A Frenzied Slaughter, the First Layer of the Thunder Blade!
Wilderness Zone, temporary shelter.
Only after sensing that the cells in his body had absorbed all they could did Li Jing stop using Ninefold Hunyuan and the Five Hearts Facing Heaven Method.
His tightly shut eyes opened, and a flash of joy crossed them.
His warrior talent really had improved considerably. That single cultivation session had increased his physical strength by a full 100 kilograms!
Although that was partly because he had only recently become a warrior and was still in a period of rapid growth.
The talent he had displayed was a full two levels above what it had been before!
"Time to rest. I'll keep working hard tomorrow!"
After finishing his cultivation, Li Jing closed his eyes to rest, but he did not dare fall into a deep sleep, keeping part of his attention alert at all times.
He had set traps all around his shelter, and the slightest disturbance would immediately trigger an alarm.
That would allow Li Jing to wake up at once and deal with the danger.
Fortunately, after Li Jing had cleared out the area, the density of monsters had dropped sharply, and the shelter he had chosen was well hidden.
The night passed without any of his traps being triggered, allowing him to get a good rest.
The next day, Li Jing got up and briefly stretched his arms and legs, his bones and joints crackling.
"I'm back in peak condition. Time to hunt monsters! I'll start sweeping through the east side of the city."
"Aside from the Advanced Beast General, the true overlord of County Town No. 156, I'll kill as many of the remaining Junior and Intermediate Beast Generals as I can!"
Li Jing silently set the course for his operations.
There was not much time left for the current card pool, so he had to hurry and earn Huaxia Currency. He could not afford to linger in County Town No. 156 for too long.
Once he had killed enough, he would return to the Warrior Supply Base, sell his spoils, and exchange them for Huaxia Currency to boost his strength.
Then he would head to a higher-level city to fight and kill, increasing the efficiency of his earnings once more.
Only through such a virtuous cycle would he have a chance of drawing the sole limited UR card, the peak Apprentice-level spirit reader talent, before the card pool refreshed.
Otherwise, the little Huaxia Currency he could earn from hunting Junior and Intermediate Beast Generals would give him practically no chance.
With his goal set, Li Jing acted even more frenziedly. As his combat experience grew, his attacks became increasingly precise and ruthless.
Beast General Level monsters he set his sights on rarely made it out alive.
For a time, the density of Beast General Level monsters throughout County Town No. 156 plummeted.
Quite a few Junior and Intermediate Beast Generals that felt threatened even abandoned their dignity and sought shelter under the Advanced Beast General, the true overlord.
The sudden upheaval in County Town No. 156 over such a short period also drew the attention of some War General Level warrior squads operating there.
On the fourth floor of a residential building in the west of the city, a standard War General Level squad consisting of one Junior War General warrior, four Advanced Warriors, and a sniper was resting.
"Captain, what's going on with County Town No. 156? Whenever we came here before, there were loads of Beast General Level monsters. We could hunt one down almost every few days.
"We've been here so long this time, but forget hunting them, we've barely even seen a few Beast Generals. It's worse than some ordinary county towns."
"What's going on? Their density has dropped so much."
The sniper held a silver-white sniper rifle, carefully wiping it as he voiced his confusion.
The other Advanced Warrior-level warriors nodded in agreement.
County Town No. 156 had been an area where their squad frequently operated, and they had always made a decent haul whenever they came.
They had not spent that long back in the Base City last time, had they? Had things changed so quickly?
The man called captain was a fierce-looking middle-aged warrior who favored a two-handed greatsword.
His expression grave, he speculated, "Something really is wrong with County Town No. 156. Either a powerful new monster has appeared and is hunting other Beast General Level monsters everywhere, or a human expert has swept through here.
"Whichever it is, there's no need for us to stay in County Town No. 156 any longer. We'll leave first thing tomorrow morning and go to County City No. 217 to hunt monsters."
"If it's monsters killing each other, that's fine, but if it's the other possibility, then this expert is a bit..." The sniper stopped wiping his gun and grumbled.
Anyone capable of hunting Beast General Level monsters across such a wide area of County Town No. 156 had to be at least a veteran Advanced War General. It was not impossible that they were a warrior who had just entered the War God Level, either.
Instead of going to a more dangerous major city to hunt monsters, an expert of that level had come here.
Competing for the same ecological niche as an ordinary War General squad like theirs was a rather shameless thing for an expert to do.
Among warriors, there was also an unspoken understanding about the Wilderness Zones where warriors of each strength level operated.
Generally speaking, high-level warriors did not go to ordinary areas to compete with lower-level warriors for monster resources and ecological niches.
It was a way of looking out for lower-level warriors.
As for County Town No. 156, the unspoken understanding was that the warrior squads active there generally topped out at Intermediate War General.
Even when stronger warriors occasionally came to hunt, most only dipped a toe in and did not stay long.
What they did not know, however, was that the powerful warrior they were complaining about had only just entered the Intermediate War General realm, and his certified warrior rank was merely Beginner Warrior.
"I've killed just about all the Beast General Level monsters in this county town that I can. The rest have banded together with the Advanced Beast General.
"There are also the even larger hordes of Beast Soldiers that have gathered together. They're already beyond what I can hunt.
"My backpack is stuffed full of monster materials too. It's time to make a trip back to the Warrior Supply Base!"
In a private house, Li Jing looked at the special tactical backpack, which could not hold another thing and had been piled to a height greater than a person, and pondered silently.
Over the past six days, aside from necessary rest and cultivation, he had spent every moment searching and hunting.
He had killed a total of 113 Beast Generals: 36 Intermediate Beast Generals and 77 Junior Beast Generals.
The amount of monster materials he had collected was staggering.
The backpack before him, stuffed to a height greater than a person, contained only the most valuable core parts.
Even more were piled up in a room next door, enough to fill two more backpacks of the same size.
He would first return to the Supply Base and dispose of the core materials, then buy another backpack and make another trip to bring back the rest.
A round trip would take just over four hours. Surely no blind fool would happen to stumble in here and take them.
If someone really did, they would not get far!
His things were not so easy to take!
Having made up his mind, Li Jing slung the bulging special tactical backpack over his shoulders and set off for Warrior Supply Base No. 004.
During his six days in the Wilderness Zone, aside from the Beast General materials he had obtained, Li Jing's own strength had also improved considerably.
His physical strength had increased steadily by an average of 100 kilograms a day and had now reached 18,100 kilograms.
Through constant battles with monsters, his movement technique had broken through the minor mastery stage of Perfect Level and entered the major mastery stage.
His saber technique had benefited even more from his beginner saber technique talent, rising from the entry stage of Perfect Level to minor mastery of Perfect Level.
He had also mastered the first layer of the Nine-Layered Thunder Blade, allowing him to unleash two waves of hidden force and exert 1.4 times his normal power.
Combined with his base punching force of 18,100 kilograms, a single slash could deliver more than 25,000 kilograms of force.
That meant more than 25 tons of force was concentrated and unleashed through the thin edge of the blade.
The destructive power it could cause was easy to imagine.
All he could say was that this was indeed Swallowed Star. Even a minor Intermediate War General like Li Jing could rival the gods at the bottom rung of certain xuanhuan worlds.