Please be my partner.

Sha Lian's eyes were blurred with tears. She looked at Mellen with a hopeful look and asked, "Really...really?"

This kind of tearful look was unbearable not only for Chen Guang and Lu Shu who lacked self-control, but even for Gao Haidong and Rong Dingjun who were experienced in battle.

"Yeah!" Mellen replied, his eyes drifting away.

After receiving Mellen's affirmative answer, Sha Lian burst into laughter.

After completing the mission, targeting Zhou Weimin, the group of people certainly didn't need to continue wandering around in Dachuan Mountain. They first contacted Luo Yalan who stayed outside, briefly explained the situation here, and then the group prepared to leave the mountain.

Of course, before leaving, there is one very important thing to do, and that is... eating!

That’s right, it’s just for food!

When they were chasing Zhou Weimin, they were afraid of alerting the enemy and also didn't want to waste time. They basically just ate energy bars along the way, and even if they encountered some wild animals on the road, they didn't even look at them.

At this time, we should naturally thank nature for its gift.

They easily caught some wild game for grilling and cooking. There was no need to add too many seasonings as the ingredients themselves were extremely delicious. Finally, they added a thick soup made from the many mushrooms collected by Sha Lian as a base. After the meal, everyone felt very comfortable.

Of course, Melen and the others did not forget to bring some raw materials back for Luo Yalan.

When the group returned to the edge of Mount Okawa, Sha Lian held Mellen's hand and repeatedly confirmed the agreement three months later.

Melen calmly withdrew his arm and seriously stated that he would fulfill the agreement. Only then did Sha Lian happily leave.

After Sha Lian left, the five of them all showed relieved expressions at the same time.

Gao Haidong jokingly said, "Being with this God Worshiping Cult advocate is, in a sense, more stressful than facing the might of the Grandmaster directly."

The others also nodded in agreement, as this was a constant challenge to their sexual orientation.

After expressing their feelings, the group continued on their journey. When they met up with Luo Yalan, the latter had already collected all the things that had been arranged before.

From Chen Guang and Lu Shu's vivid descriptions, Luo Yalan also learned about their experiences during this period. She was particularly interested in Sha Lian. After all, she was the only one in the Yuehai team who had never seen Sha Lian in person.

After driving back to the Huxiu City General Administration to complete the handover, the group returned to the Holy City.

Mellen and his team all have mission recorders on them, which can be turned on when they are performing a mission to record the mission.

When fighting with Zhou Weimin before, Melen and Rong Dingjun both turned on the mission recorders they carried with them. They only needed to submit them to the Holy Guard Headquarters, and their mission this time could be easily completed and settled.

At the same time, Melen also looked up more information about the cult.

According to the records of the Holy Guard, this is a hidden sect that was active six or seven hundred years ago. At that time, the ruler of this land was not the Holy City Federation, but an empire that was about to decay. Well, at least that's how it was described in the records.

Technology at that time was far less developed than it is today, and the worship of gods was at its peak, with many believers and grand sacrifices held every year.

The sacrifices of the God Worshiping Cult are quite formal, and the offerings are divided into three large animals and three small animals according to the size of the sacrifice. This is completely different from those evil gods and lewd temples that like to use living people as sacrifices.

Moreover, with the establishment of the Holy City Federation and the deepening of the modernization process, the Cult of God also voluntarily reduced its scale. Now it only retains a small village and is in a secluded state, so it was not liquidated afterwards.

As for the blessing of God mentioned by Sha Lian, the information that Melen found was extremely vague. The records described that those who received the blessing of God would have good luck, and even worse, they would be given some kind of great power. It sounded quite mysterious.

Melen did not comment on this. He did not want to accept the so-called blessing from God.

A higher being infuses its own power into a lower being?

Melen has seen this kind of method too many times. Even if the higher-level being has no malicious intentions, the lower-level being who accepts its power will naturally be controlled by it.

Although Melen is not afraid of these, he is also worried about being exposed. Before his own power is fully released, he does not want to face the powerful existence of the Mountain and Sea Realm too much.

The gods worshipped by theologians are very likely such beings.

