MEDICAL MASTER

Chapter 611 - Chapter 620

Chapter 611 - Heaven Treasure, Vigor Grass!

It was no wonder that there were not as many giant lizards coming out as he had imagined.

Before those giant lizards could go out to hunt for prey, they needed to climb up the vertical cliff which was more than 3,000 meters high.

"Howl..." Just when Fang Qiu saw the ground at the bottom of the cave, a loud roar suddenly came from below and echoed in Fang Qiu's ears. It felt like it came from the depths of the valley.

When Fang Qiu dropped to the ground, he stayed down and did not move.

Nothing moved around him, but in this dark environment, he could clearly see that there were piles of huge stones about four or five meters away from him.

It seemed that these boulders were the rocks that had been blown up by the nuclear explosion experiment back then.

There were many giant lizards hidden in these boulders and their cracks.

These giant lizards were supposed to jump from the boulders to the cliff and then crawl out of it, but as soon as Fang Qiu landed, they immediately stopped and stared at Fang Qiu, motionless, as if they were waiting for their prey to come to them.

However, they did not know that Fang Qiu had been eyeing them for a long while.

"Swoosh!" After confirming the location of the surrounding giant lizards, Fang Qiu moved his feet and immediately flew out.

"Bang, bang, bang..." Unfortunately, these lizards did not even have time to react before they were all killed by Fang Qiu's punches!

After killing all the giant lizards nearby, Fang Qiu stopped.

He turned to observe his surroundings.

Fang Qiu found that except for the front, there were huge gravel and vertical steep rock walls located in the other three directions. There was a cave located behind the gravel in front of him.

This cave was very big.

It seemed that it was formed by the underground river flowing all these years and the formation of the inner walls of the cave were all stalactites.

He stepped into the hole.

"Roar, roar..." Fang Qiu heard the roars of the giant lizards again.

After a few steps, Fang Qiu came across a fork in the road.

Listening to the roars from a distance, Fang Qiu chose one of the paths to follow. However, after walking for a long time, he found that it was a dead-end. Except for two giant lizards, there was nothing in it.

After killing the two giant lizards on the spot, Fang Qiu went back the same way he had come and then took the other path.

After walking for more than 20 meters, he came across another fork in the road.

"Hmm?" Fang Qiu paused for a moment, then casually chose a path and walked on. As a result, he walked into a dead end like the last time.

"Is this cave a natural maze?" Fang Qiu raised his eyebrows.

He knew that the underground caves would very likely have formed a natural maze. Most of the underground caves were formed because of the underground river. The water flow of the underground river surged and created a huge space underground, which then became a karst cave.

The strength of the underground water was not powerful but the rapid flow made it easy to wash out the forks in the karst cave, just like the fork from the source of the Sanjiang River.

When Fang Qiu was in doubt, he turned back and met another giant lizard on the way. After killing it, he returned to the second fork in the road.

"Divine Consciousness!" As he entered the other road, Fang Qiu thought to himself and his Divine Consciousness immediately spread out, which covered the area of ten kilometers around.

Because the underground cave was too dark, Fang Qiu did not do that even though his Divine Consciousness could cover 20 kilometers. He thought it was terrifying that the underground cave could cover an area of 10 kilometers.

He did not even dare to think that it could cover a radius of 20 kilometers!

As expected, by using his Divine Consciousness, Fang Qiu found that the diameter of this area was about five kilometers. It was indeed a natural maze and there were many giant lizards in this maze.

He could sense that they were not far away.

When he sensed the giant lizards, Fang Qiu directly used the Great Hand of Destruction and killed them from a distance even before the lizards noticed anything.

He continued with this slaughter all the way out.

Soon, Fang Qiu detected an area with his Divine Consciousness.

The exit was like a sewer.

In other words, the exit at the bottom was higher than the natural maze area.

When Fang Qiu came to the exit, he clearly saw that there was a slope at the exit, which was about two meters wide and three or five meters high. It looked like a draining spot.

Next to the exit, there were beds of gravel.

In fact, along the way, Fang Qiu saw a lot of boulders. Even some parts of the maze had collapsed. It seemed that they had collapsed after the nuclear explosion decades ago.

Fortunately, Fang Qiu had his Divine Consciousness and was able to detect it. If it were anyone else, they would have been trapped in the natural maze.

He jumped onto the exit.

Fang Qiu found that there was a brand new world in front of him.

It was a particularly wide karst cave. The roof of the cave was like a night sky filled with dense fluorescent green light spots, which was an extremely beautiful sight.

"Eh? A firefly?"

As soon as he used his Divine Consciousness, Fang Qiu immediately noticed that these light spots were fireflies.

"Why are there fireflies underground?"

Feeling a little shocked, Fang Qiu looked ahead.

He saw an oasis in front of him!

It was indeed an oasis, which was exactly the same as it was in the desert!

It was an oasis that had formed on the flat dissolution rocks.

In addition to the two smooth flowing rivers on the left and right sides, there were flowers, grass and even trees growing on the oasis.

"Hmm?" As Fang Qiu stared at the oasis, he suddenly shivered.

He saw a strange looking living creature!

It was a lizard covered with scales!

It was like a round, blackish green, iron-like scale armor.

It was a lizard that was only over four meters long or a little lesser than five meters, which was much smaller than the other giant lizards.

Although it was small, Fang Qiu felt a kind of aura that the other lizards did not have, coming from this scaly lizard. It was a kind of powerful and naturally imposing kind of aura.

It was like a tiger in the mountain.

"Good lord." Fang Qiu took a light breath and then immediately spread his Divine Consciousness to check the surroundings.

Then he found that it was no ordinary giant lizard living in this cave.

"It's weird." Fang Qiu immediately looked behind the scaled lizard.

As expected, Fang Qiu immediately saw something that made his eyes open wide!

"That is..." Behind the scaled lizard, which was the middle of the oasis in the cave, Fang Qiu saw a blade of grass, which looked like any ordinary grass, but it had two colors.

One blue, one red!

The blue was a sort fluorescent blue with a faint hint of green. The red color was bright red with a slight tinge of purple.

Around this blade of grass were tiny specks of light.

It looked like an immortal grass!

"Vigor Grass!"

Looking at the grass, Fang Qiu could not help but get excited.

Information about the Vigor Grass immediately appeared in his mind.

Vigor Grass was one of the Heaven Treasures, ranked 21st on the Heaven Treasure List.

The grass flourished together with the living and the spirit.

The living possessed an extremely powerful aura of life, which had the effect of healing flesh and bones. The spirit was the spiritual root gathered by Heaven and Earth's energy. Its spirit was strong but would not hurt the body. It could be consumed by people above the martial arts practitioner level, which was also a gift from heaven.

Fang Qiu did not expect that at all.

Under the ground that was 3,000 meters deep, there was actually a Heaven Treasure like the Vigor Grass!

What Fang Qiu needed most now was a Heaven Treasure. Vigor Grass was exactly one of the 24 kinds of Heaven Treasures that Fang Qiu needed. It could be said that it was the most suitable one as the Vigor Grass had a very strong aura of life. Even dead bones could be grown with flesh, let alone it giving protection to the meridians.

However, since the scaled lizard was eyeing it covetously, Fang Qiu immediately suppressed his excitement and observed the treasure carefully.

"It's almost mature."

According to the record in the Scroll of Heaven Materials and Earth Treasures, when the Vigor Grass was mature, the blue side would completely turn into a fluorescent green shade, showing its unique and powerful life energy. The red side would turn purple, meaning that its spirit would come from the east like purple Qi!

Judging from the current situation, Fang Qiu knew that this blade of Vigor Grass had already begun to transform into fluorescent green and purple colors. It was clearly a sign that it was about to mature soon!

"No wonder, no wonder." Suddenly, Fang Qiu laughed.

He figured it out.

Those giant lizards must have lived in this cave for decades. On the one hand, the nuclear explosion had trapped them here. On the other hand, it was because only this cave had water that could keep them alive.

However, because of the appearance of the Vigor Grass, these carnivorous lizards had mutated. In addition to the underground river, these lizards could hunt fish in this cave, so they grew to such huge sizes.

There should be other small animals like scorpions in this cave, but in the past few decades, they might have been eaten up by these carnivorous lizards!

All the Heaven and Earth Treasures were protected by the guardian beasts.

When the Vigor Grass appeared, one of the giant lizards living in the cave began to mutate and became a guardian beast.

Undoubtedly, it was the scaled lizard in front of him.

After becoming a guardian beast, the scaled lizard would definitely become stronger. Naturally, it would become the king of this cave.

Before the Vigor Grass matured, it allowed all the giant lizards to live in this cave.

However, when it realized that the Vigor Grass was about to mature, it was afraid that other giant lizards would snatch it, so it drove away all the lizards that were originally living in this cave!

Therefore, after the nuclear explosion, Lop Nor, which did not have any accidents for decades, suddenly witnessed the appearance of so many giant lizards. It was also because of this that when Fang Qiu came to the cave, he found that the giant lizards in the cave were all trying their best to climb up the 3,000-meter-high cliff to search for food.

It was also the reason why those giant lizards directly pounced on Fang Qiu when they first saw him, leaving him no time to react because they were really too hungry!

If he calculated carefully, there were at least 70 or 80 giant lizards that Fang Qiu had killed before. Plus 20 or 30 of them that he had killed after entering the cave, so there were more than 100 of them!

It was also because the environment here was too enclosed that the Heaven Treasure achieved its maximum effect and caused the mutation of those giant lizards.

Chapter 612 - Scaled Lizard!

"But..."

After figuring out the intricate details of the situation, Fang Qiu then thought of the giant carnivorous lizard that lived over 50 years ago.

"What about those lizards?" Fang Qiu was confused.

Although the technology was not that advanced 50 years ago, the country must have assessed the situation prior to taking any action since they had already decided to do something to the underground cave. Otherwise, they would not have come to the conclusion that there were thousands of giant carnivorous lizards among them.

"Perhaps..."

Fang Qiu speculated, "The giant carnivorous lizards that lived over 50 years ago have been eliminated. The living Vigor Grass that grew in this underground cave was destroyed because of this. This Vigor Grass must have regrown in the past few decades."

If the Vigor Grass could not be regenerated, wouldn't there only be 108 Heaven and Earth Treasures in the world? From the ancient times until now, the 108 Heaven and Earth Treasures had long been dug up by someone else. How then would Fang Qiu be able to come across them?

After most of the Heaven and Earth Treasures were picked, they would disappear from the place where they had grown. When they reappeared, they were separated by thousands of miles.

However, they were picked by people.

Everyone who was familiar with Heaven and Earth Treasures knew that they were a whole. Only by collecting the whole treasure would it work. Therefore, when collecting the Heaven Treasure and Earth Treasures, no one would be stupid enough to leave the root.

Heaven Treasure was different.

According to Fang Qiu's speculation, over 50 years ago, the Vigor Grass must not have matured yet. At that time, the underground cave had not been discovered. Therefore, after the huge blast created by the nuclear explosion, the cave collapsed. At the same time, a flood broke out, creating an underground maze and destroying the Vigor Grass growing in it. But the Vigor Grass was, after all, a Heaven Treasure. Even if the grass was destroyed, its roots would certainly be protected by the energy. The energy of the Vigor Grass dispersed in this cave, was absorbed by the root and then resurrected into a new Vigor Grass again.

During this period, the nuclear bomb exploded and blew up the cave with the giant carnivorous lizards. It was estimated that even the underground cave, which was three kilometers below the ground, might be the hollow stratum that appeared under the ground after the nuclear bomb exploded.

After the explosion, the three-thousand-meter-long hollow stratum was created. The giant carnivorous lizards living in the cave must have fallen into the depths. Most of them were dead. Only a few of them remained.

In order to avoid the explosion, this lizard must have dashed into the underground maze that was overflowing at that time and finally entered the cave where the Vigor Grass grew. Under the influence of the energy of the Vigor Grass, the lizard then mutated into such a state.

Everything seemed to make sense now.

Fang Qiu exclaimed.

