Every time Lin Chen saw Tang Yue, she acted no different from before, but Lin Chen could still clearly feel a hint of evasion, a hint of avoidance, and a hint of fear in her eyes.
Lin Chen, on the other hand, acted as if nothing had happened, maintaining his usual low profile.
Cultivating and grinding, a semester quickly came to an end, and the day of the annual assessment arrived.
The annual assessment was to test everyone's cultivation progress over the year and then reassign classes based on the specific situation.
Due to the butterfly effect caused by Lin Chen, Mu Ningxue did not arrive as she did in the original story.
Mo Fan proceeded with the test as usual and achieved excellent results. Even though he rejected Mu Zhuoyun's recruitment, there was no tense confrontation or two-year agreement as in the original story.
Lin Chen was even excessively low-key. While ensuring his grades were good enough to smoothly enter the elite class, he didn't even summon his beast, claiming he hadn't yet found a suitable dimensional beast.
Tang Yue, standing nearby, rolled her eyes at this scene.
This assessment went unusually smoothly, so smoothly that Lin Chen found it incredible.
Even if there were still some old rivals secretly at odds, they didn't cause any trouble openly.
With the end of the assessment, the holidays also arrived.
Currently, all of Lin Chen's magic had been cultivated to the Intermediate level, and he had a preliminary grasp of controlling the Star, only needing continuous practice for Intermediate magic to achieve instant Star Path like Elementary magic.
Lin Chen's spirit power level also reached the peak of sixty-ninth level. The most difficult cultivation period for a Limit Spirit is from level 31 to level 70, and this entire difficult period was about to pass.
In the Full Magic World, spirit power was already abundant, and with the help of Qiu'er, Qian Renxue, and the Yin Yang Art, Lin Chen leveled up five times in less than a year, making even himself feel incredibly fast.
With the holidays approaching, Lin Chen put down everything he was doing and went to the Magic Capital, happily playing with Qian Renxue for half a month, then went to the Imperial Capital to accompany the little princess.
As time went on, Qian Renxue seemed to have grown accustomed to Lin Chen's philandering and his affectionate nature. She neither argued nor made a fuss, as if nothing had happened.
Half of the long vacation passed like this. After Lin Chen returned to Bo City, he went to the Spirit World to begin secluded cultivation. In this month, he had already broken through to level 70.
Even if he didn't actively cultivate, he couldn't resist the power of the Yin Yang Art.
One day later, Lin Chen successfully absorbed a hundred-thousand-year spirit ring, broke through level 70, and became a level 71 Spirit Saint.
Lin Chen did not leave the Spirit World. He was preparing to condense a Spirit core. In his previous life, he only had two Spirit cores. The objective conditions in this life were far superior to his previous life, so Lin Chen decided to start condensing a Spirit core after breaking through to Spirit Saint.
There are pros and cons for a Spirit Saint to condense a Spirit core. The advantage is that it can accelerate his subsequent cultivation speed and greatly enhance his combat power, and there will be no bottlenecks before Titled Douluo.
The disadvantage is that he needs to condense three Spirit cores to break through to Limit Douluo, and the difficulty is self-evident.
Lin Chen brought Qian Renxue and Qiu'er to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
Qian Renxue's growth in her previous life was very smooth; after becoming a Spirit Saint, she directly became a god on the spot through the divine examination.
Therefore, she didn't know much about Spirit cores. Upon learning that Lin Chen was going to condense a Spirit core, she came to observe and learn from the experience, preparing for her future Spirit core condensation.
As a Rui Beast, Qiu'er could gather the vital energy between heaven and earth, which could provide Lin Chen with a lot of help.
After arriving at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Lin Chen found a relatively comfortable spot, sat cross-legged, and extended his right hand. A moment later, liquid-like Yin Yang spirit power flowed out from his body and then continuously compressed in his hand.
Lin Chen compressed his spirit power while injecting the power of destruction and the power of life from his Spirit into it.
Generally speaking, when a Spirit Master condenses a Spirit core, the Spirit core's attribute is the same as the Spirit Master's spirit power attribute, and the spirit power attribute depends on the Spirit Master's Spirit.
Therefore, the Spirit core attributes of Titled Douluo powerhouses are all the same as their Spirit attributes, and the Spirit core is an reflection of the Spirit Master's own Spirit.
However, Lin Chen was an anomaly. Due to cultivating the Yin Yang Art, his spirit power attribute was the Yin Yang attribute, which had never appeared on the Douluo Continent.
In this life, Lin Chen possessed two divine-level Spirits, the Two-Yin Sword and the Ice Fire Dragon King. The Two-Yin Sword was even more overbearing, combining ultimate destruction and ultimate life.
The reason why ultimate destruction and ultimate life could combine was that the Two-Yin Sword became the medium between them, allowing them to coexist.
Lin Chen had cultivated the Yin Yang Art, and the spirit power in his body had long become Yin Yang spirit power.
Lin Chen used Yin Yang spirit power as a medium to perfectly fuse two completely opposite attributes.
Throughout the entire Douluo Continent, all Titled Douluo level powerhouses had single-attribute Spirit cores.
However, Lin Chen's Spirit core was a unique dual-attribute Spirit core in the world.
With the injection of the two ultimate attributes, no abnormalities occurred.
This demonstrated the power of Yin Yang spirit power.
Therefore, Lin Chen's Spirit core condensation was very simple: continuously injecting spirit power, the power of destruction, and the power of life, and then continuously compressing them.
With the help of Yin Yang spirit power, there was no need to worry about the Spirit core shattering.
Soon, Lin Chen completed the first step of condensing the Spirit core, and the prototype of the Spirit core was condensed.
A solid spherical Spirit core prototype gathered in mid-air, and the terrifying spirit power made the surrounding spatial cracks appear and disappear.
At this point, the Spirit core was half complete. The remaining step was to have the Spirit core prototype absorb spatial force and then integrate the Spirit core into the body. Only then would it be considered a complete success.
Lin Chen's Spirit core prototype was currently absorbing the spatial force contained within the surrounding spatial cracks.
As the Spirit core prototype devoured the spatial force in the spatial cracks, the surrounding spatial cracks grew larger and larger, filled with more spatial force.
After an unknown amount of time, the Spirit core was surrounded by dark spatial cracks, and the Spirit core's absorption seemed to have reached its limit.
Lin Chen's condition was not good; his face was pale. Maintaining the stability of the Spirit core while absorbing spatial force required extremely strong mental force.
Of course, the benefits Lin Chen gained were also self-evident. His mental level, which had not moved for a long time, directly broke through from level seven to the peak of level seven.
Immediately, Lin Chen controlled the Spirit core to stop absorbing spatial force, and the rapidly rotating Spirit core instantly stopped.
At this moment, the Spirit core became a chaotic vortex; just looking at it seemed to absorb one's soul.
The Spirit core, having stopped absorbing spatial force, began to spontaneously absorb the vital energy of heaven and earth.
It emitted a wondrous fluctuation, and the surrounding space seemed to change with the Spirit core's fluctuations.
At this moment, Lin Chen was not careless at all; the final step was to absorb the Spirit core.
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