Because his home was on the edge of the city, Chen Chu was the first to arrive home.

"Lao Xia, Luo Fei, monitor and everyone, I'm getting off the bus first. See you at school the day after tomorrow."

After saying hello to everyone, Chen Chu got off the bus carrying the box containing his luggage. He stood by the roadside and waited for the bus to leave before crossing the road.

It was already past ten in the morning and the station was still some distance away from his home.

But before Chen Chu got close, the neighbor who was working in the yard next door had already seen him and couldn't help shouting, "Zhang Xiaolan, your Chen Chu is back."

There was no way. Two months later, Chen Chu's height had reached 1.85 meters. He was tall and straight, and in his handsome military uniform with a black background and red edges, he was very conspicuous when walking on the street.

The first one to run out was Chen Hu. This guy had grown a lot taller after not being seen for two months. He was now about 1.78 meters tall and his figure was burly and powerful.

If he didn't know that this guy was only thirteen years old, Chen Chu would have suspected that he was just a muscular coach pretending to be so.

Chen Hu came over excitedly and took the suitcase from him: "Brother, you are finally back."

"Ah Hu, you didn't go to school?"

"It's winter vacation, brother."

"...It's winter vacation already." Chen Chu paused slightly, then remembered that it seemed to be January 2nd.

Chen Hu said in a timid tone, "Yes, the Chinese New Year is only half a month away. Fortunately, you came back in time, otherwise our home would definitely be much quieter this year."

As she spoke, Zhang Xiaolan also came out.

Looking at Zhang Xiaolan who looked a little excited, Chen Chu said gently, "Mom, I'm back."

"I'm glad you're back, I'm glad you're back." Zhang Xiaolan looked at Chen Chu carefully and breathed a sigh of relief when she found that he was not injured and looked very energetic.

Two months later, Chen Chu's face, which originally had a little childishness, has matured a lot. There is firmness between his brows, and he looks very heroic.

Zhang Xiaolan felt proud but also a little sad about this change.

After returning home, Chen Chu was pestered by Chen Hu to ask about the Koroya Trial. Chen Chu picked out some things to tell him and just glossed over the fighting.

At the same time, I gave them the gifts I brought back.

"By the way, A-Chu, your birthday is in ten days."

At lunch, Zhang Xiaolan suddenly said, "I heard from Xiaohu that you made some good friends at school. There's a girl named Luo Fei who's very pretty. Do you want to invite them to your house for dinner that day?"

After saying this, Zhang Xiaolan's eyes showed anticipation.

"Ahem!... No, no need. It's just an ordinary birthday, there's no need. Just eat an egg and it'll be over." Chen Chu almost choked and quickly shook his head.

It's just an ordinary birthday, it's too much trouble to treat everyone to a meal.

Zhang Xiaolan suddenly felt a little regretful: "Is that so? I was planning to invite your friends to my house for your birthday party. It just so happens that I got a promotion last month and my income has increased a lot."

Chen Chu shook his head decisively: "Let's wait until I turn twenty before we talk about it. That way it will have some meaning."

"All right."

After dinner, Chen Chu was asked a lot of questions by Chen Hu in the afternoon, and finally sent him away on the grounds that he needed to practice.

But Chen Chu didn't lie to him.

In the afternoon, Chen Chu sat cross-legged on the backyard corridor, and the majestic dragon-elephant true power in his body began to circulate. Suddenly, the rich energy of heaven and earth around him swarmed in.

Whoosh! Swallowing and exhaling the energy of heaven and earth, Chen Chu devoted half of his mind to the Sword Armor Beast.

The golden sunlight penetrates the sea water, making the underwater world a hundred meters deep appear colorful. A ten-meter-long black monster is lying lazily on the coral reef.

At this time, the Sword-Armored Beast had just had a full meal and was resting, relaxing his mind and appreciating the scenery in front of him. After all, it was not made of iron.

At this time, the ferocious and violent aura of the Sword-Armored Beast subsided and it looked harmless.

But even so, no fish dared to approach.

There's no way around it. Its ten-meter-long body is inherently intimidating, not to mention its ferocious head and the blood-red horns spread out on both sides, which make it look even more hideous and terrifying.

But at this moment, the fish in front of them started to run around in panic, and countless fish of all sizes swam past the sword-armored beast.

Seeing this, the Sword-Armored Beast opened its eyes, and a cold look appeared in its light golden vertical pupils, because this situation meant that a powerful mutant beast had appeared.

Sure enough, after a while a huge black shadow appeared in the distance.

Its limbs are as thick as pillars and covered with scales. Its brown shell is as thick as a reef and covered with sharp thorns. It also has a ferocious head that looks like a dragon.

The most important thing is that this mutant giant turtle, which is 26 meters long and 10 meters high, exudes a heavy aura.

This mutated giant turtle was very powerful. Even the Sword-Armored Beast could sense a strong aura of danger when facing it, and its eyes suddenly became sharp.

roar!

