My Special Ability Is Perfect Replication

by Stayrr

After transmigrating to this world where spiritual energy is revived, I realized that it’s a world rampaged by Direbeasts. But what is most exciting is that humans with special abilities do exist! It’s awesome to witness control of thunder and fire, titan’s transformation, limb regeneration, teleportation, telepathy, precognition and many more. And guess what? I have them all.

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Chapter 81: Five-Element Manipulation, Five-Element Annihilation

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Those trainees almost broke down upon hearing that they had to hunt Direbeasts and give what they hunted to the training camp for free.

Not only that, they must not hide their harvest because it was going to affect their results.

Poor result meant poor ranking.

Poor ranking meant poor benefit.

Poor benefit meant poor self-cultivation.

It was a vicious cycle!

What vexed them even more was that those vitality-enhancement fluid and Gene Arcana-enhancement fluid given to the outstanding trainees were bought using the money from the Direbeasts that they hunted.

How sad!

It would be nice if they could make it to the top 30 and enjoy the vitality-enhancement fluid and the Gene Arcana-enhancement fluid. If not, they were going to get the short end of the stick—big time.

But this was nothing compared to what came next!

"To prevent some trainees from dawdling around, we have this rule: those who occupy the last three places for three consecutive weeks would be kicked out of the Super Training Camp."

The camp commandant said coldly. "So never think of dillydallying because it is not possible!"

Everyone was shocked. They could be kicked out of the Super Training Camp? This was something they did not know before.

"Of course, those who occupy the top spots consecutively will receive handsome rewards. But I am not going to tell you what the rewards are. You all can read it in the training camp manual.

"All right. I have said what I need to say. Let me remind you one last time, the leaderboard will be updated weekly!"

The camp commandant gave everyone a once-over. "It is Thursday today. As per the rule, you all have got to go into the wilderness to hunt Direbeasts."

"Today?"

"We have just arrived!"

"Did I hear that correctly?"

The trainees were grumbling. They had just arrived at the Super Training Camp and not gotten any training. Yet they were asked go hunting for Direbeasts?

That was so depressing.

"Because this is the first hunt, the training camp strictly requires you all to form teams. The Direbeasts in the Australian continent aren't something you have ever imagined.

"There are various tools, dimensional pockets, transports, cold weapons, Direbeast radar in the training camp. You can rent whatever you want. You heard it correctly—for rent! They are nice to use, but once broken, considered sold.

"One last reminder, the Australian Direbeasts differ from the Direbeasts in other places. They are not only vicious but also horrifying in terms of strength. So don't simply go to the high-risk zone. Otherwise, you all will die for nothing. Now, dismiss!"

As the camp commandant finished and left, Jing Biao and other mentors also followed suit, leaving behind Ling Jiu and the rest of the 200 trainees looking at each other.

"It has started just like this!"

Shi Gang sighed, then looked at Ling Jiu with an expectant look. "Should you and I form a team?"

"Form a team?"

Ling Jiu frowned. In all fairness, he did not feel like wanting to form a team. He knew very well of his ability; forming a team would only bring down his score.

Not that he had any choice; it was the training camp's rule.

Just then, Ai Yuhe and Yang Ling-er came up to him. Ling Jiu had already read their minds. "You two want to form a team with me, too?"

"Yea."

The two girls nodded. Being fresh off the boat in unfamiliar territory, the best thing to do was to choose someone they knew.

Ling Jiu nodded his agreement. "Since the rule says we have got to form a team, then let the four of us form a team."

Forming a team with someone else might bog down him. However, Ai Yuhe was an exception; her arcana was impossibly powerful.

He was not so sure about Yang Ling-er, though. Since she could get a place, just like Ai Yuhe did, she probably was no slouch either.

"Let's rent some tools."

"All right."

The four of them came to the armory, rented ten top-tier dimensional pockets, and left the fortress. They all had their own maglev airship. So it did not matter whose maglev airship they used.

Stealth mode was activated as the airship lifted off. The four of them sat in the living quarter staring at the Direbeast radar screen.

"The radar shows that there are many Direbeasts in the northeast."

The one who spoke was Shi Gang. "For safety's sake, we had better start with Class-Four Direbeasts."

"Class Four is too lame. It is pointless."

Ling Jiu tapped on the Direbeast radar screen, filtering out the other classes and leaving only Class-5 Direbeasts on the radar screen.

"Shall we start with Class-Five?"

Shi Gang's expression changed subtly. "We all are just Level-Four arcanists. Would it be too reckless for us to take on Class-Five Direbeasts?"

"Not at all."

Ling Jiu let out a smile. "I think we need to get to know each other's arcana and strength before we start hunting. Only then we could work together seamlessly."

The three nodded in agreement with Ling Jiu.

"I am capable of earth and gravity manipulations." Ling Jiu took the lead. "I can hunt Class-Five Direbeasts alone."

Ai Yuhe and Yang Ling-er curled their lips petulantly. "Who are you bluffing? Who doesn't know that you have triple arcana?"

"I will tell you all about my other arcana when the time is ripe. But now," Ling Jiu paused, then continued, "it is a secret."

"Whatever."

Ai Yuhe rolled her eyes, sneering at Ling Jiu's action of hiding his ability.

"I have Dimensional Arcana, the ability to manipulate dimensions, using dimensions to suppress and hem Class-Five Direbeasts. Besides, I can hem a Class-Six Direbeast for over ten seconds."

"Dimensional Arcana?"

Shi Gang was astonished. "You are capable of the legendary Dimensional Arcana? That's awesome! It is one of the most powerful arcana!"

"It is all right."

Ai Yuhe let out a smile. "Ling-er's arcana are the most incredible. She could manipulate and annihilate the five elements!"

"Manipulate the five elements?"

"Annihilate the five elements?"

Ling Jiu was as stunned as Shi Gang was.

Ai Yuhe continued. "Ling-er could manipulate the five elements—metal, wood, water, fire, and earth—at the same time. That means everything that comprises these five elements is under her control!

"The same goes with Five-Element Annihilation. She could annihilate everything that is made up of the five elements—metal, wood, water, fire, and earth."

"D*mn!" Shi Gang exclaimed.

Ling Jiu was wide-eyed. Earlier, he had guessed that Yang Ling-er's ability was good, but he did not expect it to be this shocking.

Five-Element Manipulation—just this one arcana alone equated the five arcana of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth manipulations.

Manipulating metal, wood, water, fire, and earth at the same time; that had almost covered all elements in the world. After all, most things were made of these elements.

Let alone Five-Element Annihilation, which was even more terrifying.

"I can't believe that there is such an arcana in this world!"

There was a light in Shi Gang's eyes. "It is my honor to have such a teammate among us. We are going to make some really big kills!"

Yang Ling-er let out a timid smile.

"What is your arcana?" Ling Jiu looked at Shi Gang.

"My eyes!"

Shi Gang took off his sunglasses, revealing his eyes.

Ling Jiu's jaw dropped to the floor while Ai Yuhe and Yang Ling-er covered their mouths with their hands in astonishment.

They were blood-red.

Shi Gang's eyes were blood-red, like a pair of rubies with pupils in the shape of black flame.

There was only one way to describe his eyes: they were Sharingans where the Magatama Pupils were replaced by the black flames.

"My eyes are something special."

Shi Gang explained. "By focusing my vision upon an object, the black flame will be ignited. This black flame is extremely destructive, burning through virtually everything."

Ling Jiu's jaw dropped to the floor again.

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Chapter 82: Flying Demonwolves, Killing in Silence

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

In this world, there were many types of Ocular Arcana: Laser Vision, Telescopic Vision, X-ray Vision and so on.

There was a variety of them, more than what people could think of.

But Shi Gang's Ocular Arcana were still a shocker to Ling Jiu. Shi Gang could release a black flame wherever he focused on. Was this not Amaterasu—Shines from Heaven?

"Watch out, guys! There is a Class-Five Direbeast up ahead!" While Ling Jiu was still in shock, Shi Gang, who was staring at the Direbeast radar screen, suddenly called out.

Ling Jiu took a look and saw a Direbeast eating something on the ground. This Direbeast's body was over ten meters long, covered in quills,. It looked neither like a wild boar nor a rodent.

It was a Class-5 Direbeast: Steelquill Porcupine.

It was feasting on an over-five-meter-long silver kangaroo, which was still alive, screaming in pain as the Steelquill Porcupine gnawed its body.

This was an ordinary sight to the four of them. Nature was a cruel place, where animals eating their prey alive was not uncommon. It was nothing to be surprised about.

The only thing they could do was to kill this Steelquill Porcupine and gave the kangaroo a quick one.

"Who is first?"

The four of them looked at each other.

"Follow what we have agreed before; we will take turns with Class-Five Direbeasts and join hands when it is a Class-Six. So leave this one to me!"

Ling Jiu lunged out of the airship.

The Steelquill Porcupine suddenly turned around, staring dead at Ling Jiu with its menacing eyes. Its quills stood on ends as it growled.

"The Beckoning!"

Ling Jiu grabbed with his hand in the air.

Since he could use gravity to bounce off objects, he could also use it to pull objects toward him. The only difference was the directions of the gravity force.

Changing the gravity force's direction was a piece of cake for Ling Jiu.

Boom!

The Steelquill Porcupine floated into the air involuntarily. This freaked it out. The steel quills were shot out from its body toward Ling Jiu.

"Rock Giant!"

Ling Jiu had turned into an osmium giant in the matter of a breath.

The densely packed steel quills hit Ling Jiu with loud muffled sounds. But they did no actual harm to him.

"Eightfold Rolling Thunder!"

Ling Jiu clenched his right fist and struck out a punch in a flash. The blow penetrated the Steelquill Porcupine's skull and killed it instantly.

The Steelquill Porcupine dropped to the ground and became breathless after struggling for a few times. Ling Jiu kept the body and returned to his normal form before coming back to the three of them.

"You are damn awesome, Ling Jiu!"

Shi Gang's eyes flashed with light. "You just killed a Class-Five Steelquill Porcupine with a punch. That's brutal!"

"It is all right."

"Let's move on."

After about ten minutes, they met a second Direbeast. It was a giant snake of over 30-meter-long. Its body was as large as a water tank.

The reddish-brown snake, with its pair of eyes, stared at the four of them.

"Class-Five Australian Taipan Snake!" Ai Yuhe whispered. "Who is next?"

"Let me try. Cover me!" Shi Gang was eager to try.

"Be careful!"

"No worries!"

Shi Gang took a deep breath, took off his sunglasses, and stared.

The next moment, a black flame violently burned on the Australian Taipan's head.

The Direbeast shrieked in pain, wriggling and twitching as it rolled on the ground, flicking its tail around.

As the tail whacked the rocks, the rocks shattered, and as the tail hit the bushes, the bushes broke in half. The Australian Taipan Snake was in great pain.

Sadly, the harder it struggled, the more intense the black flame burned. The Australian Taipan Snake's head was burnt into ashes in just a few moments.

As the black flame continued to spread to Direbeast's body, Shi Gang glared again and the black flame magically disappeared.

The headless Australian Taipan Snake was still wriggling on the ground. But everyone knew that without the head, death was the only outcome. Its fate was irreversible.

"That's a badass flame!"

"Terrific!"

Ling Jiu and others were stunned, wondering if they were to encounter this flame of Shi Gang, how they could deal with it.

"It's done!"

Shi Gang kept the Australian Taipan Snake's body and walked up to the other three with a smile.

"Didn't you just kill a Class-Five Direbeast? Why did you look so scared of them just now?" Ling Jiu teased.

"My flame can indeed kill Class-Five Direbeasts. But it needs time to do that, during which the Direbeast could find enough time to attack me. I can't deal with a frenzied Class-Five Direbeast."

"You have a point."

The four of them moved on. Half an hour later, they came across a group of about 50 Class-5 Direbeasts, the Australian Flying Demonwolves.

They were about 15 meters long, saffron. The most bizarre thing was, they all grew a pair of yellowish wings on both sides of their ribs. The wings could spread as wide as 20 meters.

The Australian Flying Demonwolve was a rare wolf-type of Direbeast that could fly.

"Shall we join hands this time?" Ling Jiu said with a smile.

"Sure!"

There was no objection from the other three. There were enough Flying Demonwolves to go around for them.

Ling Jiu led the way and lunged out, using his Eightfold Gravity to immobilize 12 of the Flying Demonwolves.

"Eightfold Rolling Thunder!"

Ling Jiu leaped forward, his body fading into a bolt of lightning as he shuffled among the 12 Flying Demonwolves, killing them with 12 punches.

He kept the bodies of the 12 Flying Demonwolves. As he looked over at the rest of the Demonwolves, he saw black flames were burning on 12 of them. Apparently, that was the work of Shi Gang again.

Meanwhile, the rest of the Flying Demonwolves were immobilized on the spot as Ai Yuhe performed a Dimensional Arcana.

Next, it was Yang Ling-er's turn. At first, it seemed like she did not make any move. But somehow immediately a Flying Demonwolf, followed by the rest, suddenly dropped dead to the ground.

"Killing over twenty Flying Demonwolves in silence; what Yang Ling-er has done?" Ling Jiu got chills.

Killing in silence; this was an extremely terrifying ability that was impossible to defend against.

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Chapter 83: Compound-Eyed Wombat, Arcana Replication

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

They moved on.

"Don't you think it is overly powerful with the four of us as a team?"

Shi Gang looked relaxed. "We have easily killed those Class-Five Direbeasts. So much for the Australian continent."

"Don't let your guard down."

Ai Yuhe warned. "As Camp Commandant has said, many Australian Direbeasts are stronger than we think. We could die if we are not careful. Never underestimate your opponent!"

"The casualty rate of previous years' Super Training Camp was as high as fifty percent. If that figure is anything to go by, we will expect one hundred out of two hundred trainees in this batch to stay back in the Australian continent FOREVER." Yang Ling-er chimed in.

"A fifty percent casualty rate?"

Shi Gang felt a chill run up his spine. This casualty rate was just too high.

"You can never be too careful."

Ling Jiu pointed at the radar screen. "There are some Class-Five Direbeasts in the northwest and a Class-Six Direbeast in the southeast. Which one should we go after?"

"The score we could get for a Class-Six Direbeast equates to that of one hundred Class-Five Direbeasts. In terms of value, that Class-Six Direbeast is unbeatable. But I am afraid that we might punch above our weight," Ai Yuhe said.

"We stand a good chance of killing it with the four of us joining hands."

Ling Jiu was eager to try. "With my Gravity Arcana, Yuhe's dimensional arcana, Shi Gang's black flame, and Ling-er's Five-Element Annihilation, I think it is workable."

"So are we going after it?"

Shi Gang wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. It was crazy to hunt a Class-6 Direbeast. He had never done such a mad thing before.

"It is not like we have a choice now." Ling Jiu suddenly spoke. "Someone has gotten those Class-Five Direbeasts!"

The three of them looked at the radar screen. The amber light dots representing the Class-5 Direbeasts had disappeared, which meant someone else had killed them.

"There have been Class-Five Direbeasts being killed since the beginning. Other people are no slouch either." Ling Jiu sighed.

"Everybody is working hard!"

"Let's go after that Class-Six Direbeast before someone else gets it!"

"Very well!"

The four of them got onto the airship and flew toward the location of the Class-6 Direbeast. They came in front of a cliff a few minutes later.

There was a cave at the bottom of the cliff. Snore as loud as thunder was heard coming from the cave. Apparently, a Direbeast was sleeping soundly inside.

"The Direbeast's malevolence is scary!"

"I feel like I can't breathe; the air is so heavy."

"The aura emitted by this Direbeast is too intimidating! Can we really kill it?"

The four of them, who looked determined initially, got cold feet when arrived at the cave.

Despite sleeping deeply, the Direbeast still radiated nighmarish, deadly vibe inadvertently. It made them feel as if there was a huge rock pressing against their chests. They were losing courage.

"Fear not! With the four of us joining hands, we can surely kill it!" Ling Jiu whispered. "I will attack from the front to attract its attention while you all hide in the dark, waiting to strike at the right moment."

"Don't you think this is too dangerous?" Ai Yuhe frowned.

"Don't worry, I have a life-saving trick. Go, hide yourselves!"

Ling Jiu let out a smile as he walked over. As the other three concealed themselves, Ling Jiu strode to the cave opening and pressed with his might.

A loud rumble came as the mountain shook and huge rocks tumbled down. The snore inside the cave stopped, replaced by a series of angry roars.

Before long, a giant wombat, 15 meters tall and over 30 meters long, lunged out of the cave.

It was black, body round like a giant meatball. No one would doubt its strength when seeing its stout body.

The amazing thing about this wombat was that it had a pair of compound eyes, much like that of a fly, as if many screens were woven together.

"It is a Compound-Eyed Wombat! Not good!" Shi Gang's expression changed.

"This is a Compound-Eyed Wombat?"

Ai Yuhe exclaimed. "The legendary Direbeast that is capable of Arcana Replication?"

"Yep!"

Shi Gang looked grave. "It is the compound eyes that give it the Arcana Replication ability. so Compound-Eyed Wombat is much stronger than ordinary Class-Six Direbeasts."

"Arcana Replication?" Yang Ling-er muttered. "Should we run?"

"Kill!"

Ling Jiu and the Compound-Eye Wombat were already in a fight as soon as her voice trailed off. Ling Jiu had turned into a 30-meter-tall Osmium Giant. He was now as tall as ten-story building. At this moment, in front of him, the Compound-Eyed Wombat looked like a little brother.

Bang!

Ling Jiu smashed down with his fists as he performed Gravity Arcana, immobilizing the Compound-Eyed Wombat, slowing its movement.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

He kept smashing his fists on the Direbeast. But it was useless.

The fat on the Compound-Eyed Wombat's body shook and formed ripples of flesh, perfectly blocking Ling Jiu's punches. The Direbeast was unhurt.

However, Ling Jiu's attack had angered the Compound-Eyed Wombat. It stretched out its paws and caught the Osmium Giant, then came down to bite at the Osmium Giant's head.

"Now!"

The other three made their moves at once.

"Dimensional Shackle!"

"Burn it!"

Boom!

Ai Yuhe performed a Dimensional Shackle, immobilizing the Compound-Eyed Wombat on the spot. Following immediately, its head suddenly went up in black flames.

Shi Gang had also acted.

"Annihilation!"

As Yang Ling-er shouted in low-pitched voice, the bloody mouth of the Compound-Eyed Wombat suddenly disappeared into thin air.

That's right. Disappearing into thin air.

Without its mouth, the Compound-Eyed Wombat screamed in agony.

'She just annihilated the Direbeast's mouth? Yang Ling-er's arcana is terrifying indeed.'

As Ling Jiu exclaimed in his mind, he was performing another move. While the Compound-Eyed Wombat was being immobilized, he formed two gigantic hands and smashed at the Direbeast's head.

"Eightfold Rolling Thunder!"

Bang!

Scorched by the black flame, the scalp of the Compound-Eyed Wombat was gone. Even the thick layer of fat underneath the skin was burned, leaving the white skull exposed in the air. It was as horrible as it could get.

So, when Ling Jiu smashed down his fist, he instantly crushed the Compound-Eyed Wombat's skull, thrusting his fist into its brain.

Blood and brain were splattered everywhere.

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Chapter 84: Second Awakening, The Knocks on the Door at Night

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

"Phew!"

"I'm exhausted!"

Shi Gang slumped to the ground, wiping the cold sweat from his forehead. Ai Yuhe and Yang Ling-er also breathed a sigh of relief.

It had only been just a moment, but the battle was hair-raising. Lucky for them, they had been working well as a team. Otherwise, it would be hard to know what would have happened.

"We made it!"

Ling Jiu walked back up. "Give yourself a pat on the back; we have just killed a Class-Six Direbeast together."

"This is a notorious Compound-Eyed Wombat. What we achieved is truly commendable!"

Shi Gang chortled. "Luckily that Yuhe had used her Dimensional Shackle to stop it from using its Arcana Replication in time. If not, we would have been done for."

"Compound-Eyed Wombat? The Arcana Replication?" Ling Jiu was startled.

"You don't know what it is, Ling Jiu?"

Shi Gang pointed at the body of the Direbeast. "This is a notorious Compound-Eyed Wombat that could replicate the abilities of other Direbeasts for its own use!

"So it was far stronger than the ordinary Class-Six Direbeasts. Had it not been for Yuhe's Dimensional Shackle, we would have been in great danger."

"It was a team effort!"

Ai Yuhe reached to draw her hair to the back of her ear. "The eyes of the Compound-Eyed Wombat are the most valuable part of its body. If we could gouge them out, we could sell them for a good price."

"Yep. They are the key ingredient for Second Awakening potion. Once the potion is consumed by those arcanists with replication ability, their Arcana Replication will undergo Second Awakening." Shi Gang nodded in agreement.

"Second Awakening?" Ling Jiu was none the wiser.

"Don't you know the Second Awakening?" Ai Yuhe looked at Ling Jiu in surprise.

"I have never heard of it before." Ling Jiu shook his head.

"I can't believe it."

At first, Ai Yuhe had wanted to take a jab at Ling Jiu. But when she thought of Ling Jiu's background, she realized she could not blame him.

"In fact, our arcana could undergo a Deep Awakening, which is the so-called Second Awakening, or even Third Awakening."

"Deep Awakening?" Ling Jiu's heart skipped a beat.

"The awakening we underwent during first test of arcana is called the Initial Awakening. The next awakening is called the Second Awakening."

Ai Yuhe explained. "The Second Awakening is far harder than the Initial Awakening. But after the Second Awakening, our arcana will grow stronger, just like my Dimensional Arcana."

"I could only perform some simple manipulations of dimensions after my Initial Awakening so I hunted the Void Falcons and collected their bladders just to find someone to make a Second Awakening potion for my Dimensional Arcana.

"And I succeeded.

"After my Second Awakening, my Dimensional Arcana has become more powerful. So Ling Jiu, you have done me a big favor when you helped me hunt those Void Falcons last time."

"It's okay." Ling Jiu's eyes flashed. "How to make the Second Awakening potion?"

"Different types of arcana need different types of Second Awakening potion. Take me for an example; for my Dimensional Arcana, the key ingredient is the air bladder of the Void Falcon," Ai Yuhe explained. "You are of Earth-, Gravity-, and Power-type arcana. You need to find the organs of the Direbeasts with these abilities.

"Once you have found these things, hand them to the company, and the company will do the rest.

"Of course, you can always get it from the black market. Just that it will cost an arm and a leg. Besides, there is no guarantee that the resulting potion will be reliable."

"I see."

There was a light in Ling Jiu's eyes as he glanced at the Compound-Eyed Wombat.

Shi Gang had just said that the eyes of the Compound-Eyed Wombat were the key ingredient in making the Second Awakening potion for the replication ability. Did that mean Ling Jiu just needed to gouge out its eyes, and he would be well on the way to making the Second Awakening potion?

'Hold on a second! The Arcana Replication?'

"Did you just mention the Arcana Replication, Shi Gang?" Ling Jiu put up a confused expression. "Is there really an Arcana Replication in this world?"

"The Arcana Replication used to be a hypothesis and assumption. But it has become real this year." Shi Gang nodded. "There have been a few people reportedly awakened to Arcana Replication this year. Don't you feel strange?"

"I have heard about it, too."

Ai Yuhe nodded in agreement. "Just that the Arcana Replication of these people are imperfect, with a lot of limitations."

"The effect of some Arcana Replication would not last long. The replication ability would disappear after some time. Some Arcana Replication would stop working after one or two arcana were replicated…

"All in all, the effectiveness of the Arcana Replication leaves much to be desired. It is far from God's perfect replication ability that people have always been thinking."

"Indeed. But even then, the Arcana Replication arcanists are still sought after. I heard that many arcana combines were fighting for these talents." Shi Gang nodded, then suddenly took a jab at Ling Jiu. "There is a ton of information in the forums and arcanist groups. Don't you browse these forums?"

"I am afraid that he is too busy with practicing self-cultivation and has no time for this." Ai Yuhe smirked.

"You know me best!" Ling Jiu scratched his head, looking embarrassed with a polite smile on his face. But deep down, there was a stormy sea of emotions.

He was not the only person capable of Arcana Replication. Some other people have been awakened to this ability. Besides, it all happened this year, which was something strange.

The key thing was, these awakened Arcana Replication arcanists were sought after. Did that mean he could now reveal his replication ability?

He figured he needed to find out people's attitude toward Arcana Replication. If Arcana Replication was no longer a secret, then there was no point for him to hide it anymore.

Of course, this was not the point. The key thing was the Second Awakening.

'If my Arcana Replication could undergo a Second Awakening, will I become stronger just like what Ai Yuhe said? Stronger in what respect?'

"Let's move on and hunt the Direbeasts."

While Ling Jiu was still deep in thought, a pat on his shoulder by Shi Gang jolted him out of his little world. He quickly nodded.

…

As all the trainees swung into actions, the number of Class-4 and Class-5, even Class-6 Direbeasts around the fortress quickly dwindled

Within a day, those Direbeasts within 50 miles radius had been wiped out completely. This made hunting the Direbeasts even more difficult unless they looked deeper into the wilderness.

On Friday morning, Ling Jiu and three others continued their hunting. They now aimed at Class-6 Direbeasts because of the lack of Class-5 Direbeasts.

With Ling Jiu as the tank, Shi Gang as the mage, Ai Yuhe as support, and Yang Ling-er as the assassin, their tacit cooperation became the most lethal weapon. By the end of the day, they had hunted 80 Class-6 Direbeasts, which they were extremely happy about.

"A Class-Six Direbeast earns 10,000 scores. We have hunted one hundred and sixty of them these two days, which means we have one point six million scores in total. Each person gets four hundred thousand scores!"

Inside the maglev airship, the four of them chatted away over dinner, and Shi Gang was especially excited. "Making it to top thirty shouldn't be a problem, I guess?"

"Who knows?" Ling Jiu said. "We will go into the deeper part of the wilderness tomorrow and hunt as many Class-Six Direbeasts as possible. The more, the merrier!"

"Wish us the best of luck!"

A smile broke out on Ai Yuhe and Yang Ling-er's faces. They were happy about today's achievement, too.

Suddenly, there were loud knocks on the door. "Open the door! Courier service! Quickly open the door!"

"Someone has come!"

"The last I checked; the airship was in stealth mode. How did people find us?"

"The stealth mode can only hide us from the Direbeasts, but not the instrument on other trainees' hands. Yuhe, open the door and see what they want from us."

"Okay."

Chapter 85: Four Robbers, Flying Hippos

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As Ai Yuhe opened the door, a few men stormed in.

These four teenagers had dreadlocks, tattoos, roguish like hooligans.

They gave Ling Jiu and others a once-over. "Leave behind your dimensional pockets and get the hell out of here!"

Bamboozled, Ling Jiu let out a smirk. He knew these people were up to no good when they had knocked on the door earlier.

They were robbers—four of them.

They wanted to take both their dimensional pockets and the airship.

Just how greedy were these robbers?

Also, they leered at the two girls. If not for the rules of the Super Training Camp, they would have probably done the worst thing to Ai Yuhe and Yang Ling-er.

These four greedy lechers!

"Are you all deaf?"

Seeing that the Ling Jiu and others did not respond, the one robber with a chunky build clenched his fists with his knuckles cracking loudly as he glared at them.

"Let me say it again: handover your dimensional pockets. You don't want me to hurt you all, don't you?"

"Hurt us? How?" Ling Jiu sneered.

"You ask for it, kid!"

The chunky guy glared at Ling Jiu like a pissed bull. "You have one last chance: handover your dimensional pockets and get the hell out of here!"

Ling Jiu had nothing more to say. What more needed to be said when dealing with such people? "Shinratensei!"

Boom!

The chunky guy was caught off-guard and flung out of the airship before crash-landing a far distance away.

"Ambrose!"

The remaining three teen robbers saw what happened and their expression changed subtly. Just then, an even more powerful force hit them, sending them flying out of the airship.

"Give me a moment while I 'talk' to the four 'courier guys'."

Ling Jiu strode out of the airship. It was pitch-dark outside. The stars in the night sky were the only only light source.

"F*ck!"

"D*mn it!"

The four guys clambered to their feet, their eyes burning with fury. "You have infuriated us, kid!"

"Really? So what?" Ling Jiu said, flicking his fingers.

"What an arrogant lad!"

"I will smash your mouth!"

"Leave him to me! He is mine!" Ambrose roared and his body rapidly swelled like a hot-air balloon.

His head flattened with a pair of fangs exposed in his mouth. A pair of black feathered wings, much like that of an eagle, grew on his back to a series of strange sound.

Ambrose had turned into a huge, fanged, black-winged monster in the matter of a few breaths.

The only way to describe him was that he was a hybrid of hippo, eagle, and human: the body of a hippo, the wings of an eagle, and the head of a human.

In fact, he was none of the above.

"It is a Body Morphing Arcana: Flying Hippo Form!" Shi Gang warned. "Be careful, Ling Jiu. You don't want to underestimate him!"

"Don't worry!" Ling Jiu let out a nonchalant smile.

The Flying Hippo was a powerful Class-6 Direbeast. Not only did it have a terrifying strength, it also possessed the ability of flight and defense. In other words, this Direbeast had four skills—it could defend attacks, gathered strength, unleash attacks while flying in the air.

The most terrifying thing was, the Flying Hippos existed in large numbers. They were scattered on the grassland of Africa, known as the most formidable Direbeasts.

A Class-6 Direbeast was frightening enough, let alone they existed in groups. They were much scarier than the ordinary Class-6 Direbeasts.

"On your knees, kid!"

Ambrose, who was now a monster, flapped his wings and lifted off into the air before swooping down at Ling Jiu with a punch.

"I can beat you with just the lift of my hand!" Ling Jiu shook his head, raising his right hand as Ambrose approached.

"Shinratensei!"

Bang!

A terrifyingly repulsive force hit Ambrose, sending him flying backward again.

"Do you think this is over? The Beckoning!" Ling Jiu shouted.

Bang!

Not long after, Ambrose was being pull back again. Ling Jiu's hand was then up in the air. He got hold of a two-meter-tall rock and smashed it at Ambrose.

Bang!

The rock was shattered at once as it hit Ambrose. What followed next was a scream in agony and a series of clear bone breaking sound from his body. Apparently, his bones were broken.

"You are weak!"

With a flick of his hand, Ling Jiu flung Ambrose again. The chunky man groaned in pain as he crash-landed on the ground.

"Ambrose!"

The other three saw what happened and their facial expression changed. "Are you all right?"

"M—my ribs are broken!" Ambrose wailed in pain.

"You are too ruthless, kid!" Another teen robber, short, glared at Ling Jiu. "I thought we all trainees are in the same boat. Do you have to do this?"

"In the same boat?"

Ling Jiu sneered. "Now you are telling me we are in the same boat? Why didn't you say so when you all first came in?"

The short guy's expression froze.

"Besides, I have gone easy on him. Just that he is too fragile!" Ling Jiu shook his head. "I wonder how he got selected into the Super Training Camp with such a level of ability. Did he get through backdoor or something?"

"You—"

The three guys were furious.

"What you? Now, I am giving you three a chance: hand over your dimensional pockets and get the hell out of my sight. Or else, you three will end up just like him!"

Ling Jiu pointed at Ambrose who was groaning in pain on the ground.

"Give you our dimensional pockets? Perish the thought!"

"Let's take him on!"

"Go to hell!"

A fierce battle broke out instantly. But it ended just quickly.

Ling Jiu stood on the spot as if nothing had ever happened, while the three teen robbers had tumbled backward, crying in pain. Together with Ambrose, their groan sounded like a wonderful cadence in this vast wilderness.

"How dare you four become robbers with only this level of strength? I wonder where did you get your courage from!"

Ling Jiu took their dimensional pockets away from them, then returned to the maglev airship, leaving the four guys to themselves.

Whether they could survive the night, or get eaten by the Direbeasts—it had got nothing to do with him.

As long as the fighting between trainees did not happen within the fortress, the Super Training Camp was not going to intervene. After all, the Super Training Camp had never prohibited internecine rivalries.

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Chapter 86: Leaderboard Update, Angelization Arcana

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"These four guys are too weak, even weaker than Ai Shangcheng and Chu Ding. I wonder how they made it here."

"The Super Training Camp might aim to select the elites from around the world, but it also tries to be fair by giving out quotas. So it got a mixed bag of good and not-so-good trainees.

"Indeed. The competition in the developed world is intense, and so those who are selected are strong. But in those poorer areas, arcanists are fewer, and so the level of strength of the trainees from these places are lower."

"Indeed."

The four of them chatted away over dinner. After that, they returned to their respective rooms and practiced self-cultivation.

The next morning, the hunt continued. The day passed uneventfully. At 18:00 hours, the six of them returned to the training camp on time and handed over their harvest.

The only thing left to do was to wait for the rankings to be announced tomorrow.

…

On Sunday afternoon, while Ling Jiu was still practicing self-cultivation, Shi Gang went to jolt him up. "The results are about to come out, Ling Jiu. Let's check them out together!"

"What time is it now?" Ling Jiu asked.

"Five fifty. It is nearly six!"

Shi Gang looked anxious. "As per the rule, the leaderboard will be updated at six in the evening. Everybody has gone down there. We had better hurry!"

"All right!"

When the two came to the center of the square, they found that almost everyone had been here. Ai Yuhe was pushing Yang Ling-er in a wheelchair, coming in their direction.

