Zhou Huai's heart stirred.

3.0 Intensity?

Back then, merely 2.5 intensity made Gandalf's Level soar like a rocket.

Wouldn't the effect of 3.0 intensity be even more terrifying?

This was precisely what he needed the most right now.

Professor Li was already getting somewhat impatient; he rubbed his hands and urged,

"What are you standing there frozen for?!"

"Why aren't you taking off your clothes and going in to try it out?!"

"I can't wait to see the data!"

Zhou Huai had been prepared in his heart and controlled Gandalf to nod calmly.

Without the slightest hesitation, right in front of Professor Li, he began to untie the mage robe on his body.

Soon, Gandalf stripped down to just a pair of shorts that barely covered his body.

Although Gandalf's appearance was that of an aged mage, this Avatar's physical body was sculpted by Zhou Huai according to the most perfect template, with symmetrical muscle lines full of explosive power and not a single ounce of excess fat.

"Tsk tsk, this physical fitness is simply perfect!"

Professor Li looked at the "artwork" before him, his eyes filled with admiration.

With a composed expression, Gandalf took large strides and walked straight into the giant glass container.

"Hum—"

Accompanied by a soft sound, the heavy hatch slowly closed, emitting a muffled locking sound that completely isolated the inside and outside of the container.

The very instant the hatch completely closed,

Zhou Huai's main soul sent an unbearable, tearing-like excruciating pain.

Mere weak mental coercion emanating while the 3.0 Intensity Body Tempering machine was on standby made him feel as if his soul was about to be crushed to pieces.

"The 3.0 intensity is simply not something my fragile soul can withstand."

Zhou Huai did not hesitate for a moment; his consciousness withdrew, returned to his main body, and switched to the Intellect Core AI hosting mode.

Professor Li looked at Gandalf's eyes in the container, which became somewhat hollow at that instant, but he didn't mind.

He just assumed that the experimental subject had actively emptied his mind to resist the upcoming pain.

Rubbing his hands, his face flushed, he rushed to the holographic control console, his hands dancing rapidly across it as if playing the piano.

"All parameter tests are normal!"

"Vital signs are stable!"

"Mental fluctuations… zero?!"

Professor Li looked at the straight-as-a-ruler green line, froze for a moment, and then burst into wild laughter.

"Hahaha! As expected of you! Have you already entered the State of No-Self before it even started?!"

"Good! Excellent!"

Hesitating no longer, he fiercely slapped a blood-red virtual button.

"The good show is starting!"

"Boom—"!

The instant the command was given, several pipes connected to the main container suddenly lit up with a dazzling blue light.

Viscous blue liquid, with a color so deep it was almost black, was crazily injected into the glass container by a high-pressure pump.

In just a few seconds, the dark blue liquid completely submerged Gandalf's figure.

"Glug glug…"

Innumerable bubbles frantically surged from the depths of the liquid, and the liquid inside the entire container seemed to be instantly boiled, churning violently.

Professor Li stared fixedly at the container, seeing that dark blue liquid being crazily absorbed by Gandalf's body at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The boundless energy contained within the liquid surged into all his limbs and bones through every pore on his skin.

On the surface of Gandalf's skin, countless pale golden mysterious runes even flickered in and out of view, continuously brightening and dimming as the energy was absorbed.

Right at this moment,

the System prompts in his mind exploded frantically.

【Experience Points + 10000】

【Experience Points + 10000】

【Experience Points + 10000】

【Experience Points + 10000】

...

Dense rows of System prompts crazily flooded the screen, and the experience bar representing Level 47 began to soar forward at an unprecedented and terrifying speed!

"It's flying! This speed!"

Zhou Huai was overjoyed in his heart.

In the laboratory, Professor Li's expression was even more exaggerated than his.

This mad old professor was currently clinging desperately in front of the holographic projection, his entire face almost pressed against the screen.

