Chapter 374: Breakthrough in Spirit Refining Art! What a Handsome Young Man!

June 18, 11:00 AM.

At this time, the weather had already entered summer.

Although it was not yet noon, the sun outside was already a blazing inferno.

The radiance pouring down from the sky shone in through the window.

Draping a faint layer of light over Xu Jingming, who sat on the villa's sofa.

"From 10 PM last night until 11 AM today, I spent a full 13 hours on this Spirit Refining Art!"

Closing the secret manual in his hands, Xu Jingming rubbed his eyes.

The long period of intense concentration left him looking somewhat weary.

This weariness did not come from the body, but rather more from the spiritual level.

"No wonder back at the No. 9 civilization relic site.

Eva reminded me that an SSS-rank Spirit Refining Art with no one to teach it might take decades before one could even get started.

I didn't believe it before, but now I understand."

Xu Jingming felt a touch of emotion.

At this rate, relying solely on himself, without Su Qingli's help.

Without several years of study, there would simply be no way to get started.

And this was still only an SS-rank Spirit Refining Art......

"Fortunately, after pulling an all-nighter studying last night, this 'Shenhe Visualization Method' has finally reached the point where it can be enhanced."

The corner of Xu Jingming's mouth lifted slightly, and without the slightest hesitation he growled in his heart: "Deep Blue! Enhance for me!"

Ability Points -14,000!

Shenhe Visualization Method → Shenhe Visualization Method, First Layer!

【Spiritual Power】: 6253 Hz → 7289 Hz!

Boom!!

In Xu Jingming's consciousness sea, his already vast spiritual power suddenly surged upward by a large margin!

Immediately after, all the spiritual power gathered together.

Condensing like a river, endlessly renewing itself, surging ceaselessly!!

"An SS-rank Spirit Refining Art, breakthrough!"

Xu Jingming suddenly flung open his eyes, and a glint of light, as if solidified, flashed through those clear black-and-white pupils!

Although his rank aura showed no change whatsoever, a transcendent air faintly emanated from him.

【Name】: Xu Jingming

【Rank】: Fourth Order, Upper Position

【Ability】: Doushen Shenlei (SS)

【Physique】: 8040 Qi and Blood (+)

【Spirit】: 7289 Hz (+)

【Skills】: Spear Art (Master), Fist Art (Master), Lei Guan Mo Sha Spear (S+ Rank, Beginner), Lei Shen Zhi (S+ Rank, Beginner)......

【Body Tempering】: Lei Ting Immortal Body (S Rank, Sixth Layer)

【Spirit Refining】: Shenhe Visualization Method (SS Rank, First Layer)

【Ability Points】: 2276

"A new 【Spirit Refining】 column has been added to the system panel.

Which means that from now on I can continue to enhance and upgrade it through the system panel."

Xu Jingming nodded in satisfaction.

And what made him happiest was the spiritual power that had surged by over a thousand points!

One must remember, when the Lei Ting Immortal Body first broke through to the First Layer, it only added 100 Qi and Blood.

Of course, the difficulty of improvement between the two was on entirely different levels.

The SS-rank Shenhe Visualization Method, merely the First Layer at entry level, had already cost him 14,000 ability points.

Additionally, he discovered that the Deep Blue system's panel was extremely intelligent.

It had actually automatically tagged combat techniques according to the Lei Ting Martial Hall's classification of combat techniques!

"Judging by this, Deep Blue might still have some functions I haven't discovered......"

After pondering for a moment, Xu Jingming finally rose from the sofa.

The spiritual fatigue from the all-night study of the Shenhe Visualization Method had already dissipated considerably, along with the surge of over a thousand points in spiritual power.

He prepared to make a trip to the Lei Ting Martial Hall's library, to learn the three combat techniques that Teacher Su had recommended yesterday, all at once.

They were only A-rank combat techniques anyway, so it shouldn't take much time to study them through once, and then directly use the system to enhance them.

"There are still over two thousand ability points left on the panel, that should be enough to learn the remaining three spell-type combat techniques."

The library was located to the southeast of the training camp, and Xu Jingming reached it on foot in just over ten minutes.

He had originally assumed the library wouldn't be all that large.

But he hadn't expected the entire library to be even more massive than the combat technique library of Magic University!

"After all, it was founded by a Ninth Order Martial Saint, and has nearly two hundred years of history.

Having such a massive collection is only natural."

Standing at the library's entrance, Xu Jingming sighed inwardly, then quickly stepped inside.

His Prodigy Training Camp trainee certificate had been processed as early as yesterday.

At the library's front desk, after showing his credentials to the staff.

Xu Jingming very easily obtained the original manuscripts of three A+ grade combat techniques: "Lightning Chain," "Thunderball Technique," and "Lei Ting Barrier."

"Dear student Xu Jingming, the original manuscripts of these three techniques may only be read inside the library; they cannot be taken out.

Doing so would trigger the library's alarm. Please understand."

Behind the front desk in the main hall, a female teacher whose aura had reached at least the sixth-tier ability-user level reminded him.

"Understood."

The combat-technique library of Magic University was guarded by Hearing Ling Shuang, an eighth-tier grand master, and the library at the headquarters of this Lei Ting Martial Hall was no exception.

The moment he had first entered the library, Xu Jingming seemed to have faintly sensed an aura several times more formidable than even Ling Shuang's!

If he dared to take a combat-technique manuscript out, he would probably be seized on the spot.

So, having obtained the three manuscripts, he headed straight into the depths of the main hall.

The entire first-floor main hall, apart from the area near the front desk—

The rest of the space was lined with rows of bookshelves and tables and chairs. Many of the seats were still empty, perfect for him to study in peace.

"Xiaolan, Xiaolan, how is it? Is Teacher Ling Shuang very strict?"

"I heard this Teacher Ling Shuang uses her spatial-system ability to get around no matter where she goes.

When she went to find you yesterday, did she just appear right at your villa too?"

"Is Teacher Ling Shuang pretty? I heard three years ago she left our martial hall because she couldn't stand one of her suitors."

"..."

At this moment, on the first floor of the library—

At one of the study tables, several girls were chatting in low voices.

The one surrounded right in the middle was a girl wearing light-blue jeans.

She had long slender legs, an oval face, and fair, beautiful skin.

"Oh my dear ladies, I called you over to study combat techniques together with me—how come you're so gossipy?"

Xia Lan, sitting in the very middle, was a little helpless.

Just last night, she had officially been taken on as a disciple by Ling Shuang.

Ling Shuang had also arranged a study path for spatial-system combat techniques, along with free reading privileges for any combat techniques below A grade in the library.

So, early this morning, she had called two of her close friends to come along with her.

She hadn't expected that, once they sat down, the gossip from their mouths never stopped.

"We're just curious, that's all."

One of the young women in her twenties giggled and said, "An eighth-tier Zhongweida Sect grand master, with an S-grade spatial-system ability—

She's got to be at least over thirty, and yet she's still unmarried. I can feel my gossip soul already burning Xiong Xiong!"

Any ability-user who could enter the Prodigy Training Camp had to be at least fourth tier, and no older than twenty-six.

And Xia Lan's two Young Lady friends were only twenty-four, still quite young.

Naturally, they were very interested in this kind of gossip.

"I really can't with you two." Xia Lan pressed her forehead and sighed.

If she'd known it would turn out like this, she shouldn't have brought them along.

Just as Xia Lan was feeling rather speechless—

The other girl on her right, however, was looking in a different direction and, slightly excited, whispered in surprise:

"Quick, look! That guy who just came in over there is so handsome!"