12: New term, ultimate evolution!

This Little Skeleton is truly too Heaven-Defying!

While Sun Feifei felt a pang of bitterness in her heart, she was even more awestruck by Lu Chen's actions.

Ever since she was old enough to understand, her father had taught her that one must Cultivate with their feet firmly on the ground, and that no one can reach the heavens in a single step!

Her father was the principal of Chiyang Third High School and a top-tier powerhouse in Chiyang City.

She regarded her father's words as absolute truth.

In fact, it was indeed so.

Everyone around her, including her principal father, advanced their Realm one minor stage at a time.

Even the spiritual power from a Secret Realm, which could rapidly increase one's Realm...

...only served to speed up the progression between each minor stage.

Everyone, as well as all the historical documents she had pored over, clearly stated that Realms could only be attained one stage after another.

This was an axiom!

But... her Best Friend, her closest companion, had leaped from Rank 0 Stage 9 to Rank 1 Stage 9 in just an instant!

A single advancement,

and it was an entire Rank!

A whole Rank!

How was this any different from reaching the heavens in a single step?

Her worldview had collapsed!

It turned out...

...that even her powerful father could be wrong!

Even historical documents couldn't be fully trusted!

Her Best Friend Ning Xiwei only had Cultivation talent, but lacked spiritual power conversion talent.

She had been extremely worried, trying everything she could to help her friend overcome her disappointment.

The result... Heh.

With a terrifying existence like the Little Skeleton...

...what need was there for spiritual power conversion talent?

No, no, no!

What need was there for any talent at all?

She could just coast through life!

After all, how could the improvement speed of any Prodigy even begin to match a fraction of the feedback from the Little Skeleton!

She should be happy for her Best Friend and offer her blessings.

But why... why did she want to cry!

Why couldn't she have summoned a Little Skeleton like Lu Chen!

She wanted it so much,

so much!

Sun Feifei looked at Ning Xiwei, the envy in her eyes like droplets of water about to spill over!

At this moment.

Lu Chen, having recovered from the Realm Breakthrough,

opened his attribute panel:

[Name]: Lu Chen

[Race]: Little Skeleton

[Rank]: Rank 1 Stage 0

[Strength]: 1506

[agility]: 1400

[Physique]: 1601

[spirit]: 123

[racial value]: 0/100

[Talent: Thick-Skinned... Great Strength]

[Skills: Pounce, Blink... Fireball, Bursting Flames, Water Spray]

[Exclusive Talent]: Infinite Gold Entry (Current Gold Entries: 2)

[Entry Library]: Infinite Plunder, Ultimate Evolution

(Ultimate Evolution: When you kill any living being, you will absorb a portion of their evolutionary essence and convert it into racial value. By consuming racial value, you can initiate evolution.)

This time, the attribute points didn't double.

They had only increased by a few hundred points each.

Tsk tsk.

It seemed that killing these Secret Realm monsters, whose Realms were similar to his own, didn't yield many attribute points or talent skills.

As for the new Gold Entry, Ultimate Evolution?

He could evolve just by consuming racial value.

Wouldn't that mean he could evolve indefinitely as long as he had racial value?

No wonder the name of this new Gold Entry was Ultimate Evolution.

As long as the evolution never stopped, he would eventually reach the ultimate!

Good!

Lu Chen was very satisfied with the new Gold Entry.

Infinite Plunder, Ultimate Evolution.

Each one was exceptionally powerful.

Lu Chen closed the panel with satisfaction and walked toward the two girls, Ning Xiwei and Sun Feifei.

The two girls had still not recovered from the shock of the full-Rank Realm advancement.

Lu Chen's jawbone moved as he let out a clacking laugh.

What a bunch of country bumpkins.

His silly, cute little master was a Spirit Contractor to begin with.

One of the reasons Spirit Contractors were called an ultra-rare class was that once a Spirit Contractor's partner broke through a Realm, they would provide feedback to their master.

Of course, the feedback energy depended on the strength of the Spirit Contractor's partner.

And as for Lu Chen...

