I can travel to the past and the future

The technique, named Yin Shen, draws upon the Yin energy of the night to solidify a divine body as solid as a fortress. It is a powerful ancient martial arts technique with a certain skill threshold.

It requires considerable physical potential, and the physique level should not be lower than 15, preferably starting at 20.

But none of these things were enough to move him.

What interests Qiao Yuan the most is that this physical technique for absorbing Yin energy can accumulate layers in advance!

Simply put, this is a method that absorbs the yin energy of the night, bringing one's skin close to that of a stiff corpse, thereby greatly increasing resistance to attacks and significantly reducing various pains, making it incredibly powerful.

You can accumulate one layer at night, and then instantly enter the Yin Spirit state when encountering enemies during the day!

The only drawback is that the Yin Spirit state lasts for a short time; with his current physique of just over level 15, he can only maintain it for a maximum of five minutes.

Furthermore, this ancient martial art is only divided into three stages: beginner, proficient, and master.

The stage affects the number of stacked layers, which are two, four, and six layers respectively.

Although the maximum number of layers can be accumulated is six, the duration of each layer of Yin Spirit can be increased according to the constitution level. The higher the constitution, the longer the duration.

Starting from level 15 in constitution, the Yin Spirit state can be extended by one minute for each level of constitution increase.

Overall, it's still very strong.

However, this also has a very serious drawback. Qiao Yuan only realized after learning that the reason why he could accumulate two layers at the beginning was simply because this power is very particular about the balance of Yin and Yang.

At night, one can absorb yin energy to accumulate layers, but during the day, the absorption and release of yang energy will cause the accumulated yin spirit to slowly dissipate!

While it may seem like you can accumulate two layers in advance during the "beginner" stage, in actual combat you'll only have one layer left at most.

Unless we encounter the enemy very early in the morning.

"This makes it a bit of a double-edged sword..." Qiao Yuan muttered, "but it's not a big problem."

Just as he had guessed, once the Yin Spirit had formally reached the entry level of cultivation, it was immediately purified!

A panel suddenly popped up in front of me.

[Ancient Martial Arts: Yin Spirit.]

[Proficiency: Beginner (2.3%)]

[Effect: Absorbs the yin energy of the night, shapes a yin body, increases resistance to attacks by 20%, reduces pain by 20%, each layer lasts 5 minutes.]

[Characteristic: Affected by the Eternal Great Luo, the accumulated layers remain indefinitely and will not disappear during the day.]

Hehe, Qiao Yuan grinned.

With only two minutes left in the half-hour countdown, he glanced outside the secret base of this cultist with an Asian face.

In his fear, the cultist pushed open the thick, warehouse-grade iron door, his hair flying wildly in the strong, biting evening wind, his cheeks trembling.

Before them stretched a vast sea of ​​clouds engulfed in flames of war. A gigantic skeletal pterosaur, over thirty meters long, charging at high speed, its eye sockets burning with eerie green flames, was engaged in a fierce dogfight with two members of the Embers, both clad in powered armor suits, high in the sky.

Explosive bullets spewing from red-hot gun barrels, beams of white energy from laser cannons locked on, high-speed quantum knives tearing through the clouds, a deluge of light-blade drones, and colossal starships shimmering with energy shields—one after another, they appeared…

Qiao Yuan was thrilled.

These cultists are pretty powerful; they actually live on the edge of the New London Floating City, which has now become the front line. The roads and the air are filled with Ember Squads and fully armed Federation combat troops...

Looking out, hundreds of skeletal pterosaurs obscured the starry night sky, their approach menacing.

He didn't just watch; he also activated his jetpack and flew up to experience the front lines of war firsthand.

A fierce life-or-death crisis loomed over them. These skeletal pterosaurs, with wingspans approaching thirty meters, were easily at the third or fourth tier in strength.

And there are thousands of such monsters!

However, he was soon drawn to the eerie green flames spewed by the skeletal pterosaur. The flames carried a strong aura of death and posed a great threat to the living. Even a third-tier pterosaur could unleash power close to that of a fourth-tier creature.

Why does this feel so familiar?

Sigh, isn't this just like a necromancer's substitute?

Just then, everything went black before his eyes, and he realized that two minutes had passed in the blink of an eye.

Damn it! After returning to the wreckage area, Qiao Yuan smiled with a mix of frustration and helplessness.

But it's not a big problem.

Memory Corridor, activated!

