NovelsAlex Chapter 275 - 152: S+ Grade Martial Arts Spirituality, The Third Stage
Chapter 275 - 152: S+ Grade Martial Arts Spirituality, The Third Stage
Under the influence of the All-Seeing Instrument’s force field, the once-scattered Spiritual Factors were drawn together by an invisible power.
Following specific patterns and combinations, they began to race through his body at high speed.
The hum of the All-Seeing Instrument grew louder and more piercing.
The Spiritual Factors inside Lin Ye’s body, now stimulated and freed, grew more numerous and dense, nearly forming a golden stream within him.
Outside the force field, the expressions of Dongfang Zhen and Zhang Daoxuan, who had been relatively relaxed just moments before, now grew solemn.
They exchanged a glance, each seeing the astonishment in the other’s eyes.
"This commotion... isn’t it a little much?"
Dongfang Zhen stroked his chin, intrigued.
Zhang Daoxuan said nothing, but ripples disturbed the usual calm of his placid eyes.
When he had used the All-Seeing Instrument before, the machine had hummed, but it was always a steady, low thrum.
Now, however, the sound was nearing a roar, as if a slumbering behemoth was awakening!
There was only one explanation.
The core of the All-Seeing Instrument was running at full power, at a speed never seen before!
This also served as indirect proof that the Spiritual Factors within Lin Ye’s body had reached an absurd level, both in quantity and quality!
...
「Meanwhile.」
Qiming General Star Training Camp, Main Control Center.
A middle-aged man in a white lab coat with thinning hair, drenched in sweat, rushed toward the head instructor’s office.
"Mr. Yin! Mr. Yin!"
The office door was thrown open.
Yin Liulan was leaning back in her chair, resting with her eyes closed. The sudden commotion interrupted her, and she slowly opened her eyes, frowning at the man who had just burst in.
"What’s the matter? Why the panic?"
"The All-Seeing Instrument in the Spirit Core Hall... something’s wrong!"
The researcher gasped for breath, then continued, "The system just detected that the All-Seeing Instrument is running at full power!"
"The consumption rate for Asking Dust is already more than double the normal amount! In just a few minutes, it’s used up as much as someone else’s entire session!"
He asked anxiously, "Should we shut the machine down immediately? If this continues, the core components could overload and be damaged!"
Hearing this, Yin Liulan looked surprised for a moment, but mostly, she was curious.
Far from being concerned about the machine, she relaxed, her interest piqued.
"Who’s using the machine?"
She had barely finished speaking when the office door opened again. Zhou Yan strode in, his own forehead beaded with sweat.
"We just received an alarm, too... Mr. Yin, the one using the machine right now... is Lin Ye!"
"Dongfang Zhen took him to the Spirit Core Hall a little while ago."
A subtle smile touched the corner of Yin Liulan’s lips.
’Of course it’s him.’
"Pull up the surveillance feed for the Spirit Core Hall."
She sat down, her tone nonchalant.
"And stop making such a fuss. You can’t just shut down the machine at the drop of a hat. The man spent his credits, so you have to let him use his allotted time."
"Isn’t the whole point of this machine to cultivate geniuses? If you’re that worried about consumption, we might as well just put it in a case and use it as a display piece."
The researcher responsible for the machine’s maintenance stammered for a moment.
But he didn’t say anything else in the end, his face etched with worry.
’You’re the head instructor who just dropped in out of nowhere; of course you don’t care about wear and tear on the machine.’
Zhou Yan immediately began working at the terminal.
However, before he could bring up the surveillance feed, the researcher’s expression shifted dramatically again, his voice trembling.
"This is bad...!"
"It’s overclocking! The All-Seeing Instrument’s engine was already at full power, and now... it’s about to overclock!"
"Th-this has never happened before! This student’s concentration of Spiritual Factors is too dense! The instrument can no longer scan and guide them at its standard power level!"
Hearing this, Zhou Yan felt his own scalp tingle with apprehension.
He understood the principles behind the All-Seeing Instrument.
Its most crucial component was a strange material known as "Asking Dust."
The name sounded poetic, but its origins were, in fact, quite brutal.
It could only be born when a world behind the Celestial Abyss Rift collapsed into annihilation.
A mere pinch of Asking Dust weighed several tons.
No one knew its true nature. They only knew that the world’s most powerful experts asserted it contained the most fundamental Ultimate Truth and fragments of law from a dead world.
And now, just to guide Lin Ye’s Spiritual Awakening, this rare and precious material was being consumed at a terrifying rate.
After hearing the report, Yin Liulan showed no concern for the so-called maintenance costs or the consumption of Asking Dust. Instead, her eyes lit up as she stared intently at the surveillance screen Zhou Yan had just pulled up.
On the screen, Lin Ye sat cross-legged, enveloped in a brilliant energy field, his expression focused.
"Interesting..."
Yin Liulan murmured to herself.
’Just what kind of Martial Arts Spirituality will you awaken?’
...
As the All-Seeing Instrument entered its overclocked state, Lin Ye could feel nearly all the Spiritual Factors in his body growing restless, like a flood about to burst its dam.
He could feel himself on the cusp of some kind of transformation.
But... he was just missing that final push.
Time flowed by.
More than twenty minutes passed.
But he just couldn’t break through that final barrier.
With his eyes closed, looking inward, Lin Ye could only see the active Spiritual Factors in his body gathering and running wild.
Yet he felt no clear signs of an impending Spiritual Awakening.