to Ancient Civilization Ruins No. 9!"
Heaven-Burning Vortex's tremendous power made Li Jing even more eager to master the Fire Meteor Wheel's second form, Meteor Break.
The basic requirement of a 30-fold Mental Power Amplitude was clearly a hurdle.
Without guidance from a secret Spirit Reader cultivation method, even a genius like Li Jing would need to spend considerably more time figuring things out through talent alone than he would with such a method.
Li Jing was determined to obtain the Controller 312 Forms that would appear in the Elite Passage of Ancient Civilization Ruins No. 9.
Not to mention the many other good things in Ancient Civilization Ruins No. 9: the Black God Set, an Auxiliary Optical Computer, and the third-tier secret technique Sky-Escaping. Although it had to be used with the Sky-Escaping Shuttle, its value was undeniable.
"I'll hunt a couple of high-level Lord Monsters, get my War God strength officially certified, then head straight to Ancient Civilization Ruins No. 9!"
Just as he was about to set off, a message on his Communication Watch made him put aside the idea of hunting Lord Monsters for the moment.
"Dear Intermediate War God Li Jing, greetings! We cordially invite you to join the War God Palace in protecting human civilization. Someone will deliver a Virtual Consciousness Helmet to your residence within 24 hours. At that time, you may enter the War God Palace under their guidance."
The War God Palace is inviting me to join of its own accord?
Li Jing opened the warrior certification section on his watch and discovered that his certification had automatically changed from Beginner Warrior to Intermediate War God.
Was it the Huaxia authorities who certified me, or was it the training hall?
Still, it had saved him some time. He could head straight to Ancient Civilization Ruins No. 9.
Li Jing speculated to himself, unaware that the major powers around the world had gone into a frenzy after he had revealed his War God strength at Warrior Supply Base No. 004.
That was because Li Jing's warrior records showed that he had passed his practical combat assessment one week ago!
What did it mean for a warrior to reach the War God Level in such a short time?
It meant that, barring any surprises, he would be the greatest genius in Earth's history!
In the future, he had an excellent chance of surpassing the current three strongest: Hong, Thunder God, and Luo Feng!
The authorities of Huaxia Country immediately upgraded Li Jing's warrior certification and gave orders to bring him into their ranks at all costs, or at the very least maintain an amicable relationship with him.
The other powers each had their own methods, but none could find Li Jing.
In Jiangnan Base City, Zhuge Tao and Wu Tong, who had still been planning to wait a few days for Li Jing to come around and persuade him to put aside his pride and go to the Elite Training Camp, were stunned when they heard the news.
Li Jing is already at the War God Level?
He speedran from warrior to War God in one week?
Even popping pills wouldn't be that fast, would it?
So Li Jing had not been acting out of anger. He really had not taken the Elite Training Camp seriously!
Ordinary trainees spent several years there before graduating as War Gods. In the eyes of a genius like Li Jing, how was that any different from serving time in prison?
Once their shock passed, the two men felt a little schadenfreude.
That senior figure at training hall headquarters who had stripped Li Jing of his place must be sweating buckets by now, right?
There were things I could choose not to take, but you couldn't refuse to give them to me!
Just as Zhuge Tao and Wu Tong had expected, Vladimir was indeed sweating buckets.
Before he could find a way to remedy the situation, several other Inspectors who had heard the news cornered him in his office.
Soon afterward, the news traveled through the Virtual Universe, accessed via an anonymous account, to Hong, who was far away on an alien planet with Thunder God and Luo Feng.