Chapter 161

With Xu Bo sparing no cost and unleashing his full power.

He and Li Yuan cooperated with each other, finally causing fatal damage to the Tier-Two Yuling warrior.

"Bang~" "Clang."

Two huge battle blades fell to the ground, while the Yuling warrior staggered backward, both hands trying their best to cover its throat, wanting to block the blood from flowing down.

But it couldn't stop it no matter what.

Its eyes stared fixedly at these two powerful human martial artists in front of it, its heart filled with unwillingness.

It was born in the Yuling Star Realm; after being born from the Mother Fish, it experienced many tortures, killing each other with Yuling warriors of the same clan, and only then did it struggle to achieve entry rank.

Among the Yuling clan, only those who achieve entry rank can survive.

Only those who achieve entry rank can be called 'warriors'; if they fail to achieve entry rank within ten years of birth, they will become 'rations' for their own clan.

And achieving entry rank is still just the beginning.

The wars within the Star Realm, the tempering time and time again, allowed its strength to gradually improve, and even become a high-level warrior, only one step away from becoming a Tier-Two powerhouse.

Finally! It was chosen and sent to the human world to participate in the war; this was a mission with no chance of survival, but they had no choice, only hoping to eventually win the war.

And after entering the human world, struggling forward in the underground caves, it only gradually touched the 'core city' of the human world; under the pressure of death, it actually broke through the shackles of life, achieved unity of body and mind, and directly broke through to become a Tier-Two powerhouse.

Tier-Two is extremely difficult for Yuling warriors.

After the commander learned of this, it was overjoyed and immediately decided to take it as the core to set up a 'killing trap', preparing to ambush the human martial artist squad.

It only succeeded once.

The second time, it ran into two elite human squads.

"Awoo~" This Tier-Two Yuling warrior struggled to emit the last byte of its life, and immediately its massive body fell backward with a boom, completely silent.

No mental control.

Immediately, blood kept flowing from the many wounds on its body.

Dead.

... "【You killed a Tier-Two organism, breaking the Divine Palace shackles, spiritual awakening upper limit increased to 30%】."

"【You killed a Tier-Two organism, obtained spiritual nourishment, spiritual awakening degree reached 25.1%】." Two consecutive Divine Palace prompts flashed across Li Yuan's horizon.

Making him shocked in his heart.

Breaking the Divine Palace shackles? The spiritual awakening upper limit wanting to break through 25% actually requires killing a Tier-Two organism.

Divine Palace shackles? Does it refer to the 25% spiritual guidance shackles?

Instantly, Li Yuan thought of this.

At the very beginning, there was no spiritual awakening on the Divine Palace panel; it only prompted that there was a high-level spirituality hidden in his body.

It was before the January adjustment exam, after he killed a Tier-One Yuling warrior, that the spiritual awakening in the Divine Palace panel appeared.

"Could it be that the spiritual awakening upper limits of 0%, 25%, and even the 50% later are all 'Divine Palace shackles', similar to the great realm breakthroughs of Tier-One and Tier-Two in life layers? Must kill higher-tier alien life to break them?" Many thoughts flashed through Li Yuan's mind.

"And the spiritual awakening upper limit increasing from 10% to 20%, from 20% to 25%, is similar to Level 13 to 14, with no essential difference, as long as the spiritual sense keeps improving, the upper limit can be constantly improved?" Li Yuan pondered to himself.

There were no other precedents to follow.

Li Yuan could only explore on his own and summarize experience... but if calculated this way.

"In the future, if I want my spiritual awakening upper limit to break through 50%, I have to kill a Tier-Three alien?" Li Yuan muttered to himself.

A Tier-Three alien is comparable to a Flying martial artist.

Are they that easy to kill?

... It sounds slow, but with Li Yuan's current spiritual sense, he had already thought of many possibilities in just a few seconds.

While thinking, Li Yuan was just about to approach the Tier-Two Yuling warrior's corpse.

"Stop, don't approach." Xu Bo said in a low voice; he was still standing where he was.

