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  Ling Jiu returned to the dormitory.

  “You’re back?”

  Shi Gang came over excitedly with a cheeky smile on his face. “What did you get? Make me jealous!”

  Ling Jiu smiled and said. “One Ultimate Gene Arcana secret technique, one top-tier treasure of heaven and earth, and one top-tier Gene Arcana Elixir, the Turbellarian Self-Healing Elixir!”

  “Damn! This sure is lavish!”

  Shi Gang’s eyes were green with envy. “An Ultimate Gene Arcana secret technique, a top-tier treasure of heaven and earth, a top-tier Gene Arcana Elixer, damn my jealous is about to get factored!”

  “Then you gotta work harder!”

  Ling Jiu smiled and then took off his shirt as he consumed the Bottle Tree Heart.

  The Bottle Tree Heart had a calming effect, and after the appearance of Gene Arcana, the Bottle Tree too had evolved.

  Its calming effect was infinitely amplified and finally had the ability to stimulate the causal body within a human’s body, causing an Arcanist’s Arcana to awaken at a deeper level.

  “The third awakening!”

  Ling Jiu was full of anticipation!

  After a short while, he felt a warm feeling sweeping through his body. His mind was at an unprecedented peace as he then fell asleep.

  “Damn, I’m jealous!”

  Looking at Ling Jiu who has fast asleep after taking the elixir, Shi Gang was extremely envious.

  If possible, he would also like to taste a top-tier treasure of heaven and earth someday. But sadly, it remains only a dream.

  After sleeping for who knows how long, Ling Jiu finally woke up.

  “This sleep was just too good!”

  Ling Jiu stretched, and only felt refreshed and full of energy, with his state of mind better than ever.

  “They are both treasures of heaven and earth, but the gap between the Crystal Demonic Orchid and the Bottle Tree Heart is just too big!”

  One produced hallucinations……

  One calmed and soothed the mind……

  One was painful suffering……

  One was a good night’s sleep……

  What a world of difference!

  “Has the third awakening happened?”

  Ling Jiu slowly closed his eyes and began to probe the Arcana of the people around him.

  After the second awakening, he could now check other’s Arcana within five meters of his surrounding. Now, would its range now increase?

  “Five meters, seven meters, nine meters……”

  “Sure enough!”

  Ling Jiu smiled. “The detection range has been expanded from 5 meters to 10 meters!”

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  The expansion of the detection range indicated the third awakening of the Replication Arcana had been successful!

  At the same time, Ling Jiu was also delighted to discover that he could replicate once again.

  What does this mean?

  The cooldown period had shortened once again!

  One needed to know that only 15 days had since passed since Ling Jiu replicated the ‘Ten-Thousand Gene Arcana’ Arcana!

  What did this mean then?

  It meant that the Replication Arcana’s cooldown period was less than 15 days now. As for the specific number of days, he needed to continue to observe!

  “Ten-meter replication range!”

  “A cooldown period of fewer than 15 days!”

  “The replication ability is stronger!”

  Ling Jiu felt good.

  With a 15 day cooldown period, that means he could replicate two Arcanas a month on average. Twice a month, that’s terrifying!

  Ling Jiu could imagine what a grand occasion it would be when he replicates thousands of Arcanas in his body. Would he become an omnipotent god, or something else even?

  “Just thinking about it is exciting!”

  Ling Jiu shook his head as he got out of the bed. It was late at night now, and Shi Gang was sitting on the bed absorbing Gene Arcana and was busy training.

  “What’s the time now?”

  Ling Jiu took out his mobile phone.

  “F*ck! It’s 11:50!”

  Ling Jiu perked up and immediately climbed out of the bed as he hurried out of the dorm. Fortunately, he woke up in time, or else he would have missed the training in Underground Room 12.

  When he arrived at Underground Room 12, the alloy door had yet to be opened, and Zhou Ji and the other eight students were waiting.

  Seeing Ling Jiu’s arrival, everyone looked over, with a look of envy, jealousy, and the like. All of them knew that Ling Jiu had received a reward!

  “Ling Jiu, why are you late?”

  Ai Yuhe frowned and asked.

  “I just woke up, hahaha!” Ling Jiu laughed embarrassedly. Woke up……

  All of the eight students suddenly felt discomfort. Sleeping?

