Chinese Superman

As the teachers and students gradually dispersed, the commotion at the training ground subsided.

"Hmm, I should go find Grandpa Qian."

Xia Xinghan stretched and was about to take his short legs to find Old Qian to collect his "wages" when he saw Old Qian, accompanied by Commissioner Chen, walking towards him with a smile, leaning on his cane.

"Grandpa Qian! Uncle Chen!"

Xia Xinghan's eyes lit up, and he quickly went to meet him.

He was about to ask about the "Martial Ancestor" title and the rewards of spirit stones when he saw Elder Qian smile and shake his head almost imperceptibly.

Xia Xinghan immediately understood and swallowed back the words that were about to come out.

When Mr. Qian walked up to him, he did not mention the reward directly. Instead, he squatted down and took out an antique wooden box from his bosom.

Upon opening the wooden box, a beautifully crafted, ancient-style hand rope—the Five-Colored Longevity Thread—lies quietly inside, meticulously woven from five-colored silk threads: blue, red, yellow, white, and black.

"Zha'er".

Mr. Qian's voice was warm and kind as he said, "I took this opportunity to specially apply for this item for you."

He picked up the five-colored longevity thread and, under Xia Xinghan's curious gaze, gently tied it to his fair wrist.

The five-colored silk cord can automatically adjust its size to fit the wrist, exuding a gentle and lasting auspicious aura.

"This is a five-colored longevity thread from the Han Dynasty. It is a top-grade relic with a long history. Its greatest feature is that it does not need to be worn by anyone. As long as you wear it, you will be protected by the power of the five directions, and it will ward off evil and bring good fortune and longevity."

Old Qian carefully straightened the knot for him and said in a low voice, "You already possess the Three Abundances and Nine Auspicious Lock Ornament. Now, with the addition of the Five-Colored Longevity Thread, these two relics will complement each other. Even if someone tries to use evil curses to harm you in the future, they will find it difficult to succeed."

Feeling the mysterious power emanating from his wrist, which resonated subtly with the jade pendant around his neck, Xia Xinghan felt a surge of warmth in his heart.

He remembered that when Mr. Qian gave him the Three Abundances and Nine Auspiciousnesses Jade Lock, he regretted that he hadn't been able to get the Five-Colored Longevity Thread.

Unexpectedly, Mr. Qian kept it in mind and took this opportunity to apply for this Class A protective relic for him.

"Grandpa Qian..."

Xia Xinghan reached out his little hand and gently hugged the squatting old man, burying his face in his shoulder for a moment. This meticulous care transcended an investment in a genius; it was more like the tenderness and love one would show to a younger generation.

"Silly child."

Old Qian smiled and patted him on the back, saying nothing more; everything was understood without words.

A moment later, somewhere in the base, in Xia Xinghan's private secluded meditation room.

At the entrance to the quiet room, several specially made metal combination lock boxes were neatly arranged.

Following the password provided by Elder Qian, Xia Xinghan opened the box lids one by one, revealing rows of crystal-clear, radiant spirit stones inside.

The spiritual substance, so dense it was almost misty, permeated the entire quiet room; every breath brought a sense of refreshment and complete comfort.

A total of eight thousand spirit stones!

Even with the base's astonishing reserves of spirit stones, allocating such a large amount of spirit stones at once is still considered a generous gesture.

Xia Xinghan sat cross-legged on a futon in the middle of the quiet room, looking at the pile of spirit stones in front of him like a small mountain, his big eyes gleaming with greedy light.

"Eight thousand spirit stones, a top-grade protective relic that doesn't need to choose a master, and the honor of a Martial Ancestor..."

He secretly concluded that he was quite satisfied with the country's reward.

Of course, Xia Xinghan knew that Qian Lao must have intervened to make the reward so generous.

"Eight thousand spirit stones should be enough to power eight thousand cells, right?"

"Begin your training!"

Xia Xinghan closed his eyes, focused his mind, and activated the "True Explanation of Refining the Apertures of the Universe and Stars" at full power, eagerly refining the spirit stones.

In an instant, the quiet room was filled with brilliant light!

Eight thousand spirit stones were activated simultaneously, and a massive amount of spiritual matter, mixed with the sunlight streaming in from the skylight, transformed into thousands of dazzling golden torrents, surging and flowing into the small body on the futon, like hundreds of rivers flowing into the sea.

If there were outsiders present, they would be shocked.

In their cultivation, which of them didn't refine one spirit stone after another?

Regardless of whether it's arrogant or not, such a wild and domineering cultivation method can only be withstood by a superhuman body. If it were anyone else, they would definitely be overwhelmed by the vast and powerful spiritual matter, explode, and die without any chance of survival.

"Buzz—"

The deep, resonant sound continued to echo in the quiet room.

Xia Xinghan's right index finger, with its eight thousand cells like illuminated stars, began to condense into a "miniature star"...

Time seemed to lose its meaning during the cultivation process.

Through the skylight at the top of the meditation room, one can see the sunrise and sunset, the changing of the stars, while inside the meditation room, a spiritual light permeates the air, as if enveloping a golden cocoon that is conceiving a miracle.

I don't know how much time passed.

When the last spirit stone exhausted its spirituality and turned into grayish-white waste, the surging torrent of energy in the quiet room finally subsided.

Xia Xinghan sat cross-legged on the futon, surrounded by a faint, almost imperceptible light. His long eyelashes fluttered a few times, and he slowly opened his eyes.

The instant he opened his eyes—

A sudden change has occurred!

Xia Xinghan's small body, which was sitting cross-legged, actually defied the laws of gravity and slowly and steadily floated up without any external force!

It rises one inch, one foot off the ground, until it floats in mid-air above the quiet room.

Xia Xinghan was taken aback at first, then his face lit up with undisguised joy.

"This is... a biofield?! My biofield has awakened!" Xia Xinghan laughed happily.

He began to control the bio-force field, first his body nimbly spun in the air, then he walked along the roof and walls, flying around the secluded meditation room, and only after he had played enough did he slowly land, his toes lightly touching the ground.

"The secluded meditation room is still too small. I want to roam the heavens, travel to the North Sea in the morning and Cangwu in the evening, reaching the highest heavens and the deepest hells!"

Xia Xinghan felt a surge of emotion, an unprecedented sense of lightness, exhilaration, and pride welling up within him.

After all, this kind of "innate" flight feels completely different from the soaring through the air with the Flying Swallow technique.

From now on, the sky will no longer be a limitation!

"However... the gains from this seclusion are not just the awakening of the biofield."

In his excitement, Xia Xinghan raised his right hand and extended his index finger.

With a slight thought, he began to draw upon the energy contained within the cells that had completed the "Star Condensation".

"Sizzle"

Tiny sparks of electricity danced and flickered at his fingertips.

Immediately afterwards, a tiny, rice-grain-sized, incandescent white light suddenly lit up on the fingertip.

The moment the light appeared, the temperature in the quiet room began to rise rapidly!

The light spot rapidly expanded, from the size of a grain of rice to a soybean, then to the size of a longan... Finally, it stabilized at about the size of an infant's fist, hovering at the tip of Xia Xinghan's index finger, slowly rotating.

That was not an ordinary flame or a ball of light.

Its entire body is a fiery yellow, with a core so bright that it is impossible to look directly at it. Golden solar prominences flow around its edges, faintly emanating a vast, intense, and terrifying aura that seems capable of burning everything.

It looks just like a miniature sun shrunk countless times!