We made you practice martial arts, and you've mastered the Great Golden Body?

February 7th, 346th year of the New Era.

Tiangang Academy, Nanhu Villa District, No. 4137, detached villa.

Underground training room.

"Whoo~"

He exhaled a long breath, which accelerated rapidly upon contact with the air, transforming into a milky-white arrow that slammed into the wall of the underground training room.

With a loud "bang!", it suddenly exploded.

Where the milky-white arrow disappeared, the wall, as hard as the alloy armor on a warship, even showed a slight indentation.

Although the depth was only a few millimeters, it was enough to demonstrate its power.

If you shoot at the weak point of an ordinary martial artist at the Life Establishment Realm, there is a very high probability that you can instantly kill the opponent.

"The time should be almost up." As Shen Bailian thought this, the rumbling within his body gradually subsided, and the tremors in his internal organs gradually calmed down.

hum~
Shen Bailian slowly opened his eyes, which had been closed for more than ten hours. As soon as his eyes opened, the entire cultivation room was instantly filled with a golden light, illuminating every corner.

Even the previously dormant elemental energy of heaven and earth came back to life, surging and dancing around the boy.

Like individual elemental spirits.

The boy stood up, and the surrounding天地元力 (heaven and earth energy) began to dance. His eyes, as bright as the deep space of the universe, emitted a faint light, giving people the feeling of looking into an abyss.

Loneliness, abyss... and the unseen.

Contrary to what the martial arts students had speculated, Shen Bailian had not emerged from seclusion; rather, it was now time to meet with Duan Wuyai as agreed.

That's why I had to stop my secluded cultivation.

"Based on my current combat strength," Shen Bailian said softly, clenching his fists and activating his Divine Eye in all directions. He briefly sensed the surging power within his body, wave after wave.
"Below the Moon Embracing Realm, I am invincible; in the early stages of the Moon Embracing Realm, I can trade one for one."

This is not boasting, but rather confidence derived from overwhelming strength.

It must be said that when Shen Bailian first saw and felt Yuwen Changkong break through to the Sea Opening Realm, he was truly shocked.

He possesses the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder Saint Body and holds the title of the Ninth Saint Son of the Starry Sky Martial Hall.

And at the young age of eighteen, he broke through to the Sea Opening Realm, becoming one of the pillars of the Great Xia Dynasty.

Given Yuwen Changkong's consistent performance, coupled with the profound foundation of the Starry Sky Martial Hall, and the support of various rare and precious materials and treasures, he could achieve great success.

Although Yuwen Changkong was only at the early stage of the Sea Opening Realm, he was still very capable in large-scale battles, especially in the ferocious beast tides.

The destructive power he can unleash and the results he can achieve are completely comparable to those of a martial artist in the late stage of the Sea Opening Realm.

Without Shen Bailian's existence, Yuwen Changkong could be considered the most dazzling top martial arts prodigy in the Great Xia Dynasty during this era.

none of them.

However, as the saying goes, "If Zhou Yu was born, why was Zhuge Liang born?"

Yuwen Changkong, a top martial arts prodigy, has been completely relegated to a supporting role to Shen Bailian.

Shen Bailian's strength is all-encompassing. With the support of various skills, his combat power is definitely stronger than Yuwen Changkong's in battles against individuals of the same physical level.

As skills advance, the gap in combat power between players of the same level continues to widen.

Moreover, Shen Bailian's physical attributes improved at a much faster rate than Yuwen Changkong's, and with the addition of the [Iron Body] skill, he had extremely strong resistance to the power of thunder.

At this point in time, Shen Bailian and Yuwen Changkong belong to two different worlds.

In terms of strength, the only ones who could be Shen Bailian's opponents were those predecessors from decades ago, and of course, they would have to be at least at the level of martial arts prodigies.

"My physical fitness level..." Shen Bailian's eyes flickered slightly, and in an instant, the illusory yet clear ink-wash panel reappeared before his eyes—

Character Level: LV11 (1278/5500)

Physical Strength: 27.1; Spirit: 24.5

【Eight-in-One Great Sun Visualization Method LV2 (852/900)】303
Divine Skill: Shadow Follows LV6 (10/160) (Energy Storage: 0 times)
Eye of God LV5 (352/2500) 299
So close yet so far LV1 (150/300)

(Remaining fixed anchor points: 0/1)

Active Skill: Gale LV2 (870/1000) 219
Hunyuan Qi LV1 (328/400) 238
All Things in the Universe LV1 (299/400) 191
Five Elements Breathing Method LV1 (1001/1600) 251
Fishing - Tier 1 LV3 (3/700) (Trait: Guaranteed) 70
[Passive Skill: Steel Body LV3 (281/1400)] 81
Skill Points: 3

【Cure point: 1】

[Divine Matter: 1420]

More than ten days ago at Hulao Pass, Shen Bailian's character level experience points had reached 3885, and he only needed a little over 100 more experience points to level up.

