Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

  Every world never lacked haughty idiots who looked down on the weaker ones. These people committed homicide as if others were ants under their feet.

  Evidently, Ling Jiu had met them today.

  He had obviously done nothing.

  He had obviously never met them before.

  He had obviously never messed with them.

  Yet, they somehow wanted to kill him!

  What were they if not idiots?

  Had it not been for my strength, I would have died for nothing today!

  Ling Jiu lamented in his mind. He hated these two people in the vehicle. They were the idiots.

  “What-What are you trying to do?”

  The middle-aged woman shivered, her face pale. “We come from the Yang family of Chang’an Base City. This lady here is Yang Yushan, the daughter of Yang’s fourth wife. The Yangs would not let you go unpunished if you dare to hurt her!”

  “The Yang family?”

  Ling Jiu burst into laughter. “What a small world! A guy with the surname Yang messed with me two days ago. And now another Yang wanted to kill me. Interesting!”

  “Who are you, really?”

  Yang Yushan turned to look at Ling Jiu.

  “What is your relationship with Yang Yuting?”

  Ling Jiu asked back without answering the question.

  “He is my elder brother!”

  Yang Yushan said coldly.

  “I see. No wonder you are a retard. It turns out that you are the younger sister of a retard!”

  Ling Jiu nodded slightly. “I am blaming you for what Yang Yuting had done to me. You are going to die today simply because you have wanted to kill me. It has nothing to do with him!”

  “Kill me? I dare you!”

  Yang Yushan’s expression changed. “If you dare to touch me—”

  Squish!

  Before Yang Yushan could finish, a rock punctured her forehead. Her pupils dilated as she looked at Ling Jiu in disbelief.

  “My-My lady! You killed the lady?” The middle-aged woman’s face pale.

  “So what if she is from the Yangs? The one I killed is you people, the Yangs! I will not hesitate to kill anyone if the Yangs dare to mess with me again!”

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  After speaking, Ling Jiu disappeared from the cabin. The maglev MPV flew forward after losing control before crashing into a mountain with a violent explosion.

  “Are I and the Yangs destined to clash? Or is it the Yangs are the hateful ones?”

  Looking at the firework of the explosion of the maglev MPV, Ling Jiu spat, “No matter what, I hate this family!”

  Ling Jiu checked the micro PC he took down from the vehicle. If he had not misheard it, Yang Yushan had mentioned something about the Snowdragon Bile.

  What was that?

  After a long while, Ling Jiu broke out in a smile.

  The Snowdragon Bile: an intermediate-level treasure of heaven and earth. Growing on high altitude terrains like this snowy mountain, it can enhance Gene Arcana. A rough estimate is that a Snowdragon Bile could enhance Gene Arcana by 5 years.

  “Five years of Gene Arcana!

  “What difference does it have from the internal strength-enhancing elixirs mentioned in the martial art novels?

  “I need to find it!

  “I must find it!”

  Ling Jiu was excited. If he could find a Snowdragon Bile, he could very well attain Level 4 in his cultivation in the shortest time.

  He quickly browsed through the photos in the micro PC and compared them with the surrounding environment to start his investigation.

  Not long after, Ling Jiu had zoomed in to the location of the Snowdragon Bile. Without wasting more time, he quickly headed toward it.

  Half an hour later, he came to a remote dead ground on the northern slope of the snowy mountain. There, he found a few feces-like black stuff.

  “Are these things the Snowdragon Biles?

  Ling Jiu squatted down, carefully examining the black ‘feces’ as he compared them with the photos on the monitor screen.

  They looked like mushrooms, black, their bodies made up of intertwining black silks. At about 1.2 inches in diameter, they looked like umbrellas. There were countless miniature scales on the surfaces, their roots as red as blood, even the rocks where they grew on also the same bloody red.

  “Everything matches perfectly!”

  “These-These are the Snowdragon Biles!”

  “One, two…… five!”

  “There are five! Five!”

  Ling Jiu’s eyes brightened up. “I am rich! I am rich this time! The price of a Snowdragon Bile is four billion dollars. There are five here, and that is 20 billion dollars!”

  “Pluck them all and get the hell out of here!”

  Ling Jiu checked what he needed to be aware of in harvesting the Snowdragon Bile. When he harvested them, he dug them out together with the rock where they grew on.

  After that, he left at once. ……

  It was nearing last light when Ling Jiu came to Linyou County 60 miles away.

  Linyou County was surrounded by mountains, which completely encircled the little county town.

  Various plants grew in the county town. As this vegetation had formed a unified area with the vegetation in the mountain, it was hard to notice Linyou County from above.

  It was said that Linyou County was the most secret place in Hua Country.

  The purpose of Ling Jiu’s coming to Linyou County was simple: Direbeast hunting.

  He had just come out for a short while and was no in a hurry to go back. As Taibai Mountain and even the area around the Qin Mountains were no longer safe, the secretive Linyou County was the most suitable place.

  “I will put up a night here. Tomorrow, I will continue to hunt the Direbeasts!”

