Chapters [173-174]

Chapter 173 Regeneration God Art

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Lu Ze looked shocked when he saw how the black scaled leopard slowly recovered.

This was the first black scaled leopard Lu Ze encountered that knew god art.

The first time!

Black scaled leopards clearly didn't have god art. Why would there be one with god art?

Lu Ze remembered when the beasts came running to the hive of the blue bird boss upon its birth.

… Could some of these beasts actually inherit their god art?

Thinking about this, Lu Ze's eyes lit up, and he smiled.

He felt as long as he was lucky enough, he found another way to gain god art?

This was great!

The black scaled leopard was pretty much recovered, and it once again roared at Lu Ze.

Although it couldn't beat Lu Ze, it could still recover. This gave it the motivation to keep fighting.

Lu Ze looked coldly at the black scaled leopard and disappeared.

The black scaled leopard charged at Lu Ze again.

Rumble!

Rumble!!

The two kept clashing in the air.

Half an hour later, the two separated. They floated in the air and looked at each other vigilantly.

At this moment, Lu Ze was covered in deep blood marks. Blood flowed down slowly and dropped on the messy ground.

All his spirit force was used up now. His body was shaking because of using full power for too long. Even his mental force felt a bit hollow.

He moved slightly, and there was a huge pain.

He wanted to cry.

Ever since he became strong, he rarely received such heavy injuries on this map because he could kill instantly those beasts that he could beat. As for those beasts he couldn't beat, he would be the one killed instantly instead.

It was extremely hard to encounter an evenly matched opponent like this.

It was blood boiling. Lu Ze was happy and pained at the same time.

He looked at the black scaled leopard ahead. Its scales were cracked while its blood kept spilling. Its chi was much weaker than before. It was panting while floating.

There was still black spirit light flowing. However, compared to the initial powerful recovery speed, it took a long time now just to stop the bleeding.

Suddenly, Lu Ze's eyes flashed with ferocity. He was enveloped in wind and fire again as he charged at the black scaled leopard.

"Roar!"

The black scaled leopard was originally planning to retreat as this two-legged animal wasn't so easy to mess with.

However, this two-legged animal charged over again despite its injuries. This couldn't be tolerated.

The black scaled leopard retaliated.

The two approached each other. Lu Ze punched toward the black scaled leopard's waist with a much weaker flame and whirlwind.

Meanwhile, the black scaled leopard twisted and slammed toward Lu Ze's head with its right claw.

Both their eyes flashed with some light.

Plan succeeded!

Lu Ze: I can get revived!

Black scaled leopard: I can recover!

Lu Ze grinned and lifted his left hand to block the right claw.

Bone cracking sounds came. His left-hand bone was cracked.

The immense pain made Lu Ze's eyes flash with hideousness.

Then, he punched with full power at the black scaled leopard's waist.

The green and red fist force struck heavily on the waist.

Dense bone-cracking sounds came from the black scaled leopard.

At this moment, a black whip slashed through the air, hitting heavily on Lu Ze's right hand.

Lu Ze's mouth twitched. Another bone-cracking sound came as his right hand fell down helplessly.

The tail changed directions and struck painfully on Lu Ze's chest.

Both of them flew back and landed heavily on the ground.

Lu Ze coughed some blood. That whip was very powerful.

He even broke a few ribs, and his organs began to break.

Both Lu Ze's hands were broken.

But the wind flashed, and he got up again.

Then, a green light flashed in Lu Ze's eyes as he charged towards the black scaled leopard.

He wasn't going to allow it to recover.

As a mature hunter, Lu Ze wasn't going to make such a mistake!

He was ready to die peacefully after this fight.

He was going to kill this black scaled leopard before he died.

How could he give up this new god art?

The recovering black scaled leopard sensed Lu Ze's chi.

It roared with some worry. Its organs were shattered, and its spine was broken. It couldn't fight at all.

It struggled to fly and flew far.

If it just hid for a while and recovered, it would be fine.

Lu Ze's wind god art was inherited from the blue bird boss. His speed was already faster than the black scaled leopard. Now, he was much faster.

In a few short seconds, Lu Ze caught up to the black scaled leopard.

