Future city.

Science and Technology Research Institute Base.

Facing Mu Qing's extremely strong physical defense, Jiang Nanqiu looked solemn.

While he was drinking, the golden gem on his chest lit up.

Suddenly, the originally thin energy in the body suddenly filled up.

The seven originally fuzzy clones also recovered their energy at the same time, and continued to work with the main body to inject energy into the bloody illusory furnace, trying to refine Mu Qing alive.

But Mu Qing's performance really exceeded Jiang Nanqiu's expectations.

As the vague beast above Mu Qing gradually became clearer, Jiang Nanqiu felt an unprecedented sense of oppression.

Seeing the pressure from the world coming towards him, he suddenly had an illusion.

He saw a mountain range composed of countless corpses of living beings, stretching for more than a few miles. Blood flowed down the corpse mountain, forming a bloody ocean around the corpse mountain.

Among the wreckage that made up the mountain of corpses, he saw giants as huge as mountains, majestic beasts that looked like dragons, demons burning with the flames of hell... Even though these creatures were dead, their corpses were still emitting terrifying energy fluctuations. As you can imagine,

to the terrifying strength they possessed during their lifetime.

But even so, they are just one of the countless corpses that make up the mountain of corpses.

At the top of the corpse mountain stood a throne made of corpses. A blurry figure sat on the throne, and only a pair of eyes with scarlet light could be seen.

It calmly overlooks the world.

At this moment, the figure on the throne slowly turned his head and looked towards him, his sight seemed to have passed through the barrier between illusion and reality, the barrier between time and space.

boom!

The moment their eyes met, Jiang Nanqiu felt his head buzzing.

Countless twisted and weird symbols were instilled in his mind. Just by looking at him, he felt that his spiritual power began to rise and grow faster and faster, gradually approaching the edge of collapse.

If he continued to stare at each other, he felt that his sea of ​​consciousness would be completely overwhelmed by the mysterious knowledge that was constantly being fed into him.

At this moment, he steeled himself, biting his tongue and trying to escape from the illusory mental scene.

At this time, fear grew in Jiang Nanqiu's heart.

Just by looking at the creature in the hallucination, his mental strength actually improved a lot, which was simply shocking.

At this time, he thought of what a former enemy said:

"You ask me what the strong men who stand at the top look like? Sorry, I have never seen a real strong man, but I know that their power exceeds our knowledge. Maybe just by feeling their existence, you will

will be affected... They are like the glowing sun, constantly radiating energy to the surroundings. If they are not suppressed deliberately, they will even cause the surrounding space to distort and collapse..."

Jiang Nanqiu disagreed with these words.

But at this time, he experienced it personally.

Just by looking at each other, many mysterious symbols appeared in its mind, and its spiritual power also improved greatly under the influence of this power.

But this kind of growth is fraught with risks.

These strange symbols seemed to be imprinted on his mind. As long as he tried to understand the meaning behind these symbols, his head would tingle and his emotions would fluctuate accordingly. It seemed that he would be at risk of losing control at any time.

It's like an ant trying to understand the amount of knowledge in a library, which is completely beyond his ability.

His mental state kept rising and falling, but Jiang Nanqiu still was not freed from the illusory mental scene.

Before the body collapses, the spirit has already withered first.

But Jiang Nanqiu did not choose to compromise. He chose to grit his teeth and persist. At the same time, the five gems on his chest lit up at the same time.

While constantly resisting the erosion of mental power, past events appeared in my mind like a slide show.

The memory returns to the starting point.

…

That year, it snowed heavily in the north for several months, and the whole world was covered in snow. The roads outside the city in the winter were completely covered with snow.

After graduating from Victory University with the highest overall score, he officially joined the "Five-Star Battle Group", one of the ten battle groups, and became a member of the third group.

It turns out that the front line is far more cruel than he imagined.

The frontline internship experience during school was followed and protected by a professional team, but there was a huge gap between it and real actual combat.

That period was also a period of rapid growth for him.

Many theoretical knowledge learned in the academy have been transformed into practical skills in actual combat on the front line.

At that time, the Five-Star Battle Group was challenging a field whose disaster level reached "Level 4", and the battle was very fierce.

This field is called the "Purgatory Field".

The strongest race among them is called the Infernal Race. They have a human-like form and are completely black. They generally master extremely terrifying physical and combat skills, and are extremely keen on fighting.

Before entering the human world, the Purgatory tribe was divided into eight tribes.

Every year there are bloody battles between tribes, but unlike other races, the Purgatory tribe's internal fights are not for resources or profit, but only to select the strongest warriors.

