Swallowed Star: Copy God

Chapter 23: Choice (Seeking Recommendations!)

As evening arrived, Ye Yun finally secured a moment of solitude. He entered the underground training room of his attic and began his daily gene-energy cultivation. ♚ ♞ ♦ ♦

He took a long, deep breath, his cells saturated with energy. Ye Yun felt excellent. The homemade Dragon Blood he used last time still had residual energy within him, granting him significant progress in his daily cultivation, rapidly improving his physical fitness.

‘Body exertion and movement techniques only require consistent training. With ample cultivation experience to draw from, I believe there won't be much difficulty. But what combat skill should I choose to cultivate?’

After meeting Inspector Wang, Ye Yun gained a stronger understanding of cultivation. As a Planet-level expert, Inspector Wang's body exertion reached a level of 4.5, and his movement technique reached the Intention realm, sufficient for Ye Yun to reference and learn from at his current stage.

Ye Yun also copied the Advanced War God Gu Ye he met today and discovered that Gu Ye's body exertion was also at 4.0, and his movement technique was also at the Intention realm, making him quite outstanding among Advanced War Gods.

After these few instances of copying, Ye Yun suddenly realized that his Eye of Replication possessed a certain function of scanning information, capable of knowing the target's general situation. However, the highest level of target he can currently scan is only Planet-level. He wonders what different changes will occur when he encounters higher-level experts in the future.

From Zhou Zhengyong to Inspector Wang, and then to Gu Ye today, these three are the strongest people Ye Yun has encountered. However, Ye Yun is somewhat conflicted because these three cultivate different combat skills and have achieved considerable success in their respective fields. Ye Yun doesn't know how to choose for the time being.

Zhou Zhengyong is known as 'Iron Hand.' His greatest strength lies in his pair of palms, constantly practicing several palm techniques. Gu Ye cultivates dual blades, while Inspector Wang is a skilled spear user.

For Ye Yun, not to mention these three, even Advanced Wargods like Zhuge Tao or Wu Tong, their experiences in cultivating their respective combat skills could provide him with great help. It can be said that any path can be taken, and if he were more greedy, he could even take several paths at once.

After carefully considering for ten minutes, Ye Yun had an answer in his heart. He decided to specialize in one path: spear techniques!

Ye Yun can copy the cultivation talents of others. Currently, the two strongest martial arts talents on Earth are Hong and Thunder God. Hong is a master of spear techniques, while Thunder God excels in blade techniques. However, Ye Yun prefers spears, so after a slight hesitation, he has confirmed his future combat skill cultivation path – spears!

As Hong's absolute direct descendant, Inspector Wang cultivates the secret manual 'Annihilation,' created by Hong himself, and has received guidance from Hong in cultivation. Therefore, Inspector Wang's spear techniques and Hong's share the same lineage, inheriting thirty percent of Hong's true teachings. The next step is to forge his own path.

Hong's spear techniques, just like the name suggests, are full of violence and momentum. When cultivated to a deep level, a single spear strike is like a disaster descending, filled with a strong aura of annihilation.

Therefore, the first step in cultivating this spear technique is to comprehend such momentum. Although truly achieving this means reaching the fourth realm of spear techniques—Intention—if one can comprehend even a trace of the momentum, it will have an excellent auxiliary effect on the progress of spear technique cultivation.

Ye Yun also understands that to truly comprehend the essence of 'Annihilation,' he still needs to come into contact with Hong himself. Inspector Wang is, after all, a learner. Unless he also takes the step of creating his own techniques, his attainments in this spear technique will definitely never surpass Hong himself.

Approaching spear techniques for the first time, Ye Yun felt quite excited, comprehending Inspector Wang's insights into spear technique cultivation. Unknowingly, the time of night passed. Ye Yun opened his eyes, and the outside was already turning white. Today is an even-numbered day, the day he needs to go out and hunt monsters.

Arriving at the courtyard outside, Gu Ye had already woken up and was currently practicing with two scimitars in the small courtyard. Gu Ye's scimitars have a rather unique shape, less than thirty centimeters in length, with a curved arc of nearly ninety degrees. When posing, the curved part can fit perfectly with his elbow. The two scimitars in Gu Ye's hands are like two shimmering silver fish, flying up and down. The strange angles pose no possibility of harming himself. With a light touch, he shows off his superb scimitar skills.

After Gu Ye exhaled and sheathed his blades, Ye Yun couldn't help but applaud. To reach this level of proficiency with such an unpopular weapon, Gu Ye must have put in a lot of effort in addition to his outstanding talent. It can be said that despite Gu Ye's usual unreliable demeanor, he is definitely a responsible martial artist.