Ling Jiu said his hello's to the two and shifted his attention to the giant screen that was still blank until the clock hit 18:00 hours.

"What do you think, Ling Jiu? What results will we get?" Shi Gang was becoming even more anxious.

"Who knows?" Ling Jiu shrugged. "But it shouldn't be too bad."

"It's up!"

"The leaderboard is up!"

Someone shouted, instantly attracting everyone's attention. Ling Jiu looked up. Indeed, names had appeared on the screen.

'My ranking shouldn't be too bad!'

While thinking so, Ling Jiu scanned the leaderboard for his name.

No. 1: Zhou Ji, 1,500,000

'It is not me at the top spot!'

Ling Jiu's heart sank.

No. 2: Christopher Adam, 1,390,000

'I am not in the second place too!'

No. 3: Hirano Hatake, 1,330,000

'Third place, not me!'

Ling Jiu clenched his fists. Just then, he heard Shi Gang called out. "You are on the ninth, Ling Jiu. Ninth place!"

"Ninth?"

Ling Jiu's eyes skipped the rest and shifted to the ninth place down the list. He saw his name.

No. 9: Ling Jiu, 615,000

"Only ninth?"

Ling Jiu's heart sank to the bottom. This ranking was by no means low, but it did not meet his expectation.

In his mind, he wanted all the advanced vitality-enhancement fluid, advanced Gene Arcana-enhancement fluid, and the Level One cultivation room at Twelve Underground Chambers.

It was because only by enjoying the best benefits could he advance rapidly.

'Ninth place?

'Screw it!

'Intermediate vitality-enhancement fluid.

'Intermediate Gene Arcana-enhancement fluid.

'Level Three of the Twelve Underground Chambers.'

Ling Jiu felt a little depressed. It was his first time tasting failure.

He thought with his Arcana Replication and five types of replicated arcana, he would be one of the strongest trainees in the Super Training Camp. Hence, making it up to Top Three shouldn't have been a problem.

But the result was a slap in his face. He did not even make it to Top Five, let alone Top Three. He barely squeezed through the Top Ten threshold.

'Not only that, the gap between my result and the top three trainees' is pretty huge. One-and-a-half-million, one-hundred-and-thirty-nine thousand, one hundred and thirty-three thousand, while mine is only sixty-one thousand five hundred—not even close!'

'The gap is just…'

Ling Jiu suddenly realized that he had been underestimating others, and finally, the words of Jing Biao came to mind: the Super Training Camp is filled with crouching tigers and hidden dragons.

At first, Ling Jiu did not take that seriously. But now he was witnessing it. Every peak sat under the shadow of another, so every man might meet one stronger than himself. He now realized he had to work harder.

In contrast, Shi Gang was euphoric. "I have got the twelfth place! Ling Jiu, I have got the twelfth place! Did you see that? I am twelfth!"

"Good for you!"

Ling Jiu forced a smile, then checked out the names down the leaderboard.

No. 10: Ai Yuhe, 608,000

No. 11: Yang Ling-er, 605,000

No. 12: Shi Gang, 601,000

Because the four of them were in a team, their scores were more or less the same.

Other than Shi Gang, who was very happy with his result, Ai Yuhe and Yang Ling-er were not so happy.

Ling Jiu did not get the result he wanted. But he was still at ninth place, which meant he could enter Level Three of the Twelve Underground Chambers and practiced self-cultivation there.

What about them?

Tenth and eleventh places.

Those were awkward results, meaning they could get one hour of self-cultivation practice on Level Four of the Twelve Underground Chambers.

Ling Jiu had three days for himself while they had only one hour.

The difference in benefits was a little huge. It was hard for top geniuses like them to accept.

"You three look not so happy."

Sensing their disappointment, Shi Gang stopped smiling. "Aren't you all happy with the results?"

"That's all right, just a little worse than expected. I am all right, since it is only the first round. We will work harder the next round."

At 23:50 hours, following the rule, Ling Jiu came to the Twelve Underground Chambers.

At this time, the door leading to the Twelve Underground Chambers had closed, and the remaining eight qualified trainees were all here.

There were three females and five males.

That would be three females and six males, including Ling Jiu. What surprised him was, other than himself, there were only two East Asians here.

In other words, there were only three East Asians among the qualified trainees.

'In front of me are the two East Asians, Zhou Ji who is in the top place, and Hirano Hatake in the third place.'

Ling Jiu could not help but look at the two East Asians. One was standing at 1.7 meters, unassuming and looking sturdy.

The other was tall, with piercing phoenix eyes and hooked nose, whom Ling Jiu felt was not as good as him.

'I wonder which one is Zhou Ji.'

While Ling Jiu mumbled to himself, that tall man walked over to him. "Hello, my name is Zhou Ji. Nice to meet you!"

He spoke Mandarin, typical Beijing accent as he self-introduced.

"Hi, my name is Ling Jiu!" Ling Jiu held out his hand.

"I am from Beijing Base City. What about you?" Zhou Ji appeared friendly.

"I am from Lantian Base City." Ling Jiu let out a smile. "Congratulations for getting the first place!"

"I got lucky this time. Probably it won't be this easy next time!" Zhou Ji waved, as if the first ranking did not concern him. "There are many talented monsters in the Super Training Camp this time. Because of the limited self-cultivation resources last time, they did not reach their real potential. Once they spent some time practicing self-cultivation here, defeating them is going to be hard."

"Monsters?" Ling Jiu cocked an eyebrow.

"The actual monsters!"

Zhou Ji looked at a handsome Caucasian guy. "Take that guy, Christopher Adam, for example. He's the Top 2 this week. Do you know what his arcana are?"

Ling Jiu shook his head. Other than Ai Yuhe and a few others he knew; he knew none of the rest.

"That guy is from Italy, recruited by Pangu's branch in Washington Base City. He is capable of Supersonic Shift Arcana and Angelization Arcana."

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Chapter 87: Mach-10 Speed, Physical Enhancement

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Supersonic Shift Arcana and Angelization Arcana

"The Supersonic Shift Arcana gives Christopher that terrifying speed!"

"At Level-One, his speed could reach Mach One; at Level-Two, Mach Four. He is now a Level-Five arcanist capable of a speed of Mach Ten," Zhou Ji said.

"Mach 10? How fast is that?"

Ling Jiu looked at that Caucasian guy with blond hair and blue eyes. "How could his body cope at that speed?"

As an object moved, it would encounter air resistance. The faster it moved, the higher the air resistance was.

Once an object traveled faster than the speed of sound, the air resistance would be enormous. When compounded with shock waves and other phenomena, a person's body could get ripped apart, or even disintegrate.

Taking a supersonic fighter jet as an example, before the fourth-generation fighter jets came into being, the third-generation fighter jets could not perform sustainable supersonic flight. If a third-generation jet traveled at supersonic speed over one or two minutes, it would probably disintegrate.

That would happen to a fighter jet made of alloy materials, let alone a body of flesh and blood.

Apparently, without a tough-enough body, nothing could sustain supersonic flight. Yet, Christopher could move at Mach 10.

How strong his body had to be to do that?

"This is his other arcana!" Zhou Ji said.

"Angelization Arcana?" Ling Jiu raised an eyebrow.

"Do you believe there are angels in this world, Ling Jiu?" Zhou Ji asked back instead of answering his question.

He was stunned by Zhou Ji's question and he did not know how to answer. In principle, he was an atheist, not believing in any form of gods.

The question here was: what else was impossible when even Transmigration was already a reality?

"No one really knows for sure if angels exist. But after activating Angelization, Christopher does look like an angel," Zhou Ji said in slow pace. "Standing at five meters tall with a pair of golden wings and a holy aura, he does really look like a legendary angel. People call this morphing ability of Christopher's Angelization Arcana. Many Christian Westerners even see Christopher as an angel incarnation. He has many followers there."

Ling Jiu had no word for it. "Is the Angelization Arcana powerful?"

"The Angelization Arcana has a single function, which is physical enhancement. But that is enough to make him sustain the supersonic speed. That's the incredible part of him," Zhou Ji said. "There is a saying that goes, 'nothing beats speed when it comes to martial arts.' When a person's speed reaches a certain threshold, that person would become incredibly powerful. So you can imagine how powerful Christopher is."

"He is incredible!"

Ling Jiu licked to moisten his dry lips. His heart fluttered; Supersonic Shift was really a damn good arcana.

He could not imagine how good it would be if he could replicate this arcana and use it in combination with his Tungsten Form.

Just then, the large alloy door leading to the Twelve Underground Chambers opened. Everyone looked over.

A hunky African stood at the doorway, looking at them. "Twelve midnight. The Twelve Underground Chambers is open!"

"First, second, and third place winners go to Level One."

"Fourth, fifth, and sixth place winners go to Level Two."

"Seventh, eighth, and ninth place winners go to Level Three."

"You all may stay in the cultivation chambers for the next three days. Your rewards of Vitality-enhancement fluid and Gene Arcana-enhancement fluid have been placed in your respective chambers. You all may consume them directly. All right, get in now!"

"Yes, sir!"

Passing the large alloy door, Ling Jiu came to Level 3. With him were a Caucasian girl and a guy with brown hair.

The three nodded at each other, then entered their respective cultivation chambers.

The chamber was about 20 meter square with a thick alloy wall on three sides and an opening on one side. There was no wall at the opening, not even a glass window.

Amazed by what he saw, Ling Jiu could not help but walk to the side with no wall and looked down.

He broke out in a cold sweat at seeing a large fissure below.

The fissure was winding, several hundred-meter-wide and over ten-kilometer-long. It was immensely deep as he could not see clearly the bottom.

There was a faint blue light shining out of the fissure, making it look like the mouth of a giant monster about to swallow him.

"So this is the dimensional fissure?"

Ling Jiu was wide-eyed. The dimensional fissure apparently laid beneath the earth. When it appeared, the earth had cracked open.

It was the earth's crack on the surface, and the dimensional fissure was at the bottom.

"Where does this fissure lead me to if I were to fall into it? An alien planet, or extraterrestrial region? Probably not. More like the fissure will rip me apart into million pieces."

Ling Jiu observed the fissure for a while before getting himself ready for practicing self-cultivation.

He first came in front of a rack and took up two test tubes.

One tube contained greenish fluid while the other silverish fluid.

"This greenish fluid must be the intermediate vitality-enhancement fluid, and the silverish one the intermediate vitality-enhancement fluid. Which one should I take first?"

He hesitated for a while before picking the greenish one and threw the content down his throat.

It tasted sourly sweet, much like plum soup. But the pleasant feeling did not last long. He was then hit by dry and hot, and tingling sensation.

He felt a stream of warm energy rise from his abdomen and spread to the rest of his organs and body—chest, arms, back, legs, neck, and head.

It felt as if he had gulped down an entire bottle of liquor. The burning sensation was mixed with unbearable itchiness.

Gradually, the itchiness was getting worse. He felt as if there were a million ants crawling all over his body. All he could do was to refrain from scratching and bear with it.

It was hot.

He felt his body boiling, as if he had a 45ºC hype fever.

It was itchy.

It was unbelievably itchy, so much so that it almost killed him.

"Who the hell invented this thing? This is so freaking weird!" Ling Jiu cursed quietly.

Unknowing to him, however, amid these dry and hot and itchy sensations, his body was transforming, or in another word, enhanced.

His skin and flesh, his tendons and bones, and his organs were rapidly toughening.

His muscles became stronger; his fascia was more powerful and flexible; his bones became tougher.

Everything happened so quickly at a thousand times faster than on normal days.

But as intense and rapid as the sensation was, it faded just as quick and completely disappeared after ten minutes.

"That's it?"

Ling Jiu took a couple of heavy breaths, then found that he had sweated like a pig with a layer of black stuff on his skin. He stank to high heaven.

"That's disgusting!"

Ling Jiu frowned, thinking of cleaning himself up. But he found that there was not even a bathroom in the cultivation chamber so he had no choice but to bear with it.

"Never mind. Practicing self-cultivation is more important."

After giving himself a pep talk, Ling Jiu picked up another test tube—the one that contained the Gene Arcana-enhancement fluid—and drank the entire content.

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Chapter 88: Level-5 Breakthrough, Liberating Combat Strength

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There was a burst of Gene Arcana spreading rapidly throughout his body.

Ling Jiu felt as if his body was going to explode so he quickly performed Sea of Hundred Rivers to regulate his billowing Gene Arcana.

He had lost track of time. By the time he kept them under control, he felt his internal strength had become much vigorous.

"If the intermediate Gene Arcana-enhancement fluid can produce such result, just how much greater the result of advanced Gene Arcana-enhancement fluid can be?"

Ling Jiu was unsatisfied. "Had I been able to get my hands on the advanced Gene Arcana-enhancement fluid, I would have achieved a Level-Five breakthrough."

"Forget it. I'd better make the best of the remaining time by practicing more!"

Ling Jiu shook the thought out from his mind, performed Sea of Hundred Rivers again to inhale the Gene Arcana in his surroundings.

As soon as he did that, he felt a rich Gene Arcana gathering from all directions and storming into his body.

"This… this Gene Arcana is incredibly concentrated!" Ling Jiu opened his eyes in amazement. "The concentration level is at least ten times that of the outside world. Damn! This place is heaven for practicing self-cultivation!"

Ling Jiu was shivering in excitement. He frenziedly captured the Gene Arcana in the surroundings to boost his internal strength.

Time had passed unknowingly. He felt the Gene Arcana in his body running wildly throughout his body, as if it had broken free from shackles.

They moved up to his brain and down to his feet. Every part of his body contained a rich amount of Gene Arcana, circulating throughout his body in an endless cycle.

At this moment, Ling Jiu felt a quality of lightness in him, as if he were a weightless feather that could flew into the sky with just the tap of his foot.

"My body feels so light…"

Ling Jiu mumbled. With just a slight support from the flowing osmium soil, he was able to float into the air, just like what Jin Chao, the general manager of Vulcan, did last time.

"Is this Royal Hover?"

Ling Jiu tried again and found that he could float into the air effortlessly by harnessing the osmium soil. However, it was hard for him to move in the air.

That was because he had only a vertical without lateral movement ability.

Apparently, with Earth Manipulation, he could only perform Rover Hover but not fly free like a bird.

"Let's try Gravity!"

Ling Jiu retrieved the osmium soil. With Gravity force as the support, he floated again. He adjusted the force behind him so now it turned horizontal and forward. He could move horizontally.

"I am flying!" Ling Jiu was excited.

When he first gained the Gravity Arcana, he already knew he could use it to fly. But he was too busy in his cultivation and had no time trying it out.

He did not expect he could succeed on his first try. It was surprisingly easy.

"But flying seems like an art. I could only fly at low speed. Wanting to use flying as a combat skill is impossible right now. It takes time."

Combat?

He certainly knew no way he could use flying in combat right now. With his current speed of flying and dodging, he looked like a big bull's-eye in the air.

That said, Ling Jiu's flying skill had in fact surpassed that of many Level-5 or even Level-6 arcanists.

Only Level-7 arcanists could perform an actual flight. But he had done it in Level-5.

"How much time left?"

He checked his mobile phone. It was 20:00 hours on Wednesday, four hours to go before the clock hit 00:00.

"Four more hours to go. I have got to make the best of it."

Four hours quickly passed and an ear-piercing sound of the bell rang throughout the cultivation chambers. "Self-cultivation practice session has ended. All trainees are required to leave the chambers immediately."

"D*mn it! This loud announcement in the middle of the night terrified the hell out of me!"

Ling Jiu dug into his ringing ears and quickly left the cultivation chamber.

…

Early next morning, Ling Jiu departed alone. Except for Shi Gang, Ai Yuhe and Yang Ling-er did not intend to form a team. This was in line with Ling Jiu's thinking because he did not want to form a team either.

After renting some tools, Ling Jiu drove his maglev airship and flew toward the wilderness as quickly as the airship could go.

This time, he did not hunt any Direbeasts along the way. Instead, he headed straight into the deeper part of the wilderness, arriving at the danger zone where powerful Direbeasts lay.

After becoming a Level-5 arcanist, Ling Jiu was more confident of his ability. He made Class-6 Direbeasts as his target and would go it alone.

As soon as he switched on the radar, he instantly saw the signals. There were thirty-over Class-6 Direbeasts within 10 kilometers radius. What did that mean for him?

It only took one or two Class-6 Direbeasts to break defense and unleash total destruction to a city of 5 million population like Lantian Base City.

Thinking back, a Bloodgorger Bat nearly brought down the defense of Lantian Base City last time. The destruction of these 30 or so Class-6 Direbeasts could bring would be unimaginable.

"I have two missions this time. One, find Compound-Eyed Wombats, harvest their eyes for making the Second Awakening potion. Two, hunt as many Class-Six Direbeasts as possible. Today's target: hunt eighty of them!"

Ling Jiu licked his lips. Since he was going solo this time, he wanted to liberate his combat strength to the max.

Next, he teleported himself to appear in front of a Class-6 Direbeast.

Before he got close, he could already hear a snoring noise that sounded like the rumble of thunder. And before the Direbeast knew it, he had come in front of it.

Ling Jiu's eyes brightened up when he saw this Direbeast. He knew he had got lucky this time because it was a Compound-Eyed Wombat he had been looking for.

"Eightfold Rolling Thunder!"

He performed a Tungsten Form and smashed the Direbeast's head with a punch. His combat strength had gained a tremendous breakthrough after he became a Level-5 arcanist.

The attack range of his Earth Manipulation Arcana had increased to 200 meters.

His Teleportation Arcana had increased in range to 200 meters.

The force of his Gravity Arcana had risen to ten times the normal gravity.

When he was in Tungsten Form, his strength was 200 times higher than normal.

What about Shadowform? Leave this to another time.

Bang!

The Tungsten Formed punch, carrying energy powerful enough to destroy everything, hit the Compound-Eyed Wombat on the head.

Blood and brain splattered at the sound of the cracking of the skull.

The Compound-Eyed Wombat's snoring stopped. While in its sleep and before it could perform its replicated arcana, Ling Jiu had crushed its skull.

Poor guy.

This showed how terrific, brutal, overwhelmingly powerful the combination of Teleportation and Tungsten Form was.

"What about Mach-10 speed?"

"My Teleportation is the quickest and most elusive in terms of speed!"

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Chapter 89: Uninvited Guest, The Celestial Magical Cat

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Roar!

A monster over 30-meter-long, with vicious eyes and spiky body, much like an alligator, was growling at Ling Jiu. Lying silently not far from this beast was the body of a python.

This was a Class-6 Direbeast, the Spiky Monitor Lizard.

Right now, this Spiky Monitor Lizard was really pissed. While it was about to enjoy the fruit of its labor after killing a giant python with hard effort, Ling Jiu came out of nowhere to ruin the feast.

It vowed it would teach Ling Jiu an unforgettable lesson, let him know that Sir. Spiky was not someone he could afford to mess with.

Roar!

The Spiky Monitor Lizard flicked its ten-meter-long tail to attack Ling Jiu.

Like its body, its tail was full of tough and sharp spikes, which, other than the teeth, were his strongest and most lethal weapon.

This tail could cut a heavy tank in half, let alone a person.

However, just as the Spiky Monitor Lizard struck its tail like a bolt of lightning at its target, Ling Jiu had already disappeared from the spot.

The next moment, he reappeared above the Spiky Monitor Lizard's head and struck down with an Eightfold Rolling Thunder.

Ling Jiu's fist carrying a powerful energy punched through the Spiky Monitor Lizard's skull until his entire arm entered inside the head.

The Direbeast froze. Its body twitched violently for a moment before it became motionless, dead.

"Five consecutive kills of Class-Six Direbeasts have proved that the combo of Teleportation and Tungsten Form is a killer move when it comes to Class-Six Direbeasts. I need to build on this momentum to hunt eighty Class-Six Direbeast today!"

A Class-6 Direbeast was worth 10,000 points; 80 of these Direbeasts would earn him 800,000 points.

If he could kill 80 of these Direbeasts a day, he would have 240 kills in three days.

That would mean 2.4 million points for him.

By the looks of things, getting the top spot on the leaderboard should not be a problem.

"But killing eighty Class-Six Direbeasts a day was a tall order."

Ling Jiu mumbled to himself. He kept the Spiky Monitor Lizard's body and moved on to find another Class-6 Direbeast.

He went from one Direbeast to the next.

Every one of them had died at Ling Jiu's iron fist. By going it alone, Ling Jiu had liberated his combat strength to the fullest extent.

Getting near to a Direbeast by teleportation;

Immobilizing it with the Gravity Arcana;

Killing it with the Tungsten Form.

Ling Jiu did not even need to use his Earth Manipulation arcana, much less the Shadowform.

This was not without reasons. In the race to harvest the Direbeasts, the Earth Manipulation arcana seemed to be a little inefficient—it was not fast and brutal enough.

"I need to get the personal details of the other trainees so I can select my next target to replicate arcana. The cooling-off period is about to expire!"

In Ling Jiu's original plan, his next target was Chang Jiandong's Hundredfold Gene Arcana. But it was impossible now, considering they were too far apart from each other.

He had no choice but to target the other trainees in the training camp.

…

It was nightfall. As darkness engulfed the Australian continent, the howls and growls of beasts rose in tandem. Many Direbeasts that slept during the day had come out to forage at night.

After an exhaustive day of hunting, Ling Jiu found a suitable place, released his maglev airship, and set it in stealth mode as he rested for the day inside it.

He lay in a bathtub then let out a comfort sigh as he had his muscles relaxed in warm water.

"What a day! I have killed seventy-two Class-Six Direbeasts, still falling short of the 80-Direbeast target. But, hey, it is not bad. At least it is more than last week's three days combined."

Ling Jiu was satisfied. He believed he could make it to Top Three this time.

He could not hold back his excitement at the thinking of the advanced vitality-enhancement fluid, advanced Gene Arcana-enhancement fluid, and the right to use the Level-1 chambers in the Twelve Underground Chambers.

Meow!

While Ling Jiu's mind was drifting away, the cry of a cat came to ear.

He was sure the airship had top-notch sound insulation. So where did this cat crying come from?

Ling Jiu looked up. Not far away from the bathtub, a black cat of about a-meter-long was squatting on the table.

It was purplish black; its eyes were like rubies; its coat was fluffy. It was definitely a cute-looking cat, which was a to-die-for pet for many young girls.

But Ling Jiu felt a chill run up his spine as he saw the big black cat. It might look adorable, but those who recognized it would have their hair standing on end.

"It is the Celestial Magical Cat, a Class-Eight Direbeast that is ranked seventy-second on the list of Direbeasts!"

Ling Jiu swallowed hard. His heart almost stopped pumping.

The Celestial Magical Cat was a horrible Class-8 Direbeast that had a unique ability—it could go through walls. And it was not limited to just brick walls. No obstacles like land, rock, metal, and tree could stop it. Celestial Magical Cat could pass through these obstacles as if they were not there. This was the creepiest Class-8 Direbeast.

Of course, some people thought that the ability of the Celestial Magical Cats belonged to dematerialization or dimensional arcana. That was the reason it could pass through obstacles.

In short, the Celestial Magical Cats were mysterious and powerful Direbeasts. People had little knowledge of them. It was only aware that they were Direbeasts that people should not mess with.

"D*mn it! How did this horrible thing appear in my airship?"

Ling Jiu cursed quietly. He was ready to perform a Teleportation to flee once there was the slightest movement that showed this Celestial Magical was going to attack.

But it surprised him when the cat walked to a pack of nutritional dried meat, picked it up with its mouth, and started eating. It had no intention of attacking him.

"This thing is after the food?"

Ling Jiu was dumbfounded.

The nutritional dried meat, issued by the training camp, was made from Direbeast meat with some other ingredients and nutrition.

It was not only nutritious but also rich in Gene Arcana. It was the main food source for every trainee entering the wilderness.

Before he came, he had spent over 10,000 dollars buying over 20 packs of this nutritional dried meat, which was very expensive.

Right now, this Celestial Magical Cat was eating a piece of this nutritional dried meat with gusto.

The cat's teeth were sharp, and the hard and supple dried meat looked like a crispy carrot in its mouth. It finished a piece of dried meat in the blink of an eye.

It then picked up another one and dug in. The cat did not take long to finish all the dried meat.

The Celestial Magical Cat tried to look for more but could not find it. Its ruby-like eyes then gazed at Ling Jiu with eagerness and anticipation.

"It is my freaking food, you know. You have freaking finished them all and left me with nothing!" Ling Jiu cursed quietly.

Meow!

The Celestial Magical Cat cried.

Ling Jiu froze before taking the hint and took out another pack of nutritional dried meat, tore open the wrapping, and handed it to the cat.

"Wildlife is human's best friend. It is everyone's duty to protect wildlife!" Ling Jiu acted tough, giving himself a pep talk. "That's it! I am protecting wildlife. I will not shirk my responsibility to protecting the ecosystem and the Earth!"

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Chapter 90: Crystal Salamander, The Netherbloom

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The Celestial Magical Cat ate the nutritional dried meat as if it was eating KitKat. It finished a second bag of the dried meat in no time, then looked at Ling Jiu with the same anticipatory expression like before.

How Ling Jiu wished he could shoot a glare at the cat and lecture, 'Greedy pussy, you finished all my food. Are you really going to leave me with nothing?'

But he dared not.

Facing a terrifying Direbeast that could take his life any minute, Ling Jiu was the pussy. But hey, how could he be called a pussy when what he did was to protect wildlife?

That's right. Protecting wildlife was the keyword.

Ling Jiu took out yet another bag of nutritional dried meat, ripped open the packaging, then, on his own initiative, handed over the food. The Celestial Magical Cat dug in after looking at him with what might look like a pleased smile.

One bag after another…

A few moments later, the Celestial Magical Cat had wolfed down seven to eight bags of nutritional dried meat and was finally satisfied. It stretched, then leaped across a dozen meters before landing on the bed not far away.

That was Ling Jiu's bed, with top-of-the-line, back-support silent springs, and the finest white swan velvet blanket. It was a joy to sleep in such a soft and cozy bed.

The Celestial Magical Cat helped itself to the bed. It found the most comfortable position before curling up its body and fell asleep.

Ling Jiu was struck dumb. 'What the hell does that mean? It really makes itself at home, eh? Darn-it!'

Ling Jiu was infuriated.

It ate his dried meat—that was okay. But now what? Taking over his bed?

This thing could not have been greedier. It had gone too far.

"But, it's okay. I am a hardcore wildlife protector! I let you!"

He carefully pulled himself out of the bathtub, dried the water from his body, then cautiously came to a corner of the wall and started practicing self-cultivation.

He made sure he was not too immersed himself in his own world, lest he would get killed by the Celestial Magical Cat.

It was a nerve-wracking night. Luckily, the Celestial Magical Cat did not attack. The night had passed with no incident. But early next morning, the cat asked for food again.

Ling Jiu had no choice but to give the cat a few more bags. After the cat had had its fill of dried meat, it stretched, then leaped into a wall and disappeared.

Ling Jiu quickly opened the door and saw the cat was already outside, walking away with elegant steps.

Its steps were small. But each step brought the cat over ten meters away, as if it could shrink the distance. Just like that, it quickly disappeared from his field of vision.

Watching the Celestial Magical Cat go away, Ling Jiu could not help but reach for his neck, happy that his head was still attached. The cat must have shown him mercy last night.

"I can't believe that I shared a room with a Class-Eight Direbeast last night!" Ling Jiu broke out in a cold sweat. "I had better go! Hope it won't come again!"

Ling Jiu put on his clothes and tucked away the maglev airship before leaving the place in a hurry.

…

Boom!

A 50-meter-long giant python dropped dead to the ground. The diameter of this Direbeast was the size of a water tank. It had a horn on the head, and four claws under the belly, and powerful muscles.

This was not a dragon but the infamous One-horned Monitor Python, a Class-6 Direbeast. It was a mix of python and lizard, possessing the special arcana of Ice Manipulation.

He kept the One-horned Monitor Python's body and moved on. Quickly, he arrived at a cave that looked more like an underground cavern.

It seemed like the flow of the river had carved the cavern. It was subterranean, twisty as it stretched to the deep part of the earth.

"Radar shows there was a Class-Six Direbeast in the deeper part of the cavern!"

Ling Jiu looked at the pitch-dark cavern and hesitated. But he still walked into it after a while. The good thing was, the passage was large enough. It did not take him too long before he came to the deeper part of the cavern.

Appearing before him was a pond. At half the size of a basketball court, the pond was giving out a chilly air.

"Radar shows that a Class-Six Direbeast is right here inside the pond."

"What is that?"

While Ling Jiu looked at the pond trying to search for the Direbeast, he noticed a few white plants growing on the wall on the other side of the pond.

With the help from the torchlight, he could see the leaves, vines, and even roots of the plants were white.

Not pure-white, but cream-white.

"White plants?"

Ling Jiu was amazed.

Black plants and white plants were rare in nature. So when there was one, whether it was black or white, it surely was some famous species.

He rummaged through his memories but could not find any information about these white plants. Just when he was about to use his microcomputer to conduct further searches, there was a sound coming from the pond.

The head of something slowly came out of the water. It looked smooth, cream-white, much like a frog and a salamander with six cockscomb-like organs on its neck.

"It is the Crystal Salamander!"

Ling Jiu moved in a flash, came above the Crystal Salamander, and struck its head with a punch. The blow penetrated its skull and killed it instantly.

He kept the Crystal Salamander's body. Using his Gravity Manipulation Arcana, he flew to the wall on the other side of the pond.

"What a beautiful plant, much like a milk ice sculpture!"

Ling Jiu exclaimed in awe as he took out the microcomputer and scanned.

'Crystal Demonic Orchid: A plant which grows up to over 10 cm tall. The stalk is straight without branches. It is creamy white in appearance, grows in clusters in a dark underground environment. So it is also known as the Netherbloom, Deathbloom, and Wraithbloom.'

'Crystal Demonic Orchid can secrete a peculiar substance that attracts animals. It then uses the feces, urine, and even carcass of animals as nutrients.'

'This peculiar substance is substance Y, a natural arcana awakening potion. Any animal or Direbeast that has licked substance Y will acquire special abilities. The specific abilities vary from animal to animal. Awakening rate: 100%.'

'Because of its outstanding arcana awakening effect, the Crystal Demonic Orchid is a wonderful arcana awakening plant, and used as a natural deep arcana awakening potion. The deep awakening rate is 60%.'

"It is a natural deep arcana awakening potion!"

Ling Jiu was wide-eyed, even ecstatic. He could not believe that he was so lucky.

At first, he thought he would have to go through a lot of troubles before finding the Second Awakening potion. Little did he expect he could stumble upon a natural one.

Even Heaven was on his side.

"Let's check out the way to take it."

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Chapter 91: A Day Has Since Passed, Remote Replication

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The way to consume the Crystal Demonic Orchid was not that difficult. It just needed to be uprooted, washed, then swallowed.

"Hope this thing will make my Arcana Replication undergo the Second Arcana Awakening!"

Ling Jiu took a deep breath and swallowed a Crystal Demonic Orchid.

A moment later, a cold sensation rose within his abdomen, up to the top of his head, then engulfing his entire brain.

Right now, Ling Jiu felt as if he were in a trance, finding himself inside a snowy world with tornadoes ravaging all around.

Suddenly, he was engulfed by a tornado as tall as several hundred meters.

The rapid spinning motion left Ling Jiu disoriented and dizzy. Because of the motion sickness, he felt like he was going to throw up.

"Blargh—"

…

He did not know how long it had passed. When he felt he was on the ground again, his head was spinning. His mouth stank of sourness. When he looked down, he saw his vomit on the ground.

Ling Jiu forced a smile. The Crystal Demonic Orchid was very effective, but its side effects—illusion and nausea—were terrible.

"Is my Arcana Replication awakened?" He took a deep breath.

The next moment, he felt the world spin around him and he was in an unfamiliar place.

It was a pitch-dark, mysterious dimension. He could see nothing but a light in the center of the darkness.

It was a giant golden light sphere, suspended in the darkness and emitting beams of golden light. It was the only light source in this mysterious dark world.

How big was it?

He could not tell.

It looked very big, but also tiny.

Surrounding the golden light sphere were four or five smaller ones.

One was black.

One was yellowish brown.

One was colorless and transparent.

One was dark-silver.

One was bright-silver.

They were all silently revolving around the golden light sphere, much like the Earth, Mars, Venus, and other planets circled the Sun.

"What is this? My arcana? Is the golden light sphere in the center representing Arcana Replication, and the five smaller ones the five other replicated arcana?"

Just when he was about to study these light spheres further, a ripping force hit him, and the next moment, his consciousness returned to his body.

"Was that my arcana?"

He mumbled to himself as the earlier images kept appearing in his mind.

"The question is, has my Arcana Replication undergone the Second Arcana Awakening?"

He could now see the mysterious dimension that he had not seen previously.

Did that mean his Arcana Replication's Second Awakening had been successful?

"I'll try it again when I go back."

He rinsed his mouth with water, then dug out the rest of the Crystal Demonic Orchids, and kept them in the dimensional pockets.

There were three Crystal Demonic Orchids growing here. He had swallowed one, leaving him with two. They were good stuff.

The Crystal Demonic Orchids were Premium Treasure of Heaven and Earth, each worth 50 billion dollars and 500 contribution points.

Two of them were worth a total of 100 billion dollars and 1,000 contribution points. Hence, they could be sold if they were not needed.