The Sword-Armored Beast stood up slightly, and let out a warning growl. The deafening sound waves traveled far into the water, causing many small fish to turn their bellies upside down.

Although there is a huge difference in size between the two sides, the Sword Armor Beast is not afraid. With its speed, it can just run away if it can't win.

In response to its warning, the ferocious mutant giant turtle simply glanced coldly at the Sword-Armored Beast, ignored it, and walked past with its huge body.

Being ignored, the Sword Armor Beast paused as it was ready for battle.

Looking at the back of the giant turtle crawling on the seabed and stirring up mud and sand, the Sword-Armored Beast suddenly moved its eyes. It discovered that the direction the giant turtle seemed to be heading towards the territory of the group of mutated crystal horn fish.

After swimming back from the open sea, the Sword-Armored Beast started hunting near the mutated Crystal Horn Fish's territory.

It was not going to let go of the group of mutant fish that contained rich energy. It was also interested in the luminous corals on the crater.

However, facing those crystal-horned mutant fish that were more than ten or twenty meters long, it had no way to deal with them for the time being.

If facing one alone, the Sword-Armored Beast felt that it should have no problem killing it. As its body grew to ten meters, its strength also increased many times.

But unfortunately, these guys gathered in groups and never left the crater, so the Sword Armor Beast was helpless in this situation.

The freezing cold light attack was too strong to kill all three of them instantly, and it didn't want to take the risk for a few bites of mutant fish meat.

But now…

The Sword-Armored Beast's tail moved slightly, and it followed the mutant giant turtle from a distance.

As the Sword Armor Beast moved forward, the seabed in front of it became lower and lower, from one hundred and fifty meters, two hundred meters, and gradually reached a depth of four or five hundred meters in the dark water.

It was already pitch black here. Even the Sword Armor Beast could only vaguely sense its surroundings through its feather horns, including the huge black shadow several hundred meters away.

But soon, a faint light came from afar, which was the habitat of the group of crystal-horn mutant fish.

boom!

Just as the mutant giant turtle approached a hundred meters, the group of crystal horn fish suddenly rioted.

The two sides seem to have a grudge against each other.

The sword-armored beast hiding in the depths of darkness saw the three huge crystal-horned fish move violently, and it rushed towards the mutant giant turtle with six ten-meter-long crystal-horned fish.

As soon as they got close, six blue light beams as thick as thighs and three and a half meters thick shot out. The sea water was instantly frozen into icicles wherever the beams passed, emitting a terrible chill.

Crack, crack, crack!!

A majestic cold light enveloped the mutant giant turtle, and its body suddenly stopped. In the blink of an eye, it and the surrounding sea water were covered by a layer of blue ice more than two meters thick.

Such a strong icy energy. Looking at the iceberg that was more than ten meters high, the Sword Armor Beast's eyes fixed.

But at this moment, the solidified iceberg cracked and then exploded with a bang, revealing the mutant giant turtle inside which was intact.

I saw layers of earth-colored ripples flowing on the giant turtle's body, emitting a heavy aura as thick as a mountain and unshakable. Its limbs moved and continued to crawl towards the crater.

This scene reminded Sword Armor Beast of Xia Youhui, who had strong defense but weak attack.

Watching the mutant giant turtle continue to move, the crystal-horned mutant fish became even more agitated. The blue crystal horns on their heads lit up again, and blue cold light burst out.

Puff puff puff! ! Under the terrible cold energy, the mutant giant turtle was once again frozen into a thick iceberg.

And this time, due to the continuous output of the mutant crystal horn fish, the blue ice on its body continued to thicken, and gradually an iceberg more than 50 meters high and hundreds of meters wide appeared on the seabed.

In this situation, even the giant turtle could not move with the iceberg weighing tens of thousands of tons, and was pressed to the bottom of the sea.

However, with such a huge energy output, the light on the heads of the six ten-meter-long crystal horn fish soon dimmed, and they exuded a weak aura and soon stopped.

Next came the three crystal horn fish that were 15 meters, 20 meters, and 23 meters long. The blue light beams emitted from the crystal horns on their heads became weaker and weaker.

Woo!

Suddenly, a long whistle-like sound was heard from under the iceberg. In an instant, the thick brown light on the mutant giant turtle vibrated, even causing the surrounding seabed to tremble.

Boom boom boom!!

Countless mud and sand were stirred up by the violent shock waves, the sea water rolled, and cracks appeared on the thick icebergs, which kept breaking with a crackling sound.

BANG BANG BANG!!

The heavy ice blocks hit the seabed, causing slight vibrations, while some small pieces floated to the surface of the sea.

The mutant giant turtle slowly crawled out from the ground full of broken ice and rolling bubbles, and ignored the mutant crystal fish and continued to crawl towards the crater.

Seeing the giant turtle climbing halfway up the mountain, the crystal-horned mutant fish became more and more impatient. One of the ten-meter-long ones couldn't help but rush up, trying to knock it away.