He kicked towards the black scaled leopard's spine with a flaming leg.

"Die!!"

Rumble!

The right leg smashed the black scaled leopard's last remaining spirit force and landed on its spine.

The black scaled leopard turned into a flow of light and was kicked into the grass by Lu Ze. A small ditch was smashed.

"Roar!"

The black scaled leopard wailed and coughed large amounts of blood.

The feeble black light surged. It clearly tried to struggle again.

Lu Ze mercilessly landed from the air and stomped heavily on its stomach, tearing its organs to pieces.

The black scaled leopard coughed out pieces of organs and stopped struggling.

Lu Ze looked at this and fell beside its body.

Oh my!

He was completely sucked dry.

This was more intense than fighting that male lion.

Lu Ze struggled to watch the black scaled leopard turn to dust as he breathed a sigh of relief.

He smiled. Now, it was time to collect the loot!

Regeneration god art!

With this, Lu Ze could act cool even in the real world.

He watched five even brighter [red orbs] and two [purple orbs] appear. There was also a [grey crystal orb].

Lu Ze squirmed over. He couldn't even stand up nor use wind god art.

Lu Ze suddenly wanted to cry.

Lu Ze took the [light orbs] with extreme difficulty before breathing easy.

Luckily, there were no beasts nearby, or he would probably get eaten.

Great, he could die peacefully.

Lu Ze closed his eyes and waited for his injuries to take him out of the [Pocket Hunting Dimension].

At this moment, a roar sounded.

Lu Ze opened his eyes and saw three black scaled leopards carefully making their way over.

When they saw Lu Ze, their eyes lit up as they joyfully ran over.

Lu Ze: "…"

When he opened his eyes again, he was back in the dorm.

Was this karma?

He killed an aperture opening state black scaled leopard boss, and in the end, he was killed by a core martial state black scaled leopard.

This was the most humiliating way to die!

He didn't even die like this when he was a noob.

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Chapter 174. The Script with a Little Detour

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After promising to never make such a mistake again, Lu Ze sat down to digest what he earned today.

Each god art meant an increase in battle power. The regeneration god art could allow Lu Ze to have much greater endurance.

He closed his eyes and watched the [grey crystal ball].

Inside was an unknown grey substance that kept dividing and gathering.

It changed from different states of matter—solid, liquid, and gas.

This was the military dorm, and Lu Ze didn't know if there were surveillance, so he used the ball in his mental dimension.

The ball turned into a gust of grey mist that entered Lu Ze's body. Strange and powerful energy flowed in Lu Ze's body. Lu Ze's cells started to vibrate.

Then, his cells started to tear. Lu Ze's face instantly went pale. The huge pain made him sweat all over. There was even a sliver of blood in his sweat.

This god art!

The user experience was terrible—it was unfriendly. Even after dying multiple times, Lu Ze didn't feel a severe pain similar to the one he was experiencing at the moment.

This was a rupture at a cellular level. He could feel it in every corner of his body.

He felt he was surrounded by pain and could feel nothing else.

At this moment, his cells slowly started to repair. Information about regeneration god art appeared in his mind.

Lu Ze quickly used the [purple orb] dropped by the aperture opening state leopard and started learning it.

Then, his cells cycled in rupture and repair.

A special life force was born in Lu Ze's body. He learned a sliver of regeneration god art.

It was a very basic learning, but it was very precious to Lu Ze.

Destruction and life. This type of god art was too high level. He could only feel it a little now.

A few hours later, Lu Ze slowly opened his eyes.

He clutched his hand into fists and grinned.

Although he learned regeneration god art, the repair and destruction of his cells made his body stronger.

Lu Ze's eyes flashed with grey chi. As long as it wasn't a lethal injury, he could slowly recover.

He obtained too much this time. His survival was greatly ensured with this regeneration god art.

He was about to go on the battlefield. This god art came just in time. He could roam freely on the battlefield.

Thinking about this, Lu Ze's smile became inappropriate.

Although his dream took a detour, the eventual outcome could be realized?

He would probably become the dream of millions of girls, just like Luo Bingqing?

Cough… it was still too early. Cultivation cultivation.

