Chapter 550: Breakthrough to Sixth-Stage! Su Qingli Arrives!

The Fourth Vanguard Squad, including Xu Jingming, had six members in total.

In the battle just now, one was seriously injured and two lightly wounded.

For people like them, it was still considered relatively lucky — a single treatment from a healing-type ability user would be enough to recover.

Some vanguard squads had lost one or two Seventh-Stage Grandmasters outright.

On the way back to the villa, one could see their teammates wearing grave expressions.

"I've already ordered the special nutrient meal. It'll arrive in about half an hour. You all go back to your rooms and rest for a bit first."

After returning to the villa, squad captain Zhou Yan said in a low voice.

Ability users expended enormous energy, and that was especially true for them as Seventh-Stage Grandmasters.

Ordinary meals simply couldn't replenish what was consumed.

And this specially prepared meal was made from the meat of Seventh-Stage fierce beasts.

It also had rare flowers and strange herbs added that could rapidly restore abilities, ensuring that within just a few hours, one's ability would be restored to peak condition.

"Yes." Xu Jingming and the others nodded, then each headed back to their rooms.

As for the three injured squad members, they had long since gone to the military medical unit for treatment.

"420,000 ability points — I never expected that advancing to Sixth-Stage would require this many ability points."

In the villa's bedroom, Xu Jingming sat casually on the sofa, pondering to himself.

This was the most ability points he had ever accumulated at once.

But even so, after the ability column on the system panel, there was still no plus sign.

"Advancing from S-rank Purple Sky Divine Thunder to SS-rank Doushen Shenlei cost me 100,000 ability points.

To go from SS-rank to SSS-rank, even 420,000 ability points aren't enough to meet the requirement — the number needed is bound to be even more terrifying.

But the current frontline battlefield is a perfect opportunity for me to harvest ability points.

The more my strength increases, the more fierce beasts I can kill.

Since that's the case, there's no need to keep hoarding ability points like last time, waiting to upgrade my ability.

I'll just add points straight to my level."

Taking a deep breath, Xu Jingming suddenly used his will to press the plus sign after the level column on the system panel.

"Deep blue! Add points for me!"

Ability points -420,000!

【Physique】: Qi and Blood → Qi and Blood!

【Spirit】: He → He!

Boom!!

Endless power surged wildly from within Xu Jingming's body as his blood vessels, meridians, and bones were rapidly reinforced!

Crackle, crackle, pop pop—

Brilliant Doushen Shenlei spontaneously wove around his body, and the already sacred aura became even more primordial.

Within the sea of consciousness, his vast spiritual power boiled, like an entire Lei Hai!

After quite a while,

the changes in Xu Jingming's body and spiritual power slowly came to a stop.

"Good thing I didn't break through on the battlefield. Otherwise, during that period just now, the Blue Void Thunder Bird would have had more than enough time to kill me a hundred times over!"

Xu Jingming suddenly stood up from the sofa, casually threw a punch, used his ability, and felt the change in strength brought by the advancement.

"Advancing from upper Fifth-Stage to Sixth-Stage, both my Qi and Blood and my spiritual power skyrocketed by 3,000 points.

My overall strength is roughly more than six times what it was before!"

Excited light flickered in Xu Jingming's eyes.

With this, a single pure burst of ability would be enough to kill an ordinary Sixth-Stage fierce beast!

"Just back from the battlefield and already this excited — looks like you had quite a harvest."

Suddenly, a graceful, pleasant voice rang out from the position to his right rear.

Turning his head to look, Xu Jingming only then noticed that Teacher Su Qingli, wearing a tight combat suit with a tall, slender figure, was standing prettily on the balcony.

A beautiful side profile, under the sunlight, looked crystalline and lustrous as jade.

Yet Xu Jingming's Heart Web passive perception had never once detected when Su Qingli had appeared there.

"Teacher Su?"

Xu Jingming quickly rose and welcomed Su Qingli in from the balcony.

"Fighting hard for over two hours.

Even a Seventh-Stage Grandmaster coming back would be utterly exhausted and have to lie down and rest.

I didn't expect you'd still have the energy to use your ability..."

Entering the bedroom and sensing the Lei Ting aura in the surrounding air that had yet to fully dissipate, Su Qingli's face immediately showed a look of surprise.

"Just advanced, so I tested the power of my ability a little." Xu Jingming said with a smile.

"After advancing, it is indeed right to confirm how much your strength has grown.

But this method is still too crude — it's best to go to a dedicated training room..."

Su Qingli first nodded absently, but after the meaning caught up with her, her voice suddenly cut off.

A pair of pretty almond eyes widened slightly as she said in disbelief:

"You've advanced to Sixth-Stage?"

Whoosh—

Before Xu Jingming could even answer, Su Qingli's vast spiritual power surged forth.

She carefully sensed Xu Jingming from top to bottom before finally confirming this fact.

"I remember your birthday is in December, right?

You haven't even turned 20 yet, and you've already stepped into the sixth tier!"

Su Qingli's exquisite, pretty face was full of shock.

The leap from fifth tier to sixth tier is a bottleneck that many ability-users find hard to cross.

Countless ability-users get stuck right here, never making any progress for the rest of their lives.

Xu Jingming's talent is astonishing — though this bottleneck can't hold him back, surely he'd still need to spend some extra time on it?

But unexpectedly, he still completed the breakthrough at a stunning speed!

"At this rate, you making it into the top 4 of the Genius Tournament should be no problem at all."

A faint, unusual gleam flickered in Su Qingli's beautiful eyes.

On the surface, she didn't seem to care much about Xu Jingming's result in this Genius Tournament — after all, Xu Jingming was still too young.

But if Xu Jingming could truly make it into the top 4, that would undoubtedly be an enormous honor!

"Making the top 4 of the Genius Tournament is indeed no problem; the more crucial thing is—

Now that I've reached sixth tier, I can also learn SSS-rank combat arts with even greater power."

Anticipation shone in Xu Jingming's resolute eyes.

SSS-rank combat arts — devastatingly powerful!

But their cultivation requirements are extremely harsh; if your tier is too low, you won't even get the chance to unleash them!

Sixth tier is the threshold for being able to unleash SSS-rank combat arts.

And the SSS-rank combat art he remembered most vividly was still that 'Wan Lei Tianlao Yin' he'd seen before at Mo Da.

For that reason, he had also learned the prerequisite combat art 'Lei Ting Shu'.

"Once the war here is over and we're back at Lei Ting Martial Hall, I'll find some SSS-rank combat arts for you."

Su Qingli said with a soft laugh.

"Teacher, roughly how long will this war last?" Xu Jingming asked hesitantly.

If it takes a bit longer, after the Genius Tournament ends he could still stay here and continue.

"The total number of fierce beasts amassed in Sen Bai Canyon is roughly around 160,000.

In that first wave just now, they lost about 30,000 fierce beasts.

At this pace, the war should be over in about three days."

After a moment's thought, Su Qingli replied.