Family members.
Who understands?
The crisp and pleasant notification sound, which I had been eagerly anticipating the entire day, finally appeared when the Qi Blood Value reached its peak!
Xu Ran was in a cheerful mood, leisurely lying on the bed, adjusting both mental and physical states to perfection.
Before lying on the bed.
He took a shower, thoroughly cleansing both inside and out.
After all, the third Innate Baptism is one of the most important events in life, and the sense of ceremony cannot be left out!
As for having to wait until the dead of night, when mom is asleep, to begin the baptism... that's an old story now.
Approaching five, he now has his own sleeping room!
"Everything is ready except for the crucial moment, is there any oversight?"
Opening his eyes, he glanced at the doors and windows, ensuring they were locked, and the curtains were drawn tightly.
"Alright, initiate the Innate Baptism."
As the command was given.
From the depths of Xu Ran's heart, suddenly, like a dam bursting, surged forth an extremely cold and frigid energy!
"Hiss——"
Xu Ran's breath froze, eyes wide open.
The energy surging from the third Innate Baptism was far superior to the first and second in terms of bone-chilling coldness and the energy's turbulence.
In just a breath's moment, his heart was frozen into an ice sculpture, then abruptly shattered into powder.
At this moment.
Xu Ran remained motionless, as if time had been paused, with everything around turning to slow motion, the world dissected into tiny, dust-like particles, floating fragmented space drifting softly before Xu Ran's eyes, rotating...
As if ten thousand years had passed.
In the next instant. The heart, shattered into powder, reassembled, forged into a whole a hundred times stronger.
The heartbeat resumes.
"Bang——"
"Bang——"
"Bang——"
Strong, powerful, the sound like a drumbeat, like the low roar of tigers and leopards.
For the first time, Xu Ran discovered, the beauty of a heartbeat!
Yet the very next second.
From the heart's depths, surged fiercely a searing "scorching magma" at an extreme temperature, hot enough to liquefy rocks in an instant, burning his heart to ashes.
Xu Ran's vision went black.
As if thrown to the bottom of a volcano, completely incinerated to nothingness.
Fortunately, in an instant, his heart reformed.
The heart grew stronger!
Xu Ran heard a resonance like a giant drum of a dragon, feeling extremely peculiar!
Then.
His heart was destroyed and reshaped by extreme ice three times.
Immediately, the extreme cold ice liquid and scorching magma transformed into two ferocious floods, wildly pumping through limbs, organs, meridians, and cells, being frozen into powder in a moment, incinerated by flames the next, and instantly reshaped...
In the midst of annihilation and reshaping, the extreme cold energy and extreme heat energy were pressed into Xu Ran's limbs and bones, pressed into sixty trillion cells!
"Is this process like Nirvana rebirth? Breaking free from shackles, surpassing the Life Limit?"
Xu Ran was astounded.
He sensed two completely opposite super energies, forging a perfect body in the most violent way.
All cells, all meridians, all bones, all internal organs, through the forging of ice and fire, achieved tens of times improvement.
This isn't a superficial strength enhancement.
But rather, the shackles were forcibly shattered open!
Foundation, limits... were sharply raised!
If the earlier Xu Ran was like a massive boulder, the future Xu Ran would be like a hill composed of hundreds of massive boulders.
This feel of life level transition... is so clear and obvious!!
Like a butterfly emerging from a cocoon! Like rebirth from flames! Like an ant soaring, burgeoning in the storm, becoming a mighty giant!
A pleasure from the depths of the soul spread, engulfing Xu Ran...
Utterly exhilarating!
Xu Ran's entire body, pores relaxed!
[Congratulations, the third Innate Baptism is completed! Due to completing the third Innate Baptism, at eight years old, your conversion rate of Qi Blood Value to Qi Power will reach 120%...]
Hmm?
Xu Ran raised his eyebrows, unable to hold back his amazement.
Generally speaking.
Human cubs are naturally weaker, because the conversion rate of Qi Blood Value to Qi Power is very low.
For example, infants under one year, the conversion rate is 5%, so 1000 Qi Blood Value points only manifest as 50 points of Qi Power.
Above one year, under six, the conversion rate is 10%, 1000 Qi Blood Value points only manifest as 100 points of Qi Power. Commonly called one part strength, only one-tenth can be exerted.
