Devouring the Starry Sky: Cultivation Makes Me Stronger

"Good. No other warriors have discovered it yet, and there are no other Beast General Level monsters nearby."

Luo Shen swept his gaze around.

"Move!"

Whoosh!

With a thought, Luo Shen burst forward, turning into an afterimage as he charged at the Bloodthirsty Tank.

"Roar~~" Seeing this, the Bloodthirsty Tank immediately let out a furious roar that made the surrounding buildings tremble slightly. The lesser monsters around it also roared angrily and pounced at Luo Shen.

"Courting death!"

As a Unicorn Wild Boar lunged at him like lightning, Luo Shen shifted his feet, sidestepping several dozen centimeters in an instant. The Ghost Shadow Battle Blade in his hand drew a curved arc of cold light as he used the momentum to slash upward at the Unicorn Wild Boar's throat!

The Ghost Shadow Battle Blade accelerated repeatedly through the air.

"Pfft!" Before the Unicorn Wild Boar's stunned eyes, its throat was torn open, and blood sprayed out.

The moment he landed, a foul gust came from his right.

Another Iron-Haired Boar had already opened its bloody maw and bitten toward him. Luo Shen remained utterly fearless, simply shifting his footing to open the distance between them. He pushed off with his right foot and thrust his blade straight forward with his right hand!

"Pfft~~" Blood spurted wildly.

The Iron-Haired Boar, as massive as a heavy Hummer, landed and swayed. It let out a roar before crashing to the ground.

"Roar~~" The Bloodthirsty Tank charged recklessly, reaching Luo Shen almost instantly.

"You think I'm afraid of you?"

The Ghost Shadow Battle Blade in Luo Shen's hand flashed like Lightning Flash, instantly cutting through the air with a sonic boom!

Clang! Clang!

The battle blade collided repeatedly with the Bloodthirsty Tank's right hoof-claw. Their speed and strength had reached a horrifying degree, and invisible shockwaves surged outward as their force spread into the ground.

The thick floor let out a series of "puff puff puff" sounds.

Spiderweb-like cracks rapidly spread outward from Luo Shen and the Bloodthirsty Tank.

Luo Shen's strength had nearly reached the Beginner Warlord Level. With the 2.8-fold burst of the Third Level Thunder Blade, he was slightly inferior to the Intermediate Beast General Level Bloodthirsty Tank, but his movement technique and blade technique completely overwhelmed it.

Even though he was inferior in both speed and strength, he could still fight it evenly.

No matter how furiously the Bloodthirsty Tank roared, aside from the first two clashes where Luo Shen had deliberately met it head-on, it was never able to strike him directly. Luo Shen evaded every attack by the narrowest margin.

And that was not all.

Luo Shen's battle blade was even more terrifying. Blade lights bloomed like Lightning Flash, chopping again and again against the Bloodthirsty Tank's thick scales. Its scales were certainly tough, but they could not withstand such relentless punishment from Luo Shen.

In the blink of an eye, dozens of blade marks had appeared across its body, and blood poured out in great quantities.

After mastering the Nine Heavens Thunder Blade Third Level, his strength had already surpassed that of most Intermediate Beast Generals. Though he was slightly disadvantaged in speed and strength against a special monster like the Bloodthirsty Tank, his Perfect Level Movement Technique perfectly made up for it.

Especially against a high-level Beast General like the Bloodthirsty Tank, which did not excel in speed.

Before him, it practically had no power to fight back.

The heavy loss of blood gradually made the Bloodthirsty Tank's movements slow and stiff, allowing Luo Shen's battle blade to strike its vital points with even greater precision.

After several minutes of fierce battle, Luo Shen finally thrust his blade into the Bloodthirsty Tank's eye and violently twisted it.

It died on the spot!

"Huff!"

Luo Shen's chest heaved violently as he let out a long breath. A satisfied smile hung on his face.

He could clearly feel the soreness in his muscles.

Although the Bloodthirsty Tank had been quite difficult to kill, the results of this battle were obvious. He could clearly feel the countless cells throughout his body growing unbearably hungry, like parched land desperately in need of energy.

"Sure enough, high-intensity slaughter is the best catalyst for growth!"

With daily high-intensity battles, coupled with the Nine Heavens Origin Guidance Art advancing to the Third Level—

Luo Shen entered another period of rapid growth.

Especially after cultivating Gene Energy each day, Luo Shen could clearly feel the strength contained in his muscles growing a little stronger. The increase in his punching power was practically visible to the naked eye.

When he had first arrived in City 023, he had barely been able to rely on brute force to contend with the Beginner Beast General Level Tiger Mastiff.

Then, he had become capable of grappling head-on with the Intermediate Beast General Level Iron Thorn Steel Bull without falling behind.

