I Pick Up Talents on the Interstellar Battlefield

Chapter 464: Chapter 388: Thunderpole Crystal, Breaking Through to Tier 6

Two days later

"Goodbye, General Qin!"

The officer in a lieutenant colonel’s uniform put his feet together and gave Qin Tian a standard military salute.

Qin Tian raised his hand in return, and after watching the military flying device streak across the sky, he handed the jade box in his hand to the Poisonous Widow beside him.

The Poisonous Widow felt the cool temperature of the box with her fingertips when she took it, and couldn’t help but ask curiously, "Boss, what’s inside this?"

Early in the morning, a military flying device descended on their residence, and several officers personally handed the escorted jade box to their boss. Seeing this situation, it was clear that the contents of the jade box were undoubtedly precious.

"It’s the Thunder Crystal, exchanged from the military department’s treasury with Military Merit Points for Thunder Element treasure materials," Qin Tian said, rubbing the box’s lid with his fingertips, unable to hide his suppressed anticipation,

"With it, I can break through to Tier Six."

"Break through to Tier Six!" The Poisonous Widow’s eyes widened instantly.

The transition from Tier Five to Tier Six was a qualitative leap within the Spiritual Ability System. The boss could easily crush some Tier Six powerhouses even at Tier Five, and if he succeeded in breaking through, his combat power would definitely soar to unimaginable heights.

Qin Tian opened a Gate of Space and stepped in first, with the Poisonous Widow following closely behind. When they landed, they were already standing in the hall of the Lingfeng Trading Company’s exclusive Cultivation Base.

This base had been acquired and transformed through heavy investments by Feng Mochuan: Fifty cultivation rooms were divided into four grades according to the concentration of Spiritual Qi; the low-grade rooms could gather three times the Spiritual Qi, the mid-grade five times, the high-grade ten times, and the top-grade cultivation room at the deepest part could reach twenty times the concentration of the outside world. The walls were inscribed with three layers of Spirit Gathering Runes, and the energy crystal nuclei consumed every hour were astronomical.

"You guard outside the door."

Qin Tian instructed the Poisonous Widow, then pushed open the alloy gate of the top-grade cultivation room.

The heavy door slowly slid open, and the Spiritual Qi inside flowed out through the gap with a faint fragrance of grass and wood.

Inside the cultivation room, just as Qin Tian sat on the cushion in the center, the Spiritual Qi aggregation device at the top emitted a low hum.

In the next moment, milky white Spiritual Qi gushed out from the device like an inverted waterfall, quickly condensing into a tangible mist in the room, swirling around him, filling his lungs with each breath.

He slowly opened the jade box.

"Sizzle——!"

Violent thunder energy burst out instantly, as if an invisible thunder net spread across the room.

Qin Tian’s hair stood slightly on end due to the electricity, and a fine tingling sensation spread across his skin. Even the air was filled with faint purple lightning arcs, crackling incessantly.

Inside the box lay the Thunder Crystal, about the size of a fist, deep purple in color, its surface entwined with serpent-like thunder patterns. Each flicker caused a slight tremor in the surrounding Spiritual Qi.

This was a treasure from Thunder Magnetar—a death planet enveloped by perpetual thunderstorms, where even battle armor dared not land lightly, yet it nurtured such a treasure as the Thunder Crystal.

Qin Tian used the special privileges of the Imperial Glory Medal, along with 480,000 Military Merit Points, to exchange it out from the military department’s treasury’s "strategic materials" catalog.

Qin Tian took a deep breath and held the Thunder Crystal in his palm.

The cool crystal stone just touched his skin, and a scorching thunder power surged madly into his body along the meridians of his palm—as if an angry Thunder Serpent rampaged through his meridians, the walls of which felt like they were burning with sharp pain wherever it passed.

He immediately operated the "Nine Nether Thunder Brilliance Technique."

The Golden Level Technique activated in an instant, and the Spiritual Energy within his body was immediately mobilized.

The left half of his body suddenly lit up with a faint purple thunder glow, and under his skin, lightning arcs could vaguely be seen flowing, even the exhaled breath carried a slight electric sound.

Meanwhile, the right half of his body slowly seeped out a dense dark Spiritual Energy, like ink that could not be dissolved, swallowing the light, even his fingertips were shrouded in a faint black mist.

The two types of Spiritual Energies were distinct within his body, circulating along their respective meridians, but they formed an invisible barrier in front of the Dantian—this was the root cause of his being stuck at the pinnacle of Tier Five.

The Dark Spiritual Energy was too heavy, like a piece of weighty black iron, while the Thunder Spiritual Energy was relatively thin, unable to achieve balance. The two forces restrained each other, making it difficult to even increase the total amount of Spiritual Energy, let alone impact Tier Six.