But when the mutant crystal horn fish slammed into the giant turtle with a bang, it was unable to shake it at all.

Compared to a giant turtle that is 26 meters long, has a heavy body and walks on all fours, the ten-meter-long crystal horn fish is as weak as a baby in terms of sheer strength.

Bang, bang! Two more crystal horn fish couldn't help but rush up and hit the giant turtle hard, but they also tickled it.

Bang!

At this moment, the sea water exploded, and the giant turtle's head suddenly burst out at a terrifying speed, like a flashing afterimage, and bit the nearest crystal horn fish.

The turtle's mouth full of sharp teeth bit the middle of the crystal horn fish's body tightly, ignoring its struggle. With an explosion of bite force, the sharp teeth tore the fish scales, and then snap!

With its terrifying bite force, the giant turtle directly bit the crystal horn fish into two pieces. As its ferocious mouth tore and swallowed, blood mixed with flesh and blood residue spread out.

The other crystal horn fishes panicked and scattered upon seeing this, including the three giant crystal horn fishes which only dared to swim far away and did not approach.

It seemed that they had seen this scene several times.

Soon the giant turtle finished eating the crystal horn fish and continued to crawl towards the crater above.

Without the obstruction of the crystal horn fish, the giant turtle quickly climbed up the crater, then opened its big mouth and began to swallow the glowing coral reefs with a crunching sound.

Seeing this, the crystal horn fish swimming around became even more anxious. The three largest crystal horn fish couldn't help but shoot out freezing cold rays, but they were still unable to be blocked.

The giant turtle with a thick carapace has terrifying defense, and the yellow halo emitting a heavy aura from its body allows it to ignore the freezing beams.

Every time their backs were covered with a meter-thick layer of ice, the yellow halos that seemed to be connected to the earth would shake and shatter the ice, making the crystal horn fish despair.

In the darkness, Sword-Armored Beast narrowed its eyes slightly.

It was wondering whether to take action to stop the giant turtle.

It was obvious that those coral-like things might be some rare treasures, otherwise those crystal horn fish and the giant turtle would not fight for them.

And it looks like this happened more than once.

After a moment of silence, the Sword-Armored Beast suppressed the urge to attack.

Because this mutant giant turtle has some restraint on it.

In its estimation, its current level among mutant beasts should be at the peak of level four, and with its three major physical talents, it can easily kill an ordinary level five mutant beast in seconds.

Even some level six mutant beasts can be defeated, such as the largest mutant crystal horn fish, which the sword-armored beast is confident that it can hunt and kill in a one-on-one fight.

However, this mutant giant turtle was estimated to be at the peak of level six, and its impeccable defense on its body surface made the Sword Armor Beast feel like a mouse trying to pull a turtle, with no way to bite it.

As for the idea of ​​killing it after exhausting its energy, Sword Armor Beast gave up after thinking about it.

Through the observation just now, it keenly noticed that the ability of this giant turtle should be related to the earth. Standing on the seabed, its defense and recovery ability are terrifying.

Of course, the most important thing is that Sword Armor Beast has no energy-related talents, which leads to some limitations in its combat methods.

Whether it is attack or defense.

In this situation, Chen Chu was looking forward to the fourth evolution of his clone even more. He wondered how much the Sword Armor Beast's combat power would increase after it acquired energy-related talents.

As the Sword-Armored Beast continued to lurk and the Crystal-Horned Fish became increasingly restless and attacked, the mutant giant turtle ate large pieces in one bite and soon ate all the glowing corals in the crater.

Woo! ! On the small crater, the mutant giant turtle raised its head and roared with a whistle. The sound was deep and could be heard far away despite the obstruction of the sea water.

boom!

At this moment, a heavy and vast aura burst out from the mutated giant turtle, its momentum soared, and red and blue energy light emanated from its body, and its body shape began to change.

The ever-expanding body broke the thorny shell, and cracks appeared on the surface, revealing the more solid new shell underneath.

In addition, the mutant giant turtle's limbs became thicker, its skin was covered with new thick scales, and its thick soles even grew sharp claws.

The most obvious change is in the head.

The neck covered with scales became even thicker and longer, and two sharp horns on the ferocious head pierced the skin. In an instant, an invisible pressure spread in the sea.

When the two sharp horns on its head grew out, the mutant giant turtle seemed to have achieved some kind of sublimation. Not only did its level break through to level seven, but it seemed that some kind of blood in its body had awakened.

The powerful pressure made the Sword Armor Beast focus its eyes, because it was very familiar with this invisible pressure.

During its third evolution, some kind of genetic power awakened in its body, and it acquired a similar 'king' blood aura, and its combat power far exceeded that of its peers.

Under this terrifying pressure, the three crystal-horned mutant fish, which had been attacking unwillingly, froze up, a hint of fear appeared in their eyes, and they retreated instinctively.

Woo...Roar!

The successfully evolved mutated giant turtle roared excitedly, and the original whistle-like sound gradually turned into a low roar, and gradually an invisible shockwave broke out, becoming stronger and stronger.