  Ling Jiu found a shop hidden under the vegetation and used the osmium soil to seal the surroundings. After making sure that it was safe, he took out the five Snowdragon Biles.

  “A Snowdragon Bile could enhance Gene Arcana by five years. Let me take one to see how good it is.”

  Thinking of this, he chose the thickest, biggest, and blackest Snowdragon Bile and swallowed it entirely.

  One minute. Five minutes. Ten minutes. Twenty minutes had passed, yet the Snowdragon Bile had still not produced any effect.

  “Did I just eat a fake Snowdragon Bile?”

  Just when Ling Jiu was quietly in doubt, warm energy suddenly rose within him. Starting from the abdomen, it spread in all directions. His body started to heat up.

  The lower abdomen, middle abdomen, upper abdomen……

  The chest, neck, brain……

  At last, it was the legs and hands.

  At the same time, Ling Jiu felt a pure and vast amount of Gene Arcana appear in his lower abdomen and spread to his limbs.

  He was shocked and quickly performed a Feast of Taotie to absorb this pure Gene Arcanum.

  Obviously, this was the purest Gene Arcanum. It rushed into his body and combined with his own Gene Arcanum until they became one.

  Ling Jiu had lost track of time. When the process ended and he regained his consciousness, his perception felt unprecedentedly clear, his body was energized, and his legs, hands, and muscles strong, as if there was limitless energy.

  What excited Ling Jiu most was the shrinking of the Gene Arcanum to less than one-tenth before. This was not because the Gene Arcanum had reduced, but because it had liquified.

  “Liquified Gene Arcanum. I am a Level 4 Arcanist through-and-through!”

  He could feel his arcana’s radiative range had increased. He could manipulate the gravity and earth within a hundred-yard radius.

  “Liquified Gene Arcanum!”

  “One hundred yard radius of arcanum radiation!”

  “I am a Level 4 Arcanist now!”

  Ling Jiu clenched his fists to feel the unlimited energy and fully charged Gene Arcanum in his body. He was excited.

  Level 4 Arcanists were the defining line between intermediate-level and advanced-level Arcanists.

  The stronger the arcana were, the more damaging the power was. A Level 4 Arcanist could destroy an entire battalion of fully-armed army. So it was also known as the Thousand Kills.

  Yup.

  The Thousand Kills.

  “With my current level of strength, I am considered a top figure in Lantian Base City already!”

  “I suppose the company should promote me to an important post once I return.”

  Ling Jiu mumbled to himself. The arcana combine was a commercial enterprise, but it was also an arcana institution, where strength was always the priority.

  The higher the strength, the higher the position and authority. This was something no one could dispute.

  There were few Level 4 Arcanists in the Pangu Arcana Combine of Lantian Base City. A figure like Luo Jia, the general manager, was only a Level 5 Arcanist.

  Chapter 41: Crushing a Class 4 Direbeast, the Assault of the Beast Tide

  On the street filled with vegetation, thirty to forty giant wolves stepped forward as they charged furiously toward a young man.

  These giant wolves had a gray coat over their bodies, with a row of bone spurs on their backs and tails like bronze hammers. They were Class 2 Direbeasts called Hammerspike Wolves.

  “Awoooo!”

  The Hammerspike Wolves howled furiously as they charged in from all directions. They menacingly tried to rip the young man apart, be it with their fangs or claws.

  Unfortunately for them, no matter how they attacked, they could not even get close to the young man, being held back at a ten-meter radius around him.

  Flowing sand circled the young man and constantly changed into various shapes. Whenever a wolf approached, it would be sent flying by the sand.

  The young man strolled in the courtyard and walked all the way from one end of the street to the other, leaving pools of blood, as well as Hammerspike Wolf corpses, in his wake.

  Yet, the young man had never even moved his finger since the beginning, not even breaking a drop of sweat.

  “I really look like Gaara from Naruto now!”

  Gaara was a character in an anime called Naruto. He could freely control sand and change it into various forms for offense and defense. His control of sand could even be called an art.

  “After reaching Level 4, my control of the sand has been much more agile. With just a single thought, I can control the sand at will and transform it into all kinds of shapes to attack and defend!

  “So this is a Level 4 Arcanist!” Ling Jiu continued.

  Next, he expanded his Arcana’s area of control to a radius of a hundred meters. If a Direbeast were to come within a hundred meters of him, he would launch an attack.

  The plan was to train his control of his Arcana.

  After reaching Level 4, the Arcana’s radius had increased to a hundred meters around his body. With the sudden increase of seventy meters at once, his control of his Arcana would inevitably be rough around the edges.

  That meant practice!

  Only with continuous practice would he achieve precise control over his Arcana at a range of a hundred meters.

  Boom!

  Linyou County was home to a large number of Direbeasts, and they were all Ling Jiu’s training targets. He continued to provoke them, and the Direbeasts continued to attack him.

  He honed his combat ability through actual combat.

  He also honed his Arcana control through actual combat.

  Whenever he was tired, he would find a place to rest.

  Whenever he was hungry, he would simply grab something to eat.

