280: Chapter 280: ‘Background Sound’ (Major Chapter Please Favorite, Subscribe, and Vote for Monthly Tickets) 280: Chapter 280: ‘Background Sound’ (Major Chapter Please Favorite, Subscribe, and Vote for Monthly Tickets) Unlike the intense corrosive feeling from taking the rcenary pathway’s Secret dicine, when He Ao swallowed the red reagent, he felt as if he’d forcefully ingested a red-hot piece of charcoal.
The searing heat spread throughout his mouth in an instant and followed his esophagus down into his stomach.
Then, unimpeded, the burning sensation spread from his stomach walls to his internal organs and limbs.
In this mont, He Ao felt as if nurous tiny, fierce flas were burning every inch of his body, scorching his skin and his flesh.
Right after, the massive ‘flas’ moved upwards along with his circulating blood, soaking into He Ao’s head.
A wave of intense, joint physical and ntal burning surged forth in an instant.
It was as if soone were rolling a red-hot iron rod around on He Ao’s brain.
The pain was so severe it far surpassed all the physical pain he had accumulated to this point.
He Ao’s spirit could still endure this pain, but Ronald’s body temporarily lost control under its influence, his entire body tensed and curled up on the riverbank.
Steam rose from his flushed body.
And as the burning continued, He Ao also noticed subtle ‘changes’ happening in his body.
The scorching energy burned his flesh while also rging into it.
But unlike the earlier advancent to ‘rcenary’—where the energy rging with the body resulted in a straightforward enhancent—this burning energy was indeed increasing his body’s strength, but not in the sa incrental way.
It was as if a new ‘point of enhancent’ had been opened and the increase continued from there.
As a continuous practitioner of Martial Arts, He Ao could clearly sense that this new ‘point of enhancent’ was not within the original human structural frawork.
The power of Talent Sequences’ Secret dicine up to C-level, although different from the Qi of Heaven and Earth necessary for Martial Arts Training, also sought to enhance physical attributes by channeling energy into the original body structure.
But beyond C-level, the body’s structure was nearly at its limit in terms of the energy it could sustain and could not accept new energy.
This ti, the C-level ‘Hunter’ Secret dicine’s energy didn’t rge into the original body structure as before.
Instead, it catalyzed the birth of so new kind of ‘structure’—infusing strength into this new form and thereby enhancing the overall physical quality.
It was like a large cup of water that had always been filled by adding more water, but now that the large cup was almost full, the new energy condensed a small cup on its rim, hung onto the large cup, and then continued to pour water in, allowing the entire system’s water volu to increase further.
Faced with the problem of the body nearing its capacity limit, Martial Arts and Talent Sequences offered two different solutions.
Martial Arts transford the original form of energy into a denser and more specialized form of ‘Qi’ through higher pressure and special techniques, thereby enhancing overall combat power.
Talent Sequences, on the other hand, sought to enhance the Transcendent’s combat power by changing the body structure to increase its capacity.
However, the power of Talent Sequences lacked guidance, spreading massively and unrestrictedly throughout the body during this process, resulting in substantial energy dispersion.
After considering for a mont amidst severe pain, He Ao began to try using the thod he’d previously used to channel the energy of Martial Arts to guide these scorching energies along a specific ‘circuit’.
At first, he failed many tis.
This scorching energy was even more unruly than previous energies.
Any attempt at active guidance resulted in dispersion,
But as he kept trying, He Ao gradually mastered the highest amount of this burning energy that he could sustain without collapsing, and then he cautiously began to guide its flow.
And then he discovered—
It hurt even more.
The original Transcendent energies carelessly crashed around, spreading to every body structure.
The downside was that a portion of the energy dissipated in the process of altering the body, with not as high an efficiency.
The upside was quick transformation, and the pain spread evenly.
As He Ao began to guide the energies, their density greatly increased.
The places where the energy traveled experienced stronger stimulation, and the pain intensified, while the speed of transformation also slowed down.
But the advantage was that the routes used in Martial Arts were indeed the most efficient, with the highest rate of absorption.
This also ant that He Ao needed to endure the pain for a longer period.
In the tranquil night, the chirping of insects and birds could be heard.
Leaves and shrubs rustled, creating a soft rustling sound.
Changes weren’t just happening inside He Ao’s body, but also in his brain and spirit.
As that strange energy burned his soul while partly rging with it, He Ao’s soul too received an enhancent.
Along with the joint enhancent of body and soul, as the powerful Secret dicine gradually integrated into He Ao’s body—
A series of indistinct, chaotic whispers gradually infiltrated He Ao’s spirit.