Boom boom boom!!

The terrifying shockwaves spread over hundreds of meters, and within this diameter the sea water exploded and roared as if it was boiling.

The crystal horn fish within the range of the sonic shockwaves were unable to resist, their blood boiling all over their bodies, and in just a few breaths, the remaining five ten-meter-long crystal horn fish were directly shocked to death.

The blood all over his body exploded and his broken body floated in the boiling sea water.

The three crystal horn fishes that were over 15 meters long could not resist the violent shock wave. They retreated madly with explosive force and barely got out of the attack range. Finally, they left without looking back.

boom!

The mutant giant turtle had been dead for many years, and a small volcano over a hundred meters high collapsed under the force of the earthquake, stirring up rolling mud and sand that submerged the surrounding area.

Only then did the mutant giant turtle slowly stop its shockwaves. Standing on the ruins of the volcano with a body length of thirty meters, it roared like a dragon beast.

In the darkness, the Sword-Armored Beast glanced at the corpses of several crystal-horned fish around the mutant giant turtle, slowly retreated, and finally turned around and disappeared.

And the direction it left was exactly the same as one of the escaping crystal horn fish.

More than two hundred meters under the pitch-black ocean, a fifteen-meter-long, weak crystal horn fish was swimming quickly, trying to get away from the giant turtle that had evolved to be very scary.

But it didn't know that a few hundred meters behind it, a black, ferocious beast was approaching quickly, and in just a moment it was a hundred meters behind it.

However, the perception of this crystal horn fish was also very sharp. Just when the sword-armored beast came to a few dozen meters away from its side, it suddenly stopped.

boom!

The roar of the sea water exploding suddenly sounded, and an even darker figure cut through the darkness and appeared on the left side of the crystal horn fish in an instant.

Faced with the sudden attack, the crystal horn fish suddenly turned its head, opened its huge mouth, and a powerful stream of water spurted out like a water cannon.

Bang!

The powerful water flow hit the Sword Armor Beast, but it ignored it. Its claws, carrying terrifying force, slammed down on the side of the Crystal Horn Fish's head.

boom!

The sea water exploded, and the scales of the crystal-horned fish burst under the terrifying claws, flesh and blood turned into foam, and the hard skull collapsed suddenly, forming two large pits with a diameter of more than one meter.

The huge body was overturned by the violent force, and rolled back more than ten feet in the sea before stopping.

However, this crystal horn fish had hard bones and strong vitality, so it did not die even though two bloody holes were blasted on the side of its head.

Just as the crystal horn fish had just stabilized its body, the violent sea water exploded again, and the ferocious sword-armored beast pounced on it at a terrifying speed.

The muscles of the Sword-Armored Beast swelled, and endless terrifying power gathered in its claws, like a pair of devil claws that covered the sky and the sun and fell down fiercely.

However, the crystal horn fish had also experienced countless battles to grow to its current state. At the moment when the sword-armored beast pounced on it, the deep blue crystal horn on its head lit up.

boom!

Swordhorn's full-strength attack blew up half of Crystalhorn's head, but its hind half was also hit by the blue beam of light in its dying counterattack, and in the blink of an eye its hind half was covered in blue ice.

The terrible cold formed blue ice more than one meter thick, which penetrated the exoskeleton armor and affected the muscles and flesh underneath. The muscles became stiff and the blood coagulated.

However, at this time, the strong blood and energy in the sword-armored beast burst out, its tail rolled, and with a bang, it shattered the ice on its body.

Phew! It doesn't look very strong.

The sword-armored beast, which killed the mutated crystal-horned fish with two moves in a surprise attack, spit out a string of bubbles and a human-like smile appeared on its ferocious face, making it look even more ferocious.

Grabbing the body of the crystal horn fish with its claws, the sword-armored beast bit down with its ferocious mouth, tearing the fish scales, and biting off a piece of flesh weighing several hundred kilograms and swallowing it.

Delicious delicious!!

Feeling the rich aroma of flesh and blood coming from its mouth, the Sword-Armored Beast tore off a large piece of flesh and blood. The rich blood gushed out and dyed the surrounding sea water red, but no fish dared to approach.

They were all intimidated by the invisible murderous aura emanating from the Sword-Armored Beast.

The crystal horn fish is so energy-rich that even the sword-armored beast has always been thinking about it. The moment its flesh and blood enters its stomach, it turns into a hot turbulence and explodes.

With sufficient biological energy, the Sword-Armored Beast grew a little bit larger after eating a few bites, and its huge body grew at a terrifying speed.

The speed of biological energy conversion and absorption is becoming more and more terrifying.

In less than an hour, the ten-meter-long Sword Armor Beast had eaten up all the larger Crystal Horn Fish, chewing up even the bones and discarding only some of the intestines that it disliked.

After swallowing this energy-rich crystal horn fish, the sword-armored beast suddenly grew half a meter in height, nearly eleven meters, and looked even more powerful and ferocious.

