[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-starting-from-the-apocalypse-i-alone-severed-ete":3,"chapter-starting-from-the-apocalypse-i-alone-severed-ete-starting-from-the-apocalypse-i-alone-severed-ete-chapter-46":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Starting from the Apocalypse, I Alone Severed Eternity",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2312428,4518,"Chapter 46: Intuitive Evasion: A New Spatial Passage","starting-from-the-apocalypse-i-alone-severed-ete-chapter-46",46,"\u003Cp>“Run!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qian Cheng urged himself inwardly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Previously, when he saw companions luring monsters, it was generally alarming but harmless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d just watch a few Firewing Birds foolishly fly over, then get cut down by Fang Shi’s swords.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The one playing bait didn’t lose a single hair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet even so, the one luring the monsters was nearly exhausted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the time, Qian Cheng had joked: “Just Firewing Birds? Why sweat so much?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The baiter paid no heed, only giving Qian Cheng a knowing smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meaning: You’ll get yours soon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now it was Qian Cheng’s turn, and his legs nearly gave out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every hair on his body stood on end, adrenaline surging wildly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just to boost that tiny sliver of speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Firewing Birds were truly that fast!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was like standing by the roadside watching cars, versus standing in the middle of the road.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only when you’re right in the thick of it do you feel just how fast they are.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Qian Cheng hadn’t once practiced parkour for a while, and then switched to the Rogue class,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d have had better adaptability to complex terrain than ordinary people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d still have barely escaped—no! He’d already been caught up to.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wind from the Firewing Birds’ wings whipped across Qian Cheng’s face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t know how many Firewing Birds were behind him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qian Cheng dared not look back; he could only judge from the airflow that there were definitely more than one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No! There was an airflow ahead too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qian Cheng lifted his head slightly and saw the massive beak of a Firewing Bird nearly upon him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He seemed to detect a hint of mockery in the bird’s beautiful eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thud!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qian Cheng, who should have been unable to dodge, suddenly dropped to his knees at the last possible moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His kneecap cracked with a sharp snap.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was already overburdened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“After continuous combat, you’ve gained partial information on Intuitive Evasion.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shhh! Shhh! Shhh!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thud! Thud! Thud!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Three blades flashed; three headless Firewing Bird corpses crashed to the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The rest of the Firewing Birds had already flapped up into the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon they vanished from sight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Lucky guy.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qian Cheng, whose mind was blank, heard Fang Shi’s voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He finally snapped back to reality, sighed in relief as he stared at the Firewing Bird corpses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, Qian Cheng felt unbearable pain all over his body, especially in his knees.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was in too much pain to stand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Based on Qian Cheng’s fitness experience, his meniscus was almost certainly shattered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His heart sank into darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meniscus injuries are the hardest to heal; countless top athletes retire because of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this perilous end-time world, such a weakness was a fatal flaw in every battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One misstep could mean death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Shi, seeing Qian Cheng’s expression change, said calmly: “It’s just a minor injury. Go eat more meat when you get back—it’ll heal.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The wonders of primal energy are beyond your imagination.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Really?” Qian Cheng asked anxiously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Mm.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Shi reached out, lifted Qian Cheng effortlessly with a single motion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Made him lean against a vehicle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I wouldn’t lie about something this small.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Besides, haven’t you noticed? You’ve gained a specialty.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qian Cheng froze, immediately checking his attribute panel’s log.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’ve learned Intuitive Evasion I.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“【Intuitive Evasion I】: You possess an extraordinary premonition, allowing you to dodge danger before it arrives. (Agility-related identification +1 when dodging)”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What’s this?” Qian Cheng asked, puzzled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Intuitive Evasion—like a cicada sensing autumn wind before it stirs.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“In a situation like just now, even if you saw the Firewing Bird’s form, your agility alone couldn’t have reacted in time.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>»\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But Intuitive Evasion is that miraculous—even if you didn’t react, or even didn’t notice, you’d still sense the danger and instinctively dodge.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“As if you’d foreseen the future.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Fang Shi explained, Qian Cheng gradually understood the specialty’s function.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Using it felt like an increase in neural reaction speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in principle, it was entirely different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Intuitive Evasion was precognition—limited only to danger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And it had a limit, roughly equivalent to the effect of increasing Agility by two points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even so, it was an extraordinary specialty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So does that mean I’ll be safer when luring monsters now?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qian Cheng said happily, suddenly forgetting his knee pain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Shi was speechless—such a powerful combat specialty, and all he wanted was to lure monsters? Why not use it for himself?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Too bad this specialty was extremely hard to learn; only certain Rogue classes had it naturally.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For other classes, gaining it relied entirely on luck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Fang Shi, with his high Perception linked to sixth sense, wasn’t guaranteed to learn it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tap-tap-tap.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Footsteps came from the street entrance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Shi turned to see Zhao Wenjun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He arrived with several militia members and a few male survivors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The survivors spotted the Firewing Bird corpses on the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All widened their eyes; even with preparation, they were still stunned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially when they saw Fang Shi unharmed, his long sword only dripping blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It made them hard to believe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the power of Captain Zhao’s master—so terrifying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The more they understood the Firewing Birds’ strength, the more fearful they became of the creatures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the more they realized Fang Shi’s terrifying might.