After a dizzying whirl of stars and skies.
Everything around him changed.
Heat!
Scorching currents!
Frenzy!
Waves of heat washed directly over Su Bei's body. He opened his eyes, and before his consciousness had fully returned to his body, his spear was already in his hand, ready to deal with anything.
Fortunately, there were no traces of Starry Sky Alien Beasts around where he had landed.
He looked around.
It was a desolate wasteland. The temperature was unbearably scorching, and although the surroundings were bright, there was no obvious source of light. Due to the heat, most of the ground consisted of cracked, dry sand that crumbled apart at the slightest touch.
As far as his eyes could see, there was only lifeless desolation, without the slightest trace of vitality. An overwhelming sense of barrenness swept over him.
The distant air rippled from the heat. When he looked behind him, massive folds had appeared in space at the edge of the Shattered Battlefield, and even the ground was no longer visible.
He waited a while longer, but the other four still did not appear.
Su Bei's expression darkened slightly.
"Looks like we ran into a bad situation."
The spatial passageways of the Shattered Battlefield generally had fixed exits, but on rare occasions, deviations occurred, transporting people to different locations.
However, they had long prepared for such a situation.
They would first find safe places to break through, then regroup.
After all, the Shattered Battlefield would not be too large. It would not be too difficult for the five of them to gather again.
Su Bei was not overly worried about the others' safety. They were all descendants of great families. As long as they were not killed instantly, they probably had no fewer trump cards than he did.
Instead of worrying about them, he might as well worry about himself.
Rustle, rustle, rustle...
Something suddenly stirred beneath the piles of sand. Su Bei's brows twitched, and he swept his spear through the sand. Dust exploded outward as a glint of cold light shot toward him like a streaking meteor!
Su Bei jerked his head to the left. A thin line of blood appeared on his face; he had already suffered a cut. Only after twisting around did he see what the little beast was.
It was about the size of an adult's palm, its entire body a faint aurora color. It had a mouth full of sharp teeth, and tiny points of light flickered across its skin. The moment it landed in the sand, it vanished in an instant.
A Starry Sky Alien Beast—the Star-walking Rat.
Su Bei frowned. This was a weak Starry Sky Beast, but it reproduced at an extraordinary rate. Seeing one here meant that there might already be a whole group somewhere beyond sight.
This time, he was prepared.
The instant the Star-walking Rat emerged from the mound of dirt, Su Bei pierced it through on his spear. With a shake of the shaft, the struggling rat died instantly.
A faint force of dissipating laws emerged alongside it, though it was extremely thin.
Most Starry Sky Alien Beasts were no different from ordinary exotic beasts. What truly set them apart was the power of laws within their bodies and blood, laws completely different from those of this world.
Even the weakest Starry Sky Beasts possessed enough starry sky laws to travel through dimensional barriers.
The Star-walking Rat might have seemed unable to withstand a single blow before Su Bei, but this tiny creature was no different from a low-grade Level One Exotic Beast on Earth.
"Even if there are more Star-walking Rats, they can't carry an entire Shattered Battlefield through a dimensional barrier."
Still, this was good. He should have gathered enough Sky Beast Blood.
Su Bei grabbed the Star-walking Rat. Its blood glittered like starlight, as though it contained another kind of power.
A panel appeared in his mind:
Mission: Proceed with caution and obtain Sky Beast Blood (Completed) Reward: Sumeru Mustard Seed *1 (Issued)
Su Bei's hand sank slightly as a plain-looking ring appeared in his palm. Excited, he brushed his fingertip across the spearhead, squeezed out a drop of blood, and let it fall onto the ring. It was absorbed completely in the blink of an eye.
The fantasy-world ritual of claiming an owner with blood still felt novel to him.
The next moment.
With a thought from Su Bei, the space within the ring unfolded before his eyes.
It was enormous, at least a hundred meters in height and width, nearly the size of a stadium!
With a light stroke across the Star-walking Rat, its corpse appeared inside the ring's space.
Another thought, and it reappeared in his hand.
After trying it back and forth several times, he became proficient. Su Bei hurriedly stuffed all his supplies, including his arrows, into the space. With a single thought, they would appear directly in his hand. It was incredibly convenient!
"Truly worthy of a fantasy-world creation."
Su Bei was thrilled. Such things were common in fantasy worlds, but in his own world, no one had ever even heard of them.
With it, Su Bei had gained another powerful trump card!
He stored the Star-walking Rat in the ring. Though it looked small, its entire body was valuable. Its hide and tiny fangs could both be used to make weapons.
"I need to find a safe place to break through first."
With that thought.
Su Bei raced away, finally finding a suitable spot atop a rocky hill. He moved several boulders to block a gap, leaving roughly two meters of space—enough for him to break through there.
He took a deep breath.
Su Bei sat down directly. Once his emotions had gradually settled, his body slowly entered an incomparably tranquil state.
He swallowed the Secret Treasury Potion in one gulp.