These whispers were sowhat similar to the background noise heard when activating Super mory, but they distinctly carried so subjective form, as if they wanted to convey sothing.
However, the ‘clarity’ of these whispers was not even as distinct as the noise heard during Super mory.
He Ao couldn’t make out what they were trying to say at all.
Even if they had a thousand words to deliver, by the ti they reached He Ao’s ears, they had beco nothing but ‘abababa’.
As He Ao gradually digested the Secret dicine, the whispering voices began to fade, turning from a buzzing akin to a swarm of sumr mosquitoes to the gentle fluttering of a breeze passing through a curtain.
Yet the voices did not entirely disappear, instead echoing continuously by He Ao’s side.
During that Copy World with Joey, He Ao had had a conversation with Roger about C-level.
Roger said that after reaching C-level, one would co into contact with so things that shouldn’t be touched.
Perhaps, this kind of gibberish was exactly what he was referring to, those things that shouldn’t be encountered.
However, it seed the background noise heard by Super mory was similar to the gibberish heard by the ‘Hunter’.
Super mory itself had a very high number in the Talent Sequence and possessed so sort of peculiar advancent attribute.
He Ao estimated that its real rank was far beyond the initial ‘F’ level when he first ca into contact with it.
There were many secrets about Super mory that He Ao hadn’t yet learned.
So, when he realized that after Super mory advanced to D-level and began to hear background noise, which most likely was the sa noise that one could hear at C-level through different ans, he wasn’t surprised.
After all, the Talent Sequence had been plucked from a close friend.
But what made He Ao curious was the fact that the sounds heard by ‘Super mory’ and ‘Hunter’ were different.
Did this an that the source of the ‘background noise’ varied depending on the pathway of the Talent Sequences?
…
As He Ao pondered, the wide tree leaves were gently pushed apart, and a huge paw landed on the grass at the edge of the riverbank.
It was a shadow lding into the night.
Its steps were light, crouched low, inching closer to the figure curled up at the water’s edge.
The figure was trembling slightly, as if experiencing so intense pain.
The blood scent perating the air suggested this was a very weakened prey.
Finally, the shadow approached the injured figure from behind, slightly arching its body, muscles tensed, ready to leap over the distance and tear apart the figure lying on the ground.
In that split second, it felt the injured figure pick up a stone from the ground and toss it forward, uncontrollably drawing its attention in the direction of the stone.
Then it pounced fiercely towards the stone.
Bang—
That was the sound of a huge shadow falling into a trap.
He Ao struggled to stand, peering through the faint moonlight at the shadow that had fallen into the trap.
It was a massive White-browed Fierce Tiger.
At this mont, the tiger had already been impaled by the articular spikes inside the trap, putting an end to its life.
He Ao looked at the stone he had just thrown, which had attracted the tiger’s attention.
It was just a simple stone, but it was imbued with the power of the Hunter, ‘Lure’.
A Hunter could grant the ability ‘Lure’ to any object or creature they touched.
When the designated target saw this luring object, they would be drawn to it, thereby stepping into the trap set by the Hunter.
However, the stronger the target, the greater the ntal strain required to place the luring object.
Of course, this consumption could be reduced; the stronger the target’s original interest in the object without the lure, the weaker the consumption of the lure.
He Ao bent down slightly, picked up the curved knife on the ground, tucked it at his waist, then grabbed the Bitter Monkey’s corpse with his barely intact left hand, and walked step by step along the expansive riverbank.
—
The wide river flowed through the cold night.
About twenty SUVs were parked haphazardly on the riverbank.
Piles of flas reflected off the dark tal of the SUVs.
This was a hastily constructed temporary campsite.
One side of the camp bordered the wide river channel, while the other was enclosed by a semi-circle of giant trees that had been chopped down and laid flat to fend off so wild animals.
Inside the wooden wall, young n with guns patrolled the periter.
All of them had more or less wounds, their faces barely concealing their exhaustion.
The whole camp was quiet, only the incessant chirping of insects under the night sky sang tirelessly.
Small bonfires scattered between the vehicles, beneath the makeshift tents barely put up.
These flas brought a bit of warmth, yet failed to dispel the chilling solitude of the night.
The injured people sat together, facing the glimring river surface, while the deeper world remained hidden in the profound darkness.
Thud—
A huge corpse unexpectedly flew over the wall, thrown from the outside, and landed on the ground with a dull thud.
The young sentries around were startled and imdiately beca alert, raising their guns toward the direction from where the corpse had co.
Bang—
A bloodstained hand grasped the thick wooden wall, then pressed on the top edge, slowly pulling itself up.
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