8: Chapter 8: A Leap in Life Level! Attributes Surge! The Killing Got a Bit Too Much!

[Host: Lu Qingyun]

[Race: Plain and Ordinary Slime (White) (Upgradable)]

[Level: LV4 (Mortal Shedding Realm Fourth Stage) (341/700)]

[Health Points: 1027.2/1027.2]

[Physical Strength: 7.2 (Congratulations, you have successfully rid yourself of the title of 'Scum with 5 Combat Power'!)]

[Mental Strength: 4.1 (Your soul is rather unusual, making its strength naturally higher than others of the same level, however... it is still pitifully weak.)]

[Cultivation Method: Blood Nourishing Technique (Great Accomplishment, 14/500). The maximum level for this cultivation method is LV5. Please practice a new high-level cultivation method as soon as possible.]

[Martial Art: Mountain-Shaking Fist (Grandmaster, 11/10000). From now on, you will be a Slime who knows how to box!]

[BOSS Initial Mechanism: 1. Out-of-Combat Regeneration (After leaving combat, your status will recover to its peak at a rate of twenty percent per second!)]

2. Infinite Growth (As a BOSS, your health bar must be long enough to make the world tremble! Every time you defeat/kill a living being, you can absorb a portion of their health based on their strength, permanently increasing your health bar!)]

[Quest 1: Kill Magic Beasts (100/100) (Completed)]

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"Mortal Shedding Realm Fourth Stage, my health points have at least tripled compared to normal values! This speed is decent."

"Unfortunately, the fierce beasts here are mostly weak, resulting in much less experience gained. Moreover, my cultivation method level can't keep up. Otherwise, with a hundred fierce beasts, I could probably raise my level all the way to the late stage of the Mortal Shedding Realm!"

Lu Qingyun clenched his fists, and a heavy, powerful fist intent that seemed capable of shaking mountains diffused outward.

However, even though he was only at the Mortal Shedding Realm Fourth Stage, with his stats and the boost from the Grandmaster-level Mountain-Shaking Fist, he did not believe he would be weaker than a powerhouse at the late stage of the Mortal Shedding Realm!

"I need to find a way to obtain a more powerful cultivation method. Otherwise, even if I train the Blood Nourishing Technique to the perfection realm, it will only be enough for me to level up one more time."

"A cultivation of the Mortal Shedding Realm Fourth Stage with strength comparable to the late stage of the Mortal Shedding Realm. Although it's far from enough to act recklessly, it's definitely enough for me to do some things."

"Besides, on this basis, I can also..."

Shifting his gaze, Lu Qingyun looked at the reward box on the system panel.

[Upgrade racial template?]

"Yes."

Lu Qingyun muttered in his mind.

The very next moment after he gave the command, the original race column on the panel shattered with a bang!

Immediately after, a brand-new entry was displayed!

[Race: Heroic and Fearless Slime Warrior! (Green)]

From a plain and ordinary Slime, he had evolved into a Slime Warrior!

To Lu Qingyun, no matter what he evolved into, he was still just a Slime.

However, the evolution of the racial template was a tangible baptism that brought an earth-shaking transformation to his body!

Intense pain surged from all his limbs and bones, as if countless thick steel needles were piercing into his flesh!

At this moment, his face contorted in agony!

But his eyes were filled with extreme, frenzied excitement!

"Yes! That's the feeling!"

"The pain in my body means muscle growth. Let it come even more fiercely!!"

Lu Qingyun stood tall on the ground. Dark red bone fragments and impurities were all expelled through his pores, making him feel as if he had undergone a rebirth!

Marrow cleansing and bone reforming, a complete transformation!

A massive boost to his aptitude!

This was clearly a great fortune that could only be obtained when advancing to the Innate Realm!

Yet Lu Qingyun, while only in the Mortal Shedding Realm, managed to achieve the same effect simply by upgrading his racial template once!

And, as one could imagine...

