In Luzhoubao Villa, Shen Rui is checking his cultivation progress.
Three months have passed, from August to November, he has completely cultivated his skeleton, relying on a higher level of spiritual power and relying on a large amount of accumulated cultivation resources.
In the eyes of others, the third level of bone tempering was as perfect as a natural chasm, but he still successfully crossed it.
Every bone exudes the luster of white jade, this is the golden muscle and jade bone!
The strength is so high that he feels that with the support of the particles, it has surpassed titanium alloy!
And this is not a rigid physical defense. In theory, as long as the particles still have energy, they can continuously resolve the impact.
At the state of perfection, the level of particle evolution is extremely high, and the energy contained in each particle is more than ten times that of other people!
Of course, there are both pros and cons. Such a perfect state means that daily consumption increases greatly.
He must extract energy through highly nutritious food. Ordinary food is no longer enough to support this need, and more are corresponding medicinal materials and strange ingredients.
Although his consumption alone is only level three perfection, he believes it is probably equivalent to the daily consumption of a dozen body refiners of level five or above!
There was a saying in ancient times that people who were poor in literature and rich in martial arts were actually very poor and could not afford to read books.
However, compared with the huge cost of practicing martial arts, studying is still much cheaper. Even so, ancient society still formed gentry families, poor families, and later scholarly families, etc.
Now Shen Rui can know from the corner of Anwu Xia's family that a new monopoly class is gradually forming, and it is inevitable.
The consumption of cultivators is too great, which undoubtedly creates a huge threshold.
It's okay to say that at the lower level, ordinary families can maintain themselves with the support of public institutions. If you go up higher, you have to join various organizations and sign various training contracts to get continuous resources.
This is risking your life. If you don't want to fight, you will simply be unable to make ends meet by relying on yourself. It is very difficult to just maintain the intake of energy by the particles in your body. How can you go further?
He has now crossed over to the third level and started to enter the fourth level. The fourth level is to strengthen the bone marrow, and then start from the bone marrow to refine the blood.
Bone marrow produces hematopoiesis and is the source of blood.
Completing this step can greatly improve the blood's ability to carry energy, oxygen, and metabolism, support the results of the previous three levels of cultivation, and provide timely replenishment for the consumption of those particles.
If you cannot overcome this hurdle, it will be difficult to maintain the previous results for a long time. As you get older, your Qi and blood will decline, and your nutrition will not be able to keep up, the particles will abandon the host, and your cultivation will slowly decline.
The method of body training is just like this, one step at a time, if one step is slack, you will not be able to keep up.
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Shen Rui is going to rest for a few days, sum up, and then move towards level four perfection again.
Just then, he got the news.
"What? Our man was arrested," he quickly calmed down, "Oh, he was rescued again. That's okay. We should pay more attention in the future."
Hearing the latest news from Teacher Wu, he was slightly surprised at first, and then thought that this was actually expected.
In the first place, aberrations are not fools. If my own tactics restrain them, they must find a way to deal with them.
In fact, during this year's winter tide, when dealing with those strange monsters, in order to prevent the strange golden birds flying in the sky from catching people, they developed things like kidnap horses to prevent the birds from catching people in the sky.
People like myself had been prepared for this a long time ago, so we were able to rescue people quickly.
But this once again reminded him not to underestimate these weird things.
They are intelligent, know how to unite, and know how to use tactics, and they are no worse than humans.
They also have strong learning abilities. If they are given time to develop, they will definitely be able to create a unified culture. On this basis, they will develop aliens, the new race that King Shark talks about.
The struggle between aliens and original humans will be a permanent theme in the future doomsday battles.
How to prevent getting caught?
This problem is actually very simple. As long as he goes out in person every time, he can solve the problems of camping and food logistics. He can go out with a light vehicle, sit in Xiaoying and go back and forth that day, hit and leave, and the enemy will have nowhere to catch him.
Unless they throw themselves into a trap and take the initiative to attack the strong castle defense.
After Teacher Wu and others took special precautions, this kind of arrest did not happen again. In fact, it was not easy in the first place. After all, the enemies faced by the monsters were too powerful. Even if they united, Shen Rui's side was prepared. , it will be difficult to succeed.
But soon, Shen Rui got new bad news.
Teacher Wu and Ouyang Ling hurried back with Xia Daxue.
"It's no longer possible. The administration has personally ordered us to suspend the cleaning operation."
Shen Rui was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said: "Sure enough, they are really smart. If they can't win on the battlefield, they use means outside the battlefield to threaten us."
"Yes, they said that if we continue to clean up, they will launch the winter tide in advance and launch a concentrated annihilation operation against our small castle. The previous attrition tactics will never appear again. They will attack with all their strength every time. Now the two sides are Under negotiation." Teacher Wu said helplessly.
"It's really disgusting! We obviously have a great situation," Ouyang said bitterly, "but we are being held back like this. If you ask me, we should carry out a large-scale contraction first, wait until we have finished cleaning up, and then fight out, the situation will be better ."
Shen Rui could understand the management's thinking. After all, they were not worried about monster attacks. They could hit and run, and drag them to death. However, many small fortresses had nowhere to run and could not withstand a full-force attack.
These small fortresses are important resource points. Without their blood transfusion, the big fortress will soon be paralyzed.
Energy, minerals, food, timber, livestock... none of these important materials can be self-sufficient by the big fortress. They all require external input, so that they can be converted into a steady stream of combat materials.
"I don't think the Administration will directly agree to their harsh conditions. This is tantamount to abolishing martial arts and self-castration." Shen Rui said calmly.
"Yes, the Administration requires them to draw a clear line between them and those aberrations that are determined to harm people; we can still continue to attack those aberrations that endanger human existence. In response to this request, those aberrations were divided, and most of them agreed with this Opinions, a small number of people are opposed." Xia Daxue informed.
Shen Rui nodded and said: "They are indeed not monolithic inside. They are more divided than us humans. Think about it, they probably hope to use our hands to weaken some internal competitors. After all, there are only so many natural resources. , it is best to have as few competitors in the food chain as possible. Lions want wild dogs to become extinct, and wild dogs also want lions to become extinct.”
Xia Daxue nodded: "Well, the current opinion from above is to seize their divided situation, concentrate on attacking the most harmful ones first, put aside the neutral ones, accumulate strength in this way, and slowly reverse the situation."
"The strategy is good, but I'm afraid someone is too weak and will leave our strength idle." Ouyang was not too optimistic.
The monsters are not stupid, can't they see this?
Those monsters who are determined to harm people are actually the smartest group. They understand very well that if they don't take advantage of the time when humans are at a low point to suppress and conquer them, and wait until humans adapt and rise again, there will be no chance.