Movement and Spear Techniques of the Third Realm

"With my current physical fitness, taking the Thousand-Year Willow Heart should give me a decent chance of directly becoming a God of War."

Shen Mu's current physical fitness puts his strength at just over 14,000 kilograms, an increase of 3,000 kilograms in just one month.

This significant improvement is mainly due to the latent medicinal effects of the Dragon Blood. After all, in February, Shen Mu only trained in the ancient civilization gravity room for one hour.

Whoosh!

Under Shen Mu's control, a golden throwing knife easily pierced the crystal shell, and a crystal-clear green liquid slowly flowed out, floating in mid-air under the control of his mental power.

Then, Shen Mu opened his mouth and inhaled, directly sucking the essence liquid of only a few dozen milliliters into his mouth.

Immediately, a cool stream of air spread out from his mouth, seeping into his lungs, and in the blink of an eye, it dispersed into his limbs and bones.

Countless cells throughout Shen Mu's body were awakened at this moment, frantically devouring the energy of the Thousand-Year Willow Heart to transform.

During this process, Shen Mu's entire body trembled slightly, and a sense of comfort from his genetic instincts filled him, a stark contrast to the pain he experienced when using Dragon Blood.

The only effect of Dragon Blood is to improve physical fitness, while the spirit of plants and trees not only improves physical fitness but also enhances cell activity.

As his physical fitness suddenly improved, the mental power in Shen Mu's spiritual world also increased dramatically.

Half an hour later, in the hall on the first floor of the building, Shen Mu stood in front of the strength testing machine.

Boom!

With a punch, the testing machine's target buzzed, and Shen Mu's current strength data appeared on the screen: 58174KG!

"Fifty-eight thousand kilograms, advanced warrior-level, not bad!"

With a thought, a golden stream of light burst out from the throwing knife pouch and shot straight at the force-measuring target.

"Beep, strength value 235,000 kilograms, excellent intermediate God of War level!"

The standard line for an advanced God of War is 256,000 kilograms. Over the next period, he only needs to exercise a little and tap into the latent medicinal effects of the Thousand-Year Willow Heart to easily break through this standard.

In fact, if Shen Mu wanted to, he could directly take the Ten-Thousand-Year Willow Heart and soar to the peak God of War level mental power master.

The medicinal effect of the Ten-Thousand-Year Willow Heart is to increase physical fitness by three to five times, but it cannot be used to break through to the planetary-level mental power master.

This effect is also one of the highest among the many spirits of plants and trees collected by Hong.

"Next, before September 29th, the main tasks are only the training of marksmanship and footwork."

Shen Mu has some confidence that he can improve his marksmanship and footwork to perfection before the No. 9 Ancient Civilization Ruins open.

According to Chu Qiang, although Shen Mu's combat skills and footwork realm are average, his improvement speed is very fast, and he is at the top level among the entire training camp students.

As for the artistic conception level, only Chu Qiang and two other people in the entire training camp have reached this level.

If Shen Mu had two or three years, he might have hope of breaking through to the artistic conception level.

But the problem is that Shen Mu basically has no time. It is now February 28th, 2058, less than two years away from the Golden Horned Beast incident.

Moreover, Shen Mu's Azure Dragon Avatar is still a sea monster, and in at most one year, he will have to face the newly born Golden Horned Beast.

Even the newly born Golden Horned Beast, with its ten-fold genetic advantage and talent secret method Reinforcement, can reach 20 times the basic strength of an ordinary planetary-level Tier 1, equivalent to an ordinary planetary-level Tier 5 monster.

"I must break through to the planetary level within a year, and then let the Azure Dragon Avatar enter the base city as a beast tamer!"

Shen Mu doesn't have a core like Luo Feng, so even if his avatar dies, he can be resurrected through the core. If his Azure Dragon Avatar dies, it may be truly gone.

Far away, tens of thousands of miles away, endless undercurrents surged beneath the sea.

An Azure Dragon with a body length of over a hundred meters was chasing a huge whale-like monster. Wherever it passed, countless marine behemoths fearfully lay on the seabed, trembling!

"Roar!"

The majestic mental power seemed to shake the entire ocean, and eleven azure streams of light instantly pierced a Sky-Rending Beast that had just entered the King level that was trying to escape.

