Devouring the starry sky, the clone evolves into a primordial behemoth.

Chapter 26 Surprise, New Team Member!

April 12, 2056, Kyoto City, main urban area.

After his clone completed its fourth evolution, Chen Mo returned to the base city with a large amount of monster materials from the hunt.

Since the identities of the three companies selling monster materials—HR Alliance, Extreme Martial Arts School, and Thunder Martial Arts School—are all public, Chen Mo chose to sell to a professional manager in the black market.

He didn't want to reveal his strength yet; he wanted to wait until his clone was fully grown so that he could at least protect himself in the wilderness.

With the combat capabilities of clones, plus the sharing of mental power, if it can reach the level of a beginner war god, it should pose little threat to anything below the planetary level.

When Chen Mo threw all the monster materials in front of the black market professional manager, the other party was clearly shocked.

More than thirty high-level beast general-class monsters, plus a considerable amount of other mid-level and low-level beast general-class monster materials, totaling over 10 billion!

Fortunately, this professional manager was experienced in big situations and quickly completed the inspection of all the monster materials, offering a price of 120 billion.

This price is already quite high; it would be about the same price if sold to the HR Alliance.

Even so, the manager can still profit hundreds of millions from it. The reason he offered such a high price was simply because he wanted to befriend Chen Mo.

Whether Chen Mo killed the monster himself or someone else helped him kill it, the fact that he could produce so many materials at once is enough to prove his extraordinary talent, especially considering how young he is.

When this huge sum of 120 billion was transferred to Chen Mo's anonymous account, it meant that his wealth had reached nearly 150 billion!

This earns money much faster than a printing press can print money!

If you had 150 billion, what would you do? Buy, buy, buy, of course!

The first six levels of the Nine-Fold Thunder Blade cost 50 billion Chinese Yuan at full price. After deducting the 2.5 million quota, it still costs 47.5 billion Chinese Yuan. Buy it!

S-class bladeless heavy sword, full price 30 billion Chinese yuan, buy!

The complete 7th series combat suit, full price 4 million Chinese Yuan, buy it!

The 9-series throwing knives, also known as S-class throwing knives, cost 4.5 million Chinese yuan each, and 10 of them would cost 4500 million Chinese yuan. Buy them!

Having spent a full 90 billion Chinese yuan in one go, Chen Mo felt his mouth go dry and a strange sense of excitement.

Of course, the biggest expectation is for the secret manuals and equipment; they can't wait for the delivery to arrive.

As for feeling sorry for him, to be honest, he doesn't care about money as much anymore, because making money is really easy for him. Billions or hundreds of billions are just a piece of cake for him.

"It's a pity that an S-class combat suit is still too expensive. I can't afford it." Chen Mo looked at the combat suit's price of 120 billion, and then at his own balance of less than 60 billion, and could only sigh in despair.

As for the SS-level combat suit, forget about it! It costs 1200 billion at full price! Even at half price, it's still 600 billion! Chen Mo has absolutely no interest in it right now.

However, the 7-series combat suit is more than enough, since it can withstand attacks from low-level lord-class monsters.

At best, Chen Mo can only contend with low-level lord-level monsters; he simply cannot afford to provoke any stronger monsters.

The next morning, Chen Mo received the manual and weapons he had purchased. After learning the first six levels of the Ninefold Thunder Blade, his clone immediately began cultivating the fifth and sixth levels.

Chen Mo himself was eager to familiarize himself with the feel of the 9-series heavy sword and the use of the 9-series throwing knives.

……

The afternoon of April 14th was the day the Black Angels team had agreed to set off again for the wilderness area.

Chen Mo took a train to the military base to meet up with the other team members. Thinking of Tang Jin, whom he hadn't seen for several days, he felt a surge of emotion.

But Song Zilin's playful and lively smile kept popping into his mind, which made him a little troubled for a moment.

One is a gentle, considerate, intellectual, and charming older sister; the other is a youthful, lively, proud, and adorable young woman. Who should you choose?

"Good heavens, they've already started choosing? That's shameless." Chen Mo scorned himself. "Neither of these two is so easy to win over. I might end up with neither of them."

Even if we were to choose, it would still be a choice—

No, only children make choices; adults want it all!

Just as Chen Mo was lost in thought, the train arrived at the station, and he went straight to the martial arts rest area after getting off the train.

Chen Mo froze as soon as he stepped into the courtyard of the martial arts building at A9.

"Wait, am I seeing things?" Chen Mo blinked hard. "Could it be that I've been thinking about them the whole way, and that's why I'm hallucinating?"

At this moment, in the courtyard, two stunningly beautiful women, one older and one younger, were holding hands and chatting happily.

One is mature, intellectual, and stunningly beautiful; the other is tall, fair-skinned, and full of vitality—they are none other than Tang Jin and Song Zilin!

Although Tang Jin is seven or eight years older than Song Zilin, she doesn't look that much older. Plus, she's nearly 1.7 meters tall, so when she stands next to Song Zilin, they look like a perfect pair of twins, making Chen Mo unable to look away.

"What are you standing there for? Come in quickly." Tang Jin's gentle voice rang out, accompanied by Song Zilin's chuckle.

"No, what are you doing here?" Chen Mo asked Song Zilin in surprise as he walked inside.

"Why can't I be here?" Song Zilin retorted haughtily, then said with a grin, "I'm a member of the Black Angel Squad now, how about that, surprised or not?"

"It was quite unexpected, but not exactly a surprise." Chen Mo spoke in his usual straightforward manner, but the corners of his mouth that he couldn't suppress revealed his true thoughts.

Tang Jin, who was standing nearby, already knew that the two of them knew each other, so she wasn't surprised. However, there was a strange and complicated look in her eyes when she looked at Chen Mo.

At this moment, Chen Mo smiled at Tang Jin and said, "Sister Jin, isn't it enough for our team to have a beauty like you? We also need to recruit a mascot."

"Who are you calling a mascot!" Upon hearing this, Song Zilin immediately became displeased. "I'm a mid-level warrior now, Xiao Mozi, what level are you?"

Intermediate-level warrior?! Chen Mo was rendered speechless.

Your leveling speed is a bit too fast; even with cheat codes, I can't level up as fast as you.

The first thing that popped into his mind was dragon blood.

In the original work, it seems that only dragon blood has such a miraculous effect, allowing Song Zilin to leap directly from intermediate warrior level to intermediate general level.

Of course, this excludes things like the spirits of plants and trees, since even the Song family might not be able to obtain such treasures.

Even dragon blood is impossible to buy without extraordinary means and immense wealth, considering the Ultimate Martial Arts Academy is priced at a staggering 1600 billion Chinese yuan! Even at half price, it would still cost 800 billion!

The fact that the Song family was willing to expend a portion of dragon blood for Song Zilin shows that she holds a high position within the family.

Chen Mo was indeed surprised by Song Zilin's addition, but upon closer reflection, it made perfect sense.

The fact that Song Tianying was able to assign him to the Black Angels team shows that he trusts this team a lot, so it's not hard to understand why he also assigned Song Zilin to the team.

Of course, Song Zilin may have other powerful figures protecting her in secret, which is consistent with her status.

As for whether Song Zilin might have chosen to come here because of him, Chen Mo didn't dare to think about it. What if he was just imagining things? That would be so embarrassing.

At this moment, Tang Long and Leng Yan also came out of the building.

"Xiao Mo has arrived. Let's get ready to set off."

"Our target this time is City 006!"

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