The Extremely Fast Speed of Evolution on Blue Star

Night fell over Magic City, and the neon lights came on as usual.

Chen Du did not go home. He had barely left the high-speed rail station when he came across a piece of news on his phone.

A stretch of mountain forest forty kilometers west of the city had been troubled lately.

In just one week, the number of people who had gone missing in the forest had reached double digits, and the police had set up several cordons.

The news had only just been suppressed, preventing it from spreading. He promptly bought a ticket to the west of the city.

So many people had gone missing, which meant there had to be something there.

The source of the abnormal changes?

An outlet where spiritual qi was erupting? Or perhaps an entrance to some kind of secret realm.

Blue Star was being reshaped by spiritual qi. Opportunity lay hidden behind every abnormal change, and opportunity had always belonged to those who arrived first.

He had traveled through an entire world more than others had, so he understood that better than most.

It was evening when he entered the mountains. The setting sun was broken into countless golden fragments by the canopy, scattering them through the forest. The scenery was beautiful enough to make one lower their guard.

But Chen Du's perception was unlike an ordinary person's. As his Transcendence Realm spiritual power spread out, he heard more than one roar coming from deep within the dense forest.

Low ones,

Shrill ones,

Rising and falling in succession,

As though something were tearing at one another in the darkness.

There were fresh claw marks in the soil beneath his feet, and notches gnawed by sharp teeth scarred the tree trunks.

He drew his spiritual power in as tightly as he could and continued forward.

He had not gone half a kilometer before a fight came to him.

A lizard-like monster nearly three meters long sprang out of a crevice in the rocks. Its scales gleamed like metal in the twilight, and it was more than twice as fast as the mutated wild boars in the mountains.

Immediately afterward, another pounced down from a tree to his side. Wing-like structures resembling fleshy membranes grew from its limbs, and it landed without a sound.

Chen Du drew the small knife at his waist. Now, all he could do was fight.

He turned sideways, stepped forward, and stabbed... The tip of the knife plunged into the lizard's eye socket and pierced its brain.

The other missed its target. By the time it landed, he had already turned around. He planted a foot on the back of its neck and drove the knife into a gap in its skull.

The two evolved beasts collapsed on the ground, while Chen Du remained expressionless, as though he had slaughtered two chickens.

Ordinary evolved beasts like these could no longer stand in his way at all. He could kill them with ease.

Chen Du pulled the knife from the corpse, wiped the blood off, and continued deeper into the forest.

The farther in he went, the more the air itself changed its scent.

The vegetation was unnaturally dense. An ordinary Masson pine was so thick that it took two people to wrap their arms around it, and the canopy blotted out the sky?

Mist filled the forest, and a single breath sent wisps of coolness seeping into his lungs.

Chen Du keenly sensed that spiritual qi was not merely abundant here. Something finer still was suspended in the air... perhaps pollen, or perhaps active factors released by the vegetation.

These factors enveloped every inch of his exposed skin in a fine layer, burrowing through his pores into his meridians and seeping into his flesh and blood.

He had cultivated for seven years in the Xuanye Realm, and his perception of the spiritual qi of heaven and earth far surpassed that of ordinary people. He immediately realized that its concentration here was at least ten times that of the outside world, perhaps even more.

Chen Du did not hurry onward. He found a concealed spot with a giant rock at his back, sat down cross-legged, closed his eyes, and opened every pore in his body.

Like a great whale drawing in water, he took all the essence of the vegetation floating in the air into his body.

His long-dormant meridians were like fields struck by a long drought finally receiving rain. Every cell breathed greedily.

He could clearly feel his weakened body being reawakened, shedding its mortal body and exchanging its bones at a speed visible to the naked eye.

This place could help him return to his Peak Stage faster, and it could surely take him even further!

Chen Du drew a deep breath, and the night wind in the mountain forest poured into his lungs, carrying the rich essence of the vegetation.

With every breath, he could feel subtle changes taking place in his body.

The speed at which he grew stronger was more than hundreds or thousands of times faster than in the Xuanye Realm.

The Martial Dao of the Xuanye Realm was, in essence, a matter of squeezing limited resources out of a world impoverished of spiritual qi.

A second-rate expert had to train bitterly for decades, a first-rate expert was one in ten thousand, and someone in the Houtian Realm was already a grandmaster capable of founding a school!

As for Xiantian, it was the stuff of legend.

Even with the help of his heaven-defying comprehension and Martial Arts Creation, it had taken him a full four years to rise from a mere scholar to Xiantian Peak.

And now, after sitting in this mountain forest for an afternoon, his physical strength had broken through to a level comparable to that of a Houtian expert in the Xuanye Realm.

Granted, this was partly because his realm was so extraordinarily high. His Transcendence Realm spiritual power and Martial Dao insights allowed him to guide spiritual qi into his body without encountering any bottlenecks.

Ordinary evolvers could never swallow evolution factors like a whale as he did without their bodies bursting apart.

But the more important reason was that Blue Star's spiritual qi revival and the impoverished cultivation environment of the Xuanye Realm were simply not on the same scale.

He looked down at his hand. Its skin still bore scrapes from his fight with the evolved beasts.

But pale pink flesh had already grown around the edges of the wounds, healing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

He tried clenching his fist. His bones gave a series of faint cracks, and the sensation of power flowing through his tendons was clear and real.

This was a leap in his very level of life. Every cell in his body was being tempered anew, awakened from deep within his genes by some new power.

The pollen, vegetation factors, and essence of mountains and rivers floating in the air were changing his physical structure at its most fundamental level.

Just then, the panel popped up again.

[Name: Chen Du]

[Realm: third-tier evolver · martial path, Transcendence Realm / second-tier evolver · factor path, Mortal Shedding Realm]

[Note: factor path notice... The Evolution Factor Path has an extremely high ceiling and an extremely fast cultivation speed. Above the twelfth tier, one can rival a Great Emperor. At higher tiers, one can rival Immortal Kings and Immortal Emperors, and destroy a multiverse with a single thought. At the same time, cultivation is extremely difficult and dangerous. Please cultivate with caution, host.]

Chen Du's gaze lingered on the last few lines for a long time.

Twelfth tier!

Great Emperor!

Immortal King!

Destroy a multiverse with a single thought?!

That was far too outrageous!

The Xuanye Realm's Martial Dao system went from third-rate, second-rate, and first-rate to Houtian, Xiantian, and Martial Arts Myth.

He had thought that by opening up the Transcendence Realm, he had reached the end of the Martial Dao. Yet in Blue Star's evolution system, the so-called Martial Arts Myth was only second tier, and the Transcendence Realm he was so proud of barely reached the third tier.

And the Evolution Factor Path could easily surpass the tenth tier.

Chen Du was like a frog at the bottom of a well that had finally leaped out and seen the true sky.

He drew his thoughts back and began to truly examine his transforming body.

His Transcendence Realm spiritual power allowed him to look within himself. He could "see" his cells dividing and recombining at an incredible speed.

Those vegetation factors were not merely strengthening his muscles and bones. They were changing his life form at a profound level!

He could not fully understand this change. This method of evolution had already exceeded the Martial Dao theory he had established in the Xuanye Realm.

But he could feel that his body was becoming more active and powerful than ever before.

And he knew that farther down this path, things would surely be more extraordinary than anything in the Xuanye Realm.