His eyes stared wide like bronze bells, and his mouth was open wide enough to stuff an egg.

"Life activity index… is soaring! It has already broken through ten times that of a normal human!"

"Energy absorption rate 98.7%! My god!!"

Professor Li's breathing became incomparably heavy; he abruptly switched interfaces and pulled up the data he cared about the most.

Mental fluctuation curve chart.

On the screen, the green line representing Gandalf's mental state remained flat and straight.

Like an unchanging horizontal line through the ages, without even a single micrometer of undulation.

"It makes no sense… This makes no sense!"

Professor Li muttered to himself, unable to understand everything he was seeing before him.

He immediately pulled up the instrument self-check program, and a series of diagnostic data streamed by, finally displaying:

【All equipment is operating normally without any faults.】

"The instrument is not broken! Everything is normal!"

Professor Li abruptly stepped back two steps, looking in disbelief at the blurry figure in the container.

"How monstrous! Can the 3.0 intensity still fail to cause even the slightest mental fluctuation in you?"

"Not even slight tension, pain, or emotion?!"

After a brief shock and puzzlement, Professor Li's face gradually revealed a morbid smile mixed with wild joy and obsession.

"Still so perverted, you really are a born experimental sacred body!"

In less than half an hour,

"Hum—"!

a dazzling white light abruptly soared into the sky from Gandalf's body.

Even separated by that ink-dark blue liquid and the heavy custom-made glass, the light remained dazzling.

【Ding! Congratulations on your Avatar 'Gandalf' increasing in Level to LV48!】

This was the terrifying aspect of Professor Li's machine.

For a Classer to advance from Level 47 to Level 48, the Experience Points required were astronomical.

Even with long-term, high-intensity combat, it would take at least three months to accomplish.

Even for a monster-grinding machine like Gandalf, who didn't sleep or rest and continuously soloed Hell-level dungeons, it would still take close to a week's time.

Yet here, it only took half an hour.

However, just as Zhou Huai was preparing to welcome the next wave of more violent energy impact,

"Woo—"

the entire Body Tempering machine suddenly emitted a muffled low hum.

That boundless energy continuously pouring into his body came to an abrupt halt.

The churning dark blue liquid also gradually returned to calm.

"Click."

The hatch of the glass container slowly opened, and the liquid inside rapidly drained out along the hidden grooves at the bottom.

Gandalf climbed out of the container.

Zhou Huai's consciousness immediately returned to Gandalf's body.

He glanced at the mad professor behind the console who had a look of unfulfilled desire on his face, his brows slightly furrowed.

"Professor Li, why aren't we continuing?"

"I feel that I can still withstand it."

Who would have thought that upon hearing this, Professor Li's excited, flushed face collapsed.

He shook his head in pain, his face full of regret and helplessness.

"It's not that I don't want to continue."

The old man let out a long sigh, with an expression like a painter who reached the most brilliant part of a painting only to find out he had run out of paint.

"It's that we can't continue anymore."

Zhou Huai's brows furrowed even deeper.

"Why?"

He walked to the operation console and pulled up a three-dimensional model.

That was a peculiar ore that was pitch-black all over, yet had dots of starlight flowing across its surface.

"You also know that starting this 3.0 intensity device requires consuming an extremely rare resource."

"Mortal Demon Source Stone."

"This resource can only possibly be produced in the depths of those extremely dangerous Secret Realms."

"Moreover, the yield is extremely rare, and every single piece can be considered astronomical in price."

"For so many years, our Imperial Capital Academy's inventory has been mere dozens of pieces at most."

Speaking to this point, Professor Li's voice paused.

He turned his head and looked at Zhou Huai with a look bordering on despair.

"In order to develop this 3.0 intensity device, in order to verify its ultimate performance..."

"I have already… cleared out all of the Mortal Demon Source Stone inventory in the Imperial Capital Academy."

The old man spread his hands helplessly.

"Not a single piece is left!"