Swallowing the Starry Sky: Qin Feng

kill!

With a roar, Qin Feng charged into the horde of beasts, unleashing his perfect movement technique. Taking advantage of the monsters' massive size, he maneuvered and shifted, allowing him to face only a small number of monsters at a time, his battle blade transforming into a deadly weapon.

These monsters, whose highest level is only high-ranking beast generals, are one rank higher than me, but they don't have any secret techniques for exerting power; they fight purely by brute force.

And Qin Feng? With four times the power, four times the speed, and four times the defense, he could cut them down like butter; a touch would mean certain death, and a mere graze would cause serious injury.

Boom!

Awoo!

After killing for an unknown amount of time, Qin Feng found himself surrounded by corpses, with nowhere left to stand. Yet, the horde of beasts surrounding him remained frenzied, charging forward relentlessly as if unafraid of fear, killing one wave only to be followed by another.

The mountain of corpses beneath his feet grew ever higher, but for him, who had already reached the perfect level of movement technique, no matter what the surrounding environment was, he could perfectly integrate it into his battle.

These minor issues had no impact on his killing speed.

With his mind highly focused and completely immersed in the killing, Qin Feng wielded his longsword with no fancy moves, only the simplest sword techniques that went straight for the weak points.

Every swing of the sword is solely for killing; it is fierce, concise, and efficient.

Without any unnecessary movements, it seemed to have transformed into a machine that only knew how to kill.

All moves became instinctive; often, before the mind could even process them, the sword in hand had already been slashed out subconsciously.

But I'm really tired.

How long has it been since I've felt this tired? It's even more intense than when I faced the beast tide last time.

Last time, I had teammates and a large number of martial artists around me. Although it was dangerous, I still had time to catch my breath.

This was the first time he had faced a horde of beasts of this size all by himself.

Keep going. With fewer and fewer monsters around, you'll be almost there. You'll soon be able to break through.

kill!

With a roar, Qin Feng squeezed out his remaining strength, and his speed and power surged again.

His aura was fierce and violent, as if he were the monster that devoured people.

Finally, as the first monster turned and ran away, the rest also began to retreat slowly, and after reaching a safe distance, they turned and ran away as well.

Only Qin Feng remained, leaning on his long sword atop the mountain of corpses. Already covered in blood, he was now completely soaked; his combat uniform was so wet it could be wrung out several kilograms of blood.

Only when no more monsters could be seen around him did Qin Feng, who had been on edge the whole time, finally exhale a heavy breath. His body, which had been pushed to its limits, could no longer hold on and he collapsed.

I'm exhausted, I almost couldn't hold on and had to hide in my world ring.

Hahaha

I guess I'm showing some signs of genius?

Look at the martial artists who participated in the Genius Battle in the original work. Which one of them didn't kill his peers as easily as cutting melons and vegetables?

Especially when venturing into the Trial Tower, they weren't afraid of facing thousands of opponents.

I still have a long way to go, but today I've taken a solid step forward.

Looking back on today's experience, it was really quite unlucky.

Fortunately, I reacted quickly enough and took down the lord-level monster first. Although the method was a bit old-fashioned, if I had been surrounded and exhausted, I definitely wouldn't have been able to defeat the lord-level monster.

After catching his breath, Qin Feng got up and walked down the mountain of corpses. He selected several of the strongest high-level beasts and put their corpses into his world ring. He scanned the surrounding buildings and found one without any monsters and went inside.

He desperately needs to rest now, otherwise, if he continues to travel in his current state, monsters several kilometers away will be able to smell the blood on him.

Moreover, now that my body has broken through its limits, it is the best time to cultivate.

Martial artists cultivate at their fastest speed when they break through their limits.

I chose a room that was reasonably nice, went in, closed the doors and windows, and then flashed into the world ring. It was the same square, where the supplies I had bought before and the monster corpses I had just acquired were lying quietly.

Qin Feng looked at the manor with its gates tightly closed and was speechless. He had bought all the supplies without sorting them out properly, and now the monster corpses were just left on the square after being brought in. Couldn't the person who created this ring have set the entry point in the manor?

Forget it, cultivation is the most important thing now. He took off his combat uniform, which was already soaked with blood, and threw it aside. He sat down cross-legged naked and began to practice the guiding technique.

In an instant, the omnipresent cosmic energy rushed into the exhausted body. All the cells and mitochondria seemed to transform into gluttons, thirstily vying for and devouring all the energy that entered the body. It could be felt that with the absorption of energy, every cell was rapidly transforming, at a speed several times faster than usual.

