"This evil bird bit me again, so I punched it back and completely punched through its head."

"The evil bird's huge body fell down limply, and soon turned into ashes and dissipated. (Energy value +15)"

"The old man came over and saw that I was the only one without a bird, so he comforted me and said that Xiaofei would fly away from time to time, but would come back in a few days, so I didn't have to worry. He had raised Xiaofei for more than ten years and it was always like this."

"A hearty lunch, although it's still cold (energy +3)."

"The old man asked me many questions, all about the situation outside, and I answered them truthfully."

"After dinner, the old man asked me a request: Can you help me pass a message to my relatives outside?"

Spreading a message? Is this a side quest? Ren Suo was stunned, but when he saw the explorer, he answered himself:

"No problem. Your message will definitely be shown to your relatives."

What? Are there any side quests?

"That's good. Please tell Manaka that your father is living well here. He has enough food and drink. I have received the things you sent. Don't worry about me."

"My daughter-in-law Wu Yue is also very filial. You should be nice to others, change your temper, live a peaceful life in the future, and don't learn from me..."

"My granddaughter Xiaoling has grown up now. She is so pretty. She wears the old woman's jade pendant. She is as beautiful as she was when she was young. She has a dimple on her left cheek when she smiles, but her eyebrows are like mine, very murderous. She is a good child. You have to find a good family for her..."

The old man talked a lot without even taking a breath. After he finished speaking, he stood up and bowed to thank the explorer. The explorer said it was not necessary. Then the old man told the explorer that everyone in the village was looking forward to his arrival and gave him an address.

The explorer then left the courtyard, and Ren Suo thought about it and let him go exploring.

Scanning the "Advanced Countermeasures Vest" and "Thought and Cultivation" consumed most of the explorer's energy. It is necessary to replenish it as soon as possible, otherwise you will encounter trouble later and get stuck without energy to scan the props.

However, Ren Suo felt that the explorer's final action was odd: listening to the old man's message and agreeing to pass it on.

You know, after listening to the secret, the explorer's energy value did not increase at all, it seemed to be pure voluntary labor. Moreover, the old man did not even tell his son's name and address, how could he pass it on! ?

He had some guesses about this in his mind, but until everything came true, his guesses were just vague fantasies.

After finishing his dinner quickly, Ren Suo turned on the spiritual energy gathering device and lit a stick of incense. This thing was given to him by Yu Kuangtu from his bag before he left that night. Yu Kuangtu saw that he was about to make a breakthrough, so he took it out of his bag and gave it to him.

It is said that this incense is made by a cultivator named Gu. The production is low, and people outside the Countermeasures Bureau cannot buy it. Only people like Yu Kuangtu who have made great contributions can get a few sticks every month. It is said that this thing can not only increase the speed of cultivation, but also clear the worries of the cultivator and temporarily purify his mind.

Yu Kuangtu gave him one with great reluctance, urged him to use it at the most important moment, and told him to get lost quickly to avoid the pain.

Now is the most important time.

He looked at himself through the data stream and found that he was already at 99% of the first transformation and could break through at any time. If he couldn't break through, it was a problem of his character.

Of course, Ren Suo had even eaten the God of Cookery meal, so he certainly didn’t think there was anything wrong with his character, but to be on the safe side he still lit a stick of incense for himself.

Then Ren Suo put on the "Lotus Jade Pendant" on himself. The "Lotus Jade Pendant" seemed to be not very interested in the monsters in "High Energy Ahead", or perhaps because of the save mechanism (monsters can be spawned repeatedly), the "Lotus Jade Pendant" failed to receive the energy obtained when the explorer killed the monsters.

However, it is also possible that the "Luo Shen Jade Pendant" took effect, but because it was too weak, Ren Suo did not sense it. Anyway, he just put it on.

When everything was ready, Ren Suo began to practice "The Secret Records of Xuan Jun", absorbing the spiritual energy into his body, transforming the spiritual energy into his blood, fusing the spiritual energy into his flesh, seeping the spiritual energy into his bones, and kneading the spiritual energy into his soul.

Perhaps because of his upcoming promotion, Ren Suo vaguely felt that this training session was particularly different.

Heat radiated from every part of his body, and he felt as if his spiritual energy was operating automatically, driving his qi cyclone and running the "Xuan Jun Secret Record" naturally.

His body felt warm, and he didn't feel the hardship he had experienced in the previous training. After four cycles of practice, the warm feeling completely turned into intense heat. Ren Suo knew that this was the end of the process of the cyclone feeding back to the body. If he wanted his physical fitness to continue to improve, he needed the cyclone to condense further, so his body in turn affected the cyclone!

Breakthrough, right now!

Ren Suo had also read some information on the intranet about breaking through from the first level to the second level. Most of this information was written by people with similar qualifications to him. People with better qualifications than Ren Suo had no bottlenecks at all. If you feel your body is extremely hot when breaking through, it means that you have reached a critical moment. You must endure it and keep practicing the exercises, because at this time the cyclone is establishing a deeper connection with your body.

Once a cool opening appears in the heat, it means you have succeeded: the body has established a deeper connection with the cyclone, the range of the outer cyclone has expanded, and the range of the inner cyclone has expanded.

Ren Suo was nervously waiting for a breakthrough, but at this moment, Ren Suo suddenly felt a gap in the heat.

Success!

Before he could feel happy, Ren Suo soon discovered that there were two, three or four more cuts in the scorching heat!

There were four holes in total, and a thread seemed to appear in the four holes, "pulling" the heat in the body in!

Then Ren Suo felt the intense heat in his body dissipate like diabetes insipidus, and the cyclone spun rapidly, allowing Ren Suo to enter a state of 'harmony between man and nature'.