...even when his Realm was at Rank 0, the energy contained within his body far exceeded that of the Rank 1 Sun Feifei.

The energy levels between the two were as different as clouds and mud.

Therefore, once Lu Chen broke through, the energy fed back to Ning Xiwei was naturally beyond imagination!

What was there to be so surprised about?

There would be many more such occurrences in the future.

As his Summoner, she should get used to it sooner rather than later.

Lu Chen's skeletal frame shook slightly.

He hadn't tested the effects of the new Gold Entry yet.

He happened to sense another dense spawning ground three miles away.

He waved his skeletal palm in front of the two girls, gesturing for them to follow.

Ning Xiwei snapped back to her senses, her face flushing slightly.

Ever since she had hugged Lu Chen's skeletal frame, her sense of distance from him had greatly diminished, and her complicated inner thoughts had also weakened.

"Xiwei, it seems the Little Skeleton is saying we haven't seen the world."

Sun Feifei speculated.

Then, she stuck out her tongue and said,

"Anyone who saw this would act like they've never seen the world before."

Ning Xiwei nodded in deep agreement.

Stepping in the skeletal footprints left by Lu Chen, she stretched her muscles and bones.

The power coursing through her bones and muscles was more than ten times stronger than before the Breakthrough.

Even though she hadn't learned many close-combat skills, she was certain that she could now pierce a Snake-Faced Bear's head with a single finger!

So strong!

She was even struggling to control her body; if she wasn't careful, she would stomp a deep hole into the grass and sink right in.

This left her stuck between laughter and tears.

Every time she stepped into the ground, Sun Feifei would pull her out.

Because the two girls' strength had greatly increased, the three of them covered the three-mile distance in just over five minutes.

Looking at the Secret Realm monsters everywhere...

...every one of them was at Rank 1 or above.

Sun Feifei waved her staff and said excitedly:

"Xiwei, I'm now at Rank 1 Stage 6, and you're at Rank 1 Stage 9. With our explosive increase in strength, we definitely won't just be background scenery while the Little Skeleton kills monsters!"

Ning Xiwei nodded, "Right."

Looking back at the path they had come from, Sun Feifei complained,

"And the Demonic Beast meat and soul crystals were all destroyed again by your spendthrift Little Skeleton."

Sun Feifei said with heartache,

"This time, no matter what, we have to snatch a few Secret Realm monsters from the Little Skeleton's hands, or else next time we really won't even be able to get through the door of the Secret Realm!"

Lu Chen's face darkened upon hearing this.

He really didn't destroy the Demonic Beast meat and soul crystals on purpose.

It was just that the Secret Realm monsters were too weak!

He barely used any strength, but those Secret Realm monsters turned to mist the moment he touched them.

It really wasn't his fault.

Ning Xiwei's face flushed slightly as she glanced at Lu Chen, no longer expecting him to hold back.

She clenched her small fists.

"Right, we're very strong too. There will be times when the Little Skeleton can't kill them all at once, and that's when we'll show what we can do!"

Eh?

So confident?

Lu Chen let out a clacking laugh and charged straight into the swarm of monsters.

"Feifei, quick, let's go too!"

Ning Xiwei intended to snatch some kills.

The two of them immediately faced off against a giant wolf covered in bony armor.

But just then, they caught sight of a fist-sized flame igniting on Lu Chen's index finger bone.

"It's Fireball."

The two girls were relieved when they saw it.

As a mage class skill, Fireball could only hit one target at a time and required charging and aiming, which was quite a waste of time.

However, in the next second...

Swish, swish, swish!

Fist-sized flames also ignited on the five finger bones of Lu Chen's right hand.

Then the five finger bones of his left hand.

And then...

...fist-sized flames ignited on every protrusion of Lu Chen's bones.

From a distance, Lu Chen looked as if he were surrounded by raging infernos.

What was he doing?

While Ning Xiwei and the other girl were puzzled...

Whoosh!

Countless fist-sized flames shot out like fiery meteors, and as if they had eyes, they accurately struck every Secret Realm monster in the vicinity.

Boom!

In the blink of an eye...

...all the Secret Realm monsters were wiped out!