"Woo!"

The huge Sky-Rending Beast wailed, and its huge body began to fall weakly towards the seabed, and the powerful force fluctuations on its body began to dissipate.

"The consciousness amplitude has finally increased to 11 times!"

"The effect of the Celestial Atlas is still too poor. If I can obtain the Yun Mo Star Secret Method in the No. 9 Ancient Civilization Ruins, the improvement speed of consciousness amplitude should be much faster."

If Shen Mu remembers correctly, with Luo Feng's talent, it only took half a year to increase his consciousness amplitude from 6 times to 7 times by practicing the Celestial Atlas.

Then he was trapped in the No. 9 Ancient Civilization Ruins for one year and three months, practicing the Yun Mo Star Secret Method, and his consciousness amplitude directly increased from 7 times to 16 times!

However, his Azure Dragon Avatar should have a much higher talent in mental power than Luo Feng. Without training, it can possess a 10-fold consciousness amplitude by instinct.

Even without the Yun Mo Star Secret Method, Shen Mu is confident that he can increase his consciousness amplitude to 14 times within a year, comparable to the Fourth Speaker, Ister.

The next morning, March 1st, Shen Mu continued to return to a state of secluded cultivation, hunting monsters on odd-numbered days and cultivating in the training camp on even-numbered days.

However, from this day on, the target Shen Mu challenged every day became an elementary lord-level monster.

Another benefit of being a mental power master is that you don't have to worry about being attacked or stamina consumption when fighting monsters, and you can fight with all your strength.

Of course, with only marksmanship and footwork, Shen Mu still can't beat monsters one realm higher than him. After he can't resist the attacks of lord-level monsters, he chooses to run away. While escaping, he can also train his footwork.

If he still can't escape, Shen Mu will use his mental power to kill them directly.

On even-numbered days, Shen Mu no longer spars with many students. As the Black Dragon List's number one last month, Shen Mu can use the trial room and gravity room for 6 hours every day.

Only in the evenings would Shen Mu choose a student with similar strength to spar with, verifying his progress for the day.

The first three levels of spearmanship and footwork are actually all about technique. While talent is still required, it's not as ridiculously demanding.

Even ordinary Warrior-level martial artists, through accumulated time and combat experience, mostly possess second-level combat skills and footwork.

In the blink of an eye, two months passed. Inside the virtual space Trial Tower.

On a desolate wilderness, as soon as Shen Mu's figure appeared, a mechanical electronic voice rang out.

"Third floor, Stage A trial, Student Shen Mu. Your objective is to kill 100 elementary-level Golden Vultures within thirty minutes! Good luck!"

Immediately, a dense, dark mass of flying monsters appeared in the sky above the wilderness.

Golden Vultures, a relatively tricky type of avian monster. Martial artists are in great danger when facing avian monsters; once caught in mid-air, the only consequence is death.

"These past two days, I've failed every time due to insufficient stamina. I must get through it today!"

Shen Mu stared at the flock of birds, his eyes gleaming with a cold light.

"Gaa!"

A piercing, unpleasant screech rang out, and a hundred Golden Vultures swooped down from the sky like a golden cloud, their sharp claw-blades reflecting a cold, eerie light!

"Coming right up!"

A dark, black spear flowed with a faint, cold light in Shen Mu's palm, his figure transforming into a phantom, displaying perfect-level footwork to the fullest extent.

Sizzle!

The spear light flashed. With the eruption of the second level of "World Extinction's" 2.4 times power, at the instant of close combat, the spear directly pierced a Golden Vulture, killing it instantly.

Then, the spear swept horizontally, knocking away several Golden Vultures that were pouncing at him, his ghostly figure dodging rapidly in the midst of the avian siege.

So-called perfect-level footwork refers to being able to use everything in the surrounding environment to twist, turn, and dodge, the body seeming to blend into the environment while flashing about.

Having reached this level of footwork, Shen Mu was able to use the attacks of the Golden Vultures to skillfully change direction and dodge with his high-speed movements, greatly avoiding the impact of inertia on his body's flexibility.

During these past two months of hunting monsters, Shen Mu had been provoking elementary-level Lord monsters, and was basically suppressed, spending more time training his footwork than his spearmanship.