That meant he could make a handsome profit again.

"How nice if this happens every day!"

Ling Jiu muttered, then checked his cell for time.

He was shocked. It was February 10, Saturday, 09:31.

"Saturday? Today is already Saturday?"

Ling Jiu was wide-eyed. "After taking a Crystal Demonic Orchid, time has flown from Friday morning to Saturday morning? Darn-it! I screwed up big time, wasting a day of time!"

He was upset about losing a good whole day.

But it was water under the bridge, no point crying over spilled milk. All he could do now was make the best of the remaining time by killing as many Class-6 Direbeasts as possible.

"I have got to hurry!"

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At the end of the day, he dragged his exhausted body back to the training camp, and handed over the Direbeasts. When he checked the time again, it was exactly 18:00.

"Phew! I'm exhausted!"

He almost slumped on the ground. After hunting in overdrive mode to make up the lost time, he was worn out. But at least he recovered some lost ground.

"I did my best. Hope the result won't be so bad!"

He exhaled, then headed toward his hostel. Right then, something surprised him when a trainee walked past.

Name: Emmanuel Fettes

Race: Human

Arcana: X-Ray Vision (awakened, replicable), Metal Manipulation (awakened, replicable)

Ling Jiu was struck dumb.

Did that mean his Arcana Replication was usable again? He thought there was still half a month to go before the cooling-off period expired.

Besides, he did not have physical contact with the target. Yet he could read his info?

While he was in a daze, that trainee had walked away, and the golden text in his mind's eyes disappeared.

He picked up his pace to catch up with that trainee. Coming within five meters of that trainee, the golden text of his Arcana Replication popped up again.

Name: Emmanuel Fettes

Race: Human

Arcana: X-Ray Vision (awakened, replicable), Metal Manipulation (awakened, replicable)

"Holy moly! I can do remote detection now?"

He was incredibly excited. "The cooling-off period should not have expired, but I can use my Arcana Replication. What does this mean? This means my Arcana Replication has become stronger—not only that I can replicate an arcana remotely, the cooling-off period is also shortened.

"Cool! The Crystal Demonic Orchid is indeed a natural Deep Awakening potion. I made it! I have got to go back, find the trainees' information, and choose a suitable arcana!"

He hurried back to his hostel and saw Shi Gang sitting in front of the computer.

"Oh, you're back, Ling Jiu!" Shi Gang let out a smile at seeing him.

"Yea, I am back!"

He dropped himself on the bed. "How was your day, Shi Gang? I mean the hunting." His voice was listless.

"Not that you don't know me. I could kill Class-Six Direbeasts with my flame, but doing it alone is too dangerous. I had to be careful with every step." Shi Gang forced a smile. "What I got from the last three days of hunting is less than when we were in a team."

"I see."

Ling Jiu gave a nod of acknowledgement.

Shi Gang's flame was extremely lethal, but his self-defense was just not up to snuff.

If a pissed-off Class-6 Direbeast targeted him, he would be a dead man.

A mage-like arcanist like Shi Gang was too reliant on teammates. He needed someone tougher to protect him.

"How about you?" Shi Gang asked.

"Barely get by!" Ling Jiu shook his head. "By the way, what are you looking at?"

"The personal details of the trainees."

Shi Gang explained. "I am looking for someone to form a team with me. I can't help it with my arcana."

"Personal details of the trainees?" Ling Jiu cocked an eyebrow, looking surprised. "You have their personal details? Where did you steal it from?"

"I don't need to steal."

Shi Gang rolled his eyes. "The trainee list has been pasted on the company's website, complete with the details of trainee!"

"…"

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Chapter 92: Replicate Again, Internal Strength Vanishes

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Ling Ying: 16, from Beijing Base City. Arcana: Vaporization, Water Manipulation

Yu Guang: 15, from Modu Base City. Arcana: Stealth, Fire Manipulation

Zhou Ji: 17, from Beijing Base City. Arcana: Division, Hypnotization, Ultimate Alchemy

"No wonder Zhou Ji's kill of Direbeasts is so efficient. He has triple arcana. That's badass! But what kind of ability is Ultimate Alchemy?"

Ling Jiu tapped open this arcana and found that the Ultimate Alchemy was a buggy ability that could convert any substance into metal.

"Awesome!" Ling Jiu exclaimed in awe. "The Division-Hypnotization-Ultimate Alchemy is an impeccable Direbeast-killing combo. No wonder Zhou Ji's hunting is so efficient!

"Of course, this is yet the best combo. If he could gain the Metal or Magnetic Manipulation Arcana, he would be truly invincible.

"Who can beat him if he has an Ultimate Alchemy-Metal Manipulation (Magnetic field)-Division-Hypnotization combo?

"The Division and the Ultimate Alchemy arcana are two not bad abilities. Jot them down."

He then moved on.

Christopher Adam: 16, from Washington Base City, arcana: Supersonic Shift, Angelization.

Hirano Hatake: 17, Saint Paul Base City, arcana: Superphysique, Vibration Arcana.

"Superphysique?"

Ling Jiu tapped open this arcana.

Super Physique: tenfold physical strength, tenfold speed, tenfold agility, tenfold endurance, tenfold defense, tenfold self-healing, tenfold energy, tenfold eyesight, tenfold hearing, tenfold olfactory reception, and tenfold night vision.

"Holy moly! That's sick!"

Ling Jiu was awestruck. "Physical strength, agility, endurance, defense, self-healing, and energy are ten times higher than that of the ordinary arcanists. That's buggy! But…

"But I don't like it." He really did not like it.

Super Physique was awesome. With each attribute having a tenfold increase in strength, when combined, the resulting combat strength was absolutely higher than a factor of ten.

The problem was, Ling Jiu had many other better options.

Was a hundredfold physical strength not more powerful?

Was a hundredfold speed not faster?

Was a hundredfold agility not better?

So why would he want to replicate the tenfold one?

"Pass! Next!"

He moved on.

"Transmission? This sounds good to me. I can only perform a short-distance teleportation, that's only within two-hundred meters. Transmission sounds like the longer-range version of Teleportation. Keep it in view!

"Cancer Infliction? Eff! Such a disgusting arcana!

"Body Diamondization? Sounds darn good! With this arcana, I will no longer have to worry about money!

"X-Ray Vision?

"Super Healing: perform Gene-level manipulation to heal illnesses through touch. This sounds good!

"Electronic Eye: absorb solar, wind, and sound energy to shoot them out from the eyes as electron shock-wave attacks."

It was an eye-opener for Ling Jiu after reading all the trainee information. Like the saying goes, "No two eggs are alike, and no two arcana are the same."

He looked at his little notebook, on which he had jotted down the details of a dozen arcana.

Among them were Ai Yuhe's Dimension Manipulation, Yang Ling-er's Five-Element Manipulation and Five-Element Annihilation, Zhou Ji's Ultimate Alchemy and Ten Thousandfold Gene Arcana.

Each of these was an extremely powerful arcana. With each arcana replicated, Ling Jiu would become stronger, better, and buggier.

The question was, which arcana should he replicate first?

"The Tungsten Form-Teleportation combo enables me to kill Class-Six Direbeast with the snap of a finger. But using Eightfold Rolling Thunder drains too much energy. So the right thing to do is to fix this flaw first!

At last, he chose the Ten Thousandfold Gene Arcana, which was crazily more powerful than Chang Jiandong's Hundredfold Gene Arcana.

Ling Jiu would have ten thousand times higher Gene Arcana than normal with this ability.

"I can keep on and on hunting Direbeasts without breaking a sweat with enough Gene Arcana!"

Thinking of this, he searched for the trainee who possessed the Ten Thousandfold Gene Arcana. It was a she, who stayed in Room 302.

"Where are you going, Ling Jiu?"

"Just get some fresh air!"

As Ling Jiu came in front of Room 302, he saw in his mind's eye the details of the two female trainees.

Name: Juliana Bodley

Race: Human

Arcana: Metal Manipulation (awakened, replicable), Acid Squirt (awakened, replicable)

Name: Janet Ferguson

Race: Human

Arcana: Ten Thousandfold Gene Arcana (awakened, replicable), Super Power (awakened, replicable)

"Replicate the Ten Thousandfold Gene Arcana!"

As he instructed, the little golden text left his body and disappeared into Room 302 before it came back after a moment.

Replication was successful. Should he install it?

No.

He hurried back to his room, locked himself in the bathroom, then turned on the faucet, letting it run to create noise.

Shi Gang shot a glance toward the bathroom, not suspecting anything. Ling Jiu had just returned from the wilderness. He should take a shower.

"Install!"

A violent burst of energy rose within him and swept through his organs, body, and every cell.

Cell alteration was underway.

This was an alteration on the cellular level. The violent energy was changing every cell in his body.

The alteration brought great pain to him—from head to toe, then spreading all over his body.

"Eff! This happens every time! It is driving me nuts!"

He gritted his teeth, trying hard not to make a sound as waves of pain hit him.

But it was unbearable.

The good thing was, the pain went away just as quick as it came. Ten minutes later, it went away like a receding tide.

He panted like a dog as he pulled himself to his feet. He checked his body and got the shock of his life: all his Gene Arcana in the body was gone.

Yes. It was gone, disappearing into thin air without a trace.

"What the hell?"

Ling Jiu was dumbfounded.

The Gene Arcana was supposed to live in his meridians, which was empty now. He could not even find a trace of the Gene Arcana in gaseous form, let alone in liquid form.

"Where the hell is my Gene Arcana?"

He was appalled. "I have only replicated the Ten Thousandfold Gene Arcana. How could all my internal Gene Arcana disappear?"

His internal Gene Arcana was supposed to spike after he replicated this arcana, not like now where it had decreased to zero.

"What the hell is going on?"

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Chapter 93: False Alarm, Ranked Top Three

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Ling Jiu became desperate. He quickly performed Sea of Hundred Rivers to absorb the rich Gene Arcana within a thousand-meter radius of him.

But to his horror, no matter how much Gene Arcana he absorbed into his body, it would not stay longer than three seconds before disappearing.

Absorbed then disappeared, absorbed then disappeared…

It was as if there was a big hole on his body. He tried the same thing for almost half a day and yet his meridians were still empty.

"What the hell is going on?"

He got a little mad. With his microcomputer, he looked up the information about the Ten Thousandfold Gene Arcana, trying to figure out what had gone wrong.

He breathed a long sigh of relief. "Eff! It scared the hell out of me just now!"

Ling Jiu wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. Now he knew why his Gene Arcana had disappeared—it was the fault of the cells.

Apparently, ordinary arcanists stored their Gene Arcana in the meridians, not in the cells. But those who possessed Ten Thousandfold Gene Arcana had very unique cells. Their Gene Arcana were not stored only in the meridians, but also the cells. Specifically, cells became their main 'warehouse' to store Gene Arcana.

'How many cells a human body contain?'

So the amount of Gene Arcana the cells could hold far surpassed that of the meridians.

Because of this, arcanists of Ten Thousandfold Gene Arcana had such a large storage capacity for Gene Arcana.

"I got it now."

He exhaled, feeling relieved. At first, he suspected that something had gone wrong with his body. But that was not the case. It was his body cells that had 'eaten' his internal strength.

It was just a false alarm.

He continued to capture Gene Arcana from his surroundings. The Gene Arcana were immediately gobbled up by the cells after entering his body. But Ling Jiu no longer panicked.

Absorbed then divided, absorbed then divided…

He greedily captured the Gene Arcana within a thousand-meter radius of him, much like a black hole sucking in all matters. But no matter how much he took in, his meridians were still empty.

It was Sunday afternoon when Shi Gang awoke Ling Jiu. "It is five fifty, Ling Jiu. The leaderboard will be updated soon. Let's get down there!"

Ling Jiu opened his eyes, looking miserable. He had been busy absorbing Gene Arcana without eating or drinking for a day, yet his meridians were still empty. He did not know what to make of it.

'Forget it. I might as well go to take a walk. If every goes well, I would make it to the top of the list. By then, I can fill up my meridians while inside the Twelve Underground Chambers.'

He got up, his stomach growling in protest. So he took out a pack of dried meat and took a quick bite before following Shi Gang downstairs.

Most of the trainees had gathered there. Ai Yuhe and Yang Ling-er had also arrived, walking toward him.

"Long time no see!"

Ling Jiu said hello. He ran a quick calculation in his mind, realizing that he had not seen these two pretty lasses for a week since he had returned from the wilderness last Saturday.

"Long time no see!" The two girls replied with a nod.

"How were things going this week?" Ling Jiu smiled at them.

"A little better than last time," Ai Yuhe said. "How about you?"

"A little better than last time!" Ling Jiu replied.

"While you all are better than last time, I am worse this time around!" Shi Gang pulled a face.

"Here we go!"

"The leaderboard has been updated!"

There was an uproar instantly.

"The leaderboard has been updated!"

Ling Jiu looked up at the leaderboard, so did Ai Yuhe, Yang Ling-er and Shi Gang.

No. 1: Zhou Ji, 1,690,000.

No. 2: Christopher Adam, 1,550,000.

No. 3: Ling Jiu, 1,540,000.

"Third place!" Ling Jiu nodded. "Just like what I expected."

He perfectly knew how many Direbeasts he had killed: 72 Class-6 Direbeasts on Thursday, 2 on Friday, and 80 on Saturday after stretching himself to the limit.

He had hunted 154 Class-6 Direbeasts in three days, making his score 1,540,000.

This was 40,000 points higher than Zhou Ji's result of last week. But apparently, Zhou Ji was not standing still either, his score had increased by 190,000.

So, Zhou Ji was in first place again.

"But this will be his last!" Ling Jiu clenched his fists. "I will be Top 1 next time!"

"Ling Jiu has made it to third place!"

"You only got 615,000 points last time, but this time, you got 1.54 million points. So you had concealed your true strength while we were in a team, eh?" Ai Yuhe sounded surprised.

Ling Jiu let out an awkward smile and quickly steered away the conversation. "How about you this time?"

"Ninth place."

Ai Yuhe broke out in a smile. Ninth place was no way near third place, but she was happy to get access to the Twelve Underground Chambers for self-cultivation.

Ling Jiu moved his eyes to ninth place on the leaderboard. There, he saw Ai Yuhe's name. Her score was 890,000 points, a 50 percent jump from her previous score.

It was Yang Ling-er's score that surprised him. She had got 920,000 points, higher than what Ai Yuhe got, which was incredible.

As badass as Yang Ling-er's ability was, she was wheelchair bound. The fact that she had hunted Direbeasts alone and got this result was absolutely impressive.

"You three are in third, eighth, and ninth place while I have dropped below the hundred mark. No one else beats me in terms of performance decline."

Shi Gang was almost tearful.

Ling Jiu was in consternation and could not help look up at the leaderboard. It took him a while before he found Shi Gang's name on the list at 139th place.

No. 139: Shi Gang, 389,000.

The drop in ranking was indeed huge.

The difference was too big!

Ling Jiu wanted to say some words of comfort, but did not know how. Besides, he did not want to appear to be showing off, and so he thought the better of it.

"How about we have dinner together?" Ling Jiu said.

"Sure!"

Ai Yuhe and Yang Ling-er nodded.

"Let's eat!"

Ling Jiu came to the Twelve Underground Chambers on time at night, when everyone had also arrived.

"Climbing from ninth to third place is a vast improvement, Ling Jiu!" Zhou Ji initiated the conversation.

"Nothing beats you; two-time champion!" Ling Jiu gave a smile. "I heard that the reward for a three-consecutive first place is damn handsome!"

"Not consecutive but cumulative!" Zhou Ji's eyes flashed. "Anyone who tops the list for thrice will get some fat reward: a secret manual of the Ultimate Gene Arcana worth one-thousand contribution points, an Ultimate Treasure of Heaven and Earth worth one-thousand contribution points, and an Ultimate Gene Arcana potion worth one-thousand contribution points.

"Cool!"

Ling Jiu was wide-eyed.

"This is not all. The reward will be even crazier for anyone who accumulates six-time, or even nine-time first place!"

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Chapter 94: Where Strength Lies, Filled Up at Last

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Ling Jiu was intrigued.

An Ultimate Gene Arcana secret manual worth 1,000 contribution points

An Ultimate Treasure of Heaven and Earth worth 1,000 contribution points

An Ultimate Gene Arcana potion worth 1,000 contribution points

"That's munificent!"

Ling Jiu was delirious.

There was no need to say more about the Ultimate Gene Arcana secret manual. The 1,000 contribution points alone were not something money could buy. Yet it was given out as a reward here.

The same went to the Ultimate Treasure of Heaven and Earth worth 1,000 contribution points.

The Icehollow Weed was just an intermediate Treasure of Heaven and Earth, and the Crystal Demonic Orchid was just a premium one. One could already imagine how precious an Ultimate Treasure of Heaven and Earth was.

And then there was the Ultimate Gene Arcana potion that was also worth 1,000 contribution points.

Water of Life—a potion which could only extend longevity by 30 years—was just a premium Gene Arcana potion. So how much more precious was an Ultimate Gene Arcana potion?

Any of these three items could not be bought with money, however rich one was. But in the Super Training Camp, they were given out as rewards.

Was it not munificent?

Absolutely!

"If the reward for winning first place thrice is this handsome, how much more handsome the reward is for six-time and nine-time winnings?"

While Ling Jiu was weighing inside his mind the rewards, the alloy door to the Twelve Underground Chambers opened. Zhou Ji led the way and walked in.

"Forget about the rewards for now. I had better make good use of the self-cultivation chamber to fill up my body with the rich Gene Arcana here."

As he came to Level 1 and walked into a self-cultivation room, he first picked up the vitality-enhancement fluid and threw the content down his neck. After enduring a round of torment, he felt his body became stronger.

His skin became tighter, his muscles stronger, his fascia tougher, his bones sturdier, his cells more active, his energy more abundant, and his vitality grew more exuberant.

"While Gene Arcana is important to an arcanist, the body was even more crucial. So each time we are given a bottle of vitality-enhancement fluid."

Ling Jiu was impressed.

The benefits of a stronger physique were visible: faster speed, better defensive ability, higher endurance, greater strength, clearer mental state and greater explosiveness.

"It will be good to have a bottle of vitality-enhancement fluid every day."

He then picked up the test tube containing the Gene Arcana-enhancement fluid and drank it.

Boom!

There was a burst of Gene Arcana in his abdomen, like an outburst of flash flood. Its level of intensity was far higher than the effect of the intermediate Gene Arcana-enhancement fluid he had taken last time.

"This is truly an advanced Gene Arcana-enhancement fluid. It is more explosive than the intermediate one."

He was amazed by it. But before he could regulate it, the level of his internal Gene Arcana rapidly dropped.

1,000

500

200

100

50

0

In a matter of minutes, his internal Gene Arcana disappeared completely, as if it had never been there. He checked his meridians, they were still empty.

He found it amusing. "It doesn't matter how explosive and efficacious it is, it is just a drop in the ocean to my Ten Thousandfold Gene Arcana!"

He now witnessed how terrific this Ten Thousandfold Gene Arcana was; its holding capability of the Gene Arcana was phenomenal.

So much for the advanced Gene Arcana-enhancement fluid. It could not even cause a ripple.

"I have only three days. I have got to make the best of it."

He wasted no time and quickly performed Sea of Hundred Rivers to capture the Gene Arcana from the surroundings.

Gene Arcana within 1,000-meter radius was stirred, rushing over and forming a thick layer of mist in the surroundings.

Ling Jiu, as if he were a bottomless hole, absorbed the mist indiscriminately. There was a vortex formed above him. The Gene Arcana poured through the vortex into Ling Jiu's body, where an enormous amount of Gene Arcana was being devoured continuously.

"It is an understatement to say that the level of Gene Arcana concentration on Level One is a hundred times higher than on Level Three! It is ridiculously high!"

Absorbed!

Absorbed!

Absorbed madly!

Monday and Tuesday had passed just like that, yet his meridians were still empty. This threw Ling Jiu into desperation. He had absorbed the Gene Arcana relentlessly but still could not fill up his body cells.

It was not until Wednesday afternoon that his body cells had had their fill and stopped taking in more Gene Arcana, and his meridians started to store some.

"Phew! Finally, they have had enough!"

Ling Jiu breathed a sigh of relief. But he still continued the Gene Arcana absorption. It was not until nearly 12 midnight that his meridians were filled up.

"Without the Twelve Underground Chambers, it would have taken me a few years to fill my cells up." He sighed with satisfaction. "I have so much Gene Arcana now that it won't dry out even with days and nights of use. Cool!"

He stretched and walked out of the self-cultivation chambers. Upon returning to his hostel, he took some quick bite and then crashed out on the bed.

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Chapter 95: A Cat That Transmigrated? Ad hoc Mission

It was Thursday morning. Ling Jiu left the camp after breakfast, so too Shi Gang, Ai Yuhe, Yang Ling-er, and other trainees.

The night before, Shi Gang told Ling Jiu he had found a partner.

Shi Gang mentioned that the guy was tall and well-built. Not only did he have Gravity Arcana, he also possessed super defense and power arcana. In other words, this fella was a perfect human shield and support.

Shi Gang and his partner could not wait to roll up their sleeves so they left early in the morning.

Ling Jiu wished them good luck.

The weather was a little gloomy today as the sky was blanketed in thick dark clouds. It was hot and stuffy. It was going to rain soon.

Ling Jiu went to deeper part of the wilderness to start another round of Direbeast hunting.

A minor accident had cost him first place last week. He told himself to refrain from repeating the same mistake this time. So this week, he wanted to go all out.

"Radar shows there are five Class-Six Direbeasts up ahead!"

When Ling Jiu arrived near a lake, he saw a few giant lizards having fun on the crystal-clear water.

Each of these lizards was 30 to 40 meters long. Their bodies were covered in scales with black and brown patterns. The cockscombs on their heads were especially eye-catching.

"It is Cockscomb Goldenback Lizard!"

Not saying anything more, Ling Jiu lunged toward them and started a round of brutal killing.

His punch struck like a round, penetrating a Cockscomb Goldenback Lizard's head, killing it on the spot.

The remaining four Cockscomb Goldenback Lizards were transfixed for a second before going mad and pouncing at Ling Jiu.

"Shinratensei!"

A violent burst of repulsive force hit the four Direbeasts, sending them flying out backward.

"Eightfold Rolling Thunder!"

"It's done!"

He kept the giant lizards' bodies and moved on to find another batch of Direbeasts.

He was in a remote part of the wilderness where almost no Class-5 but Class-6 and Class-7 Direbeast existed.

"There are a few Class-Six Direbeasts in the northeast!"

There was a sudden rumble of thunder in the sky. A moment later, rain poured down, shrouding the wilderness in mist.

Would the rain hinder his pace? Of course not.

He took off his outer garment, leaving only short pants on. Ignoring the slapping of the rain on his skin, he lunged out toward those few Class-6 Direbeasts.

It was the end of the day. After a day of hard work, at nightfall, Ling Jiu released his maglev airship and took a bath.

"I have hunted ninety-eight Class-Six Direbeasts today. Mission accomplished!"

He did a stock count and was very pleased with his performance today.

It felt so good to have the Ten Thousandfold Gene Arcana. It made him feel like a killing machine that could run 24/7.

At the end of this endurance hunting, 98 Class-6 Direbeasts died at the hands of his.

"First place is mine!"

Ling Jiu let out a triumphant smile as he ripped open a pack of dried meat and started to eat. He might have an endless supply of Gene Arcana, but he still needed to replenish nutrients and energy.

Meow!

Just then, the low cry of a cat came. Ling Jiu's heart skipped a beat. A big cat, one-meter-long, appeared on the table, staring at the nutritional dried meat in his hand.

"C—Celestial Magical Cat!"

Ling Jiu's mouth twitched. "This is unbelievable. You are here again!"

Meow!

Seeing no response from Ling Jiu, the cat meowed a couple of times more.

'Bl*dy h*ll.'

Ling Jiu cursed in his mind. Feeling intimidated, he had to play a wildlife protector again.

"Here you go. Eat more. It aches me to see how skinny you are!"

Meow!

The cat let out an upbeat cry and tucked in. After filling its stomach, it climbed into his bed and snoozed.

'Bl*dy h*ll.'

…

The Celestial Magical Cat left early the next morning. Ling Jiu had had enough. He did not want to see it again, less so sharing a room with such a dangerous Class-8 Direbeast for a night.

So he piloted the maglev airship to fly a further distance before he continued his Direbeast hunting. When he settled in for the night, he found a well-hidden cave and released his airship.

"That Celestial Magical Cat will not come again today, I guess?" Ling Jiu was pleased with himself as he swirled a wine glass in his hand, appreciating the fine 20-year-old coca cola.

Meow!

His heart skipped a beat. As he turned his head and saw a familiar shadow, he nearly broke down. How the hell did the cat find him?

He cursed in silence. But what more could he do?

Chase it away?

That was impossible, not in this life. He could only act nice and hand over the nutritional dried meat, hoping that after filling the big cat's stomach, it would not eat him.

Ling Jiu was not as freaked out as before since the Celestial Magical Cat had paid him a number of visits.

It was only after food, not him.

Things would be easier if that was the case.

Ling Jiu got gutsy. This time, when he fed the Celestial Magical Cat, he plucked up his courage to pat its furry head.

The big cat did not attack him. Instead, it looked like it enjoyed his patting. This encouraged him further.

He went from patting its head to stroking its back, then scratching its belly. Even then, the big cat did not seem to be attacking.

"What the hell? Is this a pussycat?" Ling Jiu muttered.

The behavior of this Celestial Magical Cat was out of its character, unlike a true direbeast, less so Class-8 Direbeast.

Direbeasts were vicious, not going well with humans. It would have been incredibly lucky if they did not attack humans. So no way they would cozy up to humans.

But this big cat did not only cotton up to humans and ask them for food but also let Ling Jiu scratch its belly.

How could this thing be a Direbeast?

Even domestic cats did not behave this way for strangers. Only strays in the parks that had gotten used to being fed by people might act this way.

"So could this thing be a stray that has transmigrated to this world?"

He looked on and cursed in his mind as this Celestial Magical Cat enjoyed his patting.

'Bl*dy h*ll, pussycat! Joker, traitor of the Direbeast world. I despise you!'

Having enough of patting, the Celestial Magical Cat climbed onto his bed again, found its most comfortable position, and snoozed away.

'Get the hell out of my bed! This is my bed!'

How he wished he dared to shout these words out. But seeing the Celestial Magical Cat sound asleep, he thought better of it. "Fine. You can sleep here."

Tonight, he hugged the big cat to sleep. It was nice to touch despite being notorious beast.

The night passed without incident.

When Ling Jiu woke up the next morning, his cell suddenly rang.

"All trainees take note, ad hoc mission announcement!"

"All trainees take note, ad hoc mission announcement!"

"All trainees take note, ad hoc mission announcement!"

"A Rainbow Snake is spotted near Murray River in Mildura. Initial info points to a possible Ultimate Treasure of Heaven and Earth. All trainees are required to check it out immediately!"

"The training camp will promise two-million reward points for anyone capturing this Rainbow Snake!"

"Rainbow Snake?"

"The Ultimate Treasure of Heaven and Earth?"

"Two-million reward points?"

"D*mn!"

Chapter 96: Special Body, Descent into Madness

After two consecutive days of heavy rain, the Murray River's water level surged and the river water became murky.

The bellowing river carried mud and sand across the southern part of the Australian mainland before merging into the vast Indian Ocean.

The Murray River was the largest river in Australia, traversing almost across the entire southern part of the continent. At the same time, it also nourishes countless Direbeasts as it was the source of drinking water for the Direbeasts.

At that moment, a maglev airship flew across the sky as it sped toward the intersection between the Mildura and the Murray River.

Piloting an airship like this in the Australian continent where top-level Direbeasts rampaged was a very dangerous thing to do. If any of the top-level flying Direbeasts were to attack it, the vessel will definitely be destroyed.

However, right then, all of the students no longer cared about that because only the two million points remained in their minds.

Two million points!

These two million points…

Even Zhou Ji, who was first for two consecutive weeks did not have such high points. That meant that as long as they can get the two million points, being number one was just around the corner!

It would be insane!

All of the students were in a frenzy as they rushed towards Mildura like crazy.

Therefore, when Ling Jiu drove his airship over to Mildura, what he saw was this:

Several dozens of maglev airships were parked above and around the Murray River.

Students were either standing on top of their airships, on the ground, or hiding in the surrounding woods.

Then, all of them stared at the Murray River, as victory was inevitable, and theirs to take!

Yes, victory was inevitable!

These two million points… were theirs!

"There will be a fierce battle today!"

Standing on top of the airship, Ling Jiu's expression gradually became serious.

Immediately after, he looked at the Murray River again. The water was very turbid, and on the surface, there was nothing special about it.

However, if one was to perceive it carefully, one would find that the Murray River emitted regular waves of Gene Arcana.

Moreover, as time passed, the Gene Arcana fluctuations became more and more pronounced, as if something was about to wake up.

"Ling Jiu, you're here too?"

A familiar voice rang beside his ears, and saw his roommate, Shi Gang had also come over. "Shi Gang, you're here too?"

"Yeah, just arrived!"

Shi Gang nodded again with a smile. He then pointed to a sturdy black man with a large face and a height of two meters beside him before he introduced, "This is my new teammate, Dylon!"

"Dylon, this is my roommate, Ling Jiu!"

"Nihao!"

Dylon took the initiative to greet him in Mandarin. Although his pronunciation was somewhat off, he could still understand it.

"Nihao!"

"By the way, Ling Jiu, what exactly is that Rainbow Snake the camp commandant spoke of?"

Shi Gang stared at the middle of the river. "In any case, this thing has nothing to do with being a treasure of heaven and earth right?"

"Who knows!"

Ling Jiu shook his head slightly. "However, we'll find out soon enough!"

As soon as he said that, the fast-flowing Murray River suddenly roiled violently.

Immediately after, a series of colorful lights burst out from the river, forming a colorful rainbow over the Murray River, looking both brilliant and magnificent.

"It's coming out!"

Ling Jiu stared at the center of Murray River as Shi Gang, Dylon and the other students surrounding the area also closed in as they stared at the river.

"Everyone, on your guard!"

"That thing is coming out!"

"Remember, grab it immediately once it's out. No matter who gets it, leave this place immediately!"

"Mine, the Rainbow Snake is mine!"

"Coming! It's coming out any time now!"

…

Under the scorching gaze of everyone present, a seven-colored head surfaced from the water. It was an ethereal snakehead.

Why ethereal?

It's because it had no physical body!

The snakehead was composed of a beam of seven colors: bright silver, blood red, sky blue, light purple, earthy yellow, black, and incandescent white. It was a snake that was composed of light.

Following it was the snake's body, tail, and finally a pair of wings.

The moment the snake's entire form appeared, everyone was stunned!

A Rainbow Snake completely made out of seven-colored lights floated in the air. Its waist the side of a barrel and its length more than 50 meters long.

More surprise was the pair of giant seven-colored wings that grew on its back, with a wingspan of at least 50 meters.

"Is this the Rainbow Snake?"

Ling Jiu was also stunned. "What sort of lifeform is this? If it's a Direbeast, why doesn't it have a physical body?

"Or is this scene just some bizarre natural phenomenon?"

"It's… a special body!"

Suddenly, a surprised voice rang out as a thin white teenager's face turned red, as he fell into a frenzy.

"Special metals, special wood, special liquids, special flames, special soils, special lightning, special light beams!"

"This is a treasure of heaven and earth that is made entirely out of special substances! Jackpot! If I take it back…"

"Hart, shut up!"

The white teenager was babbling on when he was interrupted by a black girl.

The white teenager suddenly snapped out and realized that he had caused a gaffe, as an expression of embarrassment appeared on his face.

"A treasure of heaven and earth made out of seven special substances?" Ling Jiu was amazed.

Special substances!

He had obviously heard of them before!

There were many members of the Treasures of Heaven and Earth, but there was one type of treasure that was particularly eye-catching, that was… the special substances!

What was a special substance?

They were things that were different from all ordinary substances, like special flames, special soils, special lightning, special plants, and the like.

Examples of special flames were Ai Shangcheng's Undying Skyfire and Shi Gang's black flames.

For special soils, on the other hand, Ling Jiu currently only knew of one type of special soil, the top-of-the-line earth-type cold weapon, the Sands of Annihilation.

Osmium soil?

Not even close!

Special substances have terrifying power and magical effects that were far beyond any conventional materials.

Therefore, anyone who had a Manipulation-type Arcana would always try to get their hands on these special substances.

For a Fire Manipulation Arcanist like Luo Jia, if she had a special flame, then her combat power would change dramatically.

So, special substances were very precious, especially those powerful ones that were practically priceless, and many special substances could not be bought even if you had the money!

At this moment, however, there were seven special substances floating right before everyone's eyes.

"Mine!"

A brown-skinned Indian teenager screamed as he transformed into a lightning man and blasted towards the Rainbow Snake in the air.

"Get lost!"

Yet, before he could get close, a golden stream of light suddenly sprang out from the slope and stomped on the Indian teenager.

The teenager yelped before flying away, crashing into the Murray River as he kicked up a splash before being washed away by the fast-flowing Murray River.

"Who's that?"

Everyone was startled as they looked at the golden light that a figure stood five meters tall with golden wings and hair, like an angel in the legends.

His body exuded a golden light alongside a sacrosanct and inviolable aura as if he was even more dazzling than the sun in the sky.

