Frenzied Training

City No. 1001 was only 300 kilometers from the Elite Training Camp, but it was a city where Monsters were packed in extreme numbers. Hong had personally assigned it its number and designated it as a hunting and training ground for the Elite Training Camp's students.

The weakest Monsters in the entire city were Beginner Beast Generals. Mid- and Advanced Beast Generals moved in packs, and there were even quite a few Lord-level Monsters entrenched here.

Having officially joined the Elite Training Camp, Qin Hao followed more than eighty students to this city to begin his first hunt.

On the way, through Zhao Ruo's introduction, Qin Hao gained some understanding of City No. 1001, and he also learned the training camp's iron rules.

1. Anyone who privately traded Monster materials, gave Monster materials to other students, or helped other students increase their Combat Score would be expelled upon discovery.

2. Anyone who killed another student in internal slaughter would be executed upon discovery!

After entering City No. 1001, all the students scattered on their own, and Qin Hao also began to move. Qin Hao's goal this time was also very simple: Combat Score.

He had already obtained the Dragon Blood. To Qin Hao, the two fastest ways to increase his strength next were obtaining Spirits of Plants and using the gravity room. And if he wanted more training time in the gravity room, he needed enough Combat Score to support it.

With 3.5 times Force Generation and a 4.1 Trial Tower level, Qin Hao's Combat Power Amplitude had already reached 14.35, placing him among the very top in the Elite Training Camp. What he lacked now was Combat Score.

"Twenty days. That's enough time." Qin Hao began his slaughter in City No. 1001. With War God-level strength, 3.5 times Force Generation, Perfect level movement technique and saber technique, Qin Hao had nothing to worry about throughout City No. 1001.

Even if he ran into an Advanced Lord, he could still clash with it, not to mention he also had the Black God Set. Moreover, the entire City No. 1001 was under satellite surveillance. Every move made by Lord-level Monsters was monitored, and if danger appeared, the Limitless Martial Arts Center would handle the aftermath.

In the days that followed, Qin Hao's life entered an extremely monotonous state. On odd-numbered days, he went to City No. 1001 to hunt and accumulate Combat Score. As his Combat Score steadily increased, Qin Hao's ranking also kept rising. Without testing his Force Generation, Qin Hao's ranking still pushed into the top 100 on the tenth day.

After entering the top 100, Qin Hao once again drew the attention of major powers across the globe. However, Qin Hao paid it no mind. Aside from hunting, he trained inside the Elite Training Camp.

As new students, each of them had a dedicated teacher to instruct them. Just like Luo Feng's teacher, Moon Demoness Jiang Fang, they would receive guidance in saber technique, movement technique, and other areas, and be led through training. However, Qin Hao had never received a teacher assigned to him.

Qin Hao did not care about this situation either, and continued training according to his own methods. After all, reaching the fourth floor of the Trial Tower was extremely rare even in the Elite Training Camp. Even most War God-level teachers had not passed it.

After using up his training time in the Ancient Civilization Gravity Room, Qin Hao kept training inside the imitation gravity room. Although its maximum gravity was only three times normal, the effects were still somewhat faster than ordinary training.

Together with weighted training, Qin Hao's strength also rose slowly. By the end of September, Qin Hao's strength had already surpassed 110,000 kilograms, and his ranking was close to the top 50.

He had not updated his Force Generation, but Qin Hao's frenzied slaughter in City No. 1001 let him close the gap bit by bit. At the very beginning, some people had wanted to take advantage of Qin Hao being a newcomer and gain a little benefit through Gambling Battles. But after witnessing Qin Hao's frenzied slaughter, they all gave up that thought.

Just like that, Qin Hao entered a state of self-forgetting training.

The increase in strength over these twenty days was quite limited compared to the speed at which Qin Hao's strength had previously soared. However, Qin Hao was not discouraged by this situation.

Qin Hao deeply understood that a surge in strength was one of his goals, but his foundation was even more important. Whether it was training the "Nine Heavens Thunder Blade," or raising his movement technique and Saber Technique Realm, his progress had been extremely fast—too fast. Now, what he needed was a period of accumulation.

Take the "Nine Heavens Thunder Blade," for example. He was already extremely proficient in the fourth level, but the difficulty of breaking through to the fifth level felt much greater to him. It was far from so easy. The reason lay in his insufficient accumulation, insufficient training experience, and insufficient understanding.

Training was not just about the result; it was also about the process. Amid continuous slaughter, Qin Hao was not only increasing his Combat Score, but also constantly tempering himself—tempering his strength, his ability to fight enemies, his state of mind, and every other aspect.

In the original work, Luo Feng was able to grow quickly because of his experiences. His hard work as a youth, his struggle for Earth as a young man, and even after the Genius Battle, when he became a genius of the Universe Virtual Company, he still advanced steadily and successfully surpassed a host of geniuses.

After twenty days of fighting, Qin Hao gained a new understanding of saber technique and movement technique. He constantly refined himself at the Perfect level, and his grasp of Perfect level movement technique and saber technique became even stronger. At the same time, the "Nine Heavens Thunder Blade" also drew closer to breaking through to the fifth level.

In addition, he gained more insight into his self-created Startling Thunder and Like a Dream, Like an Illusion. During this period, they were refined and could be considered two formal saber techniques.

On September 30th, after a full day of training, Qin Hao arrived at the ninth floor of the Nine-Layered Tower.

"It's Qin Hao. Why did he come to the Nine-Layered Tower?"

"Is he going to challenge the Trial Tower?"

"Hasn't he challenged the Trial Tower yet? He's already been in the training camp for twenty days. That's impossible."

"I heard his ranking is almost in the top fifty. The Monsters he's hunted are way more than many veterans who've been in the training camp for five years."

Ignoring the discussion around him, Qin Hao went straight to the Trial Room and entered the Trial Tower. It was still the familiar scene. Qin Hao was already very familiar with it, and he directly entered the Trial Tower to begin challenging the stages.

As Qin Hao entered the Trial Room, the genius martial artists from various countries around him also began notifying their respective powers, and they all rushed toward the Black Dragon Statue at the entrance of the Elite Training Camp, wanting to see the change in Qin Hao's results at the first possible moment.

After entering the Trial Space, Qin Hao did not immediately test his Force Generation. Instead, he prepared to challenge the Trial Tower again and see the results of his training. Entering the fourth floor, Qin Hao quickly entered battle mode and charged into the Monster horde.

Perfect level movement technique, Perfect level saber technique, 3.5 times Force Generation, and his more practiced self-created saber techniques, Startling Thunder and Like a Dream, Like an Illusion, were all displayed one after another. It could be said that he used every trick he had. But when the battle reached the twentieth minute, Qin Hao was already covered in wounds, and one of his hands had been severed. Soon after, he was directly ground down by the beast horde, and his figure dispersed.

"As expected, I'm still far off. At the very least, either my saber technique or movement technique has to enter the Artistic Conception level before there's any hope." Qin Hao recalled the course of the battle, carefully reviewing it.

Hong, who had comprehended a domain, was only on the sixth floor, while Thor was still on the fifth floor. Thor's strength was somewhat inferior to Hong's, but his Force Generation had reached 7. Whether in movement technique or saber technique, he was at least at the peak of the Artistic Conception level, close to the domain level.

Judging by that, on the fifth floor, Force Generation, saber technique, and movement technique would not be much lower than Thor's. At the very least, they would all be at the Artistic Conception level. Then if the fourth floor was lowered another step, one of those aspects still had to reach the Artistic Conception level, and his Force Generation would also need another breakthrough.