Vientiane Throne of Civilization

Chapter 2018 Totem Warrior Flying Claw
At this moment, the grappling hook stretched its muscles and roared to the sky. It had never felt so exhilarated!

The totem patterns on his body shone brightly, and stimulated by the power of the totems, his body moved involuntarily.

Although their gnoll tribe had not been able to gather enough materials to concoct the totem potion, they still had an ancestral 'gnoll battle aura' for them to practice.

To put it simply, it's a method for cultivating true qi. Previously, their Great Zhou had obtained a 'Black Panther Battle Qi' from Peter. Now it seems that the cultivation method of this battle qi is most likely related to the orc tribes.

Orcs and humans are both humanoid, and their body structures are at least 70% to 80% similar, which makes their techniques somewhat interchangeable.

Of course, the effect of humans practicing orc techniques and orcs practicing human techniques will definitely not be optimal. It is estimated that they will only achieve about 70% or 80% of the effect, which is a level that can be used as a last resort.

After studying the matter and noticing this, Jie Liancheng instructed the jackal soldiers, led by Flying Claw, to continue cultivating their jackal battle qi.

At this moment, in the training field, the grappling hook was being practiced faster and faster, and the light from the totem patterns on its body was getting brighter and brighter, until it was completely illuminated!
At that moment, a layer of flowing light appeared on the surface of the claw.

"That's... a protective aura shield?! He's broken through to the Vajra Realm?!"

Upon noticing this, the leading lizardman officer couldn't help but exclaim in surprise, his tone tinged with undisguised envy.

With the development of the times, the Hundred Refinement Realm is no longer anything special in their Great Zhou.

The key is whether or not one can take that crucial step and break through to the Vajra Realm.

He himself had reached the peak of the Hundred Refinements Realm for some time, but he was still unable to break through.

Having witnessed the breakthrough of the grappling hook, I couldn't help but feel incredibly envious.

In fact, anyone who knows about the Flying Claw's situation would know that his breakthrough to the Vajra Realm is perfectly normal.

The grappling hook itself is a powerful general with four stars in bravery and three stars in endurance.

Previously, his strength was only at the Bronze Level 1 of the Hundred Refinements Realm because his jackal tribe was indeed in a very bad state. Orcs naturally have a large appetite, but Flying Claw was always hungry and malnourished.

Insufficient nutrition is the reason why strength cannot be improved.

Under these circumstances, the fact that he was able to cultivate to the Bronze Level 1 of the Hundred Refinements Realm by relying on the 'Jackal Battle Qi' is enough to show his outstanding talent.

After joining the Great Zhou, there was absolutely no need to worry about daily meals.

With proper nutrition, the grappling hook's strength began to improve rapidly, reaching the Bronze Three-Star level of the Hundred Refinements Realm in a short period of time.

During this process, with its abundant food and clothing, Flying Claw's loyalty to the Great Zhou Dynasty grew stronger, allowing it to successfully obtain the blessing effect of Zhou Xu's 'Evolutionary Leader'.

The higher the loyalty, the greater the blessing effect, which invisibly gives him a helping hand.

In addition, he has worked hard to cultivate over the past few years, and his strength has long since reached the peak of the Hundred Refinements Realm.

Now that he has drunk the totem potion and activated the totem's power, it has given him a powerful push, propelling him into the Vajra Realm!
The relevant information was quickly delivered to Zhou Xu.

For the Great Zhou at this stage, a Vajra Realm Silver One-Star warrior is no longer considered a significant combat force, but it is still good news.

Not to mention that the Flying Claw has the potential to be cultivated to the peak of the Vajra Realm and then to break through to the Vertical and Horizontal Realm.

During this process, the fact that Flying Claw drank the totem potion and broke through the bottleneck while activating the totem's power also gave Zhou Xu some inspiration. In fact, there are quite a few similar cases, such as Sion breaking through the bottleneck of his class recently.

Essentially, the principle is the same; to put it bluntly, it requires a sufficiently strong external stimulus.

If someone's abilities have already reached a bottleneck, and they are forcibly pushed to a higher level, the original bottleneck will be broken, and then they will naturally break through.

In other words, one can first cultivate to the limit, and then seek external help such as a class rank or totem potions to obtain a breakthrough opportunity.

Conversely, if one obtains a class rank or drinks a totem potion before reaching their cultivation limit and while there is still ample room for improvement, their strength will rapidly increase in a short period of time. This at most only improves cultivation efficiency...

Following Zhou Xu's line of thinking, it's definitely not as worthwhile as breaking through the bottleneck.

However, judging from the previous battles with the orc tribes, those orcs clearly didn't have this awareness. They probably drank the potions as soon as they were available, and didn't save them to break through the bottleneck.

In Zhou Xu's view, this was somewhat short-sighted.

However, Zhou Xu was unaware that there were orc tribes among orc tribes.

Orc tribes believe in a dog-eat-dog world where the strong are respected.

For orcs, the most important thing is to improve their strength as quickly as possible; they don't have the energy to make long-term plans.

After obtaining the totem potion, you can keep it to break through your bottleneck.

It's very possible that you'll be killed by other orcs before you even reach your bottleneck, and they'll even steal your totem potion.

Don't think that you can just drink totem potions to boost your strength when you're actually attacked.

Because in reality, after drinking the totem potion, as the drug's effects spread and activate the totem power contained in your blood, you will experience excruciating pain that renders you powerless to resist, causing you to die even faster.

However, this situation does not exist in their Great Zhou.

Following this line of thought, the remaining jackals were no longer in a hurry to drink the totem potion; they all focused on cultivating first.

In any case, at this stage, their Great Zhou is not lacking in the fighting force of the jackals.

What they value in training these troops with cultivation abilities is their potential; whether or not they can actually form an army is not important.

To put it bluntly, he had already made a profit by having Flying Claw, a Vajra Realm expert, emerge from this group of jackals.

If he can cultivate the Flying Claw to the Transcendent Realm, he will make an even bigger profit!
After all, the value of a high-level martial arts clan lies not in its army, but in the top-tier combat power of a single individual who can form an army!

It's not just about advanced weaponry; even in the technology sector, as technology advances and equipment becomes more expensive, the military becomes increasingly streamlined.

As technology advances, bombers or rockets will be used for bombing, so why would a large army be needed?

The idea of ​​needing tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, of people to fight with real weapons is from the era of cold weapons; that approach is outdated.

(End of this chapter)