Zhou Bai’s heart beat slowly yet powerfully, the muffled sound echoing like someone beating a drum, feeling as if a lava-like power was continuously flowing out from the heart and into every corner of the body.
Zhou Bai knew this was the illusion of a sudden enhancement in his physique, but it really felt exhilarating.
The surface of his body seemed to be surged by an invisible force, each muscle fiber and every bone in his body strengthened once again.
The defensive power, whether standing, sitting, or lying down, had increased once more.
The spiritual force around him seemed to tremble with each of his breaths.
This was the increased control over the Material World after the synchronization rate with the Heavenly Dao improved.
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This stage had begun, and casting various spells and martial arts would now be more effective.
"Finally, First Realm!" Zhou Bai felt the changes within himself and looked towards the divine diagram, only to find that a new ring had not appeared on the diagram.
"Sigh, it takes 10,000 laziness points to generate the next poverty diagram."
Zhou Bai looked at the panel.
Dao Transformation Degree: 10.0%
Primordial Spirit Value: 1000
Divine Diagram: Nine Disasters of Heavenly Beings
Laziness: 7040
"Dao Transformation Degree broke through to 10%, officially stepping into the First Realm. In this realm, Dao Transformation Degree can be raised to a maximum of 19.9%, Primordial Spirit Value to a maximum of 1999. Of course, my Primordial Spirit Value can be a bit higher. Next is the divine diagram."
Zhou Bai shook his head, "Not enough laziness points to generate the second divine diagram. I can only cultivate the First Realm’s Protective Gang Qi first, which seems like a move everyone in the First Realm has. It’s a spell that can only be cultivated after reaching the First Realm."
Protective Gang Qi, a spell that could only be cultivated after advancing to the First Realm.
Its main function was that once successfully cultivated, it would use spiritual power as an energy source to form a layer of Protective Gang Qi around the body, greatly enhancing a cultivator’s survivability.
As for this spell of Protective Gang Qi, Zhou Bai, who had diligently read every day for the past two months, naturally had already previewed it.
He then began to cultivate the Protective Gang Qi according to the methods described in the textbooks.
Spiritual power was a ubiquitous force in the real world.
Cultivators could breathe in spiritual power and transform it into their Primordial Spirit power.
It could also be used as the energy source to cast various spells, martial arts, and Arrays.
As the Heavenly Dao twisted, spiritual power became contaminated, making the path of cultivation increasingly difficult, leading to the establishment of the Four Great Taoist Schools, development of nine major paths and Taoist treasures, and planning new cultivation routes, revising countless spells and martial arts.
Protective Gang Qi was a spell where one breathed in spiritual power and transformed it into a protective layer around oneself.
Now, we see Zhou Bai sitting cross-legged on the ground, an invisible aura of spiritual power circling around his body, gradually guided by Zhou Bai’s Primordial Spirit and transforming into an invisible protective film, hidden on the surface of his body.
As time passed, Zhou Bai gradually became aware of an extremely thin yet incredibly tough film outside his body.
Within the film, the spiritual power moved like airflow, continually circling and flowing.
This was indeed Protective Gang Qi, which could only be cultivated in the First Realm.
At this moment, Zhou Bai had just succeeded in cultivating Protective Gang Qi. His defensive power wasn’t very strong yet, merely enough to defend against ordinary weapons like knives and sticks.
However, the potential of this spell was extremely powerful.
As he continued to cultivate, as his Dao Transformation Degree increased and his Primordial Spirit Value grew stronger, the defensive power of this layer of Protective Gang Qi would also rise accordingly.
After the Protective Gang Qi was cultivated, there was no need to constantly exhaust the power of the Primordial Spirit to maintain it; it consumed the spiritual mechanism of the body, and as long as the cultivator kept breathing, they could sustain the Protective Gang Qi.
This meant that the Protective Gang Qi could be kept running 24 hours a day; it was only turned off during times like bathing, eating, or going to the restroom when the cultivator wished to withdraw it.
Zhou Bai could not help thinking in his heart, "With this Protective Gang Qi, I’ve become even tougher." Just thinking about the scene where a bunch of people couldn’t break his defense made him feel quite prideful.
At the time Zhou Bai was cultivating his Protective Gang Qi,
Christina was looking at the gem on her neck with a face full of surprise.
She then saw the faintly glowing blue gem, and the crack on it had now completely healed, restoring it to its original state.
Lately, as Zhou Bai’s Daoist enlightenment had improved, the gem had been continuously repairing itself and healing until just now when Zhou Bai completely broke through the realm and stepped into the first realm, the gem had been fully restored.
Christina’s power of the Primordial Spirit enveloped the gem and she immediately sensed a message from it.
"Use or upon death, Time Reverse, ten minutes? Can be used once every seven days?"
She immediately got excited and tried to use the gem to see if she could once again activate the Time Reverse effect, but no matter how hard she tried to focus her thoughts and stimulate it with the power of her Primordial Spirit, the gem was completely unresponsive.
"Could it be that only Zhou Bai can use it? Or is my cultivation not enough? After all, the gem was repaired only after Zhou Bai stepped into the first realm." Christina pouted, her whiskers trembling with exasperation, as she held the gem in her paws and grumbled, "It’s clearly my gem."
She looked at Zhou Bai, who had just finished cultivating his Protective Gang Qi, and said helplessly, "Zhou Bai, look at my gem, it seems like it can be used again."
"Oh?" A look of surprise appeared on Zhou Bai’s face, as he still vividly remembered that it was the gem that carried him through Time Reverse, allowing him to survive the encounter with the Heavenly Demon.
Thus, Zhou Bai immediately focused his attention on Christina’s gem and tried to wrap it with his Primordial Spirit power.
Christina immediately blocked him: "Mine!"
"I know it’s your treasure, just let me try."
"Be careful, don’t misuse it!"
"I’ll just try it, won’t misuse it."
After a lot of persuasion from Zhou Bai, Christina finally allowed Zhou Bai’s Primordial Spirit power to wrap around the gem.
Instantly, Zhou Bai obtained some information from the gem.
"Use or upon death, Time Reverse, ten minutes? Can be used once every seven days?"
Zhou Bai’s eyes lit up, astonished that the gem, after absorbing the first hexagram of "The Book of Changes" 64 hexagrams and waiting until his cultivation broke through to the first realm, could now use this Time Reverse function.
"Let’s try it then," said Zhou Bai. "How can we know if it’s true or not without trying?"
So Zhou Bai thought for a moment, then moved the desk in the meditation room to the other side.
After waiting a minute, under Christina’s expectant gaze, Zhou Bai wrapped the gem with his Primordial Spirit power, and then focused on Time Reverse...
The very next moment, Zhou Bai only felt everything around him come to a halt, then, as if a video were reversing, the desk returned to where it was ten minutes earlier.
"See, Tina?" Zhou Bai excitedly said. "Did it really reverse time?"
"How did you do that?" Christina exclaimed in shock. "What on earth is the principle behind this? It’s incredible. Time Reverse... it seems impossible."
Zhou Bai said, surprised, "You also remember the events ten minutes later? So both of us can retain the memories before and after Time Reverse?"
Although it was unimaginable and seemed unscientific no matter how one thought about it, the gem indeed possessed the ability to reverse time by ten minutes.
And with this use, the gem once again dimmed, though it didn’t crack this time.
Zhou Bai thought that perhaps in a week’s time, once the gem regained its brilliance, it could again display the power of Time Reverse.