His Will was focused to an extreme.
He manipulated one of the Great Acupoints, a point of energy as brilliant as the sun. As if towing a real star, he forcefully and slowly pushed it toward a target acupoint, squeezing them together, forcing them to merge!
This was an incredibly painful and mentally draining process.
Rampant Spiritual Energy constantly scoured and tore at his flesh.
Furthermore, the terrifying repulsive force between the two Great Sun Acupoints, like that of opposing magnetic fields, kept his mind stretched to its absolute limit.
Soon, when the fatigue and damage to his body reached a critical point, Qin Feng paused his attempt.
He immersed himself in an emerald-green, deep-repair medicinal bath brimming with life energy.
At the same time, he downed a Potion that could rapidly restore his Mental Power.
A warm energy enveloped his body, repairing the most minute internal wounds caused by the backlash.
The Potion’s cool efficacy nourished his nearly depleted Sea of Spirit.
But after completing all this, he added a brand-new step.
He began to perform the Ten-Complete Hand on himself!
Seated cross-legged in the medicinal bath, he closed his eyes and began to trace a series of ancient, profound movements with his hands in front of him.
His left hand swept over the right side of his torso.
His right hand swept over the left.
It was just as the Sun Chan Hall Master had taught him.
Before mastering Mental Power to the point where he could directly influence reality with it, he could only use this primitive, clumsy method to perform the supreme Nourishing Technique on himself.
However, this action, which in his own eyes was as clumsy as "drawing a circle with the left hand while drawing a square with the right," produced an effect that far exceeded his imagination!
As his hands, imbued with the unique essence of the Ten-Complete Hand, swept over his body, Qin Feng clearly felt the surging Spiritual Energy within him become pacified, as if smoothed out by a large, invisible hand.
The life energy from the bath, which had been scrambling to pour into him, also seemed to be under the most precise guidance. It no longer rushed about chaotically but instead transformed into docile, pure, warm currents that were absorbed by every cell in his body with supreme efficiency!
Even the recovery of his Mental Power seemed to receive some mysterious blessing, accelerating and becoming more concentrated!
The speed of absorption!
The speed of recovery!
Everything was accelerating at an unbelievable, frantic pace!
Unexpectedly fast!
So much faster!
After his supercomputer-like brain performed a series of precise calculations, he reached a conclusion that left even him utterly shocked—
Aided by the Ten-Complete Hand, his absorption of the Potion’s effects and his body’s recovery speed were nearly four times faster than before!
The time he needed to recover from the physical toll of attempting to fuse his acupoints was drastically reduced!
’What does this mean?’
’I can make more attempts in less time!’
’My cultivation efficiency has been forcefully boosted by several tiers!’
...
Time flew by in this highly efficient cycle.
「One month later.」
When Qin Feng had finally exhausted all the cultivation resources in his storage unit, he slowly opened his eyes.
His eyes were filled with unconcealable, overwhelming surprise and shock.
He looked at his attribute panel, feeling the power within him, which had grown stronger yet again.
’It only took one month!’
’I successfully fused two more acupoints!’
’How is this possible?!’
Even with his typically calm and steady disposition, Qin Feng couldn’t suppress the wild joy in his heart.
’Just a little proficiency in the Ten-Complete Hand had such a terrifying accelerating effect on my cultivation, even with my life force index already over 4,000!’
He quickly began to recalculate in his head.
’One month, two fusions!’
’And I still need to fuse the remaining three hundred-odd acupoints. All told, that’s roughly another one hundred fifty "two-into-one" fusions!’
’In other words...’
A new timeline appeared in his mind, one that left him breathless!
’I only need to go into seclusion for another 150 months! That’s about twelve and a half years!’
’If I can earn all the necessary resources during that time, I’ll only need to spend less than thirteen years in seclusion to completely fuse all three hundred and sixty Great Sun Acupoints into one!’
This conclusion was a world apart from his previous prediction of a sixty-year seclusion!
’And as for resources...’
His eyes glittered with an unprecedentedly bright light.
’Right now, it’s still the "Triple Prestige" period for the Warband Ranking Tournament! As long as I do a few more missions, the speed at which I can accumulate prestige points is far beyond what’s normally possible! Once my strength increases a little more, I can even try taking on those much more lucrative Hell-level missions! When that time comes, my rewards will only be greater!’
A clear, straight path to the summit had appeared right at his feet!