Chapter 116: Rapid Progress! Slaughter! (Seeking Monthly Votes)

Sitting cross-legged in the depths of the cave, the narrow cave entrance at the outermost part was blocked by sections of broken wood.

"There is no other life in the cave, no danger." Li Yuan's spiritual force was incredibly powerful, combined with the unique "Mind Palace Probing."

If there was life in the cave, he would have noticed it long ago.

This was also the reason why he could easily discover the crocodile alien beast at the beginning.

"The body transformation is really fast." Li Yuan closed his eyes, able to clearly feel the continuous transformation of his physical fitness.

Because the evolution was too fast, it even made Li Yuan's body feel slightly hot and painful.

This rapid growth of physical fitness is essentially the tearing and reorganization of the body's tendons, bones, flesh, and blood time and again.

However, with Li Yuan's powerful willpower, enduring this pain was quite easy.

"In the first three hours, it improved by about 0.5 levels."

"In this hour, it improved by about 0.1 levels? From the life layer, it seems much slower, but from physical strength, it has a trend of accelerating," Li Yuan sighed inwardly.

Life layer levels, the further back, the more astonishing the gap.

Like Level 10.0 to Level 11.0, the standard fist power gap is 500 kg.

But Level 18.0 to Level 19.0, the standard fist power gap is 14,000 kg.

This is also the reason why many martial artists improve to Level 15 or 16 in just a few years of university, but it is difficult to improve to Level 19 after twenty years of cultivation after graduation.

This is also the reason why Qiu Jing, whose technique is not as good as Li Yuan's, but whose physical fitness is 1.6 levels higher, can slaughter a group of Rock Desert Race warriors.

The fist power of Level 12.9 is more than double that of Level 11.3.

The technique gap is not too big, the overall strength is more than five times higher than Li Yuan's, so naturally, she can slaughter them.

After a martial artist enters the rank, for every 1-2 levels higher in life layer, the standard fist power of the body will double.

"Spirit."

Li Yuan's spiritual force was much stronger than before. He left part of his consciousness to perceive external danger, and a small part of his consciousness had entered the mind world.

Directly entered the Mind Palace.

As Li Yuan expected, in the Mind Palace, the white jade stairs that had disappeared before appeared again.

Strands of golden mist were constantly falling from the higher-level space connected by the stairs, merging into the ground of the Mind Palace.

"The mysterious power I felt dissipating from my head and guiding the source force into the body is this golden mist? What exactly is it?" Li Yuan was lost in thought.

Suddenly.

In the stairs, the golden mist that originally only dissipated and merged into the ground split into a small amount and merged directly into Li Yuan's consciousness.

"Boom!"

Encountering almost the same thing as last time, Li Yuan's consciousness was struck by lightning instantly, becoming drowsy again, and the entire mind world turned into an endless dark space again.

"Another dark space?" Li Yuan's spiritual force was much stronger than last time, barely maintaining clarity, and had a clear perception of the changes in the mind world.

Hum~

He perceived that countless starlight appeared out of thin air, beginning to nourish his mind and consciousness.

【Your soul is nourished, spiritual force improved from Level 18.4 to Level 18.5】 Unknowingly, a Mind Palace prompt appeared.

"As I expected."

"This golden mist can both nourish and improve spiritual force, and guide source force into the body," Li Yuan realized, silently feeling the dual improvement of physical fitness and spiritual force.

At the same time.

In the dark space where his consciousness was.

"Seeking dust and finding micro, merging into one, sun and moon essence, starting to hammer the spirit base..." That magnificent and vast voice sounded in the dark space again.

Familiar voice, familiar words.

"Spirit base." Li Yuan felt touched.

Last time during source force infusion, his consciousness fell into a deep sleep, and the perception was very shallow.

But this time, he could clearly feel the mysterious fluctuations contained in this magnificent and ancient voice.

Very mysterious, seemingly representing some kind of supreme truth.

"Star!"

Gradually, listening to this magnificent voice, Li Yuan's consciousness vaguely saw that in the endless darkness, dark stars seemed to be gradually emitting light.

Becoming brighter and brighter, more and more brilliant.

More and more stars lit up, from dozens at the beginning, gradually becoming hundreds, thousands... A large number of lit stars formed various strange trajectories, flickering in the dark space...

"Stars like lines." Li Yuan realized, subconsciously wanting to remember these strange star trajectories in his heart as much as possible.

This action was extremely exhausting, making Li Yuan's consciousness increasingly drowsy, as if he was about to fall into a deep sleep.

When Li Yuan was hiding in the cave, his physical fitness and spiritual force were constantly improving.

In the war fortress of the star realm where he was, in the conference room on the third floor.

"What is Li Yuan doing? He has been hiding in the cave for over six hours." Dean Li was a bit puzzled.