There were so many unpredictable variables and too many coincidences in the world. If any matter of the whole process was not connected by coincidence, these giant carnivorous lizards would not have existed today.

"Roar!" As soon as Fang Qiu figured it out, a furious roar suddenly rang out.

In front of him, under the light of the fireflies, the lizard covered with scales suddenly roared furiously at Fang Qiu.

When Fang Qiu entered the cave, it had already spotted Fang Qiu.

They stared into each other's eyes for a long time.

Seeing that Fang Qiu did not leave and was staring covetously at the Vigor Grass, the scaled lizard suddenly became angry.

"Swoosh!" A flash of green appeared.

The lizard was extremely fast. It skimmed the surface of the water and climbed up the wall on one side as it passed through the underground river. It twisted its body and rushed toward Fang Qiu from above.

At this moment, "Clatter..."

There was a sound of something treading through the water.

In the underground rivers on both sides of the oasis, giant carnivorous lizards surged out of the water, one after another.

They jumped onto the oasis.

The giant lizards opened their mouths one by one and spat out a large number of fish.

It was likely that these giant lizards had been ordered by the scaled lizard to fish in the dark river for food reserves. After all, the scaled lizard needed to guard the Vigor Grass and did not have the time to hunt.

"I thought all the lizards had been driven away. I did not expect to find so many of them."

There were at least dozens of giant lizards rushing out of the river.

Fang Qiu frowned. He did not expect there were actually so many giant lizards living here.

"Howl..." The lizard walked to the top of the cave which was surrounded by fireflies, twisted its body and roared at Fang Qiu.

As it roared, the dozens of giant lizards immediately pounced on Fang Qiu.

"Great. Let me eliminate all of you!"

Fang Qiu snorted coldly.

Then he used the Great Hand of Destruction.

As soon as he made a smacking motion, several of the giant lizards that came at him were immediately slammed to the ground. The other giant lizards that rushed at him were also sent flying and landed heavily on the rock face not far away.

"Howl, howl!!!" The scaled lizard roared furiously and commanded the dozens of giant lizards to attack Fang Qiu.

Fang Qiu was not afraid at all.

He used the Great Hand of Destruction to slash at all the lizards coming at him!

Then he killed those giant lizards one by one!

Half of the dozens of lizards died.

The other giant lizards were all terrified when they saw that.

"Howl..." The scaled lizard was still growling angrily.

But those ordinary giant carnivorous lizards did not dare to charge forward. Instead, they made a detour and tried to escape into the underground maze.

It made the scaled lizard, which was crouched at the top of the cave, feel angry and irritable!

However, Fang Qiu would not let these giant carnivorous lizards escape so easily and cause harm to people. He kept waving his hands.

He killed all the giant carnivorous lizards which were trying to escape, one by one!

"Woo..." But right at this moment, the scaled lizard suddenly closed its mouth. Its throat vibrated at an extremely fast speed as it emitted a low hissing sound.

"Swoosh!" The scaled lizard leaped from above and like an arrow, headed straight for Fang Qiu at a terrifying speed.

"Humph." Fang Qiu narrowed his eyes and reached out his right hand fearlessly. As the scaled lizard rushed to him, he threw a fierce punch at it.

"Bang!" At the next moment, a loud noise was heard.

As his hand collided with the lizard, Fang Qiu found that the lizard's scaled armor was actually soft!

The impact of the punch was similar to punching a sponge. The scales of this lizard seemed to be able to withstand the power.

The gap was still too big.

Even though it had the advantage of possessing an armor made of natural scales, the lizard was still sent flying by the huge power from Fang Qiu's punch!

"Smack!" The lizard hit the wall, but it did not fall. Instead, it stuck to the wall and opened its mouth and growled angrily to Fang Qiu again.

"Eh?" Fang Qiu was shocked.

He did not expect that the resistance power of the scale armor on the lizard was so good that it did not even get hurt when he threw the punch, which was able to kill an ordinary giant lizard!

This was amazing. No wonder this scaled lizard was the king of this cave. With its scales, it would be invincible in this cave.

What's more, its speed was also astonishingly fast!

Compared with the ordinary giant lizards, to Fang Qiu, its speed was not fast.

"Howl!" The lizard roared angrily at Fang Qiu, but it did not move. It even showed signs of retreating.

"Hmm?" A thought came to Fang Qiu's mind. Then he immediately flew up and rushed straight into the oasis.

"Woo..." The throat of the scaled lizard quivered once again.

The sound did not seem to have been deliberately made by it.

Fang Qiu did not care.

After entering the oasis, he walked toward the Vigor Grass while observing his surroundings.

This oasis was actually a piece of land.

It was a strange land covered with huge hollow rocks. There were flowers and plants, as well as a huge hole in the ground.

There were still some fish left in the hole.

Obviously, this hole was where the lizards stored their food.

Other than that, there was nothing else!

Fang Qiu walked up to the Vigor Grass.

"Woo-hoo..." There seemed to be something wrong with the scaled lizard on the Vigor Grass wall. The vibration frequency of its throat increased again. In this case, it did not move even when Fang Qiu walked to the herb, as if it was preparing for something.

"Is it making a breakthrough?" Fang Qiu turned around and felt waves of energy coming out of the lizard's body.

After taking a close look, he found that the scale armor at the throat of the lizard was gradually dropping off, like a python shedding its skin.

"As expected." Fang Qiu smiled to himself.

Actually, he really wanted to see what changes there would be to this lizard after it broke through.

In any case, with his strength, it would not be a problem for him to slay this scaled lizard!

After all, they were hidden deep in this underground cave and there was no competition. It was already very impressive that this scaled lizard could grow to such a state.

The Vigor Grass was not mature yet. He still had to wait, either way, so he would just wait and see.

Three minutes later, "Roar!"

The roar of the scaled lizard was so loud that the ground shook from its volume.

After the scale armor on its throat peeled off, an inverted barb which was as long as a palm, actually grew out of it and it looked extremely hard and sharp.

"This is armed evolution!" Fang Qiu secretly exclaimed.

He did not expect that this scaled lizard was actually so unique.

But just when Fang Qiu was amazed, "Howl..."

The lizard suddenly jumped up and rushed toward Fang Qiu. Its body quickly curled up reversedly, exposing the new barb in its throat. With the rapid swiveling of the lizard's body, it rushed toward Fang Qiu with a gush of extremely powerful energy Qi like an electric saw, as if it was going to slash Fang Qiu's body in two.

"It's nearly done. Vigor Grass is about to mature as well."

Fang Qiu stretched out his right hand. "Great Hand of Destruction!"

Before the scaled lizard could reach him, a huge energy palm formed by the surrounding Heaven and Earth energy under Fang Qiu's control, collided with the lizard that was still hurtling toward him in mid-air.

The huge force dashed against the scaled lizard directly and it fell heavily on the wall. Then it dropped silently into the underground river and disappeared.

Chapter 613 - A Way to Help 1,000 People Break Through to the Martial

Superior Realm

"Dead?"

Fang Qiu employed his Divine Consciousness to check and found that his punch actually caused the barb on the scaled lizard's throat to be directly pushed into its stomach.

This sight struck Fang Qiu dumb.

But he gave it some thought—

This scaled lizard had just made a breakthrough. Although it got barbs on its throat, the scales on its belly had not yet been changed. Moreover, its throat was also its weakness.

Even though the breakthrough and evolution had begun to complement its weakness, that wasn't any help. The lizard was really out of luck to have bumped into Fang Qiu.

For the lizard, his kind of situation was just sad.

But of course, this was quite good for Fang Qiu.

After all, he had just entered the next level and had been oppressing the violent internal Qi in his body. If he kept fighting it back, the internal Qi in his body would definitely grow more restless.

"There's still a little time to kill."

Having confirmed that the scaled lizard was dead, Fang Qiu turned to look at the Vigor Grass beside him and found that it would still take a while for it to mature. He immediately thought of the half dozen giant carnivorous lizards that had just escaped.

He immediately waved his right hand.

A stream of internal Qi surged out and covered the Vigor Grass.

Then he darted out.

Along the way, he explored the surroundings with his Divine Consciousness and soon went out of the underground maze. Eventually, he caught up with several giant carnivorous lizards in the chasm that was the three kilometers deep from the earth's surface.

By that time, the last giant lizard had just climbed about 10 meters.

Fang Qiu didn't hesitate at all but waved a hand and beheaded it.

Then, he continued to fly up.

When Fang Qiu flew to a height of 50 meters and could no longer get higher, he spotted the second last giant lizard.

"Just got to borrow some power," he whispered to himself.

Fang Qiu flew to the rock face nearby, kicked hard, and immediately flung himself up under the help of the counter force.

Although he was an expert in the Guru Realm, it was not something that he could do anything. For example, he could only fly at a height of 50 meters at most. After all, gravity was no joking matter. It was already quite impressive to be able to fly to 50 meters above the ground despite gravity.

"Whoosh..."

Taking advantage of the counter force, Fang Qiu waved his hand again and finished one more lizard off.

After that, he continued to go higher with the help of counter force.

At last, he rushed to the height of 1,000 meters above the ground and killed the last giant lizard!

His Divine Consciousness then swept across the place.

After ascertaining that not a single giant lizard was still alive, Fang Qiu breathed a sigh of relief and then rapidly landed on the ground.

He just killed a bunch of giant lizards with his internal Qi in a row.

It had caused the internal Qi in his body to become more and more violent.

Originally, he only needed half of his strength to suppress it, but now he had to spend 80% of his strength to do so.

Fortunately, the scaled lizard died very quickly, otherwise, Fang Qiu wouldn't even have time to hunt down these giant lizards.

"Phew..."

Taking a deep breath, Fang Qiu forcibly suppressed the frenzied internal Qi in his body and hurried back.

When he returned to the cave, the Vigor Grass had once again become bigger!

The Vigor Grass growing in the middle of the oasis had already turned green and purple, giving those who saw it an extremely enigmatic impression.

Even though it wasn't completely mature yet, it already had already taken shape. Within three hours, it would completely mature.

Looking at the Vigor Grass, Fang Qiu, however, found himself troubled!

"Should I eat it or not?"

Even though his internal Qi was violent, Fang Qiu was not agitated.

He began to muse.

If he didn't eat the Vigor Grass, he could keep it and then plant other Chinese herbs around it to increase the efficacy of the other herbs. He might even cultivate some brand new kind of herb. After all, the Vigor Grass was really rare.

Although the ranking of the Vigor Grass was only in the middle of the Heaven Treasures List, if one were to compare it with the rest herbs in terms of its miracle-working effect, the Vigor Grass would definitely be ranked in the top 10!

This was also what had been bothering Fang Qiu.

If he didn't eat it, considering the raging internal Qi inside him, he wouldn't be able to hold on much longer.

And the crucial part was that the Vigor Grass was only three hours away from ripening.

"If I continue to forcefully suppress my internal Qi, perhaps I'll only be able to hold on for two hours!"

Fang Qiu frowned with a stern look.

"What should I do? What should I do?"

Just when Fang Qiu was deeply worried, his eyes fell on the flowers and plants next to the Vigor Grass.

Looking around, he found that there were still a lot of plants on the oasis.

"That's right!"

Looking at these plants, Fang Qiu's eyes suddenly lit up. He muttered, "This plant has existed for at least decades, which means this oasis has existed for several decades. So do the plants on the oasis. And they've never withered at all."

"Since the lizards in this cave can all mutate, then these flowers and grass should also be able to do it, right?"

"Even if they haven't mutated, they should have all absorbed some Qi of Heaven and Earth. Maybe it can help me stabilize my meridians for a while!"

Without further ado, Fang Qiu immediately reached out to pick up a blade of grass, put it in his mouth, and began to chew.

"Hum?"

"There's really the Qi of Heaven and Earth!"

Fang Qiu was surprised.

Although the grass didn't taste very good, Fang Qiu did feel the Qi of Heaven and Earth in it.

Owing to the Vigor Grass, the nearby grass containing the Qi of Heaven and Earth actually carried the energy of life.