If he could maintain this pace of cultivation every day, he was confident that he could reach the peak of the apprentice level in a short period of time, even without seeking out any plant spirits.

Unfortunately, such opportunities are too rare. When fighting monsters, it's impossible to always do things your way and stop when you reach your limit.

Although I have the World Ring to dodge in time, it's still a bit dangerous.

After an unknown amount of time, Qin Feng opened his eyes and revealed a satisfied smile.

This efficiency is equivalent to several days of previous training.

If this continues a few more times, a breakthrough might not be far off.

This feeling is intoxicating! Next time I encounter a pack of beasts of similar strength, maybe I can still give it a shot.

However, I have to be careful in my selection. I can't afford to make a mistake. I'm all alone now, and if something unexpected happens, I could really die!

He got up and went to the pile of supplies, picked up a bucket of water, and washed himself thoroughly from head to toe. He also carefully washed his combat uniform, which he had bought when he came out, as he didn't have any spares.

If you don't wash off the smell of blood, walking in the wilderness wearing those clothes is like exposing yourself naked to the noses of monsters.

Never doubt the sense of smell of wild monsters; they often rely on that thing to hunt and survive.

After tidying everything up, I changed into my usual training clothes and walked towards the manor gate. It was time to take a look at the manor; I couldn't possibly live in the square forever.

Standing before the manor's gate, which is dozens of meters high, and looking at the two doors made of some unknown material, one can feel their immense weight without even touching them.

Damn! How do I do this? Can I even push it open? It would be embarrassing if I couldn't even get through the gate of my own manor because it was too heavy to push.

I raised my right hand and placed it on the door, ready to try to push it open. But before I could even apply any force, the door, which hadn't been opened for a long time, automatically and slowly opened to both sides.

What comes into view is a large hall that is nearly a thousand meters long and wide and nearly a hundred meters high. Unfortunately, it is completely empty and has nothing inside. It's as if the interior design didn't consider any soft furnishings at all; there isn't even a sofa or chair to sit on.

Fortunately, the surrounding area looked somewhat like a large hall, otherwise I would have thought it was a training ground built specifically for cultivation.

This space is big enough to play football. The people here in Swallowing the Stars always have the feeling that big is good and big is strong. Whether it's buildings or future divine bodies, they are all built in an exaggerated way.

The living room is surrounded by doors leading to different rooms, which should be the bedrooms, but like the living room, they are completely empty, with nothing in them.

The only good news was the discovery of a dedicated cultivation room, which was also the largest room in the manor, even larger than the outer hall. Most of the tens of thousands of square meters of the manor were used for this cultivation room.

As Qin Feng stepped into the training room, intending to take a closer look, he suddenly felt an immense pressure, like Mount Tai pressing down on him, forcing him to the ground.

Oh my god, it's so heavy, and it's getting heavier and heavier, until I feel like every cell in my body has suddenly become ten times heavier, and even the flow of blood has become heavy, and only then does the increase in gravity stop.

Breathing became increasingly difficult; my heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys—all my organs—felt as if they were being crushed by a mountain, as if they were about to burst at any moment.

That feeling is correct; it should be a gravity chamber. But doesn't a gravity chamber need to be actively opened to change the gravity within a certain range?

Why does this thing turn on automatically as soon as someone walks in?

"Hey Monkey, what's going on with this thing?"

"Hehe! Kid, you only just realized this now? This is a surprise I prepared for you. This world ring was originally a gift prepared by an immortal being for his junior who had just started cultivating."

This gravity chamber is made of special materials. The amount of gravity each person experiences varies depending on their strength, ensuring it reaches their absolute limit.

"How many times the force of gravity am I experiencing right now? It feels like it's exceeded the limit! I'm being crushed and can't get up at all."

"It's because your foundation is too weak. With your strength, you should be able to withstand more than 20 times the gravity, but your internal organs haven't been trained and can't withstand it, so now you are only experiencing less than 12 times the standard gravity of Earth."

"There's nothing we can do about it. We just didn't have the chance to come into contact with this thing before, right?"

"So you will train here from now on. It is difficult for martial artists to train their internal organs in normal training. Gravity chamber is different. It directly applies pressure to your body at the cellular level, which can train your body to have the same strength inside and out. This is how you can lay a perfect foundation."

