"Amazing!"
Little Fatty kept exclaiming in amazement as he looked at Xiao Xin, who had already reached the sixth level. Xiao Xin looked around blankly, seemingly unaccustomed to the enormous power within her.
"What's going on?" Li Xiang didn't understand. Before, she could vaguely feel the pressure inside Xiao Xin's body, but now it was no longer vague. The power inside Xiao Xin seemed to be expanding to the point of harming her.
"A special method!"
Jiang Yuan looked a little tired, but he still calmly explained to them.
"However, helping Sister Li improve her cultivation level may have to be postponed. I need a few days to recover after using my transformation once!"
"Can I do that too?" Li Xiang was so surprised she couldn't close her mouth.
“Of course!” Jiang Yuan nodded affirmatively. “However, there is a drawback to forcibly improving one’s power: a lack of control over the power, which requires a lot of time to make up for!”
"Brother Jiang, then I'll leave Xiao Xin in your care!" Li Xiang seemed to be infected by Jiang Yuan's superb skills, and her confidence in Jiang Yuan was stronger than ever before.
"Since you've made up your mind, let's hurry up and go!" Jiang Yuan said.
The shortage of Holy Spirit Stones is Jiang Yuan's biggest problem at present. Although he still has six thousand pieces of raw minerals in his personal space, they are not Holy Spirit Stones after all, and he is still missing something if he wants to make use of them.
In one night, the two little ones and Ning Yanlan opened more than 400 seventh-tier Holy Spirit Stones. After deducting the Holy Spirit Stones eaten by the two little ones, Jiang Yuan's total was no less than 400. However, this amount was still not much. 400 seventh-tier Holy Spirit Stones were only equivalent to 100 ninth-tier Holy Spirit Stones, which was obviously not enough for treasure hunting and location.
Jiang Yuan had already identified both ninth-tier crystal diamond cores in advance. One of them possessed a rare bloodline, while the other belonged to an unknown series. The most expensive treasure-hunting location in the unknown series required hundreds of ninth-tier holy spirit stones, which was clearly a price Jiang Yuan could not afford. Therefore, he naturally postponed the opening of the cores until it was needed.
As for the Holy Spirit Stones, Jiang Yuan had already left nearly a thousand raw stones in the room. After the two little ones had eaten and drunk their fill, they focused on peeling the Holy Spirit Stones. He wasn't afraid of wasting them, and he didn't hesitate to give them the Holy Spirit Stones that were meant for them to eat. He just wanted to improve the efficiency of peeling the Holy Spirit Stones.
After leaving the camp, the five drove straight to the Iron Birch Forest.
"I can't seem to get into the game unless I'm fighting monsters of the eighth or ninth rank!" the chubby guy said arrogantly from the passenger seat.
"You're very confident!" Jiang Yuan said sarcastically as he looked for a seat.
"Of course!" Little Fatty said dismissively, "After all the hard work of training, I can't let myself not show off a little!"
"Don't underestimate the enemy. Last time when Xiaobai and I went there, we were almost caught by a Lord-level Vajra Shovel lurking there! So much time has passed, I wonder if that Vajra Shovel is still there!" Jiang Yuan, wearing a mask, became more composed, revealing a cold-blooded side.
“Monsters evolve much faster than humans!” Leng Yue suddenly added.
Jiang Yuan nodded and instructed, "We can't let our guard down this time. We need to collect enough armor fragments, and we also need to ensure our own safety!"
"What if we can't collect all the armor fragments?" Little Fatty asked hesitantly.
After a moment of silence, Jiang Yuan said, "Then let's go to the trading area to buy it. But as you know, our identities are too sensitive. If we go too often, we might be exposed! Then we'll be facing the entire Southern City warlord, and our chances of winning are very low!"
“Okay, let’s lie low until we have enough power!” Little Fatty nodded in agreement with Jiang Yuan’s suggestion.
He and Xiao Xin weren't afraid of being exposed because no one knew their relationship with Jiang Yuan and the other two. Moreover, given the complex relationships between the teams formed naturally after the cataclysm, no one was foolish enough to delve into the backgrounds of everyone in a team.
"We can't drive up there! We have to walk, otherwise if the monster swallows us whole, we won't even be able to escape!" Jiang Yuan turned off the car and stopped it.
After getting off the car, the group looked at the iron birch forest in front of them. The iron birch forest was not unfamiliar to Jiang Yuan and Ning Yanlan, because they had been here about ten days ago. The only change was that the iron birch trees were growing stronger, with some even reaching a diameter of one meter. The hardness of the iron birch trees was comparable to that of a sixth-tier weapon.
Little Fatty swung the meteorite plate in his hand, which, despite being enhanced with his strength, still weighed nearly a thousand pounds. He smashed the iron birch tree, which was as thick as a bowl, without breaking it, demonstrating the tree's resilience.
"Great, it's still not broken!"
Leng Yue glanced at the iron birch forest a few times and said, "This kind of environment is too easy to be ambushed in, so be careful!"
The iron birch trees are straight and have no branches or leaves in the middle and lower sections, which seems suitable for human passage. However, they are actually one of the unpredictable terrain features. First, the thick layer of fallen leaves on the ground provides the best hiding place for unknown monsters, and the dense forest is also the biggest obstacle to movement.
At the very least, Jiang Yuan and Xiao Pang will be affected; both spears and shields will be halved in effectiveness in this environment.
"Let's assign tasks!" Jiang Yuan had already prepared a plan. He pointed to the outermost part of the Iron Birch Forest and said, "Our situation isn't suitable for splitting up, so the four of you stick together, Little Fatty will defend, and the rest of you can attack when the opportunity arises!"
"As for me, Yanlan will send me a report of the information collected by Shi Zhixi, and I will take the initiative!"
Jiang Yuan had prepared this plan long ago. His monster drop rate was far higher than anyone else's, so in his plan, he was the one to end this Iron Birch Forest, while Little Fatty and the others were just there to train and improve their teamwork.
"Will it work? There are quite a few monsters in this iron birch forest!" Little Fatty asked.
"Don't worry about the other monsters, our target is that Lord-level Vajra Giant Shovel!" Jiang Yuan looked down into the ground and sneered.
Back then, that giant shovel was invincible. Although they have become much stronger now, their opponents are not much weaker either.
"Don't worry, even if it's a lord-level creature, let alone one with royal blood, I, Tang Yingjun, will let it taste the power of my shield bash!" Little Fatty, carrying his shield, was already eager to try.
"Xiao Xin, take this opportunity to practice your combat skills, otherwise it will be very difficult to join the Oath!" Jiang Yuan encouraged Xiao Xin.
"Understood, Brother Jiang Yuan!" Xiao Xin immediately activated the substitute doll in her hand.
After being transformed by Jiang Yuan's divine energy, Xiao Xin's combat power underwent a qualitative leap, and the additional power that the substitute doll could exert easily exceeded 100.
"Now, this ironwood forest should start to stir!"
A stone appeared in Jiang Yuan's hand. It was the Divine Blood Stone he had obtained from deep within the mine. After unsealing the God-Slaying Spear, he still had two drops of Divine Blood Energy left. At this moment, this Divine Blood Stone, which contained two drops of Divine Blood Energy, came in handy.
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