Chapter 159: A Breakthrough in Strength


    Afterward, Jian Chen found a river based on his memories, and washed away all the filth on his body. He then took out and then put on a new set of clothes from his Space Belt.


    He had been wearing crude clothes put together from animal skins for quite a long time, so when he put on soft, cloth clothing, afortable feeling instantly spread throughout his body. Jian Chen seemed to revel in the warm feeling the cloth gave off as he smoothed it over his body. In that instant, his mental state that had been so tightly wound the past few days finally rxed.


    After that, Jian Chen killed a magical beast in the forest and tore off arge and fatty hind leg. He then found a dry spot on the ground to build a fire and began to slowly roast the meat.


    After filling his empty stomach, Jian Chen began to count the profits from the past few days. When Jian Chen took out all of the monster cores in his Space Belt and ced them on the ground, they formed a pile that was around 1 meter high. Such arge amount of monster cores gathered together began to glow, as the hidden surges of power within each of them began to resonate with each other. Seeing this, Jian Chen’s heart began to race.


    Roughly calcting, Jian Chen concluded that this pile had at least 2000 monster cores. As for the exact number, it would be impossible to guess an urate value without carefully flipping through them. After all, the power of a monster core was not rted to any other factors.


    Looking at the plentiful monster cores, Jian Chen couldn’t help but smile in excitement. The rewards from the past few days were really abundant, to the point where it was hard to believe. Such arge amount of monster cores was enough for Jian Chen to cultivate for quite a while.


    With an excited mood, Jian Chen took out the three Space Belts and threw them to the side. These few Space Belts had all been specifically taken from those mercenaries in preparation for this future asion. Soon after, Jian Chen began to separate the monster cores from each other.


    After 4 hours, Jian Chen had finally organized therge mass of various monsters cores. There were now 3 piles in front of him; one each for ss 1, ss 2, and ss 3.


    “There are a total of around 700 ss 1 Monster Cores, 900 ss 2 Monster Cores, and 600 ss 3 Monster Cores. I hadn’t imagined that I’d gain about 2300 monster cores these past few days. Haha, this is really much better than I anticipated. It seems I must really thank the Tianxiong n. I must thank them for the great opportunity they gave me.” Jian Chenughed to himself when he saw all of the monster cores.


    Jian Chen then ced each group of monster cores into a different Space Belt. He then returned to the cave that he had been living in for a while. After covering up the entrance, he resumed cultivating.


    The cave was so dark that he couldn’t even see his own hand. Jian Chen sat there cross-legged, like an unmoving sculpture. If it weren’t for the faint sound of him breathing, people might’ve really mistaken him for a living statue.


    As Jian Chen continued to absorb the energy from within the monster cores, the Saint Force within him was constantly growing stronger.


    After bing a Saint Master, the demand required for cultivation not only increased, but Jian Chen’s absorption speed had also doubled. Before bing a Great Saint, he needed to consume three ss 3 Monster Cores in a single night, which meant that he consumed almost 10 ss 3 Monster Cores for a day of cultivating without stopping. Now that his absorption speed was faster, the amount of monster cores that Jian Chen would need to absorb in a night was 6-7. Based on this, he’d end up consuming around 20 ss 3 Monster Cores in a day.


    Although the amount of ss 3 Monster Cores he had to consume was a frightening number, Jian Chen wasn’t concerned at all about ack of monster cores. Not only did he have hundreds of ss 3 Monster Cores in his Space Belt, he was also in the Magical Beast Mountain Range. He could enter the deeper regions and kill ss 4 Magical Beasts any time he wanted to. ss 4 Monster Cores contained enormous amounts of energy, and far surpassed that of ss 3 Monster Cores.


    In the outside world, Jian Chen’s name, as well as everything he had done in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, was currently being spread everywhere. As this was happening, Jian Chen was sitting cross-legged within the dark cave, diligently raising his strength.


    Time quickly passed. In the blink of an eye, a year had already passed. Within this year, themotion that Jian Chen had caused in the outside world had gradually settled. Wake City had long since recovered to its original ways. There wasn’t that big of a difference between now and a year ago. The only difference was that the Wake City’s Tianxiong n had died out.


    Deep within the Magical Beast Mountain Range, there were no signs of people. ss 4 Magical Beasts roamed about the area as they pleased, and it wasn’t an area that anyone could just walk around. In this area, one could go for half a month without seeing any trace of a human; this was an extremelymon urrence. This moment, a green-ck mist was slowly rising nearby. The scent of roasted meat was blown through the air by the breeze, gradually diffusing it in all directions.


    The figure of a cotton wearing youth could be seen sitting cross-legged with a bonfire right in front of him that burned brightly as a piece of magical beast meat was cooked over the mes.


    This youth looked no older than 20 years old with his long hair tied together into a ponytail with a piece of grass. This youth was exceedingly handsome with wless facial features along with a delicate yet roguelike look. On his calm face was a face full of charm that could practically kill any woman in the world.


    This youth, was Jian Chen.


    In this one year, Jian Chen hadn’t left the Magical Beast Mountain Range at all. After one year of using the monster cores from the mercenaries, there were practically no more ss 3 Monster Cores left. Only the ss 1 and 2 Monster Cores remained. In that one year, all of the ss 3 Monster cores werepletely exhausted, and so Jian Chen could only use the ss 4 Monster Cores. Soon enough, even the ss 4 Monster Cores were used up, causing Jian Chen to go to the depths of the mountain range to hunt and kill ss 4 Magical Beasts before continuing to cultivate.


    Time and time again, Jian Chen had continued to cultivate using the monster cores for one whole year. Jian Chen had long since left the Primary Saint Master level and reached the Peak Saint Master level. His strength had reached a point where even killing a ss 4 Magical Beast was of no problem at all.


    “One year has past, how quickly time goes by. It seems that I should head out and stroll around now and stabilize my strength. Ai, after using the monster cores to cultivate, only a tiny residual of chaotic nature from the monster cores energy was left.” Jian Chen muttered to himself in front of the campfire.


    After eating his fill, Jian Chen extinguished the fire before heading out from the depths of the Magical Beast Mountain Range. He had already nned on leaving the mountain range long ago, so he had prepared a few ss 4 Monster Cores to cultivate withter.


    The ss 4 Magical Beasts rarely roamed around the heart of the Magical Beast Mountain Range, so it was generally more peaceful than the outsideyers since ss 4 Magical Beasts were also not asmon as ss 1 or 2 Magical Beasts. In this case,ing across a ss 4 Magical Beast was not an easy task, and finding a ss 3 Magical Beast would be even easier.


    “Hou!”


    Just as Jian Chen walked out of the forest carefully, suddenly, arge sound exploded out from behind him. Staring in the direction in which his ear was vibrating, Jian Chen noticed that the ground he was standing on was beginning to tremble slightly as well.