He instantly returned to the front line of the New London Floating City, where everything around him was exactly as he remembered it, down to the smallest detail.

Comparing the eerie green flames of these skeletal pterosaurs, Qiao Yuan immediately manifested a demonic substitute, his heart racing the more he looked at it—it was almost identical!

"Good heavens, could this skeletal pterosaur be the mount of a necromancer demon? But it doesn't seem to be of much use." He muttered to himself, looked around again, and then returned to the wreckage area, which was a long way away.

However, one thing is certain: if this catastrophe does indeed affect Silvermoon City, then the Demon Stand might be able to turn enemies into friends.

He couldn't help but glance at the Demon Substitute, which still had 20% durability left, and felt he should use it sparingly.

Whew, Qiao Yuan twisted his neck and quickly found the black tendrils belonging to the bald man.

It was a bit taller than his previous full beard, reaching six meters, but to his dismay, there was only one star left on his whiskers, and it would be useless once it was used up.

In that case, there's only one left for the sideburns, plus Caesar's three, which isn't much.

He murmured to himself, then quickly took out a small bottle of [Star Sea Source Essence] Ether-type D2 Flesh and Blood Gene Enhancement Fluid worth millions and stuffed it into the tentacle's mouth.

In an instant, the fluctuations of the whiskers before my eyes were several times greater than before, as if they had been longing for rain.

The tentacles, which were six meters tall, grew rapidly to 7.5 meters, an astonishing increase.

At the same time, a bunch of black stones the size of quail eggs were spat out from the large mouth of the tentacles.

Qiao Yuan's eyes lit up: "Hiss!"

He immediately removed his mask and only took inventory after returning home.

Anyway, there's no point in leaving it there.

"It's 40 yuan in total, three times the previous price. I knew I was right." Qiao Yuan's eyes lit up with joy.

When he was buying medicine last night, he actually hesitated, wondering whether to buy the multi-million dollar potion or ten multi-million dollar potions.

Although he was already a genuine "cultist" of the Church of the Night and had traded twice, he still didn't fully understand the exchange rate for Night Stones.

Ultimately, they were convinced that the spiritual energy contained in the millions of doses of medicine far exceeded that of a million.

Since you have the money, buy the best.

As expected, it has now come to pass.

The bag of sand slug eggs from before, based on the 13 pieces of Black Night Stone, was worth nearly 400 million.

It has now tripled.

It should have been worth 1200 million.

But he only spent 1000 million.

It can be confirmed that the more expensive drugs are far more effective than the cheaper ones, but not proportionally.

In other words, ten bottles of potions worth millions are still weaker than one bottle of potions worth tens of millions.

Actually, this is good for him; it avoids having to buy a lot of medicine at once and attract attention.

Qiao Yuan did not hesitate to start practicing the Night Breathing Technique, but a diameter of twenty meters was still too small.

An hour passed in the blink of an eye.

At 7 p.m., he was thoroughly enjoying the new third level of the Night Breathing Technique.

The sensing range has increased from a diameter of 20 meters to a diameter of 50 meters, which is a significant increase.

[Night Breathing Technique: Three Layers (70%)]

It only took him twenty Night Stones to upgrade to the third level, and he used them all at once. Now it seems he's close to the fourth level as well.

He's not going to worry about the Eternal Night Technique for now; all he wants right now is a super-sensory experience with an enormous range!

Great, an increasingly comfortable sense of security.

Qiao Yuan took out a carton of pure milk from the refrigerator and drank it. Next, he planned to accumulate two layers of Yin Spirit.

While +20% resistance to damage is currently quite average, it becomes considerable when combined with a 20% reduction in pain.

He had specifically looked up the concept of pain when he was in high school and found it quite interesting.

Although pain can stimulate the body to produce a variety of emotions, such as anger and fighting harder, pain is essentially an obstacle.

Back in high school, he not only practiced standing on the Monkey God Stance, but also struck special ironwood stakes. The most serious obstacle to his daily practice was the swelling, pain, and redness in his hands.

At the time, I thought that if it weren't for the unbearable pain, if my fist hadn't been broken and bleeding, I could have continued for another hour or two.

With the current reduction in pain, both the power of being attacked and the power of punches will be greatly increased. Combined with a +20% resistance to attacks, his actual combat strength will likely be significantly enhanced.

He pondered for a moment, and then began to accumulate levels according to the Yin God cultivation method.

This technique is quite good; the cumulative process can also increase the percentage of proficiency gained.