  He was sleeping?

  Who the heck slept in this day and age? No one dared to even think about it. It was just too wasteful!

  “I was beaten by a lazy guy who likes to sleep in?”

  Christopher Adam stared at Ling Jiu as he felt bitter. He had already regarded Ling Jiu as a talented but lazy fool.

  “To even find time to sleep is an absolute waste of your talent. This kind of person will only shine bright for a moment, but not for long! Just you wait and see, I will surpass you and trample you under my feet!”

  Hirano Hatake and the other students also secretly swore. Ling Jiu had dominated the rankings for three straight weeks, and each time he beat them by 1 million points. It was a terrifying achievement that caused all other students to despair.

  How were they supposed to catch up with such a massive gap between them?

  However, at this moment, everyone’s mind suddenly became active. How could a guy who slept in and not train to dominate the rankings for long?

  They now saw hope in surpassing Ling Jiu and became fully motivated again!

  Ai Yuhe and Yang Ling’er knew that Ling Jiu was not that sort of person. Just as they were about to ask, the alloy gate opened.

  “Let’s go in!”

  When he came to the training room, Ling Jiu drank the life enhancement liquid and the Gene Arcana strengthening liquid as usual, and then he drank the Turbellarian Self-Healing Elixer.

  His body became stronger!

  Plus, his internal strength had improved again!

  In the end, he obtained a powerful self-healing ability. With a slash, a gash appeared on his arm, and the wound healed at a speed that was visible to the eye.

  Ten minutes later, the wound was completely healed, only the blood on the arm silently told the story of a cut that had been made here.

  “What a powerful self-healing ability!”

  Ling Jiu opened his eyes and smiled. “Even if I accidentally suffer a serious injury in the future, I’ll be able to heal back up in no time, and my survivability will be greatly improved! Awesome!”

  Ling Jiu recomposed himself and started studying the Ultimate Gene Arcana secret technique he had just obtained.

  This Gene Arcana secret technique is called Devouring the Stars. It was a very powerful name, meaning that it could even devour the stars, and its power was there to be seen.

  “Devouring the Stars……”

  After an hour or so later, Ling Jiu had successfully learned this secret technique and tried to activate the Devouring the Stars technique for the first time.

  All of the Gene Arcana within a radius of 10,000 meters were being drawn and pulled towards Ling Jiu like swallows returning to their nest before pouring into his body in a frenzy!

  Buzz……

  Ling Jiu welcomed everything, and he absorbed everything that was drawn like a bottomless pit. ……

  Three days had passed in a blink of an eye, and it was now the weekly live combat session. On Thursday morning, Ling Jiu piloted the maglev airship thousands of kilometers into the wilderness.

  “Scan for Class 6 Direbeasts!”

  “There’s 18 of them to the southwest? Nice!”

  Ling Jiu found the first Class 6 Direbeast. It was 30 meters long, with a gray-brown body with a snake-like head, and a pointed jaw. Its tail was long and its nostrils round……

  It was a monitor lizard!

  Class 6 Direbeast: The Morton Monitor

  However, the Morton Monitor’s condition was bad as it collapsed onto the ground with bloodied mucus dripping from its mouth, as if……

  “Poisoned?”

  Ling Jiu raised his eyebrows and showed a compassionate look. “I’m an experienced wildlife protector, seeing you suffering like this breaks my heart. I’ll make it quick!”

  Ling Jiu spread his palm as a piece of silver metal appeared in his hand.

  The next moment, the silver metal rose into the wind as it transformed into a five-meter-long spear in a blink of an eye. The spear tip was extremely sharp as a cold gleam appeared under the sunlight.

  “Go!”

  Ling Jiu pointed.

  Whoosh!!

  The long spear shot out like an arrow, instantly ripping through the distance of several meters before appearing in front of the Morton Monitor’s head and brutally pierced into it.

  Dush!

  The sudden pain caused the Morton Monitor to roar in pain as it thrashed about, but its head was already pierced open, how long can it struggle till?

  A moment later, the Morton Monitor collapsed onto the ground and lay motionless.

  “Heh, Ling’er’s Arcana sure is good!”


