Swallowing the starry sky, my clones can evolve infinitely.

Chapter 8 Shen Mu's Rapid Growth

In City 1001, on a dilapidated street, Shen Mu, holding a long spear, walks through the street.

Various unidentified wild grasses grow on both sides of the road, and some even grow directly from the cracks in the street.

Some Latin characters can be seen on the buildings on both sides of the street, but Shen Mu does not recognize them.

"roar!"

"Aww!"

In the distance, various beast roars rose and fell. Shen Mu's eyes lit up, and he flew directly into the air, skimming past his shield, looking in the direction from which the roars came.

About four hundred meters away, there was a dilapidated park where two groups of monsters were facing off.

One type is the tiger-cat monster, and the other is the wolf-dog monster. Both of them evolved from pet cats and dogs before the Great Nirvana. At a rough glance, there are more than four hundred of them.

"Six are at the beginner-level Beast General level, and the rest are at the Beast Soldier level, perfect for me to hone my spear skills!"

Shen Mu's figure transformed into a streak of light, rushing directly towards the pack of cats and dogs.

"die!"

The jet-black spear thrust straight forward, piercing through a beast-soldier-level tiger-cat like a bolt of lightning. At the same time, a throwing knife shot out, intercepting and killing a black hound behemoth, instantly attracting the attention of two large packs of beasts.

"Aww!"

"roar!"

The two groups of beasts were startled by Shen Mu's appearance, and then, seeing that Shen Mu was alone and did not have any dangerous aura, they instantly went berserk.

The ground of the entire dilapidated park seemed to tremble slightly as a large number of beast-soldier level monsters rushed towards Shen Mu.

As the spear swept across, every cell in Shen Mu's body was boiling. His strength, which was 1.1 kilograms, was amplified to 1.3 kilograms, approaching the standard of a mid-level warrior. Naturally, he could crush a group of beast-soldier level monsters.

Among the horde of beasts, the few beast general-level monsters did not rush forward immediately, but instead cautiously stared at Shen Mu.

"Awoo!"

The next instant, several giant hound monsters at the level of warrior generals pounced on Shen Mu.

Shen Mu swung his gun horizontally, the immense force sending the giant dog flying, while Shen Mu himself staggered.

Seeing that Shen Mu had made a mistake, countless monsters pounced on him instantly.

shhhhhh!

Three golden streaks of light shot out instantly. The sharp 9-series throwing knives broke through the sound speed without making much noise, piercing through the foreheads of the monsters one by one.

Five minutes later, in the park littered with corpses, Shen Mu sat on the carcass of a tiger-cat monster, drinking water.

"This won't do. I can resist an attack from beast soldiers, but I'll have to use my mental powers against an attack from beast generals."

Shen Mu pondered for a moment. It seemed that if he wanted to hone his spear skills, he could only go to find beast hordes of beast soldiers or challenge those stronger intermediate beast generals.

While resting, Shen Mu used throwing knives to dismember and collect the valuable materials from the corpses of several beast general-level monsters before venturing deeper into the wilderness.

In mid-air, Shen Mu stood on his shield, overlooking the city. Dozens of flying knives danced around him as he easily slaughtered a flock of beast general-level black bird beasts, observing the entire city.

A moment later, Shen Mu locked onto an iron-spined dragon lizard that was eating.

This is a giant lizard that is over five meters long. Its body is covered in jet-black scales, and a string of ferocious bone spurs grows on its back. Five of these bone spurs are exactly at the intermediate-level beast general level.

The Iron-Spined Dragon Lizard is an extremely troublesome monster with terrifyingly high defense. It is almost impossible to break through its defenses at the same level unless one possesses a technique that exerts three or four times the force, which is just right for Shen Mu in his current state.

Shen Mu stretched out his right hand, and a section of wall more than two meters long slowly floated up before crashing down on the Iron-Spined Dragon Lizard.

boom!

The ruins collapsed, and the whole street seemed to rumble.

"roar!"

The Iron-spined Dragon Lizard, interrupted from its meal, let out a roar and locked its gaze on Shen Mu, who had approached it.

The five-meter-long giant lizard charged towards Shen Mu like a sports car that had suddenly started moving.

"Well done!"

Shen Mu drew his spear and charged forward, thrusting it out like lightning.

Ding!

The spear pierced the scales of the Iron-Spined Dragon Lizard, producing a series of crisp metallic clanging sounds. The immense force caused Shen Mu's hands to go numb.

"Aww!"

The Iron-Spined Dragon Lizard's eyes immediately turned red. Although Shen Mu couldn't break through its defenses, that didn't mean he couldn't hurt it.

With its ferocity aroused, the Iron-Spined Dragon Lizard became completely focused on Shen Mu, and its speed increased dramatically once again!

boom!

