I started by slashing through the enemy's territory, and I drew so many affixes that my hands w

Qin Xiaoyuan was quite helpless. He asked for their bank accounts and transferred all the money to them.

As one of the four major universities, this amount of money is nothing.

He then took two wooden boxes out of the cabinet and pushed them over.

"This mission has been upgraded to S-rank, and in addition to the substantial rewards, there will also be honor medals."

"Jiang Qin, by using his Spirit Sea Realm to hold back the possessor of the God of Slaughter, successfully protected Black Soil City, executed corrupt officials, and made other contributions. The headquarters of the Spirit Suppression Bureau has decided to award you a First-Class Medal of Merit."

"As an assistant, Su Lingwei did not perform outstandingly in the mission, but... your act of using all your savings to help refugees has made headquarters very pleased, and we have decided to award you a second-class merit medal."

Although the Medal of Honor is not a substantial reward, it is more valuable to investigators and military personnel than training resources.

Because both organizations have specific requirements for promotion.

Even if you meet all the requirements and work diligently, without earning a medal, getting promoted is as difficult as climbing to the sky.

The prestige of the First-Class Merit Medal goes without saying.

If this matter hadn't involved otherworldly deities, even if Jiang Qin killed 100 or even 1000 cultists, he still wouldn't have received a first-class merit medal.

Jiang Qin smiled and accepted the wooden box containing the medal of honor, his eyes crinkling slightly: "Thank you, Principal. I knew the academy wouldn't let us down."

Su Lingwei happily accepted it and put it into her storage bag.

He went out to buy some soy sauce and got a second-class merit award. How could he not be happy?

Principal Qin tapped his fingers twice on the table, then coughed lightly twice and said:

"Next comes the formal investigator assessment and the garrison duty."

"In principle, to become a formal investigator, one must meet two hard requirements. First, one's cultivation level must reach the Spirit Sea Realm. Second, one must stay in the Spirit Suppression Bureau or our Spirit Suppression Academy for at least one year before applying to participate in the formal assessment."

"Jiang Qin, you want to go to a local garrison as soon as possible, so I talked to the higher-ups and moved up your probationary period. You don't have to wait until your second year. The same goes for Su Lingwei."

Next, Principal Qin began to explain the relevant matters regarding the performance evaluation for becoming a permanent employee.

"If trainee investigators want to become full-fledged investigators, they must take an assessment at the Spirit Suppression Bureau. I'm sure you'll have no problem with that, given your abilities. You can also claim and use the S-rank cultivation technique and the opportunity to enter the Spirit Pool as rewards for the mission."

"The next assessment is in a week, and someone will notify you then."

After finishing discussing the probationary period assessment, he paused and continued:

"After the probationary period ends, you will immediately go to the city you are assigned to guard, and the city you are assigned to is... Cold Moon City."

After a while.

Jiang Qin and Su Lingwei left the principal's office together.

They had barely left when a figure walked in with his hands behind his back, clicking his tongue and saying, "What were the higher-ups thinking, sending this little killer to guard Cold Moon Town? They want Cold Moon Town to be awash in blood."

The visitor was none other than Elder Lin.

Qin Xiaoyuan stood up and walked to the window, gazing at the bustling and peaceful city of Shanghai, and sighed softly:

"Elder Lin, times are changing... These days, interdimensional rifts are appearing more and more frequently. The higher-ups predict that ferocious beasts will soon invade on a large scale, and the world will surely be a hell on earth. While we still have time, we should purge the internal parasites to prevent future chaos."

The human world is like a prison; when that time truly comes, the number of dead will be in the hundreds of millions.

Upon hearing this, the old man's expression became much more serious, clearly indicating that he knew some of the inside story.

The ferocious beasts are inherently powerful and reproduce extremely quickly, forcing China to deploy its top military forces to guard the borders to ensure absolute safety. Once the restrictions between the two realms fail, the enemies will not only be the ferocious beasts.

It will then turn into a war between humans and gods!

Neither of them mentioned Jiang Qin's killing of the deputy mayor and deputy director of the public security bureau of Heitu City.

As long as the wrong person wasn't killed, killing them is just killing them.

Zhenling Academy will always be that child's support!

...

Jiang Qin went straight home after leaving the university.

Jiang Hanhan was not in the villa, presumably still studying at the academy. Instead, her adoptive mother was sitting on the sofa watching TV, with various snacks on the table, which surprised Jiang Qin.

"Xiao Qin is back. Oh... you've already reached the peak of the Spirit Sea Realm?"

"Yeah, I got lucky and broke through."

Jiang Qin walked to the sofa and sat down. After thinking for a moment, he couldn't help but speak:

"Mom...do you know how to break through to the Divine Manifestation Realm?"

The word "Mom" startled Shen Shuyun. Before, the child always called her "Shen Mom," and this was the first time the prefix had been removed. Her calm heart was stirred by waves of emotion.

She immediately sat up straight, coughed twice, and said seriously:

"It's normal that you don't know how to break through to the Divine Aspect Realm. The teachers at the academy won't specifically talk about these things. Looking at the four major academies, there are very few students who can break through to the Divine Aspect Realm before graduation."

Shen Shuyun began to explain in detail.

"You should know that the most obvious characteristics of a Divine Manifestation Realm martial artist are flight and the Dharma Image, right? But for a Spirit Sea Realm martial artist to break through to the Divine Manifestation Realm, what they need is no longer just spiritual power; condensing a Dharma Image illusory is the key to the breakthrough!"

"And the key to condensing the Dharma image is attachment."

"Obsession?" Jiang Qin was stunned, not understanding what it meant.

Seeing this, Shen Shuyun felt extremely satisfied and explained:

"Take a sword cultivator as an example. Suppose that the sword cultivator's obsession is to become the strongest in the world. When his obsession reaches its peak, his soul will undergo a mutation, thus resonating with heaven and earth, and his spiritual power will condense, allowing him to break through to the Divine Manifestation Realm."

"To put it simply, it means being determined to follow your path of martial arts, not just talking about it, but being willing to give everything, even your life, for it."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Qin showed a thoughtful expression.

The key to all this is to resonate with the universe. Breakthroughs rely on the mind; if one's willpower doesn't reach a certain level, one can't break through even if one cultivates for a lifetime.

This is not a constraint imposed by heaven and earth, so even if he possesses the [Innate Foundation of the Dao], he cannot break through it because he still lacks sufficient willpower.

Seeing her son's serious expression, Shen Shuyun comforted him:

"Actually, you don't need to rush to break through. There is a huge watershed between the Spirit Sea and the Divine Aspect. Some people are trapped at the peak of the Spirit Sea for their entire lives and cannot break through. Even your father only broke through successfully after three years of training outside and finally by chance."

Jiang Qin nodded without saying anything, then got up and walked upstairs.

three years?

He didn't want to wait that long.

Back in his room, he relaxed on the bed, but before he could even close his eyes, his phone rang.

"Buzz~~Buzz~~"

Jiang Qin picked up his phone and answered, "Hello, what's up?"

Su Lingwei's voice came from the phone: "Do you remember Chen Xiaohu? The one who got brutally beaten in the life-or-death battle before?"

Mentioning this name cleared Jiang Qin's head a bit, and he remembered that there was indeed such a person.

He had considered inviting that guy when he formed a team, but after seeing how timid that guy was, he didn't think much of it and had almost forgotten about him.

"Hmm... I remember now, what happened to him?"

Su Lingwei explained, "Just now, Chen Xiaohu issued a challenge to Han Wenqing!"