High Martial Arts: Slay enemies to become stronger, forge invincibility from billions of corpses.

The amount of information in the Star-Splitting Slash from the third to the fourth level is more than the previous three levels combined.

The first three levels teach how to channel the centrifugal force of the star core into the blade, how to stack the blade's power, and how to push the power to its limit within nine strikes.

But the fourth level teaches something completely different; it is no longer about "skills," but a fighting style based on psionic halos.

The prerequisite for Star Crown-level combat skills is that the user possesses a psionic crown, or at least can simulate the energy operation mode of a psionic crown.

Song Chen doesn't have a psionic crown; he hasn't reached the eighth rank yet.

However, the system directly injected the operating logic of the psionic corona into his neurons, causing his star core to automatically simulate an energy structure similar to the corona when it was in operation.

In other words, when he uses the fourth level of Star Slash, the Star Core will temporarily enter a "pseudo-corona state," in which every slash he makes carries the rank suppression of an eighth-tier combat skill.

This is why the first three layers, no matter how many times they are stacked, only increase in power, while the fourth layer directly jumps a whole realm in terms of rank.

It took him about twenty minutes to recover from the dizziness of being bombarded with information.

Then he continued to spend money.

Star Core Thunder Prison, third level.

The Eternal Body, the Third Layer.

Void travel, third level.

The three combat techniques simultaneously jumped from the second to the third level, and three torrents of information flooded into his consciousness at the same time.

The Star Core Thunder Prison has undergone the most significant changes. The third-layer plasma field is no longer simply covered by lightning, but rather has been superimposed with a layer of eternal star-level high-temperature plasma burning effect.

The number of Thunder Dragons has doubled from thirty-six to one hundred and eight. Each Thunder Dragon is equipped with plasma burning, and when it hits a target, it does not simply cause lightning damage, but rather continuous high-temperature melting.

The third level of the Eternal Body offers a more subtle improvement: the speed of limb regeneration is reduced from ten breaths to a few breaths, fatal wounds can be repaired in a short time, and resistance to toxins and mental attacks is doubled compared to the second level.

The most noticeable change is to the third level of Void Travel, which expands the jump distance from within the field of vision to the level of spatial rifts, with the maximum jump reaching millions of kilometers.

All combat skills have been upgraded.

Song Chen glanced at his kill points balance. After deducting the 50 billion from the fourth level of the Star-Splitting Slash and the 5 billion from each of the three combat skills, the total was 65 billion, leaving a balance of 240 billion.

He took a deep breath and opened the attribute exchange panel.

Maximize the exchange rate.

A confirmation window filled with numbers popped up on the system panel. Too lazy to look at them one by one, he selected all and confirmed.

One hundred and twenty billion kill points can be exchanged for health and vitality, and one hundred and twenty billion kill points can be exchanged for spirit.

More than 200 billion was swallowed up by the system in a few seconds, leaving only a small amount in the balance.

Then the real shock came. The last time he broke through in the void, he added more than two million at once, which melted the surface of a barren planet.

This time, the amount of Qi and Blood increased from four million to twenty-eight million, a net increase of twenty-four million.

My mental strength increased from 3.5 million to 27.5 million, a net increase of 24 million.

Song Chen's body suddenly stiffened in mid-air.

The infusion of 20 million units of Qi and blood caused every muscle, every tendon, and every bone to be torn apart and reassembled at the same instant. The tearing was faster than the reassembly, so his body struggled repeatedly in a cycle of constant collapse and healing.

The third level of the Eternal Body is practically useless against this level of attribute impact.

The muscles that had just been repaired were instantly torn apart by an even more violent psychic shock, and the bones made a series of loud popping sounds as they broke and reconnected.

Sound cannot travel in a vacuum, but the vibrations were transmitted through his body into the surrounding space, forming visible ripples of psionic energy.

The impact on mental strength is just as great.

The surge of over 20 million in mental energy meant that his range of consciousness perception instantly expanded from a few thousand kilometers to tens of thousands of kilometers.

This expansion process was completed in an instant; his brain received information from all matter within a radius of tens of thousands of kilometers in that instant.

The position and speed of every speck of interstellar dust, the gravitational fluctuations of every distant star, and even the density fluctuations of dark matter that are everywhere in the void were all captured by his perception.

Massive amounts of data rushed into his consciousness like a flood bursting its banks. His brain's self-protection mechanism activated at least three times in an instant, each time forcibly compressing his perception range back to a safe value, only to be pushed up again by new attribute increments, resulting in a repeated tug-of-war.

This process lasted a full five hours.

Five hours later, Song Chen slowly opened his eyes from the void.

His body was still emitting white steam, and the high temperature of his spiritual energy had not completely dissipated.

He looked down at his hands, clenched his fist, loosened it, and then clenched his fist again.

The sense of power brought by 24 million units of Qi and Blood is incomparable to that of 1.5 million or 4 million.

If he felt like a mountain when he had 4.5 million Qi and Blood, he now feels like a star about to explode.

Driven by the surge in its properties, the star core expanded, and its rotation speed increased nearly three times faster than before.

As centrifugal force surges through the meridians, it carries a heavy inertia, and with each heartbeat, one can feel the stellar core emitting a low hum deep within the chest cavity.

He tried throwing a punch, without using psionic energy, just pure physical strength.

His fist created a visible spatial ripple in the void, which meant that his physical strength had already touched the spatial structure itself. If he could increase it by another level, he could break through the spatial barrier with his physical body alone.

With his mental energy fully deployed, his perception range stabilized at 50,000 kilometers, and the accuracy was several times greater than before.

He scanned a lone meteorite tens of thousands of kilometers away with his Eye of Truth, and could see every crater and crack on its surface, and even sense its internal structure.

He stood up and stretched his neck.

The spine emitted a crisp cracking sound, and the flow of spiritual energy between each vertebra was many times smoother than before.

His kill points were almost depleted, but Song Chen didn't mind. With 20 million health points and mental strength, plus the fourth level of the Star-Splitting Slash, his overall combat strength was now firmly at the peak of the seventh rank.

If you add the defense and psionic energy output boost from the Silver Armor, your strength has already reached the eighth tier.

Song Chen wasn't in a hurry to return to Judgment Star. Last time, he spent ten days in seclusion in the void, which increased his attributes by several million. As a result, as soon as he returned, he was dragged away by Lal for questioning.

This time the price increased by tens of millions. When he returned, he was caught by Lars. Just thinking about the scene made his scalp tingle.

The "Star Essence" he compiled last time was at least within the scope of known matter in the universe, so Lars let it go with a skeptical attitude.

But the increase of tens of millions of attributes was something he didn't know what rare and precious materials could explain.

Laer was a super strong expert at the peak of the ninth-order True Star Realm, and one of the top 100 combat power in the entire Milky Way. When his mental power swept over, Song Chen couldn't even hide.

Rather than going back to be questioned, I'd rather just drift in space.

Anyway, the Punisher can accept tasks online, and not returning to the Judgment Star won't affect work efficiency.

The universe is so vast, we can just find an abandoned star system to stay in, and set off directly when a suitable mission comes along. It saves time, effort, and the trouble of lying.