Chapter 1180: Wait, you've already finished cultivating the Body Tempering Art?

Xu Jingming naturally had no idea what plans Cohen was making over there.

He had already returned to Residential Area A-708.

Right at the very center of the residential area.

On the spot where the mansion had once been obliterated when he condensed his Dharma Aspect, an entirely new villa had been rebuilt.

This was naturally the handiwork of the intelligent lifeform Lord Hei Yu.

A single villa, with the cooperation of robots, could be put up in just a few hours.

Still, Xu Jingming was reminded by Lord Hei Yu not to practice combat techniques inside the residence.

He naturally took the advice in stride and nodded in agreement.

He had originally wanted to ask Senior Brother Jess when he would be setting off back to Blue Star.

He hadn't expected Senior Brother to send a message first, saying they would depart in one hour.

"One hour is enough for me to cultivate."

Xu Jingming let out a soft breath.

Of the four cultivation manuals his teacher Lu Wen had given him, only the final Spirit Refining Art remained untouched.

And the source points remaining on his system panel were still enough to add points into the Spirit Refining Art.

Without the slightest hesitation, he sat down on the sofa and chose to add points directly!

Source points -900!

Star Core Meditation Method → Star Core Meditation Method, First Layer!

Boom!!!

A vast surge of spiritual power exploded within Xu Jingming's sea of consciousness, and the entire sea of consciousness underwent a thunderous transformation!

Howling spiritual power gathered together, condensing into perfectly round star cores one after another.

Countless star cores, arranged in his sea of consciousness like real stars, looked dazzlingly brilliant.

Only after a good half hour did the transformation of his sea of consciousness finally come to a thunderous halt.

【Spirit】: 210 million Hz (+)

【Spirit Refining】: Star Core Meditation Method (First Layer)

【Source Points】: 183

"The Spirit Refining Art was successfully upgraded, and my spiritual power has broken through the two hundred million mark."

Xu Jingming let out a long breath.

From this point on, his strength had passed the initial explosive growth phase and was gradually stabilizing.

Next, it was time to continue hunting demon beasts, earn source points, and keep delving deeper into the cultivation of various manuals.

"The basic manuals have all been cultivated. Later, I'll still need to go to the Holy Land's library to find corresponding lightning-type combat techniques."

Xu Jingming murmured to himself.

Everything he currently mastered was only T9-grade combat techniques.

These techniques were still useful back on Blue Star.

But now, they could no longer bring out his full strength.

Fortunately, as a Grade-1 genius, he had received 200 million credit points from the Holy Land.

Enough to buy a few T7-grade lightning-type combat techniques.

Of course,

Before that, he still needed to head to the Demon Beast Trial Zone for another wave of source point harvesting.

"The Demon Beast Trial Zone is good, but the corpses can't be taken away, so there's no way to earn credit points.

There will still be plenty of places where credit points are needed later; I can't just sit around and drain my savings.

When Senior Brother arrives later, I can ask him if there are any places near the Holy Land where demon beast corpses can be taken away after killing them."

There were many things in the Holy Land's Shangcheng; way back during his first visit to the Holy Land's Shangcheng.

Xu Jingming had already found the heavenly treasure that could help Eva return to her true body.

This heavenly treasure cost 50 billion credit points.

Eva had accompanied him since he was weak, and he had once promised to help her return to her true body — naturally, he had to see it through.

So earning credit points was something that also had to be put on the agenda early.

"Junior Brother, get ready to depart!"

At that moment, Senior Brother Jess's voice came from outside the villa.

"Coming."

Xu Jingming hurriedly stood up and left the villa.

He saw Senior Brother Jess hovering in mid-air outside the villa.

Not far behind him, a spaceship roughly three hundred meters long and over fifty meters tall, brimming with a sci-fi aesthetic, floated silently in place.

"Shuttle S-200, the most luxurious version of Shuttle Tech Company's S-series spaceships.

It's equipped with a curvature drive, with a top flight speed of twenty times the speed of light.

From our Holy Land to your hometown, it only takes eight days to arrive."

Jess stroked his spaceship as he introduced it.

A young man of two and a half meters, he gazed at the spaceship with the same doting affection as one would look at a lover.

Of course,

Xu Jingming could understand — a spaceship at twenty times the speed of light.

That was twice as fast as the flight speed of the Noah Empire's main warship that Ye Lan had taken to send him here!

"Just this one spaceship alone — even an ordinary Cosmic-level powerhouse emptying their entire fortune might not be able to afford it."

Eva's exclamation rang out in Xu Jingming's heart.

"Then I'll trouble you, Senior Brother." Xu Jingming said respectfully.

Eight days to reach Blue Star — when he had originally left Blue Star,

it had taken a full half year just to reach Qinglan Star and enter the interstellar civilization!

The gap between the two could not be called small......

"No trouble at all. I haven't left the Holy Land in a long time either — it's a good chance to change the scenery and relax......"

Jess casually waved his hand, but upon sensing Xu Jingming's aura his voice cut off abruptly, and he said in surprise:

"You've actually already broken through to Star Radiance Fourth Order?"

Xu Jingming had not deliberately revealed his aura.

But as a Cosmic Sixth Order powerhouse, he could easily see through Xu Jingming's aura.

"Slow accumulation, sudden release — the origin energy in the Holy Land is far denser than back home.

And I also obtained a new origin energy cultivation art. Once I started cultivating, I broke straight through two ranks."

Xu Jingming explained with a smile.

"So that's how it is."

Jess nodded slightly.

It was true that prodigies from origin-energy-scarce planets would often experience a surge in strength after arriving at the Holy Land.

Only it was usually just one rank — breaking through two ranks in one go like Xu Jingming was fairly rare.

"Right, there's something I still need to tell Senior Brother."

Xu Jingming prepared to tell Jess about what had happened in the Ten Thousand Thunder Pool.

"Let's go, board the ship first — we can talk as we walk."

"Alright."

Xu Jingming followed Jess aboard the ship.

Hum——!!

Accompanied by the low rumble of the engines starting up.

The entire ship quickly lifted off, leaving the Third Planet and entering outer space.

Whoosh——

After setting the destination to Blue Star, the curvature engine activated.

The ship accelerated, and every starry scene outside the hull became nothing but phantoms.

"What were you about to say just now?"

Inside the ship's cabin, Jess settled comfortably onto the sofa and spoke.

Xu Jingming sat across from him.

The sofa in the cabin was custom-made to fit Jess's two-and-a-half-meter frame.

For him it was so spacious it was practically a big bed — but it really was comfortable to sit on.

"It's like this — when I was cultivating a body-tempering art in the Ten Thousand Thunder Pool, I ran into......"

Xu Jingming briefly recounted the whole story from beginning to end.

"Keen is just a Crown Prince — there are Crown Princes like that all over the Holy Land, no fewer than a thousand, maybe several hundred.

As long as it's not one of those Princes or Princesses making a move, there's no need to worry at all."

Senior Brother Jess said with a faint smile, "Keen was just unlucky — he had to cultivate his Dharma Aspect right when you were condensing your thunder patterns.

Your body-tempering art is a T7-grade body-tempering art given by the teacher; his Dharma Aspect is T8-grade. When it comes to competing for lightning, naturally he couldn't compare to you."

After speaking, Jess kept feeling something wasn't quite right.

"Wait — you've already completed the body-tempering art's cultivation?!"

He suddenly caught on, and stared at Xu Jingming in disbelief.