Brain domain, deep within the Sea of Consciousness.
This region was seemingly boundless. Aside from the cultivation progress bar manifested by Yang Zheng's consciousness at the very depths, endless mist constantly swirled about. In the center of this mist stood a pyramid.
This pyramid continuously emitted wisps of mist, causing the mist in this region to increase without a moment's pause.
At the same time, wisps of transparent cosmic energy were constantly infiltrating from the outside world and assimilating into Spiritual Force, jointly strengthening this Sea of Consciousness region.
The Sea of Consciousness was the specific term martial artists used for the brain, and Spiritual Force extended outward from the Sea of Consciousness.
Spirit Reader!
Among high-level life forms, they might be no different from martial artists, but on this Earth, they were a group with extremely strong potential.
Spirit Readers were naturally born with extremely powerful Spiritual Force, but because the physical body could not withstand such strong Spiritual Force, it had always remained hidden within the Sea of Consciousness.
When physical fitness grew stronger and stronger and reached a certain limit, the Spiritual Force would then manifest, and Spiritual Force was generally two levels higher than physical fitness.
After a night, at the hour of early morning.
Yang Zheng stood on the balcony of the fifteenth-floor room. The cold chill of early morning touched his face, causing his entire spirit to rouse.
Winter is coming, and it's quite cold!
Yang Zheng looked downward through the balcony to see monsters searching for prey. Within his field of vision alone, there were over twenty monsters, though all of them were Beast Soldier Level.
County Town No. 0877 was, after all, only an ordinary county town. Beast General-level monsters were extremely rare, and most were Junior Beast General and Intermediate Beast General Level, while Advanced General-Level ones probably numbered only one or two.
"Hn!"
"Pity, I woke up a bit too late after all!"
A message suddenly popped up on the communication watch on Yang Zheng's wrist. This was an announcement posted on the official website of the Limit Martial Hall.
"...On September 30, 2058, Limit Martial Hall Jiangnan Base City Inspector, Invincible War God Luo Feng entered the No. 9 Ancient Civilization Ruins. As of today, it has been over a year, and his death is now confirmed..."
Luo Feng had already entered the No. 9 Ancient Civilization Ruins for a year. Two months from now, upon coming out, he would quickly reach the Planetary Level, and after that would be the Mist Island Yunmo Star Inheritance...
The preceding opportunities like the Millennium Willow Heart had been missed, and as for the subsequent Wood Bud Crystals and the like, with his current rate of strength growth, he probably wouldn't have much qualification by then.
What I can grow rapidly right now is Spiritual Force. As long as I completely transform the pyramid in the Sea of Consciousness into Spiritual Force, the end result will at least be the strength of an Invincible War God!
Yang Zheng's current physical fitness was only at the Elementary Warlord Level. Even if his Spiritual Force was two levels higher than his physical fitness, it was at most the Advanced General-Level.
Depending on normal cultivation, in a mere few months' time, how much could he really improve?
If he wanted to rapidly increase his strength, aside from relying on personal cultivation, he probably had to "borrow momentum"!
"Whoosh!"
Holding a shield in his left hand and a saber in his right, Yang Zheng leaped directly down from a height of fifteen stories, landing lightly on the street pavement.
"Roar, roar, roar!"
Yang Zheng's descent had not the slightest concealment and was instantly discovered by the surrounding monsters. Among them, a Tiger Mastiff closest to him lunged over, while other surrounding monsters attacked simultaneously as well.
Thud!
Yang Zheng's foot turned, his figure drifting evasively as the sharp blade directly sliced open the belly of this Tiger Mastiff. The Tiger Mastiff's body flew out under the effect of momentum, kicking up a patch of dust.
At this very moment, right on its belly, there was a horrifying wound, with even its internal organs sliced apart by a single blade.
"Roar, roar, roar..."
The Tiger Mastiff's death did not deter the other monsters; instead, it stirred up their ferocity. One by one, they pounced crazily, wanting to tear this small-statured human to pieces.
"Well timed!"
Yang Zheng was as calm as if he were taking a stroll. Among these monsters besieging him, he sometimes went left, sometimes went right, occasionally slightly twisting his waist, or bowing to dodge...
Just by making some subtle movements, he allowed a full dozen or so monsters to completely fail to touch the slightest bit of his body.
To Yang Zheng, this group of Beast Soldier-level monsters posed no challenge difficulty at all. The reason he wasted time choosing these monsters was to practice the blade technique "Nine-Layered Thunder Blade".
According to the guiding direction of the [Cultivation Progress Bar], the second layer of the Nine-Layered Thunder Blade had been practiced to 24%. On average, only one out of ten blades could burst forth with the second hidden force.
This possessed probability.
Only by pushing the progress bar to 100% could it be considered fully mastered.
Yang Zheng compared it with the Nine-Layered Thunder Blade manual he had purchased. This kind of complete mastery from the progress bar was completely different from the manual.
According to the direction guided by the progress bar, this kind of physical force cultivated was all-encompassing.
For example, the first layer of the Nine-Layered Thunder Blade that Yang Zheng had now fully mastered had a force amplitude of 1.4 times. However, not only could his strength erupt with 1.4 times, but in terms of speed and defense, it was also a 1.4 times amplitude.
The highest force for the "Nine-Layered Thunder Blade" was 7 times, but it could only achieve that in terms of strength and speed, while physical defense was unable to achieve synchronous improvement.
The "Cultivation Progress Bar" not only possessed an accelerated cultivation function, but also had the effect of checking for omissions and making up for deficiencies, twisting and straightening out the crooked path that Thunder God had walked.
Even a crooked path could be walked straight.
This cheat, it's not as simple as it looks on the surface...
After finishing off the last monster that had swarmed him, Yang Zheng flicked the blood clean from the blade and headed straight toward the end of the street.
Under the sweep of his Spiritual Force, he had already selected a target prey. Alone in a ruined city, only a Spirit Reader who had turned on a detector dared to act so wantonly.
At a distance of 300 meters away from Yang Zheng, a group of One-Horned Wild Boars was slowly moving, numbering a full several hundred. The vast majority of the One-Horned Wild Boars only had gray fur.
Only the leading One-Horned Wild Boar was not only huge in size, but that single horn was also pitch-black, and every needle-like bristle on its body had turned black.
Intermediate Beast General Level!
Beast General-level monsters already possessed a certain degree of intelligence, and some were even no different from humans. Aside from a tiny minority that liked to act alone, almost every Beast General had a large amount of Beast Soldier-level monsters around it.
To kill a Beast General, if one lacked sufficient strength, not only would they fail to kill the Beast General, but they would also very easily suffer a siege from a pack of beasts.
Especially in an ordinary county town like this, Beast General-level monsters were even scarcer, so the number of beast soldiers each Beast General could gather was greater. Attended and surrounded by others, they could bring at least a hundred or so.
That
was unlike those larger ruined cities where, because there were stronger Lord-level monsters, fewer Beast Soldier-level ones could be gathered, generally leading only two or three beast soldiers.
Some were even lonely, bare commanders.
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