"Christopher Adam!"

Chapter 97: Finally Meeting, Number Two and Three

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"Christopher Adam!"

Seeing the golden figure standing in the sky, the eyes of all of the students shrank as their hearts instantly sank.

The person who had come over was no one else but the one ranked number two for two consecutive times, and had the terrifying power of Angel Incarnate, Christopher Adam!

"F*ck! It's that a*hole! This will be a problem!"

"Christopher is damn terrifying. Now that he's here, it's going to be much harder for us to get our hands on the Rainbow Snake! Damn it, should have acted earlier just now!"

"Don't be discouraged, we have so many of us here, and we are afraid of a single Christopher? Let's strike together!"

Christopher Adam's appearance shocked many of the students, especially those students from Washington Base City, who knew Christopher Adam well.

They understood how terrifying he was, and their hearts became extremely heavy.

Of course, they were those who thought otherwise. They admitted that Christopher Adam was indeed strong, but it was difficult for two fists to fight against four pairs of hands. Why are they afraid of not being able to deal with one single Christopher Adam with so many of them around?

Christopher Adam did not know what the others were thinking, and he did not need to know. He was like an angel, exuding his almighty power.

His indifferent golden eyes swept across the area, his eyes full of disdain and contempt.

Afterward, he flapped his wings and flew toward the Rainbow Snake in the air, ignoring everyone present.

"Damn you!"

"Get him!"

Such a provocative action infuriated many, and amidst the furious growls, more than a dozen figures rose into the air as they launched their attacks.

"Lightning Release: Lightning Cutter!"

"Kamehameha!"

"Great Fire Annihilation!"

"Curved Shot!"

"Prickly Bang-bang Punch!"

…

Baaaam!!

A dozen or so thunderbolts, air cannons, flames, iron balls, or plasma cannon-like attacks ripped through the void as they flew toward Christopher Adam.

One could imagine, if he was struck by that many attacks, no matter how strong Christopher Adam was, it was impossible to escape without sustaining serious injuries.

The question was, could they hit him?

The answer was obviously no!

"Hmph, child's play!"

Looking at the dozen or so attacks coming his way, Christopher Adam only had a look of contempt as his wings flapped slightly before disappearing instantly.

He had instantly disappeared!

As if he was never there before!

"Christopher's counterattack has begun!"

"These fools actually dare to provoke Christopher, they're all dead!"

"They are dead meat…"

…

Seeing Christopher Adam disappear, the students who knew him well shuddered and knew what was about to happen next.

As predicted…

A golden streamer suddenly appeared and began to wander around the dozen of students as it swept across them.

Boom! Boom!

In less than three seconds, the golden streamer had returned to its original spot, while the dozen or so students were all sent flying.

All of them suffered either collapsed chest, vomiting blood, broken ribs, or shattered jaws or… how else to describe that carnage?

"A… mazing!"

"Seriously injuring a dozen students in an instant? Is this Christopher Adam?"

"Christopher still held back, or else these guys would have definitely died on the spot!"

"This Supersonic Arcana is just damn overpowered. You don't even have a chance to react, how do you even fight?"

"Ten times the speed of sound plus the Angel Incarnate Arcana, that's a straight-up hack I say!"

"No matter how powerful your Arcana is! How terrible its destructive power is! No matter how terrifying your body is, and no matter how many times the attack power you could muster, it is all a joke before ten times the speed of sound!"

The corners of the students' mouths twitched as a deep chilling sensation overwhelmed them.

Of all martial arts in the world, speed reigned supreme.

With Christopher Adam being capable of reaching ten times the speed of sound at 3400 meters per second, who can hit him?

"Who can fight against a person like Christopher Adam?"

The watching students shuddered, and for the first time, they had clearly felt the terrifying deterrence coming from the rankings. Is this the power of the second-ranked Christopher Adam?

It's just too terrifying!

"Unsurprisingly, this Rainbow Snake will be his!"

"Can't help that. The moment he appeared, the game was over!"

"Yeah, unless the number one Zhou Ji appears, no one can stop him. Not even the third-ranked Ling Jiu, or the fourth-ranked Hirano Hatake!"

"It's a pity that we can only look on as such a treasure of heaven and earth gets taken just like that. This sort of helplessness is really annoying!"

"Just give up! If we rush forward now, we'll end up like those guys!"

"They…"

Looking at the dozen or so students lying on the ground groaning in pain, the originally bitter bystanders all shuddered, and their bitterness disappeared in an instant.

Yeah.

What was there to be bitter about?

Compared to these guys, they were not injured at the very least.

"What is that guy doing?"

Just when these spectators felt fortunate that they were not impulsive, someone yelled and the rest looked over.

A young man standing on a maglev airship slowly flew over before Christopher Adam.

"What is he doing?"

"Is he thinking of fighting Christopher Adam for the Rainbow Snake?"

"Haih, another desperate fool. There are already examples laying on the ground, and still, he did not learn anything?"

Seeing this, the spectators sneered. Standing up without strength to show was simply just seeking death, it was a stupid move and was merely asking for trouble.

At this moment, the person who came before Christopher Adam was Ling Jiu.

Ling Jiu stood on the top of the maglev airship, looked at the second-rank Christopher Adam who had everyone cowering in the eyes.

"You?"

Christopher Adam did not immediately attack but frowned a little instead. "You want to take my Rainbow Snake too?"

He had met Ling Jiu in the underground Room 12 and knew that Ling Jiu was ranked third, hence he was a relatively difficult opponent to deal with.

"Your Rainbow Snake?"

Ling Jiu flicked his finger, smiling. "The Rainbow Snake had only just been born, this was witnessed by everyone with their own eyes since when did it become yours?"

"When I said it's mine, it's mine!"

Christopher Adam looked on indifferently. "There's nothing I've wanted that I've never gotten. Know your place and buzz off!"

"Talk is useless, let's fight!"

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Chapter 98: Head-on Collision, Airdrop Torpedo

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

"That guy's bonkers!"

Seeing Ling Jiu standing out, Shi Gang's expression changed drastically. "That's Christopher Adam, what is he thinking? Does he have a death wish? Bonkers! Absolutely bonkers!"

"Shi Gang, your roommate is too reckless!"

Shi Gang's partner, Dylon shook his head and said. "Christopher is known as the number one young man of Washington Base City, Ling Jiu is not his match!"

"I also know that he is not Christopher Adam's match, but what can I do?" Shi Gang smiled bitterly. "He had already rushed over, I can't be pulling him back, right?"

"Well, with things as it is, we can only hope Christopher will show mercy!"

Dylon shook his head. He was from Washington Base City, and he had fought against Christopher Adam. He knew Christopher Adam's strength; it was the sort of strength that had caused him to despair until today!

"Hmph, biting off more than you can chew!"

Hearing Ling Jiu's words, Christopher Adam snorted as he flapped his wings and charged at Ling Jiu.

His speed was just too fast, and crossing the distance of tens of meters in an instant. When his body had already reached Ling Jiu, his afterimage still remained in place.

"He's dead meat!"

"That guy is dead!"

All of the spectating students shook their heads and sighed. No one thought that Ling Jiu could defeat Christopher Adam as both were on two very different levels.

However, the following scene dropped everyone's jaw.

Just as Christopher Adam was less than a meter away from Ling Jiu, the latter slowly raised his right hand to meet the attack.

Crack!!

The fists of both sides collided against one another like two high-speed trains crashing into each other. As a thunderclap rang out, a powerful shock wave centered around the two blasted out.

Baaam!!

Like a raging typhoon, all of the surrounding trees, grass, and even the waters of the Murray River were blown away, causing waves to kick up.

They then saw the two colliding figures flying backward at the same time and only stopping after flying more than ten meters away.

"Even… footing?"

The spectators were stunned, and looked at the two figures floating in the air with incredulous expressions, as a look of disbelief filled their eyes!

"Ling Jiu's that amazing?"

Shi Gang could not help but gasp. "For him to actually face Christopher Adam head-on and is not on the backfoot?"

Although he knew Ling Jiu possessed a mysterious power-type Arcana, he did not think Ling Jiu would be Christopher Adam's match.

Supersonic Arcana!

Ten times the speed of sound!

To put that into words, 3.4 kilometers per second!

This speed is just simply terrifying!

At this terrifying speed, even Christopher Adam's casual punch would carry unparalleled destructive power.

After all, kinetic energy = mv2, and if the mass is fixed, the faster the speed, the greater the kinetic energy, the greater the kinetic energy, the more devastating the destructive power!

However, even with such terrifying power, Ling Jiu actually met Christopher Adam's attack. How strong was Ling Jiu?

"Shi Gang, the strength of your roommate is above mine!" Dylon stared at Ling Jiu as he slowly said that sentence.

"Is that so?"

Shi Gang was shocked, Dylon had the best super strength and super defense meat shield, and his strength was not comparable to Ling Jiu?

"I'm nowhere as good as him!" Dylon said.

"You sure are something!"

Christopher Adam looked at Ling Jiu, saying. "However, you think you can compete with me with that? You're too naive!"

"To tell you the truth, the distance was just too short just now, and I did not even reach the speed of sound!"

"I know!"

Ling Jiu said lightly. "Although you have the Supersonic Arcana, it's impossible for you to accelerate to ten times the speed of sound in an instant!"

"You need enough time and distance to accelerate to ten times the speed of sound, right?"

Christopher Adam was silent, and he did not deny what Ling Jiu said. Even a high-speed rail would need two to three minutes to go from standstill to 200 kilometers per hour.

For the same reason, it would need some time for him to accelerate to ten times the speed of sound.

While he had the Supersonic Arcana, and he was much lighter, smaller, and faster than a high-speed rail. It would take less time for him to accelerate to that sort of speed, but it still took time!

To accelerate to ten times the speed of sound?

It was outright impossible!

"So, while the Supersonic Arcana may look overpowered, but it has its own Archilles' Heel. As long as you met someone that counters you, that Arcana is as good as useless!" Ling Jiu said lightly.

"You talk too much sh*t!"

Christopher Adam flicked the wings on his back and flew straight into the sky to a height of several hundred meters before stopping.

He then reversed direction and under gravitational acceleration, he fell like a falling meteorite.

"Futile struggle!"

Ling Jiu shook his head slightly and did not dodge or counterattacked. He just stood there as Christopher Adam shot toward him.

"Ling Jiu, move!"

Upon seeing this, Shi Gang quickly yelled a warning. With Christopher Adam sweeping down like this under the acceleration of gravity, his speed would only get faster and faster. If he was struck by the attack, the consequences would be unimaginable.

"Don't worry!"

Ling Jiu seemed to completely ignore Christopher Adam's falling charge and even had the mood to smile at Shi Gang in a relaxed manner.

"F*ck, he's nuts!"

This scene caused Shi Gang, Dylon, and the other spectators' scalps to tingle. Bloody hell, he still had time to talk nonsense at this moment, does he really have a death wish?

Whoosh!!

Just as the spectators were frightened, a powerful rip in the air came from the sky, and everyone looked up.

Everyone saw a golden streamer swooping down alongside a wave of air, but it was not any wave of air, but instead a sonic boom cloud.

Sonic boom cloud: When an object breaks through the speed of sound, the surrounding air would be compressed due to the increase in air will behind it, causing the water vapors to condense into tiny water droplets and forming a ring of clouds.

This was the sonic boom cloud!

The appearance of the sonic boom cloud was enough to prove that Christopher Adam's speed had broken through the sound barrier, and was still rising sharply.

When he accelerates to the front of Ling Jiu, what sort of speed will that be?

"That's bloody terrifying!"

"Christopher Adam is more than ten times more terrifying than before, how can he stop him this time?"

The spectators' eyes lit up as they stared at Ling Jiu and the golden streamer charging down from the sky as they all looked forward to what will happen next.

However, what no one expected was that the moment Christopher Adam was about to strike Ling Jiu…

Ling Jiu disappeared!

Yes!

He had bizarrely disappeared!

"Where did he go?"

Everyone was stunned.

"Where did he go?"

Christopher Adam was stunned too, and before he could react, he fell headfirst into the rapid Murray River.

Dush!!

Chapter 99: Head-on Beatdown, Help with Appraisal

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Dushh!!

Like a torpedo explosion, alongside a loud bang, a massive wave was kicked up as the rapid-flowing Murray River seemed to stop flowing for a moment.

It took a good moment before it returned ot normal and continued to flow.

Splashhh!

Christopher Adam rushed out of the water and floated in the air, but at this moment, he looked like a sorry lot.

His handsome blond hair was covered with silt and his gold wings exuding an immaculate aura had became wings of mud while his entire person was soaking wet, looking as miserable as one can get.

"B*stard!"

Fire raged in Christopher Adam's eyes as he stared at Ling Jiu like a furious lion wanting to swallow the latter whole and devour the world.

Christopher Adam was furious, extremely furious. Has he been so miserable every since he awakened his Arcana?

No!

Never!

Yet today…

He had all of his face!

"Ling Jiu, show yourself!"

Christopher Adam growled angrily. "Give me face to face, what's the point in sneaking around?"

"Fine! I'll fulfill your wish!"

Ling Jiu appeared in mid-air.

"Die!"

Seeing Ling Jiu, Christopher Adam roared as he flapped his wings and charged.

A golden light shone brightly around his body as the wings on his back were like sharp blades as it cut through the air, seemingly able to slice through anything.

Crossing the distance of hundreds of meters in an instant, Christopher Adam raised his fist and punched at Ling Jiu.

The Iron Fist!

It was his one and only technique!

It was also the strongest technique!

With his Supersonic speed, his pair of iron fists could rip through a Class 6 Direbeast, and he now wanted to use these two fists to defeat Ling Jiu.

"Good timing!"

Ling Jiu took a step back as he slowly lifted his right fist. His body suddenly took on a dazzling bright silver colour as if he had taken a mercury-form.

In an instant, Ling Jiu became a two meter tall robot.

"What Arcana was that?"

"Alloy Form?"

"Is this Ling Jiu's power-type Arcana?"

The spectators' eyes widened, Shi Gang's eyes also widened.Although he knew Ling Jiu had such an Arcana, it was the first time he saw the Tungsten Form.

"No matter what Arcana you have, you are not my match!"

Christopher Adamn roared as he blasted his fist out.

Crack!!

The golden fist instantly collided with the silver fist, and following that was a massive thunderclap, causing everyone's ears to ring as they involuntarily covered them.

The raging waves rampaged all over and the charging Christopher Adam was sent flying backwards, tumbling back for several dozen meters before finally stabilizing himself.

On the other hand, Ling Jiu stood there unmoving. With just a single exchange, supremacy was established!

"You… You…"

Christopher Adam's expression changed dramatically as he felt an aching pain coming from his right arm. When he looked at Ling Jiu standing there motionless once again, his eyes were full of disbelief.

"It's not that I'm bragging, but in terms of strength, you don't even deserve to be my sandal-bearer!"

Ling Jiu stepped on air as he walked toward Christopher Adam step by step. His silver body was shining all over as he took confident steps like a silver-armored God of War from the primordial heavens.

"The speed that you are so proud of is nothing but a joke before me!"

Ling Jiu took a step forward, and appeared before Christopher Adam like a phantom as he shot out a straight hook.

"Flying Thunder Smash!"

Dushh!!

Christopher Adam's chest instantly sank as he puked out a mouthful of blood and flew backward uncontrollably.

He then tumbled straight into the Murray River, and was washed away by the rapids, no one knew whether he was still alive or dead.

The entire place fell silent!

All of the students looked at Ling Jiu, who was standing in the air, like an ancient god. They felt their throat dry as they all gulped their saliva back.

"He… lost?"

"Christopher actually lost?"

"He's strength is stronger than Christopher, is he still human?"

"Two hits! He took down Christopher in just two hits!"

"Monster…"

All of the spectators discussed as their disdain and taunts disappeared, and were replace by shock and incredulity.

The same was true of Shi Gang as well.

"I know he was strong!"

Shi Gang smiled bitterly. "But I did not expect him to be that strong!"

"You people from Huaxia are all monsters!" Dylon huffed.

"The others may be monsters, but I'm sure as hell not. The gap between me and them is just too big!" Shi Gang smiled bitterly.

Ling Jiu did not know nor care what others thought. He looked at all of them and the meaning in his eyes was obvious: Anyone else?

The moment the students' eyes met his, all of them lowered their heads knowingly.

With Ling Jiu beating Christopher Adam in just two hits, they admitted that they were not his match, and stood aside.

Ling Jiu nodded with satisfaction before flying to the Rainbow Snake floating in the air.

Although the Rainbow Snake was made out of seven special substances, it was a dead object without its own consciousness. Ling Jiu waved his hand and kept it inside his Dimensional Bag before leaving straight away.

"Huhhh… he finally left!"

"That's bloody terrifying!"

"When I met him in the eyes earlier, I felt a little out of breath!"

"A pity! That's a set of special substances, and it was taken away just like that. Ah, what a loss!"

"Ling Jiu, I'll remember you!"

…

Voosh voosh!

Not long after Ling Jiu left, a series of figures appeared one after another, they were the students who came late, and when they learned that the Rainbow Snake had already been captured by Ling Jiu, anger raged in their chest.

Two million points…

Gone just like that!

Damn it!

"Where did he go to?"

"I'd advise you guys not to go look for him."

"Why?"

"You lot can't beat him!"

"Get lost!"

…

What happened after that Ling Jiu had no idea as he went straight back to the training camp.

Although there was still time, there was no longer any need to hunt. He had killed 98 Class 6 Direbeasts on Thursday, and on Friday, he had hunted 102 of them.

The number of Direbeasts he had hunted on the past two days was 200 in total, worth a total of 2 million points, and once adding the extra two million points from capturing the Rainbow Snake…

He had a total of four million points!

Ling Jiu believed that no one could surpass him now, and if that was the case, why waste time hunting the Direbeasts?

Not like he could sell it for money anyway!

When he came to the back office department, Ling Jiu handed in his harvest, and just when he was about to leave, he was told the camp commandant was looking for him.

"Commandant!"

Ling Jiu came to the camp commandant's office.

"Ling Jiu, you've gotten the Rainbow Snake?" The commandant motioned for Ling Jiu to seat down, and then asked with a smile.

"Yes, sir!"

"Very good!"

The commandant nodded, and smiled. "First of all, congratulations on getting the Rainbow Snake!"

"Thank you!"

Ling Jiu smiled shyly, while he could act without restrain before the students, he would be better off keeping a lower profile before a boss-like figure like the camp commandant.

"Ling Jiu, if it's convenient for you, can I help you appraise the Rainbow Snake?" The camp commandant said with interest.

"Of course!"

Ling Jiu nodded, and with a wave of his hand, he took out the Rainbow Snake.

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Chapter 100: Seven Top Tier, Ultimate Treasures

As soon as the Rainbow Snake appeared, it exuded a dazzling rainbow color and dazzled the entire room.

With a wave of his hand, the Rainbow Snake obediently flew over to him.

Immediately afterward, the camp commandant grabbed and pulled a few times as the Rainbow Snake came apart in an instant, transforming into seven different materials!

"This is the true face of the seven special substances!" The camp commandant said with a smile.

Ling Jiu's eyes widened, and the seven substances that were suspended before him were a piece of silver metal, a piece of scarlet wood, a blue water orb, a purple flame, yellow soil, a bolt of black lightning, and a white light orb.

"Amazing!"

Ling Jiu could not help but marvel at them. When they were still in the form of the Rainbow Snake, they were just seven colored lights and were far different from what they were now.

"Special substances are the essence of nature!" The camp commandant smiled. "We'll look at them one by one!"

"First of all, the silver metal!"

The camp commandant took the silver metal in his hand and squeezed it lightly and the metal did not even move.

The camp commandant nodded slightly. "Very high hardness, and is not much weaker than the hardest Zanderman Alloy, and its flexibility is also good!"

"Level: Top-tier Treasure of Heaven and Earth!"

Top-tier Treasure of Heaven and Earth!

Ling Jiu was shocked. How valuable was a Top-tier treasure of heaven and earth again? If he sold it to the company, he could sell it for 100 billion and 1000 contribution points.

One hundred billion!

One thousand contribution points!

That was just outrageous!

"Then there's this piece of wood!"

The camp commandant took up the scarlet wood and kneaded it gently as a look of surprise appeared on his face. "Its lifeforce is very abundant, and…"

He did not know what the camp commandant did, and the scarlet wood that was originally the size of an apple grew at a speed visible to the eye.

"It could also absorb Gene Arcana to hasten its growth. This is very impressive, an excellent wood-type cold weapon!"

The camp commandant then exclaimed, "Also, the hardness of this wood is very high and is not much weaker than the Zanderman Alloy. It is also very dense!"

"Level: Top-tier Treasure of Heaven and Earth!"

Another top-tier treasure of heaven and earth!

Ling Jiu was beyond excited!

"Then this blob of liquid!"

The camp commandant put down the scarlet wood, and then picked up the blue liquid to appraise it.

"It's dense and very heavy, and also highly corrosive. Its corrosive ability is even more terrifying than aqua regia. It is strong enough to melt most of the substances in the world, very dangerous!"

"Level: Top-notch heaven and earth treasure!"

"The temperature of this flame is very high, and the color has reached purple and is close to being transparent, this reflects the extreme temperature, and is about 7000!"

"Normally, the temperature of a fire is determined by its color."

"A red-orange flame is about 3000C, a yellow-white flame is about 4000C, while a cyan-blue flame is about 5000 to 6000C, and a purple flame is generally above 7000C!"

"A flame that's above 7000C is already a top-tier treasure of heaven and earth!"

"Look at this soil then…"

As all of the materials were appraised one by one, even Ling Jiu got a little numb from his excitement. All seven items were all top-tier treasures of heaven and earth!

Seven hundred billion yuan plus seven thousand contribution points!

It was just too incredible!

"Ling Jiu, even I have to envy your luck. All seven of these special substances are top-tier treasures of heaven and earth!"

The camp commandant exclaimed, "Moreover, all of them have one common characteristic: growth!"

"In other words, as long as they are infused with Gene Arcana, they can grow!"

"Growth, for a weapon, is a very rare attribute. That means it could grow from small to large, weak to strong, which will be of great convenience to its owner!"

"All right! All of them have been appraised. Keep them safe. As for what you want to do with them, that's your problem!"

"Whether you keep it for your own collection, or to sell to the company, do as you please!"

"Thank you, Sir!"

Ling Jiu thanked him sincerely.

"But I have to remind you!"

The camp commandant suddenly looked serious. "Obviously, this is a set of heavenly and earthly treasures, and their value is totally comparable to an ultimate treasure of heaven and earth!"

"An ultimate treasure of heaven and earth is something even a Level 7 or Level 8 Arcanists will be tempted with."

"So, try not to expose them, or else it will bring you no end of trouble!"

"Understood?" the camp commandant said solemnly.

"Understood, Sir!"

Ling Jiu nodded quickly.

"You may leave!"

"Yes, Sir!"

Coming out from the camp commandant's office, the sky was already dark. The stars in the sky were shining bright as Ling Jiu could not help but breathe a long sigh.

The sky in this world is really nice, and the stars so beautiful!

"Wahahaha! I've struck the jackpot!"

"Ultimate treasure of heaven and earth! Those are stuff worth tens of thousands of contribution points!"

"I'm so damn lucky!"

Ling Jiu wished that he could just laugh out loud. Each of these seven special substances is a top-tier treasure of heaven and earth. If sold separately, each would net him at least 700 billion and 7000 contribution points.

However, if put together, that was the ultimate treasure of heaven and earth, and its value was over one trillion with tens of thousands of contribution points. Ling Jiu had just struck a proverbial windfall!

"Hahaha, forget training tonight. Time to sleep!"

…

Time passed in a blink of an eye and it was time for the weekly leaderboard update, so all of the students gathered in the central square again.

"Ling Jiu, you're sure to get first place this time!"

Shi Gang said with an envious look. "Just the reward for completing the ad-hoc mission alone is 2 million points, so first place is definitely yours!"

"I'm screwed tho, although I found a new teammate, and my score had improved compared to last week, but… it's still not enough!"

"Just gotta work hard!"

Ling Jiu patted Shi Gang on the shoulder.

At this moment, many students were watching the rankings while also observing Ling Jiu at the same time.

Ling Jiu did not have a particularly eye-catching reputation, even if he was ranked ninth the first time, and third the second time, not many paid attention to him.

After all, everyone's eyes were on the first and second place, who would care about the third?

However, in the Battle of Murray River, Ling Jiu had decisively defeated Christopher Adam and completed the mission by taking the Rainbow Snake, thus, he became completely famous!

"He is Ling Jiu?"

"A very ordinary-looking guy, how did he beat Christopher?"

"He actually got the Rainbow Snake, damn his dogsh*t luck!"

"Hmph, even if he gets first place, it's because of that Rainbow Snake. He'll be beaten down next time, and overtaken by Zhou Ji and Christopher Adam again!"

"It's been updated!

"The leaderboard has been updated!"

Someone yelled and all of the students looked at the leaderboard at the same time.

"Sure enough, Ling Jiu is number one!"

"Damn, his score is just damn high!"

"Just a lucky b*stard, what's there to hype anyway?"

"No, look carefully, his result is just ridiculous!"

"Isn't it 2 million-odd? What's there to see?"

"What? Four million? You gotta be kidding me!"

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Chapter 101: Taking the Top, Power Pairing

Seeing the name at the top of the leaderboard and the results beside it, all of the students were stunned.

Ling Jiu had completed the ad-hoc mission and gotten 2 million points. Everyone had heard of it, and they knew that, provided there were no other surprises, Ling Jiu would take first place this week.

However, no one had expected Ling Jiu's results to reach such a terrifying level.

"Number One: Ling Jiu, 4 million."

Four million!

A whole 4 million!

How did he get that?

"The two million bonus points aside, Ling Jiu still had another two million points? Good lord, he had actually earned that many points?"

"He had killed 200 Class 6 Direbeasts in three short days, is he still human?"

Everyone's shock was even more compounded. Two million points itself was a terrifying number, but one could just look at the rankings that followed.

"Number Two: Zhou Ji, 1.54 million."

"Number Three: Hirano Hatake, 1.49 million."

"Number Four: Christopher Adam, 1.29 million."

Zhou Ji, who ranked second, only got 1.64 million points, the third-placed Hirano Hatake only got 1.59 million, while the fourth only had 1.29 million.

Clearly, due to the impact of the ad-hoc mission, be it Zhou Ji, Hirano Hatake, or Christopher Adam, all of their results were negatively affected.

This was understandable!

The question was, Ling Jiu too was affected by the ad-hoc mission, but why his results did not decrease but instead increased more than before?

He only had 1.54 million last week, and this week it soared all the way to 2 million points. How did he do it?

"That is to say, even without the 2 million bonus points, Ling Jiu could have gotten first place this week?"

"Amazing!"

"Ling Jiu only ranked ninth on the first week with 615,000 points and ranked third in the second week with 1.54 million points. He shot up to 2 million points straight away this week. His rate of progress is just too terrifying!"

"Unless he had been hiding his strength, this rate of improvement is just…"

The students were all full of shock and admiration. Before the release of the results, some people still disapproved of him, thinking that Ling Jiu's rise to the top was due to the ad-hoc mission.

But now, no one would think so!

For him to be able to get 2 million points while being affected by the ad-hoc mission.

If he was not affected by the ad-hoc mission, how strong could he be then?

Coupled with Ling Jiu's resounding victory over Christopher Adam, his position in the hearts of the students had reached an incredible level!

If Zhou Ji and Christopher Adam were the focus of discussion among the students two weeks ago, then from now on, Ling Jiu had taken their place.

"How did that guy progressed so quickly?"

Ai Yuhe and Yang Ling'er who had arrived not too long ago too looked at Ling Jiu. Their beautiful eyes were full of astonishment and even a hint of being convinced.

To be honest, before coming to the camp, while they had regarded Ling Jiu as a friend, they did not think Ling Jiu was stronger than them.

They were the most talented geniuses of Chang'an Base City, which was best proven by their entrance into the super training camp without taking needing to compete.

But now…

"But I won't lose to you!"

Ai Yuhe clenched her pinkish fist as a powerful fighting spirit appeared in her beautiful eyes. "I will defeat you one day!"

"With Ling Jiu's rate of improvement, beating him will be a pipedream!"

Yang Ling'er sighed. "Although I had not known him for long, I can tell that that guy is not only talented, he is also a training freak!"

"He doesn't surf the web, he doesn't engage in needless banter, he doesn't play games, he doesn't drink and play… He totally has no distractions as he places all of his focus in training, just like an ascetic monk!"

"With his amazing perseverance, and firm determination, this sort of character, plus a talent that is no weaker than ours, the gap between him and us will only get bigger and bigger!"

"Damn you, Ling'er, how dare you look down on me!"

Ai Yuhe was embarrassed to the point of anger, yet she did not know how to refute as all of these seemed to be the truth. She looked at Ling Jiu, and then back at herself.

Net surfing, shopping, chatting, beauty treatments, games… Was there one that she did not sink her hands into?

Talent?

She was no worse than Ling Jiu!

Her mind, however?

It seems like it's beyond comparison!

"In any case, I won't admit defeat so easily!"

Ai Yuhe snorted and stared at Ling Jiu's back. "If I cannot catch up to him in this life… I… I'll…"

"Then you'll what?"

Yang Ling'er teased.

"I will marry him!"

Ai Yuhe was forced to a corner and blurted that out.

Dush!

Yang Ling'er chuckled, and Ai Yuhe's petite face flushed as she then pounced and fought Yang Ling'er.

"You brat…."

…

"Ling Jiu, you're really amazing!"

Shi Gang looked at Ling Jiu with admiration. "I did not expect you had even overtaken Zhou Ji who had been number one for two straight weeks!"

"I was lucky!"

Ling Jiu smiled. "Let's go back to the dorm!"

"Yeah."

The two left the central plaza under the watchful eyes of all of the students.

After walking a distance, Shi Gang could not help but snigger. "Ling Jiu, did you notice, the girls were looking at you weird just now!"

"Is that so?"

Ling Jiu raised his eyebrow.

"Of course!"

Shi Gang was sure. "This is the era where the strong are respected. No matter where you go, the strong would be the focus of all, and the training camp is no exception!"

"You may not have noticed, but the eyes of the girls looking at you were scorching hot, especially those European and American girls who are much more open and bolder did not even conceal their admiration and love for you. I believe if you want to do anything with them, they'll be happy to oblige, hehehe!"

Shi Gang winked with a perverted expression on his face.

"I'm not interested in foreign broads!"

Ling Jiu shook his head. "Their skin is too rough, and their body odor's too strong!"

"It's a pity you don't like foreign broads!"

Shi Gang was speechless. "But I still have to remind you that all of the training camp students like to socialize with one another, and many of the opposite sex even ended up as husband and wives. Do you know why that is?"

"Why?"

Ling Jiu could roughly guess the reason.

"Simple!"

Shi Gang said, "All of the students who can come to the super training camp are very talented, and they could be Level 6 or 7 Arcanist at the very least. They are powerful, and with the same class, and good genes to boot!"

"So, whether you consider it from your own perspective, or for the next generation, it is undoubtedly the best choice to pick a partner from the opposite sex in the training camp!"

"This is the power pairing!"

Shi Gang said with an expression of knowing. "After all, the chances of Arcanist offsprings to awaken their Arcana is many times higher than normal people, and many outstanding Arcanas can even be passed onto one's offspring. This is a globally recognized fact!"

"So, according to you, looking for a partner in the super training camp is the best choice!" Ling Jiu seemed to be tempted.

"You think?"

Shi Gang said excitedly. "So, you have to seize the opportunity. With your strength and talent, finding a girlfriend in the training camp is just too easy!"

"I'll think about it!"

Chapter 102: Third Time Number One, Rich Rewards

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

About 11 o'clock in the evening, Ling Jiu arrived at Underground Room 12 on time.

Zhou Ji, Christopher, Hirano Hatake, and the rest of the top nine had arrived. Christopher did not die after getting washed away and came back alive.

However, he was now looking at Ling Jiu with vengeful eyes. If his gaze could kill, Ling Jiu would have been flayed alive!

Ling Jiu ignored him. If he could beat Christopher once, he could do it twice. Christopher was a complete loser to him.

It was also worth mentioning that the girls outnumbered the boys for this week's top nine; it was four men and five women.

Aside from the four boys in Ling Jiu, Zhou Ji, Christopher Adam, Hirano Hatake, the remaining five students were all girls. Ai Yuhe and Yang Ling'er were among them, giving off a ladies' supremacy sort of feeling.

The nine students stood in front of Underground Room 12 as they waited for the alloy gate to open.

Zhou Ji came over and grumbled, "Ling Jiu, you sure did screw me over. My three-time first place award is gone just like that!"

"Hahaha, you only need three first places anyway, you'll have plenty of chances in the future." Ling Jiu said.

"Well, you're right on that!"

Zhou Ji sighed and smiled bitterly. "But I don't know why, I suddenly have a feeling that the first place might say goodbye to me from now on!"

"With your strength, you'll definitely have a chance!" Ling Jiu smiled and consoled him.

"Are you Ling Jiu?"

At this moment, a sweet voice rang out and Ling Jiu turned his head as he saw a tall Caucasian beauty was looking at him with a smile on her face.

Her waterfall-like blonde hair, and her sapphire-like eyes, her leek-like straight long legs, her tall nose, and sexy lips…

A beauty!

A foreign one to boot!