It was colorless and tasteless.
Yet the instant he swallowed it, every gene in Su Bei's body was like cold water poured into boiling oil, erupting with a bang!
His originally compact genetic structure was instantly thrown into disorder. Every gene began to riot, battle, and transform chaotically!
Outside.
Su Bei's body turned crimson almost instantly. Extreme heat surged through his limbs and bones. Even his breath seemed to carry scorching heat, and white currents of air billowed from his mouth and nose.
At the same time, agonizing pain coursed through every part of his body. The warring genes turned his body into a battlefield. Blood even began to seep from his skin, only to be stimulated by the heat and turn into crimson blood mist.
The pain was like being skinned layer by layer with a knife, leaving him no peace.
Time passed swiftly, though he had no idea how long it had been.
The battle between the genes in Su Bei's body gradually approached its end. If one could see beyond the naked eye, the surviving genes resembled warriors filled with fighting spirit, having gained new life.
Lights flickered before Su Bei's eyes. At some unknown moment, he seemed to have entered an endless universe. A towering gate stood there as though it had existed since ancient times, seemingly containing every secret of the fleshly body.
The human body had nine gates; each gate could slay a thousand men!
Before Su Bei even exerted any strength, the Secret Treasury Gate representing the fleshly body was pushed open with a thunderous crash!
The first secret treasury, the Body Gate, had finally opened!
Boundless vitality poured from the gate. His entire body rejoiced in a massive evolution, countless genes cheering as his whole being underwent a genetic leap!
But at the same time, an overwhelming hunger surged from every part of his body, as though it would tear him apart!
Su Bei instantly woke.
With a thought, the Jade Wood appeared in his hand, and he stuffed it straight into his mouth.
The tangible energy within it instantly spilled out and rushed into his body.
After the Secret Treasury Gate opened, his flesh, blood, stomach, and intestines became a furnace capable of absorbing any form of energy. Even ordinary toxins would be turned into waste with a single cycle of the furnace.
His ravenous genes frantically absorbed this hard-won energy, while rapidly dividing and growing stronger.
A normal adult male had 3.6 billion cells and one hundred thousand sets of genes. Under the impact of the Jade Wood, each set of genes seemed coated in a faint emerald hue, brimming with life and exuding remarkably tenacious vitality.
His limbs and bones, internal organs, tendons, bones, blood vessels, skin, and flesh!
Every aspect was strengthened.
The wound from when he had claimed the ring with blood healed completely in almost a single breath!
This was the effect of an A-grade Ascension Secret Treasure!
Outside.
The changes in Su Bei's body were especially obvious. As his flesh and blood churned, the Great Sun Hanging Sky Gene Method circulated automatically, and his blood and vitality boiled over!
His already abundant blood and vitality nearly doubled repeatedly in a short period!
His strength also rose frantically!
4000KG!
5000KG!
7000KG!
9000KG!
In a short time, his strength had tripled!
Su Bei suddenly rose to his feet and unleashed a Cannon Fist. It was as though thunder roared, and his Qi Force shot out like a cannonball, instantly pulverizing the boulder before him.
This was already nine times the minimum standard for a First-order Martial Artist, and he was now extremely close to the minimum punching-force standard for a Second-order Martial Artist.
For ordinary people, reaching 2000KG from their original 1000KG of strength after a breakthrough was already considered excellent. The greater one's foundation as a Quasi-Martial Artist, the greater the difference after opening the Secret Treasury Gate.
Rising from 2000KG to 4000KG was enough to make someone a minor genius.
Tripling one's strength was enough to make one a notable figure even among renowned geniuses.
And opening the Secret Treasury Gate was like breaking the genetic lock shackling the human body, allowing his strength to continue growing.
Su Bei frowned. But compared to those true prodigies, this level was still somewhat lacking.
They cultivated transcendent Gene Methods, tempered themselves in medicinal baths from childhood, and even used S-grade Ascension Secret Treasures. Coupled with the help of their ancestors' hidden genes, the gap between them and ordinary people was simply too great. It could even be called the difference between races.
Once martial artists reached the later stages of cultivation, it would not be strange to say they were no longer human.
Su Bei had read related records. Some powerful geniuses could reach over 14,000 kilograms of strength the instant they opened the Secret Treasury Gate!
Some could even open two Secret Treasury Gates in a single day!
Perhaps the other four who had entered with him would not have strength much lower than his 9000KG after breaking through.
Su Bei glanced at the Great Sun Emperor Body Technique in his mind. His body shot forward like a cannonball, tearing through the air as broken stones were swept backward, crashing into the surroundings like Skybreak stones and leaving small pits everywhere.
You have your family's foundation; I have my system's backing.
"The blood of one Star-walking Rat is nowhere near enough to lay the foundation for the Great Sun Emperor Body Technique. I need more!"
"What I want is not to stand shoulder to shoulder with those geniuses. I want to crush them!"
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