Swallowed Star

by Alexander Buchanez

  So only people like Wei Tie, Wei Qing, and Chen Gu who haven't been able to increase their skill by the slightest amount of a long period of time, and those who have no confidence in doing so in the future, are willing to use the genetic medicine.

  And for people like Luo Feng?

  Someone with virtually infinite potential using the genetic medicine is something an idiot would do.

  "The second way is pretty good. Once you do it, your strength can multiply by many times! Not only does it have no side effects, but it can also speed up your training" Luo Feng looked at the second way and could only shake his head in vain, "Sadly, this method costs too much". The second way is by spreading dragon blood all over your body and letting your body absorb it to become stronger!

  However, the requirements for the dragon blood is extremely high. First, it must be an emperor level dragon!

  Next, it has to be blood from the dragon's heart. After killing an emperor level dragon, only one portion of 'dragon blood' can be made.

  How many emperor level monsters are on earth?

  And how many of those monsters are dragons?

  One can imagine how expensive this 'dragon blood' is!

  "One portion of 'dragon blood', using the Dojo of Limits' half price, reaches 80 billion! And the half price requirement is a four star contribution rank" Luo Feng could only stare. This is like the legendary ultimate medicine: after using it, your strength will soar without any side effects and your training speed will increase! How great is that!

  Sadly, how many people can afford to buy this?

  "The third way? Train bitterly!" Luo Feng shook his head. The only thing he could do was train honestly and bitterly, which is also the path that most fighters take.

  "With my training speed"

  "My body fitness level should be able to reach the intermediate level warlord level in half a year!"

  "After I reach the intermediate warlord level, my body fitness level should be able to reach the advanced level warlord level in a year"

  Luo Feng nodded: "In other words, with my spiritual force, I'll be able to reach the 'intermediate wargod level' and be able to defeat others of the same rank. I can also challenge advanced level wargods! In three years, with my spiritual force, I'll be able to reach the 'advanced level wargod level', making me virtually invincible against other advanced level wargods! When that time comes, will I still be afraid of Vulture and Scorpion? Two throwing knives will be enough to get rid of them"

  Of courseһһһһһһhe's thinking extremely positively. There's a huge prerequisite to all of this!

  Which is his dark, golden ball has to be able to supply enough spiritual force for him to reach the 'advanced level wargod level'. If, while training, the dark golden ball disappears...

  Then his rapid growth stage ends!

  Every spirit reader has a 'rapid growth stage' which relies on absorbing the spiritual force they were born with. Once they finish absorbing it, their rapid growth stage will end!

  "The existence of the dark, golden ball allows me to train extremely quickly! Hopefully my rapid growth stage will last until I reach the 'advanced level wargod level' with my spiritual force" Luo Feng thought to himself expectantly. An advanced level wargod level spirit reader..... for existences below the wargod level, they are the most horrifying existence.

  And his dark, golden ball.....

  How long can it last until it's used up?

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  I updated my note at vol. 5, ch. 2 because I was wrong again. feel free to check it out. if you don't want to, basic summary: zhu ge tao is one of the three chiefs below the actual chairman.

  Chapter 104: Astonished Envoy

  Nobody knows when the dark, golden ball in his conscience will be used up, so Luo Feng didn't think any further on that matter.

  March 1st.

  Thursday, the day the fire hammer squad departs.

  First floor of the HR alliance market, the five members of the fire hammer squad were gathered together.

  "Crazy, what're you looking at? Disappointed that lady Xu Xin isn't here?" joked Wei Tie. Luo Feng didn't mention that he already called Xu Xin last night and that he ate lunch and chatted with her for an extremely long time during New Years.

  Luo Feng had a crush on Xu Xin, and Xu Xin liked Luo Feng too.

  However, none of them said anything about that.

  Xu Xin was still in school. She's also from the extremely powerful Xu family, so she can't get into a relationship that easily.

  As for Luo Feng himself, because of Vulture and Scorpion, the astronomical bounty will keep on going. The shapeless pressure brought by the bounty stares at Luo Feng for every second of the day.

  An occasional phone call, an occasional date.