Therefore, his footwork actually surpassed his spearmanship, improving more quickly to the perfect level of the third level.

It was precisely because of his perfect-level footwork and the power exertion techniques of the second level of "World Extinction" that Shen Mu was able to pass the second level of the Trial Tower as a martial artist.

1... 10... 30, one flying beast after another fell to the ground, and the entire wilderness was stained with blood.

But in the process, Shen Mu's stamina continued to be consumed, and he was unable to maintain the full-force 2.4 times power exertion for long.

"Huff, huff!"

Shen Mu panted heavily. The massive consumption of stamina made it impossible for him to rampage through the Golden Vulture's siege, and he had countless wounds, large and small, all over his body.

"Control the spear, make the spear a part of your body!"

Shen Mu took a deep breath, keeping himself absolutely rational, and struggled to hold on under the Golden Vulture's siege.

A moment later, Shen Mu was once again torn apart by the remaining less than ten Golden Vultures due to lack of stamina!

At the entrance of the Trial Tower, Shen Mu's figure reappeared.

"Continue!"

Shen Mu had six hours of Trial Tower usage time every day. Each attempt averaged around twenty minutes, enough for Shen Mu to fight more than 15 times.

In the next instant, Shen Mu's figure was once again transported to the third floor.

"Third floor, Stage A trial..."

As the cold mechanical voice ended, the Golden Vulture swarm appeared.

Shen Mu, holding his spear, charged up again, feeling the changes in himself and the spear, pursuing that state of unity between man and spear.

21 minutes and 12 seconds later, Shen Mu, lacking stamina, was once again besieged and torn apart by the Golden Vultures.

Outside the Trial Tower, Shen Mu's figure reappeared, his second attempt at the tower a failure.

As soon as he appeared, Shen Mu didn't waste a second, directly lifting his foot and stepping into the Trial Tower, beginning his third attempt.

The third time, the fourth time... until more than two hours later.

After failing the sixth attempt, Shen Mu's figure reappeared at the entrance of the Trial Tower.

Continuous high-intensity combat for more than two hours, with his spirit highly tensed, allowed Shen Mu's mental activity to reach a limit.

If it were the real world, Shen Mu estimated that his eyes would be full of bloodshot.

"Yes, that's the feeling!" Shen Mu's voice was hoarse, but his expression was excited, his eyes seeming to glow.

Recalling the last few seconds of the battle just now, Shen Mu felt as if the spear had become a part of his body.

In that state, Shen Mu's body, which was already on the verge of exhaustion, had actually killed two more Golden Vultures.

"Continue!"

Shen Mu's figure once again appeared in the wilderness of the third level of the Trial Tower.

"Gaa!"

"Caw!"

The piercing cry of a vulture echoed as Shen Mu once again plunged into the encirclement of over a hundred flying beasts.

Clang!

His spear trembled as it swept across, and Shen Mu once again experienced that state where the spear felt like his third hand.

The spear's light flickered, and techniques like thrusting, stabbing, sweeping, and deflecting were executed with greater agility, all with incredible naturalness.

Just like a person's instinctive reach, arm raise, or finger bend, the wielding of the spear seemed to have completely merged into his instincts.

His ghostly figure and the illusory spear light wreaked havoc among the flock of flying beasts, like a dancer gracefully performing.

Accompanied by shrill cries, Golden Vultures fell from the sharp spear light onto the wilderness.

A little over seven minutes later.

"Caw!"

With a final, even more piercing shriek from a Golden Vulture, only Shen Mu's figure remained, standing tall in the wilderness with his spear, his chest heaving with heavy breaths.

On the ground, the shattered limbs of the flying beasts were scattered, staining the entire wilderness red, and the air was filled with a pungent, bloody smell.

"Time: 7 minutes 18 seconds. All 100 Golden Vultures eliminated. Third level A-grade test, passed!"

A mechanical electronic voice sounded, and Shen Mu's figure disappeared within the trial tower.

"Two more times, to completely solidify my spear technique at this level!"

At this point, Shen Mu's movement technique and spear technique had respectively reached the Completion level and Perfection level of the third realm.

His next goal was to explore the higher level of the Intent Realm!

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