Chapter 161: A heavy rain ruined my dream of a breakthrough

"Invincible~ Invincible~"

"Work work~ Work work~"

"The hardworking and brave~ Jia Ji-sama~ He has made a huge contribution~ A huge sacrifice~ A huge carry~"

Humming a little tune in a great mood, Jia Ji felt that he might not need to go around looking for people to fight; by relying on cultivating spiritual power, he could complete his ultimate sublimation, his ultimate leap, and break through his original bottleneck in one go.

The moment he gave birth to spiritual power, Jia Ji discovered that fighting spirit and spiritual power were compatible, just like inserting two different DLCs into his main body, changing from single-core fighting spirit drive to dual-core drive.

Once connected to spiritual power, Jia Ji's momentum immediately surged, increased, and intensified...

To sum up: this type of energy, spiritual power, had average tactical value but high versatility. Overall, it belonged to the "large cup" category in the extraordinary system. Compared to fighting spirit, its greatest characteristic was its gentleness.

For example: if there was a sea in front of him, and Jia Ji only had fighting spirit, he would have to forcibly use something like "The Day the Sea Water Parts" and "Moses' Miracle" to split the sea, or use the Retsu Kaioh-style ultra-high-speed water treading to cross it. But if he used spiritual power, he could stand completely on the surface of the water.

The versatility was actually quite broad.

Moreover, besides that, the cultivation of fighting spirit relied on breathing, while spiritual power had no specific breathing method; it was more like meditation, requiring one to maintain focus to stimulate it... One couldn't stop breathing while meditating, right?

In other words, these two martial arts cultivation methods could actually be performed simultaneously!

And the more he cultivated, the more Jia Ji discovered... his attribute values, which hadn't changed for a long time, began to grow at a slow speed.

It was different from the way fighting spirit stimulated cellular potential.

When this gentle energy of spiritual power began to circulate in his body, through the "Healing" mode, the damaged parts were repaired at a speed visible to the naked eye. The new tissue was tougher than the original; he could clearly perceive that his muscle density was increasing, his bone strength was growing, and even his five senses were becoming sharper.

This "growth-style" recovery brought about comprehensive improvement.

Every "growth" after an "outburst" allowed his body's various attributes to be significantly enhanced. Strength, speed, endurance, reaction, and even the control over spiritual power were constantly breaking through limits in this cycle.

And thanks to his mental attributes and original quality, the growth speed of spiritual power was also terrifyingly fast, with a tendency to step on his left foot with his right to ascend to the heavens.

Master Genkai, who witnessed two cheaters, said, "I saw the effort, but why is the sweat on my face?"

Because she was sweating profusely.

Generally speaking, practitioners with profound cultivation, because their spiritual energy, essence, and primordial spirit were full, naturally looked radiant, and the whole person would exude a sunny charm, or at least be full of spirit.

For example, Master Genkai was not young; she was now an old woman with gray hair, her figure thin and upright, her face covered in wrinkles, her brow bone high, her eyes as deep and sharp as a hawk's, her pupils often showing a sharp cold light, exuding the unique pressure of a martial artist.

She usually wore a pink training suit with a purple waistband, her thin hands covered in calluses, showing agility inconsistent with her age when moving, and erupting with cyan-white spiritual energy when fighting. She looked like a venerable senior in the industry.

But Jia Ji, a martial artist from out of town, was different. He was clearly a villainous scoundrel.

Knotted muscles bulged with veins under his tight short sleeves, as if they would tear the fabric at any moment. His face looked like it had been chiseled by a knife and axe, his high cheekbones like jagged rocks, often revealing the fierce light of a scavenging beast.

The key was that his skin was actually getting whiter the more he trained—not the fair skin of a woman, but the pale white of a zombie, which looked exceptionally terrifying.

And after cultivating spiritual power, that creepy temperament actually gradually converged. The murderous aura of someone who had killed and burned countless times, with at least tens of thousands of lives on his hands, actually disappeared like snow meeting the sun.

"Control at will, damn! I'm never afraid of scaring new group members again!"

Having already rarely met an opponent in the Human Realm, after getting this thing called spiritual power, he was even more confident: "Who is the best fighter in the Human Realm? Of course, it's me, Jia Ji. Could it be Toguro the Younger?"

However, the day after he said this...

"You've reached a bottleneck."

After checking Jia Ji's situation, Master Genkai announced with a sigh of relief. She had thought this guy's spiritual power value would rise endlessly, but she didn't expect it to stop at the limit of C-rank, unable to advance further.

It turned out that the previous surge in spiritual power value was only because his own foundation was good enough; even without deliberate cultivation, his powerful spirit would automatically raise his spiritual power to this level.

"No way? Isn't this messing with me?"

Breakthrough, failed.

It felt like being pressed the B button during evolution.

You're right, but the third brother in Fist of the Super Beidou is like this. The other three of the Super Beidou only need to devote themselves to cultivation, focusing on cultivating fighting spirit and fist techniques. But Jia Ji had many things to consider.

Could it be that I, Jia Ji... am really that useless?

Quack!

The preceding part is omitted... If he is really angered, once he completes the breakthrough, he will definitely make the world feel pain!

"If you want to break through the limit, then you need a battle that can force you to a stronger realm..."

Coincidentally, Master Genkai also said words similar to Ryuken, which also made Jia Ji burn completely.

"Hey!" A bouncy, two-headed kid who seemed to have jumped out of a children's anime, with a pacifier in his mouth, wearing a dark blue, proportionally shrunken official uniform and hat, with strange letters "JR" written on the hat.

"Put me down!"

He shouted angrily.

At this moment, he was kicking the person in front of him, but unfortunately, his entire body was held by the other's large hand, floating in mid-air. Because his hands and feet were short, he couldn't even touch a single hair of Jia Ji.

This kid was actually Koenma, the acting ruler of the Spirit Realm. He had long known about Jia Ji through Miss Mudan's intelligence, and because his old man had come back to take over the shift, he had some free time, so he ran out of the Spirit Realm to find Jia Ji personally, wanting to see what was so special about him that even King Enma had specifically ordered him to pay attention.

Then he discovered that this guy was simply a jerk who bullied people every day!

As soon as he saw him, his eyes lit up, as if he had seen an old acquaintance he hadn't seen for a long time, and he was exceptionally familiar, telling him to work, completely ignoring that he was a big shot in the Spirit Realm.

Things like setting up barriers, investigating intelligence, repairing damaged buildings... he did even more work than when he was in the Spirit Realm!

If it weren't for the fact that he was already a ghost, he probably would have died of overwork long ago.

And more importantly, when Koenma knew he couldn't beat this guy for now, he secretly vowed to make him work as a cow or horse under him for a thousand years after Jia Ji died, planning to just walk away, but his old man actually told him to keep doing it, and even called it: training.

"Did you find the person I asked you to find?"

Koenma glared at Jia Ji angrily, and finally said reluctantly: "The news has been released. Although there is no information on Toguro the Younger yet, that person has been found."

Jia Ji nodded, highly praised his work, and encouraged him to keep up the good work, then ran down the mountain with Koenma tucked under his arm to find that person.

That person—Demon Fox Kurama - Minamino Shuichi.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 162 =====