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As the Ultimate Warrior finished speaking, soft white lights once again enveloped all the eliminated contestants inside the spaceship.
After a flash of light, Qin Feng found himself transported into the depths of the cosmos.
Beneath his feet was a black rock platform, about a hundred meters in diameter, floating amidst cosmic dust. And before him, a black Stone Stele, thousands of kilometers high and as majestic as a mountain range, stood silently.
’This must be one of the hundreds of millions of sub-steles surrounding the main one.’
Qin Feng wasted no time.
Following the Ultimate Warrior’s instructions, he immediately sat cross-legged on the rock platform. Then, with a thought, he immersed his consciousness into the long-missed Imperial Arena.
[Welcome back, esteemed Rank 4 contestant, Qin.]
[Matching you with an opponent of the same rank... Match successful.]
[Battle scenario: Randomly generating...]
As the familiar countdown appeared before his eyes, Qin Feng immediately sensed a difference.
A strange energy—cool, tranquil, yet filled with the endless essence of the Dao—seemed to emerge from the void, silently merging into his Sea of Consciousness.
Nourished by this energy, he discovered that his Mental Power, which normally required deliberate effort to keep focused, had now become unprecedentedly active and lucid!
All external disturbances were naturally blocked out.
His entire mind focused with incredible ease, concentrating completely on the upcoming battle.
[3... 2... 1... Battle Start!]
The moment the countdown ended and the battle began.
The sensation grew even stronger!
Qin Feng felt as if his brain had transformed into a super biological computer, its performance overclocked by hundreds of times!
His opponent’s every subtle movement, every muscle twitch... in his eyes, it all became as clear as a slow-motion replay!
He could enter a "flow" state—a state of total immersion where inspiration burst forth—at will, at any moment during the battle!
He even found that in the heat of almost every battle, he could seize a fleeting flash of insight and enter a rare and elusive state of "epiphany"!
In this state, his understanding of the `Heavy Spear` Killing Technique was deepening at an unimaginable speed!
The once obscure and complex principles of how the "Mental Power-Spiritual Energy aggregation module" integrated with footwork, Body Techniques, and power-generation skills now became as clear as the lines on his palm.
Qin Feng’s Killing Technique proficiency began to skyrocket at a visible rate!
...
Time flew by during this all-consuming, "immersive" cultivation.
A month passed in the blink of an eye.
For the entire month, Qin Feng maintained a training pace like that of an ascetic monk.
Every day, he would fight a full five hundred high-intensity battles in the Imperial Arena.
But unlike his previously abysmal win rate, this month his win rate held steady at an astonishing seventy percent! His overall win rate consequently rose to 57%.
Qin Feng’s arena score also soared to 200 points in Rank 4!
And on the very last day of the month, during his final battle.
The instant Qin Feng’s Long Spear clashed with his opponent’s weapon again.
It was as if a clap of thunder suddenly exploded in his mind!
All the fragmented, unsystematic scraps of insight he had about the `Heavy Spear` Killing Technique were, in that moment, completely connected, fused, and integrated!
He had finally glimpsed the door to a higher level, the door named "Control"!
In that instant, he completely comprehended the most fundamental core principles of the `Heavy Spear` Killing Technique—how the "Mental Power-Spiritual Energy aggregation module" integrated with his movements!
He had finally reached the Control Realm!
At the Perfection Realm, although Qin Feng’s use of the `Heavy Spear` Killing Technique had reached a state of supreme mastery where he could wield it at will.
Its essence was still "imitation"—perfectly replicating the fixed Techniques and modules recorded in the Killing Technique’s legacy.
But now, after advancing to the Control Realm, he was no longer a mere "user," but an "understander"!
`Heavy Spear`, this powerful Fourth-level Killing Technique, had been completely "grasped" and "digested" by him, truly transforming into a fundamental discipline within his own Martial Dao arsenal—one that could be freely dismantled, combined, and modified!
In the future, when he needed to create his own, more advanced Killing Techniques, he could freely modify, add to, or even subversively reconstruct all the methods and means of "Mental Power-Spiritual Energy aggregation" contained within `Heavy Spear`!
This was the true secret of the Control Realm!
[Killing Technique: `Heavy Spear` (Fourth-level)]
[Realm: Control]
Looking at the brand-new realm on his status panel, Qin Feng’s heart filled with endless emotion.
He made a rough estimate.
’Before the Starry Sky Cup started, I also spent a full month grinding my Killing Technique proficiency in the Imperial Arena.’
’But in that entire month, my proficiency only increased by about 1,500 points. An average daily increase of 50 points was already my absolute limit.’