Swallowing the Stars: Cultivate to Become Stronger.

Chapter 135 Tempering

"Whoosh!"

At the edge of a massive crater, Luo Shen leaped down and plummeted downwards with a whooshing sound.

After killing the two ninth-level Immortal Temple geniuses at the Domain Lord level, Luo Shen realized that if he continued to stay in that deep pit, he would definitely invite their teacher's revenge. So he took a spaceship and flew hundreds of billions of kilometers away before stopping.

The deep pit in front of him was the one he had just found.

With a diameter of approximately 500,000 kilometers, the density of the red fog was comparable to that of the previous deep crater.

"This malevolent aura is truly overwhelming."

A hint of joy flashed in Luo Shen's eyes. He didn't care much about the changes the red mist would make to his body. What he really cared about was that the dense evil energy in the deep pit would flow naturally and form various realistic patterns.

Just like the giant monster image that Luo Feng saw in the original novel!

It was through studying these images that Luo Feng's understanding of the fundamental laws of metal and the laws of space soared dramatically in a very short time, which led to his subsequent success in passing the sixth and seventh levels of the Bridge to Heaven.

boom!

Under the influence of gravity, Luo Shen quickly fell to a depth of thousands of kilometers in the crater, directly crashing through the rocks.

This is the best spot to view the dynamic clouds and fog below.

The long sword is swung!

They carved a cave directly into the mountainside, and even went so far as to carve out a three-bedroom, one-living room room inside. They also carved stone flower decorations on the door lintels of each room, and put up a bookshelf in the living room, which was filled with books about the Blood Luo Continent.

"I might have to stay here for decades or even centuries, so I can't treat myself badly."

Luo Shen smiled as he looked at his masterpiece.

After admiring the view for a while, Luo Shen drank some wine, sang songs, and walked along the passage to the edge of the cliff. In order to better observe the ominous clouds and mist below, he specially dug a viewing platform there.

Sitting on the stone bench at the Mist-Viewing Platform, I looked down at the dense, malevolent energy surging in the endless abyss below.

"Let's go check out the core of that malevolent energy vortex."

Swoosh

Luo Shen swooped down and flew into the malevolent aura of the endless abyss.

The malevolent aura of the Ancient God Ruins is a unique and special malevolent aura found nowhere else in the entire universe. Even a peak Realm Lord would become confused and disoriented if their defenses were breached by the killing intent in places with extremely high concentrations of malevolent aura.

However, Luo Shen himself was extremely determined and possessed the special secret technique of "Mind's Eye Knife".

Just be careful.

There is no need to worry about any danger to your life.

A moment later, Luo Shen was already close to the edge of the huge whirlpool in the middle of the pit.

"Boom!"

A large amount of red mist condensed, forming a giant vortex that resembled fresh blood, constantly rotating and drawing in the evil energy from afar. The core of the vortex was like a red sun, continuously radiating red mist in all directions.

Wearing black armor, Luo Shen walked step by step into the depths of the vortex, groping towards its core.

"kill!"

"kill!"

The closer you get to the core of the vortex, the stronger the killing intent becomes.

At first, it was just a pure assimilation of the killing intent, but as Luo Shen gradually approached the core, the killing intent was accompanied by invisible temptations, such as various gold and silver treasures and beautiful women. The terrifying killing intent repeatedly impacted Luo Shen's will.

"roll!"

Faced with such a terrifying killing intent, Luo Shen's eyes flashed like lightning, and his will was as sharp as a battle blade.

Boom!!

The invisible malevolent energy instantly dissipated.

But these malevolent forces are like waves, one wave receding only to be replaced by another.

Even though it was thwarted by the Mind's Eye, it remained indomitable.

However, Luo Shen paid no attention to any of this, as his focus was entirely on the attribute panel in his mind, looking at the latest message in the notification bar: 'Mind's Eye Blade Proficiency +3!'

Luo Shen immediately became somewhat unsettled.

You should know that the Mind's Eye Knife is his strongest killing move!

Especially after reaching the Marquis level, a single Mind's Eye Strike can instantly cause even an Immortal Marquis to fall into a brief coma if their will has not yet reached the King level!

Even those who reach the King level will be somewhat affected.

However, ever since the Mind's Eye Blade reached the Marquis level, the proficiency required to advance to the next level has reached 1 trillion, and the difficulty of obtaining proficiency has also become increasingly greater.

When you reach the Immortal Lord level, you will gain 1 point of proficiency for every 3 uses.

Even after reaching 10 billion proficiency points, the difficulty of acquiring proficiency only increases from 3 times to 5 times, so there is still some pattern to it.

Once you reach the Marquis level, you can no longer gain proficiency with empty sword attacks.

There must be an opponent!

Moreover, the opponent's strength cannot be too weak. If the opponent is too weak, the efficiency will be even lower. Usually, it is difficult to gain 1 point of proficiency even if the opponent is below the level of the Realm Lord.

"The Bloodlust World is truly my blessed land!"

Luo Shen's eyes gleamed with delight. Defeating a single attack of the killing intent would grant him 3 points of proficiency. At the speed of this killing intent's attack, it could launch three to five attacks every second.

In other words, he can gain 9 points of proficiency in one second!

Luo Shen's consciousness was racing.

Advancing to the King level requires 1 trillion skill points, which, if the speed of skill point acquisition remains constant, would take approximately 1 billion seconds.

There are 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes in an hour, and 60 seconds in a minute.

That is, there are 86400 seconds in a day.

Based on this calculation, it would take a total of 127 million days, or 3479 years, to advance to the King level!

ummm

Upon seeing this number, Luo Shen, who refused to believe it, recalculated it again.

The result was the same number.

More than three thousand years.

To be honest, this number gave him a real toothache.

After all, the total time he lived in his two lifetimes was less than three hundred years, yet he had to spend ten times that amount of time specializing in a secret technique of willpower, which felt somewhat fantastical.

"perhaps--"

"More proficiency can be gained within that core vortex."

Looking at the vortex core in the distance, which resembled a blood-red sun, Luo Shen had an idea and continued to advance towards the vortex core.

Just as he had anticipated.

As the distance to the core of the vortex increases, the killing intent and temptation also become stronger. Each time the Mind's Eye Blade is used to break through the killing intent, more than 5 points of proficiency are gained!

50 meters. 30 meters. 10 meters. 5 meters!

In this position, he can gain more than 50 proficiency points per second, and each time he uses Mind's Eye Blade, he can gain more than 10 proficiency points. He also suffers at least 5 Willpower Invasions per second.

"The intensity of this killing intent has probably reached the limit of an Immortal Military Lord."

Looking at the red sphere that was only an arm's length away from him, the core of the entire massive vortex of malevolent energy, Luo Shen sighed inwardly, "If it were Luo Feng in his current state, he wouldn't be able to withstand even the malevolent energy within a fifty-meter radius, let alone get close to the core of the vortex."

In the original story, Luo Feng also cultivated in the ruins of the ancient gods for nearly a hundred years before finally coming into contact with the core of the evil energy.

Moreover, the diameter of the pit he was in was only tens of thousands of kilometers.

Compared to the deep pit where Luo Shen was located, with a diameter of over 500,000 kilometers, the difference cannot be simply represented by numbers.

"Boom!"

The core sphere of light of the vortex floated silently, exuding an ancient and invisible aura that gave Luo Shen the feeling of facing the Lord of the Universe.

"I can't afford to offend a living Beast God, and you think a mere remnant of a dead Beast God can affect me?"

Luo Shen completely ignored the awe that naturally rose in his heart and stepped directly into the vortex of baleful energy that emitted red light. The moment he came into contact with the core sphere of light in the baleful energy vortex, his killing intent reached its peak.

100 points per second!

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First update delivered.

Old Luo's frail body really can't withstand the changes in weather; he caught a cold after the temperature dropped by just over ten degrees.

After taking Xiao Chai Hu Tang for a day, I'm starting to feel less dizzy.

(End of this chapter)