80: New features of the secondary nest

The moment the fungal nest successfully hatched, Qiao Yu felt a warm current originating from the depths of his soul, constantly nourishing his spirit and physical body.

That was the fungal swarm combining with Cosmic Energy to optimize his original genes. His physical fitness rapidly improved under the dual replenishment of Cosmic Energy and the energy feedback from the Fungal Tide.

His body reached the High-level Wargod rank. As his physical fitness improved, Qiao Yu's Psychic Power also surged, reaching the Intermediate War God Level.

Qiao Yu clenched his fist tightly and struck out toward Void Realm.

With a boom, the power of this punch seemed to shatter the air itself.

Qiao Yu let out a long breath. With his current strength, he could finally move unhindered in the Wilderness Area, provided he didn't encounter High-Level Lord Rank or Transcending Lord Rank monsters.

During this time, Qiao Yu had been lazy, using his Psychic Power to control Flying Knives to kill enemies, neglecting his training in the Nine-Layered Thunder Blade somewhat.

Coincidentally, the genetic optimization not only improved his physical fitness and Psychic Power but also simultaneously enhanced his physical reaction capabilities, intelligence, Comprehension Ability, and learning ability.

Qiao Yu drew the blood shadow battle blade from his Combat Backpack and tried practicing on the spot.

The movements he was originally familiar with now felt slightly rusty. Truly, one day without practice makes ten days wasted.

Fortunately, the first layer of the Nine-Layered Thunder Blade could still be performed completely and smoothly relying on muscle memory.

As for the second layer of the Nine-Layered Thunder Blade, he wasn't particularly proficient, so feeling rusty at this moment was understandable.

Using the momentum from the upgrade, Qiao Yu continuously practiced the movements of the second layer of the Nine-Layered Thunder Blade, recalling the key points demonstrated by Thunder God previously, and repeatedly brandishing the blade.

Although the Nine-Layered Thunder Blade strictly demanded speed and power, Qiao Yu's movements while swinging the blood shadow battle blade appeared unusually slow at this moment.

Qiao Yu strived to swing every movement strictly according to the standard movements in the Nine-Layered Thunder Blade Secret Manual, aiming for his current maximum potential.

With the improved Comprehension Ability and learning ability brought by the upgrade, Qiao Yu's mindset was no longer anxious about quickly achieving results, unlike before.

After achieving extremely standard movements and ensuring the continuity between moves was no longer stiff, Qiao Yu gradually began to increase his swinging speed.

Gradually, the speed of the swing changed from one move every 10 seconds to one move every 5 seconds, and then from one move every 5 seconds to one move every 1 second.

When the speed of the swing reached one move per second, Qiao Yu could clearly feel an inexplicable obstruction preventing him from advancing further.

"It seems I've hit the Bottleneck of the second layer."

Qiao Yu thought to himself. As long as he broke through this Bottleneck, his Nine-Layered Thunder Blade would reach the second layer.

Qiao Yu ignored the sense of obstruction caused by the Bottleneck and continued swinging the blood shadow battle blade at one move per second.

He slowly tried to change from one strike per second to one strike per 0.9 seconds, his brain constantly performing subtle adjustments.

Finally, on Qiao Yu's 1000th swing, the strike speed became one strike per 0.9 seconds.

On the 2000th swing, one strike per 0.8 seconds.

The 3000th time, the 5000th time... Finally, on the 10,000th swing, the sense of obstruction suddenly vanished. The movements became extremely fluid, connecting as smoothly as flowing water and drifting clouds.

The formerly rigid, standard movements now became agile. Between each move and stance, overlapping afterimages seemed to appear, with figures and blade shadows constantly intertwining.

Qiao Yu subtly felt that when he struck, there was originally one Hidden Force, which gradually split into two Hidden Forces.

The second layer of the Nine-Layered Thunder Blade, achieved!

"Hoo—!"

Qiao Yu circulated his energy and concluded his practice, letting out a long breath.