Qiao Yuan spent two hours condensing a layer of Yin Spirit, which now gathered in his left palm like a drop of light ink.

To use this technique, simply recite the mantra three times in your mind, and you can enter the Yin Spirit state at any time.

It's only nine o'clock now, and the baby hasn't come home yet. We can add another layer, just in case.

But before that, he received a call from Hu Tu: "What's up?"

Hu Tu coughed on the other end of the phone and said, "Uh, I just wanted to ask where we should meet tomorrow at noon?"

Qiao Yuan thought for a moment: "Isn't Jack a boarding student? He lives near the entrance of Galaxy University, which is close to the Donglin Fresh Food Market in Yunxi District. I've been there before."

"Oh right, I forgot, hahaha," Hu Tu laughed twice, "See you tomorrow then."

Qiao Yuan hummed in agreement twice to end the call and then continued cultivating. Tomorrow was a holiday, and he was determined to play games with his baby all night when the baby came home.

You should get up.

You have to get up, whether you like it or not.

After the second layer of Yin spirits had accumulated, Yan Baobao returned at exactly ten o'clock.

He glanced at the increased progress.

[Proficiency: Beginner (6.5%)]

Looking at it this way, it seems to be progressing quite quickly; I estimate I can be promoted to [Proficient] in about twenty days.

Moreover, he now has a strong feeling that once the Yin Spirit state is activated, it will be able to raise his strength to the level 20 physique level.

The true trump cards—power and speed—will be significantly enhanced as pain decreases.

A real surge!

Yan Baobao had just taken off her shoes, her long pink hair twirling as she walked over with her bare, slender white feet, saying, "You guys have a holiday tomorrow, right? School starts soon."

"Yes, will your baby be coming to school when it starts?"

"Well, school starts the day after tomorrow, so I usually go to the bureau around noon or in the afternoon."

Qiao Yuan smiled knowingly: "Great, I can go to 8 am with my baby again, just in a different class."

"It's okay, I'll ask around after school starts and find out what the requirements are for getting into the Galaxy Class," Yan Baobao said earnestly. "Then I'll help you make a plan."

"Great!" Qiao Yuan said enthusiastically.

Yan Baobao scratched her hair, her little mouth moving as she mumbled, "My head's a little itchy. I'm going to take a shower first, then we can play games, okay?"

Qiao Yuan couldn't help but laugh and say, "I'm just waiting for you to come back so I can play games all night."

The baby's beautiful eyes suddenly lit up, and with a pout, she excitedly ran into the bathtub.

……

Beep beep, beep beep, beep beep.

The next day at noon, Qiao Yuan was woken up by Hu Tu's phone call. He reached out and touched the bedside table, and answered groggily, "Yeah, I just woke up. Coming, coming. No, it's okay, wait for me for five minutes."

"Really nothing wrong? You must have been playing games all night with your sister again. Qin Xue doesn't really like playing games, she mostly watches dramas, some of which I'm not even interested in. Sigh, I really envy you."

"Jack has already met me at the entrance of Galaxy University. He looks a bit anxious."

Qiao Yuan listened to Hu Tu's rambling: "Then how about this, you take a taxi to my balcony first, to save some time. You know the location, it's room 0093 on the 150th floor of Building D, Jiangnan Building."

"Okay," Hu Tu readily agreed.

Qiao Yuan rubbed his head and glanced at the real-time temperature displayed on the floor-to-ceiling window.

It's 23.2 degrees Celsius, and the sun is shining brightly—perfect weather for a holiday.

He got up and changed into an apricot-colored retro-style jacket with a lapel. The fabric was rather stiff, similar to a slim-fit blazer.

Paired with loose-fitting brown trousers, the overall look is very relaxed, making it a perfect outfit for afternoon tea at a coffee shop.

He went to the dressing table to wash up and, at the same time, used the smart coffee machine to make a hot cup of coffee.

There wasn't time to eat.

But you still need to drink coffee.

I played with my baby until 4 a.m. before going to sleep, and it's now 20 minutes to 12.

Actually, it wasn't too bad. He slept for a full seven and a half hours, but if it weren't for his promise to Jack, he would have slept until three or four in the afternoon.

He was still three breakthroughs away from achieving awakening, and he was very enthusiastic about today's arrangements.

At that moment, Hutu and Jack's taxi had already stopped outside the balcony, and the door was open.