After taking the grass, his life energy immediately rushed forward.

It raced toward Fang Qiu's meridians and helped him seal his meridians. With that, he finally calmed down some of the frenetic internal Qi in his meridians.

"It surely works!"

Overjoyed, Fang Qiu at once began to eat the grass on the oasis in large mouthfuls. He even tried the flowers.

In the end, it took him an entire hour to completely devour all the flowers and grass on the oasis.

Nonetheless, the hour was well spent.

The life energy in these flowers and grass helped Fang Qiu appease the restless internal Qi in his meridians and so earned him six more hours.

"It's enough to hold me over until the Vigor Grass matures!"

Fang Qiu heaved with a sigh of relief.

But on second thought, since the Vigor Grass was so magical that it could stimulate the mutation of the lizard, it would be a waste if he just devoured it like that.

What was more, Fang Qiu found this oasis quite appealing.

At least, this land had been immersed by the Qi of Heaven and Earth carried by the Vigor Grass for decades. If Fang Qiu planted Chinese herbs here, it would definitely be a big hit!

However, the internal Qi had almost reached the bursting point, which became very difficult to suppress. Fang Qiu knew he must eat the Vigor Grass. Even though he had gained himself six hours, it was almost impossible to find any other Heaven Treasure that could replace the Vigor Grass within that time.

Even if he could find it, the Vigor Grass would mature in two hours.

If Fang Qiu left to look for other Heaven Treasures, given that there was no guardian beast here, any small animal might come here and eat the Vigor Grass in one bite.

"Gotta eat it anyway!"

Thinking of this, Fang Qiu shook his head helplessly.

"In two hours, when the Vigor Grass matures, I must eat it at once. I won't give other creatures any chance."

"This place is rich with the Qi of Heaven and Earth. It's a good place to make a breakthrough in cultivation."

Fang Qiu mumbled to himself.

All of a sudden, Fang Qiu froze, as though he had thought of something.

"Right!"

"This time it happened during the training. So, I immediately suppressed the internal Qi as soon as I broke through, which led to the result that I didn't feel like breaking through at all though I'd already made it. What's more, the new meridians were not invaded and purified by the new power I gained after the breakthrough."

"The major reason for the restlessness of my internal Qi after the breakthrough was the attraction generated by the lower-reached meridian. After the breakthrough, the meridians need more internal Qi to fill them up after all."

"That's to say, once I open my meridians, the real sense of breakthrough will wash over me."

"And only at that time will the Qi of Heaven and Earth go into the body!"

As he spoke, his eyes became steadily brighter.

"In that case, the Qi of Heaven and Earth here will definitely become the richest."

"And the most important step for a martial arts practitioner to break through to the Martial Superior Level is to comprehend the Qi of Heaven and Earth!"

"Maybe..."

"In that kind of situation, the special forces soldiers who have just broken through to the Martial Superior Realm can directly level up to the first-class Martial Superior Realm!"

At this thought, Fang Qiu was thrilled.

He looked around. This huge cave was big enough to accommodate a thousand people. The oasis under their feet alone was large enough to accommodate hundreds of people.

"Screech!"

Fang Qiu swiftly got to his feet.

"There are still two hours. That is to say, I have to contact the special forces' base in two hours, get back here, particularly before the Vigor Grass is eaten by other animals."

"As long as the Vigor Grass is protected, I still have four hours to bring the special forces into the cave and help them level up!"

Thinking of this, Fang Qiu waved his hand again and cast a shield of internal Qi around the Vigor Grass.

The internal Qi shield was just to deter those small animals who made to eat the Vigor Grass, but it couldn't really block them out.

"Swoosh!"

Fang Qiu leaped up.

He started running to the outside right off.

After passing through the underground maze and rushing up a 3,000-meter-high natural chasm, it was already evening by the time he returned to the surface of the desert.

Fang Qiu looked left and right.

Without hesitation, Fang Qiu took out his mobile phone and ran toward the scenic spot in the sunset while looking for signals.

After running for 50 minutes, Fang Qiu finally got the signal when he approached the scenic spot.

It was not that he didn't want to fly there, but it was because his internal Qi was still turbulent. Now he had managed to suppress it a little, if he used too much internal Qi to fly, the six hours he had earned with great effort would be shortened again. Therefore, Fang Qiu didn't dare to fly and had to get to the scenic spot by running.

After finding some signals, Fang Qiu immediately called Li Ji.

"Hey, are you okay?"

As soon as the phone was connected, Li Ji's anxious voice came from the other end of the line.

"I'm fine," Fang Qiu answered.

At his words, Li Ji immediately heaved with a sigh of relief.

Before that, he had heard the battalion chief's report and learned about the harsh environment in Lop Nor. So, he had been felt particularly worried about Fang Qiu's expedition to Lop Nor alone.

Certainly, Li Ji was also very shocked that Fang Qiu actually helped 1,000 special soldiers break through to be martial arts practitioners. Yet, what shocked him even more was the message that Fang Qiu asked the captain to bring to him— "Only those above the Guru Realm can go in."

That also meant that Fang Qiu had already admitted that he was a guru!

"Then what exactly is going on in Lop Nor?" Asked Li Ji.

"In the underground cave created by the nuclear explosion experiment more than 50 years ago, a new cave has appeared. The carnivorous lizards that lived there more than 50 years ago didn't die out but mutated in the cave."

Fang Qiu made the long story short. Then, he blurted out, "I may have a way to help the 1,000 special soldiers break through to the Martial Superior Realm!"

Chapter 614 - Vigor Grass Maturing!

"I may have a way to help these 1,000 special soldiers break through to the Martial Superior Realm."

Fang Qiu's voice came from the phone receiver.

"What?"

Hearing this remark, Li Ji was stunned. A look of astonishment immediately climbed onto his face. He was completely stupefied by the news, not knowing what to do or say at all!

Martial Superior?

Fang Qiu could make the 1,000 soldiers who had just become martial arts practitioners break through to the Martial Superior Realm?

What kind of power was that?

A Martial Superior alone could equal a missile force!

No, the power that a Martial Superior had was even stronger than a missile!

Li Ji was dumbfounded!

For a long time, he had thought that to train the special forces to be martial arts practitioners was already something. But what did he just hear?

He heard that Fang Qiu was going to help these 1,000 soldiers of the special force to become Martial Superiors!

It was 1,000 people he was talking about! A total of 1,000 people!

"What, what did you say?"

Still in the shock, Li Ji said in an involuntarily trembling voice, "Come again?"

"I have a way to help those 1,000 special soldiers proceed to the Martial Superior Realm!" Fang Qiu confirmed.

Li Ji did not say a word to that.

On the other end of the line, he laughed and jumped up and down in the office. He was extremely excited and elated like a child who just got a candy!

He said Martial Superior Realm, not just the martial arts practitioner.

Martial Superior!

If a man directly crossed a big realm and broke through from the martial arts practitioner level to the Martial Superior Realm, how much could his combat strength be boosted?

Perhaps 10 times?

No, 20 times!

"What's your way?"

Despite his ecstasy, Li Ji did not dare to hesitate at all. He asked eagerly, "What do we need to do? We accept any terms!"

"We'll talk about the terms later."

Fang Qiu responded and immediately continued, "You only have two hours. No matter what method you use, you must get the1000 special soldiers to wait for me at the entrance of Lop Nor's nuclear explosion pit in the next two hours. This is the only chance. Once two hours have passed, there is nothing we can do!"

Speaking of this, Fang Qiu paused, then added, "One more thing, bring with you as many speedy-diving ropes that are more than 3,000 meters long as possible!"

"3,000-meter-long speedy-diving ropes?"

Li Ji tutted in surprise.

Although he had been in the military for so many years, he hadn't used a speedy-diving rope more than 500 meters long. But Fang Qiu asked for the ones that were 3,000 meters long. Were they going to the earth's core?

"That's right."

Fang Qiu nodded at once and said, "There is a 3,000-meter-deep abyss. Apart from the speedy-diving ropes, you should bring everything you need with you, as you are more familiar with the speedy dive. Also, you'd better bring fluorescent light and light sticks..."

"No problem."

Before Fang Qiu could say anything, Li Ji nodded immediately and said, "Don't worry. I'll get them all the equipment they need, even if they are going 10,000 meters down the earth, let alone just 3,000 meters!"

"Remember, you only have two hours," Fang Qiu reminded him again.

"Okay," Li Ji answered.

The phone was hung up. Not daring to waste a second hesitating, Li Ji went to inform the force right away!

Beside the desert scenic area—

After finishing the call, Fang Qiu immediately doubled back. It took him half an hour to get to the bottom of the pit. Then, he carefully circulated his internal Qi and dived into the 3,000-meter-deep chasm.

He quickly passed through the underground maze and returned to the underground cave where the Vigor Grass was located.

When he arrived at the cave, there were still five minutes left!

He looked up at the oasis.

The Vigor Grass that was almost completely ripe. At the moment, it was glowing a faint purple and green light. By far, the required amount of natural energy had almost all gathered there.

The energy lingered around the Vigor Grass.

Once the Vigor Grass absorbed all the energy, it would be ripe for picking!

Yet, aside from the shining Vigor Grass, Fang Qiu also saw that on the oasis where he had eaten up all the plants lay a lot of animals, including scorpions, lizards, and snakes.

Even the fish in the underground river was jumping wildly out of the water as if they were jumping across the Dragon Gate to become dragons.

Needless to ask, these animals were all coveting the Vigor Grass.

They were so intent on keeping an eye on the grass that they even didn't notice Fang Qiu.

"Fortunately, I came back in time."

Looking at the packed small animals, Fang Qiu breathed a sigh of relief.

At this moment, the two strands of internal Qi he placed around the live grass had almost been exhausted. They would completely dissipate before the Vigor Grass fully matured.

"Swoosh!"

Fang Qiu darted straight to the Vigor Grass.

The moment he neared it, he unleashed his Qi power with a boom!

For these small animals, his Qi power was as overwhelming as the sky caving in.

When sensing Fang Qiu's Qi power, these small animals coveting the Vigor Grass were immediately scared away. They ran out of sight in the blink of an eye.

After scaring all the animals away, Fang Qiu sat down cross-legged on the ground, waiting for the Vigor Grass to mature.

Time ticked by. And the radiance of the Vigor Grass became more and more dazzling.

Sitting cross-legged next to the Vigor Grass, Fang Qiu could clearly feel a strong aura of life, as well as a stream of highly pure and sensitive Heaven and Earth energy!

The two types of Qi surrounded Fang Qiu, making him feel extremely relaxed.

But just as Fang Qiu was enjoying the moment with all his heart and soul—

"Buzz, buzz..."

A low, wind-like sound was suddenly heard inside the cave.

Fang Qiu looked around but didn't notice anything abnormal. Then he released his Divine Consciousness and instantly understood why there was such a strange sound in the cave.

It turned out that it was the final minute for the Vigor Grass to mature!

The maturing of Heaven Treasure would inevitably attract a lot of Heaven and Earth energy. Before, Fang Qiu thought that the Heaven and Earth energy accumulated in the cave for more than 50 years was more than enough for the Vigor Grass to absorb. However, it actually sucked out all the Heaven and Earth energy inside the cave, and then quickly attracted the Heaven and Earth energy in the underground maze, the 3,000-meter-deep chasm, and even up on the desert into this cave.

With 30 seconds, the density of the Heaven and Earth energy in the cave had been taken up a notch.

At the same time, the double-colored light emanated from the Vigor Grass gradually dimmed. The bright sparkles lingering around it were still there, but the grass itself was no longer as glamorous as before. Instead, it became simple and plain.

"That's it!"

The light completely dimmed, and there were only faint sparkles revolving around it. The two leaves of the grass had completely turned into glittering green and purple. Then, Fang Qiu felt that the energy in the cave suddenly became chaotic.

This was because the Vigor Grass had been holding onto to the energy too firmly before. Now that the attraction force suddenly disappeared, it was as if one of the tug-of-war players abruptly loosened his grip.

