9: Refining, the second level of body refining realm!

【Ding, successfully devoured the Crawler crystal core and the Corroder crystal core.】

【Current Body Tempering progress: 28%!】

"Body Tempering Realm Second Layer!"

Li Canglan felt wild joy in his heart.

It really was a more powerful Corroder crystal core; it actually allowed him to complete Body Refining for two levels of the Realm directly!

A minor Realm that others would need to spend months of effort to achieve a Breakthrough in.

He had actually completed the Breakthrough with just one Corroder crystal core.

Of course, this also had a lot to do with the extremely abundant energy contained within the Corroder crystal core.

Under normal circumstances, only a Martial Artist could kill a Corroder.

Combined with that extremely low drop rate, the quantity of crystal cores at this level was not overly abundant.

Moreover, other Martial Artists could not directly absorb the energy from the crystal cores!

Li Canglan opened his phone with satisfaction and glanced at the many missed messages he had received.

Most of them were about the disaster situation in Luofeng City.

【Luofeng TV Station: According to incomplete statistics, this spatial wormhole disaster has already resulted in over thirty thousand citizen deaths and over one hundred thousand citizen injuries. The disaster has been brought under control, and it is expected that all citizens will be able to return to normal life before dawn.】

The TV station reported a return to normal life, but everyone understood.

This disaster would leave a shadow in the hearts of the general public.

Many people's family members and friends had left their sides forever.

After arriving at the shelter, Zhang Ganchao immediately reported his safety to his parents.

Fortunately, no one in his family had encountered any danger.

At this moment, Li Canglan noticed a message sent by their homeroom teacher, Zhang Xin, in the class group chat.

"Students who have already entered the shelter, please register in the document."

The message display time was half an hour ago.

Li Canglan opened the document and found that only twenty-three students had registered.

There were forty-seven people in their class in total.

This meant that nearly half of the students in the class had not yet escaped danger.

Just then, the Martial Artist who had previously brought Li Canglan and the others to the shelter sent a message.

"The battle has basically ended, and the authorities are currently calculating the distribution of merits for this battle. Register your information."

This Martial Artist was the one who had personally witnessed Li Canglan delivering the final blow to the Corroder.

Li Canglan did not covet the credit and informed Wang Dayong and Zhang Ganchao beside him about this matter.

"The credit for this matter belongs to you in the first place."

Wang Dayong knew that without Li Canglan, none of the three of them would have been able to escape alive.

Even if he ran as fast as he could, the Corroder could have caught up to him after killing Li Canglan and the other person.

The credit for killing the Corroder should have belonged to Li Canglan in the first place.

"That's right."

Zhang Ganchao had no objections either, "Canglan, if you really feel bad about it, then wait until the rewards are distributed before allocating them."

"However, the lion's share must be yours."

It wasn't that he was truly coveting those rewards that hadn't arrived yet.

Rather, he had to consider Wang Dayong's thoughts.

After all, Wang Dayong was the first to choose to stand out and block the Corroder for them.

They had to keep this intention in their hearts.

"Alright, let's do it that way."

Li Canglan's thoughts coincided with Zhang Ganchao's.

After registering his information in the document, he began to close his eyes and rest.

The outside world had not been fully cleared yet, and it was too crowded inside the shelter to Cultivate.

He could only seize the time to rest and wait until he left to continue his training.

Time quickly arrived at dawn.

Inside the Demon Suppression Division, all the Demon Suppression Guards had somber expressions.

This battle had not only caused heavy casualties to the citizens.

Even the Demon Suppression Division had lost nearly one-tenth of its manpower!

The Martial Artists of the Demon Suppression Division were all elites at their respective levels.

They were all existence carefully selected from the military and other organizations to be chosen to enter the Demon Suppression Division.

Such a ratio could definitely be considered a heavy loss.

"Fortunately, the strength of this wormhole progenitor was not very strong."

While Chen Anmin still had lingering fears, he let out a sigh of relief.

"If this wormhole progenitor had been any stronger, I'm afraid this Luofeng City would have turned into a ghost Realm."

As a six-star Martial Artist, Chen Anmin was the strongest person stationed in Luofeng City all year round.

As long as the wormhole progenitor's strength reached six stars, he would be unable to kill the progenitor in a short period of time.

Even if they waited for reinforcements from powerful individuals from other Base Cities, Luofeng City would likely suffer a devastating blow.

"However, after this incident, the Demon Suppression Division must expand its recruitment."

At this moment, Lin Yeqi, the Minister of the Containment Department, barged in with a bad attitude.

"Old Chen, how much longer until the shelter can be opened?"

Lin Yeqi's tone was unfriendly, "If this continues, the public will definitely panic."

Chen Anmin ignored him and glanced at the red dots on the screen,

"At least half an hour."

"Even if we can't wipe out all the Corroders, we must reduce the number of Corroders to within a safe limit!"

Lin Yeqi looked at the satellite screen of the Demon Suppression Division.

The red dots on it were densely packed, likely numbering in the thousands.

What was displayed were all the locations of the Corroders.

As for the stronger Runners and Assassins among the monsters, they had already been wiped out completely during the Demon Suppression Division's encirclement and suppression.

"Alright, then I will wait for you for half an hour."

Lin Yeqi also knew the danger of the Corroders.

However, public resentment was boiling, and he had to give a reason to let the public calm down.

Half an hour later, only a few scattered Corroders remained on the satellite screen.

However, as their numbers decreased, these Corroders seemed to have mastered counter-reconnaissance methods.

After only ten Corroders remained, the red dots on the screen all disappeared at once.

"The survival ability of these eerie monsters is truly headache-inducing."

Chen Anmin had long heard of this method, but even top-tier powerful individuals were helpless against it.

They could not let the citizens hide in the shelter indefinitely.

They could only choose to open it.

"Open it."

They were also unwilling to see unsuspecting citizens die in the mouths of the remaining Corroders.

But they were powerless against this.

They could only have the Martial Artists patrol in all directions as much as possible to minimize casualties.

...

Li Canglan left the shelter.

What came into view was a dilapidated city.

A few hours ago, it was still a bustling city with high-rise buildings, but at this moment, only broken walls and ruins remained.

Countless vehicles were crashed on the streets.

Residential houses collapsed, shopping malls were damaged, and the earth split open.

Countless citizens were displaced and homeless.

Fortunately, the authorities had already made preparations.

Before reconstruction was completed, all homeless citizens could live in the already built resettlement housing.

The resettlement housing was distributed in various locations in Luofeng City.

As long as the city had not completely fallen, there would always be intact resettlement housing available for citizens to live in.

Li Canglan, unsurprisingly, became one of them.

Together with him were Zhang Ganchao's family and other classmates.

Li Canglan didn't really mind.

He had originally lived in government relief housing anyway.

For him, it was just moving from relief housing to resettlement housing.

But many classmates were not accustomed to this environment of living with strangers.