Combatant
07
In mountains.
Su Mo held the map in his hand and traveled through the dense forest as per the directions on the map.
He hid his aura as much as he could and was extremely cautious along the way.
He was now over 25 kilometers into the Breezewind Mountains. The demon beasts around him were all Class 4 Lv 1, and some were even Class 5 Lv 1.
With his current strength, he might not even be able to defeat a Cla.s.s 4 Lv 1 demonic beast, let alone a Cla.s.s 5 Lv 1 demonic beast.
Therefore, he was very careful along the way.
Finally, after advancing for another hour, Su Mo arrived at the messy valley without any accidents.
The valley was surrounded by cliffs that were hundreds of meters high, and there was only one entrance.
The valley was covered in thorns and bushes, making it a quiet place.
Su Mo was very focused and alert to his surroundings. If there was any danger, he would immediately escape.
Treasure was indeed important, but it was nothing without his life.
Su Mo looked at the map in his hand and saw that the place marked on the map was this valley.
Su Mo looked around carefully. Soon, he found a huge crack in the stone wall.
It was a 30-meter-long horizontal crack, like the mouth of a giant beast, and was extremely deep.
The crack was overgrown with weeds, so it was impossible to find it without careful observation.
Standing in the crack, Su Mo frowned.
This crack was unlike any small cave before. It was dark and cold, and it was very deep. Su Mo wondered what kind of danger was contained within.
After hesitating for a moment, Su Mo gnashed his teeth and walked into the crack.
Since he was already here, how could he return empty-handed?
“Danger?
When have I ever been afraid of danger? “
As Su Mo went deeper, the light in the crack became fainter, and the surroundings became pitch-black.
Su Mo directed his original Qi into his eyes, and his vision improved greatly. He walked deeper into that gap.
After walking for a while, Su Mo discovered that the passageway in the crack was gradually pointing downwards.
He estimated that he was now about ten meters underground.
After walking for a while, a cool breeze blew in front of him, and the sound of running water rang out.
Su Mo's spirit lifted, and he accelerated his pace.
Immediately, Su Mo's eyes twinkled, and he saw a large space five to six meters high, seven to eight meters wide, and an unfathomable length.
It turned out to be an underground world.
An underground river passed through this space, leading to an unknown destination.
There were many fish swimming in the river, and there were many natural rocks on the river bank, emitting a dim fluorescent light. Su Mo had a beautiful view of the underground world.
Not far in front of Su Mo was a dilapidated stone room.
There were some skeletons outside the stone room. It is clear that they have long since died.
“Could the treasure have been taken?”
Su Mo slowly walked into the broken stone room.
The stone room was not large. Its length and width was less than five meters, and half of it had collapsed.
The stone room was empty except for the two skeletons in the middle.
Su Mo could not help feeling disappointed. It seems that the treasure has been taken.
“Hmm? “
Suddenly, Su Mo was stunned.
This was because he discovered that one of the skeletons was actually light golden in color and did not rot in the slightest.
“Why is there a light golden bone?”
Su Mo was confused.
This was indeed the skeleton of a human warrior, but he had never heard of anyone with a pale golden skeleton.
“Eh? This ... “
Su Mo suddenly discovered there was an ancient grayish-white ring on the left finger of the golden skeleton.
“Could it be a storage ring?”
Su Mo was a little excited and hurriedly took the ring.
A storage ring is a kind of treasure that can store items. It has its own space and is very valuable.
Nobody in Sunnywood City had a Storage Ring. Ordinary martial artists all used Storage Bags, which were of a lower class.
After taking a deep breath, Su Mo inserted his original Qi into the ring.
In the next instant, Su Mo's consciousness entered the gray space.
This space was not large, long, wide, and about five meters high.
In the corner of the space, there were several scrolls, a long sword, and a pile of milky white crystals.
With a thought, the long sword appeared in Su Mo's hand. After injecting the original Qi into it, the long sword immediately let out a sword cry.