"Teacher." Li Yuan looked at Xu Bo.

"It looks dead, and given the Yuling clan's body structure, it should be dead." The battle armor on Xu Bo's skin surface slowly retracted, revealing his slightly pale face: "But remember, never be careless; be careful that the opponent is faking death, just waiting for you to approach to pounce back suddenly."

"Unless you cut off its head, crush its heart, and completely tear its limbs apart, you must have a sense of vigilance." Xu Bo said: "When you roam the Star Realm in the future, you should be like this."

Li Yuan was stunned for a moment, then nodded obediently: "Thank you for the reminder, Teacher."

He had the Divine Palace panel and could probe the life and death of this Yuling warrior.

But Teacher's words were not wrong.

Walking between life and death, one cannot be careless in the slightest; this is the experience gained by countless martial artist predecessors with their blood.

"Go and solve the other Yuling warriors." Xu Bo said in a low voice: "I'll guard this one."

"Source martial artists should be arriving soon."

"Yes."

Whoosh!

Li Yuan also saw that Teacher's physical state didn't seem very good, and with a movement of his figure, he flew toward those Yuling warriors who were fleeing in terror.

"Awoo~"

"Awoo!" In fact, when that Tier-Two Yuling warrior wanted to flee for its life, the Yuling warriors who were still alive had already fled in terror.

Even the powerful 'Tier-Two leader' wasn't a match, let alone them?

However, Instructor Xing, Fang Longhu, and their two squads of more than ten martial artists had been crazily blocking these Yuling warriors, dragging out their pace.

Therefore, when Li Yuan arrived, the long spear in his hand whistled and thrust out, and one Yuling warrior after another began to fall to the ground.

Suddenly.

In the dark night sky, an aircraft approached rapidly.

Boom!

A figure pounced down from the aircraft across the sky; Li Yuan couldn't help but look up, only to see a blurry human figure, his entire body vaguely shrouded in earthy yellow light, swift as lightning, whistling as he had already streaked across the sky dozens of meters high.

He smashed violently onto the heads of several Yuling warriors who were fleeing.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

After several consecutive clashes like lightning, the bodies of those four Yuling warriors had already exploded with a boom, countless blood and severed limbs flying in all directions.

The offensive was incredibly violent.

Li Yuan saw it clearly.

The speed of this Source martial artist who raided easily exceeded 100 meters per second in an instant.

Moreover, the weapon he used was a pair of hammers!

Both large hammers were covered with a large number of spikes, making this weapon appear incredibly ferocious.

"Bang~" "Boom~" "Boom~"

Yuling warrior after Yuling warrior fell to the ground, and in the blink of an eye, they were swept clean.

"Pfft~"

Li Yuan also killed the last Yuling warrior; with this, the crisis of the entire Nanhuang Elementary School was resolved.

The playground quieted down, and many martial artists gathered around, each panting heavily.

The successive fierce battles just now consumed a great deal of physical strength for everyone.

"Whoosh!"

That Source martial artist moved his figure and had already flashed in front of Li Yuan; his Source Force battle armor retracted, revealing his true appearance.

Only then did Li Yuan see clearly that the other person's height was about the same as his, and his face was also exceptionally young, only his eyes looked very determined.

"Senior." Li Yuan bowed slightly.

His current strength, in terms of attack alone, can actually only be said to be comparable to a high-level martial artist above Level 19.5, capable of posing a certain threat to Source martial artists.

But to say compared to a true Source martial artist? He was still far off.

Any junior Source martial artist could defeat him.

"No need to call me Senior." The young Source martial artist holding the war hammers smiled: "I know you, Li Yuan; you can just call me by my name, 'Gao Hao'."

"Gao Hao?" A flash of doubt crossed Li Yuan's eyes.

He hadn't heard of him.

"Deacon Gao Hao." Instructor Xing ran over from not far away and bowed slightly: "Thank you very much; I am a martial arts instructor at the Guanshan Branch Hall."