The evolution value increased by 40 points in one go, which was a rich harvest.

In the darkness, the Sword-Armored Beast looked coldly in the direction where the other Crystal Hornfish escaped, and its huge body turned and disappeared into the darkness.

I hope those two crystal horn fish don’t run far, or are targeted by other large mutant creatures.

Otherwise, Sword Armor Beast would be heartbroken.

…

In the evening, the sun sets in the sky, and the orange-red light paints the clouds red.

On the corridor in the backyard, Chen Chu, who was sitting cross-legged, had a stronger aura. He slowly opened his eyes, with a hint of regret in them.

After their territory was destroyed, the remaining two crystal horn fish disappeared into the deep sea and their whereabouts are unknown.

The ocean is so vast that if the direction is slightly wrong, a huge difference can occur after swimming for dozens of miles.

Chen Chu's eyes showed a hint of coldness, and he whispered, "When we encounter that mutant giant turtle again after the Sword Armor Beast has evolved four times, we will eat it."

Although this time, because of the giant turtle, the crystal horn fish that gathered together were broken up, allowing the sword-armored beast to have a sumptuous meal.

But at the same time, the losses are also huge.

Two crystal horn fish that were expected to be at level six ran away, six late level four fish were eaten by giant turtles, and there were also those luminous corals whose use was unknown.

The Sword-Armored Beast has been eyeing these things for a long time.

For this reason, it changed its base and chose to be next to the crystal horn fish's territory, intending to kill them after its strength increased a bit.

Who knew that Cheng Yaojin would appear halfway through.

Chen Chu spent the next two days very peacefully. Apart from practicing and eating, he helped with some chores around the house. Time passed in the blink of an eye.

On the third morning, Chen Chu had breakfast early and reported to school.

There is a rule in Wugao that after breaking through the third level, one has the privilege of not wearing school uniform, so today Chen Chu wore a white long-sleeved T-shirt and gray casual pants.

It is already January and the weather is cold, but Chen Chu no longer needs to worry about the weather changes.

Walking on the familiar road to school, looking at the cars and people coming and going around, Chen Chu couldn't help but feel a little sad. Things and people have changed.

Two months ago, he was still a green high school student who had just made some progress in practicing Zhenwu and was full of energy.

More than two months later, he had become a battle-hardened special forces soldier. More than a hundred ordinary people and twenty to thirty cultivators had died at his hands.

Wugao was also on winter vacation at this time, and the school seemed much quieter.

Of course, only liberal arts students don’t have to come to school during the winter vacation. Most of the first-year martial arts students will still come to school and practice with the help of those equipment and venues.

As for the sophomores and juniors, they are rarely seen in school, giving people the illusion that there are only first-year students in Wugao High School.

Today, Chen Chu met an acquaintance as soon as he entered the school gate.

Seeing Chen Chu coming towards her, Li Wenwen smiled and said, "Chen Chu, long time no see."

Chen Chu also smiled slightly: "Long time no see Li Wenwen, how are you doing recently?"

"It's okay, but far worse than you guys." Li Wenwen said with envy in her eyes.

She was once a member of Lin Xue's small club, with average talent, and even established her foundation two days earlier than Chen Chu.

But two months had passed and she had only just broken through to the second level, while Chen Chu and others had already returned to the third level. The gap had suddenly widened to a point that was despairing.

But it was useless to think about these things at this moment, because she thought her cultivation was too weak and she was not qualified to participate in the trial.

Moreover, even if she had made a breakthrough at that time, she might not have dared to take the trial, just like the thirty or so classmates who had made a breakthrough to the second level but did not participate.

After chatting with Li Wenwen for a few words, the two separated downstairs of the teaching building.

Chen Chu has to report to Pang Long first.

It was still the office on the third floor. Others hadn't arrived yet.

Chen Chu knocked on the door and said politely, "Teacher Pang."

There's no way to be rude.

Chen Chu had seen Pang Long's ferocious appearance with weapons in hand, and his fighting power was extremely exaggerated.

And after returning this time, he vaguely felt that Pang Long's aura was more oppressive, and there seemed to be some signs of breakthrough.

"Chen Chu, come in."

Looking at Chen Chu who walked in, Pang Long suddenly asked: "What level of cultivation are you at now?"

Chen Chu paused for a moment: "...It is estimated that in more than a week, I will be able to break through to the late stage of the third heaven."

After Koroya absorbed the energy crystal, Chen Chu did not exchange it again, so his progress was slower during this period, and he only returned to normal after he came back.

As for concealing it, there is no need to do so. Any strange things can be attributed to the compatibility of the skills or the physical talent.

Including the issue of exchanging life crystals every time, anyway, it’s a special talent for the physical body.

It was no secret that he was extremely strong and swift, and he had indeed practiced the Dragon Elephant Skill to its limit, so he couldn't hide it as long as they fought.

But even so, Pang Long paused: "When we were on the plane, I felt that your aura was much stronger than others. I didn't expect that you are almost in the late third level."

