We made you practice martial arts, and you've mastered the Great Golden Body?

When the enemy is poor, strike with precision; when the enemy is rich, unleash overwhelming firepower.

The Green Mountain, which had once been ravaged by the Heavenly Blade, had its peak suddenly halved, and now it was facing an even more terrifying blow—a concentrated bombardment from a high-temperature cluster ray cannon.

High-temperature cluster ray cannons kill insects and sterilize bacteria purely through physical means. Because they have the widest bombardment range and can reach terrifying temperatures of tens of thousands of degrees, they pose no radiation hazard and are also extremely cost-effective.

Therefore, it was listed as one of the most popular conventional weapons on the border of the Great Xia Dynasty.

With a barely perceptible whooshing sound, the high-temperature beam cannon struck in an instant, as if the entire sky had been torn apart, and a destructive force poured down, striking the summit of Green Mountain.

"boom!"

"Boom--!"

The attack was terrifying beyond measure. The fire demon instantly enveloped everything within a radius of dozens of miles, wantonly devouring all living things and turning everything into scorched earth.

Under these temperatures of tens of thousands of degrees, not only the lush forests nearby, but even the soil and rocks were instantly softened and melted, eventually turning into scalding lava that flowed freely and then exploded.

A scene of hell on earth.

"I remember you!"

"Shen! Bai! Lian!!!" Kronos's figure became increasingly blurry. He keenly looked in a certain direction, burning with rage.

He vaguely sensed that Shen Bailian was in that direction.

If this divine incarnation were at its peak, this high-temperature beam cannon would be no different from a piece of cardboard in front of it.

But times have changed.

Now, after all the turmoil that followed, and the fact that many more divine incarnations were split off in the search for Shen Bailian's whereabouts, the divine substance of this avatar of Kronos has been reduced to only one-tenth or one-twelfth.

Although it is possible to transmit remotely, the loss rate of divine matter at the weakest point of the Zhou Tian Star Array, which covers the entire Great Xia region, reaches an astonishing 60% to 70%.

It's like making a wedding dress for the Great Xia.

Furthermore, Kronos's mission is not yet complete. If he were to request external assistance again, the other high-ranking gods might suspect him of trying to embezzle the treasure.

Although he doesn't care, he still needs the help of other high-ranking gods to resolve this matter, so he can't completely break off relations for the time being.

Amidst a deafening roar, the towering green mountain, thousands of meters high, collapsed, and the divine avatar of Kronos was utterly reduced to ashes in this terrifying attack.

……

More than an hour later, it was getting dark.

"If my previous guess is correct, that guy's avatar should have been completely defeated by this round of artillery fire."

Shen Bailian's eyes were dark and deep, his black robes fluttering in the strong wind at high altitude. He stood with his hands behind his back, looking calmly at the scorched earth on the screen in front of him.

The high-temperature beam cannon attack that Kronos encountered earlier was naturally his doing.

To be precise, Shen Bailian used his authority to request artillery support from a mobile military base within the territory near the area where the Heavenly Medicine was born.

In the Great Xia Dynasty, martial arts prodigies are treated extremely well. During their martial arts studies, as long as they perform exceptionally well, they will not lack even the most basic cultivation resources, and relevant privileges will be automatically granted.

To better protect the safety of martial arts prodigies, almost every martial arts prodigy has this authority.

The downside is that you need to go through an application process.

If it's the first time using this permission and the target is a wilderness area within the Great Xia territory, the application process will be much slower and more complicated; if it's outside the territory, the application process can be completed in just a few minutes.

Therefore, it took Shen Bailian a full two hours to complete the entire process.

But next time it won't be so troublesome.

As for the environmental pollution problem?
That simply doesn't exist.

The primordial energy of heaven and earth is itself a powerful force with abundant vitality; otherwise, it could not have become a catalyst for ferocious beasts to become stronger, advance, and evolve.

The more abundant the primordial energy of heaven and earth in a region, the stronger its vitality.

The area where Kronos is located was originally a place where celestial medicines matured, and the concentration of the elemental energy of heaven and earth was among the best in the area within thousands of miles.

Although the concentration of elemental energy in a region will gradually reach a balance, it is not something that can be achieved in a short period of time; it will take at least a month or two.

At this time, without the influence of nuclear pollution or radiation, that area is already enough to generate new life. If not lush and green, it should at least be covered with grass and shrubs.

