529: Chapter 527 Begins the Improvement

Becoming a Transcendent, especially after a Rank advancement, changes one's life level completely, and one's comprehension ability improves significantly.

As far as the eye could see, Mental Energy swept across.

In an instant, Chu Xuan had committed every detail and key point of the operation manual to memory.

Combined with his Rank MAX+1 Fighter Jet Piloting technique, the white emperor no. 1 fighter jet held no more secrets from Chu Xuan.

At the control console, Chu Xuan issued emergency combat commands.

The White Emperor Emergency System completed a forced self-check within 0.1 seconds, and the variable cycle engine ignited instantly.

0.8 seconds later, it took off into the sky!

The air currents over Beijing were suddenly torn apart as the silver-gray streamlined White Emperor fighter jet rose from the ground, its engine roaring with a blinding tail flame. In an instant, it broke the sound barrier, erupting in a ring of pale blue ripples.

Without any gradual acceleration, the fuselage instantly straightened into a silver beam cutting through the air, pushing directly to a top speed of Mach 16.

Before the silhouettes of Beijing's buildings could fade from view, the fighter jet had already plunged into the near space ten thousand meters high.

At 16 times the speed of sound, reaching a speed of 5,440 meters per second, the fuselage turned into a blazing white blade of light tearing through the sky, and thousands of miles of mountains and rivers blurred into afterimages.

Chu Xuan originally wanted to continue ascending into near-earth orbit and activate the aerospace limit sprint mode, which would allow him to reach 32 times the speed of sound.

But when he exceeded ten thousand meters, he discovered that the sky further up was already shrouded in a layer of Gloom black mist.

"Is the sky over the entire Earth already shrouded by The Gloom?" Chu Xuan's pupils constricted slightly.

On the ground, one could clearly still see the sun, moon, and stars in the sky, but coming here, everything was different.

Then what were they seeing from the ground?

Was it an illusion? Or was it the sky seen through distorted space, leaping over this Gloom black mist?

"If it continues at this rate, this world will likely be completely swallowed before long. And this is even after my constant intervention, changing the future results time and again. Then on the original timeline, how much worse would it have been..."

Chu Xuan's heart chilled.

He couldn't help but think of the "World Mission" that Future Tang Zheng had mentioned several times; this might be an important means of dealing with the Gloom Invasion in the future.

If only for their own survival, everyone had to give it their all.

It was a miracle they could survive for three years without being destroyed under such high pressure, which was many times more severe than the current situation.

Chu Xuan didn't speculate too much; he controlled the white emperor no. 1, maintaining it at an altitude of ten thousand meters without ascending further.

Otherwise, if he were drawn into The Gloom, whether he encountered an over-leveled Specter or was pulled into some mission scene he had to participate in, he would inevitably be delayed.

The current priority was the mission to deal with the Cangyun World invasion.

And even at the current speed, it would only take just over two minutes to get from Beijing to Jinling; everything was still in time.

"Good grief, that's incredible, it's actually faster than me..." Gaga Chicken looked excited: "How about letting me try?"

Chu Xuan shook his head and said, "Let the AI pilot it. Let's focus on using all our resources to upgrade our strength first."

"Who are you looking down on? Your Lord Peng has just completed his promotion," Gaga Chicken said, tilting his head back with great pride.

"I'm not like you guys... In the System's semi-digitized terms, I've only just been born and I've already reached Rank 11. My potential isn't something you humans can compare to. Those were just rewards from killing some small trash, and I've already finished converting them all!"

Chu Xuan showed a hint of surprise.

With a thought, he saw all of the other's attributes clearly.

[Name: Gaga Chicken · Zhatian · Thunder Peng]

[Species: Thunder Peng]

[Rank: 12]

[health points: 4800/4800]

[stamina: 24 (real attribute)]

[Strength: 21 (real attribute)]

[agility: 33 (real attribute)]

[spirit: 28 (real attribute)]

[Talent 1: Thousand-Movement Thunder Flash. Wings emit lightning, significantly increasing movement speed, allowing for a lightning flash within a 1,000-meter range; or can consume a small amount of stamina for long-distance flight, current maximum speed 1,600 kilometers per hour.]

