Final priesthood

After breaking through the limit of his physique for the second time, Lu Yuan's teeth were so strong that he could chew even steel, let alone a small vine.

Lu Yuan tore off a piece of golden vine and chewed it in his mouth, making a "crunching" sound.

To be honest, the taste is terrible, just like chewing a piece of cold, hard and tasteless rubber skin.

But in the process, the evil god factor contained in the golden vines was like an unscrewed faucet, crazily pouring into Lu Yuan's body along his throat.

"Rumble--"

Lu Yuan's chest seemed to suddenly have a storm, his internal organs glowed, his bones and flesh vibrated, and the sound of thunder continued.

The blood cells in his chest grew rapidly in this storm of evil god factors.

This is the ultimate pleasure of growth!

However.

After a brief surge, the influx of evil god factors came to an abrupt end.

"tu——"

Lu Yuan spat out the golden vine residue he chewed in his mouth. No trace of the evil god factor could be felt in it. Even the original golden color of the vine was gone, showing a light gray wood.

just like.

A piece of sugar cane that has been chewed up.

"Click——"

Lu Yuan spit out the residue and continued to bite off a piece of golden vine and put it into his mouth.

In fact, he could absorb the evil god factor in the vines without "eating", but the efficiency was too low compared to chewing, so Lu Yuan simply adopted such a barbaric and vulgar method.

Lu Yuan ate the golden vines bit by bit, and the blood cells in his body continued to grow rapidly.

Lu Yuan was still very careful. In order to prevent the chip and optical brain in his body from catching him "chewing raw" strange things, he used his mental power to shield them both before eating.

When Lu Yuan ate about one-third of the golden vine in his hand, the power of the blood cells in his body seemed to have accumulated to a certain extent.

"boom!"

"Click——"

A series of bones roared all over Lu Yuan's body. His body seemed to become more symmetrical and slender, and the aura emanating from his body seemed to be more restrained.

Agility +1.

The evil god factor contained in one-third of the golden vines allowed Lu Yuan's agility attribute to naturally increase by 1 point, from the original 28 to 29 points, only one step away from breaking the 30-point limit.

Lu Yuan still has 6 useless attribute points in his hand. If he wants to, he can now break through the two attributes of strength and agility to the second limit-breaking realm.

But now that he was in the Mountain of Embers, there were upgrade materials everywhere, so he was in no hurry to use up these attribute points.

"After breaking the limit for the second time, it takes 3 attribute points to increase one attribute point. The cost is getting bigger and bigger."

Lu Yuan thought, biting off a piece of golden vine.

After glancing at Lan Chen who was searching for armor fragments in the distance, an idea suddenly came to his mind.

"How did this golden vine-like thing form?"

It is estimated that everyone involved in this exploration operation will be curious about this.

There may be no one who knows the answer.

Lu Yuan looked at the half of the golden vine left in his hand, his eyes flashed, and he gently moved towards the vine——

[Occult Scholar (Extraordinary)] Professional Skill: lv1 [Mysterious Perception]!

[Mysterious Perception] There is a chance to obtain hidden information from an object that cannot be detected by ordinary means. Lu Yuan felt that he might be able to get some different clues from this.

With the activation of lv1 [Mysterious Perception].

Some vague and messy information immediately flooded into Lu Yuan's mind.

This information gradually pieced together a series of intermittent pictures as he mentally sorted it out.

In the picture, Lu Yuan seemed to see a thin ray of golden red falling from the air, landing on a vine, and then quickly blending in.

The originally ordinary vines gradually evolved into something extraordinary under the influence of the mysterious golden-red smoke, until they grew into what they are now.

“What is that golden-red substance that looks like smoke, fog, and light?

Is it related to the Phoenix? "

Lu Yuan guessed in his mind while silently "eating" most of the remaining golden vines.

The evil god factor in a whole golden vine entered his stomach, and the blood cells in Lu Yuan's body expanded by a large circle, and the thickness also increased to almost twice as much as before.

The surge of blood cells caused qi and blood to surge in his body. Although the attribute values ​​​​on the attribute panel did not change, Lu Yuan felt that the next natural attribute increase was not far away.

"The level 7 [Martial Arts Grandmaster (Extraordinary)] is about to be upgraded to level 8. It is truly a treasure for upgrading."

Lu Yuan let out a breath, having nothing to do, and then watched Lan Chen clean up the battlefield.

Lan Chen had already collected all the third-level armor fragments scattered around, but he still refused to leave. He actually ran to the two Far Star Federation men lying on the ground and secretly picked up the pieces of their bodies that were not peeled off. Armor fragments.

Lu Yuan saw Lan Chen tugging on the crotch and leggings of a Far Star Federation man, his eyes closed and his face twitching slightly.

Lu Yuan's previous attack was very measured. Most of the power was released on the exoskeleton armor of the two men. The remaining power only injured and knocked them unconscious, but did not beat them to death.

It seemed that the two of them had woken up at this time.

Lan Chen, who was immersed in the joy of "harvest", didn't seem to notice this at all.

He stripped off all the exoskeleton armor components that could be pulled off the two people's bodies, and then ran back happily holding a lot of things.

"ok!"

Lan Chen rushed to the road and made a "done" gesture, and then added: "Just wait a moment, I'll call a drone to send the things back. Don't mention it, this pile of stuff is quite heavy. ."

"."

Lu Yuan was silent for a while and couldn't help but said to Lan Chen, "Isn't this a little too much?"

Lan Chen waved his hands indifferently, "What's too much? They've done even more outrageous things to us Huang Xiong before. I'll charge you some interest at most."