It was absolutely impossible for Lu Qingyun to only upgrade his racial template this once!

This was only a green template. As expected, there would definitely be grades like blue, purple, cyan, and gold in the future!

Perhaps only then would Lu Qingyun possess a trace of the demeanor of an ultimate final BOSS!

Allowing himself to be besieged by hundreds of thousands of people, a single normal attack would directly clear the battlefield!

"Panel."

After everything calmed down, Lu Qingyun exhaled a breath of turbid air and carelessly wiped his body with a beast skin.

Then, he muttered in his mind.

Skipping the irrelevant information, Lu Qingyun's gaze locked firmly onto the status bar!

[Level: LV4 (Mortal Shedding Realm Fourth Stage) (341/1500)]

[Health Points: 2108/2108]

[Physical Strength: 12.2 (Congratulations, you have successfully rid yourself of the title of 'Scum with 5 Combat Power'!)]

[Mental Strength: 8.3 (Your soul is rather unusual, making its strength naturally higher than others of the same level, however... it is still pitifully weak.)]

Just by upgrading his racial template once, Lu Qingyun's health points, physical strength, and mental strength had all increased significantly!

This was a leap in his life's stage!

An opportunity that ordinary people could never obtain in their entire lives!

"The current me can be called invincible in the Mortal Shedding Realm!"

Looking at the exaggerated values on the panel, Lu Qingyun couldn't help but laugh out loud.

He had a hunch that the benefits brought by the racial template upgrade were definitely more than just this, it was just that he hadn't fully developed them yet.

The sun gradually rose, reaching the middle of the sky.

At the exit of the town.

Captain Yang Pinru stood there expressionlessly, the surrounding atmosphere extremely gloomy.

Looking at the off-road vehicle bearing the Luo clan's logo as it drove away, he couldn't help but spit!

"Bah! How shameless!"

"You were the ones who used connections to come in for training, and yet you blame me for almost getting killed due to your own incompetence!"

"I am at least a grand expert of the Aperture-Opening Realm, backed by the military. If you really anger me, even if your Luo family has a Xiantian expert backing you, once I kill you on the spot, I don't believe that old geezer Luo Tianxing would dare to come and hold me accountable!"

"If I hadn't seen that the little girl was too heavily injured and fainted the moment she came out, and that she actually had some guts to dare hone herself by fighting fierce beasts, with my hot temper, I would have definitely shown that little chick what I'm made of!"

After venting his anger in words, Captain Yang Pinru looked at Man Hu, whose right arm was wrapped in bandages not far away, and said in an annoyed tone, "What are you looking at! How old is that little girl, yet she has already reached the third stage of the Mortal Shedding Realm. If she puts in a bit more effort, getting into a key martial arts university won't be a problem at all. Her future is extremely bright."

"Now look at you. Three of you went in together, and in a whole day, you only killed a single first-stage fierce beast of the Mortal Shedding Realm. In the end, you even broke your own arm. You, a dignified second-stage Mortal Shedding Realm warrior, aren't you ashamed!"

Hearing this, Man Hu said very defiantly, "She is a genius who can get into a martial arts university. How can a social warrior like me compare?"

"Besides, wasn't there a newborn calf who wasn't afraid of tigers yesterday? He was also a little genius, but he hasn't come out yet. He probably died in there long ago!"

"At least we kept our lives. If we spend more time, we can always kill enough fierce beasts."

In Man Hu's eyes, it was normal that he couldn't compare to geniuses from big families.

But he was not without his advantages; at least he had self-awareness and survived safely!

As for the youth they saw yesterday, he probably didn't have such good luck.

He is probably already buried in the belly of some fierce beast by now.

After all, last night, the fierce beasts were in a near-riot state. Even an old hand like him could barely cope, let alone a fledgeling who went in alone and hadn't even taken the official martial artist assessment before.

"Excuse me, please let me through."

