Chapter 21: Space Ring

Xiao Yu looked at the Space Ring before him, his heart surging with excitement.

Although he wasn't sure about his mental strength, he still intended to give it a try.

Calming his breath and focusing his mind, he gathered his mental strength and probed into the Space Ring, feeling only a barrier blocking his mental intrusion.

"Could this Space Ring have already recognized a master?" Xiao Yu wondered, puzzled.

If it were an ownerless Space Ring, his mental strength should easily penetrate it, but now it felt like hitting a wall.

But if the Space Ring's owner were still alive, it would repel invaders; yet his mental strength encountered no resistance upon intrusion, indicating that although it had recognized a master, that master was already dead.

Thus, even bit by bit, he could wear it down with his own mental strength.

All day, Xiao Yu simply sat cross-legged on the ground, his inner mental strength constantly wearing down the mental strength inside the Space Ring.

After his mental strength was exhausted, he would meditate to recover, then resume wearing it down once restored.

After a full day and night, the mental strength inside the ring had diminished by only a trace, less than five percent.

"Damn, at this rate it'll take at least a month to open the Space Ring."

Xiao Yu didn't want to waste a month on the Space Ring, so he naturally sought a solution.

Actually, there was only one way: increase his own mental strength.

"The system set the Third Wish to perfectly increase mental strength twentyfold."

【Setting successful!】

【Third Wish: Perfectly increase mental strength twentyfold (100,000 Wish Points).】

"System, check remaining Wish Points."

【Remaining Wish Points: 110,600 points.】

It was actually enough.

Without further hesitation, Xiao Yu silently chanted in his heart, "System, fulfill the Third Wish to perfectly increase mental strength twentyfold."

【Wish Points have been consumed!】

【The Third Wish is being fulfilled……】

Streams of ownerless, formless mental energy surged into Xiao Yu's upper dantian at his forehead.

Once these ownerless mental energies entered his body, they took on his aura, becoming mental energy he could use.

Countless mental energies rapidly condensed in his upper dantian, forming a small spherical core.

The sphere continually grew larger.

In a moment, the sphere grew from the size of a soybean to that of a peanut.

【The Wish has been fulfilled!】

Xiao Yu instantly felt an extraordinary mental clarity; the world appeared different to him, and with a thought, streams of mental energy followed his mind to probe the surrounding environment.

Each tree appeared as if dissected, its layered structures appearing in his mind.

He gathered his focus, ceased wandering thoughts, and the mental energy he had extended returned to his forehead.

Looking at the ring in his hand, he directed his mental energy to probe again; upon encountering the barrier, Xiao Yu continually condensed his mental energy before it, shaping it into a rapidly spinning cone.

The cone-shaped mental energy thrust at the invisible barrier, the two constantly opposing each other; the cone retained its shape thanks to Xiao Yu's continual replenishment.

After a quarter hour, a soft "puff" sounded in the mental space, and the invisible barrier was shattered.

Xiao Yu had consumed only three-tenths of his mental strength to probe into the Space Ring.

With a sweep of his mind, he gained a certain understanding of the space inside the ring.

It was a vast space, 1000 meters long, 800 meters wide, 512 meters high, with a volume of over 400 million cubic meters.

"Huh!" Xiao Yu exclaimed in surprise: "It's not empty inside!"

There were even gifts.

He saw in one corner two enormous objects resembling cosmic warships; the smaller one was 100 meters long, 25 meters high, 25 meters wide, overall a mysterious black, its metal unclear at first glance.

The larger one was 320 meters long, 50 meters high, 50 meters wide, overall presenting a vertical line shape.

On the other side lay a pile of objects cut to one cubic centimeter each, glowing, numerous, neatly stacked, amounting to roughly one million cubic meters.

"These must be Universe Crystals, each one a Universe Coin. We've struck it rich!"

Xiao Yu instantly overjoyed; those one million cubic meters of Universe Crystals equaled ten trillion Universe Coins, that is, one primal unit.

In another corner lay scattered dozens of jade boxes and nearly a thousand weapons and shields.

Among them, the blade-type weapons alone numbered in the dozens.

Xiao Yu took a liking to a weapon with a two-meter-long blade, disc-shaped.

He retrieved it with his will, blade downward, and the blade sank silently into the concrete ground without a sound.

This is too sharp, isn't it?

Xiao Yu expended some effort to pull it from the ground; this war blade weighed at least a ton, and he swung it forward with force.

The gene primordial energy within his body surged like a bursting flood into the weapon in his hand, a rich red light flashing; as he swung the blade, a nearly thirty-meter blade aura shot straight from before him into the distance, piercing a residential building hundreds of meters away before continuing onward.

The high-rise building collapsed with a roar, startling nearby monsters to flee in all directions.

Xiao Yu suddenly felt utterly exhausted; the gene primordial energy within his body was completely drained in that instant.

"This guy is definitely an energy-devouring monster; let's name you the Crescent Moon Battle Blade."

With a thought, he stowed the Crescent Moon Battle Blade back into the Space Ring.

Xiao Yu sat cross-legged again to cultivate.

The next day, the gene primordial energy within his body became abundant once more.