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[Talent 2: FastAPI Crack-Sky Thunder Astral Claw. Both claws are imbued with the power of lightning. Claw attacks carry an electric shock that can ignore armor and tear through defenses, causing high electrical burn damage and a deep paralysis effect.]

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[Talent 3: Thunderous Might. Triggers thunder and lightning centered on oneself, dealing indiscriminate area-of-effect damage to targets with electric penetration and a powerful paralysis effect; or can condense into thick pillars of lightning for single-target lethality.]

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[Derived Skill 1: Thunderbolt Cage.]

[Can trigger lightning to form a cage that traps targets within a 300-meter range. Within this range, if the target's Rank, spirit, or agility is lower than yours, they will be unable to use teleportation-type skills.]

Chu Xuan couldn't help but look on with amazement.

He hadn't paid much attention before, but checking now, Gaga Chicken's health points had more than doubled compared to when he first saw him.

He remembered that when the other had just hatched, he only had 1,800 health points.

In addition, all other attributes had also increased significantly.

Such a change could be described as earth-shaking.

However, Chu Xuan soon realized that the increase in the other's health points, stamina, and spirit values was clearly due to drinking a large amount of high-grade life essence.

Only Strength and agility were increased by Gaga Chicken consuming his own resources.

When Chu Xuan drank high-grade life essence to increase his own strength, he didn't think much of it because he had always been in high-intensity combat and his strength advancement had never ceased.

But now, seeing Gaga Chicken's massive improvement, Chu Xuan suddenly realized that the value of this high-grade life essence might far exceed his expectations.

"Now it seems the Tianxing Mountains are also extremely unusual. Killing just a few species yields a Transcendent Skill. Then there's the Dwarf Race, the Orc Race... especially the Life Tree House. When I performed the certification, its tier was originally insufficient to be stored, but the System gave extra permissions, with the requirement that once super life essence is brewed, it needs to be reclaimed by the System..."

Chu Xuan's thoughts churned, and he simultaneously developed some interest in the origins of those foreign races.

Amidst his thoughts, Chu Xuan also discovered that not only had all three of Gaga Chicken's Talents improved, but he had also gained a derived control skill.

Thunderbolt Cage—this actually had a similar effect to the Drawing a Circle to Imprison used by Yan Guofa, though the range was still a bit small.

Intuition told Chu Xuan that Gaga Chicken's origin was certainly not simple. He had truly struck gold back in the War Dragon World; luckily, he had resisted the urge to eat it when the other was just an egg.

"How's that? Isn't Lord Peng impressive?"

Gaga Chicken's expression was quite arrogant.

However, Chu Xuan noticed that Gaga Chicken's body was trembling slightly and he had a constipated expression. He was clearly forcing himself to endure the pain of the attribute increase; it obviously wasn't as easy as he claimed.

Nevertheless, Chu Xuan still offered a word of praise: "Yeah, I underestimated you. But can you really fly the plane right now?"

As he spoke, Chu Xuan glanced at Gaga Chicken with a raised eyebrow, somewhat skeptical.

Whether it was due to sweating from the pain or because his basic attributes had increased, Gaga Chicken's wings were now sparkling and translucent, sleek and glossy.

"You still don't trust me?" Gaga Chicken wasn't happy and curled his beak: "I'm also bound to the System and can directly allocate points to level up. Once I familiarize myself a bit, I'll be able to operate it perfectly."

Seeing that the other could still speak and move normally, Chu Xuan didn't expose him. Since this fighter jet also had an AI pilot function, he nodded and tossed over a jiyue crystal.

"A perfect piloting skill isn't enough. Increase it by one more Rank and reach the Peak of Perfection!"

Chu Xuan shifted his position to make room for the other to pilot.

And he also took this opportunity to start allocating resources to increase his strength as quickly as possible.

He opened the System panel to check his current resources.

[spirituality value: 45465 (Limit exceeded)]

[rule fragment: 16]

[soul crystal: 370]

[Current exchangeable real attribute: 16 (For every 1,000 spirituality value consumed, 1 real attribute point can be exchanged)]

Chu Xuan didn't waste time and directly consumed 16,000 spirituality value to exchange for 16 freely distributable real attribute points.

[You have exchanged 16 real attribute. Remaining spirituality value: 29465]