Midnight, Longquan Town.
There was a dilapidated villa in the mountains that was overgrown with trees and weeds. Its walls were covered with creeper plants and were quiet.
Inside a room in the villa, Ling Jiu sat cross-legged as he activated the Sea of Hundred Rivers, absorbing the Gene Arcana without a kilometer’s radius.
The other team members were all asleep in the next room. It was not because they did not want to practice, but being in the same room with Ling Jiu, they could not absorb any Gene Arcana at all.
Ling Jiu’s absorption ability was just too strong, and all of the Gene Arcana within a thousand meters were all swept away by him in an instant. So there was no other way but to sleep instead of training.
“The Arcana Replication ability is finally restored!”
At three o’clock in the morning, Ling Jiu suddenly opened his eyes as a sharp glint flashed across his eyes. He then quietly went to the next room and found Meng Lijun.
Name: Meng Lijun
Race: Human
Arcana: Tungsten Form (Awakened, Replicable)
“Replicate!”
Ling Jiu ordered.
After the fusion was successful, Ling Jiu did not rush to complete it, but instead quietly left the villa, and came to a remote forest in the distance before starting the process.
Baaaam!!
The familiar pain swept through his body. Even if he had experienced this a few times before, Ling Jiu still suffered from the pain. For some reason, the pain was far worse than before.
Be it the fusion of the Earth Manipulation Arcana, Shadowform Arcana, Blink Arcana, or the Gravity Arcana, neither of them had given him pain this violent.
If the pain from the previous few fusions were concentrated on his head, then this time, it was all over his body, as every nook and cranny of his being writhed in pain.
What Ling Jiu could not see was a mysterious silver substance was sweeping across his body, transforming his body in a frenzy.
Be it his bones, meridians, skin, blood, cells, or even his DNA... all of them were being transformed by the silver substance.
An overwhelming pain came from every cell in his body as his nerves felt like they were being torn by a raging river. Ling Jiu felt that his entire body was about to break apart as he convulsed violently.
Fortunately, the pain left as quickly as it violently came. Ten minutes later, the pain disappeared like the ebbing tide as Ling Jiu lay on the grass and panted violently.
His clothes were soaked with cold sweat, and his body was stained with dirt from his struggling, but Ling Jiu’s mind was not on all these.
“Tungsten Form!”
A thought appeared in Ling Jiu’s mind.
In an instant, mysterious energy erupted from his body as his whole body seemed to transformed into iron, and quickly took a dark silver sheen.
At the same time, Ling Jiu’s body quickly inflated like a balloon, and in a blink of an eye, his entire body had become a man of steel that was two meters tall.
At this moment, Ling Jiu felt his body was clearly different now.
He could not feel any breathing.
He could not feel any heartbeat.
He could not even feel any temperature.
His skeleton, muscles, veins, organs, his whole body... had completely transformed into tungsten!
“This power...”
Ling Jiu clenched his fists, and felt the strength in his body was many, many times stronger than before as a powerful strength surged within his body.
Ling Jiu could not bear it any longer and suddenly leaped up as he squeezed his right fist tight and punched a willow tree the size of a water barrel next to him.
Crack!!
The terrifying power immediately erupted, causing a brief sonic boom before him, and following that, a crack as the iron fist instantly perforated the trunk of the big willow tree and then shot out from its back. Surprisingly, the big willow tree did not shake much at all.
“What terrifying power!”
Ling Jiu’s eyes beamed with excitement. “As expected of the Tungsten Form. My strength now is very likely a hundred times stronger than before!”
Without any devices to measure his strength, Ling Jiu could not test it out, but that punch through the willow tree trunk earlier had completely shown that his strength... had increased by many folds.
As to whether it had increased by 100 times, he needed to test it out slowly.
“Roar!!!”
At this moment, a low roar suddenly came from behind him, and just as he turned his head, a giant tiger with a height of five meters, and a body length of 8 meters, covered in iron armor and scales appeared from the grass.
The tiger’s jaw was wide open with drool flowing out of its mouth as it stared at Ling Jiu with cold, menacing eyes that were full of greed and hunger.
It’s hungry!
And it needed something to eat badly!
“A Class 4 Direbeast, the Ironclad Striped Tiger!”
Looking at the giant tiger that had taken him for food, the corner of Ling Jiu’s mouth raised slightly. “You came at the right time, let me try my new gain Arcana on you then!”
After today’s sweep, the Direbeasts in Longquan Town were almost totally eliminated, but the 50-mile area around Longquan Town was too big to be completed in one day.
There were many powerful Direbeasts living in these places, and the Ironclad Striped Tiger was one of them. Ling Jiu had planned to deal with them tomorrow, but he did not expect to encounter one of them tonight.
“Roar!!!”
The Ironclad Striped Tiger was famished, and once reaching its attack range, it attacked with any hesitation, as it charged with a powerful force towards Ling Jiu.
“Good timing!”
Ling Jiu laughed and shot out a punch. The iron fist was like a cannonball that accurately struck the Ironclad Striped Tiger’s forehead.
With a loud crack, the iron fist punched directly into the tiger’s forehead.
The Ironclad Striped Tiger was stunned as its massive body froze in midair. Its round eyes were bloodshot, full of consternation and disbelief.
It could have never expected that Ling Jiu’s fist would be so powerful, so devastating, so domineering that it penetrated its frontal bone.
The frontal bone!
The hardest bone in its body!
“Pah, you dare to show off with that child’s play?”
Ling Jiu was very satisfied with his strength. To be honest, he did not even use his full strength with the punch just now, and he did not even break the skin of his fist.
“As expected of the Tungsten Form, not only it has terrifying power, its defensive power is superb. I love this Arcana!”
Although he possessed the Earth Manipulation Arcana, Ling Jiu still likes to fight things head-on. He had the blood of warriors and tanks flowing in him.
Mages?
Those are for sissies!
“Unfortunately, this Arcana, like the others, I cannot expose it to anyone else. But It could be used in conjunction with my Rock Giant skill!”
Afterward, Ling Jiu returned to the camping villa and continued to train. However, it wasn’t long before he was awakened by a screeching telephone ring.
“What’s the situation?”
Everyone was awakened.
“Take the call!”
Ling Jiu pressed the answer button.
“Is this Captain Ling Jiu”
Xu Yuanhui’s anxious voice came from the other side of the phone.
“It’s me!”
“Thank goodness!”
Xu Yuanhui said anxiously. “Captain Ling, please reinforce Mopan Bay immediately. A large number of Class 4 and Class 5 Direbeasts had suddenly appeared there. The situation is very critical!”
“Mopan Bay?”
“A large number of Claa 4 and Class 5 Direbeasts?”
Ling Jiu nodded slightly. “No problem, we’ll head there right away!”
“Thank you, Captain Ling!”