The first ray of the morning sun shone into the room, waking up Li Xiaoling, who was lying on her back and recovering from her injuries.
She picked up the hot water on the table and drank it all.
Hmm … Oh!
The wound has recovered.
It was time to leave!
After greeting her, Li Xiaoling watched as Qiao Yuan put on his shoes and prepared to send her off. She was touched for a moment.
This human was quite meticulous!
"Actually, you don't have to send me off,"
Li Xiaoling said, a little embarrassed.
Qiao Yuan was stunned for a full minute.
"Don't misunderstand, I'm just here to get a delivery."
Li Xiaoling was speechless.
After sending Li Xiaoling off, Qiao Yuan picked up his express delivery and returned home.
He tore open the package roughly and took a deep breath.
Suck~
The smell of books, the smell of becoming stronger!
It was intoxicating!
Looking at the stack of books in front of him, Qiao Yuan was eager to know if there was any cultivation technique that could be simplified.
He picked them up and experimented with them.
Another afternoon passed just like that, and Qiao Yuan had indeed found quite a few things.
At the moment, his energy value was only 25 points, and there was a limit to what he could simplify.
[Ghost Head Blade]
[Cloud Ladder Leap]
[Wind God Kick]
[Icy Heart Technique]
[Flower-Pinching Finger]
[Toad Art]
...
With his current energy level, he could only simplify one, so Qiao Yuan was in a difficult position. After these few battles, he had also realized his own shortcomings.
It lacked offensive means!
After all, Indestructible Diamond was only a defensive skill, and only punches could hurt the spirit.
But the spirit was not stupid. If he ran into a weaker opponent, he could still fight them. But if they wanted to escape, it was unlikely he could catch up.
Attack methods, speed, weapons, internal energy ... All of these were very important.
After an hour of consideration, Qiao Yuan finally chose the [Icy Heart Mantra].
The reason was that he had been hit by the illusion in the dead corner village, so he was a little afraid of this kind of mental attack.
His body was already strong enough, but he was still worried that some spirits might not play by the rules, so he decided to focus on self-defense.
After making the decision, Qiao Yuan picked up the [Basic Daoist] skills.
He tore out the page regarding the Icy Heart technique.
[Icy Heart technique detected.]
[Heart as clear as ice, unafraid even if the sky collapses; calm even in the face of myriad changes, divine calm];[Untainted by dust, untainted by the secular world; void of rapt attention.]
[It can be simplified by consuming 25 energy points]
[Simplification successful]
[Icy Heart Formula = Calm Heart]
"????"
"What's a calm heart?"
"Does it mean to calm down or to stop the heart?"
After an hour of experimenting, Qiao Yuan finally understood the so-called meditation.
It referred to the fluctuation of emotions. If one could control it within a certain range, it would be considered cultivation.
Hu~
Exhaling the foul air in his heart, he slowly closed his eyes and emptied his mind. Not long after, a voice sounded in his mind.
[Icy Heart technique proficiency +2]
Qiao Yuan was overjoyed, and the proficiency prompt disappeared.
Qiao Yuan was speechless.
From the looks of it, this mental cultivation technique was indeed quite difficult to cultivate.
However, no matter what, he had to cultivate this cultivation technique to the first level.
Just like that, Qiao Yuan gave up on cultivating other cultivation techniques and focused on cultivating the Icy Heart Formula.
[Icy Heart technique proficiency +2]
[Icy Heart technique proficiency +4]
About an hour later, the system's warning tone came again.
[Icy Heart technique has reached level one(10 levels in total)]
At that moment, Qiao Yuan felt that his mind was unusually clear, and his soul became lighter. He felt as if he was floating, and his thoughts were unusually agile. His eyes revealed an inexplicable luster, and he could clearly see any movement around him.
This time, taking Li Xiaoling as an example, her illusionary techniques would be completely ineffective against him. This cultivation technique was indeed very powerful!
However, it was still too slow. If only ... There was a cultivation technique or medicinal pill that could increase the efficiency of cultivation.
Eh?
Everything was possible!
...
Qiao Yuan's eyes flickered as he stood up to move his body. There were many elixirs in novels that could improve the efficiency of cultivation and even directly improve one's skills!
Looking at his future path, he still lacked a lot of things. Although it was quite easy to cultivate after the system was simplified, what if he cultivated ten ... Or even twenty types at the same time?
If they were to split it evenly like this, his speed would definitely slow down if there were any conflicts in cultivation techniques and he could not cultivate them at the same time.
Therefore, he had to find something that could increase his efficiency.
Unfortunately, he had run out of energy points. He had to collect a batch of energy points as soon as possible.
However, before that, he had to break through to the second level of his Internal art!
After making up his mind, Qiao Yuan began his daily training by drinking hot water and applying golden paint.
He swore an oath!
He wouldn't leave the house until he had upgraded his internal strength to level two!
When the heavens are about to give a man a great task, he must first drink more hot water without any regrets; With Golden paint on the body with sayings "I'm the only one who's Supreme", and with a black hole in the stomach, he was able to enter.[Calm my heart and nurture my nature, gradually entering a good state. Deceive the tinkling in the heart and help me cultivate. Only then can I be invincible and unparalleled.]
...
In the building of the Security Bureau in Yueyang City, another meeting was called. Just like the last time, the meeting room was still not full.
Zhou Qiang, who was sitting at the main table, glanced down. His dignified expression hid a trace of fatigue.
He was an ordinary person, not an awakened person. This point had determined his upper limit.
Perhaps the future would really be the world of the awakened.
Yueyang City was in an eventful period. Although it looked calm on the surface, undercurrents were surging.
