Chapter 53

In the blink of an eye, a distorted line emitting a red glow appeared in his hand. Compared to Du Qian, Fei Xue's strength was undoubtedly powerful. Du Qian spent ten days to forcibly create a spirit piece, but in Fei Xue's hands, it was completed in just a few dozen seconds.

Staring at the spirit piece in his hand, Fei Xue looked at it as if it were the most beautiful flower in the world, his eyes almost sinking in.

"My goodness! This thing is amazing." After more than an hour, Fei Xue slapped his forehead and exclaimed. Fortunately, there was no one around, or his image as the captain of the Flying Tiger Team would have been completely ruined.

While Fei Xue was studying, the news had already spread. The Flying Tiger Team was full of talented people, and it wasn't just Fei Xue who noticed the issue. In different departments and rooms, at least dozens of people were studying it.

Some people quickly gave up, some found it quite magical, but it was just a fun novelty. The number of people who truly understood its profundity in the entire Flying Tiger Team could be counted on one hand.

To fully understand the information contained in the spirit piece, one needed not only powerful combat strength, broad vision, and extensive knowledge, but also a flexible mind.

Many martial cultivators might not have even heard of spirit pieces. For combat masters, they would know a little, but not much. Only by delving deeper would one realize how significant the creation of spirit pieces was for martial cultivators.

Sometimes, very ordinary things are right in front of you, but you don't know their true significance.

Du Qian didn't know this; he was still struggling with the energy threads, one after another. Each time after absorbing the spirit horn, Du Qian would desperately separate the energy threads. This feeling was like being tricked into a sweatshop, working hard for just a little money, sacrificing blood and youth.

Fortunately, he didn't see how those big shots completed the spirit pieces. If he had seen Fei Xue's results in an hour, he might have given up. It's not fair, working so hard while they treat it like a toy. Is that right?

Regardless, Du Qian's progress was quite noticeable. In one day, the time to separate one energy thread had shortened from ten minutes to eight. It must be said that separating energy threads required no technical skill, it was purely a matter of practice. The more you did, the more proficient you became. If you did less, no matter how smart you were, it wouldn't help.

The differential machine on the desk was turned on, calculating the time while separating the energy threads, and using the differential machine to calculate how long it would take to complete a spirit piece, how much money could be earned in a month...

If others knew he was using the expensive differential machine to calculate such things, they would be quite surprised.

Earning money and fantasizing about earning money passed quickly. Three days flew by. The second spirit piece was finally completed. While working hard, the speed of his combat strength improvement was even more satisfying.

This time, there was no need for testing. The full-body bloated feeling made it clear what had happened.

Indeed, Du Qian's combat strength had reached the full state, which, in terms that ordinary people could understand, meant a combat strength of ten thousand, the threshold for martial cultivators.

From just over nine thousand, it took him three days to reach ten thousand. It must be said that Du Qian was really working hard. For three days, he didn't go home, and except for eating and using the bathroom, he never left the office door. He was either absorbing the spirit horn or separating energy threads.

In three days, he absorbed eighteen spirit horns, reaching his absorption limit. Not a second was wasted, leading to this result.

"Awesome, I'm a martial cultivator now." Du Qian acted like a madman, running around the office. Fortunately, there was no one else in his office, and no one cared about him, letting him do as he pleased.

After ten minutes, Du Qian calmed down. As a war orphan, he had discussed with Lei Ming long ago that they needed to find ways to release various emotions to avoid psychological issues.

Many war orphans suffer from mental health problems. Even if they could afford a doctor, the citizens of the Zhou Shan Empire were not accustomed to psychological treatment. To avoid being too repressed, they needed to find a way to vent. The two of them developed a simple method to treat themselves.

The actual effectiveness was unknown, but Du Qian felt it was quite good.

Du Qian's method was to move, rolling on the ground, running and jumping in the room, doing somersaults, swimming, anything that involved movement, to exhaust both his emotions and physical strength. Over the years, this had become a habit. Whenever his emotions became intense, whether angry, depressed, furious, happy, or excited, once they reached a critical point, Du Qian would start moving.

Originally, Du Qian thought that the big guy Lei Ming would choose a similar method, but to his surprise, the guy chose to talk incessantly. When he needed to vent, he would find someone and talk non-stop, regardless of whether they wanted to listen. His sharp tongue and constant chatter were quite destructive.