The Holy Guard Headquarters quickly completed the mission feedback. What surprised Mellen and the others was that it was originally just a C+ level mission, but perhaps because it involved the power of the evil god, the mission level was raised to B+ level, and the mission reward was naturally much higher than before.

The good thing about the Holy Guard is that one is one and two is two. Even if the assigned mission is suddenly upgraded for some reason, even if the mission has been completed, the reward will still be increased accordingly.

This was naturally a good thing for Melen and the others. Melen immediately went on a shopping spree, spending all his reward points on a bunch of cultivation resources, and then went into seclusion to practice hard.

Seeing Mellen's attitude, the other members of the Yuehai team, who were originally planning to relax, felt embarrassed and also went to practice.

This is what is called involution.

A week later.

The Yuehai team, except Mellen, gathered in the villa.

Gao Haidong glanced in the direction of the underground training room, shrugged helplessly and said, "After the run-in of the previous missions, I was planning to take on missions above B level this time. Unfortunately, Junior Brother Mellen's training has reached a critical moment, and he can't go out with us this time."

Chen Guang said with a smile: "Brother Mellen is a genius. After Brother Mellen finishes his training this time, we will be more stable in carrying out tasks above B level."

Gao Haidong nodded with a smile, but he had another idea in his mind, but he did not say it clearly.

After the Yuehai team completed the pre-mission plan and arrangements, they drove away and the villa became quiet.

In the underground training room, Mellen was not exercising as usual, and there was no sign of boiling blood around his body. Instead, he was as quiet as a piece of rotten wood, and even his breath became almost imperceptible.

If you look inward, you will find that the energy and blood in Mellen's body are flowing steadily like rivers, but beneath this calmness, there are unimaginable waves.

The strength of Mellen's flesh and blood has reached a certain limit. When a certain moment comes, just like a natural process, the strength of the qi and blood nurtured in his flesh and blood is silently improved to a higher level. At the same time, the infinite qi and blood flowing from Xiao Honglian through the contract is also improved at the same time.

Rivers flow into the sea, forming the vast ocean.

When the new energy and blood flowed out of Mellen's body and covered his entire body, he was like wearing a layer of crystal gem armor. Although it was only a thin layer, it gave him a feeling of being indestructible.

Mellen looked at his hands, then snapped his fingers. A faint sound of breaking through the air was heard, followed by a "bang", and a small hole appeared on the wall in front of him.

Although he didn't use his full strength, this attack, which was not much stronger than a slingshot, did not satisfy Mellen. However, Mellen also understood that the martial arts qi and blood he had cultivated through physical training could only reach this point.

Qi and blood seem to be able to attach to the surface of the body to form obvious phenomena, but that's all. Once they leave the body, they will quickly dissipate and disappear, and at most can only be maintained three inches in front of the body.

In fact, if this were placed in ancient times, hitting three inches in the air would be called practicing Qi to form Gang, which was enough to be called a local hero. People at this level could basically establish a sect and occupy a region, because without inheritance, it would be almost impossible for them to make further progress.

After a simple test, Melen closed his eyes again. He wanted to confirm the difficulty of strengthening bones and tempering internal organs without any secret method.

As Mellen's mind turned, the endless energy and blood in his body surged like endless waves in the sea, and all 206 bones in his body were wrapped in energy and blood.

However, Mellen did not perform bone forging together, but chose a rib for experimentation.

Under Mellen's guidance, the qi and blood squeezed madly and penetrated into the rib, but due to the obstruction of the bones, a large amount of qi and blood was blocked outside with every penetration, and only a very small part could continue to move forward.

One-half...

one fifth……

one tenth……

One percent...

thousandth……

In the end, only one ten-thousandth of the qi and blood that passed through the bones and nourished the bone marrow remained.

With this slight bone marrow strengthening, Melen could not feel any changes in his blood, let alone relying on the vitality in the blood to passively temper his organs.

This made Melen think of a creation called the 'Gorgor Gear Set', which is a module composed of one hundred decimal gears. The first gear rotates ten times, which will drive the second gear to rotate one circle. The second gear rotates ten times, which will drive the third gear to rotate one circle, and so on.

