Two days later, “General Qin, goodbye!”The officer, dressed in a lieutenant colonel's military uniform, stood at attention and saluted General Qin.Qin Tian returned the salute, watched the military aircraft disappear into the sky, and then handed the ink-jade box he was holding to Poison Widow.When Poison Widow took the jade box, her fingertips touched its cool surface, and she couldn't help but ask curiously, “Boss, what’s inside?”A military aircraft had landed at their residence early that morning, and several officers personally delivered the escorted jade box to her boss. From the looks of it, the item in the jade box must be very valuable.“It’s a thunder extreme crystal. I exchanged it for military merit points at the Military Department Treasury. It’s a lightning-element treasure,” Qin Tian said, his fingertip tracing the lid of the box, his eyes holding an unsuppressible anticipation. “With it, I can break through to the sixth rank.”“Break through to the sixth rank!” Poison Widow’s eyes widened instantly.The transition from the fifth to the sixth rank was a qualitative leap in the Spiritual Energy system. When her boss was at the fifth rank, he could easily overpower some sixth-rank powerhouses. If he successfully broke through, his combat power would undoubtedly soar to unimaginable heights.Qin Tian raised his hand and opened a spatial gate. He stepped through first, followed closely by Poison Widow, landing in the lobby of Lingfeng Commerce’s exclusive cultivation base.This base was purchased and renovated by Feng Mocheng at great expense: fifty cultivation rooms were divided into four grades based on spiritual energy concentration. Low-grade rooms could gather three times the spiritual energy, mid-grade five times, high-grade ten times, and the top-grade cultivation rooms in the deepest part could reach twenty times the external spiritual energy concentration. The walls were inscribed with three layers of spiritual gathering runes, and the energy crystals consumed per hour were an astronomical sum.“You stand guard outside,” Qin Tian instructed Poison Widow, then pushed open the alloy door of the top-grade cultivation room.As the heavy door slowly slid open, the spiritual energy from within surged out through the gap, carrying a faint scent of grass and wood.Inside the cultivation room, as soon as Qin Tian sat on the central cushion, the spiritual energy aggregation device at the top emitted a low hum.The next moment, milky-white spiritual energy gushed out from the device, like an inverted waterfall, quickly condensing into a tangible mist in the room, swirling around him. Even breathing allowed him to inhale lungs full of spiritual energy.He slowly opened the ink-jade box.“Crackle!”A violent lightning aura instantly erupted, as if an invisible lightning net had spread through the room.Qin Tian’s hair stood slightly on end from the electricity, and a fine tingling sensation spread across his skin. Even faint purple lightning arcs floated in the air, crackling.The thunder extreme crystal lying in the box was about the size of a fist, deep purple in color, with snake-like lightning patterns coiling on its surface. Each flicker caused subtle tremors in the surrounding spiritual energy.This was a supreme treasure from the Thunder Magnetic Star—that death planet enveloped by eternal thunderstorms, where even mechs dared not easily land, yet it gave birth to treasures like the thunder extreme crystal.Qin Tian had used the special privilege of his imperial glory medal, along with 480,000 military merit points, to exchange for it from the “Strategic Materials” catalog in the Military Department Treasury.Qin Tian took a deep breath and held the thunder extreme crystal in his palm.As soon as the cool crystal touched his skin, a scorching lightning power surged wildly into his body along the meridians in his palm—like an enraged lightning snake, crashing through his meridians. Wherever it passed, the meridian walls felt a burning sting.He immediately activated the Nine Nether Lightning Radiance Art.The moment the golden-grade cultivation technique operated, the spiritual energy within his body was instantly mobilized.His left half of his body suddenly lit up with a faint purple lightning glow, and lightning arcs could vaguely be seen flowing beneath his skin. Even his exhaled breath carried a faint electric crackle.Meanwhile, his right half of his body slowly exuded dense Dark Spiritual Energy, like thick ink that couldn't be dissolved, swallowing the light. Even his fingertips were shrouded in a faint black mist.The two types of spiritual energy remained distinct within his body, circulating along their respective meridians, yet they formed an invisible barrier before his Dantian. This was the root cause of him being stuck at the peak of the fifth rank.The Dark Spiritual Energy was too heavy, like a ponderous black iron, while the Lightning Spiritual Energy was relatively sparse, always unable to achieve balance with it. The two forces constrained each other; not to mention impacting the sixth rank, even the total amount of spiritual energy was difficult to increase.Qin Tian fully activated his cultivation technique, guiding the lightning power from the thunder extreme crystal towards the Lightning Spiritual Energy in his left half.The faint purple lightning glow instantly surged, like flames fed with kindling, burning fiercely in his left half of his body. The lightning arcs in his meridians grew thicker, even condensing into tiny lightning patterns on the surface of his skin.The Lightning Spiritual Energy in his left half grew stronger and stronger, finally breaking through that invisible barrier and pressing towards the Dark Spiritual Energy in his right half!