"This wave was really a huge loss because of the interference of that high-level divine favored one. Otherwise, with the divine matter in those ferocious beasts, we would have had at least tens of thousands of points. But at least we saved our lives." Shen Bailian felt quite fortunate.

There was a hint of resentment mixed in with the feeling of relief.

This was arguably the most painful experience Shen Bailian had ever had. If it weren't for that inexplicable Nors interfering, it wouldn't be impossible for his divine matter to surge to 10,000 points.

“However.” A memory suddenly flashed through Shen Bailian’s mind, his eyes sparkled, and he murmured excitedly, “Since the blood of that traitor last time contained divine substances, it’s impossible that the guy, an incarnation of a high-level god, wouldn’t have divine substances in his body.”

Even shortly after his resurrection, Shen Bailian drew several conclusions from the available intelligence:

First: The high-ranking god's target was him, or more accurately, not him as a person, but his innate talent. For some unknown reason, the god mistakenly believed it to be a treasure for breaking through to the life level.

Second: Eight out of ten things that high-ranking god favored him said were just to fool him. His claim of observing his past timeline was nothing but bragging.

Third: That high-ranking divine favorite is suspected of having ties to the rules of time, and currently possesses a series of time-related abilities such as time freezing, time acceleration, and exile to the future.

Next time we meet, we absolutely must not get close to each other.

Fourth: The Zhou Tian Star Array lives up to its name; it's really useful! If you can survive, try to stay within the Great Xia territory.

Fifth: Lacking a skill, a divine skill related to suicide.

Only gods can defeat gods.

When Shen Bailian was trapped in the Time Freeze Space, the functions of his divine skill, Eye of God, such as perception and understanding of divine language, remained unaffected.

Therefore, he urgently needs a fragment of divinity to DIY a divine skill that allows him to "commit suicide" quickly, effectively, and without being affected by the effects of the divine.

Only in this way can Shen Bailian's escape skills be considered truly complete.

"Fight."

"The bigger the storm, the more valuable the fish. You can get a hundred or two hundred points of divine substance from just a traitor. A divine avatar should yield at least several thousand points of divine substance, right?"

"What's more, that guy is a high-level divine favored one." Shen Bailian licked his lips, a glint of light flashing in his eyes.

It is common knowledge that taking down the rich is the fastest way to increase wealth.

Compared to those ferocious beasts, a divine avatar is not just a tycoon, it's practically a gold mine exposed on the surface, untapped. Shen Bailian thought this to himself, but unlike usual, he didn't rush over without hesitation.

Instead, it immediately swallowed a cluster of nanobombs, just like before.

Then, maintaining a cruising speed of 200 meters per second, it approached the location and then connected to more than a dozen surveillance cameras in that area to monitor the area from multiple directions and angles.

Make sure no blind spots are missed.

Courageous yet cautious – this has always been Shen Bailian's true style.

While it is said that wealth and honor are found in danger, the ability to retain wealth and honor once acquired is also a very important skill.

Therefore, Shen Bailian is now like a fisherman patiently waiting for his prey to take the bait, tense yet maintaining this posture for more than half an hour.

Only after some ferocious beasts appeared in the light screen did he dare to confirm that the high-level divine favored one had most likely given up on the divine incarnation.

"Crack! Crash! Rumble—!"

The sound was like thunder!

Amidst the deafening explosion, Shen Bailian moved with his will, his inner primal force surging forth, his speed suddenly increasing dramatically. In just a moment, his speed had reached a terrifying Mach 1.6, and it was still accelerating.

If Kong Chaowu, the current city lord of Bozhou City, were to see this scene, he would probably find it hard to believe his eyes, because this is not the speed that a martial artist who has just entered the Opening Sea Realm should have.

……

"Bang!" "Bang bang bang!"

A group of second-tier avian beasts were traversing through the sea of ​​clouds when suddenly a thunderous sound was heard. Before they could react, the bodies of several beasts exploded.

“Yin——!”

A ferocious beast roared, but the next moment it turned into a terrified howl, flapping its wings and trying to scatter.

Because in the east, from the direction where the sun rises, several terrifying blade energies swept in.

In just a moment, dozens of second-tier ferocious beasts were killed, their blood splattering across the sky, dying without a trace, leaving not even a complete body behind.

Another half day later~
Congratulations, your...

