[While roaming the Boundless Divine Realm, you discovered that the personal guards under the Empress had access to rare materials. However, despite their rarity, only top-tier Artificers could forge them.]

[But your cultivation has now reached the Nascent Soul Stage, making it easy for you to fuse such materials. So they handed the materials over to you, and you successfully forged six Heavenly-Grade Secret Treasures using surging spiritual power.]

[These Secret Treasures are not only incredibly sturdy and water-resistant, but also enhance the spiritual link between the wearer and yourself.]

[You gave one of the Secret Treasures as a proposal ring to the Empress of the Imperial City. From now on, your spiritual connection with the Empress has reached its peak.]

[Your spiritual energy level has increased by one.] [Your maximum connection with the Empress increases your cultivation speed by 50%.]

[Congratulations, you have successfully broken through to Level 80.] [Soul Formation Stage.]

[Congratulations, your physique attribute has upgraded to—Spirit Gathering Body Level 1.] [Spirit Gathering Body has the same max level as other attributes: Level 5.]

[Effect of Spirit Gathering Body Level 1: Your maximum lifespan increases to 200 years. You gain a slow self-healing ability after injury. Fatal wounds downgrade to severe injuries;

severe injuries downgrade to minor ones. Cannot downgrade continuously. Physical durability doubled.]

Walking through campus, Lin Zhengran blinked at the system’s words.

Another breakthrough?

That was fast. Normally it takes a long time to move up at such a high level.

Was it because of the ring this time?

After all, wedding rings carry significant meaning in this world. In the system’s eyes, it probably counts as a top-tier magical artifact too.

In that case, I still have five more rings. If I give them all away, wouldn’t that boost my level even more?

As these thoughts passed through his mind, Lin Zhengran felt changes in his body.

He stopped walking.

Although regular eyes couldn't see it, he clearly noticed the spiritual energy within him gathering at a single point.

The scattered spiritual energy merged into his main meridian. As this fusion happened, his body temperature rose.

After half a minute, his temperature gradually returned to normal and stabilized.

He lowered his head to examine his arm, feeling the changes in his body.

It looked the same on the surface, but only Lin Zhengran knew—his body now was worlds apart from the one that simply couldn’t get sick.

Especially the self-healing ability. He was really curious about how powerful that could be.

Would it be as exaggerated as in those fantasy dramas?

So he found a quiet place where no one was around.

He picked up a fairly sharp stone from the ground and deliberately made a shallow cut on his forearm.

But even though the stone was sharp, it didn’t leave a single scratch on his skin—not even redness or swelling.

“My body’s strength doubled and it’s this solid? Looks like unless it’s an especially sharp weapon, most things can’t hurt me anymore.”

No choice. To test the healing ability, he infused a bit of spiritual energy into the stone.

As the energy flowed in, the system’s divine crafting ability activated. The tip of the stone became visibly sharper, glinting coldly in the sunlight.

Lin Zhengran gently slashed his arm.

A shallow wound finally appeared, with bright red blood seeping from it.

He observed the injury, watching as the wound began to change before his eyes. The flesh was reorganizing itself.

In about fifteen seconds...

The wound completely disappeared. The blood was gone too. No trace remained.

Lin Zhengran touched it in amazement. It was really as good as new.

He didn’t feel a single bit of pain.

Fifteen seconds. What if the wound was larger? Would it still be fifteen seconds? Or would it be slower?

Lin Zhengran looked at the stone in his hand and frowned slightly. Then he made a much deeper gash on his arm.

Blood dripped from his elbow to the ground with soft splashes.

He was just about to start counting the time.

In the distance, a little fox unexpectedly noticed Lin Zhengran standing behind the bushes doing something strange.

“Zhengran gege?”

The little fox walked over excitedly, only to discover that Lin Zhengran seemed to be holding a stone... and had apparently cut his arm.

Blood had already dripped from his arm onto the stone.

“Zhengran gege, what happened to you?!” The panicked little fox couldn’t stand seeing Lin Zhengran hurt. She rushed over, her eyes welling with tears almost instantly.

Lin Zhengran finally noticed Han Wenwen. “Wenwen? What are you doing here?”

“Zhengran gege, what are you doing?!” She grabbed his hand, terrified, her pupils widening.

Because when she looked at it, there was no injury on Lin Zhengran’s arm at all.

“Huh?” Han Wenwen was very confused. She could’ve sworn she just saw Lin Zhengran injured, blood dripping down.

But now there was nothing?

She looked down at the stone on the ground and saw that even the bloodstains had vanished.

She rubbed her eyes in disbelief—but it was still the same.

Lin Zhengran asked, “What is it, Wenwen? What are you looking at?”

Fifteen seconds... It really was fifteen seconds. Seems like as long as it’s not a severe injury, it always heals within fifteen seconds.

Because the system mentioned different levels of injuries, and Lin Zhengran clearly felt that the bigger the wound, the more painful the healing process was.

So that must be it. But this is only Level 1. If it levels up more in the future... maybe even severe wounds will heal within fifteen seconds?

Han Wenwen’s eyes were red. “I swear I saw Zhengran gege get hurt just now, but...”

Lin Zhengran smiled and patted Han Wenwen’s head to comfort her. “What are you thinking? Why would I suddenly get hurt for no reason?”

Han Wenwen still didn’t understand what had happened, but she was just glad Zhengran gege was okay.

That moment had really scared her. She quickly hugged Lin Zhengran.

“You scared me to death...” Her voice trembled with tears, her heartbeat sped up several notches. “If Zhengran gege got hurt, what would I do? Thank goodness I was just seeing things.”

“It’s okay, it’s okay. Don’t worry.”

Han Wenwen glanced at the sharp stone in Lin Zhengran’s other hand. “But Zhengran gege, why are you holding that stone? It’s really sharp.”

Lin Zhengran looked at the spirit-enhanced stone and explained, “I was just curious and picked it up.”

Han Wenwen looked at him worriedly. “Throw it away, Zhengran gege. It’s scary.”

“Mm.” He nodded helplessly.

Lin Zhengran squatted down and chipped off the sharp tip of the stone, then tossed it into the distant lotus pond.

This seemingly ordinary stone had been turned into epic quality under Lin Zhengran’s creation. Don’t be fooled by how easily he broke it—most people wouldn’t even be able to scratch it.

“This way no one else will get hurt by it.”

Han Wenwen let out a sigh of relief standing nearby.

Lin Zhengran asked, “By the way, Wenwen, why aren’t you with He Qing and the others?”

Since Lin Zhengran wasn’t hurt, her mood bounced back quickly. She smiled and said:

“I made up an excuse and snuck away. Zhengran gege, do you remember you promised to go buy underwear with me? Since we’re moving today anyway, let’s go now.”