This kind of expert that can fight for life and death against and stronger than oneself is rare.

Either often encountered weaklings, or killed by a master with a single slap.

Looking back at the entire counteroffensive process, the two of them killed more than five hundred demons, not counting those indirectly killed using the Flame Demon Spirit Ball.

The death count at Mountain and River Origin was slightly lower, not because he wasn't strong enough, but because his deterrence was too great. Many demons dared not challenge him and only rushed toward Zhou Leng.

Zhou Leng's sword was no worse than Mountain and River Origin's hammer.

After writing the battle report, Zhou Leng sat in the vehicle and drifted off to sleep.

In his dream, a person stood in Broken Candle City, atop a hill of demon corpses, constantly slaughtering the demons rushing from all directions.

One person like a flag, standing firm and unwavering.

Broken Candle City.

A Candleholder covered in flesh and blood wax rushed toward the Demon School, digging out half of a young demon from the rubble.

"My child..."

The tardy City Lord of Broken Candle City, Radiance of the Bright Candle, held half of his son's corpse, devastated.

He sat in a daze for a long time, then took out a Demon Artifact from his Magic Spirit Bag.

The Demon Artifact resembled a blood-red head, with only two organs, a large single eye above and a large mouth below.

Radiance of the Bright Candle searched other corpses, prying out eye after eye, feeding them into the Demon Artifact's mouth.

Before long, the Demon Artifact buzzed repeatedly, finally projecting a light and shadow.

A Giant and a Rusted Iron General rampaged.

However, the shadow of the Rusted Iron General wavered continuously, clearly a Magic Illusion.

Radiance of the Bright Candle continued searching the ruins, questioning living demons, finally encountering the escaped Flesh and Blood War Chariot.

Radiance of the Bright Candle jumped onto the carriage of the Flesh and Blood War Chariot, inserted two fingers into one of its sockets, gouged out a constantly turning eye, and fed it into the Demon Artifact's mouth.

The Flesh and Blood War Chariot hummed lowly, saying nothing.

The Demon Artifact outwardly projected the battle process between the Flesh and Blood War Chariot and the two individuals.

"Human, Half-blood Giant..."

Radiance of the Bright Candle jumped onto a nearby standing house, looked around, and finally walked to the hotel where Mad Prince Aiden was staying.

Two hours later, Radiance of the Bright Candle emerged.

The two parties signed a secret contract.

Together, they entered the Tree-man World. Radiance of the Bright Candle helped Mad Prince Aiden hunt the Heart of Life, but Aiden had to help Radiance of the Bright Candle hunt enough Tree-man hearts, and afterward, Aiden had to help capture those two people.

Sleepily arriving in Rucheng, Zhou Leng reported his safety to Xu Qingjin, then headed straight to Mammoth Lake, and fell asleep in the water.

Innate Martial Artist, skin breathing.

Like light and heavy at will, both are innate talents, Divine Techniques, even seen as a superpower.

Talents and Divine Techniques can change reality to some extent.

Lower realm lightweight martial arts cannot.

Waking up, surfacing.

Glancing at the time, 23 hours.

In martial arts perception, the body is nearly fully recovered, with no aftereffects, no discomfort.

Zhou Leng stands on the lakeshore, looking at Mammoth Lake.

This lake is so miraculous.

Most known treatment methods have certain side effects.

The water of Mammoth Lake seems to be a higher level of healing technique.

That Star Phoenix Rejuvenation Technique...

Zhou Leng enters Mammoth Lake again to cultivate the Star Phoenix Rejuvenation Technique in the water.

This healing technique, though only the upper half, is sufficient to cultivate to the Void God Realm.

Similarly to the Undying Star Body, due to its high level, it is too difficult to cultivate.

Not everyone has Zhang Xinglie's great fortune, perfect alignment between cultivation technique and body, progress swiftly.

The principle of the Star Phoenix Rejuvenation Technique is simple: transform Qi Blood into healing power.