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instantly, their sense of belonging to the militia grew stronger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’re here. Handle the rest yourselves.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With that, Fang Shi vanished in a flash, leaping onto the roof of a bus and pulling out a core to cultivate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhao Wenjun was already used to this scene.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You three, come with me to clear the zombies on the road—get to Level 2 as soon as possible.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You two, guard Little Qian—prevent any accidents.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Once the zombies are cleared, come back to haul the Firewing Bird corpses.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhao Wenjun issued orders with practiced ease; soon everyone was assigned their tasks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No need for Fang Shi to manage anything—saved time and effort.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Shi himself served as the armed safeguard, deterring any foolish Firewing Birds from coming to die.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And he also practiced his breathing technique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Shi had a feeling his breathing technique was about to break through.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not tomorrow, not the day after—possibly even today.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It sounded incredible, yet it was perfectly logical.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because the breathing technique was fundamentally a method that grew faster the higher one’s Perception.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Higher Perception meant finer indirect control over primal energy, improving its utilization and accelerating bodily strengthening.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Shi’s current Perception of 21 points, combined with his reincarnation, made such efficiency unsurprising.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this wasn’t the main point—Fang Shi vaguely recalled a claim from his past life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The most efficient stage for breathing techniques is before entering a rank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason is simple: before entering a rank, one has only a foundation, and primal energy transforms the body most effectively.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once ranked, a building has already been erected atop the foundation; changing it then becomes extremely slow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if the attribute point limit is broken, it merely means moving into the building, not altering the foundation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So the question arises: would it be better to use breathing techniques that don’t alter life’s essence?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in reality, it isn’t—this too is a matter of efficiency.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Efficient use of primal energy does alter life’s essence, but it accelerates training.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Merely using primal energy makes the foundation easier to lay, but lacks such efficiency.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s like a level-up requiring 100 experience, granting 1 point per upgrade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another level-up requiring 500 experience, granting 10 points per upgrade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Overall, using breathing techniques that alter life’s essence is most efficient before entering a rank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Shi now has both advantages—he’s unranked and has high Perception.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And he’s a reincarnator; his breathing technique breakthrough is perfectly normal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Crash!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhao Wenjun struck the corpse before him with a steel pipe, knocking it to the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he drove the sharpened tip of the pipe into the corpse’s eye socket.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, he was hunting corpses alongside the militia.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Captain Zhao, what’s your master’s background?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A new member asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhao Wenjun panted and said, “I don’t know—I just became my master’s disciple yesterday.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One of the militia members scolded, “Don’t ask so many questions, or Fang Daoist might get annoyed.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhao Wenjun said, “It’s fine. By the way, Wang Peng, how long until you hit Level 2?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Peng was the man who had just scolded; he replied shamefully, “Still 100 experience short.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhao Wenjun encouraged him, “Then let you kill these next few corpses—get everyone to Level 2 as soon as possible.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he turned to the other new members: “You all need to work harder too, or soon there won’t be enough corpses.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“By then, you’ll have to hunt Firewing Birds to level up—that’s a whole different level of danger.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At these words, everyone’s spirits tightened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone knew corpses were once humans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But leveling requires 1000 experience, and each corpse yields only 10 experience.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To reach Level 2, one must kill at least 100 corpses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s nowhere near enough!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Based on their encounters, the conversion rate certainly isn’t one-to-one hundred.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, no building could have housed so many survivors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hence, some hadn’t even opened their attribute panels, let alone chosen a combat class.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If you don’t level up now, you’ll truly be forced to hunt Firewing Birds later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Do you think, how many levels is Fang Daoist now, after killing so many Firewing Birds?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Again, the same person asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, Wang Peng didn’t scold—first, Zhao Wenjun didn’t mind; second, he was genuinely curious too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They hadn’t killed a Firewing Bird yet, but everyone assumed tougher monsters gave more experience.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Shi had been killing nonstop—they had no idea how much experience he’d amassed or how many levels he’d gained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Firewing Birds are Level 3 creatures. Killing one grants 60 experience and 6 survival points.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Each level above the monster’s level increases rewards by 20%.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So a Level 1 practitioner needs only kill 12 Firewing Birds to reach Level 2.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“All this I heard from my master.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhao Wenjun’s answer answered part of the group’s questions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then what are survival points?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My master says survival points relate to the Trial Tower—we don’t need to worry about them yet.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Afterward, Zhao Wenjun gradually relayed everything he’d learned from Fang Shi to the group.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone listened intently, finally gaining their first real understanding of the apocalypse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the militia conversed,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Shi, meditating atop the bus, let out a soft murmur.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His gaze fixed ahead, and soon,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A silver disc slowly appeared before him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a space channel opening.\u003C\u002Fp>",1749,"2026-06-20T12:43:33.559Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","8c38bcd125aa2f63b6b3488efeb9b1f96d87dce57bb9e7046bfba498f86314b6","starting-from-the-apocalypse-i-alone-severed-ete-chapter-47","starting-from-the-apocalypse-i-alone-severed-ete-chapter-45",109,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fstarting-from-the-apocalypse-i-alone-severed-ete-cover.jpg"]