Intermediate War General

After resting at home for two days and thoroughly unwinding, Yun He went to the training hall to test his strength and see how much his physical fitness had improved over the past month or so.

Boom!

The entire punching target on the Punch Strength Tester tilted backward.

The screen displayed a number: 20,137 kg!

Just as I expected, my physical fitness has reached the Intermediate War General level!

His physical strength had broken through the twenty-thousand-kilogram threshold.

Twenty tons in a single punch!

Intermediate War General: 16,000-32,000 kg.

Yun He was not particularly surprised by the result.

Next came twenty-one layers of power!

Boom!

His fist slammed into the punching target with an explosive crack of air.

The screen displayed a number: 42,305 kg.

Advanced War General: 32,000-64,000 kg.

With his full strength unleashed, Yun He ranked around the middle of the Advanced War Generals.

My movement technique has already reached the micro-level, and my swordsmanship is about to reach it too. With my current strength, I can take on an Advanced War General without fear if I go all out!

Yun He was thoroughly satisfied.

Having reached this level, he was not far from becoming a War God.

"This time, in County-Level City 0201, we ran into the Tiger Tooth Squad..."

In a corner of the small bar on the training hall's first floor, Yun He and Luo Feng sat across from each other. A pot of tea and two teacups rested on the table as Luo Feng quietly recounted his experiences in the Wilderness Zone.

He did not even hide the fact that he was a Spiritualist.

Although Yun He had known that all along, Luo Feng's willingness to tell him everything without holding anything back showed how much he trusted him.

Yun He was rather surprised, and a little touched.

After quietly listening to Luo Feng's experiences, Yun He told him about his own frenzy of Beast Soldier slaughter in the Wilderness Zone.

Luo Feng was so tempted by what he heard that he immediately said he would try it himself in a few days.

Luo Feng had been back in the Base City for almost a month. Since the other members of the Fire Hammer Squad were planning to buy and take genetic potions, they had no intention of returning to the Wilderness Zone anytime soon. Luo Feng was bored stiff and had already been vaguely considering something like this. Now, he made up his mind on the spot.

Yun He was a little speechless. I learned this whole crazy Beast Soldier slaughtering routine from you in the first place...

He remembered that Luo Feng had done exactly this in the original novel. Yun He had merely gotten a step ahead of him this time.

Great. Now the Warrior Supply Base would have two lunatics who specialized in killing Beast Soldiers.

The people at the Supply Base would probably be left utterly speechless.

The sky was overcast, looking as though rain might fall.

It was already early November, and the weather had grown cooler. Winter was approaching, and a faint chill could be felt in the mornings and evenings.

City 003.

Before the Great Nirvana Period, it had been the economic center of all Huaxia Country-Old Shanghai City!

This was arguably one of the most dangerous areas in the entire Eurasian Region.

It bordered the ocean, and large numbers of ocean monsters prowled its rivers.

It had more buildings than almost anywhere else in Asia, which had also brought its monster population to an astonishing number.

There were many lord-level monsters here, yet even they did not stand at the top of the food chain. The ones that truly stood at the top were King-level monsters!

Elsewhere, Beast General-level monsters were usually surrounded by a large entourage of Beast Soldier underlings wherever they went. Here, ordinary Beast General-level monsters generally had few followers. Some of the less successful ones were even completely alone, without a single underling.

Beast General-level monsters were a dime a dozen here.

Large numbers of elite warriors gathered here.

Even warriors from some foreign base cities traveled immense distances to come here.

This place could be called the main battleground for warriors and monsters.

A faint mist shrouded the entire city, and the sky remained gray year-round. The roars of all kinds of monsters and the cries of flying monsters could be heard everywhere.

Countless vast monster herds, each numbering in the thousands or tens of thousands, roamed the city.

Capable warriors could make money incredibly fast here. Beast General-level monsters were everywhere. As long as you had the strength, you could earn money faster than it could be printed. Anyone who made a trip here and returned alive was sure to come back with a rich haul.

Of course, many warriors also lost their lives here.

Ssh!

In a dim alley, a streak of silvery-white sword light flashed through the air like lightning, piercing the center of an Intermediate Beast General Lion Mastiff's forehead before it could react.

For an instant, even the air fell silent.

Boom!

Only then did the sonic boom ring out.

Before the Lion Mastiff could even react, its pupils began to lose focus.

"The tenth one."

Yun He silently withdrew his longsword and began collecting the valuable materials from the Lion Mastiff.

He worked quickly, finishing in just a few movements. Then, like a cheetah, he swiftly vanished without a sound, leaving a corpse behind.

Before long, the scent of blood drew a group of monsters. They surrounded the still-warm corpse and feasted.

On the seventeenth floor of a residential building more than twenty stories tall.

Yun He entered an apartment and gently closed the door. Only after moving a solid wooden table over to brace it did he stop.

The apartment was dimly lit. Yun He set his backpack aside, sat on the living room sofa, and took out water and high-energy food to eat.

His luck had been good today. After spending most of the day lying in ambush, he had encountered a lone Intermediate Beast General.

He had been in this hellish City 003 for a little over a month.

Every day, he went out to find lone Beast General monsters to hunt. Sometimes he was lucky and found a suitable target: an Intermediate Beast General. When his luck was poor, going an entire day-or even two or three days-without any gains was perfectly normal.

Yet he remained patient, without the slightest anxiety.

When he was not confident, he would sometimes rather abandon a target than put himself in danger.

Unless he was at least eighty or ninety percent sure, he would never strike.

After all, he was alone, and merely a lowly Intermediate War General. In City 003, he was utterly insignificant.

Wasn't it better to stay alive?

In this life, nothing else mattered. Caution was enough.

As for Junior Beast Generals, he had no interest in them whatsoever. In a place where danger lurked at every step, there was no need to risk himself for such a small amount of money. His backpack barely had enough room for Intermediate Beast General-level materials as it was.

Every attack carried the risk of exposing himself.

The important materials from a Junior Beast General-level monster could generally sell for around five to fifteen million.

The important materials from an Intermediate Beast General-level monster could generally sell for around ten million to one hundred million.

The important materials from an Advanced Beast General-level monster could generally sell for around fifty million to six or seven hundred million.

Many factors accounted for such wide price ranges, such as whether a monster was extremely rare or had special uses, whether the materials were intact, and so on.

Over the past month or so, he had successfully hunted ten Intermediate Beast General monsters. Their prices were all around the middle of the range. He estimated that selling them to the HR Underground Alliance would bring in roughly 650 to 700 million.

He had originally considered hunting Advanced Beast Generals, but after coming here, he realized he had been overly optimistic. Advanced Beast Generals already held considerable standing. They generally stayed closer to the city center, while most of those in the outskirts had large groups of underlings.

He had absolutely no intention of entering the city center, and most of those in the outskirts had a pack of lackeys with them. The noise of a fight could be heard from hundreds of meters away. Yun He would have to be insane to provoke them.

That's enough. The money from selling these materials will be more than enough to buy the manuals for the first four layers of the Nine-Layered Thunder Blade. There's no need to keep taking risks. I'll go back and lie low for a few months. Once I've mastered the first four layers and my physical fitness reaches the Beginner War God level, I'll be set.

Then I'll have the physical fitness of a Beginner War God, plus the first four layers of the Nine-Layered Thunder Blade-a 3.5-times power multiplier.

Tsk, tsk.

The thought filled Yun He with secret delight. He was confident that his physical fitness would reach the Beginner War God level within half a year.

That settles it. I'll get a good night's rest and leave tomorrow morning.

Yun He stuffed the high-energy food in his hand into his mouth and took a large gulp of water, making his decision.