"Crap!"

Fang Qiu's countenance changed.

Although this was all owner-less Heaven and Earth energy, which was not aggressive under normal circumstances. But after being pulled so hard by the Vigor Grass, things would be different.

"Great Hand of Destruction!"

With a stir of his mind, Fang Qiu immediately performed the Great Hand of Destruction.

In this way, he could draw all the chaotic Heaven and Earth energy in the cave toward him, so that the energy could be calmed down.

Fortunately, Fang Qiu's timing was good.

Before the sudden rogue energy caused any bad consequences, Fang Qiu already calmed it down.

But right at this moment—

"Patter, patter, patter..."

Suddenly, a familiar sound of footsteps was heard.

Fang Qiu frowned and looked around.

He saw that at the entrance of the underground maze, three giant lizards had popped their heads into the car and were rushing towards the Vigor Grass.

"There's more?"

Fang Qiu was taken aback.

Seeing the three giant lizards charge to him, Fang Qiu took the opportunity to smack them with his right hand.

Originally, in order to appease the energy in the cave, Fang Qiu had used the Great Hand of Destruction. But right at that moment, the three giant lizards came in to be the sacrifice.

"Smack!"

With one slap, the three giant lizards were instantly turned into meat pies!

While the Great Hand of Destruction was formed, Fang Qiu gently waved his hand, and the corpses of the three giant lizards were immediately swept into the underground river next to him.

Just as the corpses rolled into the river—

"Crunch, crunch..."

A large group of fish immediately rushed over, surrounded the three giant lizards, bared their fangs, and began to feverishly bite their flesh off.

In a trice, the three giant lizards were gone.

They had been eaten by the fish, leaving not even a bit of bone behind.

"Piranhas?"

Fang Qiu was shocked.

He hadn't noticed that the fish in the dark river was carnivorous.

Come to think of it, he realized that because of the influence of the energy of this Vigor Grass and the fact that they had been preyed on by the giant lizards for years, the fish had evolved to be carnivorous.

Now, both the giant lizards and the Vigor Grass were gone. This deteriorated ecosystem would soon return to normal, and the carnivorous fish would gradually go back to what they used to be.

Therefore, Fang Qiu didn't try to kill all the fish in the dark river.

However, the scaled lizard's body was still in the river, but there were no fish to eat it, which was a surprise to Fang Qiu.

It seemed that the fish couldn't break the scale armor, so they didn't even think about feed on it at all.

Soon, schools of fish swam by.

Fang Qiu turned around and plucked out the ripe Vigor Grass, including its root. He gingerly put it away, then sat cross-legged, carefully suppressing his internal Qi and waiting for the soldiers to come.

An hour later.

When his Divine Consciousness began to fluctuate, Fang Qiu found that the 1,000 special soldiers were coming.

Moreover, he was very familiar with the aura of their leader.

Li Ji!

Sensing the aura of these soldiers, Fang Qiu smiled. He immediately opened his eyes, got up, and quickly went out to greet them.

At this moment, 1,000 special soldiers had lined up neatly at the bottom of the nuclear explosion crater. Li Ji, who led the team personally, came to the entrance of the side hole leading to the underground and cautiously looked into it.

Although his strength was impressive, he was not a Martial Superior yet. So, when he heard that Fang Qiu had a way to make all the soldiers break through to the Martial Superior Realm, Li Ji was more pleasantly surprised than anyone else. He had been longing for a long time to become a Martial Superior, but he had not succeeded in making the breakthrough yet.

Now, with such a good opportunity before him, how could he not come?

He gave it a rough check.

Li Ji found that the hole stretched far down the earth. Just like what Fang Qiu said, it was a very deep abyss. He supposed that Fang Qiu was not joking about the 3,000 meters depth.

At that moment, Li Ji didn't dare to order the soldiers to go down the hole.

He had never seen anyone do a speedy-dive at such height. If they slowly climbed down, it would definitely take more than two hours. Besides, he didn't know what was there inside. No one wanted to be eaten by the giant lizard.

Helplessly, Li Ji could only let everyone stay where they were and wait for Fang Qiu.

Chapter 615 - A Thousand People Eating Grass!

Just as Li Ji issued the standby order, a fit of weird rustling was heard in the cave.

In a trice, a figure shot to the air from the pitch-black cave.

It was Fang Qiu!

"Here you are?"

Seeing Fang Qiu, Li Ji's eyes glinted with excitement. He immediately went to greet him.

"Is everyone here?" Asked Fang Qiu.

"Yes, the whole force," Li Ji immediately answered. "And we've got everything we should take with us."

"Good."

Fang Qiu nodded with satisfaction and said, "Ask everyone to do the speedy dive here."

"What's in this cave?" Li Ji inquired. "Is this cave really three kilometers deep? There must be a lot of lizards in it, am I right?"

"Its depth is indeed 3,000 meters. But since I've killed all the giant carnivore lizards inside, there's no danger to go in at all. So, don't worry," Fang Qiu explained.

"Though we are all martial arts practitioners, the height of three kilometers is too much for us. We can't dive at this height," Li Ji said with a frown.

"Well," Fang Qiu thought for a moment and then said. "Just do it. I'll go down there and pick you up. I promise you'll all be okay. One more thing, in order to buy time, let as many people go down at the same time as you can."

"Okay."

Li Ji nodded at once and said with a smile, "With your words, there's nothing to worry about."

"I'll go down first."

Fang Qiu turned around and jumped into the cave.

"All personnel, prepare to do the speedy dive right off."

Li Ji immediately turned around and shouted to the force.

Soon, under Li Ji's arrangement, each troop was ready to go down the cave with a set of speedy-diving ropes. There were a total of 10 sets of speedy-diving ropes, so 10 troops could dive at a time. Each troop had 10 people, all wearing headlamps on their heads. After the first person descended 100 meters, the second person began the dive.

At a distance of 100 meters, it was very safe.

In addition, each soldier was wearing a head lamp, so everyone could clearly see the situation around them.

At the bottom of the cave, Fang Qiu saw the first batch of 10 soldiers quickly descending not long after he landed on the ground. Just as they were about to hit hard on the earth, Fang Qiu waved his right hand.

A stream of internal Qi surged out and fully cushioned the 10 soldiers dropping down the cave, allowing them to safely land on the ground.

A few seconds later, the second batch of 10 arrived.

In this way, every 10 seconds, a batch of 10 came in.

As they had all been trained in the special force for several years, their cooperation was perfect, and they all resolutely carried out orders and dived into the cave without any hesitation. Thanks to these well-trained soldiers, it only took 20 minutes for the entire force to land safely. And that already included the three minutes they took to get ready at the beginning.

"We still have two and a half hours."

When the last group of soldiers landed, Fang Qiu began to plan the whole thing out in his mind.

"However, we have to cross the maze. It'll take us about half an hour if we move fast."

Thinking of this, Fang Qiu immediately turned to Li Ji, who was the last to land and was putting away the 10 sets of speedy-diving ropes, and said, "Come with me!"

With that, he immediately led the way.

"Follow me, all of you. Hurry up," Li Ji called.

All the soldiers immediately followed behind Fang Qiu and entered the underground maze.

On the way, they saw many corpses of giant lizards. In particular, when they passed through the maze, they were totally astounded by the natural maze formed three kilometers deep from the earth's surface.

Half an hour later, Fang Qiu finally led everyone into the cave.

When stepping into the cave, everyone was stunned.

"Beautiful!"

"Oh my, there's such a big limestone cave deep underground, and it's so beautiful?"

"Are these shining things stones?"

"What an eye-opener!"

Not only these soldiers but also Li Ji, who walked in at the end, was shocked by this scene they saw.

While they were all in a daze, Fang Qiu had already reached the oasis.

Because of the maturity of the Vigor Grass, the plants that had been eaten by Fang Qiu started to grow again, but they were only more than ten centimeters high at the moment.

This scene made Fang Qiu sigh with emotion. The life energy of this Vigor Grass was so incredibly strong. It did live up to its reputation as the magical herb that could bring the dead to life!

He carefully calculated the time.

There were two more hours left.

It went just as he planned.

"Now, we're going to have the most rigorous training."

Standing in the center of the oasis and looking at the 1,000 soldiers in the spacious cave, Fang Qiu said, "The oasis I'm standing on can accommodate 100 people in total. In the following training, the first 100 people who exhaust all their internal force and Outward Strength can come here, while the others can only sit in the place where you are standing now."

"Now, let's get this rolling."

"All of you, go all out and use up all of your strength. My request is that you all get yourselves so exhausted that you can't even stand up. Fight until you lose the last bit of your strength!"

At this order, the 1,000 special soldiers immediately began to fight with each other.

Li Ji participated in the fight.

Shortly after, everyone's strength was consumed in the fierce battle, and no one could stand up again.

Fang Qiu took all the first 100 people and Li Ji to the lawn in the oasis.

"Everyone, get up," Fang Qiu demanded.

Then, he said to Li Ji and the 100 soldiers, "Everyone, pick one blade of grass and eat it. Then, hand out the grass and let the other fellows take one."

At his remark, everyone was sort of dumbfounded.

What was going on?

They were not only ordered to fight with each other but also were told to eat grass?

Despite their confusion, no one hesitated and did as they were told.

Soon, the 1,000 soldiers all ate the grass.

"Next, I'll teach you the Full-lotus Sitting Posture."

Fang Qiu called, "Look carefully."

Then, Fang Qiu began to demonstrate the posture while explaining the key points.

"Cross your both legs."

While speaking, Fang Qiu sat down cross-legged.

"The spine is straight, and the two hands are woven below the Dantian. The left and right arms are slightly flung backward. The head is straight, the back of the head slightly leans back. The eyes are slightly open. The tongue gently licks the top of the palate."

After making that remark, Fang Qiu also completed the posture.

Everyone followed Fang Qiu and sat down cross-legged in the Full-lotus Sitting Posture.

The Full-lotus Sitting Posture was the ideal sitting posture for meditation. If the sitting posture wasn't proper, meridians would be clogged, and the Qi in them would not flow smoothly, and so the energy would not rise. As a result, the so-called Three Meridians and Seven Rounds could not be opened, causing the brain to be short of oxygen and the practitioner to be dizzy!

Hence, after one's physical strength was exhausted, it would be easy for the person who use this posture to get peace of mind.

Fang Qiu knew it very well that the key for a martial arts practitioner to break through to the Martial Superior Realm was the peace of mind.

If one wanted to reach the Martial Superior Realm, his mind must be quiet and calm to the extreme before he triggered that transformation!

"Calm down and observe with your inner eye."

Glancing at the 1,000 people, Fang Qiu said, "No matter if it's internal Qi that comes from your own body or the Qi of Heaven and Earth that pours into your body, you must guide the internal Qi to enter the Lung Meridian of Hand-Taiyin."

Speaking of this, Fang Qiu waved his right hand.

In the dark river below, there was a stream of water as thin as a needle surging up and gurgling toward him.

"I'll use water to demonstrate the meridians. Watch carefully."

Under the guidance of Fang Qiu, the water began to flow on his skin.

It was just like what he did when teaching in Elder Yi's manor.

In this way, it was easier for them to understand.

Seeing Fang Qiu make the water flow across the surface of his body, the 1,000 special warriors were very impressed.

At the same time, they also memorized the running route of the Lung Meridian of Hand-Taiyin.

"Have you all learned it?" Fang Qiu asked.

Everyone nodded.

"Great."

Fang Qiu nodded and said, "Close your eyes and meditate!"

Everyone immediately closed their eyes.

They had long been waiting for this command because everyone was very dead beat, and the Full-lotus Sitting Posture made everyone feel very comfortable. So, they all wanted to enjoy it quietly.

As expected, half an hour later, all the 1,000 soldiers entered the state of meditation!

By this time, Fang Qiu was no longer hesitant.

He directly brought out the Vigor Grass.

As soon as the Vigor Grass appeared, the energy in the cave was recharged.

Fang Qiu opened his mouth and put the Vigor Grass in it right away.