After finishing his coffee, Qiao Yuan habitually slung his brown wind-powered flying backpack over his shoulder, opened the security window on the balcony with his voice, and with a push of his heels, leaped out like a master of light-footed kung fu, landing steadily on the car.

It is indeed a first-tier overlord, and can easily jump more than ten meters away with a flat step.

After closing and locking the security window, he gestured to Hu Tu and said, "Let's go."

At that time, the bionic sparrow with the serial number YJN09524 was still outside on the balcony, guarding his house.

Hu Tu nodded, letting the door of the floating taxi slowly close, then asked curiously, "You kid, why do you seem to have an even more otherworldly air about you?"

Sitting across from him, Jack, who was wearing a rather hip-hop style red jacket today, laughed and said, "Yeah, it does seem a bit different."

Qiao Yuan coughed and asked, "Really?"

Hu Tu clicked his tongue twice: "Yes, that leap just now had quite the air of a grandmaster."

"Yes, yes, yes," Jack seconded.

Hearing this, Qiao Yuan found it quite reasonable and couldn't help but smile slightly: "Maybe, well, it's innate? That's what you call talent."

Hutu immediately shook his head with a disdainful look and said to Jack, "See, you get all cocky after just one compliment."

Jack laughed heartily, grinning from ear to ear, "To be honest, I feel Qiao Yuan is really capable. He truly impressed Lu Qiuhai twice!"

"That's true, hmm, that movement technique is indeed top-notch," Hu Tu suddenly thought of something, slapped his forehead and said, "Oh dear, it must have been your sister who taught you! I knew you'd improved by leaps and bounds after entering university."

Qiao Yuan smiled without saying a word.

However, having a genius older sister to shield him does explain all the changes that have happened to him.

"Sister? Who is that?" Jack asked curiously.

Hu Tu shrugged: "Who else could it be but that famous genius from the Heavenly Palace Class? To be honest, I didn't expect our class monitor to be able to achieve the top level at Galaxy University. That's so cool. She's beautiful, has terrifying talent, and was even specially recruited by Ember. Most importantly, she loves playing games. Sigh, she's too perfect."

Jack gradually froze, staring at Qiao Yuan in astonishment as he asked, "Holy crap, that pink-haired girl from the Heavenly Palace Class, the monster who completely overpowered Gu Qingshan, is your sister??"

Qiao Yuan just smiled and didn't say anything. He didn't expect that Bao Bao hadn't even come to military training, but because of his mysteriousness, the news had already spread to everyone.

Geniuses truly shine wherever they go.

Hu Tu exclaimed in surprise, "You know him?"

Jack immediately became excited: "I don't know her, but it's all over the Galaxy Class. She's called Yan Baobao. It's said that she got a lot of privileges and was the only one who didn't participate in military training. The school values ​​her highly."

"Ahem," Qiao Yuan chuckled, patting his flat stomach, "Have you two had lunch yet?"

"No, but I just ate at ten o'clock." Hu Tu blurted out, "You haven't eaten, have you?"

Jack, acting like a host, said, "Brother Qiao, you just woke up, right? Oh, when we get near the clinic, I'll get out and buy you some food. There's lots of food there."

"No, what, Brother Qiao?" Qiao Yuan waved his hand.

Jack, however, said in a serious tone, "I started school early and I'll only be seventeen next month. Besides, Brother Qiao is clearly stronger than those geniuses, yet he's incredibly low-key. He's like a hidden master, very impressive, to be honest."

Qiao Yuan was both amused and exasperated: "Don't flatter me to death, I'm just an ordinary person."

"Oh, I love Brother Qiao's unassuming, low-key style. No, no, it's settled then." Jack smiled brightly: "Almost there, right there."

Qiao Yuan looked slightly helpless. He then turned his head to look. In fact, they had just passed the Donglin Fresh Food Market, about one or two kilometers away.

The vehicles gradually came to a stop next to a bustling commercial street, stretching for miles from east to west.

Jack's clinic was just thirty meters away, in a rather old shop with a white sign that read "Old Jack's Clinic" hanging above the door.

They seem to be lucky; the other family's clinic's roller shutter door hasn't been pulled down yet today.

Jack exclaimed excitedly, "Great! It's not even midnight yet! This time I might be able to see exactly who's been making my dad keep the roller shutter closed!"

Qiao Yuan also thought it was a good idea; once it was confirmed, they could directly go to the anchor point to farm breakthroughs.

I hope it's true.

It would be even better if it were from the Church of the Night.