Simultaneously, store the healing power in the body, release it after battles to restore energy and heal injuries.

The healing ability itself is limited; absorption of Merit Treasure is necessary to enhance its effectiveness.

In the water, Zhou Leng continually converts all Qi Blood into healing power, Phoenix Power.

In martial arts perception, the Phoenix Power is faintly red, threadlike, like numerous red threads wandering in the body.

After each strand of Phoenix Power wanders and cleanses the entire body, it gathers at the center of the chest.

Threadlike Phoenix Power entwines and accumulates into the shape of Star Phoenix Feather, resembling peacock feathers, yet more flamboyant, magnificent, vibrant, and mysteriously beautiful.

Like a colorful starry cloak woven into peacock plume form, elegant and noble.

The complete Star Phoenix Feather slowly enters the spine, merging into the marrow, settling there.

As the Phoenix Power in the marrow reaches its peak, it transforms into powerful "Phoenix Marrow," subsequently endless, surpassing most high-level life forms in healing ability.

At its highest realm, even if shattered to pieces, flesh and blood can regenerate.

Legend has it that after death, the Star Phoenix can be reborn from the ashes through the power of fire.

When practicing Star Phoenix Rejuvenation Technique, this practice can perceive the number of Star Phoenix Feathers deposited in the marrow.

Phoenix Power continually wanders and cleanses the body, time unknown, Zhou Leng feels his body is sore and swollen.

The body has reached its limit, unable to endure more Phoenix Power cleansing.

The cultivation technique stops.

Star Phoenix Fallen Feathers, total 17.

This session increased by a full 4 Feathers, previously at most able to condense 1 Feather.

Currently, Star Phoenix Rejuvenation Technique can only cultivate to the Fourth Layer Heaven.

The First Heaven requires the deposition of ten thousand Star Phoenix Feathers in the marrow.

Exiting Mammoth Lake, Zhou Leng conducts daily cultivation.

Beginning with aerobic warm-up running, then using Grandmaster Demonized Equipment for weight training and resistance training.

Cultivating in the Fierce Beast World, where Spiritual Qi concentration is higher, yields better results.

Afterwards, he took out the incense burner and lit the concentration incense inside.

Amidst the curling incense smoke, he swallowed an Embracing Essence Pill.

The Embracing Essence Pill transformed into rolling heat, pouring into his Dantian.

The medicinal power seemed like two large hands, slowly covering the spherical True Qi in the Dantian, compressing it forcefully.

The spherical True Qi gradually shrank, its density increasing.

Compressed to the extreme, the medicinal power expanded, causing the spherical True Qi to enlarge.

Then, the medicinal power compressed the True Qi once more...

After nine consecutive times, the medicinal power dissipated.

The spherical True Qi in the Dantian shrank slightly more than before; its total volume unchanged but its density higher.

Without the help of medicinal power, Zhou Leng began the Star Gazing Technique, compressing the True Qi using its methods.

Without the aid of the Embracing Essence Pill's medicinal power, each compression took more than ten times the time, with the effect being less than a tenth.

Finished cultivating all the techniques, he studied the Divine Text.

After learning the Divine Text, he walked out of the cave and headed towards Xiaoru Village.

Connecting the communication signal, a message box popped up.

Messages from Wang Boxiong, Deng Zhijue, Chen Shouhu and others appeared one after another.

Emergency summons!

Alliance rescue!

The Tree-men were facing a joint invasion by Demons and giant insects. If the defensive line of the Tree-man World is breached by giant insects, Shuizhou Demon City will endure the pressure from the Giant Insect Race.

Just two days after completing the counterattack, an emergency summons was encountered; really a stroke of luck...

Chen Shouhu and Wang Boxiong knew Zhou Leng was injured. After issuing the emergency summons, they added explanations.

"Rather than recovering at home, it's better to recover in the Tree-man World."

"In all alliance rescue battles, rescuing the Tree-men yields the highest rewards."