  That's good enough.

  "Alright, let's go" captain Gao Feng stood up.

  "Haha, my body's starting to rust after New Years, let's go" laughed Wei Qing. After that, Wei Tie, Chen Gu, and Luo Feng all stood up, and the five members of the fire hammer squad rode the HR alliance's private car towards the train station. After riding the train, they arrived at the south east military resupplying base.

  Wilderness, #023 city.

  Luo Feng stole a dragon egg last time, and the steel armored dragon's territory is near the highway and around the country area.

  If Luo Feng follows the normal route towards #023 city, he might get caught by the steel armored dragon! After stealing its dragon egg, Luo Feng didn't dare to accept the steel armored dragon's fury! In the yard of a ruined, old building, Luo Feng and Gao Feng were attacking a cast steel armor-like gigantic bull. Its body was completely fiery red and white streams blew out from its nostrils as it crazily attacked the human it hated the most һһLike a fly, this young human was always by its side.

  This cow type monster was indeed the 'steel armored bull' which possessed extraordinary defense. With its armor, this steel armored bull easily placed into the 'medium level commander level'.

  The two high level soldier level steel armored bulls that were with it were taken care of by Wei Tie and Wei Qing.

  Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Luo Feng's light steps were as swift as lightning, as if he was a gladiator from the times before the Grand Nirvana period that was playing with his target! There were numerous wounds on the steel armored bull but, sadly, they didn't have much of an effect on it.

  "PUCHI!"

  A cold light flashed like lightning.

  Fresh blood shot up as half of the ghost blade directly sank into the steel armored bull's neck. After pulling out the blade at the speed of lightning, Luo Feng dashed away!

  "PENG~"

  The steel armored bull let out an unsatisfied roar. Since its throat has been sliced apart, the roar was weak and sounded like the bull was out of air. After that, the gigantic body fell to the ground, causing the entire ground to shake. The ground that was full of dust and blood directly shook apart, forming a crack.

  "Beautiful" praised Gao Feng.

  "Crazy, your technique is getting better and better" Wei Qing also couldn't help but to praise.

  Luo Feng himself was clear. When he was surrounded at the 'family mart' in the steel armored dragon's nest and dashed out of the group of several hundred commander level monsters, Luo Feng temporarily grasped the 'perfect level' technique for a few short seconds. After that, for the two months he was home...

  He frequently used the 'reaction speed testing machine' at the Limit Hall to train his technique.

  The classifications for technique: һһ'Basic level'һһ'Intermediate level*', һһ'Perfect level', 'Conception level'.

  Indeed, Luo Feng has grasped a bit of the perfect level in his two months of bitter training.

  "Everyone's tired now right? We received quite a bit today, so let's go back to the resupplying base to rest" said Gao Feng as he dissected the corpse of the steel armored bull for materials. Wei Tie, Wei Qing, and Chen Gu all replied: "Go, let's go back"

  "Captain, you guys go back first"
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br />   "I'm going to go find some more monsters and practice my technique. I'll come find you guys later" smiled Luo Feng as he said.

  "The young sure are energetic" laughed Gao Feng, Chen Gu, and the others. Luo Feng was like this the past few days too. When the other members became tired and wanted to rest, Luo Feng went out alone to hunt more monsters. However, everyone knew about Luo Feng's strength, so they didn't stop him.

  Gao Feng and the others left, leaving only Luo Feng behind.

  ���

  The sky was dark.

  Luo Feng held his blade in one hand and his shield in the other as he passed through the alleys of #023 city all alone. Sometimes he would fight against powerful commander level monsters, and sometimes he would face off against monster hordes! #023 city was originally Suzhou. Many of the buildings here were oriental style buildings. Sadly, this place has become an amusement park for the monsters.

  "Pu! Chi! Fresh blood flew everywhere! Limbs of the monsters were being tossed around! Luo Feng unleashed the third stage of the��Nine Stage Thunder Blade�� over and over again as he continued to challenge his limits. He rushed into groups of monsters and fought in there! Within a monster horde, Luo Feng would continuously push his technique to the limits and attempt to use the other monsters and the surrounding environment to assist himself.

