Chapter 773: 340,000 Ability Points! Return!

"I only wanted to test a combat technique, didn't expect to be this unlucky and run into a ninth-rank Beast Sovereign."

Xu Jingming's brows knit tightly.

A flash of light from his spatial ring, and a blood-red pill exuding a medicinal fragrance appeared in his hand.

An eighth-rank Blood Burst Pill!

One of the pills he'd stocked up on before coming to the wilderness zone, prepared precisely for a situation like this.

"I'm about fifty kilometers from Nixi. With the Blood Burst Pill, that should be enough to let me escape with my life."

Xu Jingming's dragon pupils were filled with an unprecedented calm as he swallowed the Blood Burst Pill in one gulp.

Boom!!

His seventh-rank mid-tier aura surged upward in an instant, his entire body wrapped in surging qi and blood.

Along with it, the might of Doushen Shenlei skyrocketed as well!

The originally golden Thunder Dragon Wings took on a faint blood-red hue, and his flight speed of 1.8 times the speed of sound shot straight up to 2.6 times!!

Whoosh—

Lightning crackled all over his body as he wove through the jungle like a phantom.

By now, he no longer needed to slash through the trees ahead with a blade.

The shockwave from his flight alone was enough to snap every tree in his path!

And any trees that weren't snapped outright were instantly melted through the moment they touched the Doushen Shenlei around his body!

Rumble rumble rumble—

Trees fell in swathes. Xu Jingming reached the outskirts of the super-city Nixi—less than ten kilometers away—in under a single minute!

At that moment, the Swift Wind Black Eagle behind him let out an unwilling screech before turning tail and leaving.

"Phew, it finally gave up."

Sensing that terrifying spiritual lock vanish, Xu Jingming finally halted his flight.

At that moment, a wave of heat rose from the surface of his body, and an unhealthy flush crept across his face.

That was the after-effect of taking the Blood Burst Pill.

In at most ten minutes, once the Blood Burst Pill's effects wore off, he would fall into an extremely weakened state.

"Little Sword! Help me dig out a pit."

The Thunder Dragon Wings folded in, and Xu Jingming slowly descended to the ground.

At the same time, the Thorn Sword Grass's vines whipped out, rapidly excavating a pit roughly fifty-plus meters deep!

Xu Jingming leaped down into the depths.

He then had the Thorn Sword Grass refill the soil while expanding the underground space to the size of a bedroom.

"S-rank, what made you suddenly think of using Wan Leitian Yin in the wilderness zone?"

The twin-tailed loli Eva's figure poked out from the smart armguard, asking in some confusion.

"I just wanted to test a combat technique. I got careless this time."

Xu Jingming exited Lightning Form, shaking his head slightly as he spoke.

He naturally couldn't come out and say it was to earn more ability points.

And exiting Lightning Form was also to lessen the Blood Burst Pill's negative side effects.

The more power he exerted while the Blood Burst Pill's effects lasted, the greater the side effects would be.

"The Dayangzhou wilderness zone is the territory of fierce beasts. Fierce beasts may not have developed cities like us humans.

But they each have their own spheres of influence, and almost every few dozen kilometers there's a ninth-rank fierce beast standing guard.

Ordinary human ability-users won't draw their attention.

But high-risk energy fluctuations will be sensed by them immediately, and they'll give chase.

Luckily you had a Blood Burst Pill, and Nixi city isn't that far either—otherwise this would've been real trouble."

Eva couldn't help but remind him in a low voice, "Next time you want to test combat techniques, just go to the virtual world. The wilderness zone is far too dangerous."

High-rank fierce beasts' intelligence is already no less than that of humans.

Humans know that ability-users grow step by step, so they protect low-rank ability-users.

Naturally, fierce beasts also protect low-rank fierce beasts.

Having a ninth-rank Beast Sovereign stand guard over each region is one of their protective measures.

Otherwise, if they left low-rank fierce beasts unchecked, those low-rank fierce beasts would've long since been hunted down by ninth-rank ability-users.

After all, for a ninth-rank Law Saint.

Even a wilderness zone spanning over five million kilometers could be cleared with just a few extra days.

"Understood." Xu Jingming replied with a wry smile.

This time he'd learned his lesson. Looks like Wan Leitian Yin can't be used in the wilderness zone anymore—the danger factor is just too high.

"Wait till I break through to Supreme rank—then I'll fire it however I damn well please!"

Xu Jingming thought viciously in his heart.

Lay low for now, build up strength, and then I'll slaughter every last one of you!

A seventh-rank mid-tier ability-user can only consume a seventh-rank Blood Burst Pill.

If one consumes a higher eighth-rank Blood Burst Pill, the side effects won't be as simple as temporary weakness.

Once the drug's effects kick in, one might very well explode and die on the spot.

Xu Jingming dared to do it only because his physique was powerful enough.

And the final price was extremely bitter—after the Blood Burst Pill wore off, his extremely weakened body could only recover using an SS-rank Heavenly Spirit Spring.

Even so, he still had to rest underground for a full two days before returning to peak condition.

And that one Wan Leitianlao Yin ultimately only gave him 90,000 ability points.

These 90,000 ability points—he could have earned them in three days of normal hunting of fierce beasts.

Now he got them in just two days, so on the surface it looked like a profit.

But he'd thrown in one eighth-grade Bloodburst Pill worth as much as 500 million Blue Star coins, plus a bottle of SS-grade Celestial Spirit Spring.

He'd even risked his life in the process.

One could say that, for a moment of impulse and greed, he'd lost terribly on this round.

Still, this served as a wake-up call: without absolute strength, he must never stand out too much in the wilderness zone.

So, in the subsequent fierce beast hunts,

he didn't dare unleash the Wan Leitianlao Yin again, which made an enormous commotion, and simply hunted the beasts steadily and methodically.

Soon it was May 14th—only one day left until the May 15th appointment with Leng Yuexi.

At six o'clock that afternoon, Xu Jingming hid inside a cave, tallying his harvest.

"One eighth-tier fierce beast, six seventh-tier fierce beasts, and also..."

Under a golden thunderball about the size of a ping-pong ball serving as a light source, Xu Jingming sat cross-legged on the ground.

The originally pitch-black SSS-grade Black Soul Battle Garment had been stained a dark red by fierce beast blood during this period of slaughter.

Even Xu Jingming's black hair now carried a tinge of blood-red.

"This batch of fierce beast materials should sell for roughly 2.3 billion Blue Star coins when I get back."

Xu Jingming silently noted to himself.

On the very first day leaving Mobennaisi, it was pure luck that he ran into a group of Lei Jiao Heihou that had an eighth-tier fierce beast.

In the days after that, his luck wasn't anything special—he only encountered one eighth-tier fierce beast.

But the fierce beast materials were secondary; what mattered most was the ability points.

【Ability Points】: 346,000

The ability points that had been completely drained over ten days ago when Xu Jingming used them to upgrade his Spirit Refinement Art were now replenished once more to 346,000.

But there weren't many options he could upgrade—only combat skill proficiency could be enhanced.

The remaining Body Tempering Art, Spirit Refinement Art, and Lei Ting Domain couldn't be upgraded.

"My Lei Ting Domain is only at the first level, and 340,000 ability points still aren't enough to upgrade it.

Looks like improving the Lei Ting Domain is quite a bit harder than I imagined."

Xu Jingming took a deep breath, then rose from the ground.

Tomorrow was the appointed time with Leng Yuexi—he had to head back tonight.