Chapter 1 After the Physical Examination

After the physical examination, the group stayed at the camp for another day, returning to school on the last day of 2014.

Almost everyone received an extremely detailed physical examination report, along with related cultivation and health advice from professional cultivators and physicians.

Everyone's constitution is different, so cultivation naturally needs to be tailored to the individual. Especially in the initial stages of spiritual energy cultivation, physical constitution is still very important—under the same conditions, a sick person can never compare to their healthy self. What foods to eat on a regular basis, and how much rest is needed to maintain the body at its peak, are all issues worthy of attention.

For example, Shao Qiming, after a detailed physical examination, was determined to have a spiritual energy attribute leaning towards "yang and wood," with an affinity for life and light. The advice he received was to ensure at least eight hours of adequate sleep every day, to bask in the sun more often, eat more fruits, and eat less sea fish. If conditions permit, he could consider living in a place with more plants and sunlight, which would be better for his cultivation.

This physique was probably developed from years of resisting the yin attribute curse and strengthened by the Wisdom Fruit. The advice Shao Qiming received was quite normal, basically a template for most students.

On the other hand, the advice Su Zhou received was rather strange.

"Spiritual energy attribute 'wind and thunder', with strong spiritual energy influence... Sleep recommendation: sleep until naturally awake. If conditions permit, one should go to the summit of a mountain in a place prone to thunderstorms, and cultivate in the wind and rain with one's upper body bare..."

Sitting on the armored bus back to school, Su Zhou frowned. He patted his thigh and scanned the report in his hand with an expression that said, 'What nonsense is this?': "No dietary advice, but must eat enough every day and ensure adequate nutrition... Did I need you to tell me that? Would I starve myself?!"

"The life advice is even more outrageous, suggesting that I live in cumulonimbus clouds or the upper troposphere? Are you really treating me like a Sky Dragon? Why not just tell me to set up a tent under a high-voltage power tower."

However, after saying this, Su Zhou thought of the Divine Wood World, the cloud-topped sky on the Pan Rong Undying Tree...

That place seemed to meet the requirements?

"Try to understand the cultivators who gave the advice." Shao Qiming, who was next to him, also took Su Zhou's advice sheet from his hand. After reading it, he laughed loudly and comforted him: "You're already Transcendent—those cultivators who gave the advice might not even be at the Third Awakening Stage. What advice do you expect them to give? They're also desperate."

That made sense, but it didn't stop him from laughing loudly.

Back at school, Su Zhou naturally received a lot of attention from onlookers and teachers, cheers and exclamations, but most people were not as shocked as those at the camp. It was more of a "Our school produced a national champion!" kind of spectacle.

This was not surprising, after all, the whole high school was preparing for the college entrance examination. Su Zhou was amazing, so he was amazing. After envying him for a while, they still had to work hard for their own grades.

Moreover, Su Zhou had already shown strong talent in spiritual energy class, so his getting first place felt like a natural and deserved outcome. In addition, most people did not see that scene in person, so their reaction was just so-so.

Back home, Su's parents, along with the Shao family, celebrated for the two of them, spending the last day of 2014 and New Year's Day happily. They even reported the good news to their hometown for a while.

Su Zhou's grandparents had passed away early, but all kinds of uncles, aunts, and cousins called one after another when they got the news. This enthusiasm lasted for a whole day before they were advised to stop with the excuse of "preparing for the Holy Ascension Selection Examination."

Now, it is January 4, 2015, late at night.

Su Zhou, who had finished a day of studying and cultivation, stood by the window in his room, looking out and activating his spiritual vision.

At this moment, the spiritual energy between heaven and earth was very dense, even slightly exceeding the spiritual energy density of the Divine Wood World.

Whether Su Zhou looked into the distance or up at the sky, he could only see a pure azure expanse of heaven and earth spiritual energy, drifting like clouds and mist... He wondered if the universe was also like this, with endless azure waves in the void.

Although these azure energies were dense, they unexpectedly did not affect spiritual vision. How to say it, this "azure color" seemed to be just a result of spiritual energy sensation synesthesia to vision, and not a true azure color.

But Su Zhou was not sure if it would still be like this when the spiritual energy concentration was even higher.

"With such a high concentration of spiritual energy, and with me having already achieved Transcendence, I can now try to construct a complete Lan Armor."