"I am Ling Jiu!"

Ling Jiu nodded.

"I'm Christina Millie, do I have the pleasure to know you?" The white beauty offered her hand and smiled enthusiastically.

"Of course!"

…

"See that? Sister He, the man you are going to marry seems to be very popular!"

Not too far away, Yang Ling'er pointed at Ling Jiu, who was talking to Christina, as she whispered to Ai Yuhe.

"You brat, what are you talking about? Who's going to marry him?"

Ai Yuhe glared at Ling Jiu and then her pretty eyes kept looking at the two from time to time.

"Sister He, are you nervous?" Yang Ling'er let out a muffled smile as she put a hand over her mouth.

"Who's… Who's nervous?"

"Then why is your heart beating so fast?"

"Nonsense!"

…

After getting Ling Jiu's phone number, Christina left satisfied.

Zhou Ji could not help but mutter, "That woman is just too wily. She had asked for my number a few days ago, and she won't even look at me today. She's just too pragmatic!"

"A 'power-digger' I guess!"

Ling Jiu shrugged. "You can just deal with women like this casually, no need to take her to heart!"

"I think so too!"

Soon, it was 12 o'clock, and Ling Jiu came to the training room. He drank the superior-level life-reinforcing liquid and superior-level Gene Arcana strengthening liquid before he started his training.

…

He trained his Gene Arcana for the first three days.

And then go hunting in the wilderness for the next three.

His schedule was full and compact, and in a blink of an eye, another two weeks had passed.

"It's been updated!"

"The leaderboard has been updated!"

"Sure enough!"

"Ling Jiu is number one again!"

"If I remember correctly, isn't this the third time Ling Jiu have gotten first place? To dominate the first place for a long period of time, he sure is the number one in the training camp!"

"Wow, 3.1 million points… That's so outrageously despairing. How can folks like us in the 200 to 300 thousand range even survive?"

"Well, don't compare us with him. He's a beast. Didn't you see that the second-placed Zhou Ji didn't even hit 2 million?"

"You're right…"

"Say, anyone saw Ling Jiu? Isn't the leaderboard being updated today, why isn't he around?"

"Shi Gang, where's Ling Jiu?"

"I've called him earlier, and he was too lazy to come down. What can I do?"

"Stronk! He's so confident that he couldn't be bothered to look at the leaderboard…"

Ling Jiu was really not interested in looking at the leaderboard update. With his haul in the past three days being up for show there, he knew what he had accomplished, so there was no need to see.

Being overtaken?

Very unlikely!

Unless Zhou Ji, Christopher Adam, or Hirano Hatake whose trailing behind him reached Level 6, they would not be able to surpass him!

Surpassed by any other person?

Even more impossible!

After drinking the superior-level life-enhancing fluid and superior-level Gene Arcana strengthening liquid, and enjoy the high concentration of Gene Arcana in the first level of Underground Room 12, Ling Jiu was confident that his training was faster than everyone else.

Surpass?

How?

With what?

Where was Ling Jiu now again?

He was taking a dump.

"I've taken first three times now, when will my reward be given?"

"Hehehe, Ultimate Gene Arcana secret technique, 10,000 times the absorption efficiency, I've been eyeing that for a long time now!"

With two Crystal Demonic Orchid and the seven special substances, Ling Jiu could totally sell them to the company, and purchase the Ultimate Gene Arcana secret technique.

But Ling Jiu did not do that!

Since the training camp would give out one, why would he go through the trouble to purchase one! That's just wasteful!

Therefore, Ling Jiu was not in a hurry to purchase it, and instead waited for today to come.

"Aside from the Ultimate Gene Arcana secret technique, there's also a top-tier treasure of heaven and earth worth 1000 contribution points, alongside a top-tier Gene Arcana elixir worth 1000 contribution points!"

"Heh, my eyes spin thinking about it, when will it exactly be given?"

"Ling Jiu!"

"Ling Jiu!"

"Ling Jiu!"

Just as Ling Jiu was muttering about the award, the broadcast system suddenly rang out from every corner of the camp.

Whether it was Ling Jiu who was squatting in his dorm or the students in the central plaza, all of them heard it.

"What's going on?"

Ling Jiu was stunned.

"Calling for Ling Jiu?"

All of the students were stunned too.

"Student Ling Jiu has accumulated three first place on the leaderboard. According to the rules, you will be able to get a special reward, please come immediately to the camp commandant's office to collect it!"

"I was wondering why did they call him for, eh, it's just to collect a reward!"

"As expected!"

"Isn't it just the reward for achieving three first places in a row? Why did they need to make it so grand, as if to let the whole world know?!"

"What else but to 'motivate' us…"

"Go to the camp commandant's office to receive the award?"

Ling Jiu shouted excitedly and immediately put on his pants as he shot out of the dorm like the wind. Barely a moment later, he had reached the camp commandant's office.

"Ling Jiu, please have a seat!"

The camp commandant motioned for Ling Jiu to sit. "You've accumulated three first places on the leaderboard. You have proven your efforts and hard work with your actions, so naturally, you will be rewarded. I'm sure you've heard about them!"

Ling Jiu nodded quickly.

"There are three rewards!"

The camp commander said, "First, an Ultimate Gene Arcana secret technique, not much is needed to be said about this. You can just choose yourself later, their effect is pretty much the same!"

"Second, a top-tier treasure of heaven and earth, you can choose from one of the following!"

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Chapter 103: Replication Exposed, Extinction Crisis

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The camp commandant pushed the computer in front of Ling Jiu, and listed on it was a series of top-tier treasures of heaven and earth. Ling Jiu held his breath as he browsed it carefully.

"Bottle Tree Heart: A natural Arcana awakening elixir, and is usually used for the third awakening. Awakening rate: 60%!"

"Resurrection Rose Ginseng: Contains a large amount of life force, and could restore flesh and bones. One could recover even when on the verge of death."

"Titan Konjac: Body strengthening elixir, a Titan Konjac can increase one's physical attributes by ten times without any side effects."

"Ivory Mutinus: Can increase Gene Arcana, a single Ivory Mutinus could increase one's Gene Arcana for 5 years."

"Giant Nepenthes: Arcana awakening elixir. Can allow" people to awaken the Parasite Arcana, allowing the Arcanist to parasitize on the plant and animals, absorbing the life force of animals and plants to enhance oneself."

…

Browsing the list one by one, Ling Jiu felt his throat dry. As expected of a top-tier treasure of heaven and earth, every single one was extremely shocking, and he wanted them all.

If he could, he would take all of them, but that was obviously impossible.

He could only select one.

Ling Jiu was lost in his thought, these treasures of heaven and earth could be roughly divided into four categories:

Arcana awakening type, Gene Arcana enhancement type, body enhancement type, weapon type.

Ling Jiu immediately passed on body enhancement type and weapon type treasures. He already had the Tungsten Form Arcana and did not need to strengthen his body for the time being.

He did not need weapons either, as he had just obtained seven special weapons.

The remaining ones are Arcana awakening type and Gene Arcana enhancement types.

"An Arcana awakening-type could help my Replication Arcana to undergo a third awakening. It would be even stronger, and the cooldown even shorter!

"Besides, the Gene Arcana enhancement type can greatly enhance my inner strength and greatly reduce the time I need to break through to Level 6. It is also a good choice!"

Ling Jiu demurred.

The former enhances his Replication!

The latter strengthens his inner powers!

Both were tempting!

It won't be easy to choose!

"What should I choose?"

The camp commander smiled. "If I were you, I would choose a deep awakening-type treasure of heaven and earth like the Bottle Tree Heart."

"Ugh…"

Ling Jiu was stunned.

"You have a very rare Replication Arcana, and if I'm not mistaken, all of the Arcana you had replicated should be permanent!"

The camp commandant's voice rose. "Your Replication Arcana is very powerful, and if I were you, I will strengthen the Replication Arcana and perfect it as much as possible!"

Ling Jiu was dumbstruck.

He had never told anyone about his Replication Arcana, but now the camp commandant had just mentioned it in front of his face. How did he find out?

Ling Jiu panicked a little!

Seems like my guess was right on the mark!

Seeing Ling Jiu's expression, the camp commandant knew he was right, and smiled. "Ling Jiu, did you know how I saw through it?"

Ling Jiu smiled bitterly and shook his head.

"It's like this, in order to ensure the safety of all of the students, the training camp will install a nanobot on every student!"

The camp commandant explained. "It has tracking, positioning, and real-time filming and other functions, so your every move in the wilderness is under our watch!"

"Oh, I see!"

Ling Jiu smiled bitterly.

"…Especially for the best students like you lot are the company's high-level, elite, central pillars, so the protection of all of you cannot be slack!"

The camp commandant explained. "Should anyone of you run into danger, every trainer in the camp, me included, will likely come to your rescue."

Ling Jiu expressed understanding.

"So, all of your performance in the wilderness is well known to us, and so far, you have shown four different types of Arcana, Earth Manipulation, Gravity, Tungsten Form, and Blink!"

The camp commander smiled as he looked at Ling Jiu. "Of course, a person would not have four of such powerful Arcanas at the same time, especially a low-level Arcanist like you!"

"So, I thought of the Replication Arcana that had collectively appeared this year!"

"Immediately after, I looked up your resume, and noted that all four Arcanas that you have at the moment had appeared in your friends and teammates! So, I guessed that you have a Replication Arcana!"

"I thought I was being very secretive about it, but in the end, it was still exposed!" Ling Jiu smiled bitterly.

"Ling Jiu, I understand very why you are hiding your Replication Arcana. After all, your Replication Arcana is very perfect, and overpowered to boot!"

The camp commandant then laughed. "But I can responsibly tell you that you don't really need to worry about exposing your Replication Arcana!"

"Why?"

Ling Jiu was slightly taken aback.

The camp commandant stood up and slowly walked around the room. "Do you know what is the goal of the company's creation of the super training camp, and the ultimate reserve camp?"

Ling Jiu shook his head.

"It's to search for young talents like you, and cultivate your talents as soon as possible to deal with the crisis we are facing!"

"A crisis?"

Ling Jiu was stunned.

"As for what exact crisis it is, you don't have to know for the time being. You only need to know that the world is far more dangerous than what you see, and we are facing an unprecedented crisis!"

The camp commandant's voice was low. "A crisis enough to see human's extinction!"

"An extinction crisis?"

Ling Jiu was startled. "Sir, is it that serious?"

"I'll give you a simple statistic, and you'll understand soon enough!"

The camp commandant said slowly. "Last year, a total of 11 Level 9 Arcanists, 103 Level 8 Arcanists, and 862 Level 7 Arcanists had been killed worldwide!"

Ling Jiu was shocked to the core. "Sir… Sir, how could a Level 8 and 9 Arcanist get killed? Those are the most powerful Arcanists there are!"

"There are no absolutes in this world. Even a Level 9 Arcanist may perish!"

The camp commandant's voice sank. "So, we are in a very precarious situation. There are people bleeding and sacrificing their lives at every moment. The short peace we have now is exchanged using the lives of many elite Arcanists!

"As more and more elite Arcanists perish, the situation face becomes more and more perilous. We urgently need more fighting strength, and you… all of you are that source of strength!

"So, you don't have to worry that something bad will happen to you once your Replication Arcana is exposed. It's a totally unnecessary worry!

"The stronger you become, the more overpowered you are, the happier and more welcoming we are!"

"I see!"

Ling Jiu nodded heavily.

"Very good!"

The camp commandant nodded in return. "So now you know what to choose?"

"I'll choose the Bottled Tree Heart!"

"Very good!"

The camp commander opened another page. "Here's the top-tier Gene Arcana elixirs!"

As Ling Jiu looked at the various Genetic Arcana elixirs, he asked, "Sir, do you have any suggestions?"

"Your Replication Arcana is already overpowered enough, so for the Gene Arcana elixirs, I think you can just pick whatever you like. I think the Turbellarian Self-Healing Elixer is pretty good!

"Using this elixir, you will gain a decent self-healing ability, and even when you're wounded, you can heal up in a very short amount of time, and greatly increase your survivability!"

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Chapter 104: Third Awakening, Replicating Again

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Ling Jiu returned to the dormitory.

"You're back?"

Shi Gang came over excitedly with a cheeky smile on his face. "What did you get? Make me jealous!"

Ling Jiu smiled and said. "One Ultimate Gene Arcana secret technique, one top-tier treasure of heaven and earth, and one top-tier Gene Arcana Elixir, the Turbellarian Self-Healing Elixir!"

"Damn! This sure is lavish!"

Shi Gang's eyes were green with envy. "An Ultimate Gene Arcana secret technique, a top-tier treasure of heaven and earth, a top-tier Gene Arcana Elixer, damn my jealous is about to get factored!"

"Then you gotta work harder!"

Ling Jiu smiled and then took off his shirt as he consumed the Bottle Tree Heart.

The Bottle Tree Heart had a calming effect, and after the appearance of Gene Arcana, the Bottle Tree too had evolved.

Its calming effect was infinitely amplified and finally had the ability to stimulate the causal body within a human's body, causing an Arcanist's Arcana to awaken at a deeper level.

"The third awakening!"

Ling Jiu was full of anticipation!

After a short while, he felt a warm feeling sweeping through his body. His mind was at an unprecedented peace as he then fell asleep.

"Damn, I'm jealous!"

Looking at Ling Jiu who has fast asleep after taking the elixir, Shi Gang was extremely envious.

If possible, he would also like to taste a top-tier treasure of heaven and earth someday. But sadly, it remains only a dream.

After sleeping for who knows how long, Ling Jiu finally woke up.

"This sleep was just too good!"

Ling Jiu stretched, and only felt refreshed and full of energy, with his state of mind better than ever.

"They are both treasures of heaven and earth, but the gap between the Crystal Demonic Orchid and the Bottle Tree Heart is just too big!"

One produced hallucinations…

One calmed and soothed the mind…

One was painful suffering…

One was a good night's sleep…

What a world of difference!

"Has the third awakening happened?"

Ling Jiu slowly closed his eyes and began to probe the Arcana of the people around him.

After the second awakening, he could now check other's Arcana within five meters of his surrounding. Now, would its range now increase?

"Five meters, seven meters, nine meters…"

"Sure enough!"

Ling Jiu smiled. "The detection range has been expanded from 5 meters to 10 meters!"

The expansion of the detection range indicated the third awakening of the Replication Arcana had been successful!

At the same time, Ling Jiu was also delighted to discover that he could replicate once again.

What does this mean?

The cooldown period had shortened once again!

One needed to know that only 15 days had since passed since Ling Jiu replicated the 'Ten-Thousand Gene Arcana' Arcana!

What did this mean then?

It meant that the Replication Arcana's cooldown period was less than 15 days now. As for the specific number of days, he needed to continue to observe!

"Ten-meter replication range!"

"A cooldown period of fewer than 15 days!"

"The replication ability is stronger!"

Ling Jiu felt good.

With a 15 day cooldown period, that means he could replicate two Arcanas a month on average. Twice a month, that's terrifying!

Ling Jiu could imagine what a grand occasion it would be when he replicates thousands of Arcanas in his body. Would he become an omnipotent god, or something else even?

"Just thinking about it is exciting!"

Ling Jiu shook his head as he got out of the bed. It was late at night now, and Shi Gang was sitting on the bed absorbing Gene Arcana and was busy training.

"What's the time now?"

Ling Jiu took out his mobile phone.

"F*ck! It's 11:50!"

Ling Jiu perked up and immediately climbed out of the bed as he hurried out of the dorm. Fortunately, he woke up in time, or else he would have missed the training in Underground Room 12.

When he arrived at Underground Room 12, the alloy door had yet to be opened, and Zhou Ji and the other eight students were waiting.

Seeing Ling Jiu's arrival, everyone looked over, with a look of envy, jealousy, and the like. All of them knew that Ling Jiu had received a reward!

"Ling Jiu, why are you late?"

Ai Yuhe frowned and asked.

"I just woke up, hahaha!" Ling Jiu laughed embarrassedly. Woke up…

All of the eight students suddenly felt discomfort. Sleeping?

He was sleeping?

Who the heck slept in this day and age? No one dared to even think about it. It was just too wasteful!

"I was beaten by a lazy guy who likes to sleep in?"

Christopher Adam stared at Ling Jiu as he felt bitter. He had already regarded Ling Jiu as a talented but lazy fool.

"To even find time to sleep is an absolute waste of your talent. This kind of person will only shine bright for a moment, but not for long! Just you wait and see, I will surpass you and trample you under my feet!"

Hirano Hatake and the other students also secretly swore. Ling Jiu had dominated the rankings for three straight weeks, and each time he beat them by 1 million points. It was a terrifying achievement that caused all other students to despair.

How were they supposed to catch up with such a massive gap between them?

However, at this moment, everyone's mind suddenly became active. How could a guy who slept in and not train to dominate the rankings for long?

They now saw hope in surpassing Ling Jiu and became fully motivated again!

Ai Yuhe and Yang Ling'er knew that Ling Jiu was not that sort of person. Just as they were about to ask, the alloy gate opened.

"Let's go in!"

When he came to the training room, Ling Jiu drank the life enhancement liquid and the Gene Arcana strengthening liquid as usual, and then he drank the Turbellarian Self-Healing Elixer.

His body became stronger!

Plus, his internal strength had improved again!

In the end, he obtained a powerful self-healing ability. With a slash, a gash appeared on his arm, and the wound healed at a speed that was visible to the eye.

Ten minutes later, the wound was completely healed, only the blood on the arm silently told the story of a cut that had been made here.

"What a powerful self-healing ability!"

Ling Jiu opened his eyes and smiled. "Even if I accidentally suffer a serious injury in the future, I'll be able to heal back up in no time, and my survivability will be greatly improved! Awesome!"

Ling Jiu recomposed himself and started studying the Ultimate Gene Arcana secret technique he had just obtained.

This Gene Arcana secret technique is called Devouring the Stars. It was a very powerful name, meaning that it could even devour the stars, and its power was there to be seen.

"Devouring the Stars…"

After an hour or so later, Ling Jiu had successfully learned this secret technique and tried to activate the Devouring the Stars technique for the first time.

All of the Gene Arcana within a radius of 10,000 meters were being drawn and pulled towards Ling Jiu like swallows returning to their nest before pouring into his body in a frenzy!

Buzz…

Ling Jiu welcomed everything, and he absorbed everything that was drawn like a bottomless pit.

…

Three days had passed in a blink of an eye, and it was now the weekly live combat session. On Thursday morning, Ling Jiu piloted the maglev airship thousands of kilometers into the wilderness.

"Scan for Class 6 Direbeasts!"

"There's 18 of them to the southwest? Nice!"

Ling Jiu found the first Class 6 Direbeast. It was 30 meters long, with a gray-brown body with a snake-like head, and a pointed jaw. Its tail was long and its nostrils round…

It was a monitor lizard!

Class 6 Direbeast: The Morton Monitor

However, the Morton Monitor's condition was bad as it collapsed onto the ground with bloodied mucus dripping from its mouth, as if…

"Poisoned?"

Ling Jiu raised his eyebrows and showed a compassionate look. "I'm an experienced wildlife protector, seeing you suffering like this breaks my heart. I'll make it quick!"

Ling Jiu spread his palm as a piece of silver metal appeared in his hand.

The next moment, the silver metal rose into the wind as it transformed into a five-meter-long spear in a blink of an eye. The spear tip was extremely sharp as a cold gleam appeared under the sunlight.

"Go!"

Ling Jiu pointed.

Whoosh!!

The long spear shot out like an arrow, instantly ripping through the distance of several meters before appearing in front of the Morton Monitor's head and brutally pierced into it.

Dush!

The sudden pain caused the Morton Monitor to roar in pain as it thrashed about, but its head was already pierced open, how long can it struggle till?

A moment later, the Morton Monitor collapsed onto the ground and lay motionless.

"Heh, Ling'er's Arcana sure is good!"

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Chapter 105: Controlling the Five Elements, Two Girls in Danger

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Ling'er's Arcana?

That was right!

Just as he left the training camp, Ling Jiu had secretly copied Yang Ling'er's Arcana, the Five-Element Manipulation!

Controlling the five elements meant controlling gold, wood, water, fire, and earth. That meant, from today onwards, Ling Jiu could manipulate metals, plants, water, fire, and earth!

One, two, three, four, five…

It was equivalent to having four extra Arcanas, and that meant that five of the seven special substances he had would now come in handy. The silver metal that killed the Morton Monitor earlier was one of them.

"Continue!"

A few minutes later, Ling Jiu came to the second Class 6 Direbeast, and with a flick of his finger, the razor-sharp alloy spear once again pierced through the head of the Class 6 Direbeast, pinning its carcass to the ground.

"Hehehe, it's so easy to use! I've finally experienced Magneto's power for the first time!"

Dush!!!

Dush!!

Dush!!!

A crazy slaughter started just like that. With his Blink and destructive silver metal, Ling Jiu's efficiency in hunting Class 6 Direbeasts was far, far more efficient than before.

On Thursday alone, Ling Jiu had killed 158 Class 6 Direbeasts, and if he were to maintain this efficiency for three consecutive days, he would be able to kill 450 Class 6 Direbeasts, and his score could reach a terrifying 4.5 million points!

One could imagine how outrageous Ling Jiu's hunting efficiency was now!

In the blink of an eye, it was Saturday morning. Sending Celeste on an errand, Ling Jiu also set off. Today's weather was very good, the sky was blue as a mirror, with no clouds at all.

"It's another good day!"

Ling Jiu turned on the Direbeast Radar and got ready to look for a suitable target. At this moment, his handphone suddenly rang.

"Who's calling me at this hour?"

Ling Jiu had a confused look, aside from his father and little sister, no one else would call him.

And both his father and little sister knew that he was hunting in the wilderness at this hour so they would not call to disturb him. So, who called him?

Ling Jiu took out his phone and took a look before being taken aback. She called?

"Ling'er, what's the matter?"

Ling Jiu answered the phone.

"Ling Jiu, a massive pack of Class 6 Direbeasts has appeared at our position, and there's also a Class 7 Direbeast as well. We are in a perilous situation now, can you save us?" Ling'er said anxiously.

"Send me your location!"

Ling Jiu said immediately.

He knew that the training camp had been monitoring every student, and perhaps rescue was already on the way, but since Yang Ling'er' had called him, it would be poor form for him to not join the rescue.

"Okay!"

After getting the position data, Ling Jiu piloted the maglev airship as he sped towards the spot. Thankfully, the distance between the two parties was not too far, and five minutes later, Ling Jiu had arrived at the place Yang Ling'er was at.

This was a large and empty valley, with earth-shattering roars constantly thundered across it as if a vicious battle was going on there.

Ling Jiu stored the maglev airship away and teleported to the valley. He soon arrived at the heart of it.

A massive pool appeared before his eyes, and the gloomy pool water exuded a bone-biting chill with a layer of white mist rippling across its surface.

On the mountain wall on the other end of the pool was a small cave.

At this moment, a swarm of Class 6 Direbeasts was attacking the cave in a crazy.

There were Giant Vajra Apes six to seven-story tall, Titan Pythons forty to fifty meters long, Sundering Longtusk Boars eight- to nine-story tall, and a thirty- to forty-meter tall drop bear…

So many raging Direbeasts were on the assault as if they were not afraid of death, seemingly wanting to raze the small cave to the ground.

The question was, what was drawing them to the cave?

"Is that Ling'er?"

Ling Jiu saw Yang Ling'er sitting, incapacitated, in the cave. Her face was pale with wounds all over her body, and behind her was a beautiful woman who was also equally bloodied, she was Ai Yuhe.

"Die!"

Yang Ling'er was in a frenzy as she desperately reduced the head of a Titan Python into dust, and she too seemed to have reached her limit as she spat out a mouthful of blood.

"Why isn't he here yet?"

Yang Ling'er was faltering. She was at her limits, be it her Gene Arcana or her physical strength, were completely exhausted, and she was only holding on by sheer willpower.

The most severe of her wounds was the one on her abdomen as blood constantly gushed out of it. She already felt that she had lost too much blood, and would suffer a shock at any moment.

"Am I going to die here?"

Yang Ling'er felt her head started to feel dizzy, as her vision turned black for a moment and she started to see hallucinations.

She saw a man and a woman holding a little girl in their hands as they ran across a vast prairie as the laughter of the family of three spread far and wide.

This image had appeared in Yang Ling'er's dream countless times now.

However, she could only clearly see the faces of the woman and the little girl every time it happens. The woman was her mother, and the little girl was herself, only the man's face was always blurred.

"Mommy, why does everyone else have a daddy, but I don't?"

"Your father is dead!"

"Mommy, I want Daddy!"

"Daddy…"

Yang Ling'er stretched her hand out to grab at the man, but as soon as she raised her hand, her strengthed were seemingly totally sapped, as she passed out completely.

"Ling'er!"

At this moment Ling Jiu appeared.

"Die!"

With a wave of his hand, the metal spear shot out like a beam as it darted among the Direbeast. Where ever it passed through, skulls were perforated.

Dush dush dush…

Within a few breath's time, all of the dozens of the besieging Class 6 Direbeasts had their heads punctured as they dropped onto the ground dead.

Ling Jiu blinked into the cave and put his finger over Yang Ling'er's nose and mouth. She was still alive. Ai Yuhe was also still alive but had passed out in a coma.

"Gotta evac them first!"

Ling Jiu glanced at the Direbeasts that continued to swarm in, before grabbing Yang Ling'er and Ai Yuhe before disappearing.

As soon as his foot left the ground, a giant head with a single horn appeared at the back of the pool as a pair of blue eyes radiated a chilling aura.

A Blue-eyed Green Scaled Dragon!

…

Bam!

The door to a ward in the training camp hospital was opened as a doctor in a white coat came out.

Ling Jiu quickly walked to the doctor. "Doctor Zhao, how are my friends doing?"

Doctor Zhao took off his mask. "One has mental trauma, probably suffered a mental attack, resulting in coma. Another one is in a very complicated situation!"

"Is it life-threatening?"

Ling Jiu asked.

"The one who suffered a mental attack is in relatively good condition. After giving her some treasure of heaven and earth to treat her mental trauma, she will recover without any problems!"

Dr. Zhao slowly said, "The trouble lies in the other patient. Not only has she lost too much blood, but she also has multiple organ failures. Her situation is very dangerous!"

"Doctor, you must save her, please!" Ling Jiu begged.

"That's the problem!"

Dr. Zhao sighed. "Her blood loss is severe, and we need to give her a blood transfusion, but the camp does not have a specialized blood bank, so…"

"Won't feeding Ling'er treasure of heaven and earth or elixirs work?" Ling Jiu asked.

There were so many treasures of heaven and earth and Gene Arcana elixirs around. Besides, there were many treasures that could help replenish blood, so why could they not directly treat her with that?

Moreover, the medical technology in this world was far ahead compared to his previous life, and Ling Jiu did not believe that they could not cure a case of severe blood loss.

"Student, you don't realize the severity of the problem!"

The doctor slowly explained, "With her current condition, forget withstanding the impact of the treasure of heaven and earth or potions, even if she could, we cannot abuse it!"

"Why?"

Ling Jiu frowned.

"Do you know the function of blood?"

The doctor slowly continued, "Blood has many functions, one of which is to transport various substances like nutrients, metabolites, oxygen, carbon dioxide, water, inorganic salts, and the like!

"In the case of severe blood loss, even if you inject treasure of heaven and earth or Gene Arcana elixirs into her body, it will not be able to bring to bear their full effect!"

"Then what should we do?"

"Blood transfusion then!"

The doctor said, "Given there's no blood bank in the camp, I'll give the camp commandant a call, and recall all of the students, and then have a blood test in hope of finding a suitable blood style, otherwise…"

"Test mine first!"

Chapter 106: Biological Siblings, Joy of an Elder Brother

Dr. Zhao instructed a nurse to draw blood from Ling Jiu for testing.

It did not take long before the blood test result came out. Lucky for them, their blood types matched and were good for blood transfusion.

Half an hour later, the blood transfusion had completed. Pink has returned to Yang Ling-er's face. She was not as pale as before.

"Is she okay now, Dr. Zhao?" Ling Jiu asked.

"Have you ever taken any self-healing potion or something like that, Ling Jiu?" Dr. Zhao asked back.

"Yeah."

Ling Jiu gave a slight nod.

"No wonder."

Dr. Zhao smiled. "Don't worry. Your blood carries a potent self-healing ability and your blood type is perfectly compatible with the patient.

"Not only has the blood eased the problems from losing too much blood but also the blood's self-healing property has repaired the failing organs. She will recover in no time."

"Thank you, Dr. Zhao."

Ling Jiu breathed a sigh of relief.

"I will leave you to it." the doctor said with a smile.

When Ling Jiu was just about to leave, the nurse who tested Ling Jiu's blood came over. "You may want to take a look at this, Dr. Zhao."

"What is it, Wang?"

"Isn't this Ling Jiu's blood test report? Is there any problem?" Dr. Zhao looked puzzled as he took the report from the nurse.

"You have to take a look at this too, Dr. Zhao."

The nurse handed him another blood test report.

"Who could it be?"

Dr. Zhao looked at Ling Jiu's report, then at another, his expression changed.

At first, Ling Jiu was leaving. But when he heard the conversation of Dr. Zhao and the nurse, he became curious. "Is there any problem, Dr. Zhao?"

Dr. Zhao hesitated for a second. "Are you and the patient siblings?"

Ling Jiu was dumbfounded, bursting out in laughter. "How could it be possible? I am from Lantian Base City and Ling-er from Chang'an. We have just met each other not long ago. We are merely friends."

"Not siblings?"

Dr. Zhao was flabbergasted. "Why do the blood test reports show you two are siblings?"

"Siblings?"

It was Ling Jiu's turn to become flabbergasted.

"Let me explain. Our arcanist blood test differs from the regular blood test carried out in other hospitals. We include DNA testing, such as mitochondrial, autosomes, autosomal DNA testing."

Dr. Zhao looked at Ling Jiu, his expression strange. "And the DNA analysis shows you and the patient have identical mitochondrion. Do you know what it means?"

Ling Jiu's heart skipped a beat.

"It means you and the patient come from the same mother."

"T-The same mother?"

Ling Jiu was thunderstruck.

"Our medical facilities in the camp are very high-tech. Works as simple as DNA testing won't go wrong."

Dr. Zhao emphasized as he continued. "The X chromosome analysis shows your and the patient's X chromosome are identical, which means you two come from the same father.

"The autosome analysis is the ultimate proof that…"

"Proof what?"

"You and the patient are siblings."

…

"Siblings?"

"Ling-er is my younger sister?"

After leaving the training camp hospital, the words of Dr. Zhao still rang in his head. His mind was muddled.

"How could it be possible?"

Ling Jiu shook his head, trying to keep his mind awake.

Younger sister?

It was impossible for a sister to come out of nowhere.

She either came from his father or both his father and mother.

He knew his father well. It was impossible to come from his father.

"As for Mother…"

Ling Jiu's brows were knitted together slightly.

From what he knew, he could roughly conclude that likely, his mother was Yang Su, the president of Yang Group.

After Yang Su left his father, and if she remarried and gave birth to a child, Ling Jiu likely had a half-sibling.

The question was, as far as Ling Jiu knew, Yang Su remained single all this time.

So how could she have another child?

Besides, even if she had a child with another man, the child would be his half-sibling. It could not be like what the blood test report showed—they shared the same parents.

So the million-dollar question was: Where did Yang Ling-er, his full sibling, came from?

"Of course! There is another possibility: Yang Su is not his biological mother. So who is? My head is going to explode!"

Losing himself in the thought, he came to the Logistics. After handing over the bodies of the direbeast, he returned to his dorm. He hesitated for a long while before calling his father on the phone.

"Ling Jiu."

"Dad."

…

Lantian Base City.

On a truck heading to the wilderness, Lin Tianci was sitting on the passenger seat chatting with the driver.

"You don't have to come along, Boss. Chen and I will get this handled. You are the company's boss. You shouldn't put yourself at risk by coming to the wilderness."

"We are delivering supplies to the military. I cannot take chances. Besides, this is our first order from the military. I want to make sure everything goes as planned."

"I understand your concern. But I have made over eight hundred trips on this route. Didn't I complete the task every time?"

Just then, Ling Tianci's cell rang. He looked at the screen, and a smile broke out on his face.

"Judging by your smile, Boss, it must be your arcanist son calling, I guess?" The driver gave a smile.

"Yeah."

Still with a smile on his face, Ling Tianci picked up the call. "Are you back from the wilderness, Ling Jiu?"

"I have just got home."

Ling Jiu had a casual chat with his father before going down to business. "I have something more serious to ask you, Dad."

"Something more serious?" Ling Tianci cocked an eyebrow.

"Am I your biological son?" Ling Jiu was careful with his question.

"What the hell are you talking about, you rascal?"

Ling Tianci hissed. "Of course, you are my biological son. Why do you think I had to work my butt off to raise you, huh? I am not a masochist!"

"Have you ever done a DNA test before?" Ling Jiu asked nervously.

"Err…"

Ling Tianci was startled. "Never. But what for? You look just like me. You are my son. There was no need to do that!"

Ling Jiu forced a smile. "Let us go have a DNA test next time. Aren't you worried that you've gotten me mixed up?"

"What is wrong with you, rascal? Did you hit your head somewhere? Why are you so strange today?"

Ling Tianci went mad. "Are you starting to look down on me because you are an arcanist now? Are you thinking of disowning me or something?"