Xiao Yu rose to his feet, continually training at this temporary stronghold.

Previously, he had used the system to elevate his physique to War God level, doubling his strength; to fully master his power, he needed continual training.

The best method was sword practice, repeatedly performing slashes, horizontal cuts, and various sword techniques.

He kept moving without rest, his flowing‑light footwork paired with his sword technique in training.

He even continuously wielded the fourth‑layer Nine‑fold Thunder Blade.

It took a full week before he perfectly regained command of his body, after which he resumed his hunt.

——

"Rooaaar~~"

A deep, thunder‑like roar suddenly rang out. Not far away, a colossal monster about four to five meters tall—larger than a typical truck—loomed. Its body was silver‑white, faintly reflecting light, clearly sheathed in a layer of silver scales. A small protrusion on its forehead suggested something trying to break through its hide.

This was one of the two High‑level Beast Generals of the whole beast pack.

High‑level Beast General Lion Mastiff Dog!

"Boom!" With a single lunge, the Lion Mastiff Dog leader surged like a silver flash across more than twenty meters, landing directly before Xiao Yu.

Xiao Yu leapt, instantly moving to the side of the Lion Mastiff Dog's head; the Silver Moon Battle Knife swung, without using the Nine‑fold Thunder Blade, and as the blade cut the air it still emitted a sonic boom.

A flash of cold light; the tip of the Silver Moon Battle Knife pierced the Lion Mastiff Dog's eye, going in thirty centimeters.

The Lion Mastiff Dog's gaze froze briefly, its body began convulsing, and moments later it ceased moving.

A thought flashed, and on the ground remained only a pile of scales, fur and other materials.

【Absorbed C‑rank Lion Mastiff Dog corpse, gained 1800 Wish Points.】

Xiao Yu strolled leisurely, fast, among the monster horde, swinging his twin blades casually; each strike felled a monster, whether Beast Soldier Rank or Beast General Rank, each killed with a single slash.

Half an hour later, the pack—containing two High‑level Beast Generals, five Mid‑level Beast Generals, ten Primary Beast Generals, totaling over three thousand monsters—was almost entirely slaughtered by Xiao Yu alone, with only a few F‑rank monsters escaping.

Xiao Yu walked among the monster corpses; a thought flickered, and the monster bodies vanished one by one, leaving only seventeen piles of material.

【Absorbed Lion Mastiff Dog and Tiger Cat corpses, gained 120,000 Wish Points.】

He directly stored all monster materials into the Space Ring.

Xiao Yu continued hunting other monsters.

For five consecutive days, Xiao Yu eliminated eight monster hordes led by High‑level Beast Generals, and also some stray monsters; during those five days he obtained a massive amount of monster material and 910,000 Wish Points.

All day, after casually slaying two Mid‑level Beast General monsters, Xiao Yu looked toward the Carrefour located one kilometer outside Wanke Fantasy City.

Two flame‑like gigantic beasts made one's heart race; their bodies were covered entirely in fiery red scales, without a single blemish! Especially their massive heads, each bearing three tall, curved, forward‑pointing horns.

These were two Primary Lord Level Fire Scale Trident Pigs, the top‑ranked pig‑type monsters, with astonishingly high defense.

A host of Bloodthirsty Tank monsters, and a number of single‑horned wild boar monsters surrounded them; each of these beasts' scale armor shone brighter and seemed more exquisite than that of ordinary monsters.

The monster horde numbered over a hundred, and at the very least they were of Primary Beast General Rank.

A vague illusion appeared before the two Fire Scale Trident Pigs, coalescing into a human silhouette about 1.8 meters tall.

Behind, a multitude of monster corpses fell from the sky, accompanied by a booming sonic boom.

A swarm of monsters lunged at him.

"Boom!" "Boom!" The two Primary Lord Level Fire Scale Trident Pigs also sprinted at sonic speed toward Xiao Yu.

Xiao Yu moved like lightning; each flicker of motion carried a rhythm of thunder and lightning, appearing supremely swift.

Xiao Yu's footwork has begun to reach the Realm‑Level, forged from his Flowing Light footwork by observing thunderstorm lightning.

Although the Fire Scale Trident Pigs' attack speed was astonishingly fast, each strike produced a shocking blast of air, yet they could not harm Xiao Yu at all; however, the scale armor on the neck of the Fire Scale Trident Pigs cracked into five pieces, and their forelimbs each bore two wounds.

Nearly twenty of the besieging Beast Generals were slain.

"Howl~~"

Accompanied by a thunderous roar, over thirty Beast General‑rank monsters led a tide of thousands of monsters that surged forward like a blanket, causing the ground to tremble for a moment.

Even with so many monsters joining, they still could not harm Xiao Yu.

Having reached the War‑God tier, Xiao Yu's footwork, now crossing the threshold of Realm‑Level, could be fully unleashed.

Half an hour later, the two Primary Lord Level Fire Scale Trident Pigs were riddled with wounds; one's left eye bled profusely, the other's two fore‑leg joints were severely damaged, making movement difficult and stripping them of speed, like lambs awaiting slaughter.

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