104: Chapter 104: Evil Spirit

Fang Yuan

Rank: Bronze Tenth Level (13%)

True Spirit Talent: Source Devour (Silver Rank)

Talent: Origin Enhancement (96.2%)

The next day, Fang Yuan, focused and undistracted, successfully upgraded to Bronze Tenth Level.

The Breakthrough in his Rank allowed his strength to reach a new peak once again; with nearly 170,000 catties of strength, Fang Yuan felt that his full-power strike could shatter giant rocks.

The moment he made his Breakthrough, Gu Yue, who was far away, immediately felt a surge of energy within her, but the final result left her somewhat disappointed.

This time, she did not follow this energy, which originated from her Talent, to Breakthrough to Silver Rank; the energy brought by Fang Yuan's minor Rank Breakthrough was not enough for her to Breakthrough a major Realm.

Unable to successfully Breakthrough to Silver Rank, Gu Yue felt a pang of regret... After upgrading to Bronze Tenth Level, Fang Yuan did not rest and immediately set off towards the eastern passage.

It was just ten o'clock in the morning, and the remaining time today was enough for him to hunt monsters outside the city to increase his strength and to complete the last 3.8% of his progress.

He rushed like the wind and lightning, and ten minutes later, Fang Yuan arrived in front of the passage. Due to his increasing strength and his eagerness, he took three minutes less this time than a few days ago.

"Isn't that the young man from a few days ago? What, you're going out again? It's not safe outside; many monsters from the Land of Evil have run out."

Just as Fang Yuan was about to pass through the passage, a voice came from above the high wall. He looked up and saw that the person speaking was the captain of the Defense Force squad he had encountered before.

Because of the Land of Evil, Squad captain, who originally only needed to watch outside, specifically watched inside, advising others not to go out recently.

"Haha, don't worry, uncle. If I encounter a Silver Rank monster again, I'll bring it back for you to shoot with your guns."

Fang Yuan naturally wouldn't listen to the advice to avoid going out. After uttering a sentence, he swaggered into the passage.

"...!"

Seeing this, the Defense Force squad captain, who was called an uncle on the high wall but was actually only twenty-seven years old, shook his head helplessly. Did he really look that old?

While sighing, Squad captain couldn't help but touch his thick beard, which he had maintained for several months and was a full two centimeters long.

Originally, he was very satisfied with his beard, believing that a man should have the characteristics a man ought to have.

"Little Chen, do I look like an uncle?" Squad captain, somewhat doubting life, asked his team member.

The Defense Force member he asked stammered, unable to say a word. He looked at his captain's thick beard and thought that what the other person said was very true, but out of respect for the captain's authority, he did not voice it.

"...!"

Seeing his team member's expression, Squad captain already knew what he was thinking.

Squad captain, who didn't want to be called an uncle anymore, secretly made up his mind to shave off his beloved beard... Fang Yuan was unaware of the small interlude behind him. After entering the mist, he ran forward at the fastest possible speed.

At the same time, he would place a tracking stone every short distance to avoid getting lost and unable to return later.

He swept through everything until he reached the outer suburban area ten kilometers away; no monster could make him pause even slightly.

"Let's go. I hope it gives me a surprise."

Stepping over the ten-kilometer boundary into the outer suburban area, Fang Yuan looked at the mist ahead with a hint of anticipation.

After encouraging himself, Fang Yuan began his subsequent frantic sweep.

His nearly 170,000 points of strength, amplified by a Bronze Rank true spirit artifact, had just reached 200,000. Coupled with his sharp bronze long saber, no Bronze Rank monster could withstand a single move from him.

One, two, three... ten. As one monster after another fell into his hands, Origin Devouring activated, and his already powerful Physical Body continuously grew stronger.

After a period of frenzied hunting, killing hundreds of monsters of varying Ranks and devouring the Origin of dozens of Bronze Ninth and Tenth Level monsters, Fang Yuan's strength surged to 180,000 points.

Along with that, the Talent progress also slowly increased.

Unlike strength, which gained a significant boost with every monster killed, the remaining 3.X% on the progress bar only increased by 0.1-0.2% when elite monsters were killed.

Until his Physical Body could no longer be strengthened, this Talent progress bar was still short by 0.6 percentage points.

Watching the sky gradually darken around him, Fang Yuan had no choice but to remain in the mist to find suitable monsters for the remaining less-than-one-percent progress bar.

To save time, he ignored all non-elite monsters, even if they roared behind him, and continued to search for elite monsters that could increase his Talent progress.

The sky grew increasingly dim, and visibility had been reduced by half, to only one hundred meters. Fortunately, as his strength increased, even in completely dark environments, Fang Yuan could at least see thirty to forty meters away.

Facing the increasingly dark environment, Fang Yuan searched more carefully in the mist. Aside from not being able to see further, it seemed to have no other effect on him.

Elite monsters were rare; usually, there would only be one among dozens of monsters.

Perhaps it was already nearing the point of Breakthrough, or maybe it was psychological, but the monsters Fang Yuan encountered next were basically just ordinary monsters.

These monsters had ordinary Talents, similar to the Black Iron Rank Talent of human professionals. Even if he killed them, there would be no gain whatsoever.

The latter part cost him a lot of time; it took over an hour to find an elite monster, and the progress increased by 0.2 percentage points... *Puff! Puff!*

Just as Fang Yuan was searching for elite monsters in the mist, strange squelching sounds came from the northwest, as if some monster was moving with peculiar movements.

This was a good sign; monsters that made a lot of noise in the mist were generally powerful elite monsters.

Ordinary common monsters usually moved in groups, creating messy noises.

With a hint of curiosity, Fang Yuan gripped his long saber and groped his way towards the northwest, where the sound was coming from.

*Puff! Puff!!!*

To his surprise, the source of the sound was quite far from him. He had walked over a hundred meters and still hadn't seen the monster, but the sound was getting louder and louder.

"This is... a Spirit Evil Monster~. I didn't expect it to be another monster from the Land of Evil."

After walking another hundred meters, Fang Yuan finally saw the true face of the monster making the sound: a huge, gray-brown, five-meter-tall, terrifyingly heavy blob of mud.

【Spirit Evil Monster】

Talent: Dissolution

Moves very slowly, but is very disgusting. Its body possesses terrifying corrosive abilities. If you encounter it, just run away.

The compendium of monsters did not have many descriptions of the Spirit Evil Monster, only an image and a brief description of a dozen words.

What made this monster particularly disgusting was that, similar to the Bowl Stone Monster, its outer body could be discarded at will.

However, unlike the Bowl Stone Monster, the Spirit Evil Monster's interior was not a small-bodied monster, but a core that could move freely within its body.

A common characteristic of both was their large size, reaching twenty to thirty meters tall at Silver Rank.

At Gold Rank, they could even exceed one hundred meters, which was truly terrifying.