"And I heard from Liu Feixu that you have already practiced the Dragon Elephant Skill to the peak of the True Martial Spirit."

Then Pang Long thought for a moment: "The late stage of the Third Heaven? It's still in time."

Chen Chu was puzzled: "Teacher, what is too late?"

"Of course it's your technique."

Pang Long said slowly: "With your aptitude, even without the need for advanced techniques, it is estimated that you can break through the fourth level in three months at most, but I don't recommend you to do this."

"Is it because of the true power attribute?"

After studying for this period of time, Chen Chu is no longer as ignorant as he was before. He knows that after reaching the fourth level, his true strength will undergo a qualitative change, and he will gain special attributes because of the skills he practices.

Just like the high-level blood user he killed, his true power attribute was corrosion, and even the armor with a strength of +10 could not fully defend against it.

"good."

Pang Long nodded: "If you break through the fourth level like this, even if you are in perfect harmony with the Dragon Elephant Technique, the power of the qualitative change will at most be comparable to that of ordinary high-level techniques."

"But if you break through with the Dragon Elephant Tyrant Body, your true strength will be very terrifying after the qualitative change. You should know that the Dragon Elephant Tyrant Body is one of the strongest among the advanced exercises."

"The Dragon Elephant Tyrant's body is so strong!" Chen Chu was a little surprised.

"Of course, that is a very domineering technique among the advanced techniques. In addition, there are also matching top-level techniques above the Dragon Elephant Tyrant Body."

"When the time comes, you won't need to switch to another cultivation mode, you can directly cultivate and break through the seventh level in one go, saving you a lot of time and resources, and steadily reaching the peak of the ninth level of Zhenwu."

"So, I need to slow down the time for my breakthrough..." Chen Chu frowned slightly.

The second semester of his senior year is not until after the New Year, and there is still half a year before he can participate in the mutant beast trial and earn a lot of contributions in his second year of high school. Has this time been wasted?

In fact, Chen Chu's original plan was to break through the fourth level normally. After all, his Dragon Elephant Skill, after being pushed to the limit, is comparable to ordinary high-level skills.

And it is expected that a breakthrough will be achieved in about two months, instead of three months as Pang Long said.

By then, with the enhancement from the Sword Armor Beast's fourth evolution and the four major attributes that have been improved on a regular basis, his combat power will be among the strongest even in the Fourth Heaven.

In this way, when I go to the alien beast battlefield in the second year, I can simply kill a few level four mutant beasts and have enough contribution points to exchange for advanced skills.

Pang Long shook his head: "No need to suppress it, didn't I just say that it's not too late?"

"As the energy of the heaven and earth in Dongxia becomes more and more dense, in addition to the few primitive mountains blocked by the army, there are more and more low-level mutant beasts in the ordinary mountains in the country."

"So every year we conduct a major cleanup to control the number and strength of those common mutant creatures."

"After discussion, the authorities plan to increase the annual cleaning to twice, and let the major martial arts high schools share some of the pressure and allow freshmen to participate."

"This way, freshmen can accumulate practical experience in advance and earn extra contribution points, which will speed up their growth."

"In fact, this plan has been under discussion for a long time. It is the real trial task for the new students of Wugao High School in the future. It will continue forever. But Luoya is just an accident."

"Given your record of killing a fourth-level blood envoy, this cleanup won't be difficult for you. Just killing a few dozen ordinary mutant beasts will be enough to meet your exchange requirements."

"...cleaning mission." Chen Chu was speechless for a moment.

He didn't expect that this was the real novice mission, and the previous trial with Koroya was completely an accident.

At this time, Pang Long smiled and said, "Of course, if you feel that those ordinary mutant beasts are not challenging, you can also apply to me in advance to go to the alien beast battlefield."

"Normally, as long as one's realm breaks through the third heaven, anyone can apply regardless of whether they are a sophomore student or not."

"However, in previous years, few freshmen were able to break through the third level in the first semester of their freshman year, so this requirement was not announced."

"Apply in advance... forget it." Chen Chu shook his head slightly.

If he hadn't known about the big cleanup mission, he might have been a little tempted.

But after knowing that there would be a large number of channels to obtain contribution points in the future, he temporarily gave up the idea of ​​going out, as it was more important to break through the fourth evolution of the Fourth Heaven Sword Armor Beast.

After saying this, Pang Long waved his hand and said, "Okay, this will be announced in two days. It's still early now, so go to the thirty-third floor and choose a secret method."

As one of the top 100 people in this trial, Chen Chu has the reward of choosing an ordinary secret technique for free.

Speaking of secret techniques, Chen Chu couldn't help but ask: "Teacher, is there any difference between secret techniques and the Zhenwu we practice?"

Pang Long thought for a moment and said, "There is a big difference. The True Martial Arts is a holistic progression. As long as you practice, you will steadily improve. The Secret Arts is an extreme enhancement."

