Chapter 83: Frostfall

Hearing Jiang Jian’s words.

Ji Xue’s heart trembled, stunned for a long while.

After fifteen seconds, he snapped back: “Going back to the training room?”

Jiang Jian nodded: “I came back to climb the ladder ranking; otherwise, I’ll be kicked off.”

Ji Xue stared blankly: “But you haven’t eaten yet.”

The second half of his thought—“I haven’t eaten either”—he swallowed down, never voicing it.

At that moment.

The robotic butler emerged from the mechanical room, carrying a tray: “Dinner’s here!”

“A bowl of pork bone soup noodles, spicy braised pork elbow rice, red-braised lamb chops, braised meat over noodles, and a bowl of tofu pudding soup.”

The robotic butler smiled broadly and placed the steaming tray on the table.

Jiang Jian, already slung with his backpack, reached the door: “Take it.”

Ji Xue shook his head vigorously, snapping back to awareness.

His tail curled around the tray and slung it onto his back, steady and secure.

His claws summoned spiritual energy, grabbing several boxes of training herbs as he followed Jiang Jian.

Fifteen minutes later.

The Training Exclusive Mansion.

“You actually have time here!”

Ji Xue lifted his head, gazing at the towering mansion, eyes wide with shock.

The Training Exclusive Mansion was famed far and wide.

Yet in the first-year zone, no one cared about it at all.

Jiang Jian climbed the steps: “Ten hours left.”

Ji Xue, burdened with everything, scrambled up the steps on all fours, awestruck: “I can tag along too? Really…”

Jiang Jian verified his identity device and walked straight into the hall.

“Eat.”

Ji Xue set down his load, pulled out the pork bone soup noodles, and used spiritual energy to float them before Jiang Jian.

“You should eat too.”

Jiang Jian took the bowl, eating while carefully calculating.

He spent 2400 credits to buy two Frost Bracelets.

He had no credits left to purchase more training room time.

The ladder ranking, 9th place, yields 2700 credits this week.

This is his main source of credits in the short term.

The Training Exclusive Mansion still has ten hours remaining.

Before heading to Anhezhou, he would use the demonic power water cluster to exhaust the remaining ten hours in the Training Exclusive Mansion.

His spiritual essence would surely undergo an unimaginable transformation!

He could even leave the Training Exclusive Mansion tomorrow and depart straight for Anhezhou.

“Go outside to collect the delivery.”

Amid swirling thoughts, Jiang Jian set down his bowl and looked at the gray fox.

Ji Xue snapped to attention and scrambled out on all fours.

A few minutes later.

Ji Xue entered the hall, carrying a crate: “Good thing I have identity device permissions; otherwise, I couldn’t even receive your delivery.”

Jiang Jian took the crate, swiped his identity device, and opened it directly.

When he bought the Frost Bracelets, he listed the Training Exclusive Mansion as the delivery address.

“Such intense array spiritual light!”

As the bracelet was pulled out, Ji Xue’s pupils shrank slightly.

Jiang Jian slipped one onto his wrist.

He put the other Frost Bracelet into his backpack.

Thick, overwhelming spiritual energy seeped into his limbs and bones.

“A 1200-credit item…”

“Truly worth every credit.”

Jiang Jian fell silent for a moment, carefully sensing the flow of spiritual energy.

With the combined enhancement of the Frost Bracelets, his cultivation speed increased by at least thirty percent!

The engraved surface of the bracelets glowed brilliantly with miniature forbidden arrays.

This also significantly improved his spiritual energy affinity.

“Ten hours—activate now.”

Jiang Jian opened his identity device and activated the gold-edged black card.

A faint sound of array activation echoed through the hall.

The next instant.

An overwhelming surge of spiritual energy erupted forth.

Even the source of this energy carried a trace of “divine power!”

Jiang Jian sat cross-legged, slipped on the Frost Bracelets, activated his true method, and began cultivation immediately.

“These next ten hours are critical.”

“Unless something goes wrong, this will be the most terrifying leap in my entire cultivation!”

After this,

all fourth-tier talents in the first-year cohort will be left far behind in terms of divine Que spiritual essence limits!

His thoughts surged with excitement.

Jiang Jian’s expression remained calm; with a single mental command, his divine Que true flame erupted!

BOOM!

Blood-red pure-spirit flame burned fiercely.

The pure demonic power water cluster evaporated continuously, hissing.

“Not enough!”

Jiang Jian’s gaze sharpened.

The true flame surged, flames intensifying.

The demonic power water cluster visibly melted by nearly half!

BOOM!!!

An indescribably terrifying spiritual energy spread outward!

Even Ji Xue, not far away, shuddered and stared in shock at Jiang Jian.

Jiang Jian showed not the slightest hesitation.

His terrifying willpower crushed the overburdened meridians, forcing them to endure, strengthening them bit by bit beneath the boiling spiritual energy.

Within his divine Que , spiritual energy roared.

Outside, the Training Exclusive Mansion was a sea of spiritual energy.

The Wish Jade further enhanced divine affinity.

Even his second talent, “Dark Scent,” glowed fiercely, now passively accelerating spiritual circulation.

Lastly, the terrifying enhancement of the Frost Bracelets.

Under this impossible stack of effects,

Jiang Jian’s cultivation speed surged again!

Explosive, massive spiritual energy crashed through unchecked.

His meridians and acupoints cracked under the strain, creaking audibly!

“My meridians.”

“I control them myself!”

Deep in Jiang Jian’s pupils, blood-red flames blazed as he gritted his teeth and crushed down the chaos.

His terrifying will and conviction reinforced the structure.

The nearly shattered meridians, repaired by spiritual energy, healed anew!

Cracked, then healed, again and again.

Gradually,

Jiang Jian’s acupoints and meridians could barely withstand the relentless bombardment of massive spiritual energy.

Their strength increased rapidly, constantly repairing and strengthening.

Through his meridians, no obstruction remained.

Spiritual energy roared through, flowing like an ocean!

His divine Que spiritual essence rose at a pace no ordinary cultivator could imagine—rising every second!

“True cultivation.”

"Now, begin."

Jiang Jian’s face was pale, his gaze as still and frost-laden as ice, yet a cold smile curled at his lips.

Above his head, a vortex of spiritual energy nearly solidified, forming abruptly.

Beside him.

Ji Xue had completely forgotten about cultivation.

Crouched in the corner, he stared dully at the boy seated cross-legged in the center of the hall.

"So terrifying!"

He gazed blankly at Jiang Jian, his spirit shaken to its core!

A massive vortex of spiritual energy slowly rotated above his head.

More than half the spiritual energy in the entire hall had been drained by him!

"What kind of terrible conviction could drive him to this…"

Ji Xue could not tear his eyes away; his expression was dazed.

Ten hours passed in the blink of an eye.

But for Ji Xue,

they stretched like an endless winter.

Ten hours.

Jiang Jian had absorbed nearly all the spiritual energy within the hall!

Even that single strand of "divine power"

was slowly depleted, unnoticed by anyone.

Although Ji Xue’s spiritual essence and cultivation level were not low,

his mental discipline was virtually nonexistent.

All he did was stare unblinkingly at Jiang Jian, or sit in the corner, lost in random, chaotic thoughts.

For the past ten hours, he had not cared at all about cultivation.

Even so,

his spirit beast power had still seen considerable growth.

(End of Chapter)