Mellen's mastery of flesh refining to produce rich blood and energy is like turning the first gear, while to forge bones he needs to turn the fourth or fifth gear, and to temper the internal organs he needs to turn the seventh or eighth gear.

With this progressive method, even if Melen has endless energy and blood, it is useless because too much energy is wasted during the process, and more importantly, it takes too long.

The secret method of strengthening bones and tempering internal organs is equivalent to removing those severely worn gears in the middle, and the effort saved is more than a hundred times or a thousand times.

Mellen opened his eyes and allowed the endless energy and blood in his body to passively strengthen his bones, while he thought about his next plan.

After a long time, Melen said to himself:

"It seems that going to Shenglong Sect to obtain the secret methods of bone forging and internal organ tempering is imperative."

Chapter 344 Yes, I am the martial arts genius that appears once in a thousand years

"What? Brother Mellen, you're leaving the Leaping Sea Team?!"

Chen Guang and Lu Shu exclaimed in bewilderment.

They had just returned from a mission outside and heard the news, and it was a little hard to accept.

On the contrary, Gao Haidong, Rong Dingjun and Luo Yalan looked calm, and it was obvious that they had expected this scene to happen.

Melun smiled faintly and said to Chen Guang and Lu Shu, "I'm just temporarily leaving the Yuehai team to take the entrance exam for the Shenglong Sect. I might get rejected and return home in disgrace in a few days."

Gao Haidong sighed and said, "I knew this day would come, but I didn't expect it to come so soon."

"But why choose Shenglong Sect? Junior Brother Melen, you should have seen the data recorded by the Holy Guard. Shenglong Sect is good, but such a major martial arts sect would hardly accept people with official status like us. Even if there are assessment channels, they are just a facade due to the Federation's agreement. The difficulty set is impossible for anyone to pass."

"Brother Melun, instead of wasting time in Shenglong Sect, why not choose Sanjiao Sect, Manniu Sect, or other martial arts sects that are on good terms with the Holy Guards?"

Mellen nodded in agreement, but he didn't change his mind. Instead, he said calmly, "I'm just going to try."

Gao Haidong sighed inwardly, realizing that although his junior fellow Mellen seemed humble, he was actually an extremely arrogant person. Coupled with his amazing talent, he would definitely not listen to his mature advice before he hit a wall.

The so-called "making things difficult" is just Gao Haidong's euphemism. In fact, there is another opinion among the Holy Guards, which is that the Shenglong Sect's assessment is not deliberately set to be more difficult, but this standard is actually set for the chosen ones who are carefully trained by the Shenglong Sect. Ordinary people like them will naturally feel despair when they see it, and think that it is absolutely impossible to complete it. It is the Shenglong Sect that deliberately makes things difficult for them in order to prevent them from passing.

To put it bluntly, these Holy Guards are geniuses picked out of a hundred or even a thousand among ordinary people, but compared with the real geniuses and evildoers, there is still a world of difference between them.

Seeing that Mellen was determined, Gao Haidong could only pray inwardly that his arrogant junior would not be devastated by the huge blow.

Mellen naturally didn't know what Gao Haidong was thinking, but it wouldn't matter even if he knew.

According to the agreement between the Federation and those first-rate martial arts schools, anyone who has mastered physical training under the age of 35 can apply to participate in the assessments of those martial arts schools. Once they pass, they can join the school and learn more advanced inheritance.

The so-called first-class martial arts school refers to a school that possesses secret methods of strengthening bones and tempering internal organs, and whose inheritors in history have reached the peak of the Blood Moving Realm before the age of sixty.

Schools like the Shenglong School are top-tier martial arts schools. Not only do they have a more complete heritage, but more importantly, they have a master in charge!

A master who has condensed the true spirit of martial arts can be called a walking nuclear weapon. Even if there is only one of them, it is enough to deter a country. His status can be imagined.

It is said that there is more than one master in the Shenglong sect.

This also indirectly confirms the profound heritage of Shenglong School.

