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The next day.

Bloed closed himself in his laboratory. He instructed Regina and Liu Ying to not bother him for the next day. But if after one day he doesn't leave the laboratory, he told Regina to enter the laboratory without hesitation and confirm he is alright.

Bloed was not sure if his breakthrough was going to go smoothly, so he told Regina that just in case.

After he made sure everything was in order, Bloed sat cross-legged on the ground and started his psychic power training technique.

It was not necessary to sit cross-legged to train psychic power, but Bloed had gotten used to this method due to his mother. According to his Camila, sitting cross-legged made it easier to clear his mind from unnecessary thoughts.

Perhaps her words were right, or perhaps Bloed was already used to this method; but just after ten seconds, Bloed's mind was completely focused on his psychic energy training method.

That process lasted one whole hour. After one hour, Bloed opened his eyes again.

At this point, this method was not very useful to increase Bloed's psychic energy. His energy had reached a limit, a bottleneck.

If he wanted to continue advancing, he needed to stimulate his calculation zone and made it expand.

Normally, A ESPer would rely on his ESP ability to get the stimulation his calculation zone needed. But by this point, Bloed's [Enhanced Brain Capacity] had reached the limit of its potential, and [Molecular Disintegration] could barely be used, so Bloed needed a lot of luck before it could produce the breakthrough.

But with the spiritual fruits Eve gave him, it was a different story.

When Bloed was sure he was in top condition, he took out the wooden box and opened it.

Three glistening grape-like fruits appeared before his eyes.

Bloed stared at them fixedly. After a few seconds, he grabbed one of them.

Then, he put it on his mouth and swallowed it.

Nothing happened in the first few seconds.

But suddenly, something changed.

A sudden rush of psychic energy charged towards his brain!

The psychic energy was like an uncontrolled flood. It charged towards his calculation zone and hit it!

Bloed's expression changed. Without hesitation, he calmed his mind and prepared himself to receive the psychic energy.

Then–

*Boom!*

A thunderous roar filled his mind.

Bloed felt his psychic energy struggling against the new psychic energy! It was rejecting the foreign invader!

Bloed knew about this part of the process. In the end, the psychic energy inside the fruits was not his. If he wanted to make it his, he had to refine it first.

Therefore, he focused on refining the psychic energy.

Each strand of psychic energy was slowly attacked and a.s.similated by the psychic energy is Bloed's mind. Each second, his psychic energy grew little by little.

And Bloed felt the barrier towards B-Grade loosening.

The process was as though more water was being added to an already-filled bottle. With each drop added, the pressure inside the bottle increased slightly, and it was closer to exploding.

But no matter how much water Bloed added, the bottle did not explode.

Instead, it continued holding on stubbornly.

After one hour like that, Bloed furrowed his brows.

He could feel he was very close to breaking through. His calculation zone was trembling constantly, about to give in.

But it continued resisting stubbornly.

Moreover, the energy in the spiritual fruit he consumed was already almost exhausted.

Bloed heaved a disappointed sigh.

He had the hope of just needing one fruit to breakthrough. That way, he could save the other two fruits for when he needed to breakthrough to Grade.

Perhaps they would not be enough to complete the breakthrough, but they could make the process easier.

Now, though, he could only resign himself to use the second fruit.

With a slightly reluctant expression, Bloed swallowed another spiritual fruit.

Just like the first time, the fruit soon turned into an enormous amount of psychic energy that rushed towards his mind. The energy went inside his calculation zone and reinforced the energy of the first fruit.

Instantly, the pressure Bloed's calculation zone was enduring increased greatly!

But at the same time, Bloed noticed that his psychic energy rejected the new psychic energy faster than before.

Bloed now understood why the fruit was only useful for the first few times. After that, his psychic energy would get used to the new psychic energy and will reject it before he could make the psychic energy his.

Suppressing the disappointment in his mind, Bloed focused on a.s.similating as much psychic energy as he could. At the same time, he used his psychic energy to push against the barrier stopping his advancement.

One minute, two minutes, three minutes.

Little by little, his psychic energy increased.

The growth was slow, but it was constant. At the same time, his calculation zone shook greatly, as though it could not endure anymore.

Aware that the critical moment had come, Bloed gritted his teeth and pushed his psychic energy at the limit.

Then–

*Boom!*

Something broke.

And Bloed psychic energy climbed at an unbelievable rate.

As though the stalemate of before was a lie, the psychic energy continued growing at a crazy rate. The growth was so intense that it seemed like it was not going to stop.

Moreover, part of the second spiritual fruit still needed to be a.s.similated. That increased his psychic energy even more.

Bloed suppressed his excitement and just concentrated on increasing his psychic energy as much as he could. He was not going to miss this opportunity.

Thus, after almost one hour, the growth of his psychic energy finally calmed down.

A smile appeared on Bloed's lips. Then, he opened his eyes.

Instantly, his psychic energy spread to the entire laboratory.

He had reached B-Grade.