In the days after advancing to Transcendence, Su Zhou had been consolidating his cultivation... To be precise, not consolidating, but Su Zhou was estimating his current power. As the saying goes, know yourself.

"If I said that before Transcendence, my total spiritual energy was equivalent to about fifteen Zhou Buyis, then after Transcendence, my total spiritual energy is at least seventy to eighty Zhou Buyis!"

"In other words, it has at least quintupled!"

Because Zhou Buyi was the most balanced cultivator Su Zhou had encountered in the Divine Wood World in terms of various data, and his spiritual energy value was about 10,000, Su Zhou used Zhou Buyi as the basic unit to calculate his power.

He thought carefully: "However, compared to the Awakening Stage, my physical strength increased rapidly. In the Transcendent Stage, my physical enhancement is not much, but my soul has grown rapidly, and so has my control over spiritual energy."

"Thinking about it carefully, the veins are also very clear—Opening Spirit senses spiritual energy, Awakening develops physical potential, Transcendent enhances the soul and spiritual energy, and the next stage, Commanding Stage, is the complete transcendence of the body, becoming a mobile natural disaster, with destructive power perhaps comparable to some natural phenomena."

Whoosh—the wind sounded. Su Zhou raised his right hand and could see a semi-transparent azure-purple spiritual energy light orb flashing in his flesh at his wrist.

That was a Lan Seed. It was absorbing spiritual energy from Su Zhou and the surrounding environment, producing a violent but solid semi-transparent wind shield, coiling around Su Zhou's right fist—although it looked inconspicuous, Su Zhou knew that if this fist wrapped in a wind shield hit his own wall, the burst of wind would be enough to easily demolish an entire room.

And if it was defense, this Lan Shield could also block most handgun and rifle bullets, stray bullets, and stray arrows.

Su Zhou clenched his fist with satisfaction. The abundant spiritual energy made him feel an extremely real sense of power: "No wonder, in the Awakening Stage, even with my talent, I could only construct four Lan Seeds. But now, I have just advanced to Transcendence, and I can construct at least twenty, almost roughly covering my whole body."

"When I cultivate a little more and construct spiritual energy organs in my body to store spiritual energy, reaching the initial stage of Transcendence, then the minor completion of the whole-body Lan Armor is just around the corner."

According to Yala's recent teachings and Su Zhou's own analysis, the minor completion of the whole-body Lan Armor should correspond to the middle stage of Transcendence—ordinary humans do not have his vast amount of spiritual energy, so they have to wait until the middle stage of Transcendence to achieve minor completion, and the high stage to cultivate to great completion. At that time, every move would have hundreds of tons of extra power and defense, absolutely city-destroying and army-breaking power.

It should be known that a heavy tank generally weighs forty to fifty tons, and the heaviest tank in the history of the Europa Alliance was just over one hundred and eighty tons, and Su Zhou would be able to throw them all around like balls with just his Lan Armor alone.

However, Su Zhou did not intend to show the defensive side of the Lan Armor to the public.

He only planned to use the gale generated by the Lan Armor, coupled with his Wind-Assisted Power, to make himself look like a Transcendent with a 'wind and thunder' attribute.

As for why, Su Zhou thought the answer was simple—he had already shown enough talent and strength, and he needed to keep some trump cards.

Now, almost everyone knows that he has wind and thunder dual attributes, so he will continue to strengthen the public's inherent impression, so that everyone thinks that he is a wind and thunder attribute, good at 'long-range' attacks Transcendent. Although his physical strength is also very strong, but in general, his profession is a mage!

But if someone really wants to use this to attack and ambush him, Su Zhou can use his true attribute, the fire element's 'burst and enhancement', to strengthen his body, and then use the ultra-high-speed reaction ability brought by the Sacred Geometry Pentagram to fight in close combat!

—You thought I was a mage? Want to sneak attack me?

Didn't expect it! I'm actually a melee unit!

Cultivating the Lan Armor was easy for Su Zhou now. Even as the number of Lan Seeds increased, each time a new Lan Seed was generated, he had to consider matching the location of the previous Lan Seeds and connecting them into a network with spiritual energy. One a day was always no problem.

Learning, cultivating, and so, time passed, until Saturday, January 10, 2015.

When Su Zhou cultivated his tenth Lan Seed, he encountered a small bottleneck in his initial Transcendent stage.