All Promoted to Junior Warriors

This raid on the Hydra base had yielded enormous gains.

Not to mention the weapons and equipment, the dozen or so researchers, and nearly five hundred soldiers.

The various era-defying technologies he had obtained alone numbered several.

The most useful among them was an energy shield technology.

Moreover, the researchers had already dismantled the device from the Hydra base and installed it on the island.

The size of the shield could be adjusted according to its power output.

At that moment, all of Death Island was enveloped by the defensive shield.

According to Baron Strucker, not even missiles could break through the shield's defenses.

With the incorporation of the Hydra base, the island's development gradually got on the right track.

At Xu Mo's command, Sauron and the other eight had also arrived on the island.

As the earliest people to follow Xu Mo, the nine of them had all reached the level of Prospective Martial Warriors after their physiques had been improved by large amounts of vicious beast meat. Their punching strength had all surpassed 900 kilograms.

Xu Mo planned to have them train the Hydra soldiers on the island as instructors once they became official Martial Warriors.

His idea was simple.

Among these soldiers, he would select those with relatively good talent, train them, and establish an assassin organization.

They would specialize in hunting down villains and earning points for him.

After exploring the system over this period of time, Xu Mo had gradually figured out how it defined villains.

Almost anyone who had done evil would be classified as part of the villain camp.

That meant nearly ninety percent of people would yield points after being killed.

The only difference was how many points they gave.

After having their bodies modified by vicious beast meat for a while, they would likely become Martial Warriors before long.

Reaching Warlord Rank would only be a matter of time.

The remaining soldiers with poorer talent would form special operations squads, specifically used to purge evil organizations.

Even if they found it difficult to reach very high levels, the improvements from vicious beast meat would make reaching the level of Junior Martial Warriors extremely easy.

At that level alone, their punching strength would exceed 900 kilograms.

They would be far stronger than those so-called king soldiers in the outside world.

Working together, a few of them could easily wipe out an armed squad of several hundred men.

In a cleared open area on the eastern side of the island.

Sauron and the other eight sat cross-legged on the ground.

"Do you all understand?"

Xu Mo turned to look at the nine people seated in a row.

It had to be said that making these muscle-brained fellows fully understand the Genetic Origin Energy Cultivation Method had truly taken him a long time.

Of course, the main reason was that theories like the meridians and acupoints of traditional Chinese medicine were difficult for Westerners like them to understand.

Only after seeing all of them nod did Xu Mo finally let out a sigh of relief.

"Good. Now, begin cultivating according to the method I taught you!"

At Xu Mo's command.

The nine of them focused their minds, held their breaths, slowly closed their eyes, and entered a meditative state.

Xu Mo estimated that it would not be easy for them to sense cosmic energy in a short time, so he simply sat down cross-legged where he was and prepared to cultivate as well.

His Martial Warrior level had now reached Planetary Level, while his Spirit Reader strength remained stuck at Peak Wargod.

To advance into a Planetary-Level Spirit Reader, he likewise needed to condense another star core within his sea of consciousness.

What he needed to do now was temper and temper his spiritual power without end.

After spending half an hour searching his memories, he found a secret technique specifically for tempering spiritual power: the Spirit Tempering Art.

As the Spirit Tempering Art began to circulate, the spiritual power in Xu Mo's sea of consciousness instantly boiled. At the same time, a mysterious totem appeared within it, while threads of spiritual power continuously passed through the totem.

Every time his spiritual power passed through the totem, it became a little more condensed.

However, this appeared to be a lengthy process.

After several hours, less than one percent of his total spiritual power had been condensed.

But Xu Mo was not in a hurry. At this rate, it would take only one or two months to completely temper his spiritual power once.

This continued until the following morning.

Changes gradually began to appear among the nine people seated in a row outside.

A short-haired woman in her thirties sitting at the edge suddenly trembled.

Xu Mo, who was focused on tempering his spiritual power at the front, seemed to sense something and slowly opened his eyes.

In his field of vision, threads of cosmic energy were gradually gathering into the short-haired woman's body, and the speed was increasing.

"Vanessa?"

He had not expected that among the nine, the first person to sense cosmic energy would be one of the only two women.

Still, there was nothing strange about that.

Cultivation talent was not necessarily related to how quickly one could sense energy. What truly mattered was how much energy one could absorb each day.

Vanessa's breakthrough seemed to trigger a chain reaction.

Over the next half hour, four more people sensed cosmic energy in succession and began absorbing cosmic energy for the first time to improve their physical qualities.

By the time an hour had passed, everyone had begun absorbing cosmic energy.

Xu Mo was not surprised by this.

These people had all been mercenaries before, and every one of them had crawled out from piles of corpses.

Their senses were far sharper than those of ordinary people.

At that moment, Vanessa, who had begun first, gradually completed her first absorption of cosmic energy and slowly opened her eyes.

The moment she opened her eyes, Vanessa sprang up from the ground.

Seeing her excited expression.

Xu Mo made a quiet gesture toward her, then pointed in the direction of the river, signaling for her to wash herself first.

Only then did Vanessa realize that her body was covered in a layer of black impurities.

She immediately rushed toward the river.

Before long, people woke up one after another and headed for the riverbank.

In the end, only Sauron remained in the field, still continuously absorbing cosmic energy.

He had been the second to begin absorbing energy, and by calculation, he had spent longer absorbing energy than anyone else.

That also meant Sauron possessed the greatest talent among them.

It was not until more than half an hour later that Sauron finally came to.

"Boss!"

After waking, Sauron greeted him and stood where he was, waiting for Xu Mo's instructions.

Xu Mo reached out and patted him on the shoulder.

"Not bad. Go wash up first, then gather here again!"

An hour later.

Everyone had finished washing and returned to the field.

There were now two additional machines in the field.

A strength tester and a speed tester.

Xu Mo had just exchanged them from the system. Their technological level was not particularly high, and they had cost him a total of two hundred points.

At Xu Mo's command, they stepped forward one after another to test themselves in the order they had awakened.

Vanessa, who had long been eager to try, was the first to walk up.

She clenched her fist and slammed it fiercely into the punching target.

Boom!

Driven by the force of her punch, the target slid more than two meters backward.

She looked toward the display screen beside it.

"1520 kg!"