Chapter 169: The Dark Golden Eyes Reappear!

He had painstakingly discovered this ingenious method of using shadows to farm cultivation points.

The benefits it brought were in no way inferior to alchemy, forging, or even automatic monster hunting… perhaps even surpassing them!

If he could deploy a few more shadows on different floors, or even within different spaces on the same floor to farm cultivation points simultaneously while idling… one could easily imagine how terrifying the future gains would be!

But before he had time to properly test it out, the intrusion of those vast-domain Martial Kings disrupted the spatial connection and interrupted the Virtual Network.

All that was lost were sparkling, precious low-grade spirit stones, and spirit coins numbering in the trillions!

And that wasn’t even the worst part.

Just before the disconnection, two King-level martial arts techniques had finished cultivation, causing Su Xiaobai’s strength to soar dramatically once again… at the very least, clearing the 105th floor would no longer be a problem!

Once he cleared the 105th floor, it would mean Su Xiaobai could earn another massive batch of cultivation points, along with an additional martial art technique slot reward.

Even the cultivation points earned each time the shadow farmed the tower would be correspondingly enhanced!

But now, all of it… was ruined!

Furious, Su Xiaobai could no longer hold back!

He immediately burst out from the Virtual Network Central Building, surpassing everyone at a staggering speed, charging toward the eastern wall, determined to make those ignorant Martial King-level intruders pay!

Of course, aside from anger, Su Xiaobai also wanted to test just how strong he had become.

At the same time, he wanted to finally uncover the true identity of the mastermind who had long instilled terror among all of humanity—continually unleashing powerful alien beasts across Earth in an attempt to annihilate mankind!

In the past, Su Xiaobai lacked the strength, so even knowing the truth would have been meaningless.

But now that he possessed extraordinary power, the difficulty of pursuing the truth had naturally dropped… if possible, he also wanted to contribute his strength to humanity.

The invaders must die!

“What level has my system panel reached now?”

Su Xiaobai was curious.

Although the time spent in the Virtual Network this round was short, the benefits it brought were exceptionally massive… not only had he instantly obtained multiple Transcendent-level martial arts, but he had also acquired a whole heap of new system plugin skills.

Most satisfying of all, he had secured three King-level martial arts and leveled them up to the maximum in one go—the speed of his strength surge was faster than a rocket!

He quickly glanced at his current system panel:

Human: Su Xiaobai

Realm Level: Peak Martial Commander

Strength Level: Third-tier Martial King-level

Endurance Level: Fourth-tier Martial King-level

Agility Level: Third-tier Martial King-level

Cultivation Aptitude: Top-tier

Mastered Techniques: War God’s Nine Slashes +2 (Highest Level), Crimson Gold Mountain Crusher Scroll +2 (Highest Level), Withered Zen Iron Body Manual +2 (Highest Level), Thousand Birds Profound Darkness +2 (Highest Level), Demon-Sealing Asura Formation (Highest Level), Blood Qi: Seventy-Two Forms (Beginner), Supreme Pure Yang Technique (Highest Level), Vajra Body of Mount Sumeru (Highest Level), Overturning the Sea and Sky Seal (Highest Level), Scroll of Eternal Vitality (Highest Level), True Art of Burning Blood Fury (Highest Level), Unparalleled Return to One Blade (Highest Level), Diagram of the Imperial Dragon of Great Change (Highest Level), Ten Directions Extinction Blade (Highest Level), Grand Void Thunder Scripture (Highest Level), Bloodlight Shadow Drift (Highest Level), Scroll of Hidden Breath (Highest Level), Abhi Purity Elixir Scripture (Highest Level), Frozen Sky Illusion of Azure Nether (Highest Level), Eagle Pattern Poison Manual (Highest Level), Flame Spirit Sands (Highest Level), Qi Refining Fire Crow Scroll (Highest Level)

Unlocked System Features: One-Click Cultivation (Level 25), One-Click Practice (Level 25), Auto Hunting (Level 15), One-Click Alchemy (Level 15), One-Click Collection (Level 10), One-Click Forging (Level 10), One-Click Mining (Level 10), One-Click Enhancement (Level 10), One-Click Synthesis (Level 7)

“The boost from two King-level techniques really is exhilarating!”

