Gao Wu: I have a dimensional gate

Lu Qiu said solemnly, "It is a half-source energy martial art, the Azure Extreme Hand."

Unlike pure physical collisions, semi-source energy martial arts can manipulate a small amount of source energy to participate in attacks. The third form of Tiger Fist, which Lu Qiu has not yet mastered, is a semi-source energy martial art.

However, Longk, who has mastered the Azure Hand, has clearly mastered the way to manipulate source energy.

Looking at the bloody hole in the center of his skull, Lu Qiu discovered that the brain tissue inside had been churned up by the violent force. He mentally reenacted the scene of his fight with Longke.

In the best-case scenario, if Longk hasn't mastered the movement technique, he can use the White Crane Step to maneuver around him and look for an opportunity.

But Luqiu only has one chance, while Longke can make countless mistakes.

The difference between the two people's three-dimensional mean values ​​is 0.47, which is in the range of mean values ​​above 9. This difference is neither too large nor too small.

But even among elites, every 0.1 difference will be reflected in actual combat; a tiny difference can mean the difference between life and death.

Moreover, his opponent was also a Lesser Celestial, so Lu Qiu had no advantage in martial arts.

If he misses his first strike, Longk will seize the opportunity to use his Azure Extreme Hand. One strike is all it takes; the best outcome is to avoid a vital point and leave him severely injured and knocked to the ground.

It only slows down the rate of defeat.

Dozens of scenes flashed through my mind, most of them involving being killed with a single blow.

Moreover, Longk has also taken a talent potion. If he awakens his talent ability... he will be powerless to fight back.

Lu Qiu shook his head slightly, trying to banish these images from his mind.

What he lacks now is time. He must constantly challenge powerful beasts to improve his martial arts proficiency in order to gain points and increase his strength more quickly.

"Let's go. The exchange price for half-source energy martial arts isn't expensive. You can get it if you work hard."

……

Five and a half hours passed.

The afternoon's hunt went much more smoothly. Under Lu Qiu's cover, the four gradually adapted to the battle and found their own rhythm.

The Bone-Eating Rat swarm posed almost no threat to Wang Hao's tactical formation, and Lu Qiu no longer needed to divert his attention to be ready to strike at any time.

The only setback was encountering two wild boars at the same time around 5 a.m.

With his stamina waning, Lu Qiu gritted his teeth and used a low-level neurotoxin to take down one of them. The other was delayed for thirty seconds thanks to the combined efforts of the four of them.

When Lu Qiu arrived, Xie Yu was almost at his limit, but he was in much better shape than when he was first attacked by the rampaging sac rat.

At seven o'clock, the five panting men tallied their total catch for the day: 305 bone-eating rats, 421 giant cheek pouch rats, and 28 iron-haired wild boars.

They completed the points allocation with almost no wasted time.

The Iron-haired Wild Boar has 280 points, which is exclusively in Luqiu. The remaining Bone-eating Rat and Giant Cheeky Rat are also in Luqiu.

Lu Qiu killed all the Iron-haired Wild Boars. Later, when everyone's stamina was low, Lu Qiu even took out neurotoxin and distributed it to everyone to maximize the killing efficiency.

There are other student activities in Zone 5. The real-time map relies on Wang Hao's algorithm for continuous upgrades, but its accuracy has begun to decline.

Fortunately, on the first day of the training, none of the students had a clear understanding of each other's abilities, so no conflicts broke out, and overall the efficiency was acceptable.

Lu Qiu deserved a total of 795.5 points. The other four people combined their scores and rounded it up to 800.

Of the remaining four people, one received 127 points, and everyone's gains exceeded the software's expectations.

The materials from the exotic beasts could not be used to exchange for points, and the base would charge extra points for processing the materials. Wang Hao calculated the benefits, and in the end, everyone divided the bone essence and returned to the base.

Xie Yu left first: "Lu Qiu, I'm going to sleep. Thanks to you, my gains today have doubled."

Wang Hao's software predicted that he would only get 50 points, and he was not convinced at first.

After several battles, Xie Yu fully accepted this amazing software and became determined to rely on Lu Qiu.

Wang Hao patted Lu Qiu on the shoulder and left with Xu Fang: "Lu Qiu, I'll take her home, then upgrade the software. Good luck!"

After waiting for the system to verify his points in the redemption area, Lu Qiu exchanged the items he hadn't redeemed in the software's redemption plan: a bottle of D-grade Qi and Blood Potion and three standard muscle meals, spending 3 points.

