Chapter Forty-Nine: Breaking Through to the Planetary Level

Hongning Base City, Yushang Community.

After graduating from the Elite Training Camp, Luo Yuan bought a luxury villa in Hongning Base City. Inside his own villa, he removed the consciousness sensor helmet. He had just spent some time in the “Palace of the War God,” where all manner of war gods sought his company, inviting him to eat, drink, and revel, and he never refused their invitations.

Unfortunately, in this advanced virtual space, Luo Yuan could not pick up attributes, and the items in the marketplace that caught his eye were priced astronomically high, marked in “Stellar” units—one Stellar equaling roughly a hundred billion Huaxia credits. Luo Yuan spent all his savings to purchase “Foundations of the Spiritual Master,” and it could only be read within the virtual space.

The book “Foundations of the Spiritual Master” was about half complete; it detailed the first technique, ‘Telekinetic Killing.’ The remaining half mainly described the second technique, ‘Penetrating and Attacking the Consciousness Sea.’ The third technique, ‘Beast Taming,’ received the least attention. Luo Yuan benefited greatly from this, and in terms of utilizing spiritual power, he could now be considered a novice.

At present, Luo Yuan could barely control twenty SS-grade flying knives simultaneously, gifts from the upper echelons of the Extreme Martial Hall. As for spiritual attacks, he possessed secret arts such as ‘Dream Mirage,’ ‘Phantom Eye,’ ‘Mental Spike,’ ‘Soul Shock,’ and many more—their reputations were considerable, totaling eighteen techniques. Facing opponents whose spiritual strength was three levels below his own, a mere glare could spell their doom; indeed, he was formidable.

Next, the challenge was breaking through to the planetary level. Ever since Luo Yuan could use his spiritual power to pick up attributes, he left it running constantly, and his efficiency soared.

The Elite Training Camp housed many students and instructors at the level of war gods, including high-level war gods, all training with relentless fervor. Luo Yuan spent nearly a month picking up attributes there, almost ready for breakthrough. However, as he noticed the attributes dropping in the camp had diminishing effects on his growth, he could only sigh helplessly.

After a thorough shower, Luo Yuan descended into his villa’s basement. Today was the day he would break through to planetary level; he felt his realm was on the verge of overflowing, and picking up attributes was a dominating force—everything happened naturally.

Luo Yuan sat cross-legged and motionless upon a meditation mat.

Within his Sea of Consciousness—

The tranquil waters formed a vortex, currents whirling madly, creating ring upon ring of eddies. Suddenly, the vortex expanded, and the water thinned out, resembling a transparent curtain. With a rush, it contracted! The transparent spinning curtain condensed into a gigantic, swirling water sphere, semi-transparent, with strange threads of light flickering within.

Expansion, contraction. Again expanding, again contracting.

The stream of spiritual power seemed to mimic a heartbeat, swelling and shrinking with each pulse, as if it possessed its own life. In this peculiar rhythm, expansion rendered the sphere thin as cicada wings, contraction made it crystal clear. A perfectly transparent orb spun ceaselessly, like a planet in rotation, with no mist escaping and its size remaining unchanged, steadily growing larger. The surface began to solidify, forming countless pyramid-shaped transparent crystals, densely clustered into a planet! An invisible, mysterious wave radiated continuously from this orb.

In the boundless Sea of Consciousness, the lone orb spun, spreading an intangible power throughout Luo Yuan’s body, extending outward. His bones, marrow, meridians, muscles, fascia, skin—all underwent miraculous transformation. Even his genetic code rapidly decomposed and recombined; this was the metamorphosis of life!

Suddenly, Luo Yuan opened his eyes. An overwhelming aura erupted, cracking the super-alloy walls of the basement.

“So this is the planetary level of a Spiritual Master… truly formidable. Next is the breakthrough for the planetary level of a Warrior!” Luo Yuan murmured.

Releasing the restrictions on his body, he felt heat surging through him, every cell boiling. The latent genetic energy within each cell began to coalesce, droplets merging into streams, streams into creeks, rivers—a hot current spun and gathered from every corner, finally converging at his lower abdomen, the dantian.

“Boom!”

There is a fundamental difference between Spiritual Masters and Warriors: the Spiritual Master’s origin lies in the ‘Sea of Consciousness’ in the head, while the Warrior’s origin lies in the ‘dantian’ in the abdomen.

Within the dantian—

It was as if the world was being created anew; the dantian, which had never existed before, burst open in an instant! The spinning genetic energy accelerated, swelling and contracting, each cycle reducing its volume. Luo Yuan felt his consciousness tremble, his body shudder.

In the vast dantian, a miniature planet emerged! Unlike the transparent micro-planet birthed in the Sea of Consciousness, this one was blue! Its surface was covered with countless hexagonal crystals, interwoven with blue arcs of lightning, radiating terrifying destructive power.

The blue micro-planet spun continually, emitting waves of mysterious energy.

“Genetic energy!”

Luo Yuan willed it, and a thread of blue energy shot from the dantian into his body.

“Crack, crack, crack—”

“Snap, crackle, pop—”

In that instant, Luo Yuan’s bones, marrow, skin, meridians, organs—every part transformed rapidly. This metamorphosis was even more dramatic than his earlier breakthrough with spiritual power. Luo Yuan felt his bones shatter, then reform anew.

Astonishingly, Luo Yuan floated in midair, blue arcs of lightning dancing across his body, blue lightning flickering in his pupils, and his hair turned icy blue, giving him the aura of a thunder god descended.

Luo Yuan had no idea what special abilities his genetic energy would grant him. He only knew that, in the universe, all abilities were categorized into eight types: Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth, Wind, Lightning, and Light.

“Open attribute panel,” Luo Yuan commanded mentally.

“Name: Luo Yuan
Realm: Planetary Level, First Stage
Attack Power: Planetary Level, First Stage 30% (Spiritual Master)
Planetary Level, First Stage 30% (Genetic Energy)
Amplification: Spiritual Power 20x, Genetic Energy 4.5x
Movement Realm: Intent Level
Blade Technique Realm: Intent Level
Cultivation Method: Five Hearts Toward Heaven, Guidance Art ‘Ninefold Primordial’ (Fifth Layer)
Skills: Lightning Control (Basic), Overlord Blade (Planetary First Stage), Movement ‘Flowing Light’ (Fifth Layer), Blade ‘Thunder Blade’ (Fifth Layer)
Notes: Can directly pick up attribute bubbles using spiritual power, also usable for detection. Current usable range is a radius of one hundred thousand meters.

Gazing at the completely transformed attribute panel, Luo Yuan struggled to adapt. It turned out that the ability bestowed by his genetic energy was lightning control—an extraordinary talent. With his creative mind, he could develop several skills from this.

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