"At the same time, the secret techniques are divided into four categories: strengthening, amplification, burst and special."

"As the name suggests, the strengthening type can enhance strength and speed. I remember that there is a secret method that can double the basic strength of the practitioner when it is practiced to perfection."

"One times." Chen Chu was shocked.

One times may not sound like much, but you have to know that this is the basic increase, not the real strength.

This means that if the limit of the fourth level is 4,000 kilograms of arm strength, then practicing this secret method can reach 8,000 kilograms, which is close to his current strength.

Chen Chu couldn't help but ask with interest: "Teacher, is this secret method difficult to practice?"

If he practiced this secret technique, wouldn't his basic strength double directly, and his full-strength combat power directly leap to the fifth level?

Pang Long glanced at Chen Chu and knew what he was thinking: "This secret method is not difficult to practice. People with good talent can practice it successfully in half a year."

"But although it is doubled, the increase actually has a limit. When it reaches the highest level, it can increase by a maximum of three tons, which is three thousand kilograms of basic strength."

"In other words, all common secret techniques have a certain upper limit, whether it's strength increase, speed burst, or natural attribute enhancement..."

According to Pang Long's introduction, the Zhenwu technique is equivalent to a complete car, while the secret technique is the amplification part of a certain part or other functional equipment.

Moreover, these secret techniques have a certain upper limit, and will appear mediocre after the practitioners reach a high level.

Therefore, many people will choose to learn one or two secret techniques to improve their combat power after breaking through the third and fourth levels of the sky, but they will not exchange and practice too much.

After all, a person's energy is limited, and one cannot neglect the main goal to specialize in secret techniques and hinder the progress of one's realm.

When they were almost done talking, Pang Long suggested, "Your enemies from now on will mainly be mutant beasts, so you can consider the Weapon Casting Technique as your first secret technique."

"Forge weapons." Chen Chu's eyes flashed.

Pang Long smiled and said, "Weren't you curious about why our weapons were so powerful? You'll know when you go up and read the introduction to the secret technique."

With doubts, Chen Chu took the elevator to the reading room on the 33rd floor.

It was still early today, and it was winter vacation, so there was no one in the reading room. Chen Chu went straight to the "Internet cafe private room" where he had learned the skills.

I randomly found a small private room, closed the door, turned on the computer, and entered my student ID for verification.

"Verification passed, welcome to use the Tianyu Think Tank system."

"Your current authority in Nantian Wugao has been upgraded to Level II+, and you are eligible to redeem all high- and low-level skills, common secret skills, and resources below the fifth level."

"In addition, you can also query some confidential information below level II+. Please note that confidential information cannot be leaked at will."

Level Ⅱ+, after this trial, the authority has been upgraded so much. Chen Chu was a little surprised.

When he was building his foundation within half a month, his initial authority was Level I+, and he could choose two low-level skills for free.

Xia Youhui and others who built their foundation within a week are at level II-, while Lin Xue and others who built their foundation in three or four days are at level II.

The only one in the school who is at level II+ is An Fuqing, who built his foundation in two days and reached the second level in half a month.

Later, after reaching 49th place in the ranking battle, Chen Chu's authority was upgraded to Level II, which meant that his talent was similar to those of ordinary geniuses.

According to Xia Youhui, there are more advanced talents and powers above level II+. As long as those abnormal people don't die halfway, at least they are top-level experts in the Ninth Heaven.

Chen Chu clicked on the permissions behind the name on the touch screen, and four options popped up immediately, representing skills, secret techniques, resources, and information.

Click on the secret option and the screen changes immediately.

Compared with the low-level skills, there are only twenty-one secret skills. Chen Chu clicked on the introductions of the secret skills one by one, and the contents were roughly the same as what Pang Long said.

The strengthening type increases the basic strength by three tons, the explosive type instantly increases the speed by 30%, and can make the true power become hot, icy and other attributes.

However, compared to these, the special type of secret methods are much more magical, and there are only two of them.

One of them is a secret method called Hidden Spirit. With the initial practice, one can restrain one's aura and hide oneself. When it is fully mastered, one can even reduce a certain sense of presence and blend into the surroundings.

This secret method made his eyes light up.

The exaggerated speed of his cultivation improvement has always been a headache for Chen Chu. Although he has no intention of playing dumb to gain advantage, he also doesn't want to be exposed to the spotlight all the time.

If he practices this secret technique, in the future, if he has an explosive breakthrough in his cultivation, it will not be exposed immediately, but he will choose a reasonable time to show it.

Another secret method is weapon forging.

Weapon forging, as the name suggests, means forging your own extraordinary weapons. Official orthodox practitioners will basically find ways to practice this secret method after breaking through the fourth level.

Because the F-class alloy weapons used by Chen Chu and his team are already the limit of weapons made of current ordinary materials.

This weapon is fine against low-level mutant beasts, but it will be less powerful when facing high-level mutant beasts that have energy defense and very terrifying bodies.

Including the sword energy and sword energy after the fourth level.