At the same time, he immediately removed the suppression of internal Qi.

At this moment—

"Woo..."

A low and deep sound of hovering airflow was heard.

The Qi of Heaven and Earth rushed out wildly from the underground maze like a raging river.

On the ground three kilometers above, the sky over the desert suddenly became overcast. Immediately, thunder rumbled and the wind howled.

If ordinary people were to see this, they would believe that a sand storm was coming, for even if it rained in the desert, it would not rain much. However, if this scene was caught by a guru, it would be a completely different event.

The guru could clearly see that the Qi of Heaven and Earth within a radius of dozens of kilometers was wildly converging into a stream, pouring from the sky right into the three-kilometer-deep chasm hidden under the giant crater of the nuclear explosion.

The Qi of Heaven and Earth was gathering frenetically.

Soon, after Fang Qiu let go of his restraint, being strongly attracted by his opened meridians, the torrents of Qi of Heaven and Earth directly formed a huge vortex above the underground cave.

The Qi of Heaven and Earth became so dense that it even began to reveal its true form.

It turned out to be waves of azure energy.

They gathered together, occupying the sky above the entire cave, forming a blue ocean as it spun at high speed, as though it had turned the cave into a sea.

Of course, because of meditation, no one in the cave noticed that they were all surrounded by the huge azure whirlpool.

"Gallbladder Meridian of Foot-shaoyang, Stomach Meridian of Foot-yangming!"

With a stir of mind, as Fang Qiu began to brace the breakthrough, a large amount of internal Qi was produced in his body and a large amount of Qi of Heaven and Earth poured in. As Fang Qiu's mind raced, he immediately guided the energy to rush toward the last two of the 12 standard meridians.

In the twinkling of an eye, under the impact of the vast energy, Fang Qiu's last two unopened meridians swelled up. The two meridians were so filled that countless tiny cracks appeared on their surface. A large amount of energy was faintly gushing out from these cracks, as if it was going to burst Fang Qiu's meridians!

A violent pain struck him.

"Crunch!"

Fang Qiu didn't dare to hesitate and immediately chewed the Vigor Grass in his mouth.

It tasted just like the ordinary grass.

Although Vigor Grass did not taste good, once it was chewed, it swiftly turned into a warm energy flow. This energy flow naturally slid down Fang Qiu's throat even without his swallows and rushed toward the two meridians that were opening up.

No one could deny that the life energy in this Vigor Grass was simply too strong.

Just when it covered the two meridians for a few seconds, and the cracks on the two meridians that were almost about to burst open immediately closed again.

It was as miraculous as the Chinese goddess mending Heavens!

Chapter 616 - Breaking Through to the Sixth Class!

The sharp pain receded like a tide.

With the rapid recovery of the powerful life energy in the Vigor Grass, Fang Qiu's last two unopened meridians were quickly repaired.

Meanwhile, in addition to the energy of life, another powerful stream of energy carried by the Vigor Grass directly poured into Fang Qiu's meridians and merged with the internal Qi inside.

Due to the healing energy and the additional power, the internal Qi in Fang Qiu's meridians became more violent. Nevertheless, with the mighty healing life energy, the internal Qi could no longer hurt Fang Qiu's meridians and body no matter how wild they became.

A short while later, Fang Qiu felt that the Gallbladder Meridian of Foot-shaoyang and the Stomach Meridian of Foot-yangming had been widened several times, which were as wide as all the meridians that had been reopened before.

By far, his 12 standard meridians had all been reopened!

With the re-opening of the last two meridians, Fang Qiu suddenly felt extremely lighthearted.

Before, these two meridians were like an intersection on the highway when the red light was on. Every time the internal Qi ran to these two meridians, it would slow down and even be jammed as these two meridians were too thin.

Now, once the two meridians were opened, the 12 standard meridians of Fang Qiu became a real highway, and the speed of the internal Qi running in them multiplied.

With such a large amount of internal Qi that could run so smoothly, from now on, every time Fang Qiu mobilized his internal Qi, he would do it faster than the last time. Since there was no obstruction to the flow of internal Qi, when using internal Qi to launch attacks, his attacks would be more powerful. In addition, after he broke through to the Sixth Class, the internal Qi in his meridians became more abundant, so Fang Qiu's offensive power was undoubtedly increased by several times!

"Hum?"

Just as Fang Qiu was enjoying the comfort and ease, he suddenly found that the two meridians that he had just reopened were completely healed!

After the powerful life energy of the Vigor Grass had completely repaired his meridians, the remaining part immediately ran along the 12 Standard Meridians of Fang Qiu's body. While running, it consolidated the 12 standard meridians and enhanced the flexibility of the meridians.

"This is the power of the Vigor Grass!"

Fang Qiu was inwardly amazed.

"Sixth class!"

Feeling the new power in his body, Fang Qiu took a deep breath.

Now, he did not pay much attention to the strength of power.

What he cared about was the improvement of his cultivation and the upgrading of realms.

Though he had re-cultivated to the sixth class, he was still far away from having the two flowers in his Dantian.

Fang Qiu knew that the breakthrough this time was achieved by a sheer fluke. He naturally made it without any setback. But it would not be so simple to go from the sixth class to the seventh class.

To get to the sixth class, he reopened all of his 12 standard meridians.

From the seventh class on, what he needed to reopen was the Eight Extraordinary Meridians!

From ancient times until now, the Eight Extraordinary Meridians were the most difficult to open.

Everyone who practiced martial arts knew that every single meridian in the Eight Extraordinary Meridians was very firm. Although Fang Qiu had already unclogged all these solid and blocked meridians before, now what he needed to do was reopen it.

It was already hard enough to even unclog them, let alone reopen them.

Though being well aware of knowing the difficulty, Fang Qiu decided to do so, because only after he reopened all his Eight Extraordinary Meridians could he break through to the real Guru Realm!

No one knew how long it had been.

When the remaining life energy completely consolidated the 12 standard meridians and dissipated, Fang Qiu finally completed the breakthrough.

He opened his eyes.

Fang Qiu found that there was no movement in the cave, and the 1,000 special soldiers were still making their own breakthrough.

His Divine Consciousness swept the place.

Fang Qiu immediately noticed that the period these 1,000 special warriors stayed in the martial arts practitioner stage was too short for their internal force to peak.

In this case, it was relatively more difficult to make a breakthrough.

Even Li Ji, who had already become a martial arts practitioner for quite a long time, hadn't practiced his internal force to the extreme. Therefore, like everyone else, he didn't take this opportunity to break through to the Martial Superior Level.

Fang Qiu quietly stood up.

He turned to look at the cave.

Under the fluctuation of his Divine Consciousness, he clearly felt that as his breakthrough was achieved, the large amount of Qi of Heaven and Earth gathered in the cave had started dissipating.

Once such rich Qi of Heaven and Earth completely dispersed, the 1,000 special warriors would not be able to break through.

Thinking of this, an idea came to Fang Qiu's mind. He waved his hand at once.

"Great Hand of Destruction!" He yelled in his mind.

Fang Qiu decisively performed the Great Hand of Destruction and pulled back the Qi of Heaven and Earth that was about to scatter away. Then, he withdrew the Great Hand of Destruction, allowing the 1,000 special warriors to continue to absorb as much as they could.

After a long while, when the Qi of Heaven and Earth had almost dissipated, Fang Qiu cast the Great Hand of Destruction again and once more gathered a large amount of energy in the cave.

He did it over and over again.

Meanwhile, the 1,000 special forces were all making their breakthrough and gaining new enlightenment in an orderly manner.

The Qi of Heaven and Earth was repeatedly thinned and summoned over.

Fang Qiu couldn't help sighing with emotion that he was a clever cheater!

Finally, after performing the Great Hand of Destruction several times—

"Swish."

Li Ji, who was sitting not far away, stood bolt up with a look of surprise and excitement on his face. He clenched his fists tightly and stared at them for a long time before raising his head and looking at Fang Qiu with gratitude.

Seeing this, Fang Qiu smiled back.

After that, before long, another soldier stood up.

He was the battalion chief of the special force, the one who took Fang Qiu through the three-day survival training in the desert.

Seeing him get up, Fang Qiu smiled.

Another Martial Superior had come into being!

Just as Fang Qiu smiled with satisfaction, the battalion chief, perhaps thrilled by the fact that he had broken through to the Martial Superior Level or overwhelmed by his powerful strength, couldn't help but open his mouth and want to howl to the sky.

"Swoosh!"

At this, Fang Qiu rushed to the battalion chief, and directly covered the battalion chief's mouth with his hand. He explained, "Don't get excited. There are still many people who haven't made the breakthrough. Don't disturb them."

At his warning, the battalion chief resisted the urge and nodded understandingly at Fang Qiu, who then withdrew his hand.

Soon after, another one stood up.

His case was the same as the battalion chief.

This time, Fang Qiu didn't stop him, but the battalion chief came forward to cover his mouth in person.

Then, everyone began to protect the other soldiers spontaneously. Every time a soldier stood up after the successful breakthrough, he immediately looked at Fang Qiu, feeling the surging internal Qi in his body, eyes full of surprise and gratitude.

More and more soldiers had made it.

In the end, the 1,000 soldiers all stood up.

At that moment, the crowd, who had been forcing themselves to be silent for a long time, immediately opened their mouths and exclaimed.

Amidst all the exclamations and shouts, everyone darted their eyes to Fang Qiu in gratitude.

"Assemble!" The battalion chief rose to his feet and called.

The 1,000 soldiers immediately gathered into a square formation.

"Dress to the left!"

Under the command of the battalion chief, the 1,000 soldiers adjusted their positions.

"At ease."

"Attention!"

"Salute to the drill master!"

While calling in a booming voice, the battalion chief took the lead to salute Fang Qiu.

The 1,000 soldiers also saluted to Fang Qiu at the same time.

Beside Fang Qiu, Li Ji also gave Fang Qiu a wholehearted salute!

At this, Fang Qiu beamed.

He knew that this was the appreciation and respect the military men held for him.

While smiling, Fang Qiu also saluted to the 1,000 soldiers.

Fang Qiu himself was already particularly excited, let alone these 1,000 special force soldiers.

He had helped 1,001 people break through to the Martial Superior Level!

Although they did not make it at the exact same time, they did try to do it together and succeeded. More importantly, these people were the ones who had become martial arts practitioners for just a few hours.

He just made 1,000 people level up from ordinary people to Martial Superiors in half a day. If this news spread out, all the people in the martial arts world would be shocked.

Undoubtedly, this could be considered a rare and precious feat!

When everyone put down their hands after the salute, Fang Qiu said, "Let's fight again. Test each other's strength and consolidate each other's new power. Don't be afraid of damaging the cave. This place is much stronger than you think."

Upon hearing that, everyone immediately burst out laughing. Expressing their excitement and surprise, they started challenging one another to a fight.

When the soldiers were fighting with one another, Fang Qiu sat down cross-legged, directly released his Divine Consciousness, and began to carefully observe the landform and terrain of the cave.

He wanted to see how this Vigor Grass got to grow in this place.

"Is the terrain here the same as that in the desert? Does the so-called landform have a fixed pattern?"

After his Divine Consciousness swept every corner of the place, Fang Qiu found that the terrain here was too complex. Moreover, the land that the Earth Treasure needed to grow was already with a radius of 10 kilometers. In the case of the Heaven Treasure, it far exceeded 10 kilometers.

Apart from the fact that he didn't know how big the land was and which elements were critical, the terrain here was so intricate that it couldn't be duplicated at all.

In the end, Fang Qiu sighed and gave up.

"I'd better wait for my mental power to get to a higher level before I check it out again."

He sighed inwardly.

Then, Fang Qiu opened his eyes.

He saw that the grass on the ground had sprouted again.

"Since the terrain here allows the Vigor Grass to grow again in decades, in addition to the existence of the roots of Vigor Grass, it also means that the Qi of Heaven and Earth has covered this place. Although I don't know how long the Qi of Heaven and Earth will stay in here, the rebirth, growth, and maturity of the Vigor Grass all indicate that the Qi of Heaven and Earth attracted by the land of the Heaven Treasure disperses more slowly. Otherwise, the Vigor Grass won't have enough supply of Qi of Heaven and Earth to ripe at all."

