Chapter One: The Beginning Unfolds

  At this time, Liang Jing was a little disappointed, but soon forgot, after all, these energies are still very weak now, and even the channels of hands and feet have not been opened, let alone infused, maybe in the future when there is more energy, after opening up the channels, the energy will have various effects.

  At this time, Liang Jing also had a certain understanding of the energy in his body, and unconsciously gave it a name; he called the energy flowing through his body "true energy"; and the channels through which the energy flowed were called "meridians". It seems that everyone says so.

  The true energy rapidly increased and expanded, while the life source in his body was actively absorbed and assimilated by the meridians, causing the life source in other parts of his body to decrease continuously. Just as it seemed that the life source was about to be depleted, Liang Jing's true energy had been replenished and even increased significantly, filling all the familiar meridian channels. Having learned a lesson from his previous experience, he no longer dared to recklessly charge through the meridians. Instead, he accelerated the flow of true energy within the familiar meridians, which were now filled with pure life source. The true energy continued to absorb and assimilate the life source, becoming increasingly condensed and speeding up. It seemed to have reached a limit, but suddenly, without Liang Jing's conscious guidance, it broke through to another unknown meridian that he had never accessed before. The true energy poured in, causing the previously filled meridians to suddenly decrease. At this moment, Liang Jing felt an overwhelming joy and his spirit was clearer than ever. He knew that he had made a breakthrough.

  He didn't dare to slack off, and Liang Jing slowly guided the true energy in the new meridians. At this time, his body seemed to have been passively absorbing a large amount of energy from somewhere, causing Liang Jing's true energy to increase by more than double, and it was even more refined than before, with enhanced nourishment and recovery effects on the body.

  Sigh...

  Liang Jing opened his eyes, and if one paid attention, they would notice a flash of intense light at the moment he did so; with an expression full of joy, he stood up, this time extremely excited. Originally, Liang Jing had been walking on a desolate and thorny path, but now he had found a road that led to infinite growth, and his mood was incredibly refreshed.

  Rat-a-tat-tat!

  As Liang Jing stood up, stretched his legs and let out a crackling sound like stir-frying beans; he was startled and looked at his own body, arms, clenched fists, only to feel that his physical strength seemed to have increased significantly. He hastily opened his attribute panel to take a look:

  Liáng Jìng: Strength: 14 (1), Agility: 13 + 5 (1), Constitution: 13 (1), Spirit: 12 + 9 (1).

  The body's all attributes have increased by 1 point, which means that a person's all attributes have been increased. Liang Jing felt that his body had broken through another level. If he said that his body was just a wooden barrel, the shortest plank of the barrel had been raised a lot. Now, as long as water is poured in, the amount of water in the barrel will continue to increase. Similarly, now Liang Jing only needs a large amount of life source, and his physical aspects can be rapidly improved, which is breaking through the bottleneck.

  Just as Liang Jing stood up, clenched his fists and kicked his legs, with a joyful expression on his face, the people in one of the teams also turned back from their bored vigilance, looking at Liang Jing...

  "How are you?" Jia Yujin asked with a joyful tone when she saw Liang Jing waking up.

  "Great! Not only has power increased, but more importantly, a path has been found, a broad and wide road to the distant unknown."

  Liang Jing's face was also extremely excited at this time. Previously, he only thought that there was only one way to go, which was to slowly increase his physical strength by absorbing the source of life through his body's instincts. However, as his power grew higher and higher, it seemed to have reached a certain limit and could no longer be improved. In fact, this was also the case. Even for people with exceptional talent, their physical strength would have a limit. To make further progress, one had to break through to the second layer of true energy like Liang Jing did now, allowing his body to undergo an unknown transformation and fill in the gaps of his physical abilities.

  The world has been changing for some time, and Liang Jing's heart has been under great pressure because the monsters are too powerful and continue to grow stronger, their intelligence also continues to rise; while his own strengthening speed cannot keep up or will be eliminated by this world.

  Even with the 'system' and 'replication', facing the powerful variant monsters is still incredibly stressful, because his strength can hardly be broken through now, unless he gets the nourishment of the life source of higher-level monsters to have a little chance of breakthrough. Sometimes, Liang Jing even has doubts in her heart, are humans really hopeless? Is it all over?

  Yes!

  At that time, Liang Jing did not admit it, but all kinds of difficulties and dangers reminded him that this was also the reason why he needed to find a human settlement to gather information. He wanted to see if others had found other ways to enhance their strength, after all, one person couldn't always be exhausted; and now, discovering the upgrade of true energy brought about its effects, Liang Jing saw the future, no longer so oppressive, dark and confused.

  What's more important is that he can kill monsters and obtain the most pure life source of the monster, which allows him to quickly break through and upgrade his true energy level at least twice as fast as others; if the object killed is a human Awakener, the effect will be tripled, after all, the efficiency of absorbing life source among humans is much higher.

  With this point, Liang Jing was very confident standing at the peak.

  Liang Jing now has a desire to go find the Awakened ones and cause them trouble. He thinks to himself, "It's best if you don't provoke me, otherwise even if you are humanity's future hope, I can only 'painfully' take action!" Liang Jing won't take the initiative to kill others, but provoking him is a different story. He isn't someone who will compromise himself for the greater good; that would be more painful than killing him! If he gets provoked, even if there's no benefit, he dares to poke holes in the sky, let alone when there are huge benefits involved.

  "What? What's going on?"

  Jia Yujin knew that Liang Jingping was rarely so happy, and as a person he was relatively cold and hard, perhaps even repressed, but now he must have discovered something incredible, and was somewhat excited.

  Others also looked at Liang Jing with a curious and delighted expression, thinking that if they could walk this path too, it would be great. In this dangerous world, they yearned for power so much, and envied those who had awakened.

  "Lao Jia, take some time to sit cross-legged, immerse your mind and follow the flow of true qi in your meridians... just like I did earlier... then..."

  At this time, Liang Jing also didn't intend to hide anything, and he spoke out the conclusions he had reached, as well as his own experiences from just now, amidst the crowd's eyes that were full of wonder, excitement, and disappointment.

  "Really?"

  Jia Yu Jin was also extremely excited at this time. To know that during this period, his own strength had increased very little, after all, he didn't have Liang Jing's ability to obtain the source of life. At this moment, hearing that there was another way for him to increase his power, he was naturally overjoyed. After all, who wouldn't like to become stronger and stronger? Especially for someone like him who had been eager to fight since childhood.

  Liang Jing's face showed joy and she nodded slightly, indicating affirmation.

  "Don't be too disappointed, after all, as long as you're alive, there's a chance; maybe one day you'll suddenly wake up to it, or maybe in the future we'll find a way to produce true energy within our bodies, or who knows, when we get to N city, others might find other ways to increase their strength."

  "Besides, haven't you noticed the changes in yourselves over this period of time? As long as you keep training and eating the meat of variant monsters, you will also become stronger. This is just one path."

  Liang Jing saw the disappointment of the crowd and comforted them.

  "Of course, everyone can also think for themselves and see if they can find other ways; after all, the world has changed now, everything is new from scratch, and the method of increasing power may be around us, it's just that we haven't discovered it yet."

  Three smelly skinners surpass Zhuge Liang; the power of one person is weak and small, but mobilizing collective strength, gathering wisdom, continuously researching and practicing, there will always be a breakthrough day. Although the human body is much weaker than monsters, it has more room for progress to be excavated.

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