He exchanged two more bottles of internal injury medicine, leaving him with 100 points.

He returned to his dormitory and checked the control panel while eating.

Name: Lu Qiu

Qi and Blood: 9.52 → 9.54

Muscle: 9.03→9.07

Skeleton: 9.1→9.15

技能：第八套全国中小学生基础训练法（精通）、白鹤桩（精通丨10/500）、初级製药（入门丨20/50）、虎形拳（入门丨20/50）

Status: Minor Unity of Heaven and Man

Realm: None

Personal Space: Low-level neurotoxin 100ml

On the first day, both Qi and blood and bone health improved by 0.04.

Although the D-grade Qi and Blood potion lacks the Qi and Blood activation effect compared to Blood Saliva, its enhancement effect surpasses that of Blood Saliva. The Muscle and Muscle Set is also more effective than pure Iron-haired Wild Boar meat.

As for the skeleton, it's purely about quantity.

Lu Qiu directly consumed the bone essence he had harvested during the day. He received 21 pieces, which only increased his bone strength by 0.05.

Moreover, it will get slower and slower later on, and the pressure to collect resources will only increase.

The Crane Soaring Style on the third level of the White Crane Stance increased proficiency by ten points, while the Tiger Style Fist only increased by nine points because the later Iron-haired Wild Boars were killed with poison.

However, after reaching 20 points of proficiency, Lu Qiu can stack five layers of penetrating force and apply it to his longsword, using swordsmanship to unleash the Tiger Roar.

After eating, Lu Qiu drank a bottle of internal injury medicine.

The side effects of Tiger Roar had accumulated, and his internal organs were starting to ache, requiring medication to recover.

The extra bottle of internal injury potion I exchanged is to prepare for the battle against the Skullcrusher Cat.

A day has passed, and he has completely mastered the habits of the Iron-haired Wild Boar. He needs to challenge stronger beasts to unleash his full potential.

Currently, Lu Qiu's only known opponent is the Skull Crusher Cat.

After making up his mind, Lu Qiu set his alarm for midnight, crawled into bed and fell asleep, resting and recovering from his injuries.

……

At noon, Lu Qiu opened his eyes on time, turned off the alarm, put on his gear, and set off for District 5 again.

There are many people and eyes in the base, and moving around in the dormitory might get you spotted, which would be impossible to explain later.

Although there are drones monitoring the hunting area, there are blind spots. As long as you step into an abandoned building in a blind spot, the drones will not be able to record your whereabouts.

After paying 60 points to Chen Jue, the gatekeeper, he was left with only 40 points.

Chen Jue didn't speak, but another martial artist next to him glanced at Lu Qiu's back a few more times: "A night hunt on the first day of training, pretty crazy."

Lu Qiu didn't hear him. He crawled through several streets, killing a few bone-eating rats along the way. Following the drone patrol route he had memorized during the day, he crawled into the abandoned building from a blind spot in the surveillance.

……

Lu Qiu looked around to make sure no one was following him, then opened the panel and touched the door-shaped emblem: "Shuttle".

He appeared in an abandoned park.

This is the colony of giant cheek pouched rats that he tracked down during his last trip. The ants were so numerous that they almost killed the elephant, and it took him a lot of effort to clean up the giant cheek pouched rats.

However, tonight, the night in Ye City is special.

The moon in the sky was exceptionally bright, its gentle and tranquil light illuminating the entire city of Ye as if it were daytime.

It was Bai Ye.

The Overworld also experiences the phenomenon of day and night, which occurs once a month.

It doesn't have much of an impact on humans, except that they need to keep the curtains drawn when they sleep, but the beasts will become extremely irritable and their aggressive desires will increase significantly.

That night, martial artists would try to minimize their activities in the wilderness, and entering restricted areas would be even more impossible, as the possibility of a fatal accident in a vehicle crash was very high.

But with the Boundary Gate as his backing, Lu Qiu wasn't afraid. In fact, due to his recent improvement, he was eager to try his luck.

It's time for a head-on battle with the Skullcrusher. Hopefully, the berserk Skullcrusher can give him a surprise.

He took a picture of the Ye City map on the notice board at the park entrance, which was so blurry that only the outline remained, and imported it into Wang Hao's software.

Then he entered the information about the skull-crushing cat that had been displayed on the panel, along with the activity traces he had observed during this period.

The activity area was roughly as he had predicted, with several red blocks highlighted and the activity probability indicated by the labels next to them all above 60%.

He hurried to the nearest one.

The first highlighted color block is in an abandoned shopping mall.