Once above six years, the conversion rate is 50%... At this stage, child prodigies' combat power just begins to show. The Root Bone within will also fully reveal, displaying its unique effects.
After reaching the age of eight, human cubs can step onto the path of cultivation. At that time, the starting conversion rate is 80%.
As for those top geniuses, there's a chance to achieve a 100% conversion rate, and possibly even surpass it, but the transcendence of top geniuses is only something like 105%, 108%.
So how did Xu Ran start with a 120% conversion rate?
This is terrifying.
If he is now eight years old, then with his terrifying 10,000 points of Qi Blood Value, he can exhibit a Qi Power of 12,000 points!
A twenty percent increase, which can only be described with four words — invincible at the same tier!
"As expected of the Innate Baptism!"
The smile on Xu Ran's lips transformed from joyful glee to blatant delight.
On one hand, the life limit raised by the third Innate Baptism brought him joy.
On the other hand, the sound of the third golden achievement notification had already arrived in his mind —
[Third Innate Baptism Task Complete]: Congratulations, before reaching the age of five, your Spirit Blood Value reached the current life limit of 10,000 points, successfully triggering the third Innate Baptism, earning the golden achievement [Purified Spirit Body].
[Purified Spirit Body (Golden Achievement)]: Luck +30 points;
Toxic gases, pollution, ghostly substances, when invading your body, will be slowly purified by your flesh.
...
Looking at the golden achievement glittering in his mind.
Xu Ran couldn't help but leap up and sit cross-legged on the bed.
"Finally got it! The third golden achievement of my life!"
"The dazzling gold… how beautiful it is… the more I look, the more pleasing it becomes to the eyes, the more refreshing it is to the mind."
"Is this the unique sense of achievement that comes only after sweating several thousand drops?"
The reward tempered by sweat brought a sense of achievement, magnifying it tenfold, a hundredfold!
Xu Ran was extremely satisfied.
"Such comfort, such comfort, these 30 points of luck are simply wonderful!"
"This unique purification effect. Toxic gases, pollution, ghostly substances… can all be slowly purified by the body!"
"Combined with my Superfast Recovery, it's like being an indomitable cockroach!"
"Good, good, good!"
Xu Ran took a deep breath, opened the window to let the fresh late autumn air fill his lungs.
His joy was such that he even wanted to climb ten laps on the ceiling!
However.
Xu Ran restrained the strange impulse from deep within.
Instead, he turned his thoughts to the system interface.
[Name]: Xu Ran
[Age]: Toddler period, Day 1735 (Four years, nine months.)
[Qi Blood]: 10,000/100,000
[Spirit]: 32/100
[Appearance]: 100/100 (already maxed, possessing a Celestial Human Form upon adulthood…)
[Luck]: 103 points/∞ (Your luck is superior, with many adventures.)
[Root Bone]: None
[Divine Techniques]: None
[Achievements]:
Celestial Human Form (Golden Achievement, Luck +40/120 points, one kidnapping incident yet to trigger);
Self-Discipline Baby (Blue Achievement, Qi Blood +1 point daily);
Perfect Cubs (Golden Achievement, Luck +30 points, Root Bone yet to be drawn);
Purified Spirit Body (Golden Achievement, Luck +30 points, self-purification);
[Skill Progress]: Click with intent to view details.
[Achievement Tasks]:......
...
"What an improvement visible to the naked eye."
Xu Ran's features were full of joy.
First is the Qi Blood Value limit, reaching 100,000 points!
Accumulating to max value reaches the Peak of Hill Realm.
And the Hill Realm… is a towering mountain in front of countless cultivators!
Xu Ran, not even five years old, has already surpassed 80% of the cultivators on Blue Star!
Then there's his Luck, after nearly five years of effort, Xu Ran's Luck Value soared from an initial 3 points to today's 103 points.
It multiplied thirty times over, going from an unlucky guy who could only dream of luck to encountering continuous adventures now.
Moreover, he's only 200 points away from reaching 300 points of Luck!
A little more effort to gain a few more golden achievements… and he can draw the perfect Crimson Gold Root Bone.
Thinking of this.
Xu Ran let out a deep breath: "Let's see the new achievement task! This… hmm… hmm?"