Chapter 616: Chapter 395: The Power of Will
There were two experimenters who had advanced to Great Knight status, one of whom was always a Great Knight, Orkot.
In fact, among the first batch of testers, he was the only one who survived, and he had not yet used the cave factors.
The other was a novice Knight named Abner—essentially, he could be treated as an ordinary person.
Orkot first practiced the Nameless Breathing Skill, then retrained the Giant Mountain Breathing Method to the Great Knight stage.
The main reason Abner was able to advance to Great Knight so quickly was due to the cave factors.
The cave factors, specifically extracted by Colin, were astonishingly effective in aiding the practice of the Giant Mountain Breathing Method.
Abner, whose talent was initially mediocre, succeeded in advancing to Great Knight in just half a year, a speed that could rival Colin’s initial rapid advancement with the aid of Golden Paper!
In the silvery-white room, Colin was checking on Abner and Orkot one by one.
"Blood Energy is basically consistent, no significant differences, the same goes for the physical aspects..."
Soon, he finished the examination and, after pondering for a moment, ordered Orkot:
"Go to the side and practice the Giant Mountain Breathing Method once."
Orkot paused slightly, then walked to a corner and silently complied.
Colin continued to observe Abner.
This Knight, who practiced the improved version of the Giant Mountain Breathing Method with the support of cave factors, had not shown any abnormalities in his body up to now.
There was no appearance of purplish-red skin like Onions, nor any bloodlust desires; overall, he appeared very healthy.
It looked like the modified breathing method had gotten rid of the negative effects of the cave factors?
But Colin was still not careless and continued to examine Abner.
After all, whether it was Onions or Alec, their abnormalities had only begun appearing during the Great Knight stage.
Right now, Abner had just broken through to Great Knight, and whether he had truly overcome the negative effects of the cave factors was still unknown; continual observation was necessary.
After completing the examination, Colin pondered for a moment and then also said to Abner in front of him, "Practice the Giant Mountain Breathing Method once."
The original Giant Mountain Breathing Method had a fatal flaw at the Great Knight stage—the cultivator would eventually die due to uncontrollable physical growth.
Typically, the faster the pace of cultivation, the shorter this process would be.
Therefore, generally speaking, at the Great Knight stage, members of the Wood Family would choose to stop practicing the Giant Mountain Breathing Method to extend their life.
However, even so, their physical growth would not stop; it would keep expanding until they eventually exploded and died.
It was as if the Giant Mountain Breathing Method had broken some kind of human physical limitation after advancing to the Great Knight stage.
Thus, he wanted to see if the now-modified Giant Mountain Breathing Method still had that fatal flaw at the Great Knight stage.
Abner nodded and began to practice on the spot.
This was both his and Orkot’s first practice session after becoming Great Knights.
About an hour later, the two had completed their practice.
Colin called them over and continued to check their bodies.
And this time, indeed, a clear difference had emerged between the two!
Orkot’s physical improvements were noticeably more substantial than Abner’s, who had been taking cave factors for a long period, but they were also more chaotic.
As Orkot described it—"It feels as though my body is covered with a gauze, and like it’s been filled with mercury. Although my strength has increased, my body feels more cumbersome to control than before."
Abner, on the other hand, used the word "difficult" to describe his recent practice.
During this practice session, he distinctly felt a significant decrease in the efficiency of his practice. If it was like running before, this time it was akin to crawling, and in a pool of glue filled with resistance at that!
He even felt as though he hadn’t made any progress at all!
At the same time, Abner also felt a hot irritability constantly surging from his heart to his brain, causing him to be restless and irritable. Being unable to concentrate, he also faintly felt the urge to smash things around him!
After hearing both their descriptions, Colin furrowed his brow, thought for a moment, and pulled out two bottles of cave factor Magic Potion, handing them to the two of them.
"Drink this, then practice once more."
"Alright, sir," Abner responded quickly, reaching out to take it. Over the past six months, he had almost daily consumed a bottle of cave factor.
This magical Magic Potion, in terms of aid in breathing method practice, had brought Abner a gain that made him addicted.
Originally not highly regarded in the Wood Family and not even taught Advanced Breathing Skills, he now felt, with each training session, as if he was a rare genius of the millennium!
Orkot also silently took the cave factor.
He did not know what the outcome would be after consuming this Magic Potion, but he had witnessed Abner’s nearly insane practice speed under the magic potion’s enhancement over the past six months.
And now, with that magical potion laid out before him, what Orkot felt in his heart was not anticipation but rather more fear.
He understood that any gift from fate was never without a cost; he just did not have more choices.
Silently suppressing the complex thoughts in his heart, Orkot pulled out the cork from the bottle’s mouth and downed the cave factor in one gulp, then began his practice.
Click.
Colin pulled out his pocket watch; he had gone to the Underground Cave in the evening and had arrived at the Wilderness Laboratory soon after, so it was just 12 o’clock now, still plenty of time for research.