Engaged! Engaged!
The sword Qi on the long sword pulsed and shot into the wall a meter away, completely piercing through the hard stone wall.
“This …! “
Su Mo was surprised. He had not expected the sword to be so strong that his sword Qi could easily pierce through the hard stone walls.
Cutting Spirit Lv 3 Intermediate!
Su Mo looked at some small words engraved on the hilt of the long sword.
“That's a Medium Lv 3 weapon?”
Su Mo was very excited.
What is Medium Lv 3? There was not even a single Upper Lv 2 weapon in Sunnywood City, which showed just how valuable a Medium Lv 3 weapon was.
As for the word ‘Spirit Severing’, that was the name of his sword.
After a while, Su Mo returned the long sword into the storage ring and took out the scroll.
There were a total of four secret manuals. They are: ‘God’ Wind Sword Art, ‘Gajah’ Myriad Deity Art, ‘Shadow’ Art, and ‘Primordial’ Singular Energy Art.
Su Mo gently unrolled the Elephant Strength Skill and focused his attention on it.
Elephant Strength Skill, Upper Lv 5 Body Refining Skill, divided into 15 levels. After cultivating it, one's body would be as strong as the Archean Fierce Beast and possess the strength of an elephant.
Level 1 to 3, Strength Training!
Level 4 to 6, Tempering Bone!
Level 10 to 12, Heavenly Power!
Level 13 to 15, Elephant!
Su Mo was startled again as he read the contents of the book, and his face became blank.
“Top 5 Lv Cultivation Skills?
Body Refining Skills?
The power of an elephant? “
What is the power of an elephant? It was the power of tens of thousands of elephants!
Moreover, the “gajah” in question is not an ordinary demon elephant, but an Ancient Barbarian Elephant.
Even if the Ancient Barbarian Elephant did not cultivate, he would have a strength of over 5,000 kilograms by the time he reached adulthood.
Just how powerful was the strength of tens of thousands of Ancient Barbaric Elephants?
100 Million kilograms?
A few hundred million kilograms?
Su Mo suddenly felt his brain was not enough!
“This is a Top 5 Lv Cultivation Skill! And that was a Body Refining Skill! “
Su Mo was overjoyed when he realized that he had come to the right place to hunt for treasure.
As far as Su Mo knew, there was not even a Lv3 Cultivation Skill in Sunnywood City, let alone a Lv5 Cultivation Skill.
As one of the two great families in Sunnywood City, the highest level of Sus cultivation skill was only Medium Lv 2. It was a family secret skill, and ordinary family members were not qualified to cultivate it.
Now, he had obtained an Upper Lv 5 Cultivation Skill, and it was a Body Refining Skill.
Body Refining Skills were even more valuable than Qi Cultivation Skills at the same level, as they were too few in number.
Body Refining Skills were a real way to strengthen one's body. The Tempering Body Realm before the Qi Cultivation Realm was only for training one's body.
The Su Clan also only had two body refinement techniques. However, very few young disciples cultivated it as it was relatively slow and wasted a lot of time.
For the young Sus disciples, increasing their cultivation and strength was their top priority.
This Elephant Strength Skill was far more valuable than the Spirit Killing Sword.
“Huff!”
Su Mo took a deep breath and looked at the other three scrolls.
Compared to the Spirit Killing Sword and the Elephant Strength Skill, the other three scrolls were much more ordinary.
It was all Lower Lv 3 scrolls, and there were swordsmanship, footwork, and cultivation skills.
Although these three secret manuals were not as good as the Elephant Strength Technique, they were many times better than the secret manuals of the Su family.
Coincidentally, these were all things Su Mo needed.
Su Mo did not know the remaining pile of milky white crystals, but he could sense the powerful Spiritual Qi within it, so he was sure it was a treasure.
After a while, Su Mo calmed down and put away the other scrolls, leaving only the Elephant Strength Skill.