A voice that sounded very familiar yet extremely youthful rang out from behind him.

He instinctively stepped aside and looked behind him.

But with just that one glance, his eyes widened, and he froze on the spot!

A huge sack made of blood-stained beast skin tied up loosely passed right before his eyes.

A sharp wolf claw pierced through the beast skin, exposed to the air, almost grazing the tip of his nose!

The fear of almost being bitten to death by a fierce beast last night seemed to manifest in reality at this moment, filling his eyes with terror!

He instinctively backed away, but lost his balance and fell to the ground!

Hearing the noise, Lu Qingyun looked back, thinking that the sheer volume of what he was carrying had knocked down this person who had almost become his teammate yesterday.

So he politely said sorry.

After putting down the huge sack on his back, he wanted to step forward to help Man Hu up.

But when Man Hu saw his face, his eyes were filled with utter disbelief!

He just let Lu Qingyun grab his shoulder and lift him up like a little chick.

"Did you kill enough—ten fierce beasts?"

At this moment, Captain Yang Pinru quickly walked up to Lu Qingyun and kicked Man Hu aside.

His eyes fell upon the massive sack, a trace of doubt rising in his heart.

Because the proofs of ten fierce beasts could not possibly be of such a scale.

However, he quickly figured it out. Fierce beast meat was highly nourishing for any martial artist, or even ordinary people.

It commanded a high price in the outside world.

Most likely, the sack of this youth in front of him was mostly filled with the flesh and blood of the fierce beasts he killed.

But even so, to slay ten fierce beasts overnight and return completely unscathed, save for some tattered clothes...

This was absolutely an unpolished jade with immense talent in combat!

"Ten? I went slightly over that mark. Sigh! It's my fault, I accidentally lost control of my killing intent and ended up killing a bit more."

"I am willing to accept punishment. Treat the extra fierce beasts I killed as the number of ordinary people I harmed, and send me to another place for punishment! This time, I promise to try my best to control myself."

Lu Qingyun looked up, his eyes carrying a hint of hope.

It was a pure desire, a desire to hunt fierce beasts!

However... why did it feel like this desire was not just aimed at fierce beasts?

Looking at Lu Qingyun's gaze, Captain Yang Pinru couldn't help but feel a chill run down his spine, as if he were being targeted by a predator.

This caused his heart, which had been eager to invite Lu Qingyun to join the military, to instantly turn cold.

Recommending a genius did indeed bring him quite a few benefits.

But if this genius did something outrageous in the future, as the recommender, he would definitely not be able to escape the blame.

"Forget it, better to just mind my own business and stay safe."

"After the Martial Examination, if he really has the intention, it's not like the military doesn't have its own martial arts universities. Those are the proper channels, not something my unorthodox background can compare to."

After calming his thoughts, Captain Yang Pinru said, "No need for punishment. If you have the ability to kill fierce beasts, the more the better. For any amount exceeding the required number, we will pay you a clearing fee based on a reward of twenty thousand yuan per fierce beast."

"Alright..."

Lu Qingyun was somewhat disappointed, but his mind eased up upon hearing there was money to be made.

Even though one fierce beast was only worth twenty thousand, which was practically working for free...

But this was surely the official price, otherwise they wouldn't be so short-handed that they needed martial artists who had committed offenses to come and clear them out.

No matter how small the unit price, with the sheer quantity, it would still be a massive sum of money for Lu Qingyun.

A smile played on Captain Yang Pinru's lips.

He didn't think Lu Qingyun could take much extra cash from him.

Just a little guy who had just become a martial artist; killing ten fierce beasts in a single night was already mind-blowing.

Killing another two or three would be the absolute limit.

A few tens of thousands of yuan was, at most, enough for a martial artist to have a few good meals.

However, when Lu Qingyun opened that massive beast skin sack and poured out the dazzling array of fierce beast materials inside...

Captain Yang Pinru and Man Hu on the side widened their eyes at the same time!

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