210: Chapter 209 Breakthrough to Armor Emperor, Contract with Devourer
One month later.
The cultivation room of the Breeding Association.
Lin Fan sat cross-legged in the center of the floor with his eyes closed, focusing entirely on circulating the spiritual energy within his body, surging it toward the armor aperture in his spine.
Spiritual energy surged around him like a tide, and pale gold Spiritual Qi circled and intertwined about him, forming fine Spiritual Qi vortexes that constantly poured into his body.
The threshold of the Rank 50 Armor Emperor stood before him; the armor aperture at his spine was like a tightly closed mystic gate, stubbornly resisting the spiritual energy he continuously slammed against it.
Every collision brought a piercing, swelling pain, and his Meridians trembled slightly from being stretched.
Lin Fan took a deep breath, firmly controlling the rhythm of the spiritual energy's circulation, gathering the power accumulated from a month of bitter cultivation to launch fierce attacks against that barrier time and again without reservation.
No one knew how much time had passed.
Suddenly, the Spiritual Qi around Lin Fan surged violently, and a crisp sound like breaking glass came from inside his body—the barrier of the armor aperture at his spine was shattered!
Boundless spiritual energy instantly rushed in, filling the new armor aperture, and a powerful aura far exceeding his previous strength swept out from his body.
The Rank 50 Armor Emperor realm!
Lin Fan slowly opened his eyes, his aura instantly retracting; the fatigue all over his body dissipated, replaced by an abundance of power.
He stood up, stretched a bit, and then untied the Beast pouch from his waist.
Tun Tun crawled out.
Over this month, it had completely absorbed the whale, and its Rank had soared to level 32.
Its body was already twice as large as when it first hatched; its deep purple shell glinted with a metallic luster under the light, and the silver-white spiderweb patterns on its back were denser and brighter than before.
All eight of its eyes were open, and Lin Fan's face was reflected in its pale gold pupils.
Its chelicerae opened slightly, emitting a thin hiss.
He stood up, placed Tun Tun on the ground, squatted down, and pressed his index finger onto Tun Tun's carapace.
Spiritual energy seeped in from his fingertip, flowing along the spiritual energy channels within Tun Tun's body toward its core.
Tun Tun's body stiffened suddenly, its eight legs splayed out, its chelicerae opened, and it let out a sharp hiss.
The contract was established.
Tun Tun's spiritual energy surged out from its core, flowing back along Lin Fan's spiritual energy channels to his spine.
The armor aperture on his spine that had been opened for a long time was activated; every section of his vertebrae lit up, and deep purple light shone through from under his clothes.
Tun Tun crawled from his palm to his shoulder, then down his back, its body melting into the purple light of his spine.
Lin Fan couldn't wait to walk out of the cultivation room and swiped his card to enter the Personal training ground.
"Tun Tun, Armorization."
His spine suddenly lit up.
Eight deep purple Spider spears pierced through his clothes from both sides of his spine and extended out.
The length of the Spider spears was longer than he had expected; each was nearly two meters long, with ends as sharp as needles and shafts covered in fine barbs.
The material of the shafts was not shell but metal—a dark purple metal, with silver-white spiderweb patterns slowly flowing across the surface.
Eight Spider spears.
Lin Fan tried moving his back, and the eight Spider spears moved simultaneously.
The four on the left tilted forward, and the four on the right spread backward, like a peacock spreading its tail, but each one was a Sharp Weapon.
He could feel the tips of the Spider spears as clearly as he could feel his own fingertips.
Every spear's angle, tilt, and the direction its tip pointed were within his consciousness.
It was like instinct.
He tried to retract the Spider spears.
The eight spears retracted inward simultaneously, pressing close to his back with the tips pointing down; from a distance, they looked like a dark purple fan hanging upside down on his back.
He tried to spread them out.
The eight spears snapped open simultaneously, tips pointing outward, forming a fan-shaped defensive circle with a diameter of nearly two meters around his body.
He then tried attacking with the Spider spears.
Where his thoughts went, the attack followed.
They were like extensions of his body, no different from his arms or legs.
Lin Fan looked at the Spider spears that were flexible and responsive to his will, his eyes filled with extreme satisfaction.
Tun Tun's Armorization form far exceeded his expectations—combining offense and defense, fierce and overbearing, it was naturally a Sharp Weapon for close-combat strangulation and area suppression.
Then, with a thought: "Weaponization."
The purple light at his spine suddenly surged, and the eight dark purple Spider spears instantly detached from his back, rapidly flipping and gathering in the air.
Fine interlocking buckles appeared on both ends of each Spider spear, and the slots on the sides of the shafts fit together precisely.
In just an instant, they were tightly spliced and interlocked, turning into a five-meter-long Chain whip blade.
The whip blade was made of connected Spider spear segments, with an overall dark purple metallic texture.
Every segment of the chain was covered in fine diamond patterns, and the silver-white spiderweb patterns from the original Spider spears flowed slowly along the chain like a living thing.
The whip was extremely flexible and could be bent or coiled at will, while the end was a retracted sharp spear tip, glinting with a cold light.
It possessed the flexible extensibility of a chain while retaining the powerful piercing power of the Spider spears; a sharp aura rushed toward him.
Lin Fan reached out and grabbed the whip blade near its end; the weight felt perfect in his hand, without any sense of discordance.
He flicked his wrist, and the whip blade shot out, making a sharp whistling sound.
Retracting and coiling, piercing and slashing, long-range strangulation—the Moves followed his will.
Whether it was close-quarters combat or long-distance surprise attacks, this Spider spear Chain whip blade was perfect.
After a few swings and tests, Lin Fan completely understood the combat style of Tun Tun's Weaponization form.
The long whip extended and retracted freely, combining hardness and softness; it could coil and bind enemies at close range and pierce and surprise attack at long range, possessing both burst power and control, with no flaws in the transition between offense and defense.
With a thought, the Chain whip blade instantly disassembled, and the eight Spider spears scattered and flew back, slowly retracting into the armor aperture along the purple light of the spine until everything returned to calm.
Lin Fan stood quietly in the center of the training ground, feeling the new surge of spiritual energy in his body.
Breaking through to Armor Emperor and contracting Tun Tun—with these two major events completed together, his overall combat power had undergone a qualitative leap.
Tun Tun's Armorization was overbearing and fierce, the Chain whip blade was eerie and changeable, and when combined with Tongtong's dream control, Little Rabbit's high-speed burst, Xiao Zhuang's area attacks, and Xiao Kun's spatial wandering...
The five Armor Spirits under his command each had their own duties, complementing and supporting each other, and had already formed a relatively complete system.
Just as Lin Fan was immersed in joy, there was a knock on the door of the training ground.
Three knocks, neither heavy nor light.
He retracted his aura and walked toward the door.
Outside the door was an association staff member, wearing a white uniform with an ID badge pinned to his chest.
It was a man in his early thirties whom Lin Fan had seen a few times.
"Mr. Lin Fan, President Ye would like you to come to his office now."
Lin Fan nodded.
"Good, I understand. I'll head over right away."
He turned back into the training ground, took a jacket out of his backpack, and put it on to cover the clothes pierced by the Spider spears.
Then he walked toward the elevator.