Seeing all his attributes reach Third-tier Martial King-level, with his endurance even reaching Fourth-tier Martial King-level, Su Xiaobai couldn’t help but smile.

He finally understood why so many people were willing to start from scratch in the Virtual Network, striving desperately to conquer the Illusory Tower…

The Virtual Network was the one place where one didn’t need a powerful background or abundant cultivation resources—where pure effort and insight alone could let you rapidly soar in strength!

It allowed those with aptitude and talent to rise faster, quickly pulling away from the masses, and sorting the mediocre, the elite, and the geniuses in a sea of countless lives!

But precisely because of this, the Virtual Network was brutal… the more talented you were, the faster you surged ahead, while the mediocre could only be left as mere foils.

Being a mediocre foil was not what Su Xiaobai was concerned about.

What he cared about was how to keep charging higher and higher, letting his strength rise even more explosively!

“It’s a pity… if I could have broken through the 105th floor, I could’ve obtained several more Transcendent-level martial arts, plus one more King-level martial art… my strength might even have risen fully to Fourth-tier Martial King-level!”

“At that point, I might have had a shot at breaking through the 106th floor… becoming the first person in the Virtual Network to reach the 106th floor!”

Su Xiaobai’s eyes gleamed sharply.

The higher you went, the greater the rewards. Naturally, the benefits Su Xiaobai received would also multiply, leading to further explosive strength growth!

And once the strength gained within the Virtual Network was brought into reality—having shed all of the Virtual Network’s restrictions—Su Xiaobai’s power would only continue skyrocketing!

At the very least… the current crisis facing Earth would, in the future, no longer be a problem for him!

Boom! Boom! Boom!…

“Little one, hurry and retreat!”

“Don’t go any further, it’s dangerous!”

“That’s not a place for someone at your level; leave it to us!”

“.…”

One after another, Martial King figures shot out from all corners of Base No. 1… particularly conspicuous among the locust-like horde surging toward the eastern wall.

Many of them, upon brushing past Su Xiaobai, shouted warnings and reminders.

Though they normally operated independently and rarely united, when faced with a major crisis, their resolve to stand together against a common enemy was unmistakably clear.

“Hmm?!”

Suddenly, Su Xiaobai sharply lifted his head.

After a stretch of high-speed flight, his vision now clearly captured the massive spatial rift towering over ten thousand meters high… and beyond it, an earth-shattering battle was raging, blasting the land into craters and transforming it into a hellish abyss.

Even though he couldn’t sense the shockwaves from the battle on the other side, nor hear the slightest sound, just from the visuals alone, the sheer intensity of the slaughter was evident!

But this wasn’t what Su Xiaobai was most focused on.

He had already sensed extraordinary fluctuations of alien auras emanating from the spatial rift… Martial King-level entities were beginning to enter Earth’s world!

“I can feel the auras, but I don’t see the figures… they must be getting intercepted!”

“However… the auras I can sense are growing more numerous and stronger… the defensive forces on the other side must be starting to falter!”

Thanks to the multi-attribute bonuses, Su Xiaobai’s spiritual sense was now extraordinarily sharp.

Even the tiniest aura, no matter how distant, could be detected with utter clarity!

Just then—

Boom!

From within the spatial rift, a colossal alien lifeform tens of meters tall burst forth, resembling a birdman with six black wings sprouting from its back!

Its appearance instantly startled countless human Martial Kings, Martial Gods, and Martial Commanders…

A genuine Third-tier Martial King-level entity!

It was important to know: among the human Martial Kings present, even the strongest had barely reached Third-tier… those stronger had all entered the Vast Domain battlefield.

Moreover, alien beings of the same rank typically possessed even greater strength than human warriors… a fierce battle was now unavoidable.

Yet no one noticed that the moment Su Xiaobai laid eyes on this alien being, unprecedented brilliance erupted in his gaze!

Those dark-golden eyes…

It’s him!