Inside a dilapidated hundred-story skyscraper in a city in the Wilderness Zone, blade light flashed. Every swing left another monster corpse behind, and the blade arcs carved deep gouges into the walls. Monster blood and brains splattered everywhere, and shredded organs covered the floor.
Luo Yuan stood atop a mountain of monster corpses, blood still dripping from the edge of his Blood Shadow Battle Blade. This time, however, not a single drop had stained his Combat Suit. By deliberately dodging, he had avoided the monsters' foul-smelling blood. He did not want to wash up every time he returned from hunting monsters, and this showed just how astonishing his Dodging Movement Technique had become.
Through constantly stacking attributes, Luo Yuan's Evasion Movement Technique had come infinitely close to the Perfect Level. He had now fought his way up to the eightieth floor. The monsters from the fiftieth through the seventy-ninth floors had all been Junior Beast Generals, and killing them had been effortless. From the eightieth floor onward, the monsters he encountered were at the Intermediate Beast General Level. Most were canine or feline monsters, along with some so heavily mutated that their original species were unrecognizable.
Luo Yuan kept collecting attributes as he slaughtered his way through, growing stronger with every fight. In particular, the endurance attributes he picked up improved his stamina even further. The Beast General-level Monsters fighting him possessed a little intelligence. They had originally planned to wear him down with overwhelming numbers, only to discover that he seemed to have an endless supply of energy. The more he killed, the stronger he became, and one after another, they began to waver.
But Luo Yuan did not care what they thought. Carrying his Blood Shadow Battle Blade, he continued upward. When he reached the ninetieth floor, every monster he encountered was actually an Advanced Beast General. Fortunately, there were not many of them.
On the ninety-fifth floor, ten Advanced Beast General monsters surrounded Luo Yuan. Each looked vicious, and some had drool dripping from their mouths. Among them were three snake monsters with single horns on their heads, seemingly Single-Horned Mad Pythons, and four tiger-like monsters wreathed in lightning, apparently Lightning Tigers.
Luo Yuan could not identify the other three monsters, which looked like a cross between chickens and ducks. All he could say was that the information on the Warrior Forum really was rather unreliable. He had browsed it for so long, yet had never seen monsters like these.
Luo Yuan could not be bothered to dwell on it. He decided to use his Grade 9 Flying Daggers. After killing for so long, he was getting bored, and the monsters' foul stench was making him feel sick. With a thought, six Grade 9 Flying Daggers shot from his waist and swept toward the ten monsters surrounding him, tearing into them. The daggers constantly changed course, attacking from tricky angles and targeting the monsters' vital points.
Two of Luo Yuan's flying daggers stabbed into the anuses of two Lightning Tigers, shredding their internal organs to pulp. As the three Single-Horned Mad Pythons dodged the daggers, Luo Yuan seized an opening and cut their heads clean off. The remaining monsters met their ends under the combined assault of his flying daggers and battle blade.
When Luo Yuan finally fought his way to the ninety-ninth floor, he felt as though his body had broken through some restriction. Sensing the sudden, enormous increase in his strength, he seemed to realize something. After killing every monster on the ninety-ninth floor, he did not immediately head to the final floor. Instead, he opened his attribute panel.
Name: Luo Yuan Strength level: Apprentice Level (Junior War God) Strength: 68,000 kg Speed: 403 m/s Defense: 68,000 kg Spiritual Force: 35,000 kg Evasion Movement Technique: Perfect Level Cultivation methods: Five Hearts Facing the Sky Method, Guidance Technique "Nine-Layered Hunyuan" (second layer) Skills: Movement Technique "Flowing Light" (second layer), Blade Technique "Thunder Blade" (second layer) Notes: 1. Spiritual Force can be used to collect attribute bubbles directly and to scout. Both functions currently have a range of one thousand meters. 2. Can help the host comprehend and create a blade technique.
As Luo Yuan looked at his attribute panel, wild delight spread across his face. He had finally broken through to War God Level, and his Evasion Movement Technique had reached the Perfect Level as well. Previously, collecting proficiency at the Limit Hall had brought his Nine-Layered Thunder Blade to the peak of its first layer. Fighting alone through ninety-nine floors of this dilapidated skyscraper had improved his blade technique further, finally bringing it to the second layer.
The two notes on the panel delighted him in particular. He would no longer need to run around like a madman to collect attributes. As long as the attribute bubbles were within the range of his Spiritual Force, he could collect them with a single thought. This meant his strength would improve very quickly from now on. He could also comprehend and create his own blade technique with the system's help, though that could wait.
Luo Yuan raised his gaze toward the stairs leading to the final floor, his eyes burning with fervor. His Spiritual Force was growing somewhat slowly now, and the key to changing that lay on the hundredth floor.
He did not head up immediately, instead scouting with his Mental Power. With the system's help, his Mental Power could now cover a radius of one thousand meters. When he released it, everything within that range came into view. Even the buildings became transparent to him. As long as a place had no special restrictions, he could observe it at will and even hear the sounds within.
When Luo Yuan's Mental Power penetrated the hundredth floor, his mind's eye revealed an enormous Nine-Tailed White Fox lying there. The fox's body occupied nearly half the floor. Considering that the hundredth floor was almost thirty meters high and covered five hundred square meters, the fox's size was clear.
Judging by the aura the Nine-Tailed White Fox gave off, Luo Yuan was certain she had not yet broken through to Lord Level, though she was close. Beneath each of her nine tails lay a seven-tailed or eight-tailed white fox, all radiating the might of Advanced Beast Generals. In other words, this final floor held ten advanced Illusion Foxes, and the largest was extremely close to Lord Level.
What Luo Yuan found particularly interesting was that an invisible barrier of Spiritual Force enveloped the hundredth floor. It must have been the Nine-Tailed White Fox's work. Luo Yuan guessed that the barrier served to block sound and vibrations. Otherwise, how could these Illusion Foxes still be sleeping so soundly after all the commotion he had made below?
Of course, that was all it could do. This Illusion Fox's Mental Power was nowhere near as pure as Luo Yuan's. After all, the Mental Power he collected was refined by the system before being integrated into him.
Suddenly, the Nine-Tailed White Fox seemed to sense something. She startled awake and opened a pair of lantern-sized eyes, her golden pupils scanning her surroundings.
Luo Yuan slowly climbed the stairs. After passing through the Nine-Tailed White Fox's Spiritual Force barrier, his eyes met hers. The Nine-Tailed White Fox let out a howl, and the other nine Illusion Foxes on the hundredth floor immediately formed up, watching Luo Yuan warily.
"Human, what have you come to our territory for?"
Suddenly, a mature female voice sounded in Luo Yuan's mind, startling him. He had not seen the Nine-Tailed White Fox open her mouth. She had actually transmitted her thoughts directly through Mental Power. Luo Yuan could not help feeling delighted. He had found a real treasure this time.
"Illusion Fox Clan, I want you to submit to me, or die!"
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