After about ten days of intensive training, the character's level naturally rose to level 11.

His physical and mental attributes increased by 10% again, and as always, a solidification point appeared again. Shen Bailian has not yet figured out where this solidification point will go.

Shen Bailian also used his spare time to grind for 70 experience points in fishing, successfully leveling up from level two to level three, with his physical and mental attributes each increasing by 0.2 points.

Compared to more than ten days ago, Shen Bailian's physical attribute value has directly increased from level 26.0 to level 27.0.

Even for a top martial arts prodigy like Yuwen Changkong, improving his physical attributes to level 1.0 in the late stage of the Opening Sea Realm would take at least half a year without external assistance.

But what about Shen Bailian?
It only took a little over ten days.

This rate of improvement is nothing short of astonishing.

Furthermore, during this process, Shen Bailian's mental attribute also increased from level 24.0 to level 24.5.

During these ten-plus days of intensive training, all the other skills on the panel, except for some skills that require special conditions to gain experience points, have made significant progress.

The experience bars for the Gale skill and the Eight-in-One Great Sun Visualization are almost full.

The latter was Shen Bailian's habit of deliberately stalling his experience bar, because what he was about to experience was something he had never experienced before.

Or, to be more precise, only a handful of people in this world have experienced it.

Although there are still three skill points on the panel, Shen Bailian's motto has always been—more protection means more safety.

And more importantly, the visualization practice does not require many prerequisites, nor does it require the nourishment of the primordial energy of heaven and earth.

The Eight-in-One Great Sun Visualization Method only needs 48 more experience points to reach the maximum required level for upgrading.

Furthermore.

Even if his mental energy is depleted, given Shen Bailian's current physical condition, he can recover to his peak condition after sleeping for a while.

Finally, there is the change in divine matter.

More than ten days ago, Shen Bailian had 1386 points of divine matter on his panel, but now he has 1480 points, plus the divine matter consumed to maintain the active effect of the divine skill [Shadow Follows].

In just over ten days, the divine matter increased by 40 points.

Of course, this is not achieved by extracting divine substances from the bodies of ferocious beasts, but rather by drawing upon the surrounding primordial energy of heaven and earth.

After numerous practices, Shen Bailian became increasingly adept at using the sense of touch among the five senses of the Divine Eye to extract divine substances from the primordial energy of heaven and earth.

Because these divine substances all originate from the primordial energy of heaven and earth, the purification process is much faster than extracting and purifying them from the bloodlines of ferocious beasts. However, due to the difficulty of extraction and the need for mental strength, the overall cost-effectiveness is somewhat low.

But having something is better than having nothing, since Shen Bailian couldn't just randomly extract the divine matter from the surrounding array.

Yes.

Even within the Heavenly Gang Academy, divine matter exists. Based on the current situation, Great Xia already possesses the means and ability to use divine matter on a large scale.

If the Great Xia is allowed to develop for another hundred years, and those gods still don't return, then they may never have to come back.

Therefore, aside from the necessary cultivation time, Shen Bailian can extract about 5 points of divine substance per day from the external world's elemental energy or elemental crystals.

Furthermore, this speed will increase with the increase in proficiency, and the efficiency will also continue to increase.

A week ago, Shen Bailian had an idea: to solidify the method of extracting divine substances from Yuan Power onto the panel and form a skill.

But he quickly abandoned this idea.

As a character's level increases, the experience bar required to level up also becomes longer. To level up from level 11 to level 12, a whopping 5500 experience points are needed.

At present, all of Shen Bailian's skills on the panel have reached the second tier. To grind for 5500 experience points, it would take months.

Furthermore, compared to grinding experience points to increase skill levels, using skill points to increase skill levels is more efficient.

Therefore, experience points have become a scarce commodity.

Furthermore, as time goes by, experience points will become increasingly scarce for Shen Bailian.

Nothing else matters; simply grinding for experience points is too inefficient.

After more than ten days and nights of relentless training, the passive skill "Iron Body" only gained 81 experience points, averaging less than eight experience points per day.

Sometimes, Shen Bailian even considered putting all three remaining skill points into the skill "Iron Body".

But in the end, it was just a thought.

As for the idea of ​​putting the fixed point on an ordinary skill and then gaining a lot of experience points through the low-level skill, Shen Bailian directly abandoned it.

To reiterate, the price-performance ratio is simply too low.