  After a very long time.....

  Three hours after Gao Feng and the others left to rest, Luo Feng dragged his tired body to a small river and cleaned his battle uniform set as he prepared to return. In a short three hours, hundreds of monsters died to Luo Feng's hand. However, the reproduction rate of the monsters was also extremely high.

  Even if Luo Feng doesn't kill them, the monsters would kill the weaker ones for food.

  The structure of the battle uniform was extremely tight, so nothing could seep inside and no needle-like attacks could get through. A quick rinse is all that is needed to wash off the monster blood on it.

  ���

  On the sixth floor of a six story residential apartment was where the fire hammer squad was staying.

  "Back?" Gao Feng and the others looked at the door as Luo Feng walked through.

  "Uh, I killed eight commander level monsters" Luo Feng took out the materials of eight commander level monsters and put them on the floor, "I'll go train my genetic energy for a bit, and then I'll come eat dinner". Unlike others, Luo Feng hunts so many commanders that his bag can't hold all the materials.

  Chen Gu persuaded: "Luo Feng, don't push yourself too hard; relax a bit"

  "Yea, what's the point of trying so hard and making yourself this tired" Gao Feng also persuaded.

  Of course, if Luo Feng pushes himself, the entire squad benefits. Even though most of the materials that Luo Feng gets in his solo hunts goes to him, the other people still receive a share too.

  "Haha, this much is nothing" Luo Feng laughed as he went into another room.

  In the empty room. The floor has long been cleaned by Luo Feng.

  After putting down his shield, backpack, blade, and throwing knives, Luo Feng started training his Dao Yin technique.

  "Feels good"

  "My body starts to shake when I train my Dao Yin technique when my body is extremely tired". Luo Feng was extremely happy. Why is it that your training speed increases when you get further in the��Nine Stage Thunder Blade��? Because the��Nine Stage Thunder Blade�� makes you use even more of your body's power.

  So much power that it starts to affect the cells! The more energy your cells use, the hungrier they become. The hungrier they become, the more energy they can absorb. This is why they can absorb so much genetic energy!

  "Why do fighters always say that your strength increases quickly when fighting on the border of life and death?"

  "Because, when fighting on the border of life and death, you subconsciously dig out every ounce of strength in your body"

  "Using all of this energy enables you to absorb even more energy when training your genetic energy technique" Luo Feng easily deduced the reasons. Compare one person swinging his blade with all his might at home and another person swinging his blade as he kills monsters in the wilderness.

  Both of them are swinging their blade! However, the person in the wilderness is able to bring out more of his energy, and therefore uses more energy. This increases his training speed!

  "Clearly, I've been improving around 30% faster here in the wilderness than at home!" Luo Feng could estimate his training speed via keeping track of how much time he takes to absorb genetic energy every day.

  With this, Luo Feng killed monsters all day in the wilderness. Every day, he was covered in blood, as if he just came out of a sea of blood.

  And his technique, blade technique, and body fitness level steadily rose thanks to this crazy training style.

  Killing crazily like this changed Luo Feng's aura by quite a bit.

  What kind of truly powerful fighter hasn't been through this kind of slaughtering?

  Luo Feng himself is just steadily advancing on this path.

  ���

  Jiang-Nan city, top of Jiang-Nan city's Dojo of Limits headquarters.

  Inside a huge audiovisual room.

  "Judging from these materials, this Luo Feng is quite talented, and he works quite hard too. In two months, he killed over 10,000 soldier level monsters? Sure is bitter. Indeed, he earned that 'beginner level warlord' strength through his own efforts" the envoy from the headquarters, wargod Yang Hui, looked at the neatly printed data in front of him.

  "Steel hand, did you get that Wu Tong ready?" asked Yang Hui.

  "Wu Tong is online right now. He's ready to chat with you online any time" said chairman Zhou Zheng Yong as he smiled.

  Yang Hui nodded and quickly activated the 3D hologram projector.

