Success!
Xiao Lin was panting, his heart thumping. He had already prepared for various problems. After all, the professor said that the first step was the hardest. The professor himself took numerous years before he could even make his theory a reality, so Xiao Lin did not expect to succeed in his first try.
The compression of the first energy orb was just the start, but he now essentially had one foot through the door. The next step was just repetition and training--from one orb to ten, a hundred, a thousand. The time taken to compress each orb needed to constantly shrink as well. Using this ability in true combat would require it to be done in the blink of an eye, or it would lose its meaning.
No matter what, it was a good start.