Because the bodies of those high-level and top-level mutant beasts have been tempered by the energy of heaven and earth for a long time, they have a strong immunity to energy and eventually return to "weapons".

Faced with this problem, some powerful people worked together to develop a secret method called Weapon Casting Technique.

Using alloy weapons as the basis, the practitioner's true power, spirit, and even essence and blood are integrated into extraordinary materials using secret methods to create powerful extraordinary weapons.

These weapons are solid, sharp, and integrated with their creators. They are easy to use and possess some of the characteristics of Zhenwu.

The higher the level of the extraordinary weapon, the more powerful it is.

The weapons of some peak strong men are even comparable to legendary artifacts, possessing all kinds of terrible powers and are extremely terrifying.

However, practicing secret techniques takes a lot of time and energy.

Especially the secret method of forging weapons, which not only requires a long period of time of using true energy to nurture and temper the quality of the weapons, but also requires various extraordinary materials when you want to upgrade the level.

After reading this, Chen Chu's eyes became very strange.

Because the extraordinary weapons are very similar to the legendary magic weapons, and the weapon forging technique is similar to its attribute enhancement.

In other words, this secret method is of no use to him at all, but at the same time, in order to cover up the problem of strengthening the extraordinary weapons later, he must choose to exchange it in the future.

Chen Chu felt a little annoyed when he thought of this. He had not yet decided whether to choose Forging Soldiers or Hidden Gods for the free spot.

Then Chen Chu clicked on the resource option again, flipped through it, and his eyes fell on the special items.

"Sumeru wrist, low-level space equipment, made of special materials containing weak space power, with three cubic meters of stretchable and deformable void space inside."

'Exchange requires the Fourth Heaven Realm, Level II or above authority, and 500 contribution points. This item contains an identification mark and cannot be traded.'

"...Five hundred contributions." Chen Chu's eyes widened.

But considering that this thing involves space, it seems that 500 contributions, or 500,000 yuan, is not expensive, and it may even be very cheap.

If you tell those rich people that they can buy a storage space for only $500,000, they will definitely go crazy.

But five hundred contribution points... are so hard to get.

Chen Chu shook his head, went back to the options for the techniques, and found the Dragon Elephant Tyrant Body Zhenwu.

"Dragon Elephant Tyrant Body, one of the most powerful high-level skills, requires 300 contribution points to exchange, and requires level II+ or above authority."

"When the fourth level of this technique is reached, the essence and blood of dragon-like mutant creatures are used to build the foundation. When it is fully developed, it condenses into a dragon-elephant combat body, possessing a portion of the power of dragon-elephant beasts. It is extremely powerful and can sweep away everything."

"The power of a giant beast, the fighting body of a dragon and an elephant!" Chen Chu paused for a moment.

But now he has no contribution points, so he can only watch with envy.

Then Chen Chu returned to the advanced skills area, but this time he searched for advanced combat skills, and all his targets were heavy weapons.

As his physique became more and more terrifying, Chen Chu felt that the sword was too light and could not bring out his increasingly terrifying strength advantage.

In addition, the level of Mingwang Sword Technique is also limited. After breaking through the fourth level, there is no supporting combat skill that can exert stronger true power.

As for whether the straight sword with enhanced attributes will be wasted, you don’t have to worry about it, because with the sword armor beast collecting life crystals, there will not be too much shortage of attribute points in the future.

Moreover, the sword can be integrated into the new weapon at that time and inherit some of the enhanced characteristics.

However, Nantian Wugao only has nine advanced combat skills, and Chen Chu was not very satisfied with the introduction of the only one, the Thirty-Six Sword Slashes of Tyrant.

Finally, his gaze stopped on an advanced combat skill called [Eight Desolate Inferno Halberd].

The Eight Desolate Hell Halberd is heavy and sharp, and can sweep across all directions. It requires a person with natural supernatural powers to practice it. When practiced to the extreme, one can dominate all directions and cause ghosts to cry and gods to howl.

And it only takes 100 contribution points to redeem advanced combat skills, but... there are none now.

Chen Chu shook his head and clicked on the information category again. He immediately saw a lot of content that ordinary people and students were not qualified to know.

For example, every martial arts high school has the responsibility of suppressing rebellions and assisting local officials in protecting the safety of a city. Every martial arts high school teacher is a sixth-level cultivator from the front battlefield, and they are generally rotated every five years.

In addition, every first-class or second-class military high school in a city has a special light wave detection tower at its core, radiating to the surrounding areas of the city.

Especially in coastal areas, these light wave detectors can accurately detect the energy fluctuations emitted by mutant beasts above level three, lock the landing location, and respond quickly to protect the local area from being invaded by mutant beasts.

This information made Chen Chu think, is it the energy fluctuation in his body?

Compared with human practitioners, those mutant beasts are huge in size and do not know how to restrain the energy fluctuations in their bodies, so they are indeed easy to discover through this detection method.

It seems that we need to pay attention to the return of Sword Armor Beast.