  Chapter 105: Controlling the Five Elements, Two Girls in Danger

  Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

  Ling’er’s Arcana?

  That was right!

  Just as he left the training camp, Ling Jiu had secretly copied Yang Ling’er’s Arcana, the Five-Element Manipulation!

  Controlling the five elements meant controlling gold, wood, water, fire, and earth. That meant, from today onwards, Ling Jiu could manipulate metals, plants, water, fire, and earth!

  One, two, three, four, five……

  It was equivalent to having four extra Arcanas, and that meant that five of the seven special substances he had would now come in handy. The silver metal that killed the Morton Monitor earlier was one of them.

  “Continue!”

  A few minutes later, Ling Jiu came to the second Class 6 Direbeast, and with a flick of his finger, the razor-sharp alloy spear once again pierced through the head of the Class 6 Direbeast, pinning its carcass to the ground.

  “Hehehe, it’s so easy to use! I’ve finally experienced Magneto’s power for the first time!”

  Dush!!!

  Dush!!

  Dush!!!

  A crazy slaughter started just like that. With his Blink and destructive silver metal, Ling Jiu’s efficiency in hunting Class 6 Direbeasts was far, far more efficient than before.

  On Thursday alone, Ling Jiu had killed 158 Class 6 Direbeasts, and if he were to maintain this efficiency for three consecutive days, he would be able to kill 450 Class 6 Direbeasts, and his score could reach a terrifying 4.5 million points!

  One could imagine how outrageous Ling Jiu’s hunting efficiency was now!

  In the blink of an eye, it was Saturday morning. Sending Celeste on an errand, Ling Jiu also set off. Today’s weather was very good, the sky was blue as a mirror, with no clouds at all.

  “It’s another good day!”

  Ling Jiu turned on the Direbeast Radar and got ready to look for a suitable target. At this moment, his handphone suddenly rang.

  “Who’s calling me at this hour?”

  Ling Jiu had a confused look, aside from his father and little sister, no one else would call him.

  And both his father and little sister knew that he was hunting in the wilderness at this hour so they would not call to disturb him. So, who called him?

  Ling Jiu took out his phone and took a look before being taken aback. She called?

  “Ling’er, what’s the matter?”

  Ling Jiu answered the phone.

  “Ling Jiu, a massive pack of Class 6 Direbeasts has appeared at our position, and there’s also a Class 7 Direbeast as well. We are in a perilous situation now, can you save us?” Ling’er said anxiously.

  “Send me your location!”

  Ling Jiu said immediately.

  He knew that the training camp had been monitoring every student, and perhaps rescue was already on the way, but since Yang Ling’er’ had called him, it would be poor form for him to not join the rescue.

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  “Okay!”

  After getting the position data, Ling Jiu piloted the maglev airship as he sped towards the spot. Thankfully, the distance between the two parties was not too far, and five minutes later, Ling Jiu had arrived at the place Yang Ling’er was at.

  This was a large and empty valley, with earth-shattering roars constantly thundered across it as if a vicious battle was going on there.

  Ling Jiu stored the maglev airship away and teleported to the valley. He soon arrived at the heart of it.

  A massive pool appeared before his eyes, and the gloomy pool water exuded a bone-biting chill with a layer of white mist rippling across its surface.

  On the mountain wall on the other end of the pool was a small cave.

  At this moment, a swarm of Class 6 Direbeasts was attacking the cave in a crazy.

  There were Giant Vajra Apes six to seven-story tall, Titan Pythons forty to fifty meters long, Sundering Longtusk Boars eight- to nine-story tall, and a thirty- to forty-meter tall drop bear……

  So many raging Direbeasts were on the assault as if they were not afraid of death, seemingly wanting to raze the small cave to the ground.

  The question was, what was drawing them to the cave?

  “Is that Ling’er?”

  Ling Jiu saw Yang Ling’er sitting, incapacitated, in the cave. Her face was pale with wounds all over her body, and behind her was a beautiful woman who was also equally bloodied, she was Ai Yuhe.

  “Die!”

  Yang Ling’er was in a frenzy as she desperately reduced the head of a Titan Python into dust, and she too seemed to have reached her limit as she spat out a mouthful of blood.

  “Why isn’t he here yet?”

