Song Chen sat cross-legged at the end of the passage. Darkness surrounded him, with only a small pale-golden pattern of spatial-node light floating before him, casting a faint circle of illumination.
He opened the system panel.
Killing Value: 580 billion.
The number before his eyes made his fingers twitch involuntarily.
His Blood Qi was now seventy million, and his Mental Power was sixty million.
Judging by the numbers, he was already qualified to break through to the Eighth Rank.
But the key to the Eighth Rank was not Blood Qi or Mental Power, but Star Origin Power, which required a great deal of time to accumulate.
Of course, the System Shop had treasures that could accelerate the process, but that was not what he needed to consider right now.
Void Traverse had already given him the means to survive on the battlefield, and the sixth layer of Star-Splitting Slash had given him the capital to fight above his rank. The most important thing was to first reach the Seventh Rank limit.
Song Chen recalled his battle with Kurzon. If the Silver Radiance Battle Armor had not been hard enough, he would already be a mangled corpse.
The gap between the Eighth Rank and the Seventh Rank was far greater than the gap between the Seventh Rank and the Sixth Rank. He had to raise his strength as quickly as possible.
He brought up the attribute point allocation panel and began converting Killing Value into the purest form of power.
The system began operating. Song Chen felt as though a pair of hands were prying his body open from within. Every muscle, every nerve, every Spirit-Energy Vein was being torn apart and reshaped.
His Blood Qi raced through his veins as if it had been brought to a boil,