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"It has the ability to regenerate limbs?"
Ye Chen frowned. "Looking at its body shape, it's similar to the real dark creatures in the relic. If this is the relic, then this monster is a fire-type dark creature."
Whoosh!
At this moment, the flaming monster roared and rushed over. It opened its mouth and spat out a column of lava. Sparks flew and the temperature was so high that the air was evaporated.
Ye Chen's expression was calm. He took a step back and was about to attack. Suddenly, he had an idea. He channeled his Qi-Jin into the blood-red battle saber through his palm. The battle saber suddenly glowed and buzzed as if it was excited.
This blood-red battle saber was a weapon made by the Green Rune Man. There was a Qi-Jin diagram inside. When Qi-Jin was channeled into the saber, it would fill the entire saber along the diagram and increase its power.
On the other hand, ordinary metal sabers and swords were tightly compressed. Qi-Jin could not be channeled into the saber. If Qi-Jin was channeled forcefully, the saber would break!
Ye Chen's eyes lit up when he saw that Qi-Jin could be channeled into the blood-red battle saber. He tilted his body and swung the saber diagonally. The moment he swung the saber, the thin Qi-Jin attached to the saber turned into a saber light and shot out.
Puchi!
The saber light condensed from Qi-Jin slashed the flaming monster's chest and tore open a large wound. The flaming monster was about to recover from its injury when the black Qi-Jin was like the mouth of a demon, crazily devouring the lava on the flaming monster's body.
Devouring Innate Skill!
Among all the Innate Skills, Devouring Innate Skill had the most terrifying destructive power!
Anything that was less concentrated than Ye Chen's Qi-Jin could be crushed into powder and turned into the most primitive energy.
"Roar …" The flaming monster roared. It ignored the wound on its body and pounced at Ye Chen. Its eyes were red and burning with flames.
Ye Chen did not panic. He used Tianxiang Body Art. His footsteps were unpredictable. In a flash, he arrived at the flaming monster's side. He channeled his Qi-Jin into the battle saber and slashed at the monster's head!
The flaming monster turned its body, but it couldn't avoid the attack. Seeing that it was about to be hit, it suddenly roared. Its eyes glowed red, and the magma on its body tumbled wildly. Its body swelled up a bit, and it was about to explode.
Ye Chen was slightly surprised. He frowned and hurriedly took a few steps back. This flaming monster was at least Tier 2. If it self-destructed, the damage it would cause would be extremely frightening. It would not be any weaker than a full-powered attack from a Tier 3 monster!
Right at this moment —
"ROAR!!"
The flaming monster suddenly roared angrily and pounded its chest. The red light in its eyes flickered, sometimes bright and sometimes dark. After a while, it suddenly howled and fell to the ground. Its body dissolved like pus, burning the scorched ground even hotter.
Ye Chen was startled for a moment before he hurriedly walked over. He stretched out his hand and grabbed the lava. A wave of energy floated up from the lava and flowed into his body through his palm. Ye Chen immediately felt that the energy in his body had increased by a few notches!
"When other people kill monsters, they will consume energy and need to eat Vitality Pills to replenish it. Not only did I not consume any energy, but my energy has increased?" Ye Chen was a little surprised. Suddenly, he had a flash of inspiration and understood.
"It's most likely that the energy shattered the concentrated lava in the flaming monster's body, causing the fire-attributed energy in the lava to transform into the most primitive life energy. Then, the energy was devoured by the energy. That's why not only was my energy not consumed, but it was also strengthened."
Dark creatures were divided into seven types, and each type had a different attribute. If Ye Chen had the Metal Attribute, he wouldn't be able to absorb the fire-attributed life energy from the flaming monster. Forcefully absorbing it would only cause his body to explode and die.
However, the Devour Attribute could shatter the fire-attributed energy in the flaming monster's body and transform it into the most primitive life energy, which could be easily absorbed and refined.
Ye Chen walked over and saw that the flaming monster had already turned into a stream of lava. It flowed down the slope and into the cracks between the scorched earth, leaving behind two items. One was a fist-sized red diamond-shaped stone, and the other was a small red bead.
Ye Chen grabbed the air with his hand, and the two items flew over. He blocked them with his sword, causing the two items to land on the blade. He reached out and touched the red stone. It was extremely hot.
"This bead is an energy bead in the head of every dark creature. Eating it can increase one's energy. Could this stone be the flaming monster's heart?"
Ye Chen looked at the red stone. In his previous life, he had seen a similar stone at an auction in the Global Virtual Joint Base City. It was said that it was the heart of a dark creature. If one injected energy into it, it would cause a disturbance in the energy inside, causing it to explode!
Every dark creature, when encountering a powerful enemy, would detonate the heart in their body to inflict heavy damage to the enemy. They would also destroy the energy bead in their head. This way, the hunters would be left with nothing to gain. It would be a waste of effort, which was quite a headache.
However, just as this flaming monster was about to explode, its heart was enveloped by the Devour Attribute. Under the effect of the Devour Attribute, the violent energy inside was calmed down, and the connection between the red stone and the body of lava was cut off. It was equivalent to digging out its heart.