  Yang Ling’er was faltering. She was at her limits, be it her Gene Arcana or her physical strength, were completely exhausted, and she was only holding on by sheer willpower.

  The most severe of her wounds was the one on her abdomen as blood constantly gushed out of it. She already felt that she had lost too much blood, and would suffer a shock at any moment.

  “Am I going to die here?”

  Yang Ling’er felt her head started to feel dizzy, as her vision turned black for a moment and she started to see hallucinations.

  She saw a man and a woman holding a little girl in their hands as they ran across a vast prairie as the laughter of the family of three spread far and wide.

  This image had appeared in Yang Ling’er’s dream countless times now.

  However, she could only clearly see the faces of the woman and the little girl every time it happens. The woman was her mother, and the little girl was herself, only the man’s face was always blurred.

  “Mommy, why does everyone else have a daddy, but I don’t?”

  “Your father is dead!”

  “Mommy, I want Daddy!”

  “Daddy……”

  Yang Ling’er stretched her hand out to grab at the man, but as soon as she raised her hand, her strengthed were seemingly totally sapped, as she passed out completely.

  “Ling’er!”

  At this moment Ling Jiu appeared.

  “Die!”

  With a wave of his hand, the metal spear shot out like a beam as it darted among the Direbeast. Where ever it passed through, skulls were perforated.

  Dush dush dush……

  Within a few breath’s time, all of the dozens of the besieging Class 6 Direbeasts had their heads punctured as they dropped onto the ground dead.

  Ling Jiu blinked into the cave and put his finger over Yang Ling’er’s nose and mouth. She was still alive. Ai Yuhe was also still alive but had passed out in a coma.

  “Gotta evac them first!”

  Ling Jiu glanced at the Direbeasts that continued to swarm in, before grabbing Yang Ling’er and Ai Yuhe before disappearing.

  As soon as his foot left the ground, a giant head with a single horn appeared at the back of the pool as a pair of blue eyes radiated a chilling aura.

  A Blue-eyed Green Scaled Dragon! ……

  Bam!

  The door to a ward in the training camp hospital was opened as a doctor in a white coat came out.

  Ling Jiu quickly walked to the doctor. “Doctor Zhao, how are my friends doing?”

  Doctor Zhao took off his mask. “One has mental trauma, probably suffered a mental attack, resulting in coma. Another one is in a very complicated situation!”

  “Is it life-threatening?”

  Ling Jiu asked.

  “The one who suffered a mental attack is in relatively good condition. After giving her some treasure of heaven and earth to treat her mental trauma, she will recover without any problems!”

  Dr. Zhao slowly said, “The trouble lies in the other patient. Not only has she lost too much blood, but she also has multiple organ failures. Her situation is very dangerous!”

  “Doctor, you must save her, please!” Ling Jiu begged.

  “That’s the problem!”

  Dr. Zhao sighed. “Her blood loss is severe, and we need to give her a blood transfusion, but the camp does not have a specialized blood bank, so……”

  “Won’t feeding Ling’er treasure of heaven and earth or elixirs work?” Ling Jiu asked.

  There were so many treasures of heaven and earth and Gene Arcana elixirs around. Besides, there were many treasures that could help replenish blood, so why could they not directly treat her with that?

  Moreover, the medical technology in this world was far ahead compared to his previous life, and Ling Jiu did not believe that they could not cure a case of severe blood loss.

  “Student, you don’t realize the severity of the problem!”

  The doctor slowly explained, “With her current condition, forget withstanding the impact of the treasure of heaven and earth or potions, even if she could, we cannot abuse it!”

  “Why?”

  Ling Jiu frowned.

  “Do you know the function of blood?”

  The doctor slowly continued, “Blood has many functions, one of which is to transport various substances like nutrients, metabolites, oxygen, carbon dioxide, water, inorganic salts, and the like!

  “In the case of severe blood loss, even if you inject treasure of heaven and earth or Gene Arcana elixirs into her body, it will not be able to bring to bear their full effect!”

  “Then what should we do?”

  “Blood transfusion then!”

  The doctor said, “Given there’s no blood bank in the camp, I’ll give the camp commandant a call, and recall all of the students, and then have a blood test in hope of finding a suitable blood style, otherwise……”

  “Test mine first!”