"And didn't you complain that your body's evolution is too slow? The environment inside this gravity chamber allows your body to be in a state of constant consumption and resistance for a long time. Just like how the more a person exercises, the faster they get hungry and the more they eat, cultivation works on the same principle. Your body instinctively resists gravity, and the more energy you consume, the faster you get hungry and the more efficient you are at absorbing and digesting energy. You only need to stay here for a few hours every day, and your cultivation efficiency can increase tenfold."

"Damn it! Why didn't you say so sooner? If I had known, I would have been cultivating in there when I went into seclusion last month."

Hey

"You're getting too excited, kid. Cultivating inside is effective, but it doesn't offer the same comprehension boost as the Origin Space."

"Isn't there any other way to have both? For example, could we store the ring in our original space?"

"What a pipe dream! The Origin Pearls are still too poorly repaired to affect the small world inside through the World Ring, so you can only use them in rotation. The best way is for your physical body to use the cultivation chamber while your consciousness cultivates within the Origin Space. This way, you can maximize their effectiveness."

"Okay, I'll give it a try."

I rolled over and settled into a comfortable position on the ground. Since I was too crushed to get up for the time being, I decided not to waste my energy struggling.

Qin Feng lay on the ground, his consciousness already entering the Origin Space.

call!

Upon entering this place, I felt incredibly relaxed, as if several mountains had been lifted from my shoulders. Indeed, while the primordial space couldn't affect the outside, the outside couldn't affect this place either.

Cultivate here first, and then go back to practice the guiding technique when your body reaches its limit. This way, you can maximize the effects of your cultivation.

"Monkey King, monitor my body outside for me. Notify me when it reaches its limit, so I don't kill myself."

"Don't worry, I'm keeping an eye on things!"

The monkey, still busy studying weapon forging, did not show itself. It casually agreed and then ignored Qin Feng. Qin Feng didn't care and began to cultivate, projecting a battle sword and practicing each move.

Thus, each time his body reached its limit, Qin Feng would return to his original body to cultivate the guiding technique with the monkey's reminder. After his body returned to its peak state, he would continue to cultivate in the original space.

He practiced repeatedly from the afternoon until midnight before finally emerging from the meditation room.

In the past eight hours, Qin Feng's body reached its limit on average every two hours, and he had to return his consciousness to his body to cultivate. He cultivated the guiding technique four times in total. Moreover, because gravity trains every cell of the body in all aspects, the energy absorbed and digested is also super-doubled. Including the previous cultivation, that is to say, he absorbed a total of five super-doubled cosmic energy today.

This is unimaginable for a normal martial artist. If a martial artist does not cultivate or fight, they will be saturated by absorbing cosmic energy once a day. No matter how much energy you absorb, your body cannot digest it and therefore cannot promote genetic evolution.

Even if one actively cultivates until their stamina is exhausted, it's just another round of cultivation. Martial artists have very strong stamina, which means that even they need time to exhaust their stamina through cultivation alone.

Just like when you run for exercise, it takes a long time to exhaust your stamina. But if someone is chasing you with a knife, you might be able to burst out at a higher speed to escape, but your stamina will also be depleted quickly. Therefore, unless you engage in a real, all-out battle, your stamina will be depleted much faster, allowing you to absorb and digest more energy. That's why martial artists say that only life-or-death battles can accelerate your evolution.

He achieved this effect simply by lying motionless on the floor of the training room. What if he actively cultivated? How long would it take him to exhaust his stamina? Could he last half an hour?

No wonder Monkey King said that cultivation efficiency could be increased by more than ten times!

The advanced guidance techniques he cultivated were already more than ten times more efficient than those cultivated by ordinary Earthlings. On top of that, cultivating in a gravity chamber could increase the efficiency by another ten times, making him hundreds of times faster than an ordinary person.

In that case, the subsequent plans may need to be adjusted slightly.

After all, the reason I decided to go find the Spirit of Plants was because its evolution speed was too slow. And judging from today's experience, I've only gone this far and I'm already facing a situation where I have to fight a Lord-level being head-on. What will happen next? What kind of difficulties will I encounter?

If he continues at this pace of cultivation, he will reach the peak of the God of War in no time, even without the spirit of plants and trees. It will just take a little longer.

Therefore, we need to make two plans. Our goal of finding the spirits of plants and trees remains the same, but starting tomorrow, we will no longer rush as much as we can. If we encounter a beast pack of similar strength as today, we can go and fight it out to hone our combat skills.

If I allocate more time to cultivate in the gravity chamber, and combine that with the comprehension boost from the Origin Space, I might break through to the peak of the War God realm before I even reach Shennongjia.