Swallowing the Stars: Eternal Glory

Chapter 22: Return Home
Time passed, and a month and a half later.

October 13, 2060, early morning.

In a dilapidated park in City 003, Lu Jin is engaged in a fierce battle with a golden python that is over forty meters long and whose level is barely at the mid-level lord.

The Golden Python, covered in golden scales, ranks among the top three python-type monsters thanks to its sturdy scales and immense strength.

"Whoosh!" "Whoosh!" "Whoosh!"

As he nimbly darted around, Lu Jin dodged the golden python's headbutts and whip tails, his Broken Army Sword occasionally slashing out, leaving sword wounds that pierced its massive body.

However, the golden python's scales were extremely tough, and after shattering them, Lu Jin's sword lost its power.

In addition, the golden python is huge, with a waist thicker than a large water tank, and it guards its vital parts tightly.

This resulted in the golden python having many sword wounds, but none of them posing a fatal threat.

Suddenly, in the midst of the battle, Lu Jin had a flash of inspiration, and his speed increased dramatically.

"puff!"

With a flash of sword light, the sharp blade of the Breaking Army Battle Sword instantly pierced through the golden scales of the Golden Python, which seemed to be cast in gold, and penetrated most of the sword's body.

"Bah-"

Immediately afterwards, Lu Jin gripped the sword hilt tightly, shifted his body to the side, dodging the huge snake tail that was howling as it lashed out, and at the same time left a wound about two meters long on the golden python's waist, extending half a meter below its scales.

"Roar!"

Wounded by this attack, the golden python's rage was completely ignited. It opened its blood-red maw and charged towards Lu Jin, accompanied by a strong, foul stench.

They wanted to swallow Lu Jin, who was less than two meters tall, whole.

"Humph!"

With a stomp of his foot, Lu Jin's physical strength tripled, and his power and speed surged. He dodged the oncoming snake's mouth and instead of retreating, he advanced, flipping over and leaping onto the enormous python's head.

"puff!"

A flash of sword light, scales shattered, and the blade pierced the golden python's head.

Immediately, Lu Jin lowered his body, took the sword that was stuck in the head of the golden python, and rushed out along the python's body.

"呲-"

The sword, carrying terrifying force, sliced ​​through the scales, flesh, and bones that blocked its path with unparalleled smoothness.

In an instant, a huge wound, more than half a meter deep, appeared on the golden python's massive body, extending from its head to its waist for more than ten meters.

"Wow!"

The next moment, crimson python blood shot into the sky like a fountain, almost splashing Lu Jin, who had jumped off the python's back, all over.

"Roar!"

An unprecedented pain swept through his entire body, and the golden python struggled violently.

But the more fiercely the golden python struggled, the faster its blood gushed out.

Not long after, the golden python lying in the pool of blood flashed with a pale golden light, leaving behind a pale golden ball of light before disappearing.

A portion of his consciousness sank into the external space to explore, and upon touching it, the ball of light transformed into a bottle of apprentice-level life essence.

'Not bad! Not only did it break through with physical strength, but it also released Life Essence Liquid. What a sly snake!'

Lu Jin nodded in satisfaction and gave the golden python lying in a pool of blood a good snake card.

During this solo hunt in the wilderness, the drop rate of Life Elixir was decent at the beginning.

Killing monsters all night and obtaining one or two vials of Life Elixir is no problem; there have even been times when one obtained more in a single night. However, as one's strength increases, such good fortune ceases to exist.

Especially after a martial artist reaches the advanced level of a high-level warrior and their mental power reaches the intermediate level of a war god, even a whole night of work may not yield a single drop of life essence.

There's no other reason; the higher the rank of a monster, the rarer its number.

For example, the drop rate of hunting monsters of the same level is 1. Back when he was a high-level warrior, he only needed to hunt high-level beast soldiers to maintain this drop rate.

However, if you're at the advanced warrior stage, you'd need to hunt down high-level beast generals to maintain a drop rate of 1.

But in the wilderness, how can the number of high-ranking beast generals compare to the number of high-ranking beast soldiers?

Not to mention ordinary wilderness areas, even in City 003, the number of high-level beast soldiers is at least a hundred times that of high-level beast generals and monsters.

Slow down your level to fight monsters, accumulate enough Life Elixir, and then soar to the sky?
Theoretically it's possible, but in reality it's not.

Anything could happen tomorrow. In this world where monsters are rampant, he must become a strongman as soon as possible.

To avoid being slapped to death by a powerful person who might dislike you someday.

Furthermore, after the rank is increased, the efficiency of obtaining Life Elixir by hunting is reduced because the proportion of high-level monsters decreases significantly.

However, the improvement gained from cultivating genetic energy on one's own every day can be increased as one's rank increases.

From many perspectives, suppressing one's level to fight monsters does more harm than good and is not advisable.

Of course, even if the drop rate of Life Elixir is reduced, his strength will still increase rapidly.

According to calculations, even without the new life essence liquid he obtained in the external space, his punching power should have reached the standard of a beginner-level War God Warrior.

In terms of mental power, he can even reach the minimum level of a high-level war god.

It's a pity that, due to the lack of a spiritual master's manual as guidance and the short period of cultivation, it was not possible to achieve its goals.

His psychic power amplitude tripled half a month ago, but there has been no further breakthrough, which has seriously lowered the average level of psychic power amplitude among advanced war god psychic masters worldwide.

'It's necessary to create a manual for spiritual masters.'

Lu Jin thought to himself.

After collecting all the monster materials from the Golden Python, Lu Jin embarked on his journey home.

Lu Jin originally planned to become an intermediate-level War God warrior and reach the peak of the advanced War God level in terms of mental power.

Then, using the planetary-level life essence in the external space, he became a first-tier planetary mentalist, ranking among the top in the world before returning.

But a phone call from the old man three days ago made him change his original plans at the last minute.

Just last month on the 15th, my cousin Xu Xin gave birth to twins, and Luo Feng officially became a father.

He didn't need to go on the day Xu Xin gave birth.

His aunt and cousin-in-law, representing his cousin Lu Miaoyun's family, were enough to visit him.

However, on the 15th of this month, which is only two days later, the Luo family will hold a full moon celebration for the twins Luo Ping and Luo Hai. As a relative of the same generation as Xu Xin who is within five degrees of kinship, he should participate.

Since there was nothing urgent to do, and Zhi Jin was thinking of getting some benefits from Luo Feng, he didn't refuse.

Although Luo Feng's human clone had not yet been formed, he was still able to learn about the situation outside the world through the intelligent life form Babata.

If done properly, obtaining a basic manual for mentalists that can enhance the amplitude of mental power from Luo Feng should not be a problem.

With a proper mental cultivation manual as a guide, there's no need to blindly explore ways to increase the amplitude of mental power later on, which will definitely make the improvement much faster.

(End of this chapter)