"Isn't this your problem?" Xu Yuanzhang shook her head.

"My problem?" Dean Li was stunned.

"Do you expect him to fight and kill at night?" Xu Yuanzhang shook her head. "His physical fitness is at the bottom of the students in the Fourth Base. Night vision is interfered with. If he goes to force a battle and hunt, it will be more dangerous."

"Better to hide, rest well, and kill during the day."

"This shows he has self-knowledge and is not reckless," Xu Yuanzhang said. "I am very optimistic about him."

"Fine." Dean Li nodded, also feeling that what Xu Yuanzhang said made sense.

It's just.

He remembered very clearly that when Li Yuan hid in the cave, there was still more than an hour before it got completely dark.

"Could it be that I really misjudged and pulled up the seedlings to help them grow?" For a time, Dean Li doubted himself.

Sunset and sunrise.

Time came to 10:00 AM the next day.

Other participating students in the Fourth Base had already rested well, came out of their respective camps, and began a new day of real combat slaughter.

The cave where Li Yuan was hiding was still closed, and there was no movement at all.

The surveillance drone had been guarding outside the cave, but couldn't see the scene inside the cave.

"Could it be that Li Yuan had an accident?" Dean Li's eyes flashed with a trace of worry.

"Should not."

"The drone has been monitoring, no alien race appeared," Xu Yuanzhang shook her head. "The positioning wristband shows he is still in the cave, his life aura is stable... no problem."

"Then why hasn't he come out yet?" Dean Li was a bit anxious. "The grade points have been completely thrown away by Yang Hong and Wu Luo."

As vice-deans, they could check the grade and base point ranking of every student in the school at any time.

Like freshman students.

Although they are in different real combat assessment areas such as the First Base, Second Base, Fourth Base, etc., they will have a common grade point ranking.

High grade ranking has rewards.

High base ranking also has rewards.

"This is his choice."

"As long as he has no life danger, we cannot interfere with the real combat assessment," Xu Yuanzhang shook her head. "Wait patiently."

"Hmm." Dean Li could only wait.

Time came to 12:00 noon.

Li Yuan still hadn't come out of the cave, and 24 hours had passed since the real combat assessment.

"The real combat assessment of the First Base and Second Base has ended," Xu Yuanzhang suddenly said.

The real combat assessment of the First Base and Second Base only lasted for one day.

The Third and Fourth Bases lasted for two days.

The Fifth Base will last for three days.

"Got it," Dean Li said in a low voice, staring at the light screen.

At this moment, he already had the urge to rush into the real combat assessment base and pull Li Yuan out of the cave.

Really wanted to ask Li Yuan, what exactly are you planning to do?

Second Base star realm.

"Wu Luo." Yang Hong, carrying a battle ax, walked off the aircraft and saw Wu Luo walking from afar, covered in blood.

Yang Hong took the initiative to greet him.

"This time, I won again."

Yang Hong smiled: "This real combat assessment, among the freshmen, I am the first in points."

24 hours of fighting and slaughter, he didn't even rest at night, crazily looking for prey.

Final result, 196 points, not only ranked first in the grade.

But also rushed into the top thirty of the more than one thousand students in the Second Base.

You know, the Second Base is mainly sophomore students.

It can be seen how hard Yang Hong worked.

And Wu Luo was only 171 points, although he was the second freshman, the score gap was very obvious.

"First?" Wu Luo sneered: "You are crazy enough, I am not as crazy as you, but do you think you won for sure?"

Yang Hong was stunned.

"Stupid," Wu Luo sneered: "Li Yuan is in the Fourth Base. The star realm creatures in the Fourth Base are much stronger. Killing star realm creatures with the same points is much harder than us in the Second Base... but the assessment time is one day longer."

"He still has 24 hours."

"You are the stupid one," Yang Hong said disdainfully: "I have been observing Li Yuan's points. His points rose very fiercely when he started yesterday."

"But from 5:00 PM yesterday to now, he hasn't risen a single point."

"Although he hasn't withdrawn from the real combat assessment, he is estimated to be injured."

"After all, the Fourth Base is basically junior or even senior students, his physical fitness is a big gap, very dangerous."

"Besides."

"The longer the time drags, the fewer star realm creatures... even if he is not injured, want to catch up more than 100 points in one day? It is almost impossible." Yang Hong was very confident.

"Wait and see," Wu Luo sneered, he had actually recognized Yang Hong's judgment in his heart.

However!

Wu Luo admired Li Yuan because Li Yuan was indeed too strong, and his strength exceeded him too much.

To Yang Hong?

Wu Luo couldn't admire him.

The two had been secretly competing, fighting for the title of "Second Person" in the grade.

If Yang Hong and Wu Luo could still look at Li Yuan's points calmly.

Then, in the First Base star realm, when the freshman students gathered in the square, it was already a discussion.

