Devouring the Stars: The Lord of the Sky

Chapter 44 Qinling Mountains
At this time, two weeks had passed since the Spring Festival, and the festive atmosphere on the land of Yanhuang had basically dissipated.

Late at night, on the balcony of the villa, Lu Jin sat cross-legged with his eyes closed, circulating his mental energy within his sea of ​​consciousness, practicing the "Master's Secret 432 Techniques".

'The 144th image of consciousness is complete!'

Lu Jin opened her eyes with a happy expression.

Where there's a will, there's a way. After practicing the "Master's Secret 432 Techniques" for another five months, he finally mastered the 144th image of consciousness.

Having mastered the 144th mental image, Lu Jin's mental power amplification has increased from 8 times before May to 12 times now.

A 12-fold increase in mental power amplitude has already met the minimum cultivation requirements for the Heavenly Escape Technique.

Afterwards, Lu Jin rode the Sky Shuttle and transformed into a streak of light under the night sky, heading towards the wilderness, preparing to master the 'Dragon Slaying Technique' as soon as possible so he could take on king-level monsters.

Not long after, a figure descended from the sky on a hillside hundreds of miles outside Yangzhou.

With a surge of spiritual power, the shuttle-shaped Sky Shuttle in front of Lu Jin instantly disintegrated into 365 curved, silver-gray blades.

'Drill hole, freeze!'

Lu Jin's gaze sharpened, and the 365 Sky-Piercing Shuttle blades that appeared in front of him instantly converged into one, forming a cone.

On the surface of the cone, there are spirals, resembling a drill bit.

The Heavenly Escape Technique has three main forms, with the first form further subdivided into three modes: flight, attack, and defense.

Its flight mode is piloting the Sky Shuttle, its attack mode is the 'Mountain Drill Cone', and its defense mode is the 'Mountain Shield'.

With a thought, twelve strands of spiritual power, having reached their peak, were activated along the secret patterns on the 'Drilling Cone'.

In an instant, twelve golden lines appeared on the silver-gray 'Drill Cone', extending rapidly from the bottom to the tip.

Unfortunately, due to a misoperation, one of the twelve golden threads arrived first.

'laugh--'

The next moment, the twelve golden threads dissipated, and the drilling cone returned to its original silver-gray color.

Seeing this, Lu Jin couldn't help but shake his head.

Although his current 12x psychic power amplitude has already met the minimum requirements for unleashing the first form of the Sky Shuttle, the first layer of the Mountain Drill Cone.

But it only meets the minimum requirements for performance.

To truly master the technique and make the twelve golden threads that light up on the mountain-drilling cone reach the tip at the same time, unleashing an attack power amplitude of 3 times, is obviously quite difficult.

‘Come again! ’

Lu Jin was not discouraged.

vegetable?
Just practice cooking more!

three days later.

"break!"

Standing before a small hill, Lu Jin's expression hardened as he stared at the drilling cone that had appeared in front of him.

Accompanied by the infusion of twelve streams of spiritual power.

Instantly, twelve golden threads appeared on the drilling cone, extending to the tip at an extremely fast speed, and then instantly coiling and rotating like thunder from heaven and fire from the earth.

'call out--'

The next moment, the drilling cone transformed into a golden light and shot out through the air in a spinning motion.

The golden light arrived in an instant, seemingly destroying everything in its path, and pierced directly into the small hill not far ahead.

"Boom—" A violent roar rang out, flying rocks and kicking up a cloud of dust that enveloped the entire hill.

'call out--'

A golden light flew back, and the drilling cone that had pierced through the small hill in front of Lu Jin returned to his front.

After a long while, when the smoke and dust dissipated, Lu Jin saw that under the intense drilling and tearing force of the drill bit, half of the small mountain had collapsed.

"Not bad! I've finally mastered the Dragon-Slaying Technique!"

Looking at the small hill in front of him, which had partially collapsed, Lu Jin nodded in satisfaction.

The basic mental strength of a high-level War God peak mentalist is 512 tons, with a twelve-fold mental power amplitude. Adding the three-fold attack power amplitude brought by the Mountain Drill Cone, he can unleash an attack power of 18432 tons after using the Mountain Drill Cone.

A martial artist with a life gene multiplier of one and who has just entered the first level of planetary cultivation has a physical strength of 1000 tons and a gene energy of 1000 tons, for a total basic strength of 2000 tons.

In other words, in terms of attack power, he is currently equivalent to a first-tier martial artist who has just entered the planetary realm with nine times the physical strength, or a second-tier martial artist who has just entered the planetary realm with 4.5 times the physical strength.

This level of attack power is enough to hunt down ordinary King-level monsters.

Having gained experience from the Mountain Drill Cone technique, Lu Jin mastered the 'Mountain Shield' technique on the very next day.

Afterwards, he spent three more days mastering the two forms of the Sky Shuttle. Lu Jin then rode the Sky Shuttle and flew towards the Qinling Mountains, located in the central part of the Yanhuang land.

Having mastered the 'Dragon Slaying Technique' and having upgraded his physical attributes to the peak of Advanced War God using an Apprentice-level Life Source Crystal two months prior, Lu Jin was now eager to take on a King-level monster.

After all, without cheating, he wouldn't find an opportunity to break through to the planetary level in a short period of time.
The corpse of a King-level monster can be decomposed into a Star-level Life Source Crystal using the Demon Refining Pot.

With a planetary-level life crystal in hand, it should be able to help him break through to the planetary level, right?

A figure sped past at high speed over the Qinling Mountains.

According to information published on the Yanhuang Home website, four king-level monsters are entrenched in the Qinling Mountains.

Tyrannosaurus King, Golden Eagle King, White Tiger King, Scorpion King.

The main bodies are an armored dragon, a black-crowned golden eagle, a mutated white tiger, and a star-spotted scorpion.

Among these four King-level monsters, Tyrannosaurus Rex was the first to become a King-level monster and is also the strongest.

The Golden Eagle King is second, and the White Tiger King is third.

Scorpion King is the least powerful, having only been a King-level monster for a little over two years.

Lu Jin wasn't very confident against the Tyrannosaurus King, the strongest of the three.

After all, Tyrannosaurus Rex has been a King-level monster for over thirty years, and its level could potentially be as high as Planetary Rank 3.

However, Lu Jin was not intimidated by the other three king-level monsters, especially the Scorpion King.

There are no suitable resources on Earth for planetary-level life forms to cultivate. Simply relying on absorbing cosmic energy to increase one's level would result in a very slow leveling speed.

Regardless of whether they are high-level councilors or king-level monsters, most of them are at the first or second planetary level, a small number are at the third planetary level, and very few reach the fourth planetary level or above.

Picking the easy target, Lu Jin, guided by the satellite map displayed on his combat watch, rode a hexagonal shield and carried the Sky Shuttle on his back, heading directly to the Scorpion King's lair.

The 'Drilling Cone' and 'Mountain Shield' require the Sky Shuttle to be used. In order to save time switching between foot-mounted flying equipment during battle, Lu Jin had to use the hexagonal shield as a flying tool.

"Boom boom boom——"

Without any intention of 'sneaking into the village quietly and not firing a shot,' Lu Jin flew back and forth over the huge valley where the Star-Spotted Scorpion clan lived, carrying a sonic boom generated by his flight speed exceeding the speed of sound.

The sonic booms above the valley were incessant, and the valley floor was also dotted with star-spotted scorpion monsters with spots resembling stars on their bodies.

Before long, four Lord-level Star-Spotted Scorpions, each over five meters long, with ferocious appearances, large pincers raised high, and hooked tails, rushed out from the many underground passages in the valley.

(End of this chapter)