Atlas of Heaven and Man

Chen Chuan could not only utilize urban legends but also possessed some simple esoteric rituals. Because he had reference materials, given enough time and materials, he could actually create more complex ones.

However, esoteric rituals also had many drawbacks. Most of the time, they needed to be drawn in advance on the ground or on buildings. Using them to restrict combatants was almost impossible.

Even if powerful combatants didn't understand the application of biological fields, they were still very sensitive to danger and would immediately dodge if they sensed something was wrong.

Moreover, those patterns could be easily destroyed by them, so directly relying on buildings as a base for drawing was not a good idea; it was a waste of effort.

He had submitted his application for Third Threshold cultivation last month. The academy replied five days later, saying that it had entered the approval process and asked him to wait.

Then, at the beginning of October, they said that they had received confirmation from the Bureau of Handling and learned that he had signed a confidentiality agreement, so some procedures were omitted. However, they sent him another agreement document, mainly to ensure that the knowledge of Third Threshold cultivation would not be privately disseminated.

After signing this document, the knowledge of Third Threshold cultivation was immediately opened to him on the platform.

He had previously looked through it. There were materials from both the old and new eras. Most of the old era materials were free, while most of the new era cultivation methods had to be purchased, and the prices were not low, but they were within his affordability.

Even so, some knowledge was still temporarily unavailable to him, such as the methods of taking special drugs and related service items, which were all in the unsearchable category.

This was because the academy needed to have records of the government's distribution of special drugs before granting these, and they did not recognize the company's distribution records.

But it didn't matter without these. With Second Self, he didn't particularly need them.

He mainly looked at some key points and knowledge on cultivation, such as how to better refine essence blood and accumulate divine constancy.

These two were very important. Through his experience, he knew that divine constancy could be used to stabilize oneself and prevent mental deviation, while essence blood could be a stable anchor point, allowing combatants to use it to maintain their physical existence and prevent unknown changes in the body.

The new era cultivation methods were constantly summarized and optimized based on the foundations left by predecessors. It could be said to be the most efficient. Purchasing them felt very worthwhile, and he had been using these methods these days.

However, it was not to say that the old era methods had no merits. Because the drugs at that time had more impurities and came from different sources, there were many methods of identification and targeting, which paid more attention to the application skills in various extreme environments.

For example, there was one that allowed one to continue cultivating and maintain combat power even when seriously injured; there were also methods to maintain cultivation during sleep;

There were even techniques on how to use the remaining small part of the mutated tissue to maintain cultivation and unleash combat power after losing most of the limbs, which opened his eyes.

Apart from these, he focused on the method of explosive force in the Third Threshold.

The explosive force and the method of tempering explosive force at this stage were more complex and detailed. At a higher level, it also required the sharing of essence blood and divine constancy, which was far from what the First and Second Thresholds could compare to. The application skills of the Furnace Breathing Method he had previously come into contact with were like this.

This was because all combatants who reached the Third Threshold must have a high degree of mutated tissue coverage. According to the information given by the platform, the coverage rate must be at least 45% or more.

Sometimes, the coverage rate could even become a standard for measuring the strength of a Third Threshold combatant. Of course, there were too many factors to consider in a real battle, and it couldn't be determined by such a simple value, but it was enough to illustrate the important role it could play.

In order to increase the coverage rate, some Third Threshold combatants would spend a lot of effort to make up for their shortcomings, while others would use implants and illegal mutated tissue transplants.

Because he cultivated Zhou Yuan explosive force, and from the beginning, he took the path of full coverage, so he didn't need to turn back to make up lessons, and now he only needed to move forward.

In theory, he could learn most of the explosive force methods in these courses, but he didn't have the time and energy at the moment, so he only selected a few more practical ones to focus on practicing, mainly to enrich his offensive methods.

During this period, while purchasing various cultivation knowledge from the school for reference, he kept taking drugs, and his strength improved almost every day.

This was also normal, because other combatants did not have a sufficient supply of special drugs like him. Basically, they would only be issued some by the company and the government after they had made some achievements and contributions.

Because they were afraid of problems with the combatants, they would sometimes deliberately extend the interval between drug methods, unlike him, who could use them continuously.

