The time when the dark golden sphere in the sea of consciousness would be exhausted, no one knew at all. Luo Feng also stopped thinking about it.
March 1st, Thursday, the day the Fire Hammer Squad set out.
On the first floor of the HR Alliance mall, the five members of the Fire Hammer Squad gathered together.
“Fengzi, what are you looking at? Is it because Miss Xu Xin is not here that you feel disappointed?” Wei Tie teased with a laugh. Luo Feng did not say much. Last night he had already called Xu Xin, and even during the Spring Festival, they had once had lunch together and talked for a long time.
Luo Feng had a one sided affection for Xu Xin, and Xu Xin also had some good feelings toward Luo Feng.
However, neither of them had broken through that layer of relationship.
Xu Xin was still studying, and moreover the Xu family was a powerful and influential large family. Her relationship matters were not simple. As for Luo Feng himself, the bounty from the Venomous Scorpion couple was still ongoing. That invisible pressure constantly weighed on him.
“When I become stronger and deal with this trouble, I will explain things clearly to Xu Xin,” Luo Feng understood this very well. Both sides had their difficulties, so neither of them broke it.
Just occasional phone calls, occasional meetings.
That was enough.
“Alright, let’s set off,” the captain Gao Feng stood up.
“Haha, after the New Year my body is almost rusted, let’s go,” Wei Qing laughed.
Wei Tie, Chen Gu, and Luo Feng also stood up. The Fire Hammer Squad of five took the HR Alliance vehicle to the train station, then took a train to the southeastern military supply base.
Wilderness Area, City 023.
Last time, Luo Feng stole the dragon egg, and the Iron Armored Dragon’s territory was near the highway in the suburbs. If Luo Feng had taken the normal route to City 003, he might have run into that Iron Armored Dragon. After stealing its egg, he naturally did not dare go there and face its fury.
Inside a ruined ancient style building courtyard, Luo Feng and Gao Feng were jointly fighting a giant bull like beast covered in steel like armor. Its entire body was fiery red, white air rushing out from its nostrils as it crazily attacked the human youth it hated most, who kept darting around it like an annoying fly.
This bull type beast was the Iron Armored Bull, known for its terrifying defence among bull species, its scale armor placing it at intermediate beast general level.
The two other advanced beast soldier level Iron Armored Bulls under its command had already been dealt with by Wei Tie and Wei Qing.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.
Luo Feng’s drifting footwork was as fast as lightning, like a matador from the old world before the Great Nirvana period, toying with the enraged Iron Armored Bull. Several wounds were already on its body, but they had little effect on it.
Slash!
A cold flash of light appeared like lightning.
A streak of blood sprayed out as the Blood Shadow Battle Blade slashed upward from beneath the Iron Armored Bull’s neck, cutting halfway through. Then Luo Feng instantly withdrew and moved away.
“Moo!”
The Iron Armored Bull let out a low and unwilling roar. Because its throat was cut, the sound was weak and ragged. Then its massive body collapsed heavily, shaking the ground and cracking the stone beneath it.
“Beautiful,” Gao Feng praised.
“Fengzi, your movement technique is getting better and better,” Wei Qing also praised.
Luo Feng himself understood clearly. When he escaped from the Iron Armored Dragon nest at the Carrefour Supermarket surrounded by hundreds of beast generals, that split second burst had pushed him close to perfect level movement for about 1.2 seconds. After that brief experience, during the two months at home, he frequently used the Extreme House neural response machine to train his movement.
Movement was divided into basic, micro, perfect, and intent levels.
In these two months of hard training, he had indeed touched the edge of perfect level movement.
“Everyone must be tired. We had a good harvest today, let’s return to the base to rest,” the captain Gao Feng said after collecting materials from the Iron Armored Bull.
Wei Tie, Wei Qing, and Chen Gu agreed and headed back.
“Captain, you go back first,” Luo Feng said with a smile.
“I will stay out a bit longer, train my blade and movement, then come back to find you all.”
“Young people really have energy,” Gao Feng and Chen Gu laughed. In the past few days Luo Feng had been like this, while the others rested, he would go out alone to hunt beasts. But they knew his strength and did not stop him.
After Gao Feng and the others left, Luo Feng was alone.
The sky was overcast.
The lone warrior Luo Feng moved through the streets of City 023 with a shield in one hand and a battle blade in the other. At times he fought beast generals, at times beast hordes. City 023, formerly Suzhou, still retained many ancient style buildings, but it had become a paradise for monsters.
Blood splattered.
Limbs flew.