"Now, there is no Vigor Grass as the Formation Eye of this terrain. Although the terrain here still exists, it won't last for a couple of decades. However, judging from the fertile terrain that has brought up the Heaven Treasure, it should not be a problem for it to last for more than ten years."

Thinking of this, Fang Qiu's eyes lit up.

The herbs cultivated here would certainly be much better than those outside!

It was just that Fang Qiu himself obviously didn't have the ability to develop this place.

Because the cave was too deep, and there was an underground maze on the way there. He couldn't really go up and down there to grow and harvest herbs all by himself, could he?

With that in mind, Fang Qiu could only give this precious land to the country and the army.

Chapter 617 - Mysterious Nirvana Organization!

"That's about enough."

Seeing that the soldiers had all enhanced their strength in the duels, Fang Qiu stood up and said, "Climb out of the chasm with the rest of your strength."

The crowd laughed.

Then, led by Fang Qiu, they passed through the underground maze and came to the bottom of the 3,000-meter-deep chasm.

"Now that you've all made a breakthrough in strength, you should be able to climb up. See this as another trial for your cultivation, if you will."

Fang Qiu paused and added, "But, for the sake of everyone's safety, I can take the 10 sets of 3,000-meter-long speedy-diving equipment up there first. When it's all fixed, I'll throw the ropes down to you guys."

The soldiers were all eager to have a go at it.

Li Ji handed over the 10 sets of speedy-diving equipment to Fang Qiu.

Without hesitation, Fang Qiu directly flew 50 meters above the ground. Then, by stepping on the rock walls on both sides, he began leaping to the exit upward.

Soon, Fang Qiu dashed to the entrance of the cave, Fang Qiu set up the speedy-diving equipment and threw the ropes into the cave.

At the bottom of the chasm, soldiers of the special force tied the ropes around their waist as safety ropes and began to climb.

They had had a lot of climbing training in the army.

In their previous training, everyone learned how difficult rock climbing was, not to mention that they were now climbing up to a height of 3,000 meters.

However, just as everyone was ready to suffer hugely, they found that rock climbing had become easier.

As if they had become much lighter, with just a little bit of force, they would be able to lift their bodies up a lot.

Everyone was surprised at this new discovery.

All of a sudden, their climbing sped up.

It was not until this moment that they deeply felt their changes for the first time. For them, this kind of power was already incredibly mighty!

Now, every special-force soldier was confident to defeat 10 opponents at a time!

Of course, this was just pure force-wise.

If it was a one-on-one fight, each of them could at least deal with four at the same time!

It should be noted that although the martial art strength of the special force was not particularly strong, their fighting ability was no joking matter.

Before, they had not noticed it much. But as they started to learn about the changes in themselves, these soldiers also began to see more vividly the terrifying power that Fang Qiu had!

"How powerful is this mysterious drill master anyway?"

"Not only can he fly, but he can also go up to 3,000 meters with a little help of the counter force. My goodness!"

"The strength of this mysterious drill master is really creepy."

"How I wish I had the strength of the mysterious drill master!"

"Judging by the current situation, the mysterious drill master won't be able to knock down all of us by himself, will he?"

As they climbed, they talked to each other. The more they thought about it, the more suspicious they became.

It was in the desert.

A breeze gently crossed the field.

After the sky that had just been through the nighttime began to lighten up.

At the bottom of the giant hole left by the nuclear explosion, one by one, the 1,000 special-force soldiers climbed out of the side crack that led directly to the underground.

As soon as they came out, they all slumped to the ground.

After having the duels down there and climbing up the 3,000-meter-high rock wall, everyone was exhausted.

After a while, Li Ji came out of the pit after everyone else.

They took a short break. Then—

"Assemble!"

The battalion chief suddenly shouted.

The 1,000 soldiers immediately gathered and formed a square formation.

"First squadron, out of rank!"

After the assembling, the battalion chief called again.

The 99 soldiers of the first squadron walked out of the formation under the leadership of the vice-captain.

"As of this moment, this place will be considered a military restricted region. You all stay here and wait for orders," the battalion chief commanded.

"Yes, sir!" The vice-captain of the first squadron immediately saluted and answered.

Clearly, the battalion chief knew that this place held a big secret. Although all the giant carnivorous lizards inside were dead now, no one knew if there were any more horrible things in it. So, he was going to report what had happened here. As for how to deal with this place, it was up to the senior officers to decide.

"The rest, go back to the camp!"

The battalion chief shouted and left with the other nine troops.

Fang Qiu and Li Ji walked side by side.

"There's something I wanted to tell you when I got here," said Li Ji.

"What's it?" Fang Qiu asked.

"There's information about the organization that you asked me to probe into," said Li Ji with a frown.

"Oh?"

Fang Qiu froze and then asked, "What information did you get?"

"Well, let's go back first," Li Ji deliberated for a moment and said.

Fang Qiu and Li Ji boarded the same helicopter that brought Li Ji there and returned to the base.

After arriving at the base, Fang Qiu and Li Ji entered the conference room.

"It's really a huge surprise."

Beaming brightly, Li Ji poured water for Fang Qiu while saying, "1,000 Martial Superiors. Although there are martial arts practitioners and Martial Superiors in the army, it took us a lot of effort to cultivate them. But you have just converted 1,000 people to Martial Superiors in one go!"

"The head of the preparation base will definitely be grateful for your help when he finds out."

At his remark, Fang Qiu shook his head gently and said, "I'm lucky this time. It'll be difficult to replicate this training in the future."

"You'd better talk to the senior officers about this. I'm a nobody, not in charge of these things," Li Ji said with a big smile.

Fang Qiu threw up his hands.

Li Ji's smile faded.

He walked up to Fang Qiu and handed him the freshly poured hot water. Then he immediately became serious. He sat on the sofa, looked at Fang Qiu quite solemnly, and said, "If it weren't for you, I wouldn't even have what it takes to know about this organization. The reason why I was allowed to acquire the information is that I got permission from the chief."

"In that case, let's talk about it in detail," Fang Qiu said.

From Li Ji's words, he could tell that the organization he asked Li Ji to inquire about was much more special than he had imagined.

"In this world, there is a mysterious organization that intends to subvert all countries."

Li Ji looked at Fang Qiu and said with a serious face, "The name of this organization is Nirvana!"

"Nirvana?"

Fang Qiu frowned.

"Yes."

Li Ji nodded and said, "As far as I know, this organization has launched an operation called 'Waking Up'."

"This organization believes that the world is a dream and everyone has been deceived by their desires. Its goal is to help them to get rid of their desires in order to be free."

"But the nature of modern people is too degraded, their desires are too strong, and their moral standards are also too low. In this way, the world will be farther and farther away from the real forms of the universe!"

"That's why they want to break the world before they rebuild it. The more thoroughly the break down is, the more they can build on. They are planning to overthrow all the regime, and build up the real common paradise, which is free from desire and troubles!"

"When a person lives in the world, he will feel upset and painful if he has desires. All kinds of desires, if not fulfilled, only bring pain to people. If a person has it all, he or she will lose everything when death comes. The mortal world is worthless to live in. If one has the courage to see through this and get over all desires, he or she can achieve success in cultivation."

"It's just that people nowadays can't do it, for there are more and more desires. So it's better to let them die. This way, not only can they stay away from pain, but they can also immediately re-cultivate in the next life."

Speaking of this, Li Ji couldn't help but knit his eyebrows. Then, he continued, "So, when people in this organization meet others, they will try to persuade them. If they can't persuade them, they will kill them as their own way of relieving them from their bitter sea of pain. The Nirvana Organization calls this method the 'Divine Intervention'!"

Hearing Li Ji's words, Fang Qiu also deeply furrowed his brows.

Who would have thought there was such an organization in the world?

An organization that dared to promote wicked tenets that do no good to others in broad daylight, and even dared to kill people in public?

For a moment, Fang Qiu's heart lurched.

He knew that this kind of organization shouldn't exist in the world for long, otherwise, it would grow more and more threatening day by day!

"Besides, there are all kinds of signs..."

Li Ji relaxed his brows a little, looked at Fang Qiu, and continued, "Signs that show the war in the Middle East was actually incurred by this organization. And it's also this organization that is behind those terrorist organizations!"

Hearing this, Fang Qiu was shocked.

He never knew that this organization was actually related to the terrorist organizations in the Middle East.

"What kind of Divine Intervention is this?"

"It's simply a world-class force of evil!"

"Who are the members of this organization?" Fang Qiu pressed.

"No idea."

Li Ji shook his head and said with a grave look, "It's said that the leader of this organization is from Huaxia. We don't know anything else. Nor can we get our hands on more details."

"From Huaxia?"

Fang Qiu was taken aback again.

"The leader who intended to destroy the world, or say, overthrow the world's regime, turns out to be a Huaxia person?"

"Who had such great ambition?"

In the shock, Fang Qiu thought of the purpose of Nirvana Organization that Li Ji mentioned earlier.

Judging by its purpose, the organization indeed carried some elements of the Huaxia culture.

"Do people in this organization share any features?"

Fang Qiu thought for a moment and asked, "How can I know who is not in this organization and who is not?"

"No distinctive features."

Li Ji immediately shook his head and said, "Anyone could be its member."

Upon hearing that, Fang Qiu's brows frowned even harder.

This organization was really well hidden.

It was no wonder that even the military could only find such a little bit of information about them, and they didn't know anything else.

"All right, I see."

Fang Qiu nodded knowingly, and then remarked, "About everything I do here, you must keep it a secret for me, especially about the fact that I showed up in the Taklimakan desert. Don't tell anyone about it. It's best if you erase all my traces."

"Don't worry."

Li Ji nodded and said, "I'm already on it. Now I can even tell people you've never been to Beijiang, let alone the Taklimakan desert!"

"That's good."

Fang Qiu nodded.

Inwardly, he heaved a sigh of relief.

According to the Nirvana Organization's principle, when he met Liang Sheng in the desert, he already got involved in this Nirvana Organization. Since Liang Sheng failed to "intervene" him, the people in this organization would definitely look into the cause of Liang Sheng's death.

Fang Qiu was not afraid of this organization.

But he was afraid that if his identity got exposed, his family and friends would be implicated.

An extremist organization like this did not have any bit of humanity at all.

The good news was from the moment he left school, Fang Qiu had been wearing a facial mask all the time and only took it off once in the conference room.

However, was there really nothing else about this organization to be found out?

Fang Qiu didn't believe it.

Everything that existed or was existing in the world must leave some traces behind. Even the records of various battles that happened thousands of years ago could be discovered, let alone today's entities.

Since the military couldn't find out more about it, this organization was surely well concealed.

Nonetheless, could the folks know something about it?

With this in mind, Fang Qiu began to consider whether to find He Gaoming when he got back, to see if he knew anything about this organization.

Chapter 618 - Martial... Martial Superior!

"Boom..." At noon, the rumbling of engines could be heard outside the special forces base.

Three military jeeps drove into the base.

A large group of people got out of the three vehicles.

These people were the leaders and coaches of this special forces base.

"Where are the soldiers?" Looking at the empty base, the first commander questioned.

A soldier who stayed to guard the base immediately trotted up and said, "Report! Everyone is out for field training."

"Field training?"

The first commander was stunned and said, "I don't remember there being any training tasks today."

"Pitter-patter..." At this moment, the sound of orderly footsteps came from outside the base.

Looking up, he saw that the 1,000 special forces soldiers led by the captain were marching in. They looked travel-worn, but they gave people a sense of extraordinary momentum.

"What happened?"

The first commander was confused and immediately said, "Go and ask Captain Li to come here."

The soldier responded immediately, ran up and said a few words to the captain leading the 1,000 special soldiers.

Seeing that the commanders had returned and were all staring at him, the captain did not dare to delay and immediately trotted all the way over.

