Chen Hao watched Luo Feng's family leave and let out a long breath. Most of his arrangements in Jiangnan Base City had been more or less taken care of.
Only Jiang Nian, Zhuge Tao, and Zhou Zhengyong remained unprovided for.
He would wait until he became Planetary Level before seeking out the three of them. By then, the rewards he gave them would be enough to let them achieve things they had never dared imagine before.
As for Tong Yun and Yang Wu, there was no need to meet them. If they saw him now, the two of them would probably feel awkward as well.
It was like Luo Feng's family. Aside from Luo Feng's gratitude toward him, Luo Hua, Luo Hongguo, and Gong Xinlan were all extremely respectful toward him.
Chen Hao sighed inwardly. His life was once again drifting further away from that of ordinary people.
He glanced at the home he had not even stayed in for a full day, his expression somewhat dazed. In the end, he locked the villa's gates and boarded his Smart Fighter. He then activated it and flew toward the Australian Continent.
As the paradise of monsters after the Great Nirvana, Australia not only had a large number of Lord-level Monsters, but King-level Monsters were everywhere as well.
Chen Hao had come here for two reasons. The first was to search for Wuy Island and see whether he could awaken Baba Ta ahead of time.
The second was to seek out the talents of the various King-level Monsters, then see whether he could synthesize those talents into innate secret techniques.
The third was to advance to Planetary Level and complete a leap in his life level. That way, Baba Ta might very well take notice of him.
Chen Hao desperately needed basic knowledge of the universe now. He believed that after copying and synthesizing the inheritance within Yun Mo Star, it would certainly bring him enormous surprises.
Of course, he also had to train in the Martial Artist Basic 256 Forms and the Controller Basic 312 Forms here.
Ever since copying Hong's talent and skills, Chen Hao had no longer held any hopes for the talents of Earthlings.
How many Planetary Level fighters were there on Earth in total? Even if he copied them all, he probably would not be able to synthesize many good talents.
He might as well wait until he entered the universe. During the Genius Battle, there would be talents everywhere for him to copy and fuse.
He coveted talents greatly, and coveted domains even more. Law talents were something he absolutely had to copy and synthesize.
With nothing better to do, Chen Hao sat in the Smart Fighter and thought things over. He then directly handed the task of finding Wuy Island to Xiao Mei.
When it came to exploring maps, he was nowhere near as skilled as Xiao Mei. And Xiao Mei did not disappoint him. In less than a day, she found Wuy Island's location.
As long as Wuy Island's location was confirmed, his first task here could be considered perfectly completed. As for the Spirits of Grass and Wood and the Ten-Thousand-Year Willow Wood Heart on the island, he truly did not think much of them.
After all, compared with a 100,000-year Ginseng, they were far inferior. If he wished, he could eat a 100,000-year Ginseng right now and immediately break through to Planetary Level.
Chen Hao still wanted to try and see whether he could break through to Planetary Level through his own efforts. For a major breakthrough in level like this, he did not want to rely on the energy of treasures to force his way through.
Chen Hao controlled the fighter as it landed on Wuy Island. He then had Xiao Mei take over the fighter and search for the Demonic Cloud Vine, while he excavated an underground training room and began a long period of secluded cultivation.
He activated the Auxiliary Optical Computer and watched the dense images and text projected by it, pouring one hundred percent of his focus into them.
Only after beginning to train in the Controller Basic 312 Forms did he realize that its complexity and profundity far exceeded his imagination.
Chen Hao could only train bit by bit. However, to his relief, after barely a week, the number of flying knives he could control perfectly had already reached six.
This meant his Psi Amplitude had reached six. With three times more Psi Amplitude, he would be able to wield the Nine-Blade Disc. At that point, there would be no one at Planetary Level whom he could not kill.
Thus, Chen Hao cultivated tirelessly, speaking with Jiang Fang at most once a day. He also trained in the Martial Artist Basic 256 Forms. Most of his conversations with Jiang Fang concerned training experience for the Martial Artist Basic 256 Forms.
Time slowly passed, and many things happened. Luo Feng still joined the Extreme Martial Arts Hall. Even though he had already reached Advanced Warrior level during the Practical Assessment, he ultimately did not join any other faction.
Although Luo Feng had not revealed his identity as a Spiritual Thought Master, he was still given a genius training contract.
Zhuge Tao, Earth's strongest angel investor, offered Luo Feng a training contract whose terms were twice as generous as the one Luo Feng had received in the original story.
The unluckiest person was Zhang Haobai. He once again offended Luo Hongguo. Though he did not beat him up, he ran him over with his car.
After hearing about it, Chen Hao could only sigh. Being the protagonist's father was not easy. If he was not being beaten, he was being hit by a car.
Unlike in the original story, intimidated by Luo Feng's strength and talent, Zhang Zehu was not as stubborn as before, preferring to pay compensation rather than donate one hundred million.
Zhang Haobai had hit Luo Feng's father in a car accident, and under normal circumstances, he would only have needed to pay tens of thousands.
But Luo Hongguo was Luo Feng's father and belonged to a Martial Artist's family. Thus, the compensation abruptly increased by more than a thousand times.
Taking out fifty million at once also pained Zhang Zehu deeply, filling his heart with resentment toward Luo Feng.
After that, the plot returned to its proper course. After Luo Feng joined the Fire Hammer Squad, he was ambushed by the Tiger Fang Squad and then hunted them down.
Luo Feng encountered Li Wei's son. Since the other party wanted to oppose the protagonist, Luo Feng casually sent him to his grave.
Only after killing him did Luo Feng feel that something was wrong. It was not until he returned to the Base City that he realized he had been careless this time.
The person he had killed was actually the son of Advanced Wargod Vulture and Advanced Wargod Scorpion. However, unlike in the original story, they had no way of discovering that Luo Feng had appeared dozens of miles from the scene of their son's death.
Luo Feng wanted to call Chen Hao and ask him to protect his family, but he was also afraid of disturbing Chen Hao and making the debt of gratitude he owed grow ever larger. Tormented by these two emotions, Luo Feng's will was instead greatly tempered.
On March 1, 2057, more than half a year had passed since Chen Hao entered secluded cultivation.
During those six-plus months, he had sent his Smart Fighter out many times, including during the Rat Tide that had caused God of War Lu Gang to die in the original story.
The rat Lord was blasted to death in one shot by Xiao Mei, who controlled the Smart Fighter, and the Rat Tide subsequently dispersed.
For the Beast Tide at the Southeast Theater, Chen Hao likewise had Xiao Mei pilot the Smart Fighter and slaughter Lord-level Monsters with tremendous efficiency, greatly reducing the losses of the frontline troops in the Southeast Military Region.
Chen Hao's Smart Fighter also became increasingly popular in the Southeast Military Region. Though he himself had never taken action, no one overlooked his contributions.
On Wuy Island, in the underground training room Chen Hao had excavated, Chen Hao opened his eyes. The emotions in his gaze were extremely indifferent.
Then, sixteen S-Class Flying Knives appeared at his side and shot toward the same spot on the wall, all of them sinking into it.
He then drew the battle saber in his hand and swung it fiercely before stopping. Only after a long while did his eyes regain their focus.
"No wonder those who cultivate in seclusion grow increasingly cold. If you do not communicate with others for a long time, indifference becomes the normal state. It seems I need to control the length of my seclusion in the future." So much time had passed. It was time to break through.
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