High Martial: I Grind Professions

Chapter 201: Chapter 152: Combined Chapter

The experience for his Scholar profession grew steadily under his efficient knowledge-acquisition model. He was not far from leveling up.

Through thousands of repetitions on the training grounds, his Silent Rainbow technique neared perfection. Each percentage point of improvement brought a deeper understanding of his Blade Intent.

Most importantly, his cultivation of the Sixth Layer of the Nine Heavens Divine Body had finally reached its end.

”It’s been a month...” Li Wen murmured. His deep eyes opened, a sharp glint of anticipation flashing within them. ’The final one percent... today is the day.’

Feeling none of the laziness one might expect on New Year’s Eve, he rose and changed into a simple black training uniform before pushing open the villa’s main doors with a steady stride.

The crisp morning wind brushed his face, carrying the unique purity of Cinder Star. From the distant mountains, he could faintly sense the unique, pulsating thunder of Nine Heavens Peak.

He didn’t head directly for Nine Heavens Peak. Instead, just as he had on so many other mornings, he first went to the Martial Arts Room to briefly nurture his Blade Intent.

He executed the Silent Rainbow. The light from his blade was like a silent, dead Star River—soundless, yet imbued with a sharpness that could sever anything. With every swing, the intent behind it seemed to grow more complete.

An hour later, he finally set out for the peak perennially shrouded in the aura of violent thunder—Nine Heavens Peak.

On the second floor of the Thunder Attraction Tower, at the entrance to Quiet Room A-1, Li Wen swiped open the familiar door.

BOOM!

The heavy alloy door swung shut, sealing him off from the outside world.

Instantly, a surge of electrical plasma rushed at him like a tidal wave.

The air was thick with the scorched smell of high-voltage ionization. Visible Electric Snakes sparked in and out of existence, their scalp-numbing CRACKLES filling the room.

This was the signature feature of the ”A” section on the second floor of the Thunder Attraction Tower—a High-Voltage Domain powerful enough to make even veteran Super Martial Artists tread with caution.

Li Wen sat cross-legged, his expression placid. With his eyes slightly closed, he began to fully circulate the Heart Method for the Sixth Layer of the Nine Heavens Divine Body.

The formidable power of his vital energy was like a blazing furnace, instantly clashing with the violent thunder power invading from outside.

Excruciating pain! A pain that bored into his marrow and tore at his meridians assaulted him.

The energy was inherently destructive, but for a Martial Artist cultivating the Nine Heavens Divine Body, it was the perfect nutrient for tempering the foundation of a divine demon.

His Spiritual Power, highly condensed under the effect of [Absolute Focus Lv. 11], precisely guided, partitioned, and divided the thunder pouring down upon him. Wisps of energy were forcibly channeled into specific pathways.

It coursed along the complex paths recorded in the Cultivation Technique, washing over his flesh, bones, and organs again and again, even reaching the deeper imprints of his Martial Dao origin.

A cycle of destruction and rebirth played out in every inch of his tissues.

With each rebirth following destruction, his cellular structure moved a step closer to something inhuman, something imbued with the mighty power of a Thunder Attribute divine demon.

Time slipped by in a state of extreme pain and focus.

The standard two-hour training session felt both endlessly long and as fleeting as the snap of a finger to Li Wen.

Just as the timing Crystal Stone emitted a low hum to signal the end of the session, a nigh-imperceptible ”hum” echoed from within Li Wen’s body.

It wasn’t a sound, but a profound resonance originating from the very essence of his life.

The Sixth Layer of the Cultivation Technique was complete!

He instantly retracted his power. The surging thunder around him subsided, leaving only a faint, lingering purple glow dancing across his skin.

Fine beads of sweat trickled from his temples, but his eyes were as sharp as blades and astonishingly bright.

He stood up, feeling the power within him—like a volcano on the verge of erupting—and the sense of completion as the last trace of restlessness was thoroughly soothed.

His body was completely saturated with the lightning energy of the Sixth Layer, like a sacred vessel filled to the brim, with no room left to absorb more.

The next goal was right before him.

He pushed the door open and walked straight into the depths of Section A—to the passage leading to the A-rank breakthrough chamber.

The A-rank breakthrough chamber had a far colder and more forbidding atmosphere than a normal training room.

A massive Thunder Attraction Platform stood in the center. The ceiling was inscribed with multiple, overlapping layers of energy-formation runes that radiated a heart-pounding aura.

The moment he stepped into the eye of the thunder attraction formation at the chamber’s center, Li Wen understood the trial of the Seventh Layer.

Advancing from the Sixth to the Seventh Layer wasn’t just about strengthening the body and vital energy; it was the ultimate test of one’s mind and will.

He activated the breakthrough formation, and its energy core suddenly flared to life.

This time, what poured down was not pure purple lightning plasma. Instead, it was wreathed in viscous, chilling, grey-black wisps of energy that seemed to possess a consciousness of their own—Thunder Fiend!

Thunder Fiend was not thunder itself. It was a malevolent substance formed over countless years from the condensed will of destruction and chaos found within lightning—the very intent to annihilate life.

The instant it appeared, it pierced through Li Wen’s protective vital energy like the coldest of vipers, burrowing frantically toward the depths of his sea of consciousness.

A terrifying spiritual assault, powerful enough to freeze the soul and carrying with it endless chaos, stillness, and destruction, erupted like a tsunami.

If a Martial Artist’s mental defenses were to be shattered by this assault, they would, at best, suffer a collapsed will and their Cultivation would stagnate for life. At worst, their mind would be so damaged they would become a witless imbecile.

This tribulation of Thunder Fiend had stopped countless exceptionally talented disciples of Nine Heavens Peak, forcing them to halt before the threshold of the Seventh Layer, their paths sometimes even completely destroyed.

Yet Li Wen, at the center of this storm, faced the Thunder Fiend’s assault—an attack that would make even an ordinary Flying Star Level divine demon’s face drain of color—not with fear, but with... a flicker of imperceptible, almost mocking, calm.

’Absolute Focus. Second Layer of the Primordial Spirit. Activate!’

Li Wen commanded inwardly.

BUZZ!

Within his sea of consciousness, the light of his Primordial Spirit erupted.