However, as a result, Olivia Smith's cultivation progress over the past two months has been rather unimpressive. But in the first place, Olivia Smith's body was not particularly suited for the water-attribute Miqi Buyun True Technique. Moreover, with his personal auxiliary intelligent parasitic system—an internal observation method countless times more precise than anyone else's—he was able to temporarily bypass several stagnant points in his meridians while circulating his internal energy, making his speed actually a bit faster than before.

In fact, if it weren't for Olivia Smith being cautious about his meridians, which were just beginning to develop, with many branch meridians still unstable and unable to withstand much strain, doubling his speed wouldn't have been difficult at all.

Chapter 0009 Survival of the Fittest

The nature of the Grand Primordial Technique, though vastly different from other single-attribute cultivation methods, is largely similar in terms of breathing techniques. Olivia Smith first took a deep breath, then guided the various spiritual energies within it through the branches of the Taiyin Lung Meridian, allowing them to flow into the twelve main meridians. These spiritual energies were highly permeable and required no deliberate control, naturally dispersing throughout all the meridians in the body.

Next, what Olivia Smith needed to do was to circulate the true energy in his dantian along the route described in the Grand Primordial Technique, absorbing and transforming these spiritual energies.

However, with Olivia Smith currently only at the level of a second-rank warrior, the amount of spiritual energy he could absorb was truly limited. It is said that when the highest-level martial masters exert their full power, they can absorb all the spiritual energy within a foot around them with a single breath. And the skin and hair of innate experts can serve as channels for exchanging spiritual energy with the outside world—something Olivia Smith at this stage could not even begin to imagine.

But with the auxiliary parasitic system as a cheat, Olivia Smith could make the most of this limited spiritual energy. In the state of internal observation, he could clearly detect the exact locations of those spiritual energy molecules within his meridians, then manipulate his circulating true energy to absorb them, without having to rely on luck like others do in their cultivation.

Of course, this advantage would gradually diminish in the later stages of true energy cultivation, when the absorbed spiritual energy could fill the meridians. However, Olivia Smith had another advantage that others could never hope to match. Thanks to the auxiliary parasitic system, he could completely analyze the content of various attribute true energies within his body, as well as the interactions among the five elements' spiritual energies, and adjust their balance at any time.

—This is something not only single-attribute true energy cultivators, but even those who also practice the Grand Primordial Technique, could never achieve.

Over the past month, Olivia Smith had also discovered a secret. He found that when the five-element attributes of true energy in his body were relatively balanced, there would be a slight increase almost every moment. Although the growth was small, it was indeed increasing. In other words, even if Olivia Smith stopped practicing breathing techniques from now on, by the time he turned twenty, he should naturally reach the level of a fourth-rank warrior.

In addition, the balance of the five elements also aided the recovery of true energy. His meridians were now long and resilient, and his ability to recover internal energy was twice that of an ordinary person. Previously, after training in the martial arts field for two hours and then rushing to the pharmacy to identify herbs for four hours using his analytical ability, anyone else would have collapsed long ago.

If Olivia Smith's judgment was correct, this growth and recovery of true energy should improve as the quality of his internal energy increased. This also meant that the higher his future cultivation, the greater his advantage over others would be.

Carefully controlling the small amount of true energy in his body, he circulated it around a few limited meridians near his waist and abdomen. After about twenty cycles, Olivia Smith noticed that the fragile inner walls of the branch meridians used for detouring had reached their limit. With a soft sigh, he followed the normal route for another dozen cycles, and only stopped when some of the main meridians also began to give out.

At this point, it had only been half an hour since Olivia Smith arrived at this spiritual ground, so the naturally accumulated internal energy was pitifully little. On one hand, this was because Olivia Smith's body was still growing, with his meridians constantly stretching and expanding. On the other hand, his aptitude was indeed not outstanding. As the martial masters of the Yue family had judged, his talent for martial arts was, at best, only slightly below average.

After guiding the flow of true energy back to his dantian, Olivia Smith opened his eyes and stared blankly at the various packages in front of him. There was no doubt that at his current pace, not to mention reaching the seventh rank of warrior before the age of twenty, even the eighth or ninth rank might not be out of reach.

But with Olivia Smith's temperament, how could he possibly be content with such limited achievements?

Although in his previous life he had experienced regret—during those days in the military camp, competing fiercely with others, even choosing to retire because of it—his competitive nature could not simply change overnight. In the end, going to medical university to study sports health was just preparation for climbing even greater heights in the future.

He was born unwilling to be beneath others, but this ambition had only been slightly tempered after the auxiliary intelligent system developed analytical abilities and he was shocked to realize that his body had become scarred and battered due to his own reckless stubbornness.