Rapid Progress

As time passed, all nine hundred and ninety clones absorbed Cosmic energy at the same time. Wang Cheng himself still hadn't felt any bottleneck in his body, so his evolution was as fast as a rocket.

Moreover, thanks to the ten clones constantly seeking out opponents in Base City No. 003, Wang Cheng himself was rapidly gaining practical combat experience.

On the first day of actual combat, Wang Cheng's ten clones fought a total of fifteen monsters. They were all Beast General level, and one of them was even a High-level War General.

Wang Cheng won fourteen of the fifteen battles. But when he faced the one High-level War General monster, he could barely fight back. His clone was even beaten to death.

After the clone died, it turned into countless points of light and disappeared. Meanwhile, Wang Cheng Main Body, who was far away in a Residential Building, absorbed some of those points of light.

It was this experience that gave Wang Cheng a deeper understanding of his Innate Talent.

If a clone died out in the field, the energy that had been split off to create it wouldn't return to Wang Cheng Main Body, but some of its soul would.

Wang Cheng didn't know the maximum distance over which the soul could return to the main body. He would have to try it out gradually in the future!

Also, if a clone and its soul were both destroyed, then the soul definitely wouldn't be able to return.

But mere Apprentice level monsters obviously weren't capable of destroying a soul, so after one clone died, Wang Cheng immediately sent out another.

A clone's death wasn't anything to fear; it only cost him some energy. Right now, all nine hundred and ninety of Wang Cheng's clones were rapidly absorbing Cosmic energy, so any energy he lost could easily be replenished!

On the second day of actual combat, none of Wang Cheng's clones died. However, one of the monsters that fought him did, becoming the first monster Wang Cheng had ever killed!

After it died, Wang Cheng left it outside.

Although many materials from a monster's body were worth a great deal, at Wang Cheng's current level, money on Earth held little appeal for him. He simply didn't want it. If he did, he could easily get his hands on more Earth Coin than he could count.

It was just a little material. He didn't care about it at all.

On the third day of actual combat, Wang Cheng began to understand some of the mysteries of movement techniques.

On Earth, skills such as Martial skills and movement techniques were divided into five levels: ordinary, micro-level, Perfect, Artistic conception, and Domain!

In the universe, Martial skills and movement techniques were divided into four major realms: basic, Artistic conception, Domain, and world (law)!

Earth's ordinary, micro-level, and Perfect levels all corresponded to the universe's basic level. Artistic conception and Domain each corresponded to their counterparts. As for laws, no one on Earth had managed to comprehend them, so naturally, there was no such level there.

Wang Cheng had comprehended Domain, and he had used it to fly before, so that could be considered using a Domain level movement technique.

But now, while using Apprentice level clones, Wang Cheng couldn't unleash his Domain. His movement technique became utterly unimpressive.

In other words, Wang Cheng's foundation was extremely weak—so weak that it was practically nonexistent!

Once he realized this, Wang Cheng quickly started taking it seriously. The principle was simple: the more fundamental something was, the more important it was. If he wanted to improve, he had to build a solid foundation.

In fact, with Wang Cheng's talent for comprehending Domain in an extremely short time, and ten clones fighting and training outside at the same time, his rate of progress was naturally astonishing!

In just three days, Wang Cheng had honed his Basic Movement Technique to its limit. In Earth's terms, it had reached the Perfect level.

After that, drawing on his understanding of Domain, Wang Cheng quickly incorporated Lightning artistic conception into his movement technique, raising it to the Artistic conception level.

As he continued training this way, Wang Cheng soon spent a whole month in City No. 003.

By then, even with Apprentice Tier 3 clones, Wang Cheng could easily kill some High-level War General monsters. He couldn't say his foundation was exceptionally strong, but at the very least, it wasn't weak!

One month later—

"..."

Wang Cheng's Main Body sat cross-legged on a sofa in a Residential Building. Flecks of white light appeared as nearly a thousand clones vanished, drifting out from every direction in the building before quickly merging into Wang Cheng's body.

Wang Cheng usually kept his aura restrained. But as the white lights merged into his body, the aura within him burst out involuntarily.

"I'm getting stronger so fast!"

A smile appeared at the corner of Wang Cheng's mouth. In just one short month, not only had he made up for his weak foundation in technique, but his physical foundation had also improved by leaps and bounds!

By now, Wang Cheng had reached Planet level eighth order. He estimated that if he kept getting stronger at this rate, he would reach the limit of Planet level Ninth Order in another month. As long as his will wasn't too weak, he should be able to break through to Stellar level soon!

He was clearly progressing much faster than the Kinkaku Giant Beast, which could get stronger just by devouring metal.