Lu Yuan saw Lan Chen's expression of incomprehension and guessed that he might have suffered a big loss at the hands of the Far Star Federation explorers.

The superiors probably also have a "turn a blind eye" attitude towards the frictions and conflicts between members of major organizations in the secret realm.

Otherwise Lan Chen would not be so confident.

When the drone summoned by Lan Chen arrived, Lan Chen asked Lu Yuan if he wanted to continue exploring in depth.

Lu Yuan's answer is naturally yes.

After Lan Chen hesitated for a moment, he asked the drone to bring back the collected exoskeleton armor fragments and components, but finally decided to go with Lu Yuan.

If it had been before, Lan Chen would definitely have chosen to turn back now and put the harvest in his bag first.

But now that Lu Yuan, the "rookie" who was originally asked to lead him, suddenly transformed into a master with level 3 combat power of blasting hammers with his bare hands, he naturally wanted to seize this great opportunity to hold his thigh.

The two left the growing point of the golden vines and continued walking forward for a while.

On the way, they encountered two ancient evil god creatures, but their strength was average. The evil god factor contained in the essence of flesh and blood was far inferior to that of the golden vines. It was not even comparable to those ancient evil god creatures that Lu Yuan encountered in the mysterious realm of elephants.

If you think about it carefully, the remaining living creatures in the mysterious elephant territory have been screened twice by the will of the elephant people and the elephant god. It is normal for the average strength to be strong.

The two of them walked forward for about fifteen kilometers and stopped in front of a forest stream.

The dense primeval forest here leaks a beam of skylight, dyeing the entire stream a fresh and bright orange-red. There are also finger-long whitebaits swimming quickly in the stream, which is really beautiful.

Lu Yuan looked at the map of Ember Mountain and saw that with this creek as the dividing line, the "Misty Area" was ahead.

This means that there is almost no exploration in the area shrouded in the fog of war, and everything is unknown.

"Are you going to continue?"

Lu Yuan turned around and asked Lan Chen.

Lan Chen looked tangled, and finally gritted his teeth and said resolutely: "Follow one section, and I will follow another section."

"good."

Lu Yuan didn't say anything. The roles of "old man and newcomer", "master and novice", and "leader and led" changed quite naturally between the two of them.

Lu Yuan was about to take Lan Chen across the stream and officially enter the "fog area".

at this time

"Goo!"

A strange bird call suddenly came from my ears.

Lu Yuan suddenly turned his head and looked in the direction of the sound.

Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a faint orange shadow. Without hesitation, he kicked his feet violently, and his whole body was like a dragon shooting towards the location where the orange shadow flashed.

Lan Chen, who was standing next to Lu Yuan, didn't even react. As soon as he turned his head, Lu Yuan almost disappeared.

Lan Chen made a "wipe" sound on his lips and hurriedly activated his exoskeleton to catch up.

"Goo!"

"Goo!"

The sounds of birds kept ringing in Lu Yuan's ears.

His figure was like the wind, and his speed had already reached the extreme, breaking through the sound barrier, leaving waves of white air spreading in the jungle, even blurry afterimages.

However, he could never catch up with the ethereal and somewhat melodious bird call.

The sound of birds chirping is far away and near, now to the left and now to the right.

Lu Yuan chased for a while, and finally chose to give up.

When he stopped, the bird's chirping suddenly disappeared completely.

"It's the call of the hoopoe"

Lu Yuan stood on a huge moss-covered rock, his eyes flashing but his face was very calm.

He didn't know why he suddenly chose to chase the bird's cry.

Whim? Or is it a subconscious instinct?

Anyway, after this chase, Lu Yuan could be sure that the hoopoe bird that made the sound was definitely the one he saw at the entrance to the forest when he entered.

"There's something weird about this bird. It seems to be leading me in a certain direction intentionally or unintentionally."

"The key point is that I can't catch up with it. How can ordinary birds have such speed?"

Lu Yuan once again thought of the pattern of the hoopoe bird that he had obtained through [Chaos Divination] before.

Although the hoopoe is a symbol of "luck", this is just his own interpretation of the divination results.

Who knows what the results of divination mean.

It's like he divined the four-word motto "Live toward death", but he still hasn't figured out what it means.

"I always feel like I'm being targeted by something as soon as I enter the secret realm of Ember Mountain."

“I don’t know if it’s a good thing or a bad thing.”

Lu Yuan thought to himself, just in case, he made up his mind never to accept any guidance from the "Hoopoe" again.

It wants to lead Lu Yuan to go in a certain direction, but he won't go in that direction. Let's see how it responds.

Just as he was thinking about it, a stream of blue light suddenly burst out of the forest.

Lu Yuan hadn't thought about how to explain the "convulsions" just now to Lan Chen, but he saw that Lan Chen was full of excitement and excitement at this time, looking at him with bright eyes and said hastily: "Strange object!

Lu Yuan, I just found another energy fluctuation suspected of being a strange object on the road chasing you!

Even stronger than the previous one!

We are so lucky! "

Come again? !

When Lu Yuan heard Lan Chen's words, he was not surprised, but instead frowned.

This is a complete conspiracy.

There is definitely something wrong with this thing!

Lu Yuan was heartbroken and was about to say something he couldn't say to Lan Chen.

Sudden

He saw Lan Chen trembling all over in front of him.

Lan Chen's eyes were staring straight at a certain direction upward behind Lu Yuan, as if he had seen something extremely remarkable, and he even became trembling when he spoke.

“It’s a long way to go”

Lan Chen raised a hand with a strange expression and faintly pointed out, "Look at that."

Lu Yuan turned his head, and when he saw clearly what Lan Chen was pointing at behind him, his pupils shrank instantly, and his whole person fell into a huge shock.