Chapter 937: Awareness! Breaking Through Eighth-Rank Mid-Tier!

Sssshhh—

Above the ice plain, three figures—two white, one black—flashed across the sky like phantoms.

They were Nawa, Kent, and Nila of the Tianming Sect.

One S-rank ninth-rank lower-tier, two A-rank ninth-rank mid-tier.

They had been in the seventh layer of the Po Xu Tower for nearly ten hours, yet still had not found the passage to the next layer.

But they had gathered plenty of Kongshi stones; all three now ranked within the top thirty.

Boom—boom—boom!!!

A muffled thunder rolled from the right horizon.

Dark clouds gathered, and bolts of black lightning surged like enraged dragons within them.

"Lightning?"

Nawa, the lead white man, suddenly halted, turning toward the direction; Kent and Nila behind him likewise slowed.

"It's the aura of a lightning ability—and it's strong."

Kent, the ninth-rank mid-tier Law Saint, sensed carefully, then murmured.

The storm cloud was at least several hundred kilometers away from them.

But due to its sheer scale, they had detected it.

"The seventh layer of the Po Xu Tower is an ice world—there can't be any lightning-type ferocious beasts here.

That means someone with a lightning ability is casting there.

And... this scale of lightning must be from at least an eighth-rank Grand Master, possibly even a ninth-rank powerhouse."

Nawa narrowed his eyes, licking his lips with eager excitement.

"Should we go take a look? That might be the Divine Son's target."

Nila, the slightly shorter black woman among them, asked.

"Of course."

Nawa's face twisted into a cold-blooded smile. "Whether it's Xu Jingming or not—kill them all."

As members of the Tianming Sect, killing had become instinct.

Along the way just now, they had already slain over a hundred ability users.

"Right, let's go."

Kent nodded with a grin; the three immediately turned and flew toward the storm cloud.

'Ding! Slain one seventh-rank lower-tier beast, Ice Plain Demon Spider. Ability points +10,000.'

'Ding! Slain one fourth-rank upper-tier beast, Ice-Armored Iron Boar. Ability points +832.'

'Ding! Slain one fourth-rank mid-tier beast, Frost White Snake. Ability points +746.'

'......'

Beneath the black Lei Hai, Xu Jingming was wreathed in black lightning.

System alerts chimed continuously in his mind; his system panel's ability points surged upward.

Tall and imposing, Xu Jingming stood there, watching the ability points on his panel, silently pondering.

After breaking through the Lianshen Art, his spiritual force reached an extremely terrifying level.

Wan Leitianlao Yin, though a group attack technique, could severely wound even a ninth-rank if caught off-guard.

Below ninth-rank, it was instant annihilation.

This beast aggregation zone was sizable—over a thousand square kilometers—with a large number of beasts gathered.

In those past five to six seconds, he had already gained over 400,000 ability points!

But the weakest beasts had already been slain; the subsequent ability points would be far fewer.

As he had predicted, when Wan Leitianlao Yin reached the tenth second, the rate of ability point gain began to drop.

By the fifteenth second, the increase had nearly stalled.

"It seems all the beasts in this area have been slain."

Xu Jingming shifted his spiritual force; the sky's black lightning vanished instantly, and the dark clouds dispersed.

The once-beautiful glacial landscape before him was now a wasteland, pockmarked with craters.

Residual black lightning still flickered and darted among them.

Such zones stretched continuously for over a thousand square kilometers...

"This is the power of a lightning ability—its destruction is overwhelming."

Watching the apocalyptic scene before her, Su Qingli murmured in awe.

Though she too wielded lightning, the difference between S-rank and SSS-rank was vast.

Even if she cast Wan Leitianlao Yin over the same area, her damage could never reach this level.

Xu Jingming said nothing; his attention was fixed entirely on his system panel, his expression gleeful.

【Name】: Xu Jingming

【Level】: Eighth-rank lower-tier (+)

【Ability Points】: 2,013,400

Two million one hundred thirty-four thousand ability points!

That single burst had granted him 800,000 ability points!

More crucially, the ability points had reached the threshold for level-up.

"Teacher, I'm breaking through. Guard the surroundings for me."

Xu Jingming spoke softly.

At this moment, aside from level, the Lightning Domain on the system panel could also be allocated points.

But for ability users, level is the most critical parameter of strength apart from ability grade.

Prioritizing raising level was the most important thing; the domain could be set aside for now.

"Breakthrough? Breakthrough what?"

Su Qingli, who was still immersed in the devastating power of Xu Jingming's combat techniques, was dumbfounded.

"Level — I'm about to break through to Eighth-Order Mid."

Having said that, Xu Jingming no longer hesitated and directly tapped the plus sign behind level.

Ability Points -1.98 million!

Eighth-Order Lower → Eighth-Order Mid!

The instant the allocation began, he felt as if boundless power was surging within his body.

Thump! Thump!......

The heart, strengthened by the essence blood of the Thunder Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex, beat even more powerfully, emitting a tremendous sound like a great bell!

Internal organs, countless fine meridians, and blood vessels also began to strengthen in tandem.

The spiritual power, which had been pushed to 120,000 hertz by the sixth layer of the Spirit Refining Art, likewise began to skyrocket!

Whoosh, whoosh—

The originally invisible primal energy coalesced into a substantial primal energy storm with a diameter of up to ten kilometers.

Like a whale swallowing, it was drawn into Xu Jingming's body, sustaining the simultaneous rapid growth of both his flesh and spiritual power.

"This...... he really broke through?"

Su Qingli, standing prettily beside him, stared with eyes wide as saucers, watching this scene in a daze.

One had to know that it had only been a single month since Xu Jingming last broke through from Seventh-Order Peak to Eighth-Order.

"S-class has always been like this — say breakthrough and breakthrough happens, never any mishaps."

Yiwa said with a giggle.

"It can actually be like this?"

Su Qingli exclaimed softly.

After ability users entered the high orders, even breaking through a single minor stage was extremely difficult.

Cases of failing to break through two or three times were everywhere; otherwise there wouldn't be so many ability users stuck dead at a certain level — this was the so-called bottleneck.

But for Xu Jingming, it seemed this concept simply didn't exist.

"Still, this commotion is a bit too big......"

Su Qingli shifted her gaze from Xu Jingming and looked toward the primal energy storm in the sky.

It was common knowledge that ability users would absorb massive amounts of primal energy when breaking through.

But the amount Xu Jingming was absorbing was far too exaggerated — calling it a strange phenomenon would not be an overstatement.

"At this rate, I'm afraid it'll attract some fierce beasts or human ability users."

Su Qingli's willow brows knit slightly as she instructed softly: "Yiwa, control Chi Mang Liu Jin to patrol and scout the surroundings.

Xiao Lian, you also send out some vines to probe the surroundings — notify me immediately if there's any abnormality."

The plant battle armor formed by Clematis could protect Xu Jingming's safety to the greatest extent.

Therefore Su Qingli did not have it reveal its true form, only sending out some vines.

"Yiwa understands."

Yiwa nodded and quickly rushed forward.

And Clematis, very obediently, also sent out over a thousand vines, driving them into the ground to sense information.

"Heart Net!"

Su Qingli's beautiful eyes swirled with azure Lei Guang, her hair fluttered lightly behind her, and lightning crackled around her.

She likewise activated her own perception-type combat technique and entered a state of alert.