"As expected, things are different after a Realm advancement. The second layer, which I couldn't break through even after spending a couple of months and watching Thunder God's True Form demonstrate it, succeeded in just a few hours."

Just as Qiao Yu mastered the second layer of the Nine-Layered Thunder Blade on the Rooftop, the Fungal Squads on the floors below emerged from their cocoons.

They should now be called Fungal Squads.

The Fungal Squad totaled 100 monsters. Almost every monster had now reached the Beast General Level. The highest, such as the Golden Vulture Flock, Shadow Cat, and Dai Mao Rat King, had even reached the High-level Beast General Rank.

Even those with the lowest rank had reached the Junior Beast General Level.

At the same time, Qiao Yu also discovered the new function of the Level 2 Fungal Nest.

The Level 2 Fungal Nest now possessed the ability to independently breed creatures, and the strongest fungus creatures bred could reach the High-level Beast General Rank.

In other words, as long as the energy was sufficient, Qiao Yu could continuously have the fungal nest generate Beast General Level fungus creatures.

The speed at which the Fungal Squad advances to the Fungal Brigade will be greatly accelerated.

And Qiao Yu's small goal of establishing his own exclusive Fungal City will soon be realized.

Every time the Level 2 Fungal Nest breeds a monster, it consumes a certain amount of fungal swarm.

There are quite a few types of monsters that can currently be bred: Tiger Mastiff, Lion Mastiff, Shadow Cat, Unicorn Boar, Iron-Haired Wild Boar, Bloodthirsty Tank, Tiger Cat, Iron Armored Bull, Rampant Bull, Golden Vulture, and others.

Breeding an ordinary Junior Beast General Level Terrestrial Monster consumes 500 cubic meters of fungal swarm, while breeding an ordinary Junior Beast General Level Flying Monster consumes 800 cubic meters of fungal swarm.

[Black-Hair Rat (Junior Beast Soldier Level) consumes 10 cubic meters of fungal swarm]

[Black-Haired Rat King (Junior Beast General Level) consumes 100 cubic meters of fungal swarm.]

[Tiger Mastiff (Junior Beast General Level) consumes 500 cubic meters of fungal swarm.]

[Lion Mastiff (Junior Beast General Level) consumes 500 cubic meters of fungal swarm.]

[Unicorn Boar (Junior Beast General Level) consumes 500 cubic meters of fungal swarm.]

[Shadow Cat (Junior Beast General Level) consumes 600 cubic meters of fungal swarm.]

[Bloodthirsty Tank (Junior Beast General Level) consumes 1000 cubic meters of fungal swarm.]

[Rampant Bull (Junior Beast General Level) consumes 1500 cubic meters of fungal swarm.]

[Golden Vulture (Junior Beast General Level) consumes 1200 cubic meters of fungal swarm.]

..."The trashiest Black-Hair Rat consumes the least, but its rank is low. Ordinary monsters like the Tiger Mastiff and Lion Mastiff consume 500 cubic meters of fungal swarm, and other more powerful monster species consume correspondingly more."

Qiao Yu calculated in his mind.

After eradicating the Beast General Level monsters and the Beast Tide in the Outer Suburbs over the past few days, Qiao Yu harvested no less than one million cubic meters of fungal swarm in total.

If converted into ordinary Tiger Mastiffs, he could breed 5,000 in total, while for the more powerful Bloodthirsty Tanks, Rampant Bulls, and Golden Vultures, he could breed less than 1,000.

Qiao Yu still planned to breed two or three Fungal Squads first, serving as the most basic force within his current faction.

He would first rely on these detachments as the foundation for expanding towards the Main City. In any case, the fungal nest would continuously expand itself, and coupled with the active erosion of the Main City, the amount of fungal swarm would definitely increase.

However, attacking the Main City carried a significantly higher risk factor. Since he didn't know how many Lord Level monsters were inside, Qiao Yu still needed to stockpile some fungal swarm for Rebirth.