"Do I look like I am that kind of person?"

Ling Jiu had an embarrassed smile on his face. Seriousness returned to his face. "You know what? I just got another sister out of nowhere! Biological sister!"

"What?"

Ling Tianci was dumbfounded.

Ling Jiu told him about what had happened today, and after he finished, Ling Tianci fell into silence.

A shivering voice came after a long while. "Do you have that child's photo, Ling Jiu?"

"Yeah, I think I have. We used to take a photo while having a meal together. Let me check."

Ling Jiu rummaged through his cell, and before long, he found a group photo of four and sent it to his father.

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Chapter 107: Treating the Legs, Ginseng of Life

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

"Pull over, Chen! Pull over!" Ling Tianci shouted.

"Yes, Boss!"

The truck ground to a halt on the side of the road. Ling Tianci stared at the screen of his cell. "The eyes, nose, mouth… I-It is almost cast in the same mold!"

"What mold, Boss?" The driver poked his head over.

"Help me take a look at this, Chen. Does this girl look like me?" Lin Tianci held his cell over.

"Err… You bet. She looks like you. Who is she, Boss?"

"My daughter."

Ling Tianci shivered with excitement. "Are you still there, Ling Jiu?"

"I'm here."

"She is your younger sister! Biological sister!"

Ling Tianci sounded emotional. "She looks like the younger version of your mom, cast from the same mold. I am a hundred percent sure she is my daughter!"

"I had a blood test just now. The result proves that she is my biological sister." Ling Jiu forced a smile. "The question is, where does she come from?"

Ling Tianci was silent for a while. "I am not sure about that. Probably your mom was pregnant when she left."

"We will find that out later. But one thing was sure," Ling Jiu said slowly. "The president of Yang Group is not my mom."

"Why is that?" Ling Tianci was startled.

"Because Ling'er has nothing to do with her," Ling Jiu said. "She was born to an ordinary single-parent family in Chang'an Base City, not having the slightest relationship with the Yang family, and definitely not Yang Su's daughter."

This was also the reason Ling Jiu was willing to befriend Yang Ling'er.

When he first met Yang Ling'er, he thought she came from the Yang family, and so was lukewarm towards her.

After Ai Yuhe introduced her to him and knowing that she had nothing to do with the Yang family, his attitude towards her immediately changed.

"How could it be possible? No way I would mistake someone else as her. She is your mom. No way I could make that mistake," Lin Tianci mumbled to himself.

"Don't think too much, Dad. I will find that out later. I will let you know as soon as I know the outcome."

…

After hanging up, Ling Jiu could not help but sigh. "Big headache!"

Forget it, leave it to another time. No rush. Before figuring out the truth, though, I better not tell Ling'er.

Thinking of this, Ling Jiu returned to the training camp hospital. He talked to Dr. Zhao, asking him not to tell the test result to Ling'er.

"Sure." Dr. Zhao agreed at once.

"How are they?" asked Ling Jiu.

"They have just taken the medication. They are recovering fast."

"Thank you, Dr. Zhao."

Three days had passed since when Ling Jiu came out of the Twelve Underground Chambers and went to the training camp hospital. A nurse on duty told him the two girls had regained consciousness and recovered faster.

He felt a sense of relief, thinking of visiting them tomorrow. But he heard the two girls' voices in the room, so he pushed the door open and walked in.

The two girls looked over at him.

"Who do you two feel?"

Ling Jiu had a smile on his face.

"We are good!"

Ai Yuhe had that grateful look on her face. "I heard from the nurse, Wang, it was you who saved us. I can't say enough thank you."

"We are friends, remember? If you were I, you would have done the same to me, wouldn't you?"

Ling Jiu put up a hand. "If you want to thank me, buy me two bowls of Biang Biang noodles when we are back in Chang'an Base City."

"Thank you, no matter what," said Ai Yuhe.

"Think nothing of it!"

Ling Jiu smiled. He looked at Ling'er, emotions, especially affinity, filling his eyes.

No matter how Ling'er came about, she was his biological sister, just like Xiaotong.

Feeling uncomfortable with his stare, Ling'er looked down. "Thank you for saving our lives, Ling Jiu. I really appreciate it."

"Don't mention it."

Ling Jiu let out a sigh. Seeing her still-pale face, very much like how delicate Xiaotong was when she was sick, he could not help but hold her hand and comforted her. "Have a good rest. You will be out of the hospital soon."

Ling Jiu's sudden action scared Yang Ling'er; she immediately pulled her hand back.

Only then he realized he had made an embarrassing gaffe. "What happened to your legs, Ling'er?" he immediately changed the conversation.

"Leg?"

Yang Ling'er was startled. "I met with a car accident when I was small. My legs were amputated."

"Amputated?"

Ling Jiu took a deep breath. "Have a good rest, you two."

After saying that, he left, leaving the two girls looking at each other in confusion.

"Did you feel something wasn't quite right with Ling Jiu today?" Yang Ling'er asked.

"Is Ling Jiu into you, Ling'er?"

Ai Yuhe got a little jealous. The way Ling Jiu looked at Ling'er was not the same as the way he looked at her.

"What are you talking about?" Yang Ling'er rolled her eyes at Ai Yuhe. "How could he be into a person like me?"

"Oh, really? Then why was he so concerned about you? He even held your hand!"

"Err… How am I going to know?"

…

When Ling Jiu was back at the dorm, Shi Gang was still surfing the net. He gave Shi Gang a nod of acknowledgement and took out his own microcomputer to surf the Mall.

He was looking for a Treasure of Heaven and Earth that could regenerate amputated limbs.

When Yang Ling'er was still a friend, an acquaintance, her legs were not of concern to him.

But now things changed; she was his sister now. He couldn't bear to see her without a pair of legs, so he wanted to help her walk again.

It wanted it as a gift, from a brother to a sister.

"If my memory doesn't fail me, there are some Treasures of Heaven and Earth that could regrow amputated limbs sold in the Mall."

"Found it!"

Nine-Hearted Plumleaf Crab Apple: Rosaceae, grow up to 7 meters, without thorns, with cylindrical branchlets, magenta in color, with oval or long oval leaves.

Nine-Hearted Plumleaf Crab Apple possesses strong vitality. It is known as the Fruit of Life, which has a potent healing effect, including bringing the dead back to life, regrowing flesh and amputated limbs. It is the best Treasure of Heaven and Earth for treating physical trauma.

Class: Premium Treasure of Heaven and Earth

Price: 1,000 contribution points.

"This sounds good!"

Ling Jiu decided on the Nine-Hearted Plumleaf Crab Apple. After filling up the order form with his delivery address, he was informed that Australia was out of the delivery area—the order could not be delivered.

"What the heck?"

Ling Jiu had no word for it. In this case, no matter what he bought from the Mall, they were not going to be delivered. Great!

"The only way is to get the camp head's help."

He let out a sigh. There was a logistic channel between the training camp and the company. If he could ask for the camp head's help, he might get his thing delivered.

"I will see the camp head tomorrow."

"Holy moly! I can't believe it! Someone has found such a gem!"

Shi Gang called out suddenly. "Come, take a look at this, Ling Jiu!"

"What is it about?" Ling Jiu frowned.

"The Spring of Life!" Shi Gang was wowed. "Someone from the training camp just posted a photo, saying that he found a Spring of Life in Mount Kosciuszko! It's a Spring of Life, formed by liquified Gene Arcana. How quick our self-cultivation would be if we could get our hands on it and drink from it every day?"

"The Spring of Life?" Ling Jiu came up to take a closer look. "This is the Spring of Life? Hey, what is that plant in the middle of the spring?"

"That guy says it is a Ginseng of Life."

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Chapter 108: Class 8 Direbeast, Close Call

The photo was shot from a distance, showing a green valley sitting in the middle of a world of snow. Inside the valley, leafy trees and fully blown flowers were thriving.

In the middle of all these, there was a spring of water, about several dozen meter-square, covered in a blanket of white fog.

Standing in the middle of the spring was an exotic jade-green plant growing with bean-like bright-red berries.

"This is the Ginseng of Life, huh?"

Ling Jiu's eyes were affixed to the photo.

"It looks similar to the legendary Ginseng of Life. It has still remained to be verified. But this Spring of Life is definitely legit!"

Shi Gang was in awe. "The guy who took this photo said he had tried the spring water; it is liquified Gene Arcana, but…"

"But what?"

Ling Jiu was puzzled.

"There was a Three-headed Frostfire Scaled Dragon in the valley. That guy would have died and not be able to show these photos here if not for him fleeing quick enough," Shi Gang said.

"Three-headed Frostfire Scaled Dragon?" Ling Jiu's heart skipped a beat. "You mean the nasty scaled dragon ranked sixth-fourth on the direbeast list?"

"Yup." Shi Gang nodded. "The scaled dragons evolved from the pythons. Their strength is phenomenal among the direbeasts.

"Three-headed Frostfire Scaled Dragons are the most terrific of all scaled dragons. They have marvelous strength, unbeatable self-defensive skill, and three unique abilities. They were not ranked sixty-fourth on the direbeast list for nothing!

"It is guarding the Spring of Life. We can forget about going there. It is up to the trainers and head of camp whether they are interested to explore if the Spring of Life is legit."

"The Ginseng of Life!"

Ling Jiu's eyes flashed. "If there is anything more effective than Nine-Hearted Plumleaf Crab Apple in regrowing amputated limbs, it would be the Ginseng of Life."

The next morning, Ling Jiu headed out toward Mount Kosciuszko. He had only one target: The Ginseng of Life.

Despite knowing there was a Three-headed Frostfire Scaled Dragon guarding the place, Ling Jiu was still confident that with his teleportation and Shadowform abilities, he could steal the Ginseng of Life from under its nose.

What about risks?

With that disproportionately high reward, it was a risk worth taking.

Mount Kosciuszko, at 2,228 meters, was Australia's tallest mountain. Its peak was snow-capped all year round. So it was not hard to find. Two hours later, Ling Jiu had arrived.

He switched on the Direbeast Radar and scanned if there was any trace of Class 8 direbeasts.

Class 8 direbeasts were the kings of all direbeasts. They were rare, and each of them had their respective territory. So Ling Jiu was sure that there were few Class 8 direbeasts on Mount Kosciuszko.

Therefore, he just needed to find the Class 8 direbeasts on Mount Kosciuszko and he would find the valley where the Spring of Life was.

Ling Jiu was right; the radar showed that there was only one Class 8 direbeast on Mount Kosciuszko.

He followed the radar and found the valley. Ice and snow and cold waves were everywhere, and the valley was the only place where green was thriving.

A warm current hit him as soon as he approached the valley as if he had come to the summer directly from the winter.

He carefully climbed to higher ground to have a bird's-eye view of the valley.

Then, he saw Spring of Life where white fog was rising from, and also the green plant in the middle of the spring.

"The Ginseng of Life!"

Ling Jiu's eyes brightened up. He moved like a flash and disappeared from the spot.

After a few teleporting maneuvers, he came in front of the Spring of Life and grabbed the Ginseng of Life at once.

"Flee!"

He disappeared in just the blink of an eye.

As soon as he was gone, a draft of cold spell hit through where he stood a second earlier.

The cold spell was so cold that except for the Spring of Life, all vegetation in the surroundings was frozen over, becoming ice sculptures.

An angry roar rose in the valley, and a powerful sound wave rapidly spread in all directions.

At that moment, the mountains on both sides of the valley shook. Rocks were tumbling down. Snow on the mountainside loosened and moved downhill, forming avalanches.

The next moment, a vicious giant scaled dragon flew into the air. This scaled dragon was over a hundred meters long, three-headed, silverish body with flaming stripes extending from head to tail, two claws on its belly, and a spiral horn on the head.

It was a Three-headed Frostfire Scaled Dragon, the notorious scaled dragon ranked 64th on the list of direbeasts.

Its three pairs of eyes were red. When it flew into the sky at maximum speed, it created a sonic boom.

"Holy moly! It can see me?"

Ling Jiu continued to teleport, wanting to leave as quickly as he could. But it seemed the Three-headed Frostfire Scaled Dragon could see him and was chasing him, closing in from behind.

As it was getting closer, Ling Jiu felt a chill run up his spine. He could sense the murderous air emanating from the Three-headed Frostfire Scaled Dragon.

Had it been other direbeasts, Ling Jiu would have not felt intimated. But this Three-headed Frostfire Scaled Dragon seemed to be unstoppable. He had lost his courage to fight.

His fear manifested itself as uncontrollable shivering of his body.

"This is the Three-headed Frostfire Scaled Dragon? Why is the Celestial Magical Cat so different? Isn't it the same Class 8 direbeast?"

Roar!

Roars like rumbling thunder came from behind him. He felt his head was going to explode, as if someone was hitting his head with a hammer, his ears ringing.

"I can't outrun it!"

Ling Jiu could clearly feel the fiery breath coming out of the direbeast's nostrils. It was no more than 20 or 30 meters from behind. With its speed, it would bite him in the next second.

In that split second, he suddenly changed his direction, going down toward the ground.

The direbeast was caught unawares. It would not change its direction in time because of the momentum and flew straight for a further 100 meters.

Meanwhile, Ling Jiu had performed several times of teleportation and landed on the ground. He then performed an Earth Release technique by burrowing into the earth.

He kept going down.

The Three-headed Frostfire Scaled Dragon had arrived and came down like a meteorite as it impacted the ground with a loud bang.

The impact left behind a crater that was dozens of meters deep and several hundred meters wide.

Yet, Ling Jiu was nowhere to be seen.

The Three-headed Frostfire Scaled Dragon did not give up yet. It pounded the ground with his giant claws until more craters formed in the ground.

"This is crazy!"

Ling Jiu stopped. He could completely sense how horrible this Three-headed Frostfire Scaled Dragon was. The shock wave traveled several hundred meters deep into the earth. Had he not fled quick enough, he would have been smashed, becoming dead meat.

"It was a close call, but I made it!"

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Chapter 109: Retest, Siblings Reunite

Ling Jiu moved underground for over two hours before he was out of Mount Kosciuszko. He then released his airship and fled as fast as he could.

He did not want to stay for even a second. If the Three-headed Frostfire Scaled Dragon caught up with him, he would be in trouble.

It was only after the airship flew for several hours and had traveled over a thousand kilometers before he stopped. The Three-headed Frostfire Scaled Dragon was nowhere to be seen. He figured he had successfully shaken it off.

After that, he chose a place suitable for direbeast hunting.

It was Thursday, time for killing some direbeasts. He did not want to be left behind.

"Here goes!"

A Frost Mammoth appeared ahead. Ling Jiu teleported himself near to it, then yanked out a purple, almost transparent Flaming Spear. The Frost Mammoth dropped dead to the ground as the Flaming Spear pierced through its temple.

"A 7,000ºC flame is so handy!"

"Next!"

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On Saturday afternoon, Ling Jiu handed over the harvest to the Logistics and came to the training camp hospital. The two girls had not been discharged yet.

"You are back, Ling Jiu!"

"Just arrived."

He took out the Ginseng of Life.

"Take this, Ling'er."

"What is this?"

Yang Ling'er was startled along with Ai Yuhe.

"This is the Ginseng of Life. It could heal your legs," said Ling Jiu.

"The Ginseng of Life? The one that people discussed in the group chat two days ago?"

The two girls were stunned. "You got it from Mount Kosciuszko?"

He nodded.

"Oh, my gosh! Didn't the group chat say there was a Three-headed Frostfire Scaled Dragon guarding the Spring of Life? How did you get it?" The two girls were in disbelief.

Ling Jiu held up his hand. "I will talk about that later. Ling'er, take it and heal your legs first."

Yang Ling'er shook her head from side to side. "You risked your life to get it, so how could I take it? Besides, we are just friends. I shouldn't accept it."

Yang Ling'er was flattered. In her mind, she was just Ling Jiu's casual acquaintance, despite him being the savior who had saved her life.

Since they were merely casual acquaintances, how could she accept such an extraordinary kindness? She was not that thick-skinned.

"What's wrong with acquaintances? Don't worry about it. It's all right."

Ling Jiu tried to shove the Ginseng of Life in Yang Ling'er's hand, but she was adamant not to accept it. So he looked over at Ai Yuhe for help.

Ai Yuhe forced a smile. She had mixed emotions about this. She was puzzled and envious.

Why did Ling Jiu treat Ling'er so well? Was he into Ling'er?

She did not know why a little demon called 'jealousy' suddenly rose within her. Was she not as good as Ling'er? She met Ling Jiu before Ling'er did. Why did Ling Jiu treat Ling'er so well?

While thinking so, she saw Ling Jiu's pleading eyes. "I think you should explain yourself, Ling Jiu. Otherwise, Ling'er will not accept your kindness. You are scaring the hell out of her."

Yang Ling'er nodded in agreement.

He sighed, hesitating for a long while before taking out the blood test reports.

He knew that Ling'er would not take the Ginseng of Life as long as their relationship remained as acquaintances. After all, this was a premium Treasure of Heaven and Earth.

It was too expensive.

That being the case, he could only tell the truth.

Ling'er's legs were more important than getting to the bottom of their relationship.

The truth could wait, but Ling'er needed to regain her legs now.

"What are these?"

Yang Ling'er looked baffled.

"Our blood test reports."

Ling Jiu explained, "When I rushed you to the hospital, you were losing too much blood and needing an immediate blood transfusion. Luckily, we have the same blood type. So the doctor drew my blood and put it into your body. These are the blood test reports."

Yang Ling'er nodded, but she still looked confused. "But why are you showing them to me?"

"The doctor said our mitochondrion, X chromosomes, and autosomes are identical," said Ling Jiu.

Yang Ling'er was stunned, and so was Ai Yuhe.

They had never gone to the university, but they had studied biology in high school, hence they knew what Ling Jiu meant.

"That is to say…"

Yang Ling'er looked at Ling Jiu.

"We are biological siblings," said Ling Jiu. "We share the same parents."

"Biological siblings?"

Yang Ling'er was astounded.

"You and Ling'er are siblings? Are you kidding me?"

Ai Yuhe was wide-mouthed. She could swallow an entire egg. "What is going on here? How come you two suddenly become siblings?"

Yang Ling'er looked at Ling Jiu. "Are you sure this is not a misunderstanding? How could we be biological siblings?"

"I can't really tell now."

Ling Jiu forced a smile. "I knew about it only after I saw the blood test reports. That's all I know."

"Is this for real?"

Yang Ling'er shivered.

"The DNA test won't lie. If you still don't believe me, we can have another DNA test."

"Okay."

…

Half an hour later, Yang Ling'er stared at the new DNA test report. Listening to Dr. Zhao's explanation, she could no longer hold back her surging emotions. She plunged into Ling Jiu's arms and cried, "Brother…"

"Don't cry, Ling'er."

"I can't believe it… It's real."

Ai Yuhe looked on in puzzlement. "How could it be possible? One is from Lantian while the other from Chang'an. Not to mention they just knew each other not long ago! How is it possible that they are siblings?"

As bewildered as she was, she suddenly felt a sense of relief and secretly rejoiced.

Siblings?

That was just as well.

After a while, Yang Ling'er came down and asked Ling Jiu about her family.

Ling Jiu answered every question she asked.

"We have Dad and a sister; Xiaotong should be your elder sister."

"Dad, elder sister?"

Yang Ling'er mumbled, "Can I see their photo?"

"Sure."

He took out his cell and showed her a photo. Yang Ling'er stared at the photo of her Dad and sister, her eyes welling up.

"Ling'er, do you know that you and Ling Jiu really look alike, cast from the same mold!"

"Dad! Elder sister!"

Yang Ling'er ran her fingers over the photo, feeling emotional as she now had a dad.

"What about your mom, Ling Jiu?" As Ai Yuhe asked, Yang Ling'er listened with her ears standing erect.

"I don't know. Dad says she left us when I was small. I am not sure where she is now." Ling Jiu sighed.

"You have your mother but no father, Ling'er," Ai Yuhe looked at Yang Ling'er, "Could it be…"

Yang Ling'er nodded in agreement and showed Ling Jiu her mother's photo. "Take a look; is this your mother, too?"

Ling Jiu took the cellphone and frowned. "From the photos of my mother that I have seen before, she looks different from your mom."

"Different?"

Yang Ling'er shivered. She and Ling Jiu shared the same parents, but he said his mother looked different from hers?

Could it be that her mom was not her actual mother and that she was adopted?

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Chapter 110: Teaming Up Again, Too Badass

"How do you feel, Ling'er?"

Ling Jiu and Ai Yuhe looked at Yang Ling'er anxiously; she had just taken the Ginseng of Life.

"My body is heating up. I feel warm, like dipping into a hot spring. It feels so good!"

At first, Yang Ling'er looked as if she was enjoying it. Soon, however, she frowned and appeared to be in pain.

"What's wrong, Ling'er?"

"My legs are itchy!"

Yang Ling'er pulled up her pants, revealing her legs, which had been amputated above-knee and fully healed.

The remaining limbs were wriggling violently as granulation tissues grew like grass sprouting out of the ground.

In macroscopic response, Ling'er's legs were regrowing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"The amputated legs are regrowing!"

Ai Yuhe exclaimed, "Your legs are growing, Ling'er!"

Yang Ling'er nodded, her body shivering with excitement, tears flowing down her cheeks.

It was the tears of joy.

Heaven knows how many days, how many years she had been waiting for a moment like this?

Only Heaven knew how much discrimination and dirty looks she had received.

"Don't cry, Ling'er. You should be happy about it!"

Ling Jiu held his sister's hand.

The Ginseng of Life did not let him down. Ling'er's amputated legs were regrowing.

After washing away the goo and blood, the new limbs looked soft, like a newborn's leg.

"How do you feel, Ling'er?"

"I feel good. Just that they are still weak."

"This is normal. Your legs have just regrown like that of a newborn, delicate and weak. You have to exercise more if you want to walk again."

Dr. Zhao explained with a smile. "Besides, the effect of the Ginseng of Life is beyond your imagination. It has only exhausted part of its vitality to regrow your legs.

"More vitality is stored in your body and will continue to transform your body, strengthening you."

"Thank you, Ling Jiu!"

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When the three of them came out of the hospital, the square was thronged with people. Apparently, the leaderboard was being updated again.

"He scored 3.03 million! First place again. It is his fourth consecutive win!"

"Ling Jiu is amazing! He is on another level!"

"Second place's Zhou Ji has only 2.1 million points. Third place's Christopher Adam has 2-million points. They are way behind Ling Jiu!"

"I am even worse. I am not even close. I feel like dying!"

"Before comparing yourself with Ling Jiu, look yourself in the mirror first!"

"Watch your stinking mouth!"

Hearing the discussions among the trainees, Yang Ling'er was euphoric. "You are amazing, Ling Jiu! You are first again!"

Before this, she was still thinking of challenging Ling Jiu. But now, that thought had vanished. She was happy to see her elder brother becoming strong.

"Of course! Don't you know who I am?" Ling Jiu bragged.

"How strong are you, really, Ling Jiu?" Ai Yuhe asked. "I remember you didn't go hunting again after rescuing us back to the training camp on Saturday. That means you achieved 3.03-million scores just by hunting on Thursday and Friday. How did you do that?"

"As much as I wanted to keep a low profile, my ability wouldn't allow me!"

Ling Jiu was as proud as a peacock. "In fact, I tried to slow down and go easy on Thursday and Friday."

"If Zhou Ji, Christopher Adam, and Hirano Hatake heard what you say, they might knock the living daylights out of you."

"They are not my match."

Ai Yuhe rolled her eyes. "Stopping bragging!"

"I brag because I can."

Ling Jiu chortled. "How about we form a team next week? I guarantee you will have something to brag about after that."

Brag my foot! Just when Ai Yuhe was about to retort, Yang Ling'er spoke. "Will we become a burden for you?"

Yang Ling'er was not concerned about the result. She was just reunited with her elder brother, and all she wanted was to be with him. She was genuine.

"A burden? No!"

"I have done the math; as long as our scores are above 2.2 million, making it to the top three isn't a problem. We just need to hunt two hundred and twenty Class 6 direbeasts each.

"That's six hundred sixty for the three of us. Two hundred twenty direbeasts each day. Frankly, it isn't challenging at all. We just need to be focused, and that's all."

Since duplicating Ling'er's Five-Element Manipulation arcana and getting his hands on the seven special weapons, killing direbeasts could not have been easier for Ling Jiu.

He could easily kill 100-200 direbeasts, and if he went at it more seriously, breaking the 300-mark was not even a problem.

Not to mention the combat strength of Ai Yuhe and Yang Ling'er, who occupied eighth and ninth places respectively on the leaderboard.

Securing the top three places was not going to be a problem if the three came together as a team.

"Are you sure you could bring us up to the top three?"

It excited Ai Yuhe to hear that. The top three and top nine were different as night and day in benefits. If she could get into the top three and enjoy the benefits that came with it, she believed she could boost her strength even quicker.

"Never try, never know."

…

It was Thursday. Ling Jiu, Yang Ling'er, and Ai Yuhe went out as a team, as agreed.

After a few days of physiotherapy, Yang Ling'er could stand on her feet, walking like a toddler. It was a tremendous improvement compared to last time.

It would not have to take long before she could walk like a normal person.

"Where are we going, Ling Jiu?"

"One thousand two hundred kilometers into the wilderness," said Ling Jiu.

"Seriously? Will it be dangerous? If I remember it correctly, that place is where the Class 7 direbeasts are."

"There are more Class 6 direbeasts in the Class 7 direbeast's territory. Otherwise, we won't be able to find enough Class 6 direbeasts for the three of us."

"Very well."

The airship flew for two hours and arrived at the Class 7 direbeast's territory some 1,200 kilometers away.

"There are a dozen Class 6 direbeasts there. Let's take them first."

Before long, the three came to a vast piece of swarm land that emitted a strong foul smell. At the center of the swarm, the land was a lake of cloudy water.

There were a dozen mud-covered, giant gators seemingly doing nothing but floating in the lake.

They were over 40 meters long, bodies covered in thick scales and tough lumps and a row of a-meter-long spikes on the back. All of them looked extremely hideous.

"Watch this!"

As they appeared above the swarm, Ling Jiu cast out a couple of dozens of purple, nearly transparent Flaming Spears at the Giant Swamp Gator.

The Flaming Spears pierced through the gators' thick skins into their heads, killing them instantly in the lake.

"That's nineteen of them. You two take six each while I will take seven."

"Is this how simple it is?"

"Yes, it is."

"Damn!"

Ai Yuhe could not believe it; such hunting speed was just too badass.

He killed 19 direbeasts with just the flick of his hand. How could she even catch up with him?

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Chapter 111: Its Name is Celeste, Komodo Dragon

"Over there, about twenty-six Goldenback Bullwolves!"

Three minutes later, the Goldenback Bullwolf pack was exterminated.

…

"A group of Goldenhorn Ants are four kilometers away from here. There are about thirty-three of them!"

Five minutes later, the Goldenhorn Ants were exterminated.

…

"A huge number of Bloodthirster Red Ants are six kilometers away. Those things look appetizing!"

Six minutes later, the colony of Bloodthirster Red Ants was wiped out.

…

Mob hunting mode started as Ling Jiu brought two girls deep into the wilderness to target Class-Six Direbeasts.

It took the team an average of fifteen minutes to kill a group of Class-Six Direbeasts. In a day, they killed ten groups of these Direbeasts, over three hundred of them.

It stunned Yang Ling-er and Ai Yuhe. They did not know that Class-Six Direbeasts could be killed this way.

Being small fries in Ling Jiu's team, they got no chance to kill Direbeasts themselves. Even if they had, they could not outdo Ling Jiu.

Ling Jiu's action was so quick that he killed Class-Six Direbeasts as if he were chopping vegetables.

Quantity?

What was that?

With the ability to teleport himself instantly, the more Class-Six Direbeasts available out there, the more brutal and efficient his killing would be.

The two girls finally figured out why Ling Jiu always got the top spot, and his score was always one million points more than the one behind him.

At Ling Jiu's speed, leading by over one million points was a piece a cake.

Previously, when Ling Jiu said he just was taking it easy, they believed him. They knew he was not trying to show off, but it was just the way he was.

That night, the three of them had their hearty dinner together on the airship. Ai Yuhe was the chef while the Ling siblings helped. Five dishes—two meat dishes and three veggies—and a soup were a perfect match for the fragrant rice.

"How many arcana do you have, really, Ling Jiu?"

Over the dinner, Ai Yuhe finally asked the question that had been baffling her for a long time.

"You have shown Metal and Fire Manipulations, and Teleportation abilities in the battle earlier today. Coupled with Gravity Arcana, Earth Manipulation, and Tungsten Form, you have six arcanas. Why do you have so many arcana?"

"If you really want to get to the bottom of things, I am going to leave you out of this!" Ling Jiu glanced at her. "Aren't you not happy with the current arrangement—making light work of things and getting a handsome share of the harvest?"

"You…"

Ai Yuhe was upset, really wanting to stand up and bang the table and walk out to show that she had backbone. But she back downed at the thought of the top three positions that were already at her fingertips.

Yang Ling-er was laughing her head off on one side.

"See, Ling-er, you brother is bullying me. You just sit by and watch?" Ai Yuhe pouted.

"Err…"

MEOW…

Just then, there was a cat meowing. The two girls stopped talking abruptly. As they turned their eyes towards the sound, they saw a Celestial Magical Cat.

"T-This is—"

The two girls got to their feet abruptly, face pale. "Gosh! A Celestial Magical Cat! It's a Celestial Magical Cat!"

"Damn it! How could a Direbeast as terrifying as the Celestial Magical Cat appear here?"

"Fret not!"

Ling Jiu tried to calm them down with a smile. He then got up and walked towards the Celestial Magical Cat.

"Don't go over there, Ling Jiu!"

"Come back, Ling Jiu!"

The two girls called out anxiously.

"It is all right."

Ling Jiu gave them a smile, walked up to the Celestial Magical Cat, and patted it on the furry head under their watchful eyes.

The Celestial Magical Cat seemed to enjoy his pampering as it licked his hand affectionately.

"What is going on here?"

The jaws of the two girls almost dropped to the floor. Was this really a Celestial Magical Cat, not a domestic one?

"This is my cat."

Ling Jiu grinned as he tore open a pack of nutritional dried meat. Once he put the nutritional dried meat in the bowl that he had specially prepared for the Celestial Magical Cat, it started gobbling up the things.

After that, Ling Jiu came back to his seat and continued his meal.

"W—what is going on, Ling Jiu?"

Ai Yuhe's face still looked pale. "Why is a Celestial Magical Cat ranked seventy-second on the Direbeast list so close to you? What have you done?"

"It finds me handsome, I guess."

She was momentarily speechless to Ling Jiu's reply.

The arrival of the Celestial Magical Cat frightened the two girls. Even when they saw it cozy up to Ling Jiu, it still terrified them. They felt uneasy during the entire dinner time. They went back to the room as soon as they finished their meal. Not for one second did they want to stay.

Ling Jiu cleaned up the dining table, took a shower, and then lay on the bed. The Celestial Magical Cat jumped over and got up next to Ling Jiu.

"Stay here, Celeste. I need your help tomorrow."

Ling Jiu rubbed the furry head of the Celestial Magical Cat with a smile.

MEOW…

The cat nodded its head like an obedient child.

Ling Jiu smiled, pleased with its response.

Class-Seven Direbeasts were highly intelligent. But Class-Eight Direbeasts were even smarter. They were no less intelligent than humans. It was said that Class-Nine Direbeasts could talk like humans did.

So Ling Jiu was not surprised that the Celestial Magical Cat could understand his words.

Ling Jiu named the cat Celeste—its last name was Ling.

Early the next morning, after three of them had breakfast, they set off at once. Today, Ling Jiu was not looking for Class-Six Direbeasts. He was scanning for the Class-Seven Direbeasts.

"Why are you looking for Class-Seven Direbeasts, Ling Jiu?" Ai Yuhe asked in surprise.

"I am bored with killing Class-Six Direbeasts. Let's try Class-Seven today!"

Ling Jiu stared at the radar screen nonchalantly.

"C-C-Class-Seven Direbeasts? You are kidding, right?"

Ai Yuhe was trembling. "That is the lord of all Direbeasts. Are you sure we can kill them? What if we get ourselves killed?"

"That's why I hire a super bodyguard!"

Ling Jiu smiled, pointing at Celeste lying on the bed. "There is nothing to be afraid of with his protection."

Looking at the Celestial Magical Cat, Ai Yuhe gulped. 'Why would you let another Direbeast to protect us while we hunt Class-Seven Direbeasts? You must be kidding me!'

"It just so happens that there is a Class-Seven Direbeast up ahead! Let's try it."

Ling Jiu woke up the sleeping Celestial Magical Cat. "Get up, Celeste!"

MEOW…

The Celestial Magical Cat was not so happy when Ling Jiu woke it up from its dream. But when Ling Jiu caressed its head, its grumpiness went away.

"Let's go."

A lake appeared below. The water was turbid, and under an enormous tree near to the lake lay a hideous behemoth.

The behemoth was over 60 meters long, as large as a bus. Its body was covered with dark brown bumps. Its head was big, with fangs in its mouth and foul-smelling mucus dripping down its teeth.

It was Komodo Dragon, a Class-Seven Direbeast.

Whether in Eastern or Western culture, dragons are synonymous with power and terror. So any beast that can be called a dragon is absolutely terrifying!

