“Betrayed and abandoned? To keep my brain's emotional fluctuations within the normal range even when betrayed and abandoned by everyone?” Xu Jingming shook his head after thinking about it. “This method requires me to use the ten people I care about most in my life! To have them curse me, spit on me, and abandon me? I don’t even want to see that even if it’s just a simulation.”

It made him feel terrible just thinking about it. His parents, wife, master, grandfather, and many others were the most important parts of his life.

Betrayed and abandoned?

Xu Jingming wasn't even willing to simulate it! Because he knew that he simply couldn't keep his brain fluctuations within the normal range.

…

“Sonic training. Sonic waves can become weapons, and they can affect brain fluctuations and emotional fluctuations. This training method requires one to resist sonic interference and stabilize emotions.”

…

"Fatigue."

“Persist in practicing spearmanship under extreme fatigue! As time passes, the level of fatigue will continue to increase, and the impact on the body will become greater and greater. Can your mind and will resist the body’s fatigue and continue practicing spearmanship?”

…

"Pain."

“Persist in practicing spearmanship under extreme pain. The level of pain will gradually increase with time! How long can your mind and will resist the pain?”

…

The essence of the twelve methods was to torment one from different aspects of the mind, thoughts, brain fluctuations, and physical suffering. Multiple hardships descended upon one! If one could withstand all of them, one's mind would naturally become more extraordinary.

However, Xuan also reminded him that these methods were not suitable for everyone.

“These twelve methods, especially the mental and thought-based ones and the brain fluctuation-based ones, if you can’t take it and still force yourself to persist, according to the description in the book, very bad things might happen. For example, psychological distortion, going crazy, and so on.”

“I’ll still avoid the ones I don’t like.” Xu Jingming thought, “Just now, I tried many methods, and only one didn’t reach my limit. I didn't continue it before because I wanted to test all the methods.”

“Now, I can try the pain training method and see how long my limit is,” Xu Jingming thought.

******

Of the twelve methods, the pain training method was the only one Xu Jingming had paused because he had practiced for too long.

Now to continue!

“Pain, start directly from level 10.” In order to save time, Xu Jingming directly adjusted the pain level to the point where he had paused last time.

"Ugh."

Intense pain instantly swept through his body, and Xu Jingming couldn't help but shudder.

“Although it’s painful, my body doesn’t have any injuries, and I’m not hungry or tired. In theory… as long as I can resist the pain, I can persist for a long time.” Xu Jingming continued to use the Rainbow Transformation Spear Technique (Hua Hong Qiang Fa).

He was used to enduring pain.

When he was a child, he practiced Bajiquan and spearmanship. When his fists broke and bled, he still had to persevere. When the skin on his palms blistered and broke, he still had to grip the spear shaft and continue practicing.

Winter training in the coldest weather, summer training in the hottest weather, even if there were difficulties and pain, he had to overcome them to ensure daily practice.

When competing, even if he was injured, he had to continue fighting.

Therefore, Xu Jingming's ability to endure pain was indeed much stronger than ordinary people.

“What is this little bit of pain?”

“The despair after a broken leg is the real pain.” Xu Jingming's darkest days were after he broke his leg, and he felt that his martial arts path was completely cut off. Because, in theory, no matter how well he recovered, his leg was still far from that of a normal expert.

After struggling for so many years, his hope was shattered, and he was tormented by despair every day.

Despair tormented him for more than half a year before he adapted.

He felt that he had reached this point, accepted his shortcomings, and worked hard to practice spearmanship to re-enter the world's strongest stage with pure spearmanship.

He had to practice spearmanship every day and be careful with the force exerted by his legs. Each time he felt pain in his legs, he had to be very careful, fearing that it would worsen his injury.

“Back then, every time I thrust out a spear, my legs would hurt. But at that time, I wasn’t afraid of the pain. I even had to carefully measure the degree of pain, fearing the most that the injury would worsen.” Xu Jingming practiced his spearmanship.

