"If we’re dead last again, I’ll be too ashamed to request supply subsidies from our superiors. So please, while ensuring your own safety, kill as many Exotic Beasts as possible. The Association will distribute rewards based on individual points afterward!"
Looking at the notice Su Ruobing had posted in the group chat.
All the banter and jokes stopped, and a shadow of gloom settled over everyone.
Li Chang’an also grew a little tense.
Before becoming a Reincarnator, he had experienced an Exotic Beast Tide more than once. Monsters wreathed in a strange black mist crawled out from the Caves.
They were practically endless, swarming to the surface like demonic spirits. All cities and humans were their targets.
Without the protection of the cities.
Ordinary people were as fragile as paper before them.
For Li Chang’an, who had once lacked sufficient power, it was the stuff of nightmares.
Especially when the Dark Energy fluctuations surpassed 5.0, there was a chance that special Extraordinary Beasts would appear from the Caves. These special Extraordinary Beasts were difficult to hit with conventional city defense weapons. Some couldn’t be significantly damaged even if they were hit.
They could only be stopped by Reincarnators or with the overwhelming power of High-Tier Weapons.
It was safe to say that of the vast number of cities and Reincarnators the Human Alliance lost each year, at least two-thirds of those losses were due to these special Extraordinary Beasts.
And this time, Linjiang was facing an Exotic Beast Tide with Dark Energy fluctuations reaching a staggering 7.0!
Even many veteran Reincarnators were afraid, to say nothing of a newcomer Reincarnator like Li Chang’an, who was just starting out and didn’t have much experience.
...
In the group chat, after a long silence, people began to chat again. Everyone had a tacit understanding to avoid the sobering topic of the special Extraordinary Beasts. Instead, the conversation shifted to the Exotic Beast bounty missions.
These so-called Exotic Beast bounty missions were issued by the Reincarnator Association headquarters.
When a Reincarnator killed an Exotic Beast, it left a corpse behind. The Rebirth Mark would then convert the number of slain beasts, based on the corpses left, into Bounty Points.
After each Exotic Beast Tide, the Reincarnator Association would send people to the various Large Towns to collect the corpses. Then, they would distribute material rewards to the defending Reincarnators based on their total Bounty Points.
These rewards included, but were not limited to, Rebirth Points, Spiritual Food, and various armaments and weapons. Of course, this alone wasn’t enough to get the Reincarnators so fired up.
What truly mattered to the Reincarnators was that Bounty Points were also one of the fastest ways to increase their Citizen Level!
Ten thousand Bounty Points could be exchanged for roughly one hundred points of citizen experience. This was more than enough to make the Reincarnators who wanted to climb the ranks fight desperately.
However, this held little appeal for Li Chang’an, as his methods for acquiring Rebirth Points were far faster than grinding by killing monsters.
And so, he lost interest in reading any further.
He left the group chat and returned to his private training room. There, he took out the dozen or so Martial Arts Secret Manuals he had just purchased for nearly two hundred thousand Rebirth Points.
The Martial Dao Evolution Path was a web of unimaginable vastness, woven together from the countless Cultivation Techniques and Secret Manuals brought back by Reincarnators from the Rebirth Worlds.
And now, what Li Chang’an had to do was absorb as much nourishment from this web as possible, turning it into fuel for his own growth.
...
「In the blink of an eye, another month passed.」
During that time, Li Chang’an integrated all the costly Cultivation Techniques Secret Manuals he had bought into his Heaven and Earth Chaos Technique. He didn’t waste the remaining time either, purchasing a Tier Four Energy Core.
After his time in the Cyber World, Li Chang’an’s Realm had already reached the Tier Three Peak.
Now that he had assimilated so many new Martial Arts Techniques, and with the Martial Arts Gene in his body practically buzzing with anticipation, Li Chang’an was only a single step away from Tier Four.
’All he needed were enough Rebirth Points and the corresponding level of Martial Arts Experience.’
The Main World had no shortage of Energy. Thus, after purchasing and consuming a Tier Four Energy Core, Li Chang’an broke through to become a Tier Four Martial Artist as a matter of course.
In a Rebirth World, a Martial Artist who had absorbed this much Energy would likely possess the power to annihilate an entire country with ease.
But just as the gravity of Earth differs from that of the moon, the laws of the Main World were different from those of the Rebirth Worlds.
The laws of the Main World were comparatively stricter.
For the same amount of Energy absorbed, the resulting destructive power in the Main World was a notch weaker than in a Rebirth World.
Even so, after becoming a Tier Four Martial Artist, Li Chang’an now possessed the power to easily wipe out a city with a population of several hundred thousand.
This kind of power was terrifying, but it only served to give Li Chang’an a little more confidence for the upcoming Exotic Beast Tide.
「Thirty days later, Li Chang’an ended his seclusion.」
According to the daily notices Su Ruobing posted for the Linjiang Reincarnator Association, Dark Energy had begun to gush from the Caves, and the Exotic Beast Tide could arrive at any moment.
After stretching his limbs, Li Chang’an went to the city wall for the first time in a long while.
Upon seeing him appear.
The soldiers on the wall gripped their weapons tightly. Although they were afraid of the impending war, when Li Chang’an’s gaze swept over them.
They did their best to put on resolute expressions.
During this recent period, Li Chang’an had Zhao Xi promote the Basic Martial Arts True Understanding Combined Version among the city’s defense forces.