"Finally, I've managed to gather enough. The experience from these low-level monsters is really just too little..."

In his room, Gu Mo opened his Attribute Panel in front of the mirror on the wardrobe and chose to level up, while looking quite weary.

He had previously overexerted himself and took more than two days to recover, deeply realizing how insufficient his foundation was. However, he didn't waste time and continued grinding for experience... This time, instead of the previous quick grinding method, he planned to level up on his own and fill up the last bit of experience for his current level.

As the progress bar was almost full, with just one more level to go and one point to allocate, he figured based on the increasing trend towards the end, his Spirit would grow significantly, meaning he could maintain the Guardian Spirit's ultimate for a longer time and grind more efficiently.

This idea wasn't wrong, as the number of aggro items he had was limited, so naturally, he needed to maximize the benefits each time.

The only problem was that the low-level monsters in this instance were really just cannon fodder, each giving ridiculously low experience. They also tended to avoid him from a distance, making it quite difficult to find them...

This dragged on for several more days until Gu Mo finally filled up the seemingly small last section of the experience bar.

Thinking about the process, he felt a faint ache in his liver, like downloading a large file where the progress bar quickly completes ninety percent and for the remaining small section, the internet speed drops to only a few kilobytes - it was agonizingly slow.

But finally, he completed it today.

Seeing his Life Level increase from LV6 to LV7, and having gained a point to allocate, Gu Mo pondered briefly before swiftly deciding to add it to his Spiritual attribute, bringing its real value to 13 points, equaling his best Physique Attribute.

Although each level-up only rewards one allocatable point, each point is extremely precious and brings significant enhancements, the quality advantages compensate excellently for the lack of quantity.

The performance brought about by a value of 13 points was naturally impressive—

For instance, Gu Mo's Physique Attribute was the only one that had reached this value before, and although his Defense hadn't reached the level of being impenetrable, his endurance was visibly prolonged, and his recovery ability was astonishing.

After all, apart from those initial fatal wounds that forced him to "cleanse his hands and heal the wounds," he hadn't gone without bumps and bruises afterwards, nor were all his injuries life-threatening... of course, this wasn't the case.

But he remained unaffected by these minor injuries because his recovery ability became quite remarkable. Light scratches or bruises, when sustained in the morning, could almost fully recover by nighttime.

As long as the injuries weren't severe, he didn't have to use Minamoto no Yoshiie's secret medicine or Abe no Seimei's Healing Technique... Especially after obtaining the protection of the White Viper, his recovery became even more absurd, transitioning from astonishing to inhuman.

Now, the moment his Spiritual attribute reached a value of 13 points, Gu Mo felt instantly lively. Turning off the visual display of the Attribute Panel, he looked at himself in the mirror, and wondered if it was an illusion—his eyes seemed brighter.

They say the eyes are the window to the spirit, perhaps this is what it means to be spirited and lively.

Moreover...

Gu Mo blinked and looked around thoughtfully. Although his rented house was clean, upon completing the allocation, he somehow felt slightly... sensitive, hearing faint rustling noises.

For a moment, he thought they were mice or cockroaches, as the sounds seemed to come from the spatial areas around him, not from his immediate vicinity but from within the walls, above the ceiling, the room next door, and even under the floor.

In the quiet environment, the rustling sounds during the night seem eerie and creepy...

But upon listening more closely, he realized they weren't meaningless noises but rather a form of speech, as if unseen people—or perhaps the voices from the different parts of the house—were speaking.

"It hurts..."

"Why..."

"Die, die, die..."

Painful, regretful, venomous voices echoed—a normal person would probably feel a chill down their spine, their hair standing on end, either screaming or freezing in place, then probably crashing out of the house, never daring to return.

But Gu Mo remained calm. He stood before the wardrobe, tilting his head just like his reflection in the mirror, listening carefully and intently. After a while, as if confirming something, he nodded in realization.

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