He carefully read it and memorized the mnemonic formula and the main points in it.
There was no danger in this underground world, and it was quite calm. Su Mo sat down cross-legged, released his Martial Soul, and began cultivating.
The Elephant Strength Skill was an extremely mysterious cultivation skill that used either the heaven and earth origin Spiritual Qi or one's original Qi to refine one's body.
At this moment, the original Qi within Su Mo's body turned into many runes from “gajah”, drilling into his flesh and blood and refining his body.
Two hours later, Su Mo suddenly opened his eyes, his face full of shock.
“This cultivation skill consumes so much original Qi?”
After cultivating for only two hours, Su Mo's original Qi had been consumed.
Furthermore, Su Mo could only try his best to activate his Martial Soul and absorb the heaven and earth origin Spiritual Qi to refine his body.
All of the absorbed Spiritual Qi was converted into runes and integrated into his body.
His body was like an abyss, crazily absorbing Spiritual Qi and runes.
Time passes quickly.
He cultivated for eight days. During this period, Su Mo caught fish from the underground river when he was hungry, so he did not worry about food.
On the sixth day, Su Mo successfully developed the first level Elephant Strength Skill.
After successfully cultivating the first level, Su Mo's body strength surged. With just his physical strength, the strength of his fist exceeded the strength of three tigers, which were stronger than a martial artist in the Lv 3 Qi Cultivation Realm.
For a martial artist in the Qi Cultivation Realm, any increase in cultivation would increase the strength of a tiger.
The strength of a tiger is about 250 kilograms, and the strength of three tigers is 1,500 kilograms.
Su Mo felt his current strength was close to 1,000 kilograms, which was the strength of four tigers. Even if it wasn't the strength of the four tigers, it wasn't far from it.
After cultivating for only a few days, his strength surged, which made him even more determined to develop this skill.
If he could develop this skill to Lv 10 or so, he would become invincible in the entire Skymoon Country, let alone in Sunnywood City.
However, after cultivating the first level, Su Mo clearly felt that cultivating the second level was 10 times slower than cultivating the first level.
It only took six days for him to cultivate the first level, but he estimated that it would take at least two months to fully cultivate the second level.
Therefore, after cultivating for two more days, Su Mo stopped.
He had been out for 10 days, and it was time to return.
After recovering his original Qi, Su Mo buried the golden skeleton, left this underground world, and flew towards Sunnywood City.
The gold skeleton storage ring had given Su Mo a chance. Thus, Su Mo had buried the skeleton to rest in peace.
On the way home, Su Mo suddenly thought of a problem.
Growing the Elephant Strength Skill required a large amount of Spiritual Qi, and the higher the level, the more Spiritual Qi was needed.
If he continued to develop this skill, all of the Spiritual Qi that his Martial Soul had absorbed would be depleted.
His own True Qi would not increase in the slightest, and his cultivation would not increase either.
If he were to cultivate his Qi cultivation and Body Refining at the same time, the cultivation speed of the two aspects would be greatly reduced.
“Should I unleash my cultivation Qi and focus on refining the body?”
As soon as this idea came to his mind, Su Mo immediately rejected it.
For others, cultivating Qi cultivation and Body Refining at the same time might greatly affect the increase in their strength, but it was not a problem for Su Mo.
His Martial Soul could be upgraded.
As long as he increased his Martial Soul level, the speed of absorbing Spiritual Qi would greatly increase, as would his cultivation.
Now that his Devouring Martial Soul had been upgraded to a Rank 3 Human Class, his speed absorbed Spiritual Qi 10 times faster than when he was in the Rank 1 Human Class.
If he could raise his Martial Soul by a few more ranks, his cultivation speed would definitely increase again.
Therefore, cultivating Qi cultivation and Body Refining at the same time would only increase his strength, but it would not greatly affect his cultivation speed.
“Ha ha! It looks like I will have to kill more in the future! “