Luo Feng repeatedly used the third level of the Nine Layer Thunder Blade, constantly pushing himself to the limit, charging into beast groups to fight. Within those battles, he tried again and again to reach the peak of his movement, using the environment and surrounding beasts to his advantage.
After a long time.
Three hours after Gao Feng and the others returned to rest, Luo Feng dragged his exhausted body to a small river, washed his combat suit briefly, and prepared to return. In just those three hours, hundreds of beasts had died at his hands, though beast reproduction was extremely fast.
Even if Luo Feng did not kill them, they would kill and devour each other for survival.
His combat suit was tightly woven, water could not penetrate it, so it easily washed off the blood.
Inside a six storey residential building, the Fire Hammer Squad had regrouped.
“You are back?” Gao Feng and the others looked toward the door.
“Mm, killed eight beast generals,” Luo Feng said as he placed the materials from his backpack on the ground. “I will go cultivate my genetic energy first, then we will eat dinner together.”
Chen Gu advised, “Luo Feng, do not push yourself too hard.”
“Yes, why are you training yourself so desperately?” Gao Feng also said.
But Luo Feng just smiled and entered a room nearby.
In the empty room, after placing down his shield, backpack, battle blade, and throwing knives, he began his cultivation of the guidance technique.
“Feels great.”
“Every time I push my body to the limit and then cultivate the guidance technique, every cell in my body seems to tremble.”
The stronger his Nine Layer Thunder Blade became, the faster his physical improvement. This was because the technique pushed the body to a deeper level of force usage, even affecting cells.
The more exhausted the cells became, the hungrier they were, and the stronger their absorption capacity for genetic energy.
“Why do warriors say that fighting beasts and life and death battles improve strength faster?”
“It is because in life and death situations, the body instinctively releases every bit of potential. That deep level of exhaustion allows more genetic energy to be absorbed during cultivation.”
Luo Feng easily deduced the reason.
A person training at home versus someone fighting beast hordes in the wilderness might both swing a blade, but the one in the wilderness consumes and stimulates far more bodily energy, resulting in faster growth.
“These past few days in the wilderness, my progress has been nearly one third faster than at home.”
……
In this way, Luo Feng immersed himself in slaughter in the wilderness every day. His body was often covered in blood, as if he had crawled out of a sea of blood. His movement, blade technique, and physical strength all improved steadily in this brutal training.
However, the constant killing also made his killing intent grow heavier.
True warriors all come through endless slaughter. Luo Feng was only just beginning this path.
Jiangnan Base City, Extreme Martial Arts Hall headquarters.
Inside a large audiovisual room.
“From these materials, Luo Feng is indeed talented and very diligent. Over ten thousand beast soldier level kills in two months? Very hardworking. His initial battle general strength is truly the result of his own effort.”
The headquarters special envoy, God of War Yang Hui, looked at the printed documents in front of him.
“Iron Hand, have you arranged Wu Tong?” Yang Hui asked.
“Wu Tong is online and can chat anytime,” the hall chief Zhou Zhengyong replied with a smile.
Yang Hui nodded and activated the three dimensional projection system.
A mist like light quickly formed a lifelike projection in the center of the room. Wu Tong, the manager of the Yangzhou City Extreme Martial Arts Hall, appeared as if he were really there.
“I greet the hall chief and the special envoy,” Wu Tong bowed slightly.
“Mm,” Yang Hui nodded. “You already know why I am here. You are responsible for the Yangzhou branch. Luo Feng also lives in Mingyue Community, so you should know him well.”
“Yes,” Wu Tong nodded.
“Tell me everything about his physical condition and current strength,” Yang Hui ordered.
“Yes,” Wu Tong said with a slightly proud smile. “Luo Feng is one of the top geniuses in Yangzhou in the past ten years. He is just 19 after the New Year. He has only been a warrior for a little over half a year. His physical strength is about 10000 kg punch force, speed 128 m/s. His neural response test result was about intermediate battle general level, qualified.”
“At the same time, as far as I know, he cultivates the Nine Layer Thunder Blade, and during the New Year he had already reached the third level. That is to say, he achieved the third level within half a year.”
“This is the key information I have.”
“Third level of the Nine Layer Thunder Blade?”
God of War Yang Hui, who had been calm until now, suddenly changed expression.
“You are sure?” he asked again.
“I am sure. I personally saw him strike with full force at 28000 kg,” Wu Tong said firmly.
Yang Hui and Zhou Zhengyong exchanged a look.
“The decision above may need to be changed,” Zhou Zhengyong said with a smile.
But Yang Hui was already looking at Wu Tong.
“Where is Luo Feng now? I want to meet him personally.”