Boom!

The spear and the sharp giant claws collided, causing the entire ground to tremble violently and creating huge craters.

Shen Mu could only barely parry the Iron-Spiked Dragon Lizard's attacks, as the opponent was a level above him in both strength and defense.

In just half a minute, Shen Mu was almost unable to resist, his whole body aching and numb.

The next instant, the giant lizard's long tail slammed down, and Shen Mu parried with his gun, only to be sent flying backward.

The giant lizard, its eyes bloodshot, was about to deliver the fatal blow when it discovered that Shen Mu's figure had suddenly taken flight, instantly escaping the lizard's attack range.

Before the monitor lizard could react, two streaks of light shot directly into its eye sockets.

"Excellent, this is exactly the kind of opponent I need!"

Shen Mu was panting heavily, his chest heaving violently from exhaustion, and his heart pounding.

Unfortunately, my mental strength is too strong, so if I want to hone my marksmanship, I can't choose a powerful opponent. Without a real sense of pressure, it's still not quite there.

"This is much better than sparring in training camp, keep going!"

In the evening, before the training ended, Shen Mu unleashed his full combat power and hunted down 5 high-level beast general-level monsters, returning to the training camp with 500 battle points.

Including other intermediate and beginner-level beast generals, Shen Mu gained a total of 684 battle points on the first day.

After stacking Shen Mu's terrifying 62-fold combat power amplification, he earned over 4.2 points in a single day.

Because it was just the beginning of February, everyone's points were recalculated, so Shen Mu directly topped the Black Dragon leaderboard, leading Chu Qiang, who was in second place, by more than 3 points, which alarmed the entire training camp.

As a result, Shen Mu's terrifying combat power was exposed, and the relevant information was immediately spread to major forces around the world.

On the same day, representatives from various powerful forces contacted Shen Mu. They didn't waste any time and went straight to the point, offering incredibly high salaries. If he wasn't satisfied, they could discuss it further.

……

It was 9:30 p.m. in the courtyard of the Forbidden City.

Shen Mu stood up at the stone table under the big locust tree and looked at Candice in front of him.

"Thank you for your kindness, Senior Brother Candace and the HR Alliance. I have chosen to join the Extreme Martial Arts Gym."

Seeing that Shen Mu refused directly, Candice was not annoyed and wore a friendly smile: "Okay, let's have dinner together sometime."

After exchanging a few pleasantries, Shen Mu watched Candice leave.

"It's finally over." Shen Mu plopped down at the stone table, picked up his teacup, and drank it all in one gulp.

Chu Qiang walked over at this moment, smiling and saying, "There's nothing I can do. Junior Brother is so sought after. You're already being called the future number one mentalist in the world."

Shen Mu shook his head, no longer pursuing the topic: "Senior brother, do you think anyone would agree if I challenged someone to a duel?"

Chu Qiang nodded slightly and said, "If we're talking about martial artists, then definitely. After all, your current level of power generation, marksmanship, and movement skills are basically at the bottom among the trainees in the training camp."

"That's good. Since I can't go out for training tomorrow anyway, I'll find someone to challenge. I have plenty of points anyway."

The following day, Shen Mu's second day in the training camp, everyone witnessed his madness.

He's been looking for people to challenge him to a duel, to spar in the virtual space as a martial artist, and then he'll give out points, 1000 points per match.

After losing one match, they would lose another. Countless people eagerly hoped that Shen Mu would challenge them to a duel, until Shen Mu lost all the points from the first day.

On the third day, Shen Mu continued to hunt monsters in the wilderness.

This time was different from before; countless people in the training camp were paying close attention to Shen Mu's movements.

Then they saw Shen Mu spend the entire day honing his spear techniques against intermediate and advanced beast generals, only to be repeatedly tortured until he finally used his mental power to fight back at the brink of death.

That evening, Shen Mu topped the leaderboard again, and the next day he lost all his points once more.

Shen Mu spent the rest of February like this, except that from the second half of the month onwards, the challenge points for each match were reduced from 1000 to 100.

We still need to compete for a higher ranking on the Black Dragon leaderboard; we can't afford to lose all our points every day.

Under such conditions, Shen Mu's martial arts skills also improved rapidly.

In just one month, his marksmanship reached the pinnacle of mastery, and his movement skills improved from the basic level to the subtle level, and even stabilized.

……

February 28th, the last day of February.

Inside the Forbidden City, in a sealed alloy chamber.

Shen Mu sat cross-legged, and in front of him, a green crystal shaped like an egg floated up under the control of his mental power, with fine roots growing on it.

The entire crystal is translucent, and one can vaguely see green essence liquid flowing within it.

Sorry, sorry, I forgot to schedule the post. Please forgive me, brothers.

(End of this chapter)