“Buzz—”The moment the two spiritual energies collided, Qin Tian’s body trembled violently.The Dark Spiritual Energy, like a startled beast, counterattacked frantically, trying to force the Lightning Spiritual Energy back to the left half; while the Lightning Spiritual Energy, carrying the violent power of the thunder extreme crystal, pressed forward relentlessly. The two forces repeatedly pulled and collided above his Dantian. Each impact made his internal organs feel as if they had been struck by a heavy hammer.He gritted his teeth, letting cold sweat soak his clothes, but his fingers gripped the thunder extreme crystal even harder—the thunder extreme crystal’s light grew dimmer and dimmer, its lightning power continuously drawn away and injected into his body.After an unknown period, when the thunder extreme crystal became dim, the Lightning Spiritual Energy in his left half finally reached a delicate balance with the Dark Spiritual Energy in his right half.Faint purple lightning arcs and black mist slowly intertwined above his Dantian—lightning arcs coiled around the black mist, and black mist enveloped the lightning arcs. The two forces, originally mutually exclusive, now slowly merged into a new type of spiritual energy, like yin and yang complementing each other: a faint purple base color adorned with tiny black patterns, and within the black mist, faint lightning gleamed, carrying both the ferocity of lightning and the hidden mystery of darkness.“Now!”Qin Tian seized this moment of balance, guiding the fused spiritual energy towards the last spiritual aperture in his body.“Bang!”The moment the fused spiritual energy hit the spiritual aperture, Qin Tian let out a muffled groan, his body tilting sharply backward.That spiritual aperture was like a long-sealed door, violently smashed open by the fused spiritual energy. Immediately after, the other blocked spiritual apertures were also broken through in succession—“Bang! Bang! Bang!” the impact sounds resonated within his body. Each spiritual aperture broken through brought a new surge of spiritual energy into his Dantian, making the fused spiritual energy even more profound.When the last spiritual aperture was broken through, a faint golden light bridge suddenly lit up above his Dantian.This light bridge, about half a foot long, was transparent throughout, as if condensed from spiritual energy. One end connected to his Dantian, and the other extended into the void, subtly linking with the spiritual energy mist in the cultivation room—this was the mark of a sixth-rank Spiritual Energy User, the Divine Bridge!As soon as the Divine Bridge formed, the spiritual energy in the cultivation room instantly boiled!The originally swirling white mist seemed to find a vent, surging wildly into Qin Tian’s body, directly flowing into his Dantian via the Divine Bridge.Nourished by the spiritual energy, the fused spiritual energy surged at a visible rate. What was originally only a stream-like thickness of spiritual energy quickly became a small river, and then from a river to a large river—the total amount of spiritual energy surged fivefold within just fifteen minutes!Not only that, the Divine Bridge continuously drew in external spiritual energy, making the recovery speed of spiritual energy extremely fast—the spiritual energy consumed during the impact on the spiritual apertures just now was replenished in just a few minutes.And his physical body also underwent changes under the tempering of spiritual energy: his skin became tougher, with a faint golden luster vaguely visible; subtle “creaking” sounds came from his bones, their density and strength increasing; even his meridians widened considerably, able to accommodate more spiritual energy flow.The fused spiritual energy continued to rise—the barrier of Six-star rank one was easily broken through, and the total spiritual energy continued to «N.o.v.e.l.i.g.h.t» climb; it soon reached Six-star rank two, still without stopping; it was only when the total spiritual energy had surged nearly tenfold compared to before the breakthrough that it stabilized at the peak of Six-star rank three.Qin Tian slowly opened his eyes, a purple-black interwoven light flashing within them.He waved his hand, and the fused spiritual energy condensed into a small light blade at his fingertip—it carried both the violent power of lightning and the corrosive feel of darkness.Feeling the surging yet docile spiritual energy within his body, and the spiritual energy affinity brought by the Divine Bridge, a faint smile touched his lips—the accumulated power of his dual holy blood indeed did not disappoint him.Now, he was fully confident that he could contend with an ordinary seventh-rank Spiritual Energy User.

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