[Congratulations, your divine matter has been increased; divine matter +86]

"It's finally over." Shen Bailian glanced at the panel that had stopped displaying notification messages, then turned his attention to a severed arm in front of him.

A human arm that had lost its luster and turned completely grayish-white.

He gently clenched his fist.

Wow!
All of a sudden.

Like shattered cement blocks, chunks of grayish-white material were scattered across the obsidian-turned ground.

"The amount of divine matter I have now should be enough to upgrade my skills by several levels." Shen Bailian changed the subject, turning his attention to his own stats panel—

[Character Level: LV10 (2631/4000)] 518
Physical Strength: 22.3; Spirit: 22.5

【Eight-in-One Great Sun Visualization Method LV2 (461/900)】60
Divine Skill: Shadow Follows LV6 (3/160) (Energy Storage: 1 times)
Eye of God LV2 (678/700) 30
So close yet so far LV1 (150/300) 150
(Remaining fixed anchor points: 0/1)

Active Skill: Gale LV2 (288/1000) 20
Tian Gang Qi LV4 (183/1600) 50
Basic Knife Skill LV5 (666/1600) 43
Five Elements Breathing Method LV1 (421/1600) 25
Fishing - Tier 1 LV2 (333/400) (Trait: Guaranteed)

[Passive Skill: Iron Body LV5 (916/2000)] 301
Skill Points: 0

【Cure point: 0】

[Divine Matter: 11431]

Although only half a day has passed since the start of the battle.

However, the experience points Shen Bailian gained were already quite substantial, which was likely due to his ability to enter the state of harmony between man and nature at any time and comprehend the mysteries of the universe.

Since Shen Bailian's spiritual power entered the second-level Spirit Stream Realm, he suddenly discovered that the Eight-in-One Great Sun Visualization Method could be passively operated like a breathing technique, only with relatively low efficiency.

However, because the skill level is low, it is not difficult to gain experience points, so the experience points of the Eight-in-One Great Sun Contemplation Method increased by 60 points directly, and the experience bar is already more than half full.

Then came the divine skill, Eye of God, which increased experience points by about 30.

As for the divine skill, 【咫尺天涯】, it was because Shen Bailian directly chose an ultra-long-distance (tens of thousands of miles) teleportation, so he gained 150 experience points at once, leaving him with only half the time to level up.

Then came the various active skills. The skill Gale gained 20 experience points, and the skill Five Elements Breathing Technique gained 25 experience points.

Next came the skills Heavenly Qi and Basic Sword Technique. Because Shen Bailian could enter a state of harmony with nature at any time during battle, he gained 50 experience points for the former and 43 experience points for the latter.

Finally, there's the passive skill, "Iron Body."

Shen Bailian has always criticized this method of acquiring skill experience points, and the reason is quite simple.

Simply using the Five Elements Breathing Method, or during regular cultivation, yields pitifully little experience points. Only when one is being tortured will the rate of experience point gain accelerate.

Of all forms of torture, "death" is undoubtedly the most masochistic.

Because of Shen Bailian's spiritual power, which is as high as the second level of the Spirit Stream Realm, even if his physical functions are completely dead, his consciousness will be difficult to dissipate in a short period of time, and he will continue to live for a while.

During this period, his consciousness will be trapped in a special state of constant decline, and the excruciating pain from his body will be doubled.

With the help of various factors, Shen Bailian's character level experience points increased by more than 500 points in just half a day.

Although it's fast enough, it's still too far from the maximum experience points needed to level up each skill.

Because at this stage, the experience points required to level up all the active and passive skills used to increase physical and mental attributes are almost all over 1000.

If skills are difficult to upgrade in a short period of time, Shen Bailian's attribute value will increase at a slower rate, and his strength will naturally increase at a slower rate as well.

But now that a formidable enemy is at hand, Kronos will certainly not give up so easily. When they meet again, Shen Bailian will know perfectly well that it will be difficult for him to escape using this trick again.

After all, Kronos wasn't stupid; he wouldn't fall in the same place twice.

"If it were before, I would have been afraid, but now?" Shen Bailian ignored the golden "+" signs after each skill and instead focused his attention on the new line on the panel.

Skill Points: 0

[Introduction: The Heavenly Evolution of Forty-Nine, with one element removed, consumes 4999 points of divine matter to convert into a skill point. Skill points can be used to upgrade/advance various skills.] (End of Chapter)