The Purgatory tribe highly respects the strong.

Such is the custom of the clan that the warriors of the Purgatory clan are naturally aggressive.

During the battle against the Purgatory Field, the Five-Star Battle Group suffered heavy losses in the face of the ferocious attacks of the Purgatory warriors, and even had a faint tendency to fall down from the top ten battle groups.

During this period, he followed the Third Five-Star Chapter into the Purgatory Field several times and almost died inside.

But his talent was also revealed during that time

During his fight against the Domain Clan, he was hailed as one of the top ten rookies in the Winter Region due to his excellent record.

During that period, his achievements also attracted the attention of the Purgatory clan.

Especially the new generation members of the Purgatory Tribe, they regard him as a glorious prey and want to kill him with their own hands.

The turning point of fate occurred during an investigation into the purgatory field.

At that time, the Sixth Squadron of the Five-Star Third Regiment he was a member of was besieged by the Purgatory Clan, and suffered heavy losses in the battle. All the remaining warriors were captured alive, and he was among them.

But the fierce and aggressive Purgatory clan did not kill them.

At that time, the Purgatory clan members dispersed, and a little boy covered in jet black with a black gem inlaid on his chest appeared in front of him and threatened to start a bloody fight with him.

This was his first encounter with "Soul Refining".

It was only afterward that he learned that Lianhun was recognized as the strongest child among the youngest members of the Purgatory clan, and it was only afterward that he realized that he was regarded as a prey for glory by members of the new generation of the Purgatory clan.

That soul-refining battle gave him an offer he couldn't refuse.

As long as you defeat it, all captured team members can survive.

In order to prove the credibility of this statement, Lianhun put his hand on his forehead and swore to all the previous Lianhui warriors to prove that what he said was absolutely true.

Faced with the request for soul refining, he chose to agree without hesitation.

But the difficulty of this battle was beyond his imagination. Facing Lianhun, who was just a child, he had his arms broken during the battle. In the end, he fought to the death and both Lianhun and Lianhun fell, ending in a draw.

When he woke up, he found that he was already in the hospital in the winter supply area.

Through the explanations of the medical staff, he learned that all his comrades had been killed. When the support team arrived, they only saw him who was unconscious and still alive.

At that moment, he was full of resentment towards Soul Refining.

As for why Lianhun didn't kill him, he had already guessed the answer.

It was like a provocation, not killing him to give him a chance for revenge.

Jiang Nanqiu accepted this challenge.

After his body recovered, he returned to the Five-Star Battle Group and joined the fight against the expansion of the Purgatory Field.

In the following years, he fought against the soul refiners several times in the purgatory field.

But Lianhun's growth rate is obviously faster than his, and the gap in strength is widening at a speed visible to the naked eye.

This also aroused his competitive spirit.

From childhood to adulthood, he has been synonymous with the best.

Even in Shengli University, where there are many talents, he is recognized as the best freshman.

Now he is even more burdened with the blood feud of his dead comrades.

In order to defeat Soul Refining, he trained hard, tempered his body in the severe cold, and often consulted veterans of the battle group on combat skills to make up for his shortcomings.

With his efforts, the strength gap between him and Lianhun narrowed briefly.

During the constant battles, he also understood why Lianhun let him go in the first place.

Soul Refining said that it needs a whetstone, a whetstone that can inspire it to become stronger.

Obviously, he is the grindstone deliberately cultivated by Lianhun.

Refining the soul is more urgent than him and he can become stronger. Only in this way can he inspire it to become stronger.

The dispersal operation of the purgatory field progressed slowly, and his battle with the refining soul lasted for three years.

Even though he tried his best to catch up, the gap in strength between him and Lianhun was still widening.

He clearly remembered what Lianhun said to him:

"Jiang Nanqiu, your talent is undoubtedly the strongest among the human warriors I have ever seen, but the lack of human training system has limited your growth. It is a pity that you are not from my Purgatory clan, otherwise you can use the growth of my Purgatory clan.

The system has grown rapidly, which is a pity..."

This sentence not only expresses his affirmation, but also points out the imperfection of the human cultivation system.

Compared with the field races that have a long history and constantly learn from mistakes and figure out growth paths, human beings started too late and developed in too short a time.

But he did not give up his pursuit of soul refining.

During that time, Jiang Nanqiu recalled what he had learned throughout his life, combined with his own weaknesses in the battle with soul refining, and developed a set of combat techniques specifically for soul refining.
To be continued...