The Star River Era! The Dimensional Freedom Demon

11 month 29 day.

Ji Chen, guarding the room full of evolutionary creature ingredients, began his evolutionary sprint.

Aura Observation Lv3, Shooting Lv5, Life and Death Seal Lv4

[Currently learning: Qi Observation Technique]

Skill Level: lv3

[Calculating the rarity and difficulty of the Qi Observation Technique based on the human host's aptitude...]

[Calculation complete. Do you wish to consume 100 Dimensional Points to activate the cultivation acceleration function?]

【Yes】

[Currently studying: The Life and Death Seal Method]

Skill Level: lv4

[Calculating the rarity and difficulty of the Qi Observation Technique based on the human host's aptitude...]

[Calculation complete. Do you wish to consume 130 Dimensional Points to activate the cultivation acceleration function?]

【Yes】

With his physical body as an external brain, even if Chu Junhui, the human form, has poor aptitude, Ji Chen only needs to use his body to accelerate the digestion of energy and nutrients, quickly converting inspiration and experience into strength when he activates the accelerated cultivation mode.

This saves a large portion of the money spent on personal experiences and insights.

Of course, even if the price is a bit high, it's just a drop in the ocean for Ji Chen, who now has 30,000 dimensional points.

As the cultivation acceleration mode was activated, the nutrients stored in Ji Chen's stomach instantly transformed into streams of heat, flowing along the meridians of his limbs and throughout his body.

The Qi Observation Technique, a skill that doesn't directly affect strength, can almost instantly reach level 4.

But can Ji Chen help it break through?

At the last moment, he stopped abruptly, managing to pull back from the brink just as his Qi Observation skill was about to reach level 4.

After waiting a while, until the Life and Death Seal leveled up from lv4 to lv5, the Qi Observation Technique also leveled up simultaneously.

The data shows a jump in the racial stats: 920/930 (Tier 3).

[Base stats: 970/930 (Level 3, currently evolving)]

"As expected, increasing skill levels as much as possible before evolution can improve hidden base stats."

Ji Chen's eyes flickered.

Improving hidden racial stats may or may not have benefits, but it's better than doing nothing.

Moreover, it's like unlocking a hidden Easter egg; Ji Chen is very interested in these unknown Easter eggs that might bring unexpected benefits.

At the moment of reaching the third stage of perfection, Ji Chen felt light and airy, a sense of transcendence arising spontaneously.

However, this exhilaration was fleeting, replaced by an incredibly clear sense of disintegration emanating from the deepest part of the body—

From flesh and blood to bones, down to every single cell, his familiar body was groaning and beginning a complete reshaping.

At the same time, a new force is beginning to brew and accumulate potential energy within the body.

Subsequently, in order to satisfy the nurturing of new power, the body's most primal desires were fully awakened, transforming into a hunger that devoured everything, surging in like a landslide and a tsunami.

Ji Chen suppressed the urge.

He remained calm and composed, proceeding steadily towards his predetermined goal.

Perhaps, obtaining sufficient blood and flesh energy can allow organisms to evolve more perfectly and become more powerful.

Consuming more flesh and blood for energy is an instinct of biological evolution.

But instinct does not mean correctness.

Skills are clearly given greater weight in determining whether an organism can go further on the path of evolution.

[Currently learning: Qi and Blood Martial Arts - Dragon's Roar Heaven-Shaking Palm]

Skill Level: lv0 (Beginner)

[Calculating the rarity and difficulty of the Zhenyang Palm technique based on the human host's aptitude...]

[Calculation complete. Do you wish to consume 5 Dimensional Points to activate the cultivation acceleration function?]

[Currently learning: Qi and Blood Martial Arts - Star-Picking Hand]

Skill Level: lv0 (Beginner)

[Calculating the rarity and difficulty of the Star-Picking Hand technique based on the human host's qualifications...]

[Calculation complete. Do you wish to consume 15 Dimensional Points to activate the cultivation acceleration function?]

[Currently learning: Qi and Blood Martial Arts - Cloud Dragon Strength]

. . . . . .

[Calculation complete. Do you wish to consume 5 Dimensional Points to activate the cultivation acceleration function?]

With a thought, Ji Chen activated the accelerated learning mode for the new skills one by one.