“The current pain is just pain.”

“It just makes my spearmanship practice even more enjoyable.”

Xu Jingming practiced more and more excitedly.

The pain made his brain fluctuations even stronger. This intense emotion was completely integrated into his spearmanship.

“Transform into light!”

Let everything, even the torment of pain, transform into light!

Xu Jingming only felt that practicing the Rainbow Transformation Spear Technique at this moment was more immersive than practicing spearmanship in his usual peak state!

Time passed by, minute by minute.

The pain intensified, becoming stronger and stronger! Under the pain, Xu Jingming's mind and consciousness became more and more immersed in the Rainbow Transformation Spear Technique. Only by becoming more and more immersed, even integrating the pain into it, would he not be disturbed.

“Transform into light! Transform into light! Transform into light!”

The stronger the pain, the more focused the mind!

In the later stages of the pain, Xu Jingming didn't have a single distracting thought! There was only one pure thought—transform into light!

Everything transforms into light!

His body, his pain, his emotions… everything transforms into light!

Xu Jingming only felt that his spearmanship was faster! His will's control over his body was also stronger!

He didn't know how long had passed.

"Bang!"

Xu Jingming's body shook.

“Pain has reached level 15, the neural network has collapsed, and the body is automatically recovering.” A prompt appeared, and Xu Jingming's body returned to its peak state. There was no more pain, and he felt extremely comfortable.

Xu Jingming stood there in a daze.

"What?"

“The pain reached the limit of what the neural network could withstand, and the body automatically recovered?” Xu Jingming was a little surprised. “Everyone says that pain is unbearable, but just now when I was practicing the Rainbow Transformation Spear Technique, why did I get more and more excited as I practiced!”

Yes, in his memory, he had forgotten the pain in the later stages of practice.

He only felt that his mind and consciousness were becoming more and more excited, and the mental will integrated into each spear strike was becoming more and more intense!

The stronger the mental will infused, the more enjoyable he felt!

“According to Xuan’s description, would this be considered the third realm of tempering the will?” Xu Jingming couldn’t help but reveal a look of joy. “The third realm, ‘Fervor’! The stronger the pain, the more fervent and condensed the mental will becomes. The mental will is like a blade, the more it is tempered, the sharper it becomes?”

“According to the records in the inheritance, most people are in the first realm, and they are all trying their best to persevere, to endure, the longer they endure, the better.”

“Reaching the second realm, Calmness, being able to prevent the torment of pain from affecting one’s psychology, is already a genius, one in ten thousand.”

“Reaching the third realm, Fervor! The torment of pain instead makes the mental will more and more condensed, is that considered extremely rare? A genius among geniuses?” Xu Jingming thought of the description in the inheritance, and his mood was very good.

Xuan, the comments of this cosmic legend, filled him with confidence.

“Of the twelve training methods, this pain training method is very suitable for me.” Xu Jingming was also full of confidence in his path of refining his heart.

“Very good, in the future, I will mainly use this to temper my will, supplemented by the other methods,” Xu Jingming thought.

******

Time passed quietly, and more than a month passed in the blink of an eye.

Liu Hai was in his personal space's martial arts training ground.

“Breaking through to the fifth level, why is it so difficult?” Liu Hai, holding a shield, also felt tired. “I’ve been at 99% of the fourth level for more than a month, but I can’t see any hope of breaking through at all. The inheritance describes that I need to clearly sense all the cells, but I can’t do it at all.”

“Perhaps, I need a battle that stimulates my mind.”

Liu Hai thought.

For so long, Liu Hai had only sparred with his disciple Xu Jingming when the virtual world had just opened. There had been no fights since then! Liu Hai could also feel that his disciple's growth rate was rapid, and he knew that his disciple was definitely a powerful opponent.

Liu Hai gently clicked and contacted Xu Jingming.

Whoosh.

The connection was successful.

“Master, you’re looking for me?” On the other side of the screen was Xu Jingming, who was practicing spearmanship with some mania.