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  Every day was busy but fruitful.

  In the blink of an eye, half a month had passed.

  “I’ve almost completely slaughtered the Direbeasts in Linyou County, and those that have not been killed have fled into the mountains. They shouldn’t be coming back for a while now!

  “Time to go home!”

  After a week of slaughter, the greenness on Ling Jiu’s face had somewhat faded as his entire person appeared more mature, especially with the murderous aura that shone in his eyes from time to time. It gave him a little more presence.

  “However, before I go back, let’s kill that old croc in Yunnu Lake!”

  As he thought of this, Ling Jiu deployed the maglev motorcycle and rushed toward the lake, west of the county. It was the only lake in Linyou County—Yunnu Lake.

  Yunnu Lake was not big, and it had been formed by the mountains. The lake was surrounded on three sides by the mountains, with many towering trees and lush vegetation growing around it. The lake water was clear and very cooling.

  Yunnu Lake was the only place that Ling Jiu had yet to visit. According to the Direbeast Radar, there was a Class 4 Direbeast in there.

  When Ling Jiu arrived at the lake, he casually swiped his hand, and a large amount of sand rose up from the lake, forming into a stone pillar.

  Ling Jiu stood on the stone pillar and locked on the Class 4 Direbeast as he attacked it.

  Baaaam!!

  Fifty square meters of Osmium Soil transformed into a giant hand as it tried to grab the Class 4 Direbeast where it was.

  There was a loud bang as the lake water splashed up high, kicking up countless waves.

  “Raawr!!!”

  A furious roar mixed with a tinge of pain rang out from the bottom of the lake as a giant crocodile over twenty meters in length emerged from the lake.

  It was covered in hard scales, and there was a row of bone spurs at the center of its back. Its two-meter-long mouth was filled with dense rows of sharp teeth. This Class 4 Direbeast was the Titan Crocodile!

  The Titan Crocodile stared at Ling Jiu, its eyes brimming with fury. It was the overlord of this lake and even the entire Linyou County. No Direbeast had dared to approach, let alone attack it without any reservations!

  His actions were literally courting death!

  “Rawr!!!”

  The Titan Crocodile roared as it thrashed and slammed its ten-meter-long tail into the stone pillar that Ling Jiu was standing on.

  As long as it could destroy the stone pillar and make Ling Jiu fall into the water, the Titan Crocodile was confident that it could swallow Ling Jiu whole. While he was not even enough to fill the gaps between its teeth, at least it could vent its anger.

  “Hehe, you must be dreaming!”

  Ling Jiu snorted and struck the Titan Crocodile before it even approached him.

  The fifty square meter’s worth of osimium soil quickly wrapped around his body, and in the blink of an eye, Ling Jiu became a thirty-meter-tall osmium giant.

  The giant was completely silver like a massive superalloy robot as it shone brightly under the sun.

  “Die!”

  The osmium giant clenched its fist and threw a punch at the charging Titan Crocodile.

  The Titan Crocodile was huge, and the water level in Yunnu Lake was not deep, so its swimming speed was not exactly fast.

  Then, the fist struck the Titan Crocodile squarely on its back!

  Dushhh!!

  The Titan Crocodile was smashed straight into the bottom of the lake as blood flowed out of its body. That strike from the fist had clearly wounded it.

  “Again!”

  The osmium giant’s hands reached out and clasped the Titan Crocodile’s neck, pulling it out of the bottom of the lake as if it was a chick.

  Ling Jiu then raised his left fist and struck the crocodile like a violent storm.

  Dush dush dush!!!

  The Titan Crocodile struggled as it swung its tail at the osmium giant.

  But…… it was useless!

  Its power was just too weak, and it could not even shake the osmium giant in the slightest. Even if the osmium soil were scattered by its thrashing, it would reform into the osmium giant again.

  A minute later, the osmium giant was still doing fine, and the Titan Crocodile’s struggle was becoming weaker and weaker. After a while, it finally stopped moving and was smashed to death.

  “Done!”

  With a wave of his hand, he stored the Titan Crocodile into his dimensional pocket and dispersed the osmium giant at the same time.

  “Even a Titan Crocodile was just bullied to death, and I haven’t even used my Shadowform, Gravity, and Blink yet. Easy peasy!”

  Ling Jiu stretched and jumped onto his maglev motorcycle. “Xiaojiu, turn on automatic navigation. Let’s head back to Lantian Base City!”

  “Yes, Master!”

  The maglev motorcycle turned into a stream of light and disappeared from Linyou County.

  It took merely half an hour to get back to Lantian Base City, but the scene outside the city shocked Ling Jiu.

  Direbeasts!

  A large number of Direbeasts had surrounded Lantian Base City!

  Their numbers were countless, at least in the tens of thousands, and there was a massive shadow floating in the sky that raised Ling Jiu’s brows up high!

  It was a flying Direbeast with a wingspan of more than sixty meters. It had massive bat wings but a rat-like body.

  There was no fur on its body. Instead, it had pieces of hard scales in place. A terrifying aura radiated from it, driving fear into everyone.