And all of that had taken just over ten days.

If Luo Shen's performance were divided into tiers such as "basic," "elite," and "strong," then during the more than ten days he had spent with the Fire Hammer Squad, Luo Shen had successfully adapted to combat in the Wilderness Area and completed the tempering of the "basic" stage.

During these more than ten days alone in the Wilderness Area—

Luo Shen had crossed beyond the basic stage and stepped directly into the "elite" tier.

Especially once his physical fitness steadily improved and he entered the Intermediate Warlord Level, most Beast General Level monsters in the eastern outskirts of City 023 were no longer Luo Shen's match.

His proficiency in every aspect had greatly improved.

In particular, the Nine Heavens Thunder Blade Third Level was not far from completion.

As for the Perfect Level Movement Technique, Luo Shen had always chosen opponents of comparable strength, or fought against large hordes of monsters, so he had accumulated progress quickly—already more than one-third of the way there.

He estimated that in another twenty days or so, he would step into the fourth realm of movement techniques—the Artistic Conception Level!

The increase in strength had also gradually made High-level Beast General Level monsters beneath his notice. The pressure they brought had begun to diminish, and even the growth of his proficiency had started to slow.

So Luo Shen began consciously keeping an eye out for solitary Lord Level monsters.

But the Lord Level monsters in the outskirts simply did not meet his requirements. After all, every Lord Level monster possessed extremely strong dominance and commanded large numbers of Beast Soldier and Beast General Level monsters.

One-on-one, Luo Shen was still confident that he could escape from a Lord Level monster.

But if he also had to deal with the pincer attacks of all those monster underlings, Luo Shen felt that unless he were a Mind Controller capable of flight, swaggering up to a Lord Level monster for a fight would be no different from suicide.

Just as Luo Shen was worrying over where to find a suitable Lord Level monster, a sudden message caught his attention.

Luo Shen had just finished cultivating Gene Energy when he suddenly felt the watch on his right wrist vibrate.

Luo Shen lowered his head to look.

A satellite map covering a twenty-kilometer radius suddenly popped up on the watch. There was a glaring red dot on the map, along with a brief message: "Help! Two Beginner Lord Level monsters, over a thousand monsters total. Proceed with caution!"

"It's an emergency rescue signal!"

In the Wilderness Area, once someone encountered danger, they could send an emergency rescue signal through their communication watch to seek help from all nearby warriors.

For warriors from the same martial arts academy, the signal would appear red.

For those from different martial arts academies, the signal would appear green.

"It's even a warrior squad from my Limitless Martial Arts Academy!" Luo Shen rubbed his nose. "They seem fairly capable if they can still hold on after provoking two Beginner Lord Level monsters."

Still, two Lord Level monsters...

Luo Shen picked up his battle saber, quietly went downstairs, and hurried toward the source of the distress signal.

Of course he was going.

But whether he would actually save them, and how he would do so, would depend on the situation once he got there.

The location from which the rescue signal had been sent was not far from Luo Shen—only five kilometers away. Even a Prospective Warrior could run one hundred meters in four seconds, much less Luo Shen, whose physical fitness was at least at the Intermediate Warlord level.

Luo Shen had already spent more than ten days in the surrounding area and was thoroughly familiar with it.

Taking a shortcut, he arrived near the signal's location in just two or three minutes.

"What a huge scene!"

Rather than foolishly charging straight into the monster horde, Luo Shen found an office building with an open view. He went upstairs, casually entered an office, and looked down through the window.

Not far away, outside a commercial plaza and along several nearby streets, vast numbers of pig-type monsters had already filled the area.

With just a quick glance, Luo Shen spotted at least twenty or thirty Beast General Level monsters.

"This is a little troublesome."

Luo Shen frowned. "The surrounding monsters have all been drawn over, and their numbers are constantly increasing. Before long, there may be two or three thousand of them."

With a monster horde of that scale, even a War God would have to think twice before getting involved.

Bang!

A Bloodthirsty Tank as huge as a light truck suddenly leaped up, soaring higher than five stories, and smashed straight through the wall of the fifth floor as it tried to charge into the apartments above.

Unfortunately, the residential building's floor height was insufficient to accommodate its enormous body. With nowhere to brace itself, it ultimately fell back to the ground.

It was a Beginner Lord Level monster.

On the other side, another massive beast, as though wreathed in burning flames, struck fear into anyone who saw it. Its entire body was covered in fiery red scales without a trace of any other color, while the three sharply curved horns atop its head proudly pointed forward and upward!

The number one pig-type monster, the Fire Scale Three-tusked Boar!

"This really is troublesome."

Both were Beginner Lord Level monsters, but the Fire Scale Three-tusked Boar was far stronger than ordinary monsters of the same level. It could probably contend with an average Intermediate Lord.