The moon hung high in the sky, and stars twinkled overhead!
People like them, whose mental attributes weren't very high, needed to sleep to replenish their energy after a day of hard work!
But high-ranking supernatural ability users had higher mental attributes and could go for long periods without sleep!
To prevent ferocious beasts from attacking them while they slept, everyone agreed to take turns keeping watch at night.
Now it was Lu Yuan's turn to stand watch!
It was worth mentioning that all signals disappeared in the Underground World,
after all, it wasn't as though anyone would build signal towers underground,
There weren't many people stationed at the edges of the passages into the Underground World, but plenty of ferocious beasts lived nearby.
Build a signal tower so the ferocious beasts could get online and play games with humanity? Bring about a grand flourishing of both species?
Heh, now that was a funny joke!
Still... phones weren't completely useless bricks!
Thanks to a reminder on the Campus Forum, Lu Yuan had known for a while that the signal would disappear.
So he'd downloaded several novels onto his phone ahead of time.
They could be read without an internet connection!
<After Awakening an S-Class Ice Element Supernatural Ability, I Became Invincible!>
That was one of the novels he'd downloaded.
Lu Yuan opened it and started reading with relish.
Halfway through, Lu Yuan suddenly remembered that he hadn't checked what he'd gained today!
With a thought, he brought up the long-unused System Panel!
[Name: Lu Yuan] [Evolution Point: 300] [Supernatural Ability: Ice Snow Crown (S)] [Realm: Awakened](↑) [Mental Strength: 120 Hz] [Blood and Qi: 210 cal] [Skills: Spear technique (Intermediate), Ice Shard Ring Body (D) (Beginner)(↑)]
Lu Yuan was surprised to find that not only could he upgrade Ice Shard Ring Body, but he could also break through to the next realm!
Between upgrading his skill and advancing his realm, Lu Yuan naturally chose the realm!
"Great! I'm finally going to become a true supernatural ability user!"
Lu Yuan nodded with satisfaction.
After all, someone who had just awakened a supernatural ability could only be called an Awakened.
Without proper guidance, it was very difficult to advance from Awakened to supernatural ability user.
He hadn't even found a master yet, and he was already about to become a supernatural ability user!
Suppressing his excitement, Lu Yuan pressed the "↑" on the System Panel without hesitation.
[Evolution Points -250!] [Realm: Awakened → First Order Lower Rank]
A mighty surge of mental power and blood-and-qi energy erupted inside Lu Yuan,
making him instinctively focus his mind.
[Mental Strength: 120 Hz → 140 Hz] [Blood and Qi: 210 cal → 240 cal]
After an unknown amount of time, he opened the panel and saw that
along with his breakthrough, Lu Yuan's mental and blood-and-qi attributes had also increased considerably!
At once, he felt his thinking and strength improve!
He'd been getting drowsy just moments ago, but now he was wide awake!
Meanwhile, inside the tent,
Zhou Wan was bleary-eyed, hovering between sleep and wakefulness.
She was a Second Order Lower Rank supernatural ability user, and her sensitivity to Primal Energy was greater than that of the other members of the Fire Fox Team.
While asleep, she sensed a strong fluctuation of Primal Energy outside the tent.
Could something have happened?
At the thought, Zhou Wan woke up in an instant!
She unzipped the tent and stepped outside.
There, she saw Lu Yuan looking down at his novel.
Zhou Wan asked, "Lu Yuan, have you seen any ferocious beasts nearby?"
Hearing Zhou Wan's voice, Lu Yuan shook his head to show that he hadn't.
Just as Zhou Wan was about to return to the tent and go back to sleep,
she suddenly sensed something. Her brows lifted, and her eyes widened. "Did you... break through and become a supernatural ability user?"
Lu Yuan answered honestly, "That's right."
Though surprised, Zhou Wan was happy for him too.
After all, the stronger Lu Yuan became, the stronger the Fire Fox Team would be as a whole!
That was a good thing!
Once she'd put her confusion to rest,
the drowsiness that had briefly receded came flooding back.
Zhou Wan yawned, returned to the tent, and went back to sleep!
With time to spare, Lu Yuan began the long night of watch duty ahead.
Fortunately, the night passed without incident.
The members of the Fire Fox Team got up one after another.
After packing away their tents and washing up, they resumed their plans for the day.
The day before, they'd planned to let Lu Yuan get some practice first, so they'd come to this gathering place for Shadow Cats and White Spotted Dogs.
But Lu Yuan had turned out to be stronger than they'd imagined.
They'd called it practice, but he hadn't really gotten any in.
It was more accurate to say Lu Yuan didn't need much practice at all. They only had to teach him a few basic things.
For example, how to collect the crystal cores inside ferocious beasts efficiently, and which wild plants were poisonous...
Zhou Wan took out the map, and the rest of the Fire Fox Team gathered around her.
"Yesterday, I thought we'd let our new little brother Lu Yuan get some practice, but it turns out I underestimated him!"
"Today, how about we head to the area where we usually operate?"
Zhou Wan asked.
"Sure!"
Everyone answered together.
The area where the Fire Fox Team usually operated was on the other side of the forest,
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