When Lu Qiu arrived, the center of the mall was covered with sharp claw marks, making the already dilapidated building even more chaotic.

His pupils contracted; there had been a battle here.

After carefully examining the traces, he discovered many scorch marks, which were not left by hand-to-hand combat, but also not by a source energy martial artist.

The scorch marks appeared to be caused by an explosion. If it were a martial artist who had mastered source energy martial arts, the Skull Crusher Cat would have had no chance to fight back, and the battle scene would not have been so chaotic.

Claw marks and scorch marks were evenly distributed across a space of several hundred square meters, suggesting that the person was engaged in a struggle with a skull-crushing cat.

Could it be a firearm?

The idea had barely formed when Lu Qiu rejected it.

Only those without martial arts talent would choose to use firearms. These people are weak, have poor stamina, and slower reaction times.

Even with an old-fashioned anti-material sniper rifle, an ordinary high school student from a martial arts class could easily make him lose his aim by suddenly stopping and changing direction.

Not to mention the Skull Crusher Cat, which has undergone artificial mutation and boasts exceptional speed and strength among first-tier alien beasts.

It seems that the way humans fight in this world is very different from that in the main world.

He activated the focus mode of his tactical goggles and began searching for more combat information.

He has never had contact with humans from another world. He must be extremely cautious about their strength, fighting style, and civilization when he first comes into contact with them.

The eyepiece focused on a single drop of blood.

Lu Qiu walked over, squatted down, and rubbed his fingers together.

The drop of blood was almost congealed into a clot, and its color had turned dark red, indicating that the blood's owner had been injured about ten minutes earlier.

But the injury was not serious; there was only one drop of blood every few dozen steps.

Lu Qiu followed the trail using the eyepiece's focus mode.

With the real-time map projected onto the upper left of the eyepiece, Lu Qiu discovered that the direction in which the blood was extending was exactly the second highlighted area.

He quickened his pace.

The second area is the underground parking lot.

Like the previous shopping mall, this place was also a mess of claw marks and scorch marks, but there was more blood and the claw marks from the skull-crushing cat were more dense.

The skull-crushing cat was enraged.

The claw marks on the ground, along with the bloodstains, stretched all the way. Lu Qiu no longer needed the aid of goggles; he could track them with the naked eye alone.

Seven minutes later.

The direction of the bloodstains deviated from the calculations on the real-time map, so Lu Qiu did not hesitate to choose to follow the bloodstains.

The bloodstains were becoming increasingly dense.

As Lu Qiu crossed another street, he heard a sharp roar coming from ahead.

It's a skull-crushing cat.

The once glossy fur is now covered with scorch marks of all sizes, and in some places even pink flesh is exposed, with disgusting granulation tissue wriggling around it.

It roared and pounced angrily, but rarely focused.

The Skull-Crushing Cat's target is a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl.

She was about 1.7 meters tall, with her long hair tied in a neat bun. She wore a drab gray work jacket and military boots with frayed edges.

The jacket was ripped open on the left shoulder, revealing the wheat-colored skin underneath, with three bloody welts where the flesh was torn and the bones were faintly visible.

It is clearly the work of the skull-crushing cat.

The girl rolled around in a disheveled manner, dodging and seizing any opportunity to make a fist at the skull-crushing cat.

Every time she makes this move, a burst of fire erupts from the Skull Crusher Cat's body, followed by an even more furious pounce.

Lu Qiu's pupils contracted; it was an innate ability.

It seems to be some kind of ability to manipulate flames and explosions. The power is not strong, but its advantage lies in its surprise, which caused considerable trouble for the Skullcrusher Cat.

But she was about to give up.

The wound on her left shoulder was bleeding heavily, and she was experiencing blood loss. Her face grew paler and paler, and her movements became increasingly sluggish.

"Help me, and I'll give you half the spoils!" she shouted when she saw Lu Qiu.

Lu Qiu drew his standard longsword, but did not advance rashly.

The tactical eyepieces did not detect any additional signs of life, but that doesn't mean there aren't other people lurking around.

And this girl is too strange.

She was very frail.

Her strength, speed, and reaction time are all slow; based on her few dodging maneuvers, she's roughly equivalent to a middle school student in 032.

Their physical fitness might be even worse, with their average three dimensions possibly only reaching a pitiful 6 points.

If it weren't for that bizarre explosive power, the Skullcrusher Cat would have torn her to pieces and devoured her long ago.

puff!

Distracted by her cries for help, the girl was caught off guard by the skull-crushing cat, which slapped her hard on the abdomen with its left front paw and sent her flying.