Calmly recalling the basic knowledge he learned in school, fortunately, it wasn't long, and with Du Qian's excellent memory, he couldn't possibly forget.

The war orphan school was like this: the instructor lectured, and the orphans were quite free, doing whatever they wanted as long as it didn't affect others. No one cared whether you understood or not.

In fact, the five classmates who reached a combat strength of over ten thousand before graduation, plus Yao Jing, all became martial cultivators by relying on what they learned in class and exploring on their own.

This means that the teachers didn't necessarily teach very well, but they taught the necessary things, and at least they were correct.

Water fills the cup, the moon waxes and wanes. After tens of thousands of years of practice, the basic theoretical system of martial cultivators is already perfect. The threshold of ten thousand combat strength is deeply ingrained.

All things in the world, those with a soul are considered living beings, including animals, plants, and humans.

Living beings have different physical conditions. Some are born strong, while others are weak.

Regardless of the type of living being, under natural conditions, the body cannot reach its limit. Being strong does not mean the strongest, and being weak does not mean the weakest.

The world is filled with spiritual energy, which is absorbed and converted into combat strength. This is a natural process. Even if you don't practice guiding spiritual energy into your body, you still have combat strength, which is a comprehensive index of the body, and you have it as long as you are alive.

Some people have excellent talent, and their combat strength naturally increases with eating and breathing. Others have low talent, and even with hard practice, their combat strength may decrease.

There is a lot of knowledge involved, including genetics, absorption, spiritualization, space, spiritual energy concentration, medicine, and more. If listed, there would be hundreds of disciplines, all aimed at studying why some people have good talent and others have poor talent.

Whether you practice guiding spiritual energy into your body or absorb spiritual energy through breathing, there will always be a limit.

This limit is ten thousand combat strength, the entry standard for martial cultivators. This standard applies to all living beings, regardless of their size, whether they are carnivores or herbivores, animals, plants, or humans.

It is said that this is a natural phenomenon, at least on this planet, following this rule.

Taking humans as an example, the human body is composed of carbohydrates, blood, flesh, bones, and tendons. No matter how much you practice, you cannot turn blood and flesh into steel.

Ten thousand combat strength is a sublimation, the peak of the human body's limit, but humans remain humans and do not turn into something else.

So, the question is, if everyone has ten thousand combat strength, ignoring techniques and other things, are they all equally strong?

The answer is no. Even if everyone has ten thousand combat strength, it only means their physical strength is the same, not that their strength is the same. The winner in a fight is not necessarily the strongest, and the loser is not necessarily the weakest.

However, the human body's limit can only accommodate ten thousand combat strength.

From this conclusion, we can derive a surprising result: whether you are a beginner martial cultivator with ten thousand combat strength or a divine master with over ten million combat strength, the physical strength is actually the same.

To break this bottleneck, the ancestors developed the spirit pool, a method to solve the problem of the body not being able to accommodate more spiritual energy and not being able to increase combat strength.

Actually, it can't be said that it was developed. It is a biological instinct. Humans study it with their minds, while animals and plants evolve through instinct, and the results are the same.

What is a spirit pool? It is an energy organ that opens within the body to store and convert spiritual energy, existing in an energy state within the body. When the organism dies, it gradually disappears.

There is no conclusion on how much spiritual energy it can store. You can keep storing it, and there is no such thing as a body exploding. If you only store spiritual energy, when testing combat strength, you will find that no matter how much spiritual energy you store, your combat strength is always ten thousand and one, no more and no less.

This means that the human body itself can absorb and convert ten thousand spiritual energy, and the spirit pool can only add an additional one thousand combat strength, regardless of the amount of spiritual energy it contains.

Actually, no one continuously absorbs and stores spiritual energy. The main function of the spirit pool is not storage but to help the body convert spiritual energy into more practical external combat strength.

What is this additional combat strength?

Spiritual energy armor.

Those who possess spiritual energy armor are called combat spirits, not the commonly referred to martial cultivators. Martial cultivators is a general term, whether you are a combat spirit, combat king, combat master, or divine master, you are all martial cultivators.

In the combat spirit stage, a total of ten pieces of spiritual energy armor can be condensed. It is not that more or fewer pieces cannot be condensed, but rather that after tens of thousands of years of exploration, it has been proven that ten pieces of spiritual energy armor are the most suitable.

This distribution of combat strength and spiritual energy is the most reasonable and effective, even the order of condensation has been refined through countless trials.