Chapter 72
As the two giants came crashing down Lin Feng came out from behind the tree .
Taking the crossbow from the apocalypse watch, Lin Feng shot two bolts towards the zombie . After all the time he spent fighting, Lin Feng’s accuracy had visibly improved . The two bolts struck the zombie’s head .
Not daring to act rashly, Lin Feng tested to make sure the zombie was dead before moving forward . When the zombie died its body lost its toughness, and the bolts easily penetrated its head .
Lin Feng repeated this with the snake, and after making sure both had truly died Lin Feng entered the battlefield .
All around the field fire still burned, from before the death of the zombie until now the fires still raged .
Lin Feng went to the zombie . It was so strong that it surely had something good in its head . Lin Feng prepared to open the heads of both monsters, but started with the zombie .
Their skin and flesh was tough, and although it wasn’t strengthened by the their power, Lin Feng spent considerable effort to get the dark steel bayonet through their heads .
Fifteen minutes past and he looked at his hands . There sat two green colored pellets, one light and one dark . Lin Feng was shocked and grinning from ear to ear .
Fifth Class Zombie!
No matter how he thought about it, Lin Feng never expected the zombie to be 5th class . Earlier he saw its eight legs, but thought it was merely a 4th class zombie . If he had known earlier that there was a fifth class zombie, Lin Feng would have run away even if it killed him . Legends told that fifth class zombies could destroy a base themselves, Lin Feng didn’t expect to meet one here .
Let alone the zombie, the snake was a fourth level savage beast and just as formidable as a fifth class zombie .
Seeing the two green pellets in his hands, Lin Feng couldn’t recover for a long time .
He rejoiced that these monsters met each other, even though he didn’t know why they fought . If they hadn’t, he would have undoubtedly been killed by either of them . With the methods they held, Lin Feng couldn’t even fight back .
And because they fought, Lin Feng’s misfortune turned into a blessing, letting him gain two green pellets .
The dark green pellet was from the zombie, as a fourth class zombie possesses a light green one . Only fifth class zombies had dark green pellets .
The light green pellet couldn’t actually be called a pellet, but should be called a fourth level beast soul . Beast souls were held by savage beasts and had the same color as zombie crystals of the same rank, but a savage beast was much stronger than a zombie of the same rank .
So a fourth level beast was as strong as a fifth class zombie, but its fourth level beast soul was inferior in quality to a fifth class zombie crystal .
(TL note: Savage beast is just as hard to kill for much less profit)
Lin Feng went to the devil’s snare, carefully picked it and put it in the apocalypse watch . To get this flower Lin Feng faced innumerable dangers, but gained benefits beyond imagination as well .
The green pellet from the fifth level zombie was something that, let alone Lin Feng, very few base leaders had seen . Fourth class zombies were possible to kill, some of the large scale bases that had many high class cultivators could kill a few fourth class zombies . However, fifth class zombies couldn’t even be compared to fourth class zombies, and were only described as being stronger than ten fourth class zombies . Cultivators that could kill a fifth class zombie were unheard of .
Cultivators had gone through countless breakthroughs over the three years of the apocalypse, and gradually got to a high level . Regardless of their progress, every time a fifth class zombie appeared it would cause an outcry, the news spreading between the major bases .
In the mountain valley there was no one left, not even a single zombie . After the giant snake and eight legged zombie died, the valley had become a safe zone .
In for a penny, in for a pound (*), Lin Feng intended to absorb both the pellets here .
(*) (一不做 二不休, idiom, don’t start something or don’t stop doing it)
First taking out the fifth class zombie pellet, Lin Feng swallowed it without hesitation .
Different than when he took the fourth class zombie pellet, Lin Feng didn’t get any reaction from this one .
Was the difference in strength so large it didn’t respond to being ingested?
Seeing nothing happening, Lin Feng got annoyed, thinking it shouldn’t be that this pellet is a dud, right?
But in the moment Lin Feng let his thoughts wander, a monstrous energy struck his soul crystal . Lin Feng felt like his head was going to explode and couldn’t help but groan .
The formidable force battered his soul crystal and made it start to swell . Lin Feng could hear his soul crystal rumble as it expanded . He felt his very bones shaking from the growth .
He felt his soul crystal be struck by the force, but Lin Feng couldn’t see the situation in his head . If he could, he would discover that in his soul crystal a second thread of soul force was developing .
Absorbing the green pellet unexpectedly allowed for a second thread of soul force to form .
The function of soul force was to increase a cultivator’s power, and the first thread increased it by about ten percent . The second thread gave a twenty percent increase . In other words, if a cultivator developed two threads of soul force they would be stronger than a regular cultivator by about twenty percent .
Don’t look down on twenty percent, as in actual combat, survival may hinge on a single percent of strength . Under the same conditions, the cultivator with a thread of soul force would be vastly superior .
In addition to developing a second thread of soul force, the green pellet contained a great amount of energy, allowing Lin Feng to breakthrough and become a fifth class cultivator . Since he came to the apocalypse, it had only been a month .
After his promotion, Lin Feng looked at the apocalypse watch and found that his combat ability had risen straight to 3500, almost doubling his previous strength . Just by swallowing such an insignificant pellet, Lin Feng had such an incredible increase in strength . It was clear just how formidable the power contained in a fifth level zombie crystal was .
Moreover, this was not his true strength, since he had developed soul force . With the addition of the soul force, his true combat ability could surpass 4000 . In addition to his bloodline lineage and martial arts, Lin Feng was at the level of a half-step sixth class cultivator . But since the apocalypse watch only measured combat ability using soul energy and physique, his abilities and techniques were not taken into consideration .
After his breakthrough to the fifth class, Lin Feng didn’t stop, but looked at the fourth level beast soul in his hand . If the first one could do so much, Lin Feng anticipated what the next one would do for him .
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