If I let you practice martial arts, you'll compress your vital energy ten thousand times?

As the last Grandmaster turned into a blood mist, the crimson clouds that had obscured the starry sky completely dissipated.

Deep within the mutated forest, a deathly silence returned.

Lin Yuan's two-and-a-half-meter-tall dark gold battle body stood like an ancient and eternal demon god in the center of the devastated ruins.

He slowly exhaled a breath of hot white air, and a faint popping sound immediately rang out in the air.

"The life of a Grandmaster is indeed much more valuable than that of a low-level beast."

Lin Yuan walked to the remains of Xue Tu and the others.

Although his physical body and Dharma form were completely torn apart by his extremely violent methods, the three Grandmaster-level storage rings made of special materials fell intact into the pool of blood.

Lin Yuan picked them all up without hesitation, and with a surge of powerful blood energy, he forcefully erased the spiritual imprints on them.

Whoosh!

He emptied the contents of the three rings.

"hiss……"

Even the usually composed Lin Yuan couldn't help but let a flash of intense fervor appear in his eyes when he saw the mountain of resources.

As expected of a high-ranking protector of the Dark Spirit Society!

The life savings of these three old men were outrageously large.

The most important items are a dozen or so fifth-order beast crystal cores that radiate brilliant light, and hundreds of bottles of top-grade Qi and Blood Pills that are simply unavailable on the market!

Beside these top-tier resources, there was also a large pile of third- and fourth-tier beast cores and high-level materials. Clearly, these low-level items were scraps that Grandmasters usually used as currency for trade or for crafting magical artifacts.

"Top-quality resources, let's eat."

Without any hesitation, Lin Yuan grabbed the fifth-order crystal core and the top-grade pills, and stuffed them into his mouth like candy, chewing and swallowing them.

boom--!!!

As this vast, high-purity energy entered my stomach...

The Extreme System instantly went into full power, and the dark blue panel flickered wildly on the retina, leaving behind a series of dazzling afterimages.

[Absorbing massive amounts of high-level primordial energy!]

[Removing impurities... Forced physical compression in progress...]

[Current compression count: 115,000!]

[Current compression count: 130,000!]

[Current compression count: 142,000!]

The compression progress increased by more than 30,000 layers before the numbers on the panel finally stopped!

Lin Yuan clenched his fists, feeling the terrifying physical energy within his body that almost crushed the space itself. A satisfied smile curved his lips beneath the mask.

We've already completed more than half of the journey to unlocking the second-tier battle body after 200,000 attempts!

The remaining gap can be overcome by simply taking a bath in the heavily guarded "source energy pool" of the military.

"As for the remaining third and fourth-tier 'scraps'..."

Lin Yuan looked at the pile of third and fourth-tier crystal cores and beast meat on the ground, which were no longer of any use to his current progress.

His mind stirred slightly.

clack clack...

The terrifying dark gold battle body receded like a tide, bones rubbed and realigned, and towering muscles rapidly contracted.

Just two seconds.

Lin Yuan transformed from the killing demon god who could tear apart a grandmaster with his bare hands back into a high school student who was just over 1.8 meters tall and looked somewhat thin and frail.

He casually removed the pale plastic mask and stuffed it back into the bottom of his worn-out backpack.

Since his original clothes had been torn to shreds by his true energy, Lin Yuan took out a spare black sports jacket from his backpack and put it on.

Then, he stuffed all the third and fourth-tier crystal cores and high-level beast meat on the ground into his schoolbag, making it bulge.

After doing all this.

Lin Yuan walked to Su Qinghan's side, squatted down, and extended two fingers to inject a slight physical vibration into her brow.

"Um……"

Stimulated, Su Qinghan let out a painful whimper, her long eyelashes trembling slightly as she slowly opened her eyes.

I just woke up.

The despair she felt when facing the pressure of the three grandmasters, and the extreme shock of the dark gold demon god tearing apart a powerful enemy with his bare hands, flooded her brain like a tidal wave!

Su Qinghan sat up abruptly, her beautiful eyes scanning her surroundings with a mixture of fear and fervor.

"senior!"

She was breathing heavily, looking around for that tall, imposing figure.

