“Betrayed and abandoned by all? To keep my brain’s emotional fluctuations within a normal range when betrayed and abandoned by all?” Xu Jingming shook his head at the thought. “This method requires the ten people I care about most in my life to curse me, spit on me, and abandon me? Even if it’s a simulation, I don’t want to see it.”

It was distressing to think about. His parents, wife, teacher, grandfather, and many others were the most important parts of his life.

Betrayed and abandoned by all?

Xu Jingming didn't even want to simulate it! Because he knew he couldn't keep his brain fluctuations within a normal range.

…

“Sonic Wave Training Method. Sonic waves can become weapons, and they can affect brain fluctuations and emotional fluctuations. This training method requires resisting sonic wave interference and stabilizing emotions.”

…

“Fatigue.”

“Persist in practicing your spear techniques in extreme fatigue! As time passes, the level of fatigue will continue to increase, and the impact on your body will become greater and greater. Can your mental will resist the fatigue of your body and continue practicing your spear techniques?”

…

“Pain.”

“Persist in practicing your spear techniques under extreme pain. The level of pain will gradually increase over time! How long can your mental will resist the pain?”

…

The essence of the twelve methods was to torture from different aspects: mental thoughts, brain fluctuations, and physical suffering. With layers upon layers of trials and tribulations! If one could withstand them all, one’s mind would naturally become more extraordinary.

However, Xuan had also reminded him that these methods were not suitable for everyone.

“These twelve methods, especially the mental thought and brain fluctuation methods, can lead to terrible situations if you can't handle them and force yourself to persevere, according to the book's description. For example, psychological distortion, madness, and other situations.”

“I’d better avoid the ones I don’t like.” Xu Jingming thought, “I tried many methods just now, and only one didn’t reach my limit. I didn’t continue before in order to test all the methods.”

“Now, I can try the pain training method to see how long my limit is,” Xu Jingming thought.

******

Among the twelve methods, the pain training method was the only one Xu Jingming had paused because he had practiced for too long.

Now, he would continue!

“Pain, starting directly from level 10.” In order to save time, Xu Jingming directly adjusted to the level of pain at which he had paused last time.

“Ugh.”

Intense pain instantly swept through his body, and Xu Jingming couldn't help but shudder.

“Although it's painful, my body has no injuries, and I’m not hungry or tired. In theory… as long as I can resist the pain, I can persevere for a long time.” Xu Jingming continued to use the Hua Hong (Rainbow Transformation) spear technique.

He was used to enduring pain.

When he was a child, he practiced Bajiquan and spear techniques. When his fists were broken and bleeding, he still had to persist. When blisters formed on his palms, he still had to grip the spear shaft and continue practicing.

He trained hard in the winter and summer, and even if there were difficulties and pain, he had to overcome them to ensure daily practice.

When fighting in competitions, even if he was injured, he had to continue fighting.

Therefore, Xu Jingming's ability to endure pain was indeed much stronger than ordinary people.

“What is this little bit of pain?”

“The despair after a broken leg is truly painful.” Xu Jingming's darkest days were after he broke his leg, and he felt that his martial arts path was completely cut off. Because even if he recovered well in theory, his leg would still be far from that of a normal expert.

After struggling for so many years, his hopes were shattered, and he was tormented by despair every day.

The despair tormented him for more than half a year before he adapted.

He felt that he had already reached this point, so he accepted his shortcomings and worked hard to practice his spear techniques, using pure spear techniques to once again enter the world's strongest stage.

Every day, he practiced his spear techniques, and he also had to be careful with the force exerted by his legs. Every time he felt pain in his legs, he had to be very careful, for fear of aggravating the injury.

“In the beginning, every time I exerted force to thrust out a spear, my legs would hurt. But at that time, I wasn’t afraid of the pain. I even had to carefully measure the degree of pain, most afraid of aggravating the injury.” Xu Jingming practiced his spear techniques.

