145: Advance to Silver

After a busy morning, Qin Shilei finally saw off the last grain buyer.

Returning to Five Villa, he carefully counted his gains and found he had harvested 71,624 crystals.

"I'm rich!" Qin Shilei exclaimed, looking at the small mountain of crystals piled before him.

Unfortunately, An Qian and the others had already crossed the river to hunt zombies, and even Zhang Cheng and his group had just left.

At such an exciting moment, Qin Shilei had no one to share it with.

"Help!"

Just as Qin Shilei was about to absorb the crystals to level up, several miserable cries for help suddenly came from the villa's backyard.

With a wave of his hand, he put away the crystals and got up, walking towards the backyard.

Pushing open the back door, he saw several people struggling to resist the attacks of the willow branches under the willow tree.

Further away, there were two or three dozen more people, using ranged attacks on the willow tree.

Because Qin Shilei had fed it a large number of zombie corpses, the willow tree had now returned to its original lush state, and had even made slight progress.

Its tough willow branches lashed out with powerful force, striking against the swords of the crowd with little damage.

In a short while, it had entangled and hoisted several people into the air.

"Qin, quickly make your willow tree release my brothers!" A burly man in the distance shouted loudly when he saw Qin Shilei.

"Oh, it's you. Are you trying to use the back door to buy grain from me?" Qin Shilei recognized the man as the customer who had just bought five tons of grain from him, and asked mockingly.

To hell with the back door!

"If you know what's good for you, release my brothers immediately, or I'll make sure your head rolls!" The burly man said with a grim face and a harsh tone.

"Boss, it seems he's the only one here. We can go around to the front, capture him, and then force him to release our brothers," one of the men beside the burly man suggested.

"You don't need to go that far," Qin Shilei said with a smile.

As soon as his voice fell, Qin Shilei suddenly vanished from the burly man's sight.

"Ah!" With a scream, a figure flew off the ground towards the willow tree, instantly entangled by its branches.

"Ah ah ah."

Screams continued to ring out as people were constantly kicked into the air, flying towards the willow tree.

Only then did the burly man realize that an extremely fast figure was constantly moving around them.

He tried to counterattack, but found that his eyes couldn't keep up with the other party's movements.

The burly man immediately knew that he had kicked an iron plate this time.

Listening to the screams of his subordinates, a chill ran down the burly man's spine, and he turned to abandon his brothers and escape alone.

"Don't be in such a hurry to leave. Why don't you stay and keep your brothers company?"

Suddenly, a voice sounded in his ear. The burly man felt a huge force coming from his stomach, and his body flew uncontrollably towards the willow tree.

Before he could react, he was tightly entangled by the willow branches.

The willow branches coiled tighter and tighter, and countless tiny thorns grew out, piercing into the burly man's body.

The burly man felt his blood and strength rapidly draining away.

"This willow tree not only attacks people, but it also eats them." This was the burly man's last thought.

In less than a quarter of an hour.

The burly man and his subordinates, nearly thirty people in total, were all sucked dry by the willow tree, becoming mummified corpses.

Immediately after, these mummified corpses were placed on the ground by the willow tree, walking around like zombies.

"So the willow tree can also create these active mummified corpses," Qin Shilei realized with a sudden understanding.

In the village where the willow tree was discovered, many zombies without crystals had appeared, which must have been created by the willow tree using living people.

"These mummified corpses aren't very useful. I'll tell Zhang Xiaoli to order the willow tree not to create them later," Qin Shilei thought to himself.

He turned and returned to the villa, taking out the crystals and absorbing them.

Because he cultivated the Earth-level cultivation technique, Thunderous Nine Heavens, Qin Shilei absorbed crystals three to four times faster than ordinary people.

Under the supply of massive crystals, his experience soared.

An hour later.

He easily advanced to Bronze Realm Six-star.

A little over another hour later.

He successfully advanced to Bronze Realm Seven-star.

.........

By evening, when An Qian and the others returned, Qin Shilei's experience had just reached the peak of Bronze Realm Nine-star.

With An Qian and the others guarding him, Qin Shilei could safely proceed with his breakthrough.

"Ding! To advance to Silver Realm, two conditions must be met. First, continue to absorb 20,000 ordinary crystals or a certain amount of purer crystals. Second, a cultivation technique is needed to guide the elemental energy within the body to open up the meridians. The higher the level of the cultivation technique, the easier it is to open the meridans, and the greater the potential after advancement."

He hadn't expected that advancing to Silver Realm would require a cultivation technique.

"Fortunately, I've already learned an Earth-level cultivation technique."

Qin Shilei's lips curved into a smile as he took out the crystals he had obtained from the Mutated Zombie.

The crystals produced by Black Iron Realm Mutated Zombies were called Level 1 crystals by Qin Shilei, and those produced by Bronze Realm ones were called Level 2 crystals.

As the crystals in his hand were continuously absorbed, the elemental energy in his dantian became more and more abundant.

Qin Shilei quickly activated the Thunderous Nine Heavens cultivation method, continuously flushing various meridians and acupoints throughout his body.

Advancing to Silver Realm required opening one of the Eight Extraordinary Meridians.

Qin Shilei chose the Lung Meridian of Hand Taiyin.

Abundant elemental energy and an Earth-level cultivation technique allowed Qin Shilei to break through barriers and acupoints like a hot knife through butter.

His meridians were constantly widened, strengthened, and gradually became more resilient, making it easier for elemental energy to pass through.

The acupoints on the Yangwei Meridian were also continuously filled and nourished by elemental energy, becoming accelerated transfer stations for elemental energy.

Qin Shilei's cultivation level soared, quickly reaching a critical point.

As long as he broke through this critical point, he could advance to Silver Realm.

The lightning-attributed elemental energy was not only powerful in attack, but also had an unparalleled advantage in breaking through barriers and acupoints.

Like a sharp arrow, a few consecutive impacts broke through the critical point.

Advancing to Silver Realm!

"Ding! A Silver Realm human has appeared in the world. This system has activated the World Channel and Leaderboard functions."

"Ding! A Silver Realm human has appeared in the world. This system has activated the World Channel and Leaderboard functions."

"Ding! A Silver Realm human has appeared in the world. This system has activated the World Channel and Leaderboard functions."

The long-lost system voice once again resounded in the hearts of all humans on Blue Star, causing a huge uproar.

At the same time, Qin Shilei also received a personal system prompt.

"Ding! In recognition of being the first to advance to Silver Realm, you are specially rewarded with the Earth-level cultivation technique, Phoenix Dance Nine Heavens."

Next were the prompts from the Ten Thousand Things Refresh System.

[The daily refresh count of the Ten Thousand Things Refresh System has increased to 30 times, and the fixed count has increased to 12 times per day.]

[The host can now fix three entries.]

Qin Shilei temporarily ignored the system prompts and carefully experienced his strength after advancing to Silver Realm.

After reaching Silver Realm, the total amount of elemental energy in his body increased threefold, and its quality also became purer.

Through the opened Lung Meridian of Hand Taiyin, Qin Shilei could more easily mobilize the elemental energy in his dantian.

From now on, elemental energy could not only be attached to weapons to increase attack power, but also leave the body to unleash attacks similar to sword qi.

Qin Shilei's current sword qi could extend one meter from his body, but its attack power had not yet been tested.

His mental power also increased by about threefold.