"Commander." Running to the commanders, the captain saluted.

"Soldier." The first commander also saluted him and then asked with a frown, "What's going on? Why are you all so exhausted, like weasels who had gone on a chicken killing spree?"

"Reporting to the commander."

The captain answered, "It's John Doe, the drillmaster who just arrived. He brought us out to do the field training. Commander Li Ji has given the permission before the training began."

When he heard this, the first commander, who was initially frowning, immediately relaxed and smiled knowingly. His eyes slowly filled with expectation as he asked, "Oh? The training is over now. How did the soldiers fare?"

In the last military drill, he was particularly envious of the two special forces squadrons who had been trained by the mysterious man in Nanjiang. At that time, he looked closely at them and found that the soldiers of the two squadrons were all martial arts practitioners. It would be strange if they were not powerful.

Later, he learned that they had been trained by the mysterious man John Doe. Therefore, every time he met Li Ji, he would bring up this matter and deliberately transferred Li Ji to Beijiang temporarily so that he could ask him to find a way to get the mysterious man John Doe here to train the 1,000 soldiers under his command.

He did not expect that as soon as he left, Li Ji really found him.

This made the first commander really look forward to the outcome of this training. Would his 1,000 soldiers be able to reach the same level as the two squadrons in Nanjiang?

Hearing the first commander's question, the captain smiled simply and then said, "Ha-ha. Commander, we won't let you down. With the instructions and help of drillmaster John Doe, all 1,000 soldiers of the ten squadrons have broken through to the Martial Superior Realm!"

"Great." The first commander immediately laughed elatedly.

But after a short while, he suddenly stopped.

Staring at the captain, the first commander asked in disbelief, "What did you say? Martial... Martial Superior?!"

It was not only the first commander, but the other commanders standing at the side, were also shocked!

"Yes, sir, Martial Superior!" The captain smiled brightly.

The first commander was shocked.

The others were all dumbfounded!

He thought they were going to be martial arts practitioners.

Weren't the two squadrons trained by the mysterious man in Nanjiang also martial arts practitioners?

How did they become Martial Superiors?

They had only been away for a few days and these soldiers had all become Martial Superiors.

What on earth had happened?

"No, no, no... Tell me again and answer me honestly!" The first commander shook his head and asked in disbelief.

"Commander, why don't you take a look?"

The captain responded, immediately turned his head and ordered the 1,000 soldiers who followed him in formation, "Release your momentum!"

Once they heard that, the 1,000 special soldiers released their Martial Superior's momentum in an instant!

Although the first-class Martial Superior's aura was not so strong, it would be terrifying if 1,000 people released their powers at the same time.

The first commander could feel that these 1,000 soldiers had suddenly changed.

They were no longer as exhausted as they used to be. Each of them became brave and mighty.

He wasn't a martial arts practitioner.

Although he could feel the momentum, he did not know how strong it was. Therefore, he could only turn his head and look at the bodyguard who wore a military uniform and was on the skinny side.

The bodyguard turned his head indifferently and glanced at the 1,000 soldiers.

"They're really Martial Superiors."

After watching the soldiers, the bodyguard nodded to the first commander.

Although he looked calm, in fact, he was the one who was the most shocked among all the people present.

He was extremely dumbfounded.

The others were not aware of this.

As the first commander's bodyguard, he was also a powerful master in the martial arts world, so he knew what these 1,000 Martial Superiors represented!

He could not imagine how they managed to do this.

How could anyone cultivate 1,000 ordinary special soldiers into Martial Superiors in just a few days?

This kind of training method was simply too terrifying!

"Ha-ha, good, good!"

Hearing the confirmation of the bodyguard, the first commander immediately laughed excitedly and said, "I'd like to see the expressions of those old men in the next military drill. You have martial arts practitioners; I have Martial Superiors. You have hundreds of them while I have a thousand. Ha-ha... That's great!"

"Retrieve!" The captain shouted in a low voice.

All the soldiers immediately retracted their powers.

The first commander nodded with his hands clasped behind his back and said, "Well done. Thank you for your hard work. You can go and celebrate."

The eyes of all the special soldiers lit up when they heard that.

"Thank you, commander." The captain immediately stood at attention and saluted to show his gratitude.

All the special forces soldiers also saluted.

"Go ahead." The first commander waved his hand with a smile.

"Dismiss." The captain ordered.

All the special soldiers immediately dispersed in excitement.

As the soldiers dispersed, the first commander looked at the captain named Li Changying and asked, "Li Changying, this...?"

Li Changying immediately shook his head.

"Okay." The first commander nodded and did not ask any more questions.

He originally wanted to ask how a thousand people could break through from an ordinary level to the Martial Superior level. How did they do that?

However, after thinking about it again, this matter was of great significance, so it had to be kept a secret.

Even if he wanted to ask, he had to ask in private.

"Then, where is John Doe?" The first commander asked.

"He should still be in the base."

Li Changying said, "He came back with Commander Li Ji this morning."

"Oh." The first commander was slightly stunned, then quickly turned his head, looked into the conference room and hurried to the room.

This was a great effort.

As the commander of this base and the leader of these 1,000 special soldiers, he had to show his gratitude.

Soon, the first commander, accompanied by his bodyguard and Li Changying, came to the door of the conference room.

At this moment, Fang Qiu was sitting at the conference table with Li Ji, drinking tea and chatting.

"Knock, knock, knock..." Suddenly, there was a knock on the door.

"Come in." Li Ji turned around and shouted.

Then, the door opened.

An old man in his sixties wearing a military uniform came into the room with a smile on his face.

"Commander?" When Li Ji saw the old man, he quickly stood up.

Fang Qiu also stood up to greet him.

"Is this the drillmaster John Doe?"

After entering the meeting room, the first commander walked to Fang Qiu with a smile, directly held Fang Qiu's right hand with both hands and said gratefully, "Thank you for your contribution to the army."

Fang Qiu smiled and said modestly, "That is what I should do as a citizen of Huaxia."

"Well said."

The first commander nodded with a smile and said, "Huaxia is our motherland. As a citizen of our country, we should make a contribution toward our country's safety."

"However, for a talent like you, it would be a pity if you did not stay in the army. Since you want to serve the country and the people, do you have any thoughts of staying in the army?"

Fang Qiu shook his head with a smile and said, "Everyone has his own ambition. I'm from Huaxia, so I'm willing to make contributions to the development of my motherland. I have my own ambition, so I can't serve the army."

"I see."

The first commander felt it was a pity, but he did not force it. Instead, he asked with an expectant look, "I want to know if you have any other way to help the other soldiers improve their strength?"

Fang Qiu said, "Well, let Captain Li Changying report to you first and I'll talk about the method later."

The first commander nodded at once. "Okay."

He was also curious.

The bodyguard who had been following the commander was also very curious.

"I'll just cut to the chase."

Li Changying said, "After the drillmaster arrived, he took us into the desert for three days of field training. After the training, we encountered dozens of giant carnivorous lizards in the area near Lop Nor."

Upon hearing this, the first commander's expression changed.

From his expression, he was aware of what had happened back then.

"In order to protect us, the drillmaster built a sand wall in the desert, blocked all the giant carnivorous lizards and then trained all the soldiers. The training lasted for an hour. During that training, all the soldiers broke through and became martial arts practitioners."

"The training was over. The drillmaster killed all the giant carnivorous lizards and then entered Lop Nor alone..."

As they listened to Li Changying's narration, the bodyguard of the first commander was shocked again.

How could Fang Qiu build a sand wall in the desert that could block out giant carnivorous lizards?

He must be immensely strong in order to do that?

As for the first commander, when he heard that Fang Qiu had entered Lop Nor alone, he admired Fang Qiu in his heart.

Li Changying continued, "Then, we received a message from the drillmaster. He asked us to enter Lop Nor's underground cave..."

When Li Changying finished speaking, Fang Qiu then said, "Let me tell you what happened when I entered Lop Nor's underground cave alone."

Hearing that, not only the first commander, even Li Ji and Li Changying were looking forward to it.

They were also very curious about what Fang Qiu had experienced after entering Lop Nor's underground cave alone. How did he manage to walk out of the underground maze? How did he find the underground cave? Why did all the soldiers enter the underground cave to cultivate? And how did the soldiers break through and become Martial Superiors?

Although they had broken through, Li Ji and Li Changying still did not know how they did it.

Chapter 619 - Need A Fake ID!

"After entering Lop Nor alone, I quickly found the huge pit left by the nuclear explosion experiment back then."

Fang Qiu motioned the first commander to sit down and explained, "It's the first time I've seen a giant carnivorous lizard, so I asked Captain Li Changying and learned about the real purpose of the nuclear explosion experiment and I surmised that the giant carnivorous lizards in the desert might be related to the nuclear explosion experiment. Therefore, I went to the huge pit to have a look. As a result, I actually found an entrance that led to the bottom of the pit."

"When I was about to get into the cave to explore, three giant carnivorous lizards rushed out. At that time, I knew I was right."

"After killing the three giant carnivorous lizards, I jumped into the cave. While I was falling, I met many carnivorous lizards along the way. After killing all of them, I finally reached the bottom of the cave."

"Then, I found an underground maze."

"After walking around the maze and entering the last cave, I realized that this abyss, which is more than 3,000 meters deep, should be an hollow stratum that was buried deep under the ground more than 50 years ago. At that time, this hollow stratum was not connected to the experimental cave that the country wanted to blow up."

"After the nuclear explosion experiment, the entrance of this hollow stratum was blown open and the rocks inside had all been dislodged. That's why it's so wide."

"In addition, there is an underground river in the deepest part of the cave. The vibration waves caused by the nuclear explosion not only affected the structure of the stratum in the cave, but also caused massive torrents of flooding in the cave. Because of the impact of the torrents and the nuclear explosion experiment, the stratum in the underground maze collapsed and the flood waters poured in with a huge impact force, which led to the formation of the underground maze."

"Originally, the three independent spaces were completely apart from each other, but after the nuclear explosion experiment, they became connected to each other."

"Other than that, in the past, the nuclear explosion experiment did not kill all the carnivorous lizards at that time. Some of them fell into the abyss and survived."

Speaking of this, Fang Qiu paused for a moment, pondering whether he should talk about the Vigor Grass.

"Your speculation is very good."

The first commander nodded and said with a smile, "From your description, the structure of this underground cave is very complicated. Maybe it really has something to do with the nuclear explosion experiment, but the formation of the cave is not the key point that we need to pay attention to."

"I know what you want to hear."

Fang Qiu nodded with a smile and continued, "After entering the cave, I found a guardian beast protecting the Heaven and Earth Treasure in it, a lizard covered with scales."

"Where there is a Heaven and Earth Treasure, there will be a guardian beast, so I naturally found a Heaven Treasure in the cave—Vigor Grass!"

The expressions of Li Ji, Li Changying, the first commander and his bodyguard changed drastically.

Li Ji and the other two had a deep understanding of Wulin, so they all understood what the Heaven Treasure meant. Therefore, their eyes were full of envy when they looked at Fang Qiu.

But the first commander did not know what it was.

He did not know what the Heaven Treasure and Vigor Grass were, so he was a little confused.

Later, the first commander finally understood after the bodyguard whispered in his ear.

"Vigor Grass is a very special Heaven Treasure. It has a very unique Qi of life and powerful Qi of Heaven and Earth. This Vigor Grass should have matured more than 50 years ago, but because of the nuclear explosion experiment, it was affected and eventually destroyed. Then it was reborn and matured after more than 50 years of growth."

"Because of the uniqueness of the Vigor Grass and the fact that it grew in the underground cave for many years, a large amount of the Qi of Heaven and Earth had accumulated in the cave. At that time, I was about to make a breakthrough. When I did, I attracted a lot of the Qi of Heaven and Earth. The Vigor Grass could also helped me make a break through."

"Under such circumstances, in order to prevent a large amount of Qi of Heaven and Earth from being wasted, I want to use this large amount of Qi of Heaven and Earth to help a thousand special soldiers improve their strength."

