All-out Horror Survival: My Awakening Skill Point Allocation Sequence!

"Captain, I'm sorry." Grandpa Niu looked at Zheng Sheng with a guilty expression, took a deep breath, and then took the lead in starting the fight.

"Hit them, all of you! Hit them with every ounce of your strength!"

"If you hit my face, the other two will hit my back; if you hit my legs, don't forget the middle too!"

"Boom boom boom!"

A series of muffled thuds followed one after another.

A group of burly men surrounded Zheng Sheng, constantly waving steel pipes, all of them using every ounce of their strength.

As soon as someone gets tired of hitting, the people in the queue behind will take the steel pipe and continue hitting.

The beating lasted for several hours, and by the end, several steel pipes were completely deformed and became crooked.

Hundreds of people collapsed to the ground from exhaustion, even Grandpa Niu was sitting on the ground, panting heavily.

"Uncle Niu, is the captain practicing Iron Shirt? It's completely different from what we practice," Zhang Mu asked, panting, his face full of shock.

After several hours of beating, his hands were swollen, but Captain Zheng acted as if nothing had happened.

Zhang Yang also looked at Zheng Sheng with admiration.

"So strong!"

"I thought my defense and physique were strong enough after I awakened the [Iron Man] sequence, but I didn't expect the captain to be even stronger than me!"

"If someone with this physique were to train to master the Iron Shirt and Golden Bell Shield techniques, how incredibly tough would they be?!"

Zheng Sheng ignored the exhausted crowd and focused entirely on practicing the Thirteen Bodyguards Horizontal Training.

A few minutes later, he opened his eyes, a hint of joy on his face.

"It's done."

Opening the panel, a new skill item was indeed added: Thirteen Protectors Horizontal Training Level 1 (Beginner).

Zheng Sheng nodded in satisfaction. Both cultivation techniques had been collected, but this was far from enough.

"System, give me some points!"

[Ding! 3000 survival points consumed. Enhancement successful. Protective Golden Bell Shield upgraded to level 2.]

[Ding! 3000 survival points consumed. Enhancement successful. Thirteen Protectors' Horizontal Training upgraded to level 2.]

The notification sound in my ear ended.

Zheng Sheng entered the cultivation illusion again.

For the first ten years, he practiced the Golden Bell Shield technique in a temple deep in the mountains. Every day, as long as he practiced the technique, a thin golden light would appear on the surface of his body, greatly increasing his defensive power.

What he does every day is to constantly hammer and refine the Golden Bell Shield.

Sometimes he would smash his body against the boulders; sometimes he would sit cross-legged under the waterfall; sometimes he would jump from a height of ten meters and smash his body against it.

Day after day, year after year.

Finally, under repeated hammer blows, the golden light on his body suddenly shattered and then slowly merged into his meridians, allowing him to rise from the ashes!

The protective golden bell shield has been upgraded to the second level, marking the official entry into the field.

Soon, a second illusionary cultivation realm appeared.

He transformed back into a thirteen or forty-year-old boy, wandering the streets and alleys.

He was involved in fights every day, and was often surrounded and attacked by dozens of people, always ending up with a bruised and swollen face.

But each time he was hit, he recovered quickly, and his body's defenses became stronger than before.

Years later, ordinary beatings were no longer enough for him, and he began to use all sorts of extreme methods to toughen his body.

He heated the sand until it was scalding hot, then rubbed it against his body repeatedly; he entered the ice pool naked, pushing his body to its limits in the extreme cold; he used sulfuric acid and poison to wipe his body every day.

Ten years later, his skin was as black as iron, even with a metallic sheen, and when swords and spears struck his body, they even made a clanging sound.

The Thirteen Protectors' Horizontal Training has also advanced to the second level, officially marking the beginning of their training.

Zheng Sheng opened his eyes and felt that his body had become harder and stronger, his physique had increased again, and his body had become more robust.

Looking at the remaining survival points, Zheng Sheng did not continue to enhance the item. Instead, he took out a Black Tendon Pill and enhanced it to level 5.

He kept the remaining 1 or so survival points to heal his injuries, just in case.

……

The next day.

The sky is bright.

After a night of rest, the entire survivor team is fully prepared and everyone's bodies have recovered to their best condition.

Zheng Sheng nodded to Zhang Mu, and soon Zhang Mu stood in front of the crowd and said loudly,

"Ready to go!"

"Remember what I said yesterday: do not leave the highway area without my orders. Once we find a suitable place, I will arrange for you to collect supplies."

"Remember, anyone who acts on their own initiative will face consequences; don't blame me for being ruthless, and no one will come to their rescue!"

Zhang Mu kept warning for more than ten minutes, explaining a lot of the rules of the team.

"Captain Zheng, that's enough."

Zheng Sheng nodded, quickly mounted Xiao Heizi, and led the group towards the distant dark forest.

……

As we continue to move forward.

The surroundings became increasingly damp and cold.

Large amounts of something resembling black moss began to appear on the road, emitting a putrid smell, like some kind of black fungal film.

As people stepped on it, it felt like stepping on rotting corpses, a truly horrifying sight.

The line suddenly fell silent as everyone nervously looked around the road.

As they got closer to the forest, the mist on both sides of the road began to slowly dissipate, revealing an extremely strange forest to everyone.

It was terrifying to watch.

"Why do the things in this forest look so strange?"

"Yes, the mushrooms are all blood red, and so big!"

"I always feel that the moss on the ground smells like a corpse, and those trees... they seem to have eyes."

"Look, what the hell is that?"

The survivors had barely entered the forest when they were all frozen in place, too terrified to go any further.

All that could be seen ahead was the highway.

The sky was dim, and the light was dim.

The road was covered with a black fungal carpet, and both sides were densely covered with various red mushrooms, some round, some umbrella-shaped, some like pearl vines... carrying a strong smell of blood.

Around those eerie red mushrooms were numerous flowers with enormous eyeballs.

The flower stem resembled human blood vessels and meridians, thin and long. When planted in the ground, all the red petals were open, revealing a huge eyeball in the center, staring blankly at everyone.

From a distance, the roadside looks like it's covered with red tulips that have huge eyeballs.

It looks absolutely terrifying!

Everyone was terrified by the eerie forest before them. This was only the outer edge of the forest, and it was already so terrifying. What must it be like inside the forest?

"This...this looks even more terrifying than Shaluo County. Are we sure we want to go this way?"

"Living Buddha, are we sure we want to collect supplies here? I have a feeling this place is eerie; let's find somewhere else!"

"I don't want to go in! I don't want to go in! I'll definitely die if I go in!"

The survivors looked at the eerie dark forest before them; this was only the outer edge of the forest, yet it already resembled hell.

They simply couldn't imagine what was going on inside!

Zheng Sheng also looked at the eerie forest in front of him with a grim expression.

He looked at Wang Lu beside him and checked again.

"Kitty, are you sure we can collect supplies in here?"

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