Chapter Eighty-Six: Bronze

As soon as Fang Mu had gone, Zhou Xiaolin exploded.

“Zhou Xiaozhou, are you out of your mind? How dare you charge out in a situation like that? Do you even know how to spell death?”

His neck veins bulged as he sprayed spittle at her.

Even now, thinking back to that shot made his spine go cold.

If that bullet had truly hit Zhou Xiaozhou... there was no need to say it. Her ending would have been exactly the same as those jagged hyenas ahead.

No, not just hers.

He would have been finished too.

The two of them together could barely handle one jagged hyena. And that man had fought five of them alone!

If it had come to blows, the two of them would have had no chance to fight back at all.

“I’m never going crazy with you again. Your brain has to be sick! Sick!”

Zhou Xiaolin had always considered himself fairly brave, otherwise he would never have followed Zhou Xiaozhou all the way into this dangerous place to go mad with her...

But now it seemed that compared with Zhou Xiaozhou, he was timid as a mouse.

And she had dared to rush down in a situation like that?

She really wasn’t afraid of death, was she?

In truth, Zhou Xiaozhou’s face had gone a little pale too. In the heat of the moment she had dashed out without thinking, but that gunshot had yanked her back to reality. Seeing the blazing fire before her now, she too felt a chill of lingering fear.

But...

Afraid as she was, Zhou Xiaolin’s endless shouting made her pretty face harden in embarrassment and anger. “Shut up! Isn’t everything fine?”

“Huh?!”

Zhou Xiaolin glared. “I...”

“What do you mean, ‘I’? When did you learn to nag like Mom? Huh? All that babbling, like some woman!”

Zhou Xiaozhou cut him off without mercy.

Zhou Xiaolin rolled his eyes, nearly fainting with rage.

Unreasonable.

This woman was simply beyond reason.

“Hmph! You said you were taking the shot—did you get it done?”

Zhou Xiaozhou ignored her little brother, who was practically stupefied with anger, and gave him no chance to vent further as she demanded matter-of-factly.

Zhou Xiaolin was so choked up he nearly exploded. Without even thinking, he shouted, “No shot! Not a single second of footage!”

He was close to hysterics.

Zhou Xiaozhou looked at him, then curled her lip. “Fine, no footage, then no footage. Anyway, I got it...”

By the end, her eyes were bright again.

This was going to blow up.

It might even become a massive hit.

A gunfighter killing five jagged hyenas in close combat... that alone was shocking enough to make people gasp.

And the battle footage was so gorgeous, so breathtakingly beautiful...

If a video like this didn’t go viral, what could?

She hurriedly pulled out her communicator, opened the video she had just recorded, and the more she watched, the brighter her eyes became.

This was a genuine master at work!

Already, a caption was taking shape in her mind for the video...

After being excited for what felt like ages, and after watching the footage once more, she finally let out a long breath. Suddenly remembering something, she turned her head and saw Zhou Xiaolin sitting beside her, still puffed up with anger. Clearly, he was still seething.

Zhou Xiaozhou widened her eyes and smacked the back of Zhou Xiaolin’s head.

“Ow! Zhou Xiaozhou, what are you doing?!”

Struck hard enough to cry out, Zhou Xiaolin jerked his head up and roared. He looked ready to fight her to the death.

“Why so dramatic?”

Zhou Xiaozhou curled her lip, but seeing that Zhou Xiaolin’s eyes were nearly bloodshot, she felt a little guilty. After a couple of hums, she said, “All right, all right. Since you were trying to protect your big sister just now, I’ll forgive you. Get up, and I’ll treat you to a feast when we get back...”

“You’re forgiving me?” Zhou Xiaolin was so angry he almost laughed.

“Mm, I forgive you. Come on, get up already!”

As she spoke, Zhou Xiaozhou took his arm and began to coax him shamelessly.

Zhou Xiaolin nearly vomited blood, but looking at her playful, cheeky expression, no matter how much anger he had, he could no longer let it out...

He rolled his eyes.

A wave of bitter indignation swelled in him.

How had he ended up with such a sister?

Under Zhou Xiaozhou’s always-effective shameless coaxing and spoiling tactics, Zhou Xiaolin, though still full of resentment, could only be dragged away by her...

As for the corpses of those five jagged hyenas... they were simply left there.

Jagged hyena carcasses were actually quite valuable, but Zhou Xiaozhou and Zhou Xiaolin had not even once thought of taking them with them...

Not long after, a few jagged hyenas wandered here. Finding the corpses of these companions, they showed no courtesy and tore into them with savage bites...

...

...

Deep within the Thousand-Phantom Wasteland, in a hidden corner.

Fang Mu, his eyes crimson, tore hungrily at the flesh in his hands and swallowed it down.

His genetic source energy had been exhausted, and once again he was plunged into that terrifying hunger. The blood-soaked meat in his hands, though reeking of gore, now smelled incomparably fragrant to him.

His stomach once more became a horrifying meat grinder. As flesh entered his belly, it transformed into a surging stream of genetic source energy, flooding every cell in Fang Mu’s body.

His body seemed to turn into a parched desert, madly devouring every trace of genetic source energy, and then, at the level of his very genes, beginning to grow stronger.

His genetic vitality grew ever more intense; the density of his bones, muscles, and even skin all increased. This consumed a vast amount of genetic source energy.

No one knew how much flesh he had eaten before Fang Mu felt the rate of devouring begin to slow. The red glow in his eyes also gradually faded.

He glanced around once more to make sure there was no one nearby, no living thing from the battlefield. Then he closed his eyes and circulated the Source Energy Tempering God Record, completing his final transformation...

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...

In the blink of an eye, two days had passed.

Fang Mu suddenly opened his eyes. The instant they flew open, a thread of flame flashed through the depths of his gaze.

After a brief daze, he drew in a deep breath.

As he breathed in, his chest bones emitted a series of crisp cracking sounds.

An indescribable comfort instantly spread through his entire body!

Then he slowly let that breath out, a sharp glint appearing in his eyes.

He looked down at his hands and clenched them slightly. In an instant, an explosive force gathered within him.

The exposed skin on his body shimmered with a faint luster, like bronze cast in liquid form. Each strand of muscle fiber was like a steel cable, containing terrifying power.

His five senses had risen once more in a leap. With a sweep of his gaze, even the veins and dewdrops on a blade of grass several dozen meters away were clearly reflected in his eyes.

His mind was clearer than ever before. Within a radius of ten meters, even the slightest rustle or stir was mapped distinctly into his thoughts... he did not even need to look.

Bronze Tier!

After nearly a month, he had finally arrived.

A smile appeared on his face, and then he sensed inward.

His genetic source energy was even denser than before. Still measured in Fireblasts... and now he felt he could unleash seventy Fireblasts.

The number had only increased by ten.

But the quality was entirely different.

The might of Fireblast would be greatly enhanced!

This had been displayed to perfection in that final great battle.

Before, he needed three Fireblasts to kill one jagged hyena. By the end, just one was enough to make a jagged hyena die miserably.

That showed just how much its power had risen.

Fang Mu felt the changes in his body with complete satisfaction. At last, he rose to his feet and looked around.

He was now even deeper in the Thousand-Phantom Wasteland. This place saw hardly any traffic, and jagged hyenas had never even come here.

For these two days, he had been consolidating his gains here. Though he appeared to be in meditation, in truth he could awaken at any moment... otherwise, he would never have dared to consolidate his condition in a place like this.

Now, everything was complete.

It was time to leave.

“Go back, dispose of the jagged hyena corpses, and I can buy new gunfighter techniques.”

He licked his lips, filled with anticipation, then identified his direction and sped off...