"In addition, I also found that the flowers and plants that grew around the Vigor Grass in the cave were covered by the energy aura of the Vigor Grass all year round, so they contained a lot of the Qi of Heaven and Earth. Because of the existence of the Qi of Heaven and Earth, those grass could be of great help to the bodies of the soldiers."

"These 1,000 special soldiers have eaten it before, so they should know the effect of these grass."

"At last, with the help of the vast Qi of Heaven and Earth in the cave, 1,000 soldiers successfully broke through to Martial Superior Level and more than half of the Qi of Heaven and Earth in the cave dissipated."

Speaking of this, Fang Qiu pursed his lips, looked at the first commander seriously and added, "Although the Qi of Heaven and Earth has dissipated, that cave is still a treasure land. According to my exploration, it is a natural place that is able to gather the Qi of Heaven and Earth. Although it can only last for more than ten years, these years should not be wasted. If some flowers, grass and fruits can be planted there, it will become a great tonic in a year or two."

After listening to Fang Qiu's narration, everyone in the conference room fell silent.

Li Ji and Li Changying finally understood how they managed to break through to Martial Superior Level. However, it was sheer luck that they encountered this method!

It wasn't just hard to replicate, but it was almost impossible to replicate this method.

It was feasible if they wanted to be martial arts practitioners. They could keep practicing until their Outward Strength disappeared and their Inward Strength appeared.

It would be too difficult if they wanted to become Martial Superiors. First of all, the Qi of Heaven and Earth was too rare. It was not easy to find a place filled with the Qi of Heaven and Earth.

Practicing on their own was even harder!

"I see."

After listening to Fang Qiu's narration, the first commander fell silent for a long time before he sighed softly and said, "It's luck, sheer luck!"

If he thought about it carefully, it was indeed true.

If there was really a method to directly promote the special forces to Martial Superiors, Fang Qiu would have done it directly when he was in Nanjiang. Why would he come to his base to do it?

If there were no Vigor Grass, the 1,000 special forces under his command would only be martial arts practitioners.

"They're really lucky." Fang Qiu nodded.

The first commander said, "Even so, I still want to ask you for a favor."

"Go ahead." Fang Qiu nodded.

The first commander said firmly, "I hope you can write the instructions on how to become a martial arts practitioner and how to help a martial arts practitioner break through to Martial Superior Level. Although it's rare to encounter this kind of situation, I believe that the brave soldiers in our country can also do it, if they rely on their perseverance."

"Okay." Fang Qiu immediately nodded in agreement.

After all, the first commander had made a request. How could he refuse?

The first commander looked at Fang Qiu and said, "Don't worry. I can assure you that the information you will be writing will never be leaked out. As soon as you write it, it will be classified as the top secret of the country!"

"Okay." Fang Qiu nodded in agreement.

This method had to be classified as top secret. If it was leaked out, it would definitely cause chaos.

The conversation ended,

The first commander left.

Before long, news came that the first commander had ordered Lop Nor's underground cave to be sealed up and declared as a military restricted area. No one was allowed to enter the place within a radius of 20 kilometers.

Not only did he ask Li Changying to lead the team to plant grass and fruit trees in the cave and cultivate all the land that they could, but he also found some experts from the army who were ready to go into the underground cave with Li Changying to do a complete exploration!

After the commander left, only Fang Qiu and Li Ji remained in the conference room.

"Oh, I am really relieved now." Li Ji sat down and sighed with emotion.

"Why?" Fang Qiu asked with a smile.

Li Ji sighed and said, "You don't know how hard it is to be a leader. Now that the leaders have returned, I don't need to be an acting leader anymore. The greater the power, the greater the responsibility. I don't have the ability to be a leader now."

Fang Qiu patted Li Ji on the shoulder and said, "You will. I need to ask you a favor."

"What's the matter?" Li Ji was puzzled.

Fang Qiu explained, "I need a fake mask. It'd better be the kind that is made of really thin human skin mask, which will not impact anything. I need to use another ID. If I keep wearing this mask, there might be a lot of problems, so it's best to change my appearance."

"No problem. I'll ask my superiors. It should be approved soon." Li Ji nodded.

Now, with the scientific strength of Huaxia, it was not difficult to make such a mask.

Fang Qiu added, "In addition to the mask, I also need an ID card and relevant life information for this identity. Please help me do this."

"Don't worry. The military will do everything flawlessly." Li Ji answered proudly. When it came to the military, he could not help feeling proud and honored.

Fang Qiu could sense it.

Actually, the reason why Fang Qiu did this was because he had to look out for himself.

Now, he did not want the identity of the mysterious man to be related to his real identity. After all, the identity of the mysterious man was not an ordinary secular one and he had many enemies. Fang Qiu did not want to put his family and friends in danger if his identity was exposed one day.

Fang Qiu suddenly asked, "By the way, when I went into Lop Nor, did you bring back all the Desert Cistanches?"

Li Ji nodded and replied, "I've prepared everything for you."

Fang Qiu said, "Then I'll have to trouble you to take care of the Desert Cistanches for me and send them to Jiangjing. I'll arrange for someone to pick them up there."

"They have been sent to the airport. It won't be long before they are delivered."

Li Ji was fully aware that this was the first condition that Fang Qiu had put forward before.

Now, Fang Qiu had trained the 1,000 special soldiers and it was completely beyond his expectation.

Under these circumstances, of course, he had to make every effort to fulfill the conditions requested by Fang Qiu at that time.

"Thank you." Fang Qiu thanked him and took out his phone to call the keeper of Yaowang Mountain

"Hello?" A familiar voice sounded.

Fang Qiu then said, "Mr. Zhao, The Desert Cistanches are ready and are now being transported to Jiangjing. I can't go back for now. You can take Zhu Benzheng and others to collect them later."

"Okay, no problem." Zhao Shanlin answered, his voice filled with expectation and excitement.

Chapter 620 - How Powerful Is John Doe?

"How is it going?" Fang Qiu asked casually.

Zhao Shanlin chuckled and said, "Not bad. We found a place and the only thing left is the artificial simulation environment."

Fang Qiu was stunned and asked in confusion, "Oh? So fast?"

Zhao Shanlin exclaimed, "Well. In this world, it's easy to get things done when you have the money!"

Fang Qiu was speechless.

After getting everything ready, Fang Qiu immediately began to use the computer in the conference room to document what the first commander wanted, which was the instructions on how to become a martial arts practitioner and the key points of a martial arts practitioner breaking through to Martial Superior Level.

Fang Qiu did not finish until it was dusk.

Just as Fang Qiu saved and encrypted the document and was about to stand up and stretch his body, the door of the conference room suddenly opened.

It was Li Ji.

"Have you finished?" Li Ji asked as he walked in.

Fang Qiu nodded and asked, "Yes. did you bring what I wanted?"

"All set." Li Ji walked over and handed a file folder to Fang Qiu.

Fang Qiu took it.

He opened the file folder and found a square, flat red box and a transparent small bag.

Li Ji said, "The thing you want is in the box, which has just been produced and can be used continuously. The mould has been preserved. Although the material is first-rate and not easily worn out, you can ask me to change it for you at any time."

"Okay." Fang Qiu nodded and opened the box. As expected, he saw a piece of human skin.

Unlike the human skin mask in the TV shows, this mask was the same color as any human skin, but it was not so dark. Instead, it was semi-transparent and very thin, just like a piece of paper.

Li Ji pressed his lips and said enviously, "I heard that this item is quite costly. Your new identity is in that bag."

Fang Qiu closed the box.

He took out a small bag from the file folder. Because the bag was transparent, Fang Qiu saw the ID card in the bag at a glance.

In addition to the ID card, there was a note.

"What's written on that note is your life record. Take a good look at it first." Li Ji reminded him.

Fang Qiu took out his ID card.

"Lin Yu." Fang Qiu was stunned when he saw the name.

Fang Qiu thought to himself, "Why does this name sound so strange?"

"You didn't say what kind of name you wanted for your new identity before, so the superior made the decision for you. You can reverse the words and see the meaning of this name."

Li Ji smiled and said, "Yu Lin. It means the royal armies in ancient times."

"Uh..." Fang Qiu shook his head and chuckled.

Royal armies? They could have come up with a better idea.

But as he gave it some thought, he realized that the special forces today were just like the royal armies in ancient times.

"Life record." Putting away his ID card, Fang Qiu took out the note from the bag and read it carefully.

After reading it, Fang Qiu committed all the information about his life to his memory and burned the paper with his internal Qi.

Li Ji asked, "What do you think? Are you satisfied with this new identity?"

Fang Qiu replied, "If I'm still as handsome as before after wearing this mask, I'll be satisfied."

Li Ji said with a chuckle, "Probably, maybe... You'll still look handsome."

Fang Qiu turned around and walked to the computer. After confirming that the documents had been saved, he pulled out the USB flash drive and handed it to Li Ji and said, "That should be sufficient. This is what the first commander wants."

"I'll send it to him now." Li Ji took it carefully.

He knew the importance of this item.

Undoubtedly, even if Fang Qiu had written it down at this base, this USB could not be left in the base and would be sent to the higher-ups overnight.

The most important thing was that this item could only exist for less than a day.

A day later, the USB would be destroyed.

Because this was the country's top-secret, it would not be stored in computers. Instead, it would directly turn into a physical book and be stored in the national confidential security vault.

Holding the USB drive, Li Ji did not hesitate and immediately turned to leave.

After Li Ji left, Fang Qiu instantly stood up, locked the door of the conference room and drew the curtain.

Then he took off his mask with his back to the window.

He took out the face mask and put it on like a facial mask.

Then he took out his phone and had a look.

As expected, he had turned completely into another person.

Although Fang Qiu still had some of his old features, his appearance had completely changed. He became much more handsome. Even if Fang Qiu's closest friend stood in front of him, he or she would not have believed that this person was Fang Qiu.

"Lin Yu." Feeling the coldness of the human skin mask gradually dissipating, Fang Qiu looked at himself on the reflective screen of the mobile phone and smiled.

He waited for a while.

When the human skin mask completely covered his face and there were no more gaps, Fang Qiu put on the mask again and reverted to his previous appearance.

"It's time."

"In the future, I will find a chance to expose this face in Wulin."

"In this way, no one will pay attention to him for the time being."

As he whispered to himself, Fang Qiu nodded secretly.

He was very worried now.

A lot of people in Wulin had taken notice of John Doe. They all knew that he was at the University of Jiangjing Chinese Medicine and might be a student.

In this case, he would be found out sooner or later.

At that time, his parents would be implicated.

Therefore, Fang Qiu wanted to expose this face as the mysterious man and let everyone see a brand new face. He wanted to let those who had been chasing after the mysterious man know that the mysterious man had no connection with the University of Jiangjing Chinese Medicine. It would make all the people in Wulin think that the University of Jiangjing Chinese Medicine was just a cover up for the mysterious man!

Li Ji had sent the USB to the first commander's office.

The first commander also inserted the USB flash drive instantly and read the contents together with his bodyguard.

His bodyguard had been trained by the nation.

He was from Zhongnanhai.

Therefore, the first commander would not hide anything from him, even if it was a secret.

"How is it?" After reading the document, the first commander immediately asked.

"I have to think about it." The bodyguard answered, then stood where he was and closed his eyes to think.

After a while, the bodyguard suddenly opened his eyes in shock!

Before this, when he heard Fang Qiu's account of the whole process, he was particularly suspicious. How could he directly promote an ordinary person to a Martial Superior in such a short period of time?

But now, when he read the detailed analysis and methods written by Fang Qiu himself, he was completely shocked!

"What John Doe said is true."

The bodyguard took a deep breath and exclaimed, "I did not expect that he could find such a method!"

He knew that it was very difficult for a martial arts practitioner to break through, especially when he broke through to the Martial Superior Level. It was like a huge gap. But if one followed John Doe's instructions, there would be no gap. It was just like crossing an ordinary river.

How powerful was John Doe?

The bodyguard became very curious.

Hearing the bodyguard's shocked tones, