Inside the stone house, Jing Ke's tail flew in with two storage rings hanging from it.

“Well done.”

Lin Hao exclaimed in admiration, then took the storage ring and took out a dozen Lingyang stones from it and placed them on the stone shelf.

Jing Ke's eyes lit up, and he immediately turned into a flash of light and pounced over, starting to inhale.

Immediately, Lin Hao mobilized his mental power and quickly detected the two storage rings.

Since the short young man and his companions did not gain anything in the ancient battlefield, there was nothing worthy of Lin Hao's attention except the Lingyang Stone.

“Found it.”

After a while, a red jade slip flashed in Lin Hao's hand.

This was exactly the formation jade slip that had trapped Jing Ke before. Lin Hao already knew how powerful it was.

If Jing Ke had not used his trick and invisible form to hide from the two of them.

Facing that kind of formation attack, I'm afraid it would be very dangerous!

"Teacher Wu once said that a formation jade slip can generally be used twice. This jade slip is not broken, so it should have one more time left."

Lin Hao played with the red jade slip in his hand and muttered to himself.

Immediately, he flipped his palm lightly and put it directly into the storage ring, keeping it for emergency use.

Taking advantage of his free time, Lin Hao sorted out the items he had acquired this time and moved them all into his storage ring.

Although the two contestants from Jianyun Academy did not have a strong family background, they had more than 60,000 Lingyang Stones together.

This unexpected windfall is quite a lot.

Together with the more than 30,000 Lingyang Stones he had previously collected from the top floor of the ancient tower, his current wealth has reached more than 100,000.

This amount is just enough to upgrade an S-level pet.

Among the system pets, Lin Hao now owns a total of four S-level pets.

They are Thunder Flame Holy Tiger, Jing Ke, Mantis King, and Ant King.

As for Qinglin, it currently only has the lowest level D-grade advanced enhancement. Although its strength is not weak, the Lingyang Stone it consumes is more than a hundred times more than other pets.

Therefore, Lin Hao was temporarily excluded from this evolution.

"System, I want to evolve my pet."

Lin Hao muttered to himself.

Instantly, the system's pet totem, Lieg, suddenly flashed in his mind.

"Host, please select the pet that needs to evolve."

Hearing the system prompt, Lin Hao thought for a while and directly checked the first animal totem, Jing Ke.

At the same time, the advanced enhancement function was selected.

"Ding, evolution is successful. Congratulations to pet 'Jing Ke' for being upgraded to SS level. The combat power has been fully increased."

"Ding, pet 'Jing Ke' is detected hunting enemies with a 100% success rate, and is awarded the title of 'Ace Killer'."

"Would you like to receive it?"

Hearing this, Lin Hao silently said without hesitation: "Yes."

"Ding, congratulations to the host for receiving the title of 'Ace Killer' for your pet Jing Ke, and granting him a special skill, teleportation."

The moment the system voice sounded, a dark golden medal appeared on Jing Ke's pet totem.

Immediately afterwards, a pet data panel suddenly appeared.

【Jing Ke】

Code: 001

Owner: Lin Hao

Combat Power: 60,000 (comparable to the Holy Domain Spirit Infant Realm)

Synthesis skills: Laser compound eyes, deadly toxins, thousands of silk nets...

Talent skills: Iron Armor Ice Scythe, Instant Teleport

Evolution level: SS

Title: Ace Killer

After evolving to the SS level, Jing Ke's data and information have obviously become much richer.

Looking at the new talent skill "teleportation", Lin Hao felt quite curious.

Could it be the kind of teleportation that is learned from space martial arts?

Thinking of this, Lin Hao turned his gaze and looked at Jing Ke in front of him.

After the evolution, its shape is still small, but the dark gold patterns on its body make its entire aura look even more powerful and cold.

"Jing Ke, show off."

Lin Hao raised the corner of his mouth and issued an order.

Without any hesitation, Jing Ke turned around, flapped his wings, and rushed straight towards the wall.

Just as it was about to hit the stone wall, its body suddenly disappeared and passed through it.

The next moment, a small black shadow flashed out again and teleported in front of Lin Hao.

"It's indeed space teleportation."

Lin Hao's eyes flashed, and a hint of joy surged in his eyes.

With such skills, coupled with Jing Ke's assassination ability, he is undoubtedly even more powerful!

"It would be perfect if I could also learn this kind of teleportation."

Lin Hao smiled faintly, as if he felt that something was not perfect.

Unfortunately, the evolutionary function of the system is limited to animals, and he himself cannot enjoy this enhanced ability.

"Next, we need to find the location of this ancient key."

While Lin Hao was muttering to himself, he reached for the storage ring with his left hand and took out the diamond-shaped stone from it.

"Huh? Why is there a light?"

Lin Hao was surprised to find that the runes on the diamond-shaped stone actually emitted a faint reddish-yellow light.

That situation seemed to be activated.

A hint of surprise flashed across Lin Hao's eyes.

Could it be that the seals on the other diamond-shaped stones have also been unsealed and they are already sensing each other?

Lin Hao couldn't help but guess secretly about this.

In order to verify what he thought, he took it in his hand, rushed outside the house, and then extended it to detect in all directions of east, south, west and north.

Soon, Lin Hao noticed that in the northeast direction, the rune light on the diamond-shaped stone was obviously more condensed and brighter.

There is no doubt that this direction is most likely where the secret is hidden.

Realizing this, Lin Hao had some thoughts in his mind.

He was able to notice such details, and the contestants who received the other seven diamond-shaped stones should have noticed it as well.

In this way, when the time comes, everyone can gather there, which saves a lot of time and allows them to directly open the secret mechanism.

As Lin Hao was thinking, he suddenly heard a noisy sound coming from not far away.

"Look, that light curtain is almost here!"

"Let's leave quickly. If we are caught in it, our blood and energy will quickly fade away, and we will die."

Lin Hao's ears twitched slightly, and he heard the competitors who had arrived here talking in slightly panicked voices.

The power of blood and energy will be devoured? !

Hearing this, Lin Hao was slightly surprised.

I originally thought that this reduction in aperture was only used for the elimination system, and once covered, one would lose the qualification to compete.

Unexpectedly, it actually devoured the blood and energy in the body, forcing everyone to gather towards the core area.

If you don't keep moving forward, you will die.

Such rules are obviously more cruel!

whoosh——!

Lin Hao pushed off the ground with his feet and jumped onto the roof nimbly.

Then he looked into the distance, toward the outskirts of the ancient ruins.

I saw the huge light curtain that seemed to have no end, slowly moving at a speed visible to the naked eye.