"Unexpectedly, at this stage and in the future, the biggest use of grinding for skill experience points will be to increase character level." Shen Bailian looked at the ink-wash panel in front of him and couldn't help but smile.

This was an outcome he never expected six months ago.

All I can say is that things are unpredictable.

"Three skill points, plus a skill that's about to be upgraded, and the divine skills [Shadow Follows] and [Close at Hand], this time, as long as there are no major surprises, we should be fine?"

To be honest, Shen Bailian was also a little unsure about exploring another world.

It wasn't that he was worried about his own safety; right now, his life was even tougher than those experts at the Divine Palace Realm.

Shen Bailian was worried about getting nothing. Although there was a high probability that he would be targeted by those gods on this Earthly Star and thus not be able to obtain enough divine matter.

But at least for now, there are no corresponding countermeasures.

No?
If you end up in a low-level martial arts world where the flow of time is uncertain, and if it's 1:1, you'll be at a huge loss.

Shen Bailian was also worried about going to a world where gods and Buddhas were everywhere.

Although the path of martial arts on Earth Star is powerful enough, it hardly involves the application of the power of rules, making it easy to suffer a great loss in the "software".

According to the information provided by Kent from the Star Ring World, the alien race that only had a brain left, a martial artist at the peak of the Sea Opening Realm on Earth Origin Star is basically equivalent to a star-level powerhouse in the Star Ring World.

In the Star Ring World, powerful beings at the Stellar level basically already possess the strength to destroy a star, so it's impossible for them to be from a planet like Earth Origin Star.

Even in the deep universe, a star is a powerful entity, capable of occupying several inhabited planets as its base.

However, in the Zhenyuan Universe, even a full-force attack from a peak-level martial artist at the Sea-Opening Realm can only cover a thousand miles, let alone destroy a star the size of a third of the moon.

Therefore, according to the calculation data provided by the Great Heavenly Body Intelligence Center, and combined with the information provided by Kent, the energy level of the Earthly Star Universe is higher than that of the Star Ring Worldview.

To be precise, it refers to the energy level of the Earth-based planet.

This is because the primordial energy between heaven and earth is not the elemental energy in the Star Ring worldview, but rather a product of the extremely diluted divine power of deities.

Furthermore, since the rules of heaven and earth are not outwardly manifested, all the power of authority is used to strengthen the Earth Star.

Therefore, under the nourishment of the primordial energy of heaven and earth, all matter on the Earth Star, as well as all living beings, underwent a baptism of divine power.

A complete transformation.

However, as with any advantage, there are also disadvantages.

In the Star Ring World, even a ninth-tier planetary warrior can easily 'see' the power of rules. This means that even a stellar-level powerhouse is merely a local bully in the vast universe.

Above the stellar level, there exist cosmic and galactic level powerhouses.

The specific information beyond the Stellar level is beyond the comprehension of Kent, who is only at the Planetary level, because the strongest being in his Venier star system is only a ninth-level Stellar expert.

Furthermore, there was an unexpected incident during the interrogation.

That is, for some reason, or perhaps under the influence of some inexplicable force, Kent only revealed information about the Star Ring World when Tian Ming was present.

Otherwise, I would rather die than submit.

Shen Bailian was well aware of the reason for this, and through this incident, he became even more certain that Tian Ming had completely become a traitor.

Only divine power can exert such influence, subtly altering the thoughts and perceptions of all beings in the world, including alien races from other universes.

However, this incident also made Shen Bailian realize one thing: those gods who had fallen in the past should be considered to have entered the ranks of top powerhouses in the Star Ring World.

The reason is also very simple.

Earthly Stars possess large consciousness aggregates similar to the Heavenly Dao, and there should be others in the Star Ring World as well. The deity behind Tian Ming directly intervened, altering Kent's thinking.

This move is equivalent to directly attacking the other party's Heavenly Dao, but the other party's Heavenly Dao remains unmoved.

Or perhaps they didn't notice it.

Shen Bailian could only think of two explanations for this.

Firstly, the Heavenly Dao of the opposing side is also a useless entity, merely a decoration.

Secondly, the authority of the other side's Heavenly Dao has been almost completely divided up, just like Gaia when those gods in the Zhenyuan Universe were alive.

"This opportunity was secured by the joint efforts of my second master and Principal Xiong Kuohai, both experts at the Divine Palace Realm."

No matter what, I have to go.

"If there's no significant progress within a month, then we'll head back!" A resolute glint flashed in Shen Bailian's eyes. He made up his mind, stood up, and walked towards the bathroom.

One month was a deadline he set for himself.

If it's too late, head back immediately to hunt down ferocious beasts and absorb as much divine matter as possible before those divine beings react.

However, Shen Bailian had one last resort: the Great Xia. (End of Chapter)