Gu Ye looked at Ye Yun on the side, grinned, and the aura of a peerless master just now instantly shattered.

“Hey, want to learn? I'll teach you!”

Ye Yun quickly waved his hand, smiling and saying,

“Teacher Gu, I just think your blades are very good! Today I'm going out to hunt monsters and don't know where to gather yet. Please show me the way!”

Gu Ye squinted his eyes.

“You kid has good taste! My two scimitars were custom-made from within our Limitless Martial Hall at a great cost. The quality is completely worthy of SS-grade. Even King-level monsters can easily be cut open through their body defenses! Of course, that's just theoretical. When I encounter King-level monsters, I can only run. But the quality of these two scimitars is definitely beyond question!

As for hunting monsters, the landing point for the fighter jets is in the eastern area of the training camp. When you get there, take the specialized fighter jet, and someone will lead you!”

Ye Yun nodded. He had roughly familiarized himself with the terrain of the training camp yesterday. He didn't spend much effort finding the fighter jet landing point Gu Ye mentioned. Upon arrival, he saw a huge, dark blue fighter jet ready to take off. A middle-aged man stood below the fighter jet, waved at Ye Yun, and said with a smile,

“Ye Yun? I am the leading instructor for your batch of monster-hunting students. My name is Li Yue. Hurry up and get on the fighter jet. Everyone else has arrived except you!”

Ye Yun boarded the fighter jet and saw that the interior space of the fighter jet was very spacious, with rows of seats. At this time, young men and women were sitting on these seats, each with a different temperament. The only thing they had in common was the powerful aura they exuded. Seeing Ye Yun enter, their attention was all focused on him.

“Ye Yun, although this is your first time hunting monsters, you should have read the 'Student Guide,' right? How come you don't have any equipment?”

Ye Yun didn't buy a combat suit, but only bought an S-grade throwing knife. This throwing knife was hidden in his sleeve. When he went out, Gu Ye gave Ye Yun a small shield. Besides these, Ye Yun didn't have any other equipment.

Ye Yun smiled lightly and simply said,

“Teacher Li Yue, I am a Spiritualist. I have roughly read the 'Student Guide.' I also have some understanding of City 1001, where we are going. Don't worry, I am still self-aware and there won't be any problems!”

The Hongning Base City where the elite training camp is located is roughly in West Asia, and City 1001, where Ye Yun and the others are about to hunt monsters, is about 300 kilometers away from Hongning Base City. This is a city personally numbered by Hong, and every student in the elite training camp must hunt monsters in this city.

City 1001 is specially monitored by a satellite, which means that every student's actions within this city are transparent.

According to the iron rules of the training camp, hunting monsters can only rely on oneself. Helping others or privately trading monster materials will result in expulsion, and mutual killings are strictly prohibited. Once discovered, they will be directly executed!

Regarding Ye Yun's information, whether it was Li Yue or the other students on the fighter jet, they already knew it very well. They also knew that Ye Yun was actually a powerful and rare Spiritualist. They were not surprised by Ye Yun's somewhat arrogant behavior now. After all, a Middle Wargod-level Spiritualist is indeed not threatened by anything within this specific monster city.

However, they had also heard that Ye Yun's body exertion, movement techniques, and other aspects were very poor. He seemed to be a person with very serious imbalances. Before Ye Yun became strong, they were not very interested in Ye Yun.

Before long, the fighter jet arrived at City 1001. Ye Yun stepped into the wilderness area with his shield on his back and saw that the other students had already left one after another. No one chose to team up, and they all acted alone. Li Yue patted Ye Yun on the shoulder and said softly,

“Go ahead, as long as you come back before the meeting time, you'll be fine. Be careful!”

Ye Yun nodded and also looked for a direction, leaving Li Yue's sight.

Excluding the martial arts combat assessment, this was actually Ye Yun's first time stepping into the wilderness area alone. Ye Yun couldn't help but sigh that his progress was a bit too fast. With too little time, the lack of tempering in the wilderness area was indeed his major weakness.

Even Luo Feng in the original story spent several months with the 'Fire Hammer' squad before joining the elite training camp, gaining rich experience in hunting monsters in the wilderness area and honing his body exertion and movement techniques to a good level. This is why he was able to rush his Black Dragon ranking points to more than 60th place within the first month of joining the elite training camp. The current Ye Yun has no way to do this.

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