Qin Tian fully activated the cultivation technique, guiding the thunder power from the Thunder Crystal toward the Thunder Spiritual Energy on the left.

The faint purple thunder radiance surged instantly, burning fiercely within the left side of his body like a fire with added wood. The lightning arcs in the meridians became more robust, and even fine thunder patterns condensed on the skin’s surface.

The Thunder Spiritual Energy on the left grew stronger and finally broke through that invisible barrier, pressing toward the Dark Spiritual Energy on the right!

"Buzz——"

At the moment when the two Spiritual Energies collided, Qin Tian’s body trembled violently.

The Dark Spiritual Energy reacted like a frightened beast, pushing back frantically, trying to force the Thunder Spiritual Energy back to the left; meanwhile, the Thunder Spiritual Energy, carrying the Thunder Crystal’s violent power, pressed forward step by step. The two forces repeatedly tugged and collided above the Dantian, and each impact made his internal organs feel like they were pounded by a sledgehammer.

He gritted his teeth tightly, allowing sweat to soak his clothing, yet his fingers grasped the Thunder Crystal ever more firmly—the glow of the Thunder Crystal dimmed, its thunder power being continuously extracted and injected into his body.

After an unknown period, when the Thunder Crystal became dim, the Thunder Spiritual Energy on the left finally reached a delicate balance with the Dark Spiritual Energy on the right.

The faint purple lightning arcs and black mist slowly intertwined above the Dantian—the lightning arcs entwined with the black mist, while the black mist enveloped the lightning arcs. The two originally repellent forces now slowly fused into a new type of Spiritual Energy: with a faint purple base dotted with fine black lines, black mist flashing with weak thunder light, carrying both the ferocity of thunder and the secrecy of darkness.

"It’s now!"

Qin Tian seized this moment of balance, guiding the fused Spiritual Energy toward the final Spiritual Aperture within his body.

"Bang!"

The moment the fused Spiritual Energy struck the Spiritual Aperture, Qin Tian let out a muffled groan and his body jerked backward.

That Spiritual Aperture was like a long-sealed door, smashed open by the fused Spiritual Energy, followed by the successive breaking through of other blocked Spiritual Apertures—a series of "bang! bang! bang!" crashing sounds echoed within his body. With each breach, new Spiritual Energy flowed into the Dantian, thickening the fused Spiritual Energy even further.

When the last Spiritual Aperture was breached, a faint golden light bridge suddenly lit up above the Dantian.

This light bridge was about half a foot long, completely transparent, seemingly condensed from Spiritual Energy, one end connected to the Dantian, the other extending into the void, vaguely linked with the mist in the cultivation room—this was the hallmark of a Tier Six Spiritualist, the Divine Bridge!

As soon as the Divine Bridge formed, the Spiritual Qi in the cultivation room boiled instantly!

The originally swirling white mist found an outlet, frantically rushing into Qin Tian’s body, channeling directly into the Dantian along the Divine Bridge.

With the nourishment of Spiritual Qi, the fused Spiritual Energy skyrocketed at a speed visible to the naked eye, growing from a thin stream to a small river, then from a river to a river—the total amount of Spiritual Energy increased fivefold in just a quarter-hour!

Not only that, but the Divine Bridge constantly attracted external Spiritual Qi, making the recovery speed of Spiritual Energy extremely rapid—the energy consumed in the Spiritual Aperture breakthrough was replenished in just a few minutes.

Meanwhile, his physical body was undergoing changes under the quenching of Spiritual Qi: his skin became tougher, faintly showing a golden sheen; a subtle "crack" sound came from his bones, increasing in density and strength; even his meridians broadened considerably, accommodating more circulating Spiritual Energy.

The fused Spiritual Energy continued to rise—the barrier of Tier Six One Star was easily breached, the total amount of Spiritual Energy kept climbing; soon reaching Tier Six Two Stars, still with no sign of stopping; until the total Spiritual Energy surged nearly tenfold from before the breakthrough, stabilizing at the peak of Tier Six Three Stars.

Qin Tian slowly opened his eyes, a flash of purple-black light intertwined in his eyes.

He waved his hand, and fused Spiritual Energy condensed at his fingertip into a small light blade—carrying both the ferocity of thunder and the corrosive sensation of darkness.

Feeling the surging yet docile Spiritual Energy within, and the affinity brought by the Divine Bridge, he curved a slight smile—the accumulated potential of the Dual Holy Blood hadn’t let him down.

Now, he felt fully confident in contending with ordinary Tier Seven Spiritualists.