“The current pain is just pain.”

“It only makes me practice my spear techniques more enjoyably.”

Xu Jingming practiced more and more excitedly.

The pain made his brain fluctuations even stronger. This strong emotion was completely integrated into his spear techniques.

“Turn into light!”

Let everything, even the torment of pain, turn into light!

Xu Jingming only felt that at this moment, practicing the Hua Hong spear technique was even more immersive than practicing the spear techniques in his usual peak state!

Time continued to pass by, minute by minute.

The pain was intensifying, becoming stronger and stronger! Under the pain, Xu Jingming's mind and consciousness were even more invested in the Hua Hong spear technique. Only by becoming more and more immersed, and even investing the pain into it, would he be unaffected.

“Turn into light! Turn into light! Turn into light!”

The stronger the pain, the more focused the mind!

In the later stages of the pain, Xu Jingming didn't have a single distracting thought! There was only one pure thought—turn into light!

Everything turned into light!

His body, his pain, his emotions… everything turned into light!

Xu Jingming only felt that his spear techniques were faster! His will's control over his body was also stronger!

He didn't know how long had passed.

“Bang!”

Xu Jingming’s body shook.

“The pain has reached level 15, the neural network has collapsed, and the body is automatically recovering.” A prompt appeared, and Xu Jingming's body returned to its peak state. There was no pain, and he felt extremely comfortable.

Xu Jingming stood there blankly.

“What?”

“The pain reached the limit of what the neural network could bear, and the body automatically recovered?” Xu Jingming was a little surprised. “Everyone says that pain is unbearable, but when I practiced the Hua Hong spear technique just now, how did I get more and more into it in the later stages!”

Yes, in his memory, he had forgotten the pain in the later stages of practice.

He only felt that his mind and consciousness were becoming more and more excited, and the mental will integrated into each spear was becoming stronger and stronger!

The stronger the mental will he instilled, the more enjoyable he felt!

“According to Xuan’s description, would this be considered the third realm of tempering the will?” Xu Jingming couldn't help but reveal a look of joy. “The third realm, 'Fervor'! The stronger the pain, the more fervent and condensed the mental will becomes. Is the mental will like a blade, the more it is tempered, the sharper it becomes?”

“The inheritance records that most people are in the first realm, and they are all working hard to persevere, to endure, the longer they endure, the better.”

“Reaching the second realm, Calm, being able to prevent the torment of pain from affecting the mind, is already a genius, one in ten thousand.”

“Reaching the third realm, Fervor! Is it extremely rare for the torment of pain to instead make the mental will more condensed? A genius among geniuses?” Xu Jingming thought of the descriptions in the inheritance and felt very good.

Xuan’s comments, this universe legend, filled him with confidence.

“Among the twelve training methods, this pain training method is very suitable for me.” Xu Jingming was also full of confidence in his path of refining his heart.

“Very good, I will focus on this method for future will-tempering training, supplemented by the other methods,” Xu Jingming thought.

******

Time quietly passed, and another month or so had passed in the blink of an eye.

Liu Hai was in his personal space training ground.

“Breaking through to the fifth level, why is it so difficult?” Liu Hai, holding a shield, also felt tired. “I’ve been at 99% of the fourth level for more than a month, but I can’t see any hope of breaking through. The inheritance describes that I need to clearly sense all the cells, but I can’t do it at all.”

“Perhaps, I need a battle that stimulates my mind.”

Liu Hai thought.

For so long, Liu Hai had only sparred with his disciple Xu Jingming when the virtual world had just opened. There had been no exchanges since! Liu Hai could also feel that his disciple's growth rate was rapid, and he knew that his disciple was definitely a strong opponent.

Liu Hai gently clicked and contacted Xu Jingming.

Whoosh.

The connection was successful.

“Master, are you looking for me?” On the other side of the screen was Xu Jingming, who was somewhat fanatical about practicing his spear techniques.