  A dreamy light quickly appeared in the middle of the audiovisual room, forming a 3D hologram. The chief instructor of Yang-Zhou city's Limit Hall, 'Wu Tong', directly appeared, as if he was actually personally there. The only difference between an actual person was that a bit of light could be seen on the surface of the body.

  "Wu Tong greets the chairman and envoy" bowed Wu Tong.

  "Okay" nodded wargod Yang Hui, "I'm sure you know why I've looked for you. You're the chief instructor of Yang-Zhou city's Limit Hall, and that Luo Feng lives in Ming-Yue sector. You're quite familiar with him, right?"

  "Yes" nodded Wu Tong.

  "Tell me about his body fitness level and his current skill level" commanded Yang Hui.

  "Yes" a proud smile appeared on Wu Tong's face, "Luo Feng is one of the geniuses that appeared in Yang-Zhou city in the last decade. He just turned 19 after New Years. Even though he became a fighter only half a year ago, as of now, his fist strength is 10,000 kg and his speed is 129 m/s. I'm not too sure about his reaction speed, but I know that half a month ago he passed the 'intermediate level warlord test'!"

  "Also, I know that he's training the��Nine Stage Thunder Blade��technique and, over New Years, has reached the third stage of the��Nine Stage Thunder Blade��. In other words, he reached the third stage in half a year"

  Wu Tong slightly bowed: "This is some of the important data I know"

  "Third stage of the��Nine Stage Thunder Blade��?"

  The face of wargod Yang Hui, which was very calm before, quickly changed.

  "Are you sure?" Yang Hui couldn't help but to ask.

  "I am sure. I saw him throw a punch with all his strength which reached nearly 30,000 kg with my own eye" said Wu Tong with certainty.

  Wargod Yang Hui and chairman Zhou Zheng Yong exchanged glances.

  "The decision of the higher ups is probably going to change" laughed Zhou Zheng Yong.

  But Yang Hui was looking at Wu Tong: "Where is Luo Feng right now, I want to meet him personally!"

  Chapter 105: A Spot

  Wu Tong slightly bowed as he answered as a 3D hologram: "Envoy, Luo Feng already left with his fire hammer squad members on Mar
ch 1st. As of now, they are still in the wilderness and haven't returned to the headquarter city yet"

  "March 1st?"

  The two great wargods, Yang Hui and Zhou Zheng Yong, couldn't help but to exchange glances as they started to laugh.

  Yang Hui couldn't help but to laugh as he scolded: "When I arrived at Jiang-Nan city, this Luo Feng hasn't even went to the wilderness yet. It's all because of you, steel hand. If it weren't for you trying to drag me to the....." as he said that, he suddenly stopped and then waved towards Wu Tong: "Alright, you're done here"

  "Yes, chairman, envoy" Wu Tong slightly bowed.

  Chichi~~ the dreamy light scattered and the 3D hologram disappeared.

  "Man, that was nearly a slip of the tongue. If this Wu Tong heard that, he would laugh at us for sure" Steel hand Zhou Zheng Yong's expression slowly became serious, "Okay, let's not talk about that anymore. Let's talk about Luo Feng"

  "About what that Wu Tong just said, he wasn't lying about anything right?" frowned wargod Yang Hui.

  "100% truth for sure" said Zhou Zheng Yong with confidence, "This Wu Tong knows what he's doing. Furthermore, if he dares to lie, I can check his facts myself when I get back..... with this, how would he lie?"

  "Okay" wargod Yang Hui slightly nodded, "I understand. However, I really don't believe that a little kid who just turned 19 has a body fitness level equivalent to a 'beginner level wargod' and managed to reach the third stage of the��Nine Stage Thunder Blade�� in just half a year..... rare, really rare indeed. Looks like we'll have to contact the higher ups"

  Zhou Zheng Yong also nodded: "The special training, for this Luo Feng, isn't too suitable. He might just barely have the rights to enter the��Wargod Preparation Camp��.

  The legendary.....

  The Dojo of Limits has two large training camps. One of them is the "basics training camp" while the other is the "elite training camp". In the basics training camp, genius fighters are picked from all over the world. After signing the contract, they enter this training camp and accept the best training!