Therefore, this flaming monster didn't even have the chance to explode before it was killed.
Ye Chen clenched his fist, and his energy enveloped the red bead. A black energy shot out from his fingertips and enveloped the bead. A moment later, with a bang, the bead shattered into pieces and disappeared. The flaming energy contained in the bead was crushed and turned into a primitive life energy without any attributes. It was easily absorbed, causing the Qi-Jin in his body to reach a higher level. He was even closer to Stage Two!
Ye Chen looked at the red stone. His eyes flashed, and he put it into the rune space. He handed it to the old Green Rune Man for safekeeping. Once this thing exploded, even he would have to retreat. It could be useful when he hunted monsters in the future.
Ye Chen didn't notice that after he absorbed the energy from the energy bead, there was an extremely small red dot in his left eye!
"Roar!"
At this moment, in a magma pool not far away, another monster with flames all over its body crawled out. It looked almost the same as the previous one. With a roar, it rushed over, opened its mouth, and spat out a magma column.
Ye Chen narrowly dodged it. When he saw this monster, he wasn't shocked. Instead, he was happy. He raised his saber and rushed over. Qi-Jin poured into the saber, and the saber hummed. He slashed out, and a black saber light shot out from the tip of the saber.
Through the condensation of the saber, the sharpness of the saber light was the same as the saber. It easily pierced through the Stage Two flaming monster and cut off its leg. Before its limb could regenerate, Ye Chen narrowed his eyes and rushed out. He was as agile as a cheetah. The saber in his hand slashed diagonally. Qi-Jin entered the flaming monster's body through the tip of the saber and quickly wrapped around its heart.
"Hmm?" Ye Chen suddenly frowned.
He saw a flaming Qi-Jin rush out of the flaming monster's body like a volcanic eruption. It didn't have any meridians in its body, so there was no need to worry about its body being destroyed. As long as its heart wasn't destroyed, its limbs could continue to regenerate.
"Condense!" Ye Chen's eyes turned cold.
The black Qi-Jin suddenly condensed into a saber light. It was as thin as a cicada's wing and pierced forward!
Puchi!
The flaming Qi-Jin was like a long cloth that was torn apart from the middle. The saber light was like a hot knife through butter. It rushed to the vicinity of the monster's heart and instantly collapsed, turning into countless Qi-Jin. Like a black fog, it wrapped around the flaming red diamond-shaped stone!
"Roar!"
The flaming monster roared. The red light in its eyes gradually dimmed. Its body collapsed and turned into a wave of magma that swept in all directions.
Ye Chen's figure moved. He quickly retreated a few feet. After the magma flowed into the cracks between the scorched earth, he walked over. With a wave of his hand, a black Qi-Jin flew up from the scorched earth and entered his body. It was much stronger than before.
Ye Chen stretched out his hand and took the energy bead and the flaming red stone from the ground. The stone was stored in the rune space. The bead swallowed and refined it, causing the Qi-Jin in his body to reach a saturation level!
"How much has it reached?"
Ye Chen's eyes lit up. He looked around. Seeing that there were no flaming monsters rushing out, he opened the rune space and went in. Then, he shrank the hole to the size of a fist.
"Boss?" Little Black raised its head in confusion.
Ye Chen didn't say anything. He found a place and sat down cross-legged. Then, he took a deep breath and guided the Qi-Jin in his body. It flowed through the acupoints into the Qi Sea in his abdomen. The main Qi vortex here was like a whirlpool, spinning rapidly. It absorbed the Qi-Jin flowing in, compressed it, and then flowed out.
The Qi-Jin circulated in his body. It was compressed and refined by the main Qi vortex again and again, becoming denser and denser.
This was an extremely time-consuming task. Ye Chen wasn't in a hurry. He took his time to refine it.
Three days later.
"Weng."
Ye Chen felt a buzzing sound in his head. All the muscles in his body were wriggling. His skin was trembling slightly, and his pores were contracting. A wisp of white gas slowly rose from the top of his head.
"Huff!"
Ye Chen opened his eyes and exhaled lightly. His eyes were bright and clear. He clenched his fist slightly. The Qi-Jin in his body was even more refined. If the Qi-Jin in the past was described as wood, the current Qi-Jin was like steel. Its power had increased by several times!
"My Qi-Jin has reached the second stage of the Energy Warrior!"
Ye Chen smiled. This breakthrough in Qi-Jin had led to a transformation in his body. He had reached level 150, and his combat power had increased tremendously!
The world's standard for ranking was based on combat power!
Inner Qi-Jin, outer Qi-Jin!
The combination of the two, coupled with the combat skills, was the final comprehensive combat power index!
For example, a person whose combat skills had reached the level of a Red-class Warrior would be able to exert 10 points of combat power by himself. After reaching level 100 (1000 men's strength), this person would be able to exert 10,000 points of combat power!
On the other hand, a person whose combat skills were only at the level of a normal person, who could exert 5 points of combat power by himself, would have to reach level 200 before he could exert 10,000 points of combat power.
It was like a Tai Chi Grandmaster who only had 100 pounds of strength could fight a Hercules who had 200 pounds of strength to a draw.
(To be continued.
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