Swallowing the Stars: Starting with the Steel of the Heart

In the endless desert, the sky was cloudless and the sun was scorching.

A golden vulture, soaring freely in the sky, seemed to have spotted a suitable prey and suddenly swooped down from a great height.

"puff!"

A streak of crimson light suddenly flashed across the golden vulture's body.

Then, as if it had lost consciousness, the golden vulture plunged headfirst into the sea of ​​sand.

Then the golden vulture's body was neatly split in two, its internal organs and blood flowing all over the ground.

Not far from the golden vulture, a young man holding a halberd strolled past it leisurely, showing no regard for the vulture's corpse, which was worth tens of millions.

The young man passing by was undoubtedly Xiang Bei.

Now that Xiang Bei's physical abilities have reached the level of a war god, he naturally wouldn't even look at the corpse of a low-level warrior-general. The prey that can catch Xiang Bei's eye now must be at least a mid-level beast general.

After all, once you reach the level of Beast General, although your entire body is a treasure trove after evolution, many monsters also become enormous, and a combat backpack simply can't hold much supplies. Therefore, you naturally have to pick up the most valuable materials.

In the previous month, Xiang Bei was not only pushed to the level of a beginner war god by the effect of the Heart Steel, but his halberd technique also reached the perfect level. Xiang Bei wielded the halberd with such skill that it was impenetrable and perfectly round.

From Xiang Bei's current perspective, just a month ago, his mastery of the "Breaking Army" halberd technique was riddled with flaws.

With just a little recollection, one can find countless flaws and weaknesses in one's past techniques.

Because of his breakthrough in halberd techniques, Xiang Bei's cultivation speed in the second month after entering the elite training camp actually increased instead of decreasing. On the first day after passing the B-level trial on the second floor of the Trial Tower, he completely broke through to the third floor and mastered the 2.4 times power exertion technique.

In less than twenty days, he broke through the fourth level of "Po Jun" again, and his punching power directly reached 3 times.

In other words, Xiang Bei's basic punching power is 64000 kg, but after applying power-generating techniques, his power explodes to 192000 kg. His combat strength can rival that of a mid-level War God.

Of course, a powerhouse who can reach the level of a War God cannot be described as having no strength; their movement, combat skills, and power exertion are all exceptional.

In addition, there was the Trial Tower level. At the end of October, Xiang Bei went to the Trial Tower again. This time, Xiang Bei swept through the entire C-level stage of the second floor with almost overwhelming speed and successfully entered the third floor of the Trial Tower.

However, after reaching the third level, the difficulty of the Trial Tower increased dramatically again, transforming from the elusive armored scorpions that appeared and disappeared in the desert to the golden vultures soaring in the sky.

This thing is fast and has a bloodthirsty and ruthless nature. It is one of the most difficult flying monsters to deal with, and even the weakest of them are at the level of a low-level beast general.

However, under Xiang Bei's perfected halberd technique, the so-called advantage of flight was useless.

Once the halberd technique reaches perfection, from the perspective of modern Earthlings, it is almost flawless. The halberd technique is unified and can be controlled freely, whether fast or slow, heavy or light.

To a certain extent, perfect combat skills are the limit that ordinary martial artists can achieve beyond mere skill.

At this level, it no longer matters which direction the opponent's attack comes from; whether it comes from above or below, the effect is the same. Even when facing multiple attackers, there is still no difference. At this level, the difference between 1v1 and 1v many is negligible. A martial artist's skill level can even make the opponent's attack less than one plus one. If Xiang Bei wanted, he could even use one person's attack to attack another, infinitely amplifying his own attack and reducing the danger of the enemy's attack.

The golden vulture's best attack is to carry its prey into the air and slaughter them, but it has no effect on Xiang Bei at all, because the golden vulture's attack cannot penetrate Xiang Bei's halberd. As soon as it gets close, it is either killed or injured by Xiang Bei's halberd.

The only drawback is that if Xiang Bei doesn't chase them to a high altitude, he can only wait for the golden vulture to attack, which slows things down considerably and could easily lead to insufficient time.

After easily passing the A-level stage of the third level, Xiang Bei passed the B-level stage almost perfectly on time.

In the third phase, Xiang Bei learned from the near-time shortage in the second phase and chose to take off and fight the Golden Vulture.

But the result was tragic. Xiang Bei's attack was indeed incredibly sharp, and his killing aura filled the sky. Even in mid-air, no golden vulture could withstand Xiang Bei's attack.

However, Xiang Bei couldn't find enough footholds to gain leverage in the air. So, after a fierce battle, Xiang Bei cleared the area around him and fell spectacularly from the sky, suffering severe injuries. He was then devoured by the swarming golden vultures.

In the end, Xiang Bei's score in the Trial Tower reached 3.8, and with the power of his punches tripled, his combat strength also surged to 11.4.

The surge in combat power also led to a rapid rise in Xiang Bei's ranking in the training camp, which jumped directly to 13th place in the entire elite training camp.

Unfortunately, although the elite training camp of the Thunder Martial Arts Academy is almost a direct copy of the Extreme Martial Arts Academy, and the Thunder Martial Arts Academy lacks many of the rare resources that the Extreme Martial Arts Academy possesses, the Thunder Martial Arts Academy's elite training camp is still one of the two most powerful talent gathering places on Earth.

Those who rank among the top in the Thunder Martial Arts Academy Elite Training Camp are almost all already War God level experts. Even those who haven't reached the War God level are all high-level War General level geniuses with extremely high combat power.

However, due to the abundant resources in the elite training camp, none of these people chose to immediately recognize their War God level and leave the training camp after becoming War Gods. Instead, they chose to stay as trainees until the five-year term was completed before graduating and leaving.

Although Xiang Bei has reached the God of War level, he only entered the God of War level at the end of the month, and is still somewhat inferior to those geniuses who have already reached the God of War level.

However, if the rankings are repeated at the end of next month, Xiang Bei is confident that he can break into the top ten of the elite training camp.

After undergoing the trials of the third level, C stage of the Trial Tower, Xiang Bei also realized his weakness in agility.

As mentioned before, the movement technique "Trapped in Formation" is not particularly advanced, and it is mostly used in conjunction with halberd techniques. Therefore, Xiang Bei thought of using the special terrain of the southern desert of the training camp to hone his movement technique and strive to break through to the perfect level of movement technique as soon as possible.

Moreover, Xiang Bei was also looking for an opportunity to further improve his halberd skills.

Once combat skills reach a perfect level, that's roughly the peak of skills that ordinary people can achieve. Beyond that, there's the realm of artistic conception, which is more of a subjective concept.

Xiang Bei knew how to practice skills, but he didn't quite understand how to achieve the more idealistic realm of artistic conception. Therefore, he could only try to find that glimmer of opportunity through battle after battle.