My Apocalypse System Arrives 10 Years Early

Chapter 447: Chapter 299: Resource Acquisition Can’t Keep Up with Upgrades, Tier Ten, Birth of an Endurance Inscription

Li Xiang helped his grandma plant vegetables, and with his help, their efficiency skyrocketed.

Take leveling the land, for instance. Whenever his grandma went to the kitchen for a drink or to the restroom, Li Xiang would use his Earth Superpower. He easily made the empty vegetable patch churn, tilling it back and forth several times. Not only that, but the soil also became perfectly level and loose, with uniformly sized particles—it was practically a work of art.

His Earth Superpower could be used on both large and small scales. On a grand scale, he could control a Titan’s Grip dozens of meters long, erect a fortress in an instant, or build a stone bridge. On a finer scale, he could perform ”precision tilling” in a tiny space, like weeding with surgical precision.

With his Earth Superpower, all the weeds were removed and the soil was loosened just right, without damaging the vegetables’ root systems in the slightest.

Needless to say, Li Xiang was a natural when it came to manual labor.

While chatting with his grandma, Li Xiang learned that his timing couldn’t have been worse. Jiang Cai’Er had been on break a few days ago and had eagerly come looking for him. Finding he wasn’t there, she stayed to chat with his grandma for a while, collected some peach gum, and left. Just yesterday afternoon, she had come back to have another meal with Granny Li Xiang before returning to school.

Li Xiang scratched his head. To be honest, the main reason he had rushed back was that he really missed Jiang Cai’Er, but he’d still managed to miss her. He could only sigh; he’d gotten so busy in America that he’d completely lost track of time.

’But maybe it’s for the best that we didn’t meet,’ he thought. ’That way, I won’t disturb Cai’Er’s studies.’ It was already April, and the college entrance exams were not far off. Once they were over, the two of them would have all the time in the world for themselves.

He had long since memorized the thousands of abstruse postures and breathing frequencies of the Star Dome Concerto: Simurgh’s Nine Melodies Dual Cultivation technique. When the time came, he would be sure to explore each and every one of them in depth with Jiang Cai’Er.

Jiushao was a famous form of ancient court music.

The *Bamboo Annals* record that in the first year of his reign, Emperor Shun of the Yu dynasty ascended the throne and ”composed the music of *Jiushao*.”

The *Rites of Zhou*, in the ”Spring Offices” section under ”Grand Master of Music,” states: ”The songs of the nine virtues, the dance of *Jiushao*.”

Yang Jiong of the Tang dynasty wrote in his ”Ullambana Rhapsody”: ”The *Jiushao* clangs, the six pitch-pipes sound; a thousand people sing, the eight-row dance is performed.”

This Dual Cultivation technique was incredibly profound. Among the thousands of Breathing Techniques the system had collected, it ranked sixth—not much lower than Li Xiang’s primary Cultivation Technique, the Shennong Longevity Spell.

Together, Li Xiang and his grandma planted many more vegetables in the gardens in their front and back yards: celtuce, lettuce, cucumbers, green beans, cowpeas, shepherd’s purse, ginger, loofah, water spinach, eggplant, and more.

For some, they sowed seeds, while for others that had already sprouted into small seedlings, Li Xiang helped with transplanting.

After several days of quiet cultivation at home, Li Xiang could no longer suppress his Realm. Late one quiet night, he broke through to Tier Ten. After all, with his long period of training in North and South America, the slaying of a Space Exotic Beast, and a daily diet of various Spiritual Medicines, a breakthrough was simply a matter of course.

It seemed he hadn’t encountered a single bottleneck since his rebirth.

The tenth Spiritual Power vortex formed in one of his kidneys, generating an ”Endurance” Inscription.

This was another ”minor Inscription,” but it tripled Li Xiang’s Endurance.

For example, he could previously sprint at an Extreme Speed of Mach 11 for eight minutes at most before he would be gasping for breath, his heart rate would be off the charts, and he’d be forced to rest. Now, however, he could maintain that same sprint for over twenty minutes.

After reaching Tier Ten, the Extreme Speed of his Divine Movement Technique had naturally increased as well, rising to about Mach 12. This meant that in a single, 24-minute sprint, he could cover 5,875 kilometers.