Chapter 344: Campus Awakening

【While adventuring in the Boundless Divine Frontier, you discover that the Empress’s personal guards have channels to obtain rare materials, though these are so scarce that only top-tier craftsmen can forge them.】

【Now that your cultivation has reached the Nascent Soul level, fusing such materials is effortless for you. They hand them over, and with your surging spiritual power, you successfully craft six Heavenly Tier secret treasures.】

【These secret treasures are incredibly durable, resistant to water and fire, and they enhance the spiritual link between the wearer and you.】

【You give one of these secret treasures to the Empress of the Imperial City as a proposal ring, maximizing the spiritual connection between you and her from now on.】

【Your spiritual energy level increases by one.】【The maximum connection with the Empress boosts your cultivation speed by fifty percent.】

【Congratulations, you’ve successfully broken through to level eighty.】【Divine Transformation Stage.】

【Congratulations, your stamina attribute has upgraded to Spirit Gathering Body level one.】【The Spirit Gathering Body, like other attributes, has a maximum level of five.】

【At level one, the Spirit Gathering Body extends your lifespan to two hundred years, grants slow self-healing from injuries, reduces fatal wounds to severe ones, and severe ones to minor ones—but it can’t reduce consecutively. It also doubles your physical strength.】

Walking through the campus, Lin Zheng Ran listened to the system’s words and blinked.

Another breakthrough?

This time it happened so quickly—normally, these major levels take a long time to advance.

Was it because of the ring?

The wedding ring holds great significance in this world, so the system probably sees it as a top-tier artifact.

That means I have five more rings—if I give them away, I could level up even more.

As these thoughts crossed his mind, Lin Zheng Ran felt changes in his body.

He stopped in his tracks.

Though ordinary people couldn’t see it, he clearly noticed the spiritual energy inside him gathering in one spot.

The scattered energy merged into his main channels, raising his body temperature as it fused.

After about half a minute, it slowly returned to normal and stabilized.

He looked down at his arm, sensing his transformed body.

It looked the same to the eye, but only Lin Zheng Ran knew how different it was from his previous illness-free state.

Especially the self-healing ability—he was curious just how far it could go.

Would it be as dramatic as in some movies?

So he found a secluded spot.

He picked up a fairly sharp stone from the ground and deliberately scraped it across his forearm.

But even with its edge, the stone didn’t break his skin or cause any swelling.

My body’s twice as tough now? It seems only something really sharp like a blade could hurt me.

To test the healing, he channeled some spiritual power into the stone.

As the power flowed in, the Heaven-Earth Resonance crafting ability activated, sharpening the stone’s tip and making it gleam coldly in the sunlight.

Lin Zheng Ran carefully drew it across his arm.

A shallow wound finally appeared, fresh blood seeping out.

He watched as the cut on his arm started to change right away—the flesh and blood reorganizing themselves, healing completely in about fifteen seconds.

The wound vanished entirely, along with the blood, leaving no trace.

Lin Zheng Ran touched his arm in surprise—it was flawless.

No pain lingered at all.

Fifteen seconds—if the wound were bigger, would it still take fifteen, or longer?

Lin Zheng Ran frowned slightly and made a deeper cut with the stone.

Blood dripped from his elbow onto the ground.

He was about to time it when

a little fox spotted Lin Zheng Ran standing in the bushes, seemingly up to something.

“Brother Zheng Ran?”

The little fox hurried over excitedly, only to see Lin Zheng Ran holding a stone that had apparently cut his arm—blood was already on it.

The blood had dripped onto the stone.

“Brother Zheng Ran, what happened?!” The panicked little fox rushed to him, her eyes welling up with tears in an instant.

Lin Zheng Ran noticed Han Wenwen: “Wenwen, what are you doing here?”

“Brother Zheng Ran, what on earth are you doing!” She grabbed his hand, terrified, her eyes wide.

But looking closer, there was no wound on his arm.

“Huh?” Han Wenwen was baffled—she’d clearly seen the injury and the blood just moments ago.

How had it disappeared?

She glanced down at the stone on the ground—the bloodstain was gone too.

In disbelief, she rubbed her eyes, but nothing changed.

Lin Zheng Ran asked, “What’s wrong, Wenwen? What are you looking at?”

Fifteen seconds… still fifteen. It seems as long as it’s not a serious injury, it heals in fifteen seconds flat.

The system mentioned the difference between serious and minor injuries, and Lin Zheng Ran could feel that bigger wounds hurt more during recovery.

So that must be it. And this is only level one—if it levels up higher, could even serious injuries heal in fifteen seconds?

Han Wenwen said with teary eyes: “I just saw you get hurt, Brother Zheng Ran, but…”

Lin Zheng Ran smiled and patted her head to reassure her: “What are you thinking? I’d never get hurt for no reason.”

Han Wenwen didn’t understand what had happened, but as long as Brother Zheng Ran was okay, that was all that mattered.

That moment had scared her half to death—she quickly hugged him.

“You frightened me so much…” she said with a sob, her heart racing. “What would I do if you got hurt? Good thing it was just my imagination.”

“It’s okay, don’t worry.”

Glancing at the sharp stone in his other hand, Han Wenwen asked, “But Brother Zheng Ran, why are you holding that stone? It’s so sharp.”

Lin Zheng Ran looked at the spiritually enhanced stone and explained, “I was just curious and picked it up to look at.”

Han Wenwen eyed him worriedly: “You should throw it away, it’s dangerous.”

“Alright.” He nodded, a bit helplessly.

Lin Zheng Ran crouched down, broke off the sharp part of the stone, and tossed it into the distant Lotus Pond.

In his hands, that simple stone had become something of epic quality—though he shattered it easily, others would struggle to damage it.

“There, now no one else will get hurt by it.”

Han Wenwen stood nearby, finally relaxing.

Lin Zheng Ran asked, “By the way, Wenwen, why aren’t you with Heqing and the others?”

Since Lin Zheng Ran wasn’t hurt, her mood lifted quickly. She smiled and said:

“I made up an excuse to slip away. Remember, you promised to help me buy underwear? Now that we’re moving, let’s go do that.”