Chapter 285: Preparing for Another Battle

As the Experience Value vanished, a special energy appeared out of thin air, gathering inside Meng Yifan's body, circulating rapidly through his extraordinary meridians, and then merging into Meng Yifan's own Spirit Power.

Soon, as that energy completed one Great Heavenly Cycle, Meng Yifan's body jolted violently, and his cultivation had broken through to the Fourth Grade High Rank.

Lang Jiao sensed the cultivation fluctuations on Meng Yifan, stared at Meng Yifan in a daze, and said, "Master, have you broken through your cultivation?"

Meng Yifan smiled and said, "After a great battle, I had some insights, so I broke through a small realm."

Lang Jiao felt very depressed; she had also participated in the battle just now, so why hadn't she broken through? Could it be that Meng Yifan was truly a genius, able to break through a realm just by fighting a battle? This was too monstrous, right?

"Haha, nothing to be surprised about. You'll see it often enough following me in the future; you'll get used to it slowly."

Meng Yifan was full of confidence. With a golden finger like the Game Panel in hand, as long as he killed monsters to level up, his strength would surely continue to soar.

"Used to it?" Lang Jiao was speechless. Whether it was Demon Beasts, Immortal Cultivators, or Martial Artists, the higher the cultivation, the harder it became. Many powerhouses, after reaching the Fourth Grade, would spend years of hard training just to break through a small realm in their cultivation.

Some cultivators, due to limited aptitude, would get stuck at the Fourth Grade Lower Tier; no matter how hard they cultivated, it was difficult to make any progress for the rest of their lives. This also resulted in very few experts above the Fourth Grade; they were already capable of guarding a prefecture and were true powerhouses.

The cultivation breakthrough that was extremely difficult in the eyes of others had become easy for Meng Yifan. Lang Jiao could only say that people were truly different; perhaps this was the cultivation speed of a genius, which ordinary people could not understand.

The Monster Army had retreated to set up camp, but Meng Yifan did not intend to let them go. His current cultivation had just risen to the Fourth Grade High Rank, and he still needed to take out twenty or thirty thousand Demon Beasts to gather enough Experience Value to raise his cultivation to the Fourth Grade Peak.

Only by reaching the Fourth Grade Peak could he go through the Thunder Tribulation. Lang Batian could arrive at any moment, and Meng Yifan felt immense pressure; he had to race against time and continue to eliminate Demon Beasts in large numbers.

"Rest for one hour, replenish ammunition, and then we continue the expedition," Meng Yifan said.

Shen Dahu and the others took Pills and sat cross-legged, circulating their energy to recover the True Qi and physical strength they had consumed.

Meng Shuangdao, Meng Da, and Meng Er went to the graveyard. Standing inside the cemetery, the corpse aura from all directions gathered toward them.

Meng Shuangdao was a Fourth Grade Zombie. He not only absorbed corpse aura but also looked up at the moon. Strands of Greater Yin Power were transmitted from the moon into his body, making his body emit a bright, moon-white light in the dark night, which looked very magical.

Just now, before Zhu Ganglie died, he had counterattacked, piercing Meng Shuangdao's chest with his tusks and nearly splitting Meng Shuangdao in two. At this moment, as he absorbed the Greater Yin Power, the hideous wound on Meng Shuangdao's chest was healing rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye. This was the terrifying aspect of the Zombie Body; as long as it wasn't killed in one blow, it could recover.

Kong Sanqiang and his Vampire Descendants were the easiest to recover. In the battle just now, they had also collected a large amount of essence blood from Third Grade Demon Beasts.

At this moment, each of them was holding a large leather bag, gulping down the essence blood, and the blood energy consumed in the battle just now was quickly recovering.

Meng Yifan was not a stingy person; he handed all the essence blood extracted from the Fourth Grade Beast Zhu Ganglie to Kong Sanqiang, allowing him to quickly improve his cultivation.

There are two ways for a vampire to break through to the Fourth Grade. One is to absorb a large amount of essence blood from Fourth-Grade Powerhouses, slowly raise their own cultivation to the Third Grade Peak, and then go through the Thunder Tribulation. If they are lucky enough to succeed, they can naturally break through to a Fourth-Grade Vampire.

There is another way, which is to have the vampire swallow the Blood Core of a Fourth-Grade Vampire; this can also quickly raise their cultivation to the Third Grade Peak.

Moreover, doing this has another benefit: the Blood Core stores the fragmented memories of the vampire. By absorbing the Blood Core, Kong Sanqiang is very likely to comprehend the secret arts and combat experience of vampires, which is very important for a newborn vampire like Kong Sanqiang.

Meng Yifan planned to return to Earth once he had accumulated enough Yin Soul Power, go to the West to kill a few Fourth-Grade Vampires, and bring their Blood Cores back for Kong Sanqiang to absorb.

"Thank you!" Kong Sanqiang said gratefully. If he had to rely on himself to snatch the essence blood of a Fourth Grade Beast, it would be as difficult as ascending to Heaven.

Because every Fourth Grade Beast possesses Domain Power, Kong Sanqiang is a Level 3 Vampire and very fast, but if he were to hunt Zhu Ganglie, his attack power wouldn't even be able to break Zhu Ganglie's defense. It was almost impossible to kill Zhu Ganglie, and naturally, he would be unable to extract the essence blood of a Fourth Grade Beast.

Meng Yifan patted Kong Sanqiang on the shoulder and said, "Absorb it quickly, improve your cultivation as soon as possible, and we will continue to leave the city to hunt Demon Beasts."

Kong Sanqiang nodded firmly. Ever since Meng Yifan saved his life, he had made up his mind to follow in Meng Yifan's footsteps for the rest of his life.

Kong Sanqiang and the vampires under his command were the sharp swords in Meng Yifan's hands; wherever Meng Yifan pointed, they would attack.

Meng Yifan smiled and discovered from the Game Panel that Kong Sanqiang's Loyalty had already risen to 99 points, making it almost impossible for him to betray Meng Yifan again.

It was precisely because of this level of Loyalty that Meng Yifan would cultivate Kong Sanqiang without reservation.

After all, Kong Sanqiang was not just a single powerhouse, but had developed a vampire family.

Right now, this family still seemed very weak, but as long as they were provided with a large amount of high-level essence blood, they could quickly develop and grow.

One must know that not only could Kong Sanqiang develop descendants, but even the descendants he developed could also develop their own descendants once their strength reached the Third Grade.

Therefore, as long as resources were sufficient, perhaps before long, there would be hundreds or even thousands of Vampire Descendants under Kong Sanqiang's command, which would be a very formidable army.

If not for the Game Panel being able to clearly and accurately display that Kong Sanqiang was loyal to Meng Yifan, he would not be at ease handing this vampire army with huge potential over to Kong Sanqiang to lead.

Time passed quickly, and before one knew it, an hour had gone by.

Meng Shuangdao and the other zombies, Kong Sanqiang and the other vampires, and human Martial Artists like Shen Dahu and Meng Dayong had all finished recovering. Everyone was in high spirits, ready to follow Meng Yifan on another expedition.

The surprise attack just now had gone very smoothly. In one battle, they had eliminated one Fourth Grade Beast and over ten thousand other Demon Beasts, while Meng Yifan's elite squad had only one death and three injuries. Looking at the combat loss ratio, this was a great victory with astonishing results.

"Yifan, which direction are we planning to raid the Demon Beasts this time?" Meng Dayong asked.