The C-class incident on the west side had been going on for two weeks. The spirit behind it was extremely special, and it had not been resolved yet. There was a possibility that it would develop into a B-class incident.
The level of the event did not represent the danger level of the spirit, but the influence of the event.
E-class incidents usually only affected individuals.
D-class incidents would only affect less than ten people.
C-class incidents would only affect a small area.
B-class incidents would begin to affect the normal operations of a city.
A-class event meant that a city had fallen.
The S-class incident usually meant that its influence would spread to the surrounding cities or even the entire country.
The thing that had been giving Zhou Qiang a headache was the C-Class incident that had happened two weeks ago.
Once it went out of control, it would have been upgraded to a B-level incident. By then, it would have been troublesome. The more people the spirit killed, the more twisted its hobby would be.
For example, there was a case in the neighboring city, the E-class incident [Smiling Spirit].
At first, it only had its eyes on one person. When it saw the sad face of its target, the smiling spirit made a move. It forced the person on the night shift to keep smiling. After a few rounds of torture, it still seemed dissatisfied. In the end, it made the smiling person into a smiling specimen.
It was a perfect piece of art!
As long as the local awakened ones gathered a little strength, they could easily solve the problem.
But ... At that time, no one paid attention to this small matter, until its influence gradually expanded.
It was no longer satisfied with just one specimen, so it began to make more smiling specimens.
From an E-class incident, it gradually spread to a D-class incident, and then to a C-class incident. Fortunately, the local Security Bureau dispatched manpower in time to solve it. Otherwise, the consequences would be unimaginable.
The spirit was only at level four, and the city next door had two level four Awakeners.
In terms of strength, the incident that had happened in Yueyang City was only at the third rank. However, due to its strange ability, it had caused them to suffer a series of setbacks.
There were three teams of Awakeners in Yueyang City, with a total of 20 to 30 people. Twenty of them had participated in the hunt for the spirit, led by two captains.
Even so, it was not effective. There were even casualties in the awakened team!
...
The purpose of today's meeting was to determine the focus of the work and to arrange the recent problems according to their priorities. In the case of a lack of manpower, this was the only way.
After a simple meeting, Hua Five's team leader began to report on their recent work.
During the time when most of his forces had been deployed to deal with the class C incident, the pressure on him had been extremely great. The area he patrolled on a daily basis had suddenly increased. When the members of the team were divided, it meant that the danger faced by each awakened was also increasing.
His team had a total of ten members, and two of them had already been sacrificed. The rest of the members were also injured to varying degrees and were in urgent need of recovery.
It had only been a year since the recuperation of Reiki!
The majority of the team members were only at Stage 1, and there were very few Stage 2 experts. Only the three team leaders had reached Stage 3.
Level four was a threshold, and for those below that, Awakeners were at a slight disadvantage in a one-on-one fight with spirits.
A first-order Awakener could generate Reiki in their body, which could harm spirits. Their bodies were stronger than ordinary people's, but they could be killed by firearms.
As a type 2 metahuman, the Reiki in their body would strengthen their physical body, greatly increasing their strength. Normal firearms would not kill them.
A type 3 Awakener's spirit Qi would strengthen their organs, and their recovery rate would be greatly enhanced. They would be able to fight against spirits for a long time.
Only the 4th rank could be considered as truly extraordinary!
...
However, the resources required to break through to the fourth rank were extremely precious, because those things only existed in secret realms.
At present, the government had less than ten secret realms in their control, but the number of awakened ones had reached tens of thousands!
The resources in the Secret plane were far from enough!
With the recent achievements of Yueyang City, Zhou Qiang could only apply for one resource to break through to the position of team leader. However, that would take a month.
"So far, team three has solved three E-class incidents and one D-class incident. Four awakened and zero spirits have been registered. Less than five members can still fight. There are still a few more incidents that are being followed up ..."
Hua Wu flipped through the information in his hand and handed it to Zhou Qiang.
"This is a very special incident I discovered a week ago. There's a special APP that allows you to call a technician over by placing an order. I tried to capture a grade three spirit, and I learned something from it."
"Its internal organization structure consists of a boss, agent, and technician."
"In many of my operations, it seems like the boss behind this APP seemed to have noticed something and began to ban the download. The scope of its influence is unknown, and I'm not sure how many people have downloaded the APP so far."
"What's wrong?" Zhou Qiang looked at the information and frowned."Have you found the mysterious awakened?"
Hua Wu shook his head. He was 90% sure that the person who had revealed the secret was the one who had killed the class 2 Spirit.
In such a short period of time, he had experienced the incident at Xintong District and was able to escape from the secret realm. His talent was indeed terrifying!
Could it be that he was a Mystic-type metahuman like him?
After all, it had taken him more than half a year to become a type 3 awakened.
Awakeners were divided into mysticism and physics. It was publicly acknowledged that it was much harder to break through in the mysticism Department than in the physics Department!
The physical class used Reiki to strengthen the body and could deal damage to spirits in close combat. They were known as the bulldozers!
The mystic type had Reiki in their bodies, and at the same time, they would awaken all kinds of special abilities. They were strange and mysterious, and it was impossible to guard against them.
For example, Hua Wu's power was lightning, which was very powerful against spirits.
He had once fought three spirits of the same level and killed one.
In the entire Yueyang City, his strength could be ranked in the top five!
...
If the mysterious man was really an Awakener of the occult, it would be good news for Yueyang City if they could recruit him.
Unfortunately, the voice from the previous call had been examined by professionals. The possibility of it being a disguise was very high, and they had been given more scientific data.
There was a 50% chance that the person was a female awakened.
40% chance of being a male awakened.
There was a 6% chance that he was bisexual.
3% chance of being an asexual Awakener.
1% chance of a spirit pretending to be a human.