Eternal Life: I Have the Favor System

Chu Lingguang had been trying to gain complete control over this power, to integrate it into his Spear Technique and make his Flying Leaf Lotus Spear even stronger.

Unfortunately, so far, aside from imbuing his Spear Technique with that power, he didn’t know how to command it at will.

He even wanted to condense that power into a single point to land a critical strike on his enemies, but he repeatedly failed. He had also consulted Yun Hong and the goatee-bearded elder, and their answers were the same: he had to find the frequency at which his flesh and blood released this power.

Once he could grasp that frequency, not only could it resonate with his Spear Technique to form a special wave attack, but it could also resonate with Saber Technique or even Fist Technique, allowing him to command that special Wave Power at all times.

"It’s the power of his flesh and blood resonating with his Spear Technique."

Long Xin took a few steps back.

"Poisonous Snake previously mistook this power of his for the True Meaning of Spear Technique."

Xia Tianzhong added.

"His power isn’t strong, but if he ever masters the knack for using it and unleashes a sudden strike at a critical moment, I’m afraid many people would be caught completely off guard."

Xu Kanghui wore a wary expression.

The three of them had to face the pressure from the stone monument while also resisting the damage from Chu Lingguang’s special wave. It was a struggle, and they slowly retreated to a distance of over one hundred meters.

"This isn’t working. We can’t just wait for him to finish his training before we go in to train, can we?"

Long Xin frowned.

The Learning Palace’s class schedule was fixed. Even if they could consult their teachers at any time, they still had to attend their classes. If they had to wait for Chu Lingguang to finish his two-hour practice session after their classes ended, it would be dark by the time they could come here to train.

But they couldn’t stop Chu Lingguang from practicing his Spear Technique in there, so they could only brace themselves and step back into the hundred-meter zone.

And just like that, Chu Lingguang became an obstacle for them.

This obstacle made their training in front of the stone monument even more difficult, but they could only endure it.

The days passed by, one by one.

「Three days later.」

Long Xin and the other two seemed to have adapted to the pressure and found a way to counter Chu Lingguang.

They were now able to train alongside Chu Lingguang within the ninety-meter range, just like him.

Although Chu Lingguang couldn’t control the special Wave Power, he knew his Spear Technique now inherently carried it. When he first saw the three retreat, he understood it was affecting them.

Now, seeing them approach and stand beside him as if nothing was wrong, he felt very strange. ’Could their defenses have improved, or have they found a way to deal with it, allowing them to ignore my special power’s attack?’

’Impossible. Even Zhuo couldn’t ignore that wave. He even mistook it for the True Meaning of Spear Technique,’ Chu Lingguang thought to himself.

’There must be something fishy going on.’

WHOOSH!

Feeling suspicious, Chu Lingguang repeatedly thrust his spear forward. In the process, he tried to feel the trajectory of the released wave.

He had been repeatedly practicing the thrusting motion during this time, precisely because he wanted to properly sense the release trajectory of that special wave and learn to command the power at will.

After so many days of arduous practice, Chu Lingguang had finally made some progress.

Unfortunately, he just couldn’t clearly capture the trajectory of that power, and thus couldn’t understand why Long Xin and the others were able to resist it.

「Two hours later.」

Chu Lingguang left the back mountain and returned to his small courtyard.

Every time he felt he had adapted to the pressure, he would take a small step forward, ensuring that the two-hour session would leave him utterly exhausted, making it easier to capture a response from his root bone.

However, opening the Bone Aspect was far from as easy as he had imagined.

Ten to fifteen days passed with no significant progress. Fortunately, he wasn’t discouraged. After returning to his courtyard, he continued to repeat the thrusting motion with his spear inside his room.

CRACK!

The window of his room was open. Chu Lingguang stood by it, continuously thrusting his spear toward a large banyan tree in the courtyard, a tree so thick it would take three people to encircle it.

Day after day, he repeated the continuous thrusts, each time causing that damaging power wave to reverberate within the great banyan tree.

Finally, the banyan tree’s branches cracked from within, and bark fell from its trunk. The moment Chu Lingguang thrust, he felt a force erupt from inside the banyan tree.

Chu Lingguang was lost in thought.

Two days later, a reply came from Guo Wei. He was already on his way to the Hundred Thousand Mountains and urged Chu Lingguang not to use his True Dragon Power rashly before opening his fourth-level Dharma Aspect.

Today was also the third assessment in the Trial Ground.

It had been a month since Chu Lingguang and the other students had entered the Trial Ground to train.

This third assessment tested both bloodline evolution and the strength of one’s Dragon Elephant Power.

Relying on his True Dragon Power once again, Chu Lingguang managed to temporarily hold on to his Heavenly Talent cultivation resources. Unfortunately, despite ten days of hard training, and even though his bloodline could absorb energy on its own, it was as if the goatee-bearded elder and Yun Hong hadn’t noticed. Chu Lingguang’s Bloodline Level was still at the lower grade of the intermediate stage.

He seemed to have hit a bottleneck in the past twenty days, unable to achieve a breakthrough.

This situation made him desperately wish Guo Wei were by his side to guide him. Although the guidance from Yun Hong, the goatee-bearded elder, and others never ceased, without Guo Wei around, Chu Lingguang felt he lacked a certain confidence, as if he were completely lost.

He wrote back to Guo Wei, telling him about his current situation.

Time flew by.

In the blink of an eye, another ten days had passed.

Chu Lingguang and the other students had been training in the Trial Ground for about forty days now, and today was another assessment.

This time, Chu Lingguang failed to hold on to his Heavenly Talent Identity Token. He was demoted from Celestial Rank to A Class and had to move from his small courtyard back into a single room.

Zhao Rushuang, relying on her upper-grade intermediate bloodline, had awakened fifty-six Bloodline Dragon Elephants. She was promoted from A-grade Talent to Heavenly Talent, replacing Chu Lingguang.