As she landed, she was still rolling and dodging, her voice weak as she pleaded for help: "I don't want it anymore, it's all yours, save me! My sister is a Level 2 Source Energy Resonator! She's very rich!"

Luqiu moved.

Humans in this world have also developed source energy, but their approach is completely different from that of the main world.

Source Energy Resonator... Lu Qiu became interested.

He poured the last 100ml of neurotoxin onto the blade, then used the White Crane Step, each rise and fall a gathering of power for a tiger's roar.

The skull-crushing cat turned around, its eerie green eyes filled with savagery.

Its intuition told it that this human, who was all black and had a strange device on his head, was more dangerous than the one lying on the ground making an explosion.

It galloped wildly toward the hill.

puff.

Just as he was about to strike the skull-crushing cat, Lu Qiu crouched down and slashed the cat's neck with his blade, then rolled away to avoid the attack.

The skull-crushing cat's neck was cut in half, and the momentum carried its body forward several steps.

Seeing Lu Qiu stop, the girl urged anxiously, "Be careful! It's a secondary mutant with strong regenerative abilities. Finish it off quickly!"

Lu Qiu turned around and saw that the wound that had almost separated his head from his body was healing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Its throat is ruptured, and it can only make a whirring "ho ho" sound, but with its back arched, limbs bent, and it slowly pacing forward, it is a more perfect power-gathering movement than the Tiger Form Fist.

Lu Qiu did not move.

The rapidly growing flesh represents an even more terrifying metabolism; the neurotoxins should be taking effect now.

The effect wasn't as good as he had imagined. The low-level neurotoxin that could have brought down the Iron-haired Wild Boar in three seconds with just one wound only made the Skull-crushing Cat stagger as if it were drunk.

But that's enough.

Lu Qiu strode forward and with a downward slash, severed the head of the skull-crushing cat.

The enormous cat head rolled a long way.

"The third vertebra of the spine, where the thoracic and vertebrae meet, is cut open through the fascia to remove the medullary gland."

The girl was out of danger, and while bandaging her wounds, she hurriedly gave instructions.

Lu Qiu did not hesitate and did as instructed.

There are no skullcrushers in the main world, and none of the creatures in the encyclopedia he studied can be matched with skullcrushers, so he doesn't know which is more valuable.

The girl was clearly much more familiar with him than he was.

"Yes, that's it. Cut along the back of the neck, peel open the spine, and you'll find that connective tissue."

Lu Qiu saw what the girl was pointing to.

Inside the tough connective tissue was a thumb-sized, dark red, blocky organ.

The organ's surface has regular spiral patterns; when the connective tissue is peeled back, it feels slightly warm to the touch.

Under the moonlight, liquid specks of light could be faintly seen inside the organs, their alternation between light and shadow resembling the rhythm of breathing.

Lu Qiu concealed the medullary gland behind his back, then with a thought, stored it in his personal space. He looked at the girl who was already half-sitting up and asked, "Who are you?"

Only then did the girl have time to examine him closely, glancing at Lu Qiu's almost undamaged equipment, the long sword that gleamed coldly in the moonlight, and the tactical goggles he wore.

She chuckled, but the pain from her wound made her mouth twitch. After calming her breathing, she said, "The one who saved me is a fire thief. Get lost, Ye City doesn't welcome you."

"How did you figure that out?"

With most of his face obscured by tactical goggles, Lu Qiu was certain the girl couldn't see his puzzled expression, so he asked.

The base identified itself as a "New Human" and a "Fire Stealer" using iris recognition, a method the girl clearly lacked, yet she made the same judgment.

"Such excellent equipment is beyond the reach of us refugees." The girl's attention remained fixed on Lu Qiu's equipment, her eyes shifting between greed and wariness.

The only thing that remains unchanged is a trace of hatred.

Lu Qiu removed his tactical goggles, revealing his young face: "You seem to have some misunderstanding."

Based on the information he obtained at the base, he found no connection between Frigga 47 and the outside world, and he did not understand where the girl's hatred came from.

"The Fire Stealers are still as disgusting as ever. Do you think I'll believe you just because you take off your mask?" The girl spat. "Before Nirvana began, the Fireseed Corporation concentrated so many resources, saying they wanted to help humanity evolve."

"At the beginning of the Nirvana Era, you hid in the deep mountains, underground, and underwater, caring nothing for the lives of everyone."

"We struggled to survive, and you crawled out of the base, righteously declaring your intention to take over Ye City."

"Pah, to hell with the fire thieves."