The so-called first-turn cultivators and second-turn cultivators refer to the fact that when a cultivator is promoted, the cyclone will rotate rapidly, and the spiritual energy inside the cyclone will be rapidly compressed, turning into inner-layer spiritual energy.

Then, two inner rings of spiritual energy will soon appear outside the inner layer, forming a cyclone together with the outermost outer cyclone.

Simply put, the first-level monks have inner cyclones + outer cyclones, and the second-level monks have inner cyclones + second-ring cyclones + outer cyclones. The inner the cyclones, the higher the quality of the spiritual energy. Most of the spells used by monks also rely on the inner cyclones and second-ring cyclones.

To describe it in terms of real estate, the monks are real estate businessmen, dedicated to developing the first, second, third and fourth ring roads. The outer cyclone is equivalent to the suburbs. Although it is somewhat useful, it is a suburb after all and too far away from the city center. It is usually used as a reserve force for the city center. Once the monks have consumed the inner ring's spiritual energy, the outer ring's spiritual energy will be moved in.

According to the information on the intranet, the step of forming a two-ring cyclone takes as short as 3 minutes and as long as 1 hour. The worse the aptitude, the longer it takes. It is a slow and steady process, and the cultivator must persevere.

However, 30 seconds later, Ren Suo felt that the second ring cyclone in his inner cyclone had been completely stabilized.

"Finished, finished?"

Ren Suo was stunned and received a stream of data.

"Target type: Adult male primates"

"Physical condition: normal"

"Training status: 2nd turn 0% (You have defeated 99% of the world's upright apes!)"

“I’ve broken through already?” Ren Suo subconsciously thought that he was some kind of genius, how could it be so simple?

However, he recalled the four threads that suddenly appeared when he broke through just now, and he understood in his heart: "Can the bond system still help me break through?"

"Among the bonders, Dong Chengling, Yu Kuangtu, Li Dan, and Qiao Muyi are all above the second level. There are exactly four of them. Could it be that their bond helped me?"

The bond system had many functions that Ren Suo didn't quite understand, and he didn't dare to make a conclusion, he just kept this in mind secretly.

"If you have a breakthrough, tell everyone."

Ren Suo edited a group message and then stopped.

Dong Chengling had told him about his breakthrough before, and Ren Suo had promised at that time that he would also tell her about his breakthrough.

Keeping his promises is one of Ren Suo's many strengths. He looked at the time and thought Dong Chengling should be back home after finishing her work, so he simply went to her dormitory just as she came to his.

When they got downstairs, Ren Suo saw Hei Lingdang cuddling with a ragdoll cat under the moonlight, and he was furious. However, Hei Lingdang was very alert, and when she saw Ren Suo coming out, she took her girlfriend away.

Ren Suo looked around and saw that there was no one around, so he stood there and waited for a while. When Hei Lingdang saw that Ren Suo was not coming over, she continued to pick up girls with peace of mind.

At this moment, Ren Suo suddenly turned into a shadow and rushed in front of it. His right hand turned into a pile driver and jumped towards Hei Lingdang's head. After rubbing its cat head, he slipped away before it could react!

Hei Lingdang meowed angrily, but with his girlfriend beside him, it was difficult for him to chase Ren Suo, so he could only bear the grudge.

Ren Suo got on the elevator easily and happily, thinking that the "Wizard's Undying Feather of Standing Still" was pretty good. He just accumulated power for a while and accelerated his speed to 80 meters/s. He was not damaged at all afterwards, which was very suitable for his use.

Arriving at Dong Chengling's door, Ren Suo rang the doorbell and waited for a while before Dong Chengling's voice rang from inside: "Who's so late?"

"It's me, Ren Suo."

After a moment, the door opened.

Dong Chengling was wiping her head with a towel in her left hand and holding the door handle with her right hand. She was wearing extremely loose light-colored clothes, and her bra was faintly visible inside. She was wearing very short home shorts and no slippers, which surprised Ren Suo.

"Come in."

Ren Suo hurried in, looking embarrassed: "I didn't know you were taking a shower just now."

"It's okay. Is there anything urgent?" No matter what, Dong Chengling looked calm and continued to rub his long hair with a towel.

Compared to the first time they met, Dong Chengling's hair had grown a lot longer and was obviously well-groomed. After taking a shower, her hair was wet, adding a touch of grace.

It was also the first time that Ren Suo saw Dong Chengling in her home clothes. His eyes naturally widened as he stammered, "I, I... By the way, I was promoted to the second rank?"

"Really? Congratulations."

Although his tone was flat, Dong Chengling seemed very happy. He showed a faint smile, his eyes narrowed, and a beautiful dimple appeared on his left cheek.

"You've already reached the third level, and I'm only at the second level. You've come here to talk to me, but it's like you're waving a big sword in front of Guan Gong..."

Ren Suo lowered his head somewhat awkwardly, and then his eyes moved up along Dong Chengling's body, seeing Dong Chengling's pretty little feet, her slender, straight legs, the cleavage that couldn't be covered by the big shirt, and a dark green jade pendant in the white skin above the cleavage...

Um?

Dong Chengling's heart started pounding when she found Ren Suo staring at her with eyes wide open. Dong Chengling would definitely change her clothes when she had guests or was going out, but she usually liked this kind of loose clothes that were comfortable for sleeping, and only her parents and Xiaoyan had seen her like this.

"What's wrong?" Dong Chengling asked with a slightly red face.

Ren Suo hesitated for a moment and said, "I suddenly realized that your eyebrows are quite fierce."

Dong Chengling was slightly stunned, and before he could react, Ren Suo continued to ask:

"By the way, I want to raise a bird recently. What do you think of calling it Xiaofei?"