Chapter 344: Thunder Dragon Wings! 50,000 Assessment Crystals!

The sixth level of the Thunder Unextinguished Body grants abilities drawn randomly from draconic ferocious beasts, with almost no predictability.

Better abilities include Dragon Wings, Dragon Aura, and Lightning Manipulation; average ones include Dragon Claws and Dragon Breath.

The worst ability of all is growing a single tail—the Dragon Tail.

Aside from slightly improving balance and adding a surprise attack method, it serves no real purpose.

Dragon Wings, however, were among the abilities Xu Jingming most hoped to obtain.

With Thunder Dragon Wings, his speed and agility would skyrocket!

He would no longer need to rely on Thunder Storms to pull himself toward elemental wind ability users, as he had during the National University League.

Now he could simply fly over and fire a single shot!

"Let's test the flight capability of the Thunder Dragon Wings," Xu Jingming silently thought.

He then rose from the ground, removed his battle suit, and revealed his muscular upper body.

Seeing this, Sakura Rin trembled inwardly.

Since signing the Reverse Contract, she had anticipated this moment.

She felt no resistance—after all, she had already given her life to him.

Yet for this entire period, Xu Jingming had shown no such inclination, and she had assumed he disliked her type.

She never expected he was waiting until now...

Thinking of this, Sakura Rin drew a deep breath and extended her slender, pale right hand toward the zipper at the back of her neck.

But before she could pull it down, a pair of wings over three meters long erupted violently from behind Xu Jingming!

Unlike the feathered wings of avian ferocious beasts, these wings bore not a single feather.

Instead, they shimmered with a metallic luster, like those of a draconic ferocious beast.

Along their edges, sharp bony spines jutted out like daggers, radiating a chilling aura.

What stunned Sakura Rin even more was that the entire wings were suffused with Lei Guang.

As if a mere flutter could summon a storm of thunder!

"This is the Thunder Dragon Wings!" Xu Jingming's face lit up with satisfaction.

He then flapped his wings once and shot out of the cave like a phantom, soaring straight into the sky!

"Huh?" Sakura Rin blinked in surprise, watching Xu Jingming vanish into the cave.

Only then did she realize her misunderstanding, and her cheeks flushed slightly.

She quickly pulled her hand away from the zipper...

Whoosh, whoosh...

Xu Jingming soared freely through the sky, wind roaring past his ears, the forest below flashing by like a spinning lantern.

His speed had exceeded 200 m/s!

"This speed! Amazing!" Xu Jingming's face glowed with excitement.

After reaching the upper tier of fourth stage, his maximum sprint speed had surpassed 120 m/s.

It already exceeded most upper-tier fourth-stage ability users.

But with the Thunder Dragon Wings activated, his speed became truly terrifying!

And flying through the sky eliminated the need to detour as one must on land.

Efficiency was incomparably greater than ground sprinting!

"But this isn't my limit! Thunder Lei Jitai!"

Boom!!

Xu Jingming instantly entered Thunder Lei Jitai, his entire body and wings swelling outward.

His three-meter-long Thunder Dragon Wings expanded to over five meters.

His speed surged again, rising from 200 m/s to 260 m/s!

Of course,

the force generated by the Thunder Dragon Wings flapping alone could not achieve such speed.

Even his weight of over 120 kilograms could not be lifted by wings just over three meters long.

The flight effect was entirely due to the special patterns on the Thunder Dragon Wings, which manipulated wind elements like those of a wind ability user.

"Ha! Thrilling!"

Xu Jingming flew wildly through the sky as his speed surged, but due to the extreme altitude,

from the ground, he appeared only as a tiny glowing speck, like a star...

"What's that? So fast!"

"I think I saw wings! A lightning-type ferocious beast!"

A glowing object suddenly appeared in the dark sky, drawing the attention of other ability users.

At that moment, in the forest, the teams of Lei Ting Martial Arts and Storm Bear Martial Arts.

Lin Hui, Lu Heng, Xia Lan, and others stared in awe.

The relic space contained flying ferocious beasts, but never before had they seen one with such terrifying power.

"Enough gawking—we head to the main base tomorrow. Let's count how many assessment crystals we've gathered."

By the campfire, Lei Ting Martial Arts' instructor Qin Zheng clapped his hands and called out; Lin Hui and the others hurried over.

"Master Qin, we've collected at least seven or eight thousand assessment crystals, right?"

Lu Heng of the Storm Bear Martial Arts rubbed his hands and grinned.

"The Tianyu Daochang team was too strong—we couldn't compete with them.

We only secured 6,451 assessment crystals."

Qin Zheng shook his head, then pulled the examination crystals from his space ring and piled them on the ground like a small mountain:

"This."

To reach Sixth Tier Lower at forty-something already proves their talent is lacking.

Better to use these examination crystals to help these young prodigies push forward.

Of course, this was also the decision made by the martial arts hall's senior leadership before departure.

"Yes!" Lin Hui and the others clearly understood the leadership's decision, and quickly divided up the six thousand-plus examination crystals.

"Come to think of it, Su Chen is really a strange guy.

After entering the ruins space, he doesn't search for examination crystals—he just goes mad killing ferocious beasts. Who knows what he's thinking?"

Lin Hui shook his head in sigh.

The title "Ferocious Beast Hunter" had reached even their ears.

"Who knows what he's up to? It's been nearly two months now—his collection of examination crystals probably doesn't even reach a hundred."

Lu Heng beside him smirked with malicious delight.

Su Chen's combat power is indeed strong, but his brain seems to be missing a gear.

If you come into this civilization's ruins and don't collect examination crystals, what's the point?

"Su Chen's ability is probably the Lightning-type A-rank ability 'Crimson-Yellow True Thunder.'

Even without examination crystals, he should still get a decent reward at the main base."

Qin Zheng wasn't particularly concerned about this.

He was more focused on how to fully win Su Chen over at the main base tomorrow.

"True, but his reward, without any examination crystals, won't be as large as ours who have them."

Lu Heng grinned confidently.

Xia Lan, the third among them, merely blinked her eyes and said nothing.

She felt somehow that Su Chen, with his space fluctuations, wasn't as simple as he appeared...

On the other side,

Xu Jingming, after enjoying the extreme speed of the Thunder Dragon Wings, soon landed near the cave.

"The Thunder Dragon Wings are indeed fast, but they consume immense energy.

In normal form, you can only use them for about half an hour; if you activate Thunder Lei Jitai, you might not even make it to fifteen minutes.

As Xu Jingming thought this, he walked into the cave.

Given the current situation, the Thunder Dragon Wings are only suitable for short-term use.

Of course, most battles don't require over half an hour to resolve.

"Master."

As Xu Jingming stepped into the cave, Sakura Rin bowed respectfully to greet him.

"Hmm." Xu Jingming nodded slightly.

In truth, his sudden flight earlier had been a test to see if Sakura Rin would try to flee.

But judging by her current behavior, she still seemed quite obedient.

"By the way, we're heading to the main base tomorrow—hand over all the examination crystals you have." Xu Jingming said.

The richness of rewards at the main base depends on both talent and the number of examination crystals.

Though he possesses an SS-rank ability and his talent is nearly maxed out, his reward will certainly be substantial.

Yet more examination crystals would undoubtedly make it safer.

"I have about fifty thousand examination crystals here—I'll give them all to you, Master."

On Sakura Rin's finger, as white as a spring onion, the space ring flickered faintly.

Instantly, a mountain of examination crystals rose abruptly within the entire cave space!