After having a sumptuous lunch with the Yuehai team, Mellen parted ways with them and went to the Holy Guard headquarters alone.

After explaining his purpose to the staff, Mellen was taken to a small reception room. Soon, a middle-aged man in a suit and tie walked in.

He greeted, "Mr. Mellen, right? You can call me Zhou Wen. I'm responsible for liaising with the personnel involved in the assessments between the Holy Guards and the martial arts schools."

After a brief greeting, Zhou Wen got down to business and asked, "Mr. Mellen, if I remember correctly, you should be only 23 years old this year, right?"

Mellen nodded slightly. Although he would not officially turn 23 for a few months, it was not bad to say so. At the same time, this body also reflected his real age.

Zhou Wen smiled and said, "That's not bad. It meets the requirements for the Shenglong Sect's assessment."

Mellen looked puzzled and asked, "Meet the assessment requirements? Doesn't it say that anyone who reaches the Great Perfection of Physical Training before the age of thirty-five can apply? Are there any other requirements?"

Zhou Wen smiled and said, "This isn't really a secret. Achieving physical mastery before the age of thirty-five is just the minimum requirement for joining a martial arts school. However, the requirements for recruiting disciples at the top and best martial arts schools are naturally more stringent, so we can't generalize."

"For example, many top-tier martial arts schools require candidates to be under 30 years old to have achieved great physical training. The Shenglong School requires candidates to be under 25 years old. If you are over this age, even if you follow the procedures and go to the school, they won't even open the examination for you and will just give you a random excuse."

Mellen nodded slightly. He didn't expect there were so many twists and turns. But this was normal. Although "one size fits all" seemed inhumane, it was the most efficient approach.

Isn’t it common in novels and picture books to have scenes where the protagonist is obviously a genius, but because he started practicing cultivation relatively late, he is looked down upon by those powerful sects, and then he fights back all the way by pretending to be awesome and getting slapped in the face!

It would be even more interesting if we could add in some scenes like the elder sister's keen eye for talent, the younger sister's unwavering loyalty, and the childhood sweethearts' desire to climb up the social ladder.

Melen collected his scattered thoughts, and Zhou Wen also talked about the more critical points.

Zhou Wen said, "The Holy Guard will send a special car to take you to Shenglong Mountain, but of course you can also choose to go there on your own."

"Including the assessment, you have a total of one month's vacation. Even if you fail the assessment, you don't have to rush back to work. You can take this opportunity to relax and rest."

Zhou Wen hesitated at this point, and Mellen asked, "Mr. Zhou, is there anything else that's troubling you?"

Zhou Wen shook his head and said, "Well, you should prepare in advance. The difficulty of the Shenglong Sect's assessment may be higher than you imagine. Even if you fail, it won't be a big deal."

This certainty that he would fail, so the words of comfort in advance to let him be mentally prepared, stunned Mellen.

At this time, Zhou Wen had stopped talking and was operating the subsequent procedures on a portable notebook. In fact, what he said was too much, and he only said a few more words because of Mellen's good talent.

What happened next was simple. It took two hours to go through various formalities and procedures, and then Mellen boarded a shuttle-shaped aircraft.

This aircraft is the latest technology of the Federation. It relies on magnetic levitation to fly and is extremely fast.

The shuttle rose silently into the air and reached its maximum speed in a very short time.

Although the shuttle has many advantages, it currently has a considerable flaw.

Although the shuttle is protected inside, there is still a huge pressure difference at this speed. If an ordinary person were to feel this, he would probably experience a series of symptoms such as dizziness and nausea.

This kind of shuttle can currently only be used by warriors above the Blood Moving Realm.

In less than an hour, the pressure dropped rapidly, and when it completely disappeared, it meant that the shuttle had come to a complete stop. Mellen understood that he had arrived at his destination, Shenglong Mountain in the northwest of the Holy City Federation.

This is also the headquarters of the Shenglong faction.

After getting off the shuttle, Melen looked at the continuous buildings on the towering mountains in the distance. Especially at this moment, the afterglow of the setting sun coated the entire mountain with a layer of pure golden glow, making it look sacred and majestic.