However, in the devastated ruins, where could the Dark Gold Demon God still be found?

All that remained were bits of flesh scattered on the ground, and...

Lin Yuan, who was squatting in front of her, was calmly looking at her.

"You're awake?"

Lin Yuan had his hands in the pockets of his sports jacket, his tone flat and emotionless.

"Lin...Lin Yuan?"

Su Qinghan was stunned, her mind unable to process what was happening for a moment.

She glanced at Lin Yuan's thin frame, then at the desolate battlefield ruins around them, which resembled the end of the world.

"You... how did you get here? What about the senior who just killed three grandmasters with his bare hands?"

Lin Yuan lowered his eyelids slightly, looking at Su Qinghan's anxious appearance.

He knew that although this woman was smart, sometimes smart people, when they got stuck on a rut, were easier to fool than fools. Since she had already closed the logical loop with her imagination, he might as well go with the flow and pin the blame firmly on "the pseudonym".

"You saw it?"

Lin Yuan paused deliberately, then dropped a bombshell in an unusually calm tone:

"That senior is my master."

boom!

These eight short words, when they reached Su Qinghan's ears, were even more deafening than the pressure from the three grandmasters just now!

Real hammer!

All the speculations and all the clues were perfectly confirmed at this moment!

The force-dissipating micro-management on the testing instrument, the tortoise-breath body tempering in the gravity chamber, the pure physical brutality aesthetics that ignores any true qi defense...

All of this is because of Lin Yuan, the personal disciple of that peerless master!

"Master...Master..."

Su Qinghan's fair cheeks flushed red with extreme excitement, and her breathing became rapid.

"No wonder...no wonder you're so strong, yet you pretend to be an ordinary person who barely passes at school!"

"Your senior has put a lot of thought into this; he's using this worldly approach to temper your martial arts spirit, right?!"

Looking at Su Qinghan's beautiful eyes flashing wildly, Lin Yuan couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

This woman's ability to fill in the blanks is even more ferocious than the compression engine of a yakuza system.

"Think whatever you want."

Lin Yuan was too lazy to explain further, as the more he explained, the easier it would be to expose his flaws.

He picked up the bulging, tattered backpack and unzipped it right in front of Su Qinghan.

Splash!

A rich aura of high-level beast blood instantly emanated from the backpack.

Su Qinghan looked down, and her pupils suddenly contracted again!

The worn-out schoolbag was stuffed full of third- and fourth-tier alien beast crystal cores and core flesh and blood!

"This...this is..." Su Qinghan was so shocked that she could not even speak coherently.

Any one of these items, if placed on the black market, would be enough to drive an ordinary student mad!

"The pocket money my master gave me before he left."

Lin Yuan told a colossal lie without batting an eye, his tone revealing a Versailles-like helplessness.

"He said he took all the valuables from those three old guys, and left me with these useless third and fourth-grade scraps of metal as body tempering materials."

"hiss--"

Su Qinghan gasped, looking at the backpack full of top-quality resources, her eyes revealing an unprecedented and extremely envious look!

What is pomp and circumstance?

That's what you call grandeur!

He casually killed three Grandmasters, took away the top-tier fifth-level resources, and left a whole backpack full of third and fourth-level crystal cores, which were actually given to his apprentice as "useless scrap metal" as pocket money!

Such treatment would make even the most gifted and monstrous students from the top universities insanely jealous, let alone a military prodigy like her!

"Lin Yuan..."

Su Qinghan took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the shock and envy in her heart.

For the first time, her clear, beautiful eyes revealed genuine awe and a desire to befriend a boy her own age.

"I will absolutely keep your secret, I won't even tell my grandfather."

"I, Su Qinghan, will forever remember this life-saving grace. From now on, in the special training camp, if you ever need cover, just let me know!"

Hearing Su Qinghan's resolute guarantee.

Lin Yuan nodded slightly.

well.

This free shield and smokescreen has now been firmly established.

"Let's go, it's time to head back to camp."

Lin Yuan slung his backpack over his shoulder and turned to walk towards the edge of the forest.

"With this package, I'm sure I'll get the top prize in that special training camp."