Komodo Dragon, a Class-Seven Direbeast unique to Australia.

The Direbeast lord that claimed to have 'absolute defense', 'absolute power' and 'absolute venom' was undoubtedly very terrifying in the world of Class-Seven Direbeasts.

"I will go in the front while you two lie in waiting. You know the drill."

Ling Jiu issued a combat command, "Celeste, you can just hide and stand by. Unless I am in danger, you don't need to intervene. Do you understand?"

"Understood!"

MEOW

"Take this, Ling'er."

Ling Jiu handed a pinch of purple, almost transparent flames to Ling'er. "You can control the five elements, but you don't have a weapon. Use this first!"

"Thanks, brother!"

"I am going now!"

Chapter 112: Group Hunt, Class-7 Direbeasts

The Komodo Dragon spotted Ling Jiu and his company, but it lost interest after a glance. It saw them as three weak puppies. Not worth a d*mn.

So it ignored them.

But what the Komodo Dragon did not expect was that one of the puppies attacked it.

And this puppy was none other than Ling Jiu.

Ling Jiu performed Teleportation to come in front of the Komodo Dragon in an instant and ruthlessly stabbed it with a meter-long silver spear.

ROAR!

The Komodo Dragon roared, swaying its head, and easily avoided Ling Jiu's attack.

"That's fast!"

Ling Jiu was secretly shocked.

The Komodo Dragon looked cumbersome, but with a simple sway of its head, it moved much quicker than the Class-Six Direbeasts he had encountered before.

This was a Class-Seven Direbeast.

In terms of strength, speed, agility, and defense, this Direbeast completely topped Class-6 Direbeasts. It was completely not in the same league as Class-Six Direbeast.

ROAR!

After dodging Ling Jiu's attack easily, the Komodo Dragon opened its mouth, wanting to swallow Ling Jiu alive.

Ling Jiu disappeared again. And when he reappeared, he was to the left of the Komodo Dragon. This upset the Komodo Dragon. 'Is he targeting my eyes?' The Direbeast thought.

ROAR!

The Komodo dragon was furious, raising its right claws to grab Ling Jiu.

Just when Ling Jiu was about to teleport himself away, the Komodo Dragon's giant claws halted, its immense body frozen in place.

Immediately afterward, Ai Yuhe's heavy breathing sounded in his ear. "Hurry up, I can't hold it for long, Ling Jiu!"

"Got it!"

Ling Jiu aimed at the Komodo Dragon's eye and pierced it with his spear.

If the Komodo Dragon had any weakness, the eyes were the only weak spot where it had the weakest defense.

But to Ling Jiu's surprise, as soon as the spear pierced into the Komodo Dragon's eyeball, it stuck and could not go in further.

As a Class-Seven Direbeast, the Komodo Dragon's musculature was tough, preventing the spear from penetrating further.

"This is a Class-Seven Direbeast!"

Ling Jiu was secretly surprised, but he was not slow either. He performed Tungsten Form, raised his fist, and punched on one end of the spear.

In a horrific burst of power, the spear penetrated and disappeared into the eyeball.

The intense pain caused the Komodo Dragon to break free from Ai Yuhe's Dimensional Shackle with terrifying energy and groaned frantically.

Ling Jiu quickly teleported himself a hundred meters away and then made the silver spear extend inside the Komodo Dragon's head.

The excruciating pain caused the Komodo Dragon to cry continuously; its groan sounds like rumbling of thunder in all directions.

Its sharp claws banged the earth frantically. Its tail wagged around like a steel whip, cutting off trees in the surroundings while the earth trembled violently.

"It is really terrifying when a Class-Seven Direbeast goes mad!"

Ling Jiu took a breath as he returned beside Ai Yuhe and Ling-er. "Its death is certain. We just need to wait to reap the fruits of victory!"

"It was a close call just now!"

Ai Yuhe gasped a few times. "Your teleportation ability saved you. Otherwise, the Komodo Dragon would have smashed you to your death."

"Don't put yourself at risk next time, brother!" Ling-er looked worried.

"Don't worry!"

The Komodo Dragon was so tough that it could still struggle for a few moments before it dropped dead to the ground even though his head had been smashed into a paste.

"We have got our first Class-Seven Direbeast!"

Ling Jiu looked at the body of the dead Komodo Dragon and was pleased with his achievement.

One Class-Seven Direbeast was equivalent to 100 Class-Six Direbeasts.

That meant this Komodo Dragon was worth one million points.

"One million points!"

"So easily?"

Ai Yuhe and Yang Ling-er murmured to themselves, feeling it surreal.

"Take a short break, and then we will move one to another Class-Seven direbeast!"

Human ambition was endless. Once it was triggered, there was no turning back. Since Ling Jiu had hunted his first Class-Seven Direbeast, he had set his eyes on Class-Seven Direbeasts as his target.

Go hunting for Class-Six Direbeasts again? He was not interested anymore.

An hour later, the trio found a second Class-Seven Direbeast.

It was a Mastiff-Headed Scorpion-Tailed Lion, seven or eight stories tall at shoulder level, having a body length of forty to fifty meters, and a steel pin-like mane, looking extremely ferocious.

It apparently was a strong lion, but it had the head of a dog and a scorpion tail with a hook glinting in greenish light. Besides, it had exposed fangs in its mouth.

The Mastiff-Headed Scorpion-Tailed Lion was not only powerful but also very agile and extremely venomous.

It was stronger than Komodo Dragons in terms of combat strength but with slightly less defense ability than Komodo Dragons.

Ling Jiu teleported himself to the front of the Mastiff-Headed Scorpion-Tailed Lion and stabbed it with a metal spear. But the Direbeast opened his mouth and roared like thunder.

ROAR!

The rumbling roar produced waves of horrible shock waves visible to the naked eyes in the void.

Ling Jiu felt his brain was going to explode, and his ears hummed. He could not help covering his ears with a painful expression on his face.

ROAR!

The Mastiff-Headed Scorpion-Tailed Lion roared again, raising its giant claws to strike at Ling Jiu. At that very moment, Ai Yuhe and Yang Ling-er intervened.

"Dimensional Shackle!"

"Flaming Spear!"

The Mastiff-Headed Scorpion-Tailed Lion was instantly subdued in place, its claws just inches from Ling Jiu. It was a close call.

Meanwhile, the purple, almost transparent Flaming Spear had nailed the Mastiff-Headed Scorpion-Tailed Lion on the head.

The spear did not penetrate the Mastiff-Headed Scorpion-Tailed Lion's defense, but in the blink of an eye, the flame had spread to the Direbeast's head.

This was not an ordinary flame but a special fire with a temperature as high as 7000C. The Mastiff-Headed Scorpion-Tailed Lion was groaning in pain.

"What the heck? It knows how to perform Lion's Roar[1]!"

Feeling dizzy, Ling Jiu shook his head and called out at Ai Yuhe. "Get your Dimensional Shackle ready!"

"Aye!"

Ai Yuhe regulated her breathing. The next moment, the Mastiff-Headed Scorpion-Tailed Lion was confined in place again.

"Die!"

Ling Jiu did the same thing, raising his sharp spear to thrust into the eye of the Mastiff-Headed Scorpion-Tailed Lion, and then hammered the spear.

Amid the horrifying sound of bone cracking, the spear punctured and disappeared into the skull of the Direbeast.

At last, the Mastiff-Headed Scorpion-Tailed Lion ended up like the Komodo Dragon earlier. It struggled for a long while before breathing its last.

"Class-Seven Direbeasts are really nasty!"

Ling Jiu looked at the Mastiff-Headed Scorpion-Tailed Lion that had fallen dead to the ground. "It is so different from Class-Six Direbeasts in terms of speed, strength, and agility.

"Starting from Class-Five Direbeasts, strength of a Direbeast of one class higher is exponentially greater. There is a qualitative difference between the Class-Six and the Class-Seven Direbeasts."

Ai Yuhe shook her head. "Let's just hunt Class-Six Direbeasts from now on. Class-Seven Direbeasts are too dangerous, not worth the while."

"The major reason is that we are not in the same league as our prey. The gap between Level Five arcanists and Class-Seven Direbeasts are too huge," said Yang Ling-er.

[1] a Shaolin kung fu technique https/youtu.be/q7wOiGnjJHQ

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Chapter 113: Besieged with Direbeasts, Ling Jiu is the Target

As much as Ling Jiu could punch above his weight— killing Class-7 Direbeasts as a Level-5 arcanist—there was still an absolute difference between them. In other words, the hunting process was extremely dangerous.

Even so, Ling Jiu still did not give up the idea of hunting Class-7 Direbeasts. Since he had Celeste as his bodyguard, there was nothing to be afraid of.

Keep the ball rolling!

As Ai Yuhe and Yang Ling-er could not convince Ling Jiu otherwise, they could only follow.

For the rest of the day, the three of them worked together sincerely in hunting Class-7 Direbeasts. The journey was full of danger, with Ling Jiu encountering a few near misses; he walked away unscathed.

By the time they wrapped up their hunting, they had six bodies of Class-7 Direbeasts in the Dimensional pocket. This was their harvest for the day.

"Six Class-Seven Direbeasts are worth six million points, plus the three hundred and forty Class-Six Direbeasts we killed yesterday, we have gained nine point four million points!"

Ling Jiu chortled. "On average, each person gets three million points. Even if we do nothing tomorrow, getting into top three spots will not be a problem."

He held up a cup of Sprite from the 2020 collection with a big smile on his face. "Toast to our harvest today!"

"Are you sure it's okay, Ling Jiu?"

Yang Ling-er frowned, appearing worried. "The Class-Seven Direbeasts attacked you several times today, and you even burped up blood!"

"Don't worry. Your brother, I, is as hard to kill as a cockroach."

Ling Jiu patted on his chest with a smile. "I'm still alive and kicking. I can still hunt a few more Class-Seven Direbeasts!"

"You might as well be."

"Come, come, you've got to try this, the paw meat of the Violent Demon Bear, a Class-Seven Direbeast. You won't get to eat this every day!"

After dinner, the three of them returned to their respective rooms. Ling Jiu lay on the bed, looking at the wounds in his belly, and forced a smile.

One wound stretched from the left shoulder to the right hip, almost splitting him in half diagonally.

If he had not taken the Turbellaria Healing Potion, which had enhanced his self-healing ability tremendously, he would have definitely died of serious injuries.

After an afternoon, his wound had basically healed, leaving only a faint scar on his body. Even so, Ling Jiu was still not happy about it.

The healing speed was still too slow to his liking, as it was too slow compared to Senju Hashirama[1]'s almost instantaneous self-healing ability. "I think I need to replicate a special self-healing arcana!"

Ling Jiu murmured, then took out a small notebook and wrote down a self-healing ability.

The night passed uneventfully.

Early the next morning, the three of them had breakfast. As they were about to continue hunting, they received a call from the camp commandant.

"The training camp is under attack by Direbeasts. All trainees are to return to base immediately!"

"The training camp?"

"The training camp is under attack by Direbeasts?" The three of them looked at each other. "What Direbeasts would dare to attack the training camp? They must have a death wish!"

"It doesn't matter what Direbeasts. Since the camp head orders us to return to their aid, we had better hurry."

The three of them immediately flew the maglev vehicle towards the training camp. Along the way, they met many other trainees who were rushing back to base in their maglev airships.

By the time they approached the training camp, they saw a sea of Direbeasts swarming towards the camp and encircling the fortress from all directions.

Roars, cries and screams formed rolling sound waves echoing over the fortress. It looked like a scene of a heavy dark cloud looming and crashing down on everyone's heart.

This was not the first time Ling Jiu had seen Direbeasts besieging a city. But the scale of the siege this time made the siege of Lantian Base City look like a child's play.

It was Bloodgorger Bats, Class-6 Direbeasts, that had started the siege last time. But this time, there were the Titan Monitor Lizards, Titan Python, Goldenback Bullwolf pack, and Goldenhorn Ants, each of which was Class-Six Direbeasts.

There were even Class-Seven Direbeasts, the Mastiff-Headed Scorpion-Tailed Lion, in the mix.

And directly above the beast tide, a Class-Eight Direbeast of over 100 meters long with a fiery red body and white stripes on the back was hovering around.

That one was the Three-headed Frostfire Scaled Dragon that Ling Jiu had encountered before. It was the Direbeast that guarded the Divine Spring of Life on Mount Kosciuszko.

"Don't tell me it is this bugger that starts the beast tide! What does it want?"

Ling Jiu's heart sank as he looked at the vicious energy of the Three-headed Frostfire Scaled Dragon as it directed the tens of thousands of Direbeasts to besiege the training camp fortress.

Could it be because of me that this thing set off this beast tide?

"Is this Three-headed Frostfire Scaled Dragon the one that occupies Mount Kosciuszko?" Yang Ling-er couldn't help but look at Ling Jiu.

Ling Jiu nodded.

"It comes for the Ginseng of Life?"

"Likely."

Ling Jiu flashed his palm at Yang Ling-er. "But it makes no sense to talk about this now. Let's ward off the beast tide!"

"OK!"

Ling Jiu tucked the airship away, then teleported Ling-er, Ai Yuhe and himself for a number of times, and finally came up the wall of the fortress.

At this moment, many trainees were standing on the wall, relentlessly fighting off those Direbeasts. Among them were Shi Gang and his partner Dylon, Zhou Ji and Christopher.

"You all are back, Ling Jiu!"

Shi Gang wiped the blood from his face as he called out breathlessly.

"Yes, we are back!"

Ling Jiu gave a smile.

"Let's fight!"

Shi Gang grinned. "Let's see who kills the most Direbeasts. What do you say? My black flame is made for this kind of battle scene where many Direbeasts gather. I can burn many of them to hell. Don't say I didn't tell you."

"Then, don't hold back."

Ling Jiu guffawed as he cast out a silver metal, which turned into a spear later. He then lunged at the sea of Direbeasts and went on a rampage.

WHOOSH-WHOOSH-WHOOSH!

Where the spear went, the Direbeasts fell. He killed like harvesting wheat. Dozens of Direbeasts fell under the spear in the blink of an eye.

"Holy cow!"

Shi Gang could not help but swear at seeing what happened. The ruthless killing had apparently shocked him. Not wanting to be left behind, he focused his eyes as he made his move.

The black flame turned into a fire dragon, which plunged into a dense area of Direbeasts and fire spread rapidly.

BAM-BAM-BAM!

The Direbeasts in that area went up in flames in the blink of an eye, spreading the fire as they ran around frantically. This caused the other Direbeasts to catch fire.

The black flame was spreading to a larger area, and a large part of the Direbeast tide turned into a sea of fire instantly.

"Let it burn!"

Shi Gang burst into laughter with excitement. "Let the fire burn. Burn them to hell!"

"Badass!"

Ling Jiu marveled at the scene.

Shi Gang did not bluff; his black flame was indeed born for this kind of battle scene. The more the Direbeasts, the more vicious the fire burned.

"Let's kill these Direbeasts together!"

Shi Gang was proud of himself. Being able to show off his skill in front of Ling Jiu made him happy.

"All right!"

Ling Jiu nodded. Just when he was about to start the killing, he felt a chill behind his back. As he looked up with slowly, he saw three pairs of bitter eyes flying across hundreds of meters while staring at him all the time.

"The Three-headed Frostfire Scaled Dragon!"

Ling Jiu managed to say these words as he realized the Three-headed Frostfire Scaled Dragon had found him.

ROAR!

The Three-headed Frostfire Scaled Dragon roared in rage above the beast tide. As it flicked its tail, a beam of light swept toward him.

"D*mn it!"

[1] Naruto reference https/naruto./wiki/Hashirama_Senju

Chapter 114: Convergence of Sword, Nativity of a World of Trees

"D*mn it!"

Seeing the Three-headed Frostfire Scaled Dragon coming after him, Ling Jiu immediately ran for his life.

He could kill Class-6 Direbeasts within the snap of a finger and go up against Class-7 Direbeasts, but run off like a scalded cat in front of Class-8 Direbeasts.

More so because this was a Three-headed Frostfire Scaled Dragon, which was ranked 64th in the list of Direbeasts.

"Run!"

"Run immediately!"

In fact, not only Ling Jiu, those trainees who saw Three-headed Frostfire Scaled Dragon on the wall also went in a panic.

"A Three-headed Frostfire Scaled Dragon!"

"It is a Three-headed Frostfire Scaled Dragon!"

"A Three-headed Frostfire Scaled Dragon is coming. Run! It is going to kill us!"

"Stop it, beast!"

When everyone was in a panic, someone suddenly shouted as a stream of light rose into the sky, intercepting the Three-headed Frostfire Scaled Dragon in a flash.

His hair was gray, but he moved with his back straight and was full of energy, exuding toughness and courage. He was the camp commandant.

"The Camp Commandant!"

"It's the Camp Commandant!"

"The Camp Commandant is here!"

The trainees were overjoyed at seeing the sudden appearance of a figure,

They did not know how powerful the camp commandant was, but since he was the strongest person in the training camp, he should be able to stop the Three-headed Frostfire Scaled Dragon.

The camp commandant had lived up to everyone's expectations. Faced with the Three-headed Frostfire Scaled Dragon, his body suddenly swelled and grew into a sixty or seventy-meter-tall giant in the blink of an eye.

He then raised his right fist and hit one head of the Three-headed Frostfire Scaled Dragon.

BANG!

The blow sent the Three-headed Frostfire Scaled Dragon flying out and crash-landing several hundred meters away.

Feeling dizzy, the Three-headed Frostfire Scaled Dragon shook its heads.

ROAR!

It let out an earth-shaking roar, the sound waves of which were visible to the naked eyes as they swept in all Directions.

The weaker Class-4 and Class-5 Direbeasts were screaming in pain as they bled through their orifices.

The more powerful Class-6 Direbeasts felt dizzy, and their ears rang.

Ling Jiu and other trainees standing on the wall felt their heads were about to explode, and their brains went blank.

The glass of some maglev vehicles parked in the center of the fortress burst into pieces.

Such a powerful roar.

The camp commandant frowned a little at seeing what happened. He stepped out and appeared abruptly behind the Three-headed Frostfire Scaled Dragon. With the flick of his wrist, he grabbed its tail and swung it around his arm.

The Three-headed Frostfire Scaled Dragon was flung away like a cannonball. It was sent flying for a thousand meters in the air before crashing to the ground.

"Awesome!"

"The Three-headed Frostfire Scaled Dragon couldn't even fight back! Terrific!"

"Isn't that a Class-Eight direbeast, ranked sixty-fourth on the direbeast list?"

What happened stunned the trainees. This was the strength of the camp commandant, who crushed the Three-headed Frostfire Scaled Dragon completely crushed.

"I will deal with the Three-headed Frostfire Scaled Dragon and leave the remaining Direbeasts to you all!"

The camp commandant flew over, grabbed the Three-headed Frostfire Scaled Dragon that he had beaten its brains out, and flung it into the distance.

"The camp commandant is so badass. He grabbed the Three-headed Frostfire Scaled Dragon as if it were a loach. He is violent!"

"I would have been at the top of the leaderboard if I am as strong as Camp Commandant!"

"Stop daydreaming. Let's fight!"

BOOM!

The trainees were in high spirit, lunging out to kill the Direbeasts as if they had smoked dope.

They were excited at seeing how the camp commandant beat the Three-headed Frostfire Scaled Dragon. Now, they just want to go on a killing spree, slaughtering the Direbeasts.

Zhou Ji had split into three and came in front of three Class-6 Direbeats, three pairs of his eyes bursting with dreamy silverish light.

The next moment, these three Class-6 Direbeasts froze while Zhou Ji shouted something in his mouth. "Ultimate Alchemy!"

The next second, the color of the heads of the three Class-6 Direbeasts changed; their bodies of flesh and blood had turned into silver lumps—they had been metalized.

With the wave of his hand, Zhou Ji tucked the three corpses away and moved on to the next three targets.

While Zhou Ji hunted and killed the Direbeast in silence, Christopher Adam was extremely violent.

He sped up from a far distance, and when he approached a Direbeast, his speed had reached an exaggerated level.

He was bursting through the air with an ear-shattering sonic boom and a ring of shock waves behind him.

Christopher plunged into the beast tide, thrusting through the Direbeasts.

Blood was shed everywhere he went. Be it Class-4, Class-5, or even Class-6 Direbeasts, he penetrated them all and killed one Direbeast after another.

It was an extremely bloody scene. Everyone watched on with their jaws dropping to the ground.

This was Christopher's supersonic arcana, his way of killing the Direbeasts, a Direbeast-reaping weapon.

On the other hand, Hirano Hatake, who was wielding a silver samurai sword, jumped up and down in the sea of Direbeasts freely.

The sharp samurai sword slashed through the throats of the Direbeasts. Hirano Hatake looked like a martial arts master. Killing the Direbeasts seemed like an art for him. It was effortless.

"That is how powerful the top guys are. They are all killing machines!"

"By the way, how does Ling Jiu kill the Direbeasts?"

The trainees looked at Ling Jiu in unison. Ling Jiu had occupied the top spot four times in a row, steadily surpassing the second place by over one million points every week. All the trainees knew how powerful Ling Jiu was.

But no one had ever seen how Ling Jiu killed the Direbeasts. They were all curious and looked over at him.

Ling Jiu flew, came above the beast tide, and then took out a piece of silver metal. The silver metal was divided into two and two into four.

In just a few breaths, the silver metal had split into hundreds of silver spears, many of which were hovering around Ling Jiu, glinting under the sunlight.

"Convergence of Sword!"

Ling Jiu pointed a finger in the air.

Hundreds of silver spears formed a barrage of arrows, shooting at the sea of Direbeasts.

The spears pierced through the bodies of the Direbeasts down below amid the horrifying flesh-cutting and bone-cracking sounds.

"Oh my gosh!"

"Holy moly!"

"Badass!"

"A group attack skill?"

"No wonder he dominates the leaderboard every week. Who can still compare to him with this kind of killing efficiency?"

"It is nothing short of terrifying!"

It shocked all the trainees, who finally understood why Ling Jiu had been dominating the top spot all this time. His killing was amazingly efficient.

Everyone killed one Direbeast at a time, but Ling Jiu killed hundreds in one move. There was simply no comparison.

Kill.

Kill.

Kill.

As more trainees joined the battle, more Direbeasts fell. The thing was, there seemed to be an endless amount of Direbeasts coming in a steady stream.

Half a day had passed, and the trainees were exhausted, retreating onto the wall and catching their breath.

They had exhausted their Gene Arcana and physical energy too much and needed a rest badly.

Zhou Ji and Christopher, like other trainees, had returned onto the wall to catch their breath.

But to everyone's astonishment, Ling Jiu did not take a rest. He was still fighting the steady stream of Direbeasts.

Seemingly having not enough fun of killing with his Convergence of Sword, he tucked the silver metal away and took out a blood-colored wood instead.

"Wood Release: Nativity of a World of Trees!"

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Chapter 115: A Massacre, Killing a Class-7 Direbeast Again

"Wood Release: Nativity of a World of Trees[1]!"

The ordinary-looking wood grew rapidly as Gene Arcana rushed into it.

It extended from one meter to ten, and from ten to a hundred…

Vines started to grow out of the ground, and climbed in all directions.

In just a few breaths, this scarlet wood the size of the palm of a hand had turned into a scarlet forest covering a radius of hundreds of meters.

The winding vines now looked like blood dragons and the rhizomes made one think of blood pythons.

Countless Direbeasts were shrouded in the scarlet forest. They were now in trouble. Scarlet vines shot out. What followed next was a series of pitter-patter sound. The vines pierced and killed all Direbeasts at once.

All the Direbeasts in the area were wiped out in the blink of an eye.

"So awesome!"

"Is this a Wood-type Arcana?"

"L—Ling Jiu has Wood-type arcana?"

It stunned the trainees, including Zhou Ji, Christopher and Hirano Hatake, to see Ling Jiu's performance.

Ling Jiu had previously shown his ability to control metal, which had shocked them beyond words. And now he was showing yet another ability: the Wood-type Arcana. Was he a monster?

"The Wood-type Arcana is also pretty potent!"

After slaughtering the Direbeasts in this area, Ling Jiu teleported the scarlet forest to another area and continued his killing spree.

"Now I understand! Wood Release is powerful, but what's really powerful is a Jinchūriki[2]'s body in perfect Sennin [3]mode with a large amount of Chakra[4]!" Ling Jiu murmured to himself.

Creating a vine forest had cost him a massive amount of Gene Arcana. This meant that he, who possessed the Ten thousandfold Gene Arcana, could do so as he wished. If it were other arcanists, their Gene Arcana would be exhausted a long time ago.

So, the same arcana in different arcanists would produce a different level of strength.

For example, Yamato[5] could only use Wood Release to build houses and do reforestation. But it became an almighty set of skills in the hands of Senju Hashirama[6].

"One more time: Water Release[7]!"

Ling Jiu retrieved the scarlet wood, took out a blue water ball, and then injected his Gene Arcana into it.

The water ball expanded rapidly from a pomelo size into a giant water ball of tens of cubic meters.

"Water Release: Thundering Water Spikes[8]!"

As Ling Jiu roared quietly, water spikes extended out from the water ball and danced around Ling Jiu.

"Go!"

Ling Jiu pointed a finger in the air.

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH…

Hundreds of blue spikes pierced through the air as they formed a barrage of arrows.

THWAP! THWAP! THWAP…

In terms of penetrating power alone, water spikes were definitely not as good as metal and wooden spears. But this type of water was terribly corrosive and even worse than aqua regia.

Whether it was the Class-5 or the Class-6 Direbeasts, the blue spikes pierced through and killed them all equally effortlessly.

"This time it is a Water Manipulation!"

"How many arcana does this guy have?"

"He has shown Earth, Gravity, Tungsten Form, Metal, Wood, Water Manipulations, and a phantom-like arcana!"

"In other words, he has seven arcana? Are you kidding me? How can a person have so many arcana? Could it be…"

"A brand new arcana has surfaced worldwide this year. If I'm not mistaken, Ling Jiu's ability should also belong to this new arcana!"

"You mean Arcana Replication?"

"That is right."

"I can't believe that he has Arcana Replication!"

Listening to the trainees' discussions, the faces of Zhou Ji, Christopher Adam, and Hirano Hatake looked grave. They had never expected that Ling Jiu had this arcana.

This was so unfair!

What disgusted them was that who knows, one day, Ling Jiu would replicate their arcana that they had been proud of all this while.

And then Ling Jiu would use their arcana to kill Direbeasts and dominate the rankings.

"Bugger!"

Christopher clenched his fists. "Replicate my arcana? No way! Not a chance! He is already perfect now. If he replicates my arcana, wouldn't he become even more perfect, stronger, and more terrifying?"

Hirano Hatake's face was grim as if he had swallowed a dead fly. He vowed he would not let Ling Jiu replicate his arcana.

"Ling Jiu has Arcana Replication?"

Yang Ling-er and Ai Yuhe glanced at each other and saw a sense of shock in each other's eyes. "I used to wonder why he had so many arcana, but now I finally know why. He is really OP!"

Ai Yuhe looked at Yang Ling-er. "Besides, if I'm not mistaken, he must have secretly replicated your Five-Element Manipulation!"

"I am more than happy if he has done that!"

Yang Ling-er broke out in a bright smile.

"You are beyond fixing, Ling-er!"

Ai Yuhe rolled her eyes. "Since you found your brother, you have completely lost yourself!"

"I am happy now, Sister Ai!"

…

Ling Jiu moved from one place to the next, slaughtering the Direbeasts relentlessly.

When others needed rest to continue fighting, Ling Jiu never needed one.

His madness finally attracted the Class-7 Direbeasts' attention.

If Ling Jiu was allowed to kill at such a speed, he would wipe out all the Direbeasts soon, and the beast tide would fall apart.

This must not be allowed to happen.

Five Class-7 Direbeasts faded into five beams of light as they charged at Ling Jiu.

"Stop it, you beasts!"

Four trainers burst out of the training camp at once to meet four of the Class-7 Direbeasts. Only one was free to attack Ling Jiu.

"Ling Jiu!"

Yang Ling-er's pretty face changed.

"Fret not. I will help him!"

Ai Yuhe lunged out in a flash, coming in front of Ling Jiu in just a few spatial jumps. "Let's join hand to kill this beast, Ling Jiu!"

"OK!"

Ling Jiu nodded.

This was a giant tiger with a body length of over 40 meters and a height of seven or eight stories. It was snow white and had a pair of golden wings on its back. It was the Goldwing Holy Light Tiger.

The Goldwing Holy Light Tiger had inherited all the strengths of Tiger-type Direbeasts—incredible speed, amazing agility and infinite power.

Besides, the Goldwing Holy Light Tiger also had a pair of wings, adding to its already powerful body. In terms of combat strength, it was outstanding among the Class-7 Direbeasts.

"Kill!"

Ling Jiu took out a silver bar and turned it into a longsword to meet the Goldwing Holy Light Tiger.

ROAR!

The Goldwing Holy Light Tiger roared and raised its enormous claws to attack Ling Jiu. It was fast and ruthless, coming above Ling Jiu in the blink of an eye.

Just when its tiger claws were about to strike on Ling Jiu's body, it suddenly froze in place in the air.

"This is the time!"

Ling Jiu teleported himself in front of the Goldwing Holy Light Tiger and stabbed the long sword in his hand down.

As the long sword penetrated the Goldwing Holy Light Tiger's eye, Ling Jiu decisively performed a Tungsten Form. His strength spiked 200 times as he hit the sword's hilt with a punch.

The entire longsword went into the Direbeast's eye.

ROAR!

[1] Naruto reference: https/naruto./wiki/Wood_Release_Secret_Technique_Nativity_of_a_World_of_Trees

[2] Naruto reference https/naruto./wiki/Jinchūriki

[3] Naruto reference https/naruto./wiki/Six_Paths_Sage_Mode

[4] Naruto reference https/naruto./wiki/Chakra

[5] Naruto reference https/naruto./wiki/Yamato

[6] Naruto reference: https/naruto./wiki/Hashirama_Senju

[7] Naruto reference: https/naruto./wiki/Water_Release

[8] Naruto reference: https/naruto./wiki/Water_Release_Water_Spikes

Chapter 116: The Beast Tide Recedes, The Ultimate Arcana

In the end, the Goldwing Holy Light Tiger was killed the same way as all the other Class 7 Direbeasts that had been killed by Ling Jiu; it was killed with a long sword through the brain.

When its massive body came crashing down from the sky, all of the trainees were stunned.

"Ling… Ling Jiu killed a Class 7 Direbeast?"

"Oh, my God! He actually killed a Class 7 Direbeast! I must be seeing things!"

"Is Ling Jiu so strong to the point that he can now kill a Class 7 Direbeast?"

"Bloody hell! I'm already at my limits killing a Class 6 Direbeast, and here he is going around killing the Class 7 ones? Has the gap between me and him really reached such an extent?"

The trainees were shocked to the core. Whenever their trainers killed a Class 7 Direbeast, they would cheer and not be that surprised.

Just on the other side, the four trainers had completely suppressed the other four Class 7 Direbeast, and by the looks of things, it was only a matter of time before the Direbeasts would be killed.

The trainees were not surprised by this because those were the trainers of the training camp, and they possessed that kind of strength.

Who was Ling Jiu again?

He was just like them, a trainee of the super training camp. Yet, he could kill a Class 7 Direbeast?

You had to be joking!

"Yuhe, our teamwork's getting better and better now!"

Ling Jiu collected the carcass of the Goldwing Holy Light Tiger and could not help but look at Ai Yuhe. His eyes were burning, scorching even.

"Yeah… Yeah!"

Ai Yuhe blushed as Ling Jiu looked at her. Her heart was beating fast like that of a hyperactive fawn. "He actually looked at me like that. Could it be…"

"A Dimensional Lock is a really good Arcana. Right now, I still need Ai Yuhe's help to kill a Class 7 Direbeast. Once I replicate the Dimensional Arcana, I should be able to kill a Class 7 Direbeast alone!"

A thought came to Ling Jiu's mind. "The next Arcana to be replicated is Ai Yuhe's Dimensional Arcana then!"

Without the Class 7 Direbeasts holding the fort, the Beast Tide finally appeared to recede.

The moment this withdrawal started, things instantly went out of control, especially without the Three-headed Frostfire Scaled Dragon stopping them. More and more Direbeasts fled into the distance in the process.

When the remaining Direbeasts saw this, they lost their will to fight. All of them turned around and fled.

In just a few breaths, the Direbeasts on all fronts had fled!

"It's receding!"

"The Beast Tide is receding!"

"We've won! We've won!"

Seeing the Beast Tide recede, the trainees at the city's bulwark cheered loudly. Although many were exhausted, they still looked energetic.

"We've finally defeated them!"

Ling Jiu looked in the direction, in which the camp commandant and the Three-headed Frostfire Scaled Dragon left. "I wonder if the camp commandant has killed the Three-headed Frostfire Scaled Dragon?"

"With the camp commandant's ability, killing the Three-headed Frostfire Scaled Dragon would be child's play!"

Zhou Ji had appeared behind Ling Jiu without him noticing. "The camp commandant is a Level 9 Arcanist after all!"

"A Level 9 Arcanist?"

Ling Jiu looked at Zhou Ji in shock. "The camp commandant is a Level 9 Arcanist?"

"Of course!"

