Pingzhou City, Military Base at Spatial Passage No. 54221.

The place is tightly guarded.

Since the last appearance of the mysterious figure here, the incident was reported layer by layer, which soon attracted the high attention of the Pingzhou garrison military district. This passage was completely sealed, nearby residents were quickly relocated, and the defense forces were greatly reinforced.

As an entrance connecting to otherworldly realms.

The spatial passage itself was extremely well-defended.

For example, the massive structure above the spatial passage was built to very high standards from the start.

Apart from a corridor leading to the spatial passage lined with thick iron doors, the entire structure is almost like a large cement bunker, with a thickness of over a dozen meters, impervious even to armor-piercing artillery shells.

Simultaneously, the interior of the corridor also includes various defense measures, including the release of toxic gas.

In the most dangerous situations, there is even the option to detonate a large amount of high explosives inside, annihilating everything.

...

It has been a peaceful half month since the last sighting of the mysterious figure.

This day is as calm as usual.

Outside the massive defensive structure, numerous artillery pieces and several armored vehicles are lined up, with their long barrels pointed directly at the structure.

It is now noon, with the scorching sun baking the ground, the asphalt road surface has melted, and even the cicadas' chirping sounds weak and powerless.

All the soldiers on duty are hiding under the shade of trees near their artillery, ready for any sudden situation, yet still drenched in sweat from the heat.

At this moment, a loud explosion rings out, and the massive structure violently shakes, instantly covered with web-like cracks, with numerous bits of concrete catapulting from the building's surface like bullets. The entire structure seems to expand, and the ground quakes intensely as if experiencing a magnitude five or six earthquake.

All the soldiers' faces change dramatically.

"Everyone, prepare for battle!" a military officer shouts himself hoarse, neck veins bulging, as he quickly runs toward the nearest artillery.

The rumbling sound grows louder and louder, the massive structure continuously crumbles, dust flies everywhere, and at the same time, a terrifying aura spreads.

A soldier, his legs giving way, falls to the ground, quickly gets back up, and rushes toward an armored vehicle.

"Boom!"

A heavily deformed and twisted iron door, weighing tens of tons, shoots out like a cannonball, smashing and rolling a nearby armored vehicle, yet the terrifying unknown entity still has not appeared.

In all this time, no one detonated the explosives placed inside the building; all the soldiers inside were either scared to death by the Divine Power at the outset or rendered unconscious by the subsequent explosions.

The booming sound shows no sign of stopping; the concrete building keeps collapsing, with large chunks falling off and countless steel wires snapping.

Suddenly.

The entire top of the building is completely pierced by a massive fist.

Amidst the smoke and dust, a huge and terrifying figure slowly floats up.

Under an invisible force, countless rubble defies gravity, leaving the ground and flying into the air, the atmosphere becomes distorted and filled with a grand buzzing sound.

"Open fire!"

Boom boom boom…

...

Otherworldly realm.

Chen Shouyi's figure moves quickly among the branches, almost turning into a blur.

His body seems light and agile, darting swiftly between the branches.

With a flick of his toes on the tree trunk, he leaps lightly over seven or eight meters, landing on another branch, showing no sign of this being a world with three times the gravity.

A small lizard with skin reminiscent of a tree trunk, covered in bumps, seems to sense intense danger and prepares to flee, but just as it moves, its head is gone with a flash of the sword.

17.6 agility, this is quite a terrifying figure, equivalent to 20 times that of an ordinary person.

A normal driver, when faced with a sudden situation, takes a total of 0.6 seconds from reaction to pressing the brake.

But Chen Shouyi completes all this in just a twentieth of that time.

A bullet traveling at 400 meters per second appears to him as if moving at 20 meters per second or 72 kilometers per hour to an ordinary person; unless it's right in front of him, he can easily dodge it.

Compared to four days ago, his agility has increased by sixty percent, rapidly approaching the God of Hunting possessing Xiao Changming.

His combat power has more than doubled.

Should there be another battle now, Chen Shouyi is confident he could completely defeat the entity.

Chen Shouyi practiced for a while, then jumped down from the tree, wiped his sweat, and silently reflected on the recent test.

"It seems my thinking speed can't keep up!"

He crushed an insect flying toward him and threw it to the ground, pondering silently.

His actions are still smooth when not intense, but as soon as the movement becomes vigorous, his thinking visibly dulls.

This feeling was there before, but never as pronounced as now.

He checked his Intelligence Attribute, only 14.5 points, more than three points less than his agility; this gap is simply too large.

In life-and-death combat, the situation changes momentarily, the brain must handle massive information and respond accordingly at each moment, sometimes actively processing, sometimes subconsciously instinctively, but all involving the brain's cognitive ability.

His relatively low intelligence has evidently dragged down the full potential of his combat power.

But he has no good solution.

Intelligence cannot be enhanced through cultivation so far.

His intelligence rose from the original ten points to this level not by any cultivation technique but through Divine Blood or sheer chance.

"Now that the phase of refining the marrow through introspection and self-discipline is completely accomplished, the next phase is refining the brain; I wonder if this will enhance intelligence?" Chen Shouyi hoped in his heart.

In less than a year, Chen Shouyi progressed through introspective self-discipline from refining flesh, to refining viscera, and now to refining marrow, a feat that is shocking to speak of.

One must know that for Martial Arts Practitioners, introspective self-discipline tests talent and consumes time the most.

In today's society, the human heart is restless, filled with distractions.

Simply achieving introspection stumps the vast majority of people.

Even if one can smoothly achieve introspection, to cultivate up to the level of refining flesh takes a short five to six years, or even a long decade or more, and the subsequent refining of viscera requires about the same, if not more, time.

This is also why refining viscera is one of the standards to become a Martial Artist.

As for refining marrow, perhaps throughout the entire Great Xia Country, only five individuals at most have accomplished it.

Completing the refining of the brain, there might not even be one.

Yet, Chen Shouyi still feels it's too slow; since the God of Hunting fled from Hedong, there has been no news, and the war in Dongning hasn't changed at all.

Although no news is said to be the best news, Chen Shouyi feels a vague unease.

The God of Hunting inhabiting Xiao Changming is definitely not for fun; there must be some plot at work.

Chen Shouyi has an urgent sense of approaching storm:

"If there were a cultivation technique for improving the brain, it would be great!"

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