Lu Ze closed his eyes again.

Seeing the flashing [red orbs] in his mental dimension, Lu Ze sunk into contemplation.

These [aperture opening state red orbs] were clearly very powerful, but he wasn't sure if his body could handle it.

After thinking for a while, Lu Ze still decided to devour it.

Without the regeneration god art, Lu Ze wouldn't try.

But with it, Lu Ze could test some dangerous ideas.

Even if he was injured, he could recover.

The [red orb] disappeared from Lu Ze's mental dimension.

Then, an extremely terrifying power rushed into Lu Ze's body.

Lu Ze's face still wasn't completely recovered yet from the pain of learning the god art. It once again became pale.

It was like every cell was being burned in waves. It was better than the tearing sensation but still very painful!

It was so painful he couldn't even cry.

The only comfort was that this energy could still be slowly digested.

This was also due to his cells being more durable after learning the regeneration god art.

Lu Ze slowly started to digest this [red orb] energy.

It was clearly nourishing his body. Lu Ze could feel his body growing stronger slowly.

His spirit force cultivation level easily broke through to abstruse martial state level five in a few seconds and headed to abstruse martial state level six.

Three hours later, Lu Ze opened his eyes as the day became bright.

It was indeed an [aperture opening state red orb]. The leopard only just reached aperture opening state, but he used the orb for three hours.

He felt if he kept using this orb, he could break through to abstruse martial state level six in less than a week.

…

Getting out of bed, Lu Ze stretched. His bones made cracking sounds.

When he cleaned himself, his roommates got up. Lin Ling and the others came over too.

The group had breakfast and received news from the HQ telling Lu Ze and Lin Ling to go to the HQ.

After all, these two found the spirit metal mine, they needed to report the information.

The young soldier once again came to the dorms and led Lu Ze and Lin Ling to a meeting room.

Inside, Lu Ze and Lin Ling widened their eyes. They found Nangong Jing, Luo Bingqing, Lin Kuang, and the other golden-haired young duke girl was here too.

There were also a few rather young major generals.

Although young dukes were major generals too, these major generals were the real generals that led troops to war. Meanwhile, young dukes were those who could fight against tens of thousands and more just alone.

There were also some third and fourth-year senior schoolmates, as well as prodigy barrack prodigies and other military officers.

When Lu Ze and Lin Ling came in, the meeting stopped, and everyone looked at them.

Everyone looked at the two with flashy eyes. Their complexions differed.

Lu Ze had the most attention. He was the one who captured the blade demon prodigy which allowed them to gather quite some intel about the 25th planet.

Then, it was he who brought out the news about spirit metal mine.

This young prodigy probably had aperture opening state power, and he had quite some military merit.

Everyone had an interest in Lu Ze, especially Lin Kuang and Louisa. They were the instructors of prodigy barracks.

Such prodigy should train directly in the military and not grow up in a soft environment like the school.

Lu Ze was embarrassed by being stared at like this.

He knew he was very handsome, but it wasn't too appropriate to look at him like this.

A middle-aged serious-looking major general said, "2nd Lieutenant Lu Ze, it's huge merit that you and Sergeant Major Lin found the spirit metal mine, but the situation is urgent, so we need you to explain precisely what happened there."

Lu Ze nodded and started speaking.

Of course, he didn't mention they were chased around in circles by the big boss.

After Lu Ze was done, the major general frowned. "2nd Lieutenant Lu Ze and Sergeant Major Lin, can you confirm how much spirit metal was mined out?"

Lin Ling answered, "When we passed the mine, a few were newly dug. If the distribution was the same as underground, there should be a few tonnes of spirit metal that wasn't shipped out."

Everyone frowned. A few tonnes of spirit metal was not little.

Even a prodigy like Lu Ze only received 1.5kg as a reward.

If they took over this mine, the supply of spirit metal for the Xiaer system military in the next few years would be solved.

For them, this was worth investing resources to fight with the blade demon over the mine.

Plus, they didn't know if the blade demons shipped back that portion of spirit metal yet. If not, then there was all the more reason not to give up.

Then, the major general let Lu Ze and Lin Ling listen while they continued their discussion.

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