Zhou Ji looked at Ling Jiu with a complicated gaze. "The Australian continent has several Class 9 Direbeasts in it. With the camp commandant as the leader of the camp, our super training camp would have been long overrun by the Class 9 Direbeasts if he did not have the ability to fight them!"

"Makes sense!"

Ling Jiu suddenly understood.

"Ling Jiu, you're about to strike gold!"

Zhou Ji was very envious. "With your talent and the current strength you've displayed, it won't be long before you go to the Ultimate Preparatory Camp!"

"The Ultimate Preparatory Camp?"

Ling Jiu raised his eyebrows. He had heard about it from the camp commandant before.

Ultimate!

It referred to the Ultimate Arcanist!

Level 1s or 2s were low-level Arcanists…

Level 3s to 4s were intermediate-level Arcanists…

Level 5s to 6s were High-level Arcanists…

Level 7s to 8s were Elite Arcanists…

Lastly, Level 9s to 10s were Ultimate Arcanists.

As the name implied, the Ultimate Preparatory Camp was a place to nurture Level 9 and Level 10 Arcanists!

Level 9 and 10 Arcanists!

Even across the billions of humans on earth, only a handful had reached such a level. One could see how rare a Level 9 or Level 10 Arcanist was.

"For our batch, the one with the most promise to join the Ultimate Preparatory Camp is you!" Zhou Ji said, full of envy.

"By the time you get out of there, you will at least be a Level 9 Arcanist. Pff, I'm dying of envy here!"

"Huh, that's just conjecture!"

Ling Jiu waved his hand. "Let's wait until we graduate from the super training camp first. That's just too far away now!"

"You're right!"

Zhou Ji nodded slightly.

On the other side, the four trainers had also killed the four Class 7 Direbeasts at last. As a result… the Beast Tide collapsed even more thoroughly.

Not long after, all of the surviving Direbeasts turned tail, leaving only carcasses lying all over the place and pooled rivers of blood.

"We've won!"

"The Beast Tide sure is scary!"

"Things went much better this time! Normally, if there was a Beast Tide outbreak in a medium or small base city, they would often suffer grievous losses. In contrast, we were very lucky this time with no casualties at all!"

"It's not all down to luck. We're basically a gathering of the world's top newbies. Besides, it was only with the help of the camp commandant and the other trainers that we managed to push the Beast Tide back.

"How's the camp commandant doing?"

"Look over there!" someone among the crowd shouted.

Everyone looked over, only to see a burly figure fly over from a distance and instantly appear before them.

The person had white hair and was in good spirits.

Was that not the camp commandant?

"The camp commandant is back!"

"The camp commandant is finally back!"

"Say, did the camp commandant actually kill the Three-headed Frostfire Scaled Dragon?"

Ling Jiu stared at the camp commandant with eyes full of questions too. If the camp commandant had killed the Three-headed Frostfire Scaled Dragon, then the Spring of Life on Mount Kosciusko…

…

When the camp commandant arrived at the city bulwark and saw the piles of Direbeast carcasses, as well as the retreating Beast Tide, he nodded with satisfaction. "All of you did a good job. You managed to beat the Beast Tide and protect the training camp!

"Later, make your claims for the Direbeast carcasses and hand them over to the Logistics Department. They will all count toward your results!"

"Yes, Sir!" all of the trainees responded.

"Very well."

The camp commandant nodded and prepared to leave. Seeing this, Ling Jiu immediately asked, "Camp Commandant, is the Three-headed Frostfire Scaled Dragon dead?"

The other trainees also looked at the camp commandant.

"I could only push it back! I couldn't kill it, so it's still alive!"

The camp commandant looked deeply at Ling Jiu before he left.

"Couldn't kill it?"

"Why couldn't the camp commandant kill the Three-headed Frostfire Scaled Dragon? Does anyone know?"

Hearing this, the trainees all exchanged glances. Even Ling Jiu was similarly puzzled.

"Why couldn't the camp commandant kill the Three-headed Frostfire Scaled Dragon? What's the reason?"

…

In the blink of an eye, it was Sunday afternoon again, and the central square was crowded.

"It's week seven!"

"I wonder how the rankings this week will be?"

"Yeah, because of the Beast Tide last week, many trainees have earned a lot of points. Their results will certainly improve!"

"That's right! In that half-a-day of defending against the Beast Tide, the number of Direbeasts I killed far exceeded both Thursday and Friday's. My ranking's definitely going to skyrocket!"

When the clock hit six, the leaderboard was updated right on time.

"Sure enough!"

"Ling Jiu is number one again!"

"I can't be bothered to look at the first place anymore. There's no need for it!"

"Damn! Look at Ling Jiu's score, isn't it a little too outrageous?"

"Hissss! That high?!"

"Am I the only one who's noticed that the second and third places have changed?"

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Chapter 117: Raising Discontent, Ganged Marginalization

No. 1: Ling Jiu, 8.5 million

No. 2: Yang Ling'er, 4.8 million

No. 3: Ai Yuhe, 4.74 million

No. 4: Zhou Ji, 3.1 million

No. 5: Christopher Adam, 2.98 million

No. 6: Hirano Hatake, 2.605 million

"Ugh… the number two and three spots did really change hands!"

"What's going on?"

"How did Yang Ling'er and Ai Yuhe climb over Zhou Ji as well as the others?"

"Oh, come on! Four million? Were they on steroids or what?"

"Even if the Beast Tide caused their results to improve a lot, both Zhou Ji and Christopher also increased their score…"

Seeing the placement for numbers two and three on the leaderboard, all of the students were stunned.

Yang Ling'er and Ai Yuhe had been ranked eighth and ninth all this while; that had been the case for the past few weeks.

Last week, due to their injuries they had even dropped out of the top ten list.

Hoo, boy!

They had actually silently climbed their way to the top three this week. Even Zhou Ji and Christopher, the eternal number two and number three, had been pushed down!

What in the world had they done?

Zhou Ji and Christopher Adam both wondered the same too.

Being eternally number two and number three was already depressing enough. Nevertheless, that was fine and dandy. But now, they could not even be number two and three. How could they live with that?

"Yuhe, Ling'er, why are your results so good this week?"

The others only had normal relationships with the girls, so it did not look good to ask. Shi Gang, on the other hand, did not have such reservations. He approached the girls and asked, "Tell me, what secret do you two have? I want to improve my results too!"

Secret?

The trainees' ears perked up.

"What secret is there?"

Ai Yuhe shook her head and said, "We just happened to ride on Ling Jiu's coattails!"

"Ugh…"

Shi Gang paused for a moment and then exclaimed, "You two were teaming up with Ling Jiu?!"

"Yeah."

Ai Yuhe nodded slightly. She was not embarrassed about riding on Ling Jiu's coattails, and she did not care what others said.

She had already learned to let go. What good did "face" do her anyway?

The Superior life-enhancing liquid, the Superior Gene Arcana strengthening liquid, and the right to train on the first level of Underground Room 12 were the most important; the rest were not.

"No wonder their ranks improved so much; they teamed up with Ling Jiu!"

"Man, I'm jealous! If only Ling Jiu would also bring me along with him!"

"Bloody hell! Ling Jiu is just too strong! Not only has he been number one, but now he's taken the two girls to the top three with him. He's literally invincible!"

"You think? Ling Jiu is a monster with that Replication Arcana. He can even kill a Class 7 Direbeast, so what's carrying two people to the top three?"

"He's a leaderboard hogger! He's not satisfied with taking first place, and now he's bringing girls into the top three. How are we supposed to survive?"

"Pfeh, it's not like it has any impact on you, as though you are in the top nine."

…

After receiving Ai Yuhe's answer, all of the students went into an uproar as they started to talk about it. Some were jealous, while some were bitter and angry.

The most unhappy of the lot were naturally Zhou Ji, Christopher, and Hirano Hatake. However, they were men beyond anything else, so they would not show their displeasure outwardly.

In comparison, the female European and American students like Christina Millie could no longer bear it. She immediately called them out.

"You cheat! You're clearly cheating! With your strength, you are nowhere close to being second or third! You're cheating by purely relying on Ling Jiu!"

Christina Millie rushed up to Ai Yuhe and Yang Ling'er as she growled angrily. "You two b*tches, without Ling Jiu, you guys aren't even worth lifting my shoes for me. You two cheaters! Shameless cheaters!"

She had originally been ranked fifth, and after following Hirano Hatake closely, she had been able to enjoy an Intermediate-level Life-enhancing Liquid, Intermediate-level Gene Arcana Strengthening Liquid, and the right to use the second level of Underground Room 12. She thought that after putting in a bit more effort, she would be able to progress even further!

When the results were revealed, not only did she gain zero progress, but she dropped to seventh place. So, how could she take it lying down?

"That's right! If you want to win, do it fair and square. If you lose, make it fair and square too! If you are that good, then hunt the Direbeasts yourself. What skill is there in relying on Ling Jiu?"

"Using such an underhanded method to take the training camp rewards… You two are just too shameless! I'm going to the camp commandant to lodge a complaint on the both of you!"

The two other female students who were ranked sixth and seventh also stood up as they tore Ai Yuhe and Yang Ling'er apart.

Both Ai Yuhe and Yang Ling'er's pretty faces were flushed with anger, but they were powerless to refute the accusations.

Although the formation of their team was in line with the training camp's rules and there was no problem at all, they did ride on Ling Jiu's coattails. On top of that, they had indeed damaged Christina Millie and the other two girls' interests.

"Ling'er, let's go!"

Since they could not argue back, they might as well leave, so Ai Yuhe pulled Yang Ling'er away.

Christina Millie was honestly being unreasonable. She blocked the two of them as she hissed. "You want to leave? You can forget about leaving if you don't give us your word today!"

"What word are you talking about?"

Ai Yuhe was angry.

"In front of everyone here, give us your word that you will never team up with Ling Jiu again, or else you can forget about leaving!" Christina Millie said disdainfully.

"That's our own business, and it has nothing to do with you!"

Ai Yuhe was as cold as ice. "If you have the ability, look for Ling Jiu and team up with him then!"

"You…"

Christina Millie was so pissed that she was at a loss for words. She wanted to team up with Ling Jiu too, and she had looked for him more than once. Sadly, it had ended with Ling Jiu not answering her calls!

He never replied to her messages either!

Even when she had tried to seduce Ling Jiu in private, he had straight-up ignored her.

After many attempts, she realized that Ling Jiu was simply not interested in her, so the idea gradually faded. Otherwise, how would she have let Ling Jiu go?

She would have eaten him up long ago!

"I honestly can't be bothered to poke my nose into your matters, but your actions have seriously damaged our interests and the fairness of competition. So, of course we have to care about it!"

The former sixth-ranked black girl, Edna Eddie coldly said, "Just give us your word. Promise in front of everyone that the both of you will not team up with Ling Jiu again in the future. Otherwise, don't blame us for not holding back!"

"Whoa!"

"The five golden flowers are at each other's throats!"

"Welp, there's some drama to watch I guess!"

The other trainees all gathered around.

Christina Millie, Edna Eddie, Janet Ferguson, Ai Yuhe, and Yang Ling'er were the top five ranking girls.

At the same time, they were the golden flowers of the training camp and the five most popular girls there, even considered as goddesses in the minds of many trainees.

However, like all goddesses, they were beautiful yet cold, showing no interest in those low-ranking scrubs.

Forget the rest, they could just watch these five goddesses tear each other apart.

"You've gone too far!

"Me teaming up with my brother has nothing to do with you!" Yang Ling'er spat.

"Brother? You're already calling him that? So, both of you are already riding him on the bed quite a bit then?"

Christina Millie sneered, "I really don't understand why Ling Jiu would fancy a cripp—"

Slap!

Before Christina Millie could finish her sentence, the sound of a crisp slap rang out.

Everyone looked over in shock and saw Christina Millie cry all of a sudden. She clutched her cheeks as a trace of blood oozed out of the corner of her mouth.

"Who was it? You dare to hit me?"

Christina Millie's eyes turned red.

"Your mouth is like a feces pit in the countryside during the summer. You just stink. It's not your fault that you stink, but when you come out to pollute the place, then it becomes your fault!"

An indifferent voice rang out as everyone looked over to find a figure squeeze himself out of the crowd. It was the handsome Ling Jiu.

"Ling Jiu, how dare you hit me?"

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Chapter 118: They Cheated, Stepping on One's Feet

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

"Ling Jiu!"

Seeing the person's sudden appearance, everyone was slightly stunned with inexplicable looks on their faces.

The students ranked tenth and beyond were all delighted for a moment since there was another drama about to unfold.

Zhou Ji, Christopher Adam, and the rest were also upset.

It was fine when Ling Jiu dominated the top spot, but now he was depriving them of their eternal number two and number three positions. It was just too much!

Only Christina clutched her swollen face as she snarled hysterically. "You dare to hit me? What right do you have to hit me?"

"Because your mouth stinks!" Ling Jiu said nonchalantly.

"You…"

Christina's pretty face was fuming red. No one had ever talked to her like that before!

"What? If you don't want to get beaten again, scram!"

Ling Jiu spoke in an unfriendly manner. "You're not happy that someone's ranking is higher than yours? Then try again and stop spewing bullsh*t here!

"Also, the training camp is not run by your family. No one will bow to your whims and fancies, much less your demands!"

Christina's face was flushed as Ling Jiu admonished her, but she still fought back. "This is malicious competition, and you're breaking the training camp rules!"

"Rules? What rules? Why have I never heard of it before?" Ling Jiu sneered.

"I only know that what we did was in full compliance with the rules of the training camp. If you're not happy, you can look for the camp commandant. I believe that he will give all of you a satisfactory explanation!"

Once that was out of the way, he airily said, "Ling'er, Yuhe, let's go!"

"Yeah."

Ai Yuhe and Yang Ling'er quickly followed suit.

"F*ck!"

Looking at the backs of the three departing figures, Christina and the others gritted their teeth as they nursed the hatred in their hearts. If their gazes could kill, Ling Jiu would have been shredded into pieces.

"Zhou Ji, Christopher, Hirano Hatake, are you willing to give up your second and third spots just like that?"

…

"Ling Jiu, let's not team up again in the future!"

The three returned to the dormitory building, and before they parted, Ai Yuhe expressed her thoughts with hesitation.

"Why? Have they convinced you just like that?" Ling Jiu raised his eyebrows.

"I don't want them to gossip about me!"

Ai Yuhe smiled bitterly. "Also, they were right. Our actions broke the camp's rules."

Yang Ling'er was silent with similar thoughts in her mind.

"If you really think so, then you've totally lost!"

Ling Jiu shook his head. "The competition in the training camp is cruel, and the rewards are limited. Once you get a taste of something, someone else will go hungry; if you go up, someone else must come down!

"The rewards are for our own benefits, but in order to get their hands on them, people will resort to anything. That scene earlier was just child's play!

"So, don't worry about all that useless stuff. Rather, we should be thinking about how we can get the rewards into our mouths. As for the rest… who cares?"

"But…"

"No buts!"

Ling Jiu solemnly said, "Remember, the training camp is only 10 months long. How to grab as many rewards as possible and improve our strength within this period of time are the most important things. The others have nothing to do with us!

"Again!

"The training camp isn't a charity but a hyper-competitive arena. Forget about fairness here. That concept doesn't exist in this camp!"

"I understand!"

Ai Yuhe took a deep breath.

"As long as you understand."

Ling Jiu then smiled and said, "We'll continue to work together. Without you two, I won't be able to deal with a Class 7 Direbeast alone!"

"Yeah."

…

What Ling Jiu and the others did not know was that just before they left, Christina, Edna, and Janet had gone to the camp commandant's office.

"Camp commandant, someone is ruining fair competition!"

"Oh? What's the story?"

The camp commandant was a little surprised.

"It's like this!"

Christina recounted the incident from front to back and finally added, "Ai Yuhe and Yang Ling'er are totally cheating. They do not have the right and the strength to rank second and third!"

"Cheating?"

A hint of playfulness appeared on the camp commandant's face. "Before I answer your question, I have a question for you."

"Sir, please go ahead."

"Has the training camp actually set up rules for field combat?"

The camp commandant looked at the three. "If I remember correctly, there shouldn't be any rules for field combat, right?"

"This…"

The three were speechless.

"Since there are no rules, how did the cheating come about?"

The camp commandant's smile slowly faded away. "Besides, the camp has never stressed that teaming up is not allowed, correct?"

The three went silent again.

"This is a training camp, a place to train strong folks. The rewards are only based on performance. As for how the performance comes about, it's not something we even consider!"

The camp commandant indifferently said, "It doesn't matter if you want to kill, maim, pillage, or team-up. That's your business. The training camp will never intervene when it comes to that. Understand?"

"Yes, Sir!"

"You can leave now!"

After leaving the camp commandant's office, the three of them felt a little glum. They wanted to use the camp commandant's hand to pressure Ling Jiu and get the three to stop teaming up.

They never thought…

"Are we going to let those two b*tches just sit on us? I won't take this lying down!" Christina hissed.

"Actually, it's not like we are without recourse."

Edna Eddie's eyes gleamed as she suddenly spoke.

"Edna, do you have an idea?"

Christina immediately looked at Edna, and so did everyone else as anticipation filled their eyes.

"If Ling Jiu can form a team, so can we!" Edna Eddie smiled confidently.

"I actually thought you had some truly good ideas!"

Christina was disappointed. "Ling Jiu's strength far surpasses all of ours. Even if we team up, it's impossible for us to fight the three of them!"

"Besides, we may even pull our own score down by teaming up, and that'll make us rank even lower!" Janet Ferguson also shook her head.

"We certainly can't beat Ling Jiu if we split the points evenly, but what if all of the gains are attributed to one person?" Edna Eddie continued.

"All attributed to a single person?"

Christopher was stunned. "That way, the person's score will skyrocket, and he or she could take first place while the others will suffer!"

"If Ling Jiu and those two b*tches team up, we will only rank seventh, eighth, and ninth anyway. What's the difference between this and last then?"

Edna Eddie continued, "If we attribute all of our points to a single person like my plan, then that person is very likely to get first place!

"Later on, we can take turns occupying first place. This week, it'll be you, next week, it'll be me, so on and so forth!

"Once we get first place three times, the rewards will be very handsome. Wouldn't that be better than being stuck at the seventh, eighth, and ninth place?"

Hearing this, Christina and Janet Ferguson were obviously tempted.

"Plus!

"If we become number one, Ling Jiu will be trampled under our feet, and that'll be payback for all the shame we've endured today!"

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Chapter 119: Gene Core, Arcana Field

"Today marks the seventh week of the training camp, and I broke through Level 5 during the first week itself."

"After taking the Superior Gene Arcana Strengthening Liquid, and training in the first level of Underground Room 12, I can feel that I'm not too far away from Level 6!"

"I hope I can reach it today and smoothly become a Level 6 Arcanist!"

Ling Jiu first drank the Superior Life-enhancing Liquid and the Superior Gene Arcana Strengthening Liquid. Then, he finally activated the "Devouring the Stars" technique and started devouring Gene Arcana.

Buzz…

The surging Gene Arcana formed a giant vortex in the sky as it drew in all the surrounding Gene Arcana in a frenzy.

Every second, a large amount of Gene Arcana was absorbed into Ling Jiu's body. They were divided by his cells first before being stored in his veins and meridians.

Several moments later, his veins and meridians were completely filled with Gene Arcana. Then, just like how a full bottle could no longer be filled with water, once his veins and meridians were loaded, he was unable to absorb any more Gene Arcana.

Ling Jiu knew that it was because his body had already reached its limit. To break this cumbersome roadblock, he could take two general paths before him.

Firstly, he could consume the Gene Arcana that had accumulated. It would be like pouring out the contents of a full bottle, so the emptied bottle could naturally be filled again.

That was also the reason for the real combat. He would absorb the Gene Arcana for the first three days, and consume them in the following days during combat on the field.

Absorb and consume.

Absorb and consume.

In this constant cycle, his body would grow stronger exponentially, and his capacity to carry Gene Arcana would become increasingly larger as well.

Secondly, he could compress his Gene Arcana and condense them into solids.

It was a well-known fact that for substances of the same mass, liquids would have a lower density than solids.

Therefore, when a liquid became solid, its volume would become smaller (unless it was water).

Gene Arcana was the same. As long as he could compress them into solids, his body would be able to carry more Gene Arcana.

The process of compressing Gene Arcana into solids was called solidification, and solidified Gene Arcana were called Gene Arcana Cores.

Gene Arcana Cores were also the mark of being a Level 6 Arcanist!

"Compression!

"The key is compression!"

Ling Jiu tried to compress the Gene Arcana inside his body, but no matter how hard he tried, he was unable to solidify them.

After half a day of achieving no results at all, Ling Jiu took out his microcomputer and visited the forum to read up on related experiences.

The forum was mostly filled with bullsh*t, but there were also many good informative posts with numerous training experiences. They were from various levels, and Ling Jiu browsed through them one by one.

"General Outline for Solidification?

"Long term updates: A record of my life from a newbie to a Level 6 Arcanist!

"I've been stuck on Level 5 for 19 years!

"My Path of Leveling Up – A Leveling Up Record of a Village Youth!

"The Late Night Records of My Efforts to Reach Level 6!"

…

After browsing around, Ling Jiu finally had some ideas. Each Arcanist's journey to Level 6 seemed quite different in approach but were in essence the same.

One needed to compress a small amount of Gene Arcana, solidify them, and then consume them in part…

Compress a small amount first…

A small amount…

Ling Jiu slapped his forehead and felt upset at himself. "I was just so stupid earlier. I actually wanted to compress all of the Gene Arcana in my veins and meridians into solids!

"Silly me!"

Ling Jiu admitted to himself that he had screwed up. He later found a small portion of Gene Arcana in his meridians and began to compress them.

With less to work with, his progress went smoothly. Soon after, the Gene Arcana were compressed into a little sesame-sized Gene Arcana Core!

"This is my very first Gene Arcana Core, or perhaps a Gene Arcana Core prototype? While it's small, the energy it contains is quite amazing!" Ling Jiu muttered to himself and started to compress more Gene Arcana.

As he continued compressing, the Gene Arcana Core expanded slowly, very slowly. Nevertheless, it was expanding.

After some time, all of the Gene Arcana in his meridians were depleted. Meanwhile, the Gene Arcana Core had transformed from the size of a sesame seed to the size of a cherry.

It was now as big as a cherry, but that was still very small.

In fact, it looked rather insignificant.

Miraculously, Ling Jiu could clearly sense a difference in his surroundings at that very moment.

He felt as if he was one with heaven and earth, and he could see the tiniest speck of dust, as well as the oxygen molecules, in the air…

If he wanted to, he could even separate oxygen and nitrogen.

"Is this the Arcana Field?" Ling Jiu muttered to himself.

The Arcana Field was another mark of a Level 6 Arcanist, and some thought that the Arcana Field was an ability that came with the Gene Arcana Core.

No matter how it came about, a Level 6 Arcanist would have an Arcana Field.

Level 6 Arcanists could control everything within their Arcana Fields…

The air, the earth, the soil, the dust, the magnetic field, the gravity…

Everything was under his control.

That was why Arcanists below Level 6 were no match at all against a Level 6 Arcanist.

You can manipulate special flames?

Oh, I'm sorry, once your flames are inside my Arcana Field, they will be under my control and won't be able to hit me at all.

You have other Arcanas?

They would be equally useless!

Therefore, against a lower level Arcanist, a Level 6 Arcanist had absolute overwhelming strength. Cross-level combat was essentially not applicable from Level 6 onwards.

Of course, while an Arcana Field was very powerful, it was only good against a lower-level Arcanist.

To a high-level Arcanist, the Arcana Field of a Level 6 Arcanist was at best just a prototype. Hence, it was fragile and could be easily broken.

Moreover, Level 6 Arcanists did not have strong control over the Arcana Field. Plus, the ability to "command everything" was nothing more than an exaggeration.

"Even so, the Arcana Field is overpowered enough!"

Ling Jiu let out a long sigh. Based on the statements of those folks on the forum, a Level 6 Arcanist's attack would be greatly enhanced in the field.

In contrast, the foe's offense would be greatly diminished or even wiped out.

Take a Fire Arcanist for example, inside his Arcana Field, his Flame Arcana's strength would greatly increase, be it the temperature of the flame or the speed of attack.

Its burning speed would just not be the same.

"The Arcana Field can pretty much be considered a massive buff, which infinitely strengthens the Arcanist's Arcana and simultaneously weakens others!

"Let me try this out!" Ling Jiu whispered and closed his eyes to feel it.

"Gravity!

"My control of gravity is more agile now, and it's just like moving my fingers!

"The Five Elements!

"Blink!"

After some simple attempts, Ling Jiu opened his eyes with delight. "My Arcana Field… seems to be quite strong!"

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Chapter 120: Alliance of Five, Blue-eyed Azure Scaled Dragon

The forum bigwigs had a lot to say about Arcana Field, but there was one thing all of them repeatedly stressed: a Level 6 Arcanist's Arcana Field was very rudimentary and especially fragile. Plus, its control power was not that strong.

Its real function was not to allow an Arcanist to control everything within the field but to buff up the Arcana.

The Arcana Field would allow one's Arcana to get more powerful, faster, higher temperature, and made it easier to use!

A rough calculation showed that an Arcana Field could increase the power of one's Arcana by five times…

A whole five times stronger!

So in this case, the more Arcana one has, the more advantages one gets.

"I have so many Arcana with me, and with the Arcana Field buffs, how strong can I get?"

Ling Jiu could not wait to try out his Arcana Field, however as he was still training in Underground Room 12, and there were no suitable test subject.

"Let's try it once I'm out!"

Ling Jiu suppressed the urge to test his Arcana Field, and instead continued to study his own Arcana.

According to experience given by his seniors, after becoming a Level 6 Arcanist, his Arcana would gain new abilities.

For example, for those Earth-type Arcanists:

A vast majority of Earth-type Arcanist will be able to gain the Gravity Arcana, and get the ability to control gravity, while a few will gain the ability to control magnetic fields.

For a Water-type Arcanist:

Most with be able to gain Ice-type Arcanas, and the ability to control ice, while a few will gain the ability to control fluids.

For example, a Gravity-type Arcanists will be able to gain Gravitational Arcana.

"Let me test out my Arcanas!"

Ling Jiu experimented one by one.

"Earth Manipulation Arcana!"

After a while…

Ling Jiu opened ihs eyes. "Aside from controlling the earth more freely, and with more variations, and in a greater range, there's no new ability gained?"

"Or is it because the gravity arcana is usually derived from it, and I already have that, so they stacked together?"

Ling Jiu continued to experiment.

"Metal Manipulation Arcana!"

"No new abilities gained either!"

"Fire Manipulation Arcana!"

"Damn! Nothing here too?"

"Water Manipulation Arcana!"

"F*ck! Still nothing!"

After a series of experimentations, Ling Jiu despaired. Be it the Five Elements, Blink, Tungsten Form, or Shadowform, none of them had gained new abilities!

They were the same as before, aside from being more powerful, having a wider range, and was easier to use, there was no changes in essential. What derivative abilities?

The hell was that even about?

"For other Arcanists, as long as their Arcana isn't too shitty, they would normally gain new abilities after breaking through to level 6!"

Ling Jiu had the urge to curse. "Why then I have so many abilities but did not gainy any at all? What's the meaning of this?"

"Is it because these are replicated Arcanas, so there's no deriviation from them?"

"So on and so forth!"

"Let's try the Replication Arcana!"

Ling Jiu's eyes lit up. "The Replication Arcana is my original Arcana. So the Replication Arcana is mostlikely to be able to gain a new deriative ability.

Ling Jiu immediately tested his Replication Arcana, and found that the Replication Arcana also did not had any deriative abilities.

"Blood hell!"

"This is straight up bullying!"

"Is it because my Arcana is just too overpowered that even God is jealous, so that's why there's no deriative abilities?"

Ling Jiuchao raised flipped his middle finger at the heavens, and an urge to throw more expletives at it.

However, being pissed was all fine and dandy, there was really nothing he could do about it.

Ling Jiu seized the remaining time and absorb the Gene Arcana around him.

As his Gene Arcana core had only just taken shape, it was still very small. So he needed to absorb as much Gene Arcana as possible to let it grow.

At this moment, the power of an Ultimate Gene Arcana Secret Technique was manifested as it swept in a large number of Gene Arcana, causing the core to growing rapidly.

Ring ring!

After absorbing for who knows how long, a piercing bell rang. "Three days has passed, all trainees please leave the training room immediately."

"So soon already?"

Ling Jiu still had some ideas. After absorption all this while, his Gene Arcana Core had successfully expanded from the size of a cherry to the size of a peanut.

It may not look that different, but god knows how much Gene Arcana it had absorbed?

After leaving Underground Room 12, Ling Jiu returned to the dormitory. To his surprise, Shi Gang was not practicing today, and seemed to be waiting for him?

"You're back!"

Shi Gang looked over, saying. "Ling Jiu, I have something to tell you!"

"What's the matter, sounds serious?"

Ling Jiu raised his eyebrows.

"I got news that Christopher, Hirano Hatake, Christopher, Edna and Janet have formed an alliance and is taking aim at you!"

Shi Gang's face was serious.

"Taking aim at me? Just them?"

Ling Jiu laughed. "Let them then. What's there to be afraid of? Looking at your face, I thought something earth-shattering was about to happen!"

"Ling Jiu, you've not realized the seriousness of the matter!"

Shi Gang growled. "Their alliance this time is not just any simple alliance, but its an attack on your number one spot. You know what they plan to do?"

"What they plan to do?"

"The five of them will hunt Direbeasts and then credit all of the results on one single person. Surely you can imagine what would happen if they did this?"

Shi Gang said solemnly.

"If they really did that, it will indeed bring me some challenge. However, they are still far from able to challenge my number one spot!"

Ling Jiu laughed as he shook his head.

"Ling Jiu, you are overconfident there!"

Shi Gang sighed. "All of them are top nine trainees, and their scores had been stable above 1.5 million in recent weeks."

"Even with simple addition, their total score will exceed 7.5 million. There is a real possibility for them to take first place from you!"

"Before today, they may have a glimmer of hope, but after today, they don't even stand a slightest chance!" Ling Jiu smiled and shook his head.

"You're that confident?"

"This is not mere confidence, but strength!"

Early next morning, when Ling Jiu was about to head out, Ai Yuhe and Yang Ling'er came looking for him.

"You guys are up early today!" Ling Jiu said with a smile.

"Brother, I've discussed with Sister He, we won't be teaming up with you this week!"

Yang Ling'er went straight to the point. "We've decided to hunt Direbeasts ourselves!"

"It is because of those five?"

Ling Jiu raised his eyebrows.

"No, nothing to do with them. We want to kill the Direbeasts using our own efforts, and then train our combat strength!" Yang Ling'er immediately shook her head.

"Right! We don't want to rely on you, nor do we want others to talk crap about us!" Ai Yuhe also followed suit.

"You two don't even know how to lie. Just say it if you don't want to trouble me!"

Ling Jiu smiled and shook his head, and then said. "Right! I know what to do, don't worry, I won't hand my number one spot to anyone!"

"But…"

"No buts!"

Ling Jiu waved his hand. "Let's go, I'll take you to have your revenge today!"

Riding on the maglev airship, the three once again came to the valley.

The gloomy pool still radiated a bone-biting chill, as white mist rose over the surface of the pool.

The difference from last week was there was no beast in the valley at the moment, and the pool water sparkled like a mirror.

"We were attacked by that Blue-eyed Azure Scaled Dragon here!"

Ai Yuhe gritted her teeth, "Not only that, it also summoned a large number of of its Direbeast underlings to try to kill us!"

"So, we are here for payback today!"

Ling Jiu smiled faintly as he grabbed a boulder and tossed it into the pool.

Boom!

The pool water was kicked three meters high by the impact, making rings of waves.

The next moment, a giant head with a single horn slowly emerged from the water as a pair of blue snake pupils stared coldly at Ling Jiu.

A cold aura and a icy murderous intent radiated from its eyes as the Blue-eyed Azure Scaled Dragon recognized the three of them.

"Ling Jiu, still the same trick, I'll hold it in place, you'll take the offense!"

Ai Yuhe took a deep breath as she prepared to use the Dimensional Lock. This was how they killed the Class 7 Direbeasts last week.

Unexpectedly this time around, Ling Jiu declined. "No need for that!"

As soon as his voice fell, Ling Jiu stepped forward and came to the sky above the Blue-eyed Azure Scaled Dragon, as he unleashed his Arcana Field without any hesitation.

Whooosh!!

The invisible Arcana Field instantly enveloped a radius of 500 meters, and Ling Jiu could clearly feel that everything within this field was his to control.

With a thought, he wanted to use the power of the field to grab the Blue-eyed Azure Scaled Dragon, but it only struggled slightly before breaking free.

"It's siad that a level 6 Arcanist's control of his Arcana Field is a mere display and its real function is buffs. Seems like that's true after all!"

Ling Jiu shook his head, "The Beckoning!"

Bam!!

A terrifying suction force suddenly erupted as the Blue-eyed Azure Scaled Dragon flew up uncontrollably towards Ling Jiu.

"Shinra Tensei!"

Ling Jiu snapped his fingers.

Baaaam!!

The Blue-eyed Azure Scaled Dragon instantly flew backwards before slamming into the side of a mountain, knocking down countless rocks and soil.

"The control power of the Arcana Field is indeed insignificant, but inside the field, my Gravity Arcana is gravity enhanced, and its usage is even more agile!"

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