In addition to training, he did not forget the surrounding security, trying to put his training time in the middle of the day. The manor was unlikely to be attacked during the day, because it was very convenient to observe and call for manpower. Therefore, if there was an attack, it must be at night, or in the period close to dawn.

During this period, he would be fully dressed, with guns and knives at hand, using meditation to replace sleep. As soon as there was any movement, or if he sensed something, he could react immediately.

A few more days passed, and it entered the second half of October, and most of the maple forest outside turned red.

This day, after finishing his cultivation, Chen Chuan looked at the Boundary Token, and the weather forecast said that there might be heavy fog in the Central City in the next two days.

He looked at the swaying branches outside, which were making a rushing sound like a sea wave, and the red fallen leaves were flying everywhere. He thought silently in his heart: "It's coming."

Two days later, on October 23, at four o'clock in the morning, the outskirts of Mount Mo Tie.

Gao Changge stood alone under the street lamp, looking at the empty road in front of him. The distance was obscured by a hazy mist, and even he couldn't see too far.

At this time, he heard the sound of a car engine. Bright headlights shone through the mist. First, an armed car broke through the mist. The wet car surface was painted with the logo of a security company. After that, one after another similar armed cars followed out of the mist.

The convoy slowly stopped when it came close, and the front door of a modified extended armed car opened, and a hunched man in a gray robe came out.

He was thin all over, with protruding eyes and hands that could almost hang to the ground, but even so, he was more than two meters tall. He said to Gao Changge in a hoarse voice: "Xiao Sheng, the boss is calling you."

Xiao Sheng hurried over. When he came to the car, the rear window slowly moved down, and a man in his forties with a slicked-back hair was sitting there.

He had a cane in his hand, wearing a high-necked imported dress, his lips were very thin and had no blood color. There was a snake-shaped pendant hanging on his left ear, but when his eyes glanced over, there was always a feeling of staring straight at people, which was very creepy.

Even though Xiao Sheng had faced it many times, he still felt a palpitation in his heart. He quickly lowered his head and said respectfully: "Boss."

The middle-aged man said: "Is everything ready?"

Xiao Sheng said: "There is a small problem. These days, I have been trying to send a contact signal every day, but there has been no response until now. My judgment is that the people arranged by the employer are likely to have been purged.

Even if our resonators can break through the outer field blockade, there is still no way to deal with the inner defense in a short period of time, so we can't expect to solve these from the inside."

The middle-aged man didn't seem to be bothered by this, and said: "Then use the field to shield the creatures."

Xiao Sheng said: "It's just that the biological field of Mount Mo Tie is relatively strong, so if we use this method, we will only have about half an hour to three quarters of an hour of raid time. This includes our retreat time, and the actual time given to us may only be fifteen to twenty minutes, but if you give me a few more days to prepare..."

The middle-aged man interrupted him and said: "The employer is urging very tightly, there is no time to wait any longer, and this weather is most suitable for action, so do it according to your plan. You have never let me down in previous actions."

Xiao Sheng said solemnly: "Yes, boss."

"Get in the car."

Xiao Sheng immediately ran to the car behind. After sitting inside, he looked back and saw that everyone had taken off their Boundary Tokens according to the plan, and he felt a little relieved.

The convoy set off again and drove into the Mo Tie Mountain Manor. They were not blocked when entering the defense zone, because they had become temporary householders of a house in Mo Tie Mountain through a series of operations, and obtained the right of passage here. Otherwise, there was no way to enter the Mo Tie Mountain residential area so openly.

At first, there was no problem for a while, but when they were driving towards the Meng Family Manor, two patrol cars drove over and issued a communication link:

"The convoy in front, according to the night driving safety regulations, please stop and show your household information and your destination at this moment."

The convoy did not continue to move forward, but slowly stopped one after another.

Two patrol cars drove up. One of them leaned forward, and the other stopped far behind, with their hands on the positions where it was convenient to draw guns, and also pressed on the position of the Boundary Token alarm. As soon as they found something wrong, they would immediately send out an alarm, and the security system of Mo Tie Mountain would immediately operate.

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