124: Chapter 124 Silver Level 10

“Why does that little girl resemble Gu Yue a bit?”

Fang Yuan, running swiftly, recalled the young girl’s appearance and suddenly noticed a four or five-tenths resemblance to Gu Yue.

This thought lingered in his mind for only a moment before he quickly dismissed it.

Without overthinking, Fang Yuan ran at full speed, traversing the forest at seventy to eighty meters per second, every monster he encountered receiving an energy attack.

After some time, having run over ten kilometers, he finally stopped and began a massacre of monsters in a new area.

Since the news had spread throughout the entire fortress, whenever the huge commotion from his battles was heard, people would generally approach to investigate.

For this reason, Fang Yuan was discovered by others almost every one or two hours, forcing him to continuously shift battlegrounds.

After several transfers, he had actually moved four to five hundred kilometers south, and the monsters he encountered were generally one Rank higher.

It was a case of ‘unintended actions leading to unexpected success’; being discovered and relocating more than ten or twenty times did not slow down his leveling speed.

During this long monster-grinding and leveling session, which lasted thirty to forty hours, Fang Yuan’s Rank finally reached the final hurdle of Silver Rank 10.

Fang Yuan

Rank: Silver Rank 10 (1.1%)

True Spirit Talent: Origin Devouring (Gold)

Talent: Devour All Things (0.0000001...%)

After leveling up, Fang Yuan immediately exited the Hidden Mist Forest, with no intention of lingering.

In just three trips to the instance, he had essentially completed a month’s worth of work. All that remained was a few more hours of preparation to Breakthrough to Gold Rank, which would perfectly conclude his monster-grinding and leveling.

Not only did he personally gain a lot from this, but those who discovered his whereabouts also gained crystal cores worth tens of millions.

Before leaving the Hidden Mist Forest, Fang Yuan casually used Myriad Laws Return to Origin to summon a ball of water and wash the paint off his face… “If Gold Rank could also level up by grinding monsters, that would be great…”

Immediately after leaving the Hidden Mist Forest, before even Breaking through to Gold Rank, Fang Yuan was already thinking about unrealistic things.

Currently, Void Realm Instance is only effective for those below Gold Rank, meaning it can at most assist a True Spirit Professional in Breaking through to Gold Rank One, after which it becomes useless.

Having experienced the rapid pace of quick leveling, no one could easily adapt to returning to the slow pace of normal Cultivation.

With a hint of wishful thinking, Fang Yuan walked with light steps into the underground stronghold fortress.

No matter how much he fantasized just now, he was extremely, immensely satisfied with the gains of the past three or four days.

When he first arrived here, his Rank was only Silver Rank Two, and his strongest power was less than a million points. Now, in just a few short days, he had already risen to Silver Rank 10, and his pure Physical Body burst could exceed ten million points.

If Fang Yuan used Return to Void, which he had already developed to amplify by sixty percent, his strongest burst would exceed sixteen million points, already reaching the standard of Gold Rank Two.

Of course, reaching Gold Rank Two in power does not mean Fang Yuan has the capital to fight against him.

Gold Rank is a watershed. After Breaking through to Gold Rank, True Spirit Professionals will Awaken super strong perception and have terrifying control over their own energy.

Fang Yuan had witnessed this from Li Xuefei’s aunt, Li Yuxuan, who could kill from a distance, easily shattering a target from a hundred meters away.

The awakened perception of a True Spirit Professional at Gold Rank is related to their Talent and strength.

Generally speaking, Professionals with Black Iron Rank Talent have almost no possibility of Breaking through to Gold Rank. After all, with the existence of Bottlenecks, these individuals need to overcome the twenty small-Rank Bottlenecks of the Bronze Rank and Silver Rank before they can Breakthrough to Gold Rank.

Each Bottleneck requires considerable effort to overcome, especially when Breaking through major Realms; each one is as difficult to climb as a high mountain.

Black Iron Rank Talent, in Sea City, has no chance of Breaking through to Gold Rank at all.

Only a massive power like the Human Alliance, which has Void Realm Instances, allows many people to surpass their limits and achieve Gold Rank, with even one or two ascending to the height of Legendary Professional.

Even if they do Breakthrough, the awakened perception range is generally only two to three hundred meters.

Bronze Rank Talent is much better, typically having four to five hundred meters of perception; Silver Rank Talent six to seven hundred; Gold Rank Talent eight to nine hundred meters; and finally, Transcendent True Spirit Talent, which is generally above one thousand meters.

However, the strength of a Gold True Spirit Professional has little to do with the range of their perception. The only difference between the two is range, which does not significantly affect the strength of their power.

In fact, as the Rank increases and the Professional’s strength composition becomes more complex, the strength of Gold Rank Professionals with Black Iron Rank and Bronze Rank Talents is generally similar.

Silver Rank Talent can barely fight across one Rank, while Gold Rank Talent can fight across two Ranks.

The range of perception at Gold Rank currently has only one use: it corresponds to the range of a Professional’s long-range energy attack.

A perception range of three or four hundred meters does not mean one can attack targets within a two-hundred-meter radius.

Due to control, for a long-range energy attack to maintain its maximum power, this distance is only the range of perception.

In other words, a perception range of four hundred meters, with a two-hundred-meter radius of perception, only allows for one hundred meters of effective attack. Beyond this range, the attack’s power will be greatly reduced, decreasing exponentially with every meter exceeded.

In summary, Fang Yuan’s current strength is only equivalent to Gold Rank One, which is undoubtedly very ordinary for him, who could originally cross five Ranks.

But this is also normal, because from Silver Rank 10 to Gold Rank One, a True Spirit Professional’s strength will increase by at least three times.

When he also Breaks through to Gold Rank One, Fang Yuan might possess the power to fight a major battle with someone of Gold Rank Four, Five, or even Six.

A jumble of thoughts drifted through his mind, and unknowingly, he returned to the fortress’s restaurant to feast.

Having not eaten anything for nearly forty hours, he was now somewhat hungry.

While eating, Fang Yuan noticed that the discussions around him about himself had become even livelier. This time, more than ten people returned with large bags of crystal cores.

Everyone basically had a bountiful harvest, with forty to fifty million energy points being the minimum, after all, higher-Rank crystal cores are more valuable, with a Silver Rank 10 monster’s crystal core being worth up to one hundred thousand energy points.