Ice Scorpion

Tian Hao had no intention of torturing his most valued disciple to death. While tossing him into the Sun Furnace to dance with nuclear radiation, he linked him to the Grand Clock's computing power and personally kept his body from collapsing under the radiation.

He also did not forget to guide massive amounts of life force into him, assisting Gai Dalun's body in repairing itself.

Thus, Gai Dalun's body remained constantly on the verge of collapse. His cells were continuously destroyed by nuclear radiation, then continuously repaired. Fortunately, Gai Dalun had undergone relentless tempering over the past few months, further strengthening his willpower and pain tolerance. Otherwise, he truly would not have endured it.

After being put through this for half a month, Gai Dalun's body finally achieved Silver-grade awakening and reached the level of a second-generation Super Soldier.

In terms of sheer resilience, he could now ignore most attacks at the Soul King level.

And this was only the threshold of a second-generation Super Soldier. He would inevitably enter a phase of rapid growth afterward. By the time this year's Soul Duel Tournament began, who knew how far he would have advanced.

Once the nuclear radiation had been cleansed from him, Gai Dalun was released. Yet his expression was deeply gloomy and anxious—the extremely anxious kind.

"You've broken through. Why do you still look like that?"

Meng Hongchen could not understand her little junior brother's expression. Shouldn't he have been happy?

The other women were equally puzzled. What was wrong with their little junior brother?

"If Silver-grade awakening requires this, won't Golden-grade awakening mean dying once?"

Gai Dalun voiced his worries about the future. The advancement of a Super Soldier really was not something humans were meant to endure.

"You are simply the first person to truly walk the