"Li Yuan, why is it only 50-something points?"

"It's been a whole day."

"Yang Hong in the Second Base has already slaughtered nearly 200 points, pulling the Third Academy's group score up by a large margin."

"Could it be that this real combat assessment group total score, our Third Academy will take first place?" Freshmen of various academies were discussing, all paying attention to the group points.

Except for Li Yuan, the points of all freshman students had been fixed.

Freshman Academy Ranking:

First Place: Third Academy (4031 points)

Second Place: Fifth Academy (3951 points)

Third Place: Sixth Academy (3931 points)

Fourth Place: Seventh Academy (3874 points)

The total score gap between each academy is not big.

When Kunlun Martial Arts University designed the difficulty, there were arrangements long ago.

Under normal circumstances, more than one-third of students will withdraw halfway.

Even if they can complete the real combat assessment, most people's points are only 20 or 30.

First Base rest area, the gathering place of the Sixth Academy freshmen.

"Our Sixth Academy's total score is only 100 points away from the Third Academy."

"The gap is much smaller than in the enrollment competition."

"Third place now, not bad."

"Why is Senior Brother only 50-something points? Didn't he say he could take 200 points yesterday? Yang Hong in the Second Base took 196 points."

"Stupid? That's the Fourth Base, the participants are all junior seniors, is 200 points so easy to take? If you go, it's not bad to live for half an hour."

"Really unfair! If Senior Brother was also in the Second Base, he would probably have taken 300 or even 400 points, how could it be Yang Hong's turn to be arrogant." The freshmen of the Sixth Academy discussed with each other.

"School rules are like this."

"On the first day, Senior Brother only took 50-something points, can he reach 190 points on the second day?" No one really blamed Li Yuan for taking few points.

Most people are clear about the difficulty of the Fourth Base.

It's just that disappointment in their hearts is inevitable.

"Believe in Senior Brother."

"There is still a whole day, maybe he can create a miracle." There were also many students who firmly supported Li Yuan, believing that Li Yuan could create a miracle, mainly freshmen from Jiangcheng.

Not long after.

The freshmen of the First Base and Second Base embarked on the road back to school.

But many freshmen were paying attention to Li Yuan's final real combat points.

Group total points involve everyone's immediate interests.

July 31st, 1:00 PM.

Inside the Fourth Base real combat assessment venue, 23 hours left until the assessment ends.

In the dim cave, a little light shone through the cracks.

"Hmm? Source force infusion, over?" Li Yuan instantly recovered his clarity.

"Whoosh!"

Li Yuan subconsciously looked down at his fists, clenched them lightly, only feeling endless power in his body.

Ready to explode at any time.

This power was much stronger than before.

Looking up again, his vision and hearing had astonishing progress.

"My life layer." Li Yuan's gaze swept over the Mind Palace panel.

——

【Life Layer: Level 12.7 (First Rank)】

Fist Power: 4460 kg

Speed: 34.2 m/s

Spiritual Force: Level 20.0

Spiritual Awakening Degree: 20% (Current limit 25%)

Technique Realm: Spear Technique (Fourth Stage 53%), Movement Technique (Fourth Stage 42%), Fist Technique (Fourth Stage 55%)

【Note: Spiritual awakening limit improved to 25%. When life layer reaches Level 14 and spiritual awakening degree reaches 25%, you can get spiritual guidance】

——

"Hmm?" Li Yuan was shocked in his heart, filled with excitement and joy.

It was too exaggerated.

Just one night plus half a day, his physical fitness and spiritual force improved so much?

Compared to the first source force infusion, it improved four or five times more.

It seems the life layer only improved by 1.4 levels.

But look at the specific physical fitness change, fist power soared from 2250 kg to 4460 kg, doubling by about one time.

The burst speed also improved by a large margin.

This level of improvement is absolutely terrifying; many Kunlun Martial Arts University students don't even have this much improvement in half a year of cultivation.

"Physical fitness improvement is one aspect, the key is spiritual force." Li Yuan's gaze fell on one of the columns.

Spiritual force, Level 20.

This is already the standard of a true Source Martial Artist.

Unknowingly, Li Yuan had already completed two of the three major hurdles that countless martial artists find difficult to reach.

Only the last physical fitness remains.

"Spiritual force breaking the Level 20 hurdle also made my spiritual awakening limit directly reach 25%." Li Yuan's heart was trembling slightly: "Spiritual guidance?"

Two years.

From the awakening of the Mind Palace in the second year of high school until entering freshman year, for more than two years, he had been studying the advanced spirituality and spiritual guidance in the Mind Palace panel.

Always to no avail.

Now, Li Yuan finally saw hope.

"Physical fitness Level 14, to open spiritual guidance?" Li Yuan thought to himself.

His life layer is already Level 12.7, although there is still a gap from Level 14, it is not far.

"Forget it."

"Physical fitness will improve slowly, first reach 25% spiritual awakening degree and meet one of the requirements," Li Yuan made a decision instantly.

Isn't it just killing some star realm creatures?

There are still 23 hours, killing four or five is enough.

"Whoosh!"

Li Yuan stood up, moved his tendons and bones slightly.

Then punched out, the fist shadow was much faster than before.

"With current physical fitness, combined with spear technique, I will only be stronger than Senior Sister Qiu Jing." Li Yuan made a judgment.

Li Yuan and Senior Sister Qiu Jing had sparred on the Starry Sky Fighting Network.

According to Li Yuan's judgment, her ax technique level should be around fourth stage 20%.

Li Yuan?

Spear technique level is fourth stage 53%, already very close to fourth stage high-tier, much stronger.

"The only thing to consider."

"Is the monitoring of the real combat assessment."

"Although most people don't know my strength, Teacher Li and Teacher Jiang know very well," Li Yuan's mind flashed with many thoughts: "Overnight, physical fitness doubled?"

Too unreasonable.

Too abrupt, it will likely make people think of "heavenly treasures" at the first time.

"Don't need to explode all strength, first reach 25% spiritual awakening degree," Li Yuan reached out and gripped the long spear inserted into the stone wall.

Pulled out suddenly!

First-Rank upper grade long spear, extremely tough, smooth as new.

Took out some food and water from the backpack, ate them all.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

Sunshine is bright.

"Go."

"Li Yuan came out." Xu Yuanzhang discovered it first, smiled: "Good spirit, looks like he rested well."

"Let's see." Dean Li frowned.

He had already thought that after the real combat assessment ended, he would give Li Yuan a good reprimand.

Too careless.

"Old Li, don't be too concerned, for a little guy like Li Yuan, a little setback doesn't matter," a chubby old man laughed beside him.

This old man is "Qin Huo," one of the three vice-deans of the Eighth Academy.

"Surname Qin, get lost," Li Yang glanced at the other party:

"Qin, get lost." Li Yang glanced at the other person: "I'm in a very bad mood right now, don't provoke me, or do you want to go back and practice?"

"Old Xu, aren't you going to manage him?" The chubby old man glared.

"Alright, you two stop arguing." Xu Yuanzhang only felt a headache, her gaze falling on the light screen.

She was focusing on Li Yuan.

One hour later, about four kilometers away from the cave where Li Yuan was resting.

Two massive alien beast corpses lay in a pool of blood.

"A 12.9-level Star Realm creature, and it only increased my spiritual awakening degree by 0.1?" Li Yuan looked at the reminder on his God Palace panel, feeling helpless.

Clearly, before, killing one could increase it by 1.2%.

Now, killing two in a row only brought it to 20.2%; it was too slow.

"Could it be that a 20% spiritual awakening degree is a bottleneck?" Li Yuan had a realization.

Just like martial artists, the difference in life layer before and after entering the ranks is astonishing.

"With only 22 hours left until the end of the actual combat assessment, the hope of finding forty or fifty alien beasts is very slim." A trace of anxiety flashed in Li Yuan's heart.

He originally thought killing four or five would be enough.

Now, he had to kill forty or fifty.

Killing is not difficult; the difficulty lies in finding targets.

"There is only one way that is most reliable." Li Yuan turned his head suddenly, staring at the distant mountain forest.

It was exactly the direction where he met Senior Sister Qiu Jing yesterday.

"The Rock Desert Tribe."

"Senior Sister Qiu Jing said that this tribe has over 200 warriors. As long as I kill a portion, it will be enough for me to push my spiritual awakening degree to 25%."

"However, I'm afraid I'll have to unleash my full strength." A coldness flashed in Li Yuan's eyes.

"Then let's unleash it."

"Even if it really attracts a Flying martial artist to investigate, as long as they can't detect the Mind God Palace, it will eventually be attributed to my extremely high talent."

"As long as I am strong enough, there will naturally be great scholars to interpret the scriptures for me." Li Yuan understood everything in an instant.

Although unleashing full strength has certain risks, the potential gains are also great.

Two instances of Yuan Force entering the body, and his strength increased so much.

Then how magical is that so-called 'spiritual guidance'? If I miss this actual combat assessment, I'll have to wait until next February.

"Go!" Li Yuan moved his figure, quickly rushing toward the direction of the Rock Desert Tribe.

One hour later.

Deep underground, on a high-speed train.

On both sides of the train sat the freshmen of the Sixth Academy, and the atmosphere was very oppressive.

Suddenly.

"Look, everyone, Senior Brother, Senior Brother's score has exceeded 200. In just over ten seconds, he gained over a hundred points." A cry of surprise rang out.

"Our Sixth Academy is now first in the total group score for freshmen!!"

(End of chapter)