"As long as you don't die on the spot, the Tree-men can heal you. With a large quantity of Water of Life, injuries can be quickly healed."

"Since you're injured now, it's better to go directly to the Tree-man World, slowly accumulating Water of Life through war merits, which is faster than recovering at home through cultivation."

"Moreover, there's a chance to get the Tree-man Heart to enhance healing techniques."

Zhou Leng was tempted when he saw the Tree-man Heart.

During the battle with the Flesh and Blood War Chariot, his body's recovery ability became a noticeable weak point.

In terms of will, he could still fight, and he didn't lack True Qi.

But his body couldn't hold on.

The attack and defense methods of the Flesh and Blood War Chariot were quite ordinary, purely relying on the formidable physique of being two realms higher to gradually grind out a victory.

If the Star Phoenix Rejuvenation Technique had reached the First Heaven, he could have fought for another half hour.

"I'm going now."

Zhou Leng sent Xu Qingjin another message about leaving, and Xu Qingjin responded with voice messages repeatedly instructing him.

He glanced at the message from fifty people in the Ancient River Sect; apart from those with teaching tasks in the Ancient River Research Bureau, half had already responded to the summons and left.

Zhou Leng thought for a moment, then decided against taking a vehicle, turning to run towards the mountains.

Reaching a steep area, he climbed like a nimble monkey, using his bare hands to ascend the summit.

Standing on the mountaintop, he gazed towards Shuizhou Demon City, sprinting on the steep summit.

Walking the mountains as if in the clouds.

Crossing Xiaoru Mountain, landing on wasteland, sprinting towards Shuizhou Demon City.

In a secluded place, Zhou Leng picked up the Demonized Watch and began measuring his speed.

Running with Qi manipulation, without using lightweight skill, 81 meters per second, 291 kilometers per hour.

Using lightweight skill, maximum speed, reaching 156 meters per second, a speed of 561 kilometers per hour.

Half sonic speed.

Unlike power's linear growth, the growth curve of speed was far less than that of power.

After testing the lightweight skill, he resumed running with Qi manipulation, reaching over 200 kilometers per hour, charging to the banks of the Yangtze River.

Not detouring to the Yangtze River Bridge, dashing straight into the Yangtze River.

Activating lightweight skill, his right foot stepping down on the river, the river surface exploded, massive waves rising on both sides.

Zhou Leng dashed across the river, his left foot coming down, exploding the river surface, dashing forward again.

Water reaching no more than knee height.

Running across the river.

Zhou Leng continued to sprint, the roar was endless, behind him waves soared high before slowly falling.

The river water was vast, boundless, reaching the opposite shore in no time.

He glanced back, still several columns of waves were descending.

"Just a little short, once I ascend to Grandmaster, I can tread water without waves and walk on snow without traces."

Shortly after, Zhou Leng entered Shuizhou Demon City, checked the map, and charged towards the Demon City base in the Tree-man World.

Sprinting all the way, constantly surpassing some teams heading for reinforcement.

Approaching nightfall, the sky darkened, Zhou Leng did not rest, continuing to sprint.

Soon, he encountered a large team of three to four hundred people.

Two Black Dragons were flying above the team.

Zhou Leng took a closer look, realizing they were two Innate Flying Dragons, either in the Bone Forging stage or Muscle stage, far beyond his ability to contend.

Scanning the team, they were jogging forward.

The majority were merely in the Body Refining Stage and Late Life Force stage, roughly feeling that there were no fewer than fifty Innate Martial Artists.

In this team, not only were there humans and dragons, but also Demon Spirit Masters and dwarves.

Zhou Leng vaguely guessed the party leader was extraordinary, but he didn't care, speeding up to overtake the team.

As Zhou Leng overtook the team, some in the group took a look, then went about their business.

In the middle of the team, a short-haired, square-faced young man stood on an Earth Lizard, dressed in white, unstained by dust, watching Zhou Leng's back.

"This person has a decent foundation." He casually commented.

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