This was partly because Wang Cheng's Innate Talent gave him an enormous advantage in cultivation, and partly because his own evolution had no bottlenecks.

Together, these factors allowed him to absorb Cosmic energy at a frenzied pace and keep driving his evolution forward!

"I wonder if I can keep evolving all the way to Realm Lord peak without hitting a bottleneck!" Wang Cheng wondered silently. Of course, compared with the possibility of his body's evolution hitting a bottleneck, he would rather believe that he could keep evolving smoothly all the way to Realm Lord peak.

After all, the Primal Embryo was truly extraordinary. Surely the Primal Body it had produced couldn't have an evolutionary talent inferior to that of some peak bloodlines?

Without thinking any further, Wang Cheng sent out a large number of clones again and had them continue absorbing Cosmic energy!

As for Wang Cheng Main Body, he closed his eyes and continued sensing the laws.

Wang Cheng had made terrifying progress over the past month, but he had no intention of stopping. He still planned to keep training in the Wilderness Area for a while longer!

But before Wang Cheng had been sitting with his eyes closed for long, he suddenly opened them in surprise, a strange expression appearing on his face.

Outside a large abandoned supermarket in City No. 003, one of Wang Cheng's clones emerged from a pile of rubble.

At that moment, five or six surprised gazes from an open area in front of Wang Cheng turned toward him.

The gazes belonged to two sides who had been facing off. One was a mysterious person with all sorts of camouflage paint smeared across her face.

Aside from her figure, which gave away that she was a woman, it was hard to learn anything else about her.

The other side was clearly a complete team. It had close-combat fighters, a hidden sniper, and even a Mental Master!

But judging by their skin and appearance, they were clearly a squad from another country.

"Hey, are you with her?" The only woman on the foreign team, who was also a Mental Master, looked at Wang Cheng as he emerged from the rubble and asked.

"I'm just passing by." Wang Cheng shook his head indifferently, then took out a Flying Dagger.

"This yours?" Wang Cheng said. In the next moment—

Whoosh!

Wang Cheng hurled the Flying Dagger, sending it straight toward the female Mental Master.

The Flying Dagger was incredibly fast, creating a sonic boom in the air. But it clearly wasn't going to hit her. It abruptly stopped about a meter away from the female Mental Master.

The Flying Dagger slowly fell, landing in the female Mental Master's hand.

"Not bad." The female Mental Master gave her companions a signal and smiled as she complimented him.

"You're too kind!"

Wang Cheng said nothing more. He really was just passing by.

He'd seen people facing off here and had quietly approached to watch the show. He hadn't expected one side to have a Mental Master, who had thrown a Flying Dagger as soon as she heard him. But she hadn't meant to kill him; she'd aimed it at the ground by his feet.

As for what the two sides were fighting over... if Wang Cheng wasn't mistaken, it was the Shadow Wolf lying between them, already on the verge of death.

An adult Shadow Wolf was a High-level Beast General level monster, and its materials were among the most valuable of any High-level Beast General level monster!

If sold, this monster would probably fetch three or four hundred million Huaxia Coin.

Aside from an oddball like Wang Cheng, very few people who came to City No. 003 to hunt monsters could ignore the corpse of a Shadow Wolf.

So it wasn't surprising that the two sides had started arguing over it.

Wang Cheng knew they might start fighting soon. In a situation like this, having someone else watch was a major taboo.

So after making it clear that he was just passing by, Wang Cheng quickly left.

Once the two sides were sure Wang Cheng had really gone, they resumed talking. At first, they both held back, but neither was willing to give in, and soon the tension between them grew palpable.

The sniper hidden among the foreign squad even fired a warning shot. But the other side was just as stubborn. Although she was alone, she still refused to back down.

And so, the two sides soon started fighting.

At that moment, Wang Cheng Main Body stood on top of a distant building, watching the fight with interest.

"That woman dares to pick a fight alone with a team that has a Mental Master. She must have some real skill. Her movement technique is probably close to the Perfect level, and her strength and speed are among the best of the High-level War Generals... Impressive!" Wang Cheng watched and commented.

Wang Cheng's clone had indeed left, but his Main Body had quietly come here.

Between absorbing Cosmic energy and sensing the laws, Wang Cheng was extremely bored in the Wilderness Area. Now that he'd finally found some excitement to watch, how could he pass it up?

The Mental Master had been able to detect Wang Cheng's clone, but there was absolutely no way she could detect Wang Cheng's Main Body. Their strength was on entirely different levels.

P.S. The signed contract has been mailed. Invest now for a sure profit—don't miss out as you pass by!