Chapter 743 - 232: Insta-killing 7 Constant Star Martial Artists! Seizing the Top Rank! Eternal Singularity
Chapter 743: Chapter 232: Insta-killing 7 Constant Star Martial Artists! Seizing the Top Rank! Eternal Singularity
"Terrifying..."
"But who can say for sure? Constant Star Martial Artists go into seclusion for very long periods. After a while, the Combat Power rankings are bound to see huge shifts. And with more and more resources being discovered, it’s entirely possible for latecomers to catch up."
"..."
"Hahaha, Kapudo and Kaler must be furious. I wonder if they’ll go looking for trouble with Qin Feng?"
"Heh, their combat records aren’t even as good as Qin Feng’s from decades ago."
"Mmm..."
Of course, the forums weren’t filled with just awe and praise. There were also rational analyses and doubts.
"Let’s not build him up into a myth. Constant Star Martial Artists go into seclusion for incredibly long periods, often for centuries or millennia at a time. Just because Qin Feng is in the lead now doesn’t mean he’ll stay there forever. With the competition past its halfway point, top-tier fortuitous encounters and Resource Points across the Cosmos are being discovered, and many latecomers are bound to catch up."
"Exactly. We’re only in the Middle Stage. There are still a lot of variables in play."
"Still, the Kapudo-Kale Alliance really hit a wall this time. I wonder if their two leaders, Kapudo and Kaler, will personally go looking for trouble with Qin Feng?"
"I’ll just wait for the follow-up. This is going to be a good show."
The storm on the forums came and went quickly.
Though Qin Feng’s combat record was shocking, to these geniuses who lived on the knife’s edge between life and death, fighting for every opportunity, even the biggest news was just a fleeting topic of conversation.
Soon, a post titled "Suspected Leak of Coordinates for Star System Level Resource ’Source Crystal’" captured everyone’s attention.
Across the entire Grand Battle Zone forum, countless boards and threads flickered nonstop.
The Interstellar Alliance Rankings, Personal Combat Power Rankings, Resource Intelligence section, Tactical Exchange section... The flow of data was like a surging Star River, changing in an instant.
The mode of War had long since moved past the small-scale skirmishes of the early days.
Colossal super-alliances, like behemoths, had risen. They were constantly forming and breaking alliances, attacking one another, often sparking massive wars that engulfed dozens of star systems at a time.
Time flew by amidst this increasingly cruel and white-hot competition.
Thirty years, fifty years, seventy years...
In those seventy years, the situation in the Grand Battle Zone had changed cataclysmically.
Some once-glorious alliances had crumbled before more powerful enemies.
Other new alliances had risen like comets, streaking through the dark Cosmos.
Furthermore, many Martial Artists from annihilated star systems, who should have been reduced to scattered outcasts, stumbled upon unimaginable opportunities in their desperation. Eking out a desperate existence, they somehow managed to cultivate step by step to the Constant Star Martial Artist level.
These Martial Artists became powerful Loose Cultivators who roamed the borders of the major alliances’ territories, becoming a constant headache for everyone.
The entire situation in the Grand Battle Zone was like a pot of boiling porridge—chaotic, scorching, and filled with endless variables and possibilities.
Amidst such tumultuous changes, seventy years flashed by in an instant.
「Ice Cave Planet.」
Qin Feng slowly opened his eyes.
As he awoke, the temperature inside the entire cave seemed to plummet by several hundred degrees. A layer of even denser Profound Ice condensed on the ice walls, which were harder than Divine Iron. This was a result of the pressure from the Mental Power he was unconsciously emanating.
There were no earth-shattering phenomena, no violent release of energy.
To him, this seventy-year-long seclusion was merely a brief pause on his path of cultivation.
The first thing Qin Feng did was take stock of his gains from this seclusion.
His consciousness sank into his Spiritual World. There, the magnificent projection known as the Immortal Tower stood quietly.
It was no longer the thirty-thousand-light-year structure it had been twenty years prior; it had grown with terrifying speed, now soaring to a height of seventy thousand light-years.
Boundless Mental Power flowed within the tower like a relentless Star River. With a simple gesture, he could now command a great power capable of blanketing several Star Realms.
’The Grand Battle Zone competition has been going on for 680 years now.’
Qin Feng calculated silently.
To push the Immortal Tower to its current height, he had completely exhausted the massive amount of resources he had obtained from conquering fifty-one star systems.
That vast fortune—enough for tens of thousands of ordinary Martial Artists to cultivate from the Infinite Sea all the way to the Constant Star level—had only been enough for him to expand the tower by forty thousand light-years.
He was still thirty thousand light-years short of the hundred-thousand-light-year "standard."
Next, he pulled up his data panel to inspect the progress of his core Nourishing Technique.
[Nourishing Technique: Ten-Complete Hand (Initiate)]
[Proficiency: 20/100]
After ninety years of arduous cultivation, his proficiency had increased from 8 to 20.
This speed seemed slow, but Qin Feng was quite satisfied.
An improvement in the Ten-Complete Hand meant his efficiency at refining resources was steadily increasing. This was the fundamental guarantee of his continued rapid growth in the future.
His proficiency had reached one-fifth of the way, meaning the "Lesser Mastery" stage was not far off.
As for his killing techniques, he hadn’t invested much energy into them during this seclusion.
The expansion of the Indestructible Projection was his top priority at this stage.
The mastery of his Level 8 Killing Technique, Vast Savage Mountain Range, remained at the "Lesser Mastery" stage.
After taking stock of his gains, Qin Feng felt no joy. Instead, his brow furrowed slightly.
"The resources from fifty-one star systems aren’t enough. Not nearly enough."
He muttered to himself in a low voice.
His voice echoed in the empty ice cave, tinged with gravity.
"Forget about building the million-light-year, or even ten-million-light-year projection I envision. There’s still a massive deficit even to reach the competition’s minimum standard of one hundred thousand light-years."
’What path should I take after the Constant Star level?’
’Should I follow the conventional path and seek a breakthrough once I reach one hundred thousand light-years? Or should I continue to solidify my foundation and walk the path of invincibility?’