But just as he was preparing to practice his fourth skill, he seemed to have touched some kind of invisible constraint. After several attempts, he understood.

Due to the rules of the world, any creature can only learn a maximum of three new skills in a single evolution.

This is not just a simple confinement, but also a deep protection of evolutionary potential.

As life embarks on the path of racial evolution, its original skills may have the opportunity to advance synchronously during the leap in life level.

However, if an individual possesses too many skills, this precious evolutionary energy will be forced to disperse, which will dilute the probability of advancing each skill and thus weaken its future growth potential.

Therefore, learning three skills with each evolution is already the greatest risk and the critical zone.

"pity."

Ji Chen couldn't say whether this restriction was good or bad.

However, no matter what, he wasn't the one who suffered a loss compared to the others.

Turning his gaze to the food in the room, Ji Chen no longer suppressed his body's instinctive cravings and immediately activated his powers.

The roasted mutant pig's trotters are golden and crispy, and every bite is bursting with flavor.

Once the meat enters the stomach, it is immediately seized by the powerful digestive system and quickly transformed into a pure, warm current that flows into the limbs and bones, becoming a precious resource for driving evolution and skill training.

. . . . . .

As the various ingredients generously contributed by evolved creatures entered Ji Chen's stomach, his skill training progressed at an extremely rapid pace.

First is the Dragon's Roar Heaven-Shaking Palm.

This is a martial art that Ji Chen recreated based on the Zhen Tian Wu Ji Palm, taking its essence and in order to match the Yun Long Jing.

After upgrading the Dragon Roar Heaven-Shaking Palm to level 1, Ji Chen quickly stopped and immediately began practicing the Star-Picking Hand.

The Star-Picking Hand is a martial arts skill uploaded by other martial arts experts after the main world's Qi and Blood Martial Arts style was announced. From Ji Chen's perspective, it is an amazing martial arts skill that is worthy of being presented.

As a top-tier martial art with three stars, it took Ji Chen more than an hour just to learn the basics of the Star-Picking Hand technique.

As soon as the Star-Picking Hand reached level 1, the evolutionary energy accumulated within his body quickly reached its critical point.

As the evolutionary energy erupted and reshaped him, Ji Chen calmly began cultivating the Cloud Dragon Force.

In the world of Qi and Blood Martial Arts, there is only one path to improve an individual's strength: through the continuous transformation of Qi and Blood.

Even in later generations, martial arts prodigies continued to cultivate the Dao of Qi and Blood to its limit, but their strength was limited by the conditions of the world and they could not advance further at the third transformation of Qi and Blood.

Then, martial arts masters devoted themselves to painstaking research and contemplation, and finally, at the peak of the Three Transformations of Qi and Blood, they pioneered a new path, grafting and creating the path of the "True Strength Grandmaster".

Essentially, the internal strength system and the Qi and blood martial arts system are two different paths that occasionally intersect.

Therefore, in order to make up for the lack of attack methods based on Qi and Blood Power and the weakness of being unable to attack outside the body, Ji Chen also needs to patch up the Power System.

After all, the characteristic of true strength manifesting externally as qi and internally as jin allows Ji Chen to unleash many wondrous techniques.

Yunlong Jin is a force derived from Yunlong Jing, and Ji Chen is very familiar with it.

The evolutionary process has just begun, and Yunlong Jin has already successfully mastered the basics.

. . . . . .

The entire evolution process lasted for more than an hour.

During this time, a forced hibernation impulse, stemming from the instinct for life, would occasionally strike, attempting to drag Ji Chen's consciousness into darkness.

In other words, Ji Chen only entered this place as a wisp of consciousness, which could be interrupted and awakened at any time. Otherwise, if it were an ordinary creature, it might really encounter misfortune during the evolution process.

Ji Chen opened his eyes, and the data on the panel refreshed rapidly.

You have become a fourth-tier race.

Your skill, "Iron Body," has successfully advanced due to the leap in life level.

【Iron Body - Thorns: Greatly increases base defense and gains the ability to counterattack, reflecting a portion of physical damage when attacked】

(P.S.: Skill level settings: Generally, a skill can only be upgraded to a maximum of 5 levels per stage. It can only be upgraded further after racial advancement.)

(For convenience, for races below Tier 3, the highest skill level is 5.)