"Instructor Xing, I know you too." Gao Hao smiled: "Last time we had a meal, Hall Master Wan brought you along."

"Yes." Instructor Xing nodded repeatedly, then introduced: "Li Yuan, Deacon Gao Hao is also a member of my Starfire Martial Hall; he is a student at Starfire University, an A-level signee, and is now a senior student, already a Source martial artist."

Li Yuan instantly understood the other person's identity.

Also a martial arts genius.

A student at Starfire University? As long as they cultivate normally until their senior year or above, 99.9% will be Source martial artists.

And according to the rules of the Starfire Martial Hall, Source martial artists, if they don't hold a position, are all called 'Deacons'.

Flying martial artists, among the martial artist groups, are all called 'Grandmasters'.

"Deacon Gao Hao." Li Yuan changed his address immediately.

"Haha, I've seen your battle at the Ten-School Freshman Competition; now, in terms of skill alone, I'm afraid it's no less than mine." Gao Hao smiled: "And strength... you've only been a freshman for a short time, and you're already close to the strength of a Source martial artist; tsk tsk, it's simply terrifying."

"If you don't become a Flying martial artist in the future, I would feel it's abnormal." Gao Hao smiled, praising Li Yuan highly.

And Fang Longhu and the more than ten human martial artists all gathered around, and the eyes with which they looked at Li Yuan were different.

The chaotic battle just now.

Made them all know how powerful Li Yuan's strength was, far exceeding them, these old veterans.

After a brief exchange, Gao Hao understood the situation.

Instructor Xing and Fang Longhu had already taken other human martial artists to rescue the injured students.

Li Yuan and Gao Hao came to the corpse of the Tier-Two Yuling warrior.

Xu Bo had been guarding here silently.

When everyone was exchanging just now, he didn't come over.

"Senior Xu Bo, amazing." Gao Hao stepped forward and smiled: "To be able to kill this Tier-Two alien, you are truly a sharp blade that hasn't aged..."

Clearly, he knew Xu Bo.

Suddenly.

"Teacher." A cry of alarm sounded.

Li Yuan darted over and rushed to Xu Bo's side, grabbing Xu Bo, his face full of shock and worry: "Teacher? What is this?"

At this moment, Xu Bo's face was already incredibly pale, without a trace of blood, his face vaguely twisted, and large drops of sweat emerged from his forehead, but he still stood tall.

It seemed he was enduring great pain.

"Senior Xu Bo, what is this?" Gao Hao also looked at Li Yuan with quite a bit of surprise.

After a long while.

The pain on Xu Bo's face decreased a bit, and he managed to squeeze out a smile: "Don't worry."

"I won't die in a day or two."

"It's just that I forcibly operated my star veins for too long, and my body couldn't withstand it; after all, I haven't truly operated Source Force for several years." Xu Bo said simply: "In my body, the toxins, besides invading my nerves, had long since permeated every part of my star veins; I didn't feel it when I unleashed my power regardless of the cost just now, but now that the battle is over, I can't withstand it at all."

"Toxins permeated every part of your star veins?" Li Yuan's expression changed slightly.

What kind of toxin is this?

Before, he only knew Teacher had old injuries, never imagining it would be poisoning.

"Toxins permeated the star veins? Star-Annihilating Blood Spirit Poison?" Gao Hao beside him was shocked: "Senior Xu Bo, I'll call for a medical aircraft immediately."

Gao Hao clearly thought of the reason.

Star-Annihilating Blood Spirit Poison? Li Yuan hadn't heard of it.

"This is a very special toxin in the Penglai Star Realm; it is a toxin that is nearly unsolvable." Gao Hao explained quickly.

Li Yuan was shocked in his heart; nearly unsolvable?

"Deacon Gao Hao, no need to call for a medical aircraft; I am already beyond saving."

"Now is a critical moment, so don't waste medical resources." Xu Bo shook his head lightly, refusing Gao Hao's kindness.

"I had long been prepared to welcome this day."

"It's just a year or two earlier than expected."

(End of chapter)