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"Moo!!"

The armored rhinoceros launched the first attack.

After a deafening roar, its massive body suddenly lurched forward, like a heavy tank charging at full speed, savagely crashing into Su Ming. Every step it took made the ground rumble and the gravel tremble.

"Perfect timing!"

Seeing this, Su Ming did not back down. With a flick of his wrist, the fish-scale spear emitted a slight hum, its tip pointing directly at the armored rhinoceros.

Faced with the savage charge of the armored rhinoceros, which was powerful enough to send a small car flying, Su Ming quickly mobilized his internal energy and blood, his muscles became unusually active, and streams of energy rapidly circulated according to the power path of the C-level martial art, the Cloud-Piercing Spear.

The perfected Cloud-Piercing Spear technique far surpasses the previous Vajra Spear Technique in its power generation.

Just as the armored rhinoceros charged to within ten meters of him, its menacing horn about to strike, Su Ming stomped his foot, advancing instead of retreating.

Just as the two were about to collide, Su Ming lightly touched the ground with his foot and slid sideways like a ghost, narrowly avoiding the armored rhinoceros's frontal charge.

This was the reaction he had developed during twenty days of actual combat training, and of course, his high mental attributes also played a significant role.

Piercing Cloud Spear!

Just as he dodged the armored rhinoceros's frontal attack, Su Ming's entire body resonated with energy, and his qi and blood erupted. 116 points of qi and blood, along with the power of his entire body, were poured into his arms holding the fish scale spear without reservation.

Su Ming's arm muscles bulged, and the fish-scale spear transformed into a silver lightning bolt, stabbing with unparalleled precision at the relatively weak side of the armored rhinoceros's neck.

This shot was fast, accurate, and ruthless.

With a fivefold increase, the terrifying combat power of 5800 cards erupts instantly!

Clang!

The spear tip clashed violently with the armored rhinoceros's scales, producing a deafening clang like metal striking metal. After a series of sparks flew, a wound about a foot long was left on the rhinoceros's side of its neck, from which blood flowed.

"Such high defense!" Su Ming felt a slight numbness in his arm and was secretly shocked.

This armored rhinoceros's defense is indeed as good as its reputation, far surpassing that of ordinary mid-stage second-tier ferocious beasts.

"Moo!" The armored rhinoceros roared in pain, its massive body suddenly swerving and braking sharply.

The thick horn on its head was aimed directly at Su Ming, and then its limbs suddenly exerted force, the horn flashing with cold light as it stabbed straight at Su Ming.

Su Ming flashed again, his fish-scale spear retreating, then thrusting out like a poisonous dragon emerging from its cave, unleashing several spear shadows in the blink of an eye, specifically targeting the armored rhinoceros's eyes, joints, neck, and other relatively weak points in its defense.

The Cloud-Piercing Spear not only boasts a massive boost, but its spear technique is also incredibly refined, emphasizing breaking through surfaces with a single point, resulting in extremely strong penetrating power. When combined with the Fish Scale Spear, its power is even greater.

"Clang!"

"Pfft!"

……

The sounds of metal clashing and spears piercing flesh rang out alternately and incessantly.

Su Ming pushed his movement technique to its limit, constantly circling the massive body of the armored rhinoceros. The fish-scale spear seemed to come alive in his hands, accurately striking the weak points in the armored rhinoceros's defenses with each strike.

Despite its immense strength and defense, the armored rhinoceros couldn't even touch Su Ming's clothes. It roared in anger as it was beaten, and its massive body became a burden, making it appear incredibly clumsy. It could only switch to a passive defensive stance.

Then, after a prolonged defense, the enemy finally seized an opportunity and pierced the armored rhinoceros's right eye with a spear after Su Ming launched a dozen or so fierce attacks.

"Pfft!"

This time, there was no harsh metallic clanging sound; instead, there was a dull thud as something tore through leather and pierced flesh!

The fish-scale spear was nearly halfway embedded in the armored rhinoceros's head, and a stream of scalding beast blood mixed with the gushing blood from its eyeballs spurted out along the blood groove.

"Moo—!"

The armored rhinoceros let out a deafening, mournful howl, its massive body convulsing violently, its life force fading away like a receding tide.

Boom!

Finally, this incredibly defensive mid-stage Tier 2 beast crashed heavily to the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust, and fell completely silent.

[Defeat the mid-tier Tier 2 ferocious beast 'Armored Rhinoceros', +20 enhancement points!]

Su Ming slowly drew out the fish-scale spear, flicked off the blood droplets from the spear tip, and his breathing became slightly rapid.

"This armored rhinoceros's defense is probably no weaker than that of many late-stage Tier 2 ferocious beasts."

"With my current physical combat strength of 5800 calories, coupled with the D-grade Fish Scale Spear, I should be able to kill all the mid-stage Tier 2 ferocious beasts in this Cave 3 using only my physical strength!"

After killing the armored rhinoceros, Su Ming gained a clearer understanding of his own strength.

After taking a few deep breaths to calm his turbulent blood and qi, Su Ming stepped forward to cut off the most valuable horn from the armored rhinoceros.

Although the armor on the armored rhinoceros was also very valuable, it was too big to carry away, so they had to give it up.

After quickly processing the most valuable horn from the armored rhinoceros, Su Ming packed several bottles of the armored rhinoceros's essence blood before putting the materials into the large hiking backpack behind him.

"It's such a pity that so many materials can't be taken with us. If only I had a spatial ring."

After packing his bag, Su Ming glanced regretfully at the massive body of the armored rhinoceros, sighed, and then continued deeper into the cave.

In the following period, Su Ming specifically searched for and hunted second-tier ferocious beasts deep within the underground cave.

Moreover, he did not use any special abilities, but relied entirely on his own physique and martial arts skills to fight the ferocious beasts in close combat, constantly accumulating combat experience.

The fish-scale spear moved like a silver dragon, striking with lightning speed. It could often kill a ferocious beast in the early stage of the second tier in a single move. Only ferocious beasts in the middle stage of the second tier could exchange a few blows with Su Ming.

The remaining first-tier ferocious beasts were no match for Su Ming.

[Defeat the peak Tier 1 ferocious beast 'Shadow Leopard', +5 Enhancement Points]

[Defeat the Tier 2 early-stage ferocious beast 'Crypt Spider', +10 enhancement points]

[Defeat the early-stage Tier 2 ferocious beast 'Steel-Maned Boar', +10 Enhancement Points]

……

Time passed by, and system notifications and messages about enhancement points being added popped up on the system panel from time to time. Su Ming's backpack also contained more and more high-level materials.

Only when his backpack was full and could no longer hold any more ferocious beast materials did Su Ming reluctantly return along the way he came.

Just as Su Ming was halfway through his journey, carrying a fully packed backpack through a dense, dark purple forest, he faintly heard the sounds of clashing weapons and the roar of a ferocious beast coming from his right.

With his mental energy probing towards the right side of the forest, Su Ming keenly detected a surge of intense yet familiar blood energy coming from afar.

"There's a battle going on over there. That energy fluctuation looks familiar... It seems to be Coach Xin's energy fluctuation? Could it be them?"

Su Ming paused, immediately thinking of Xin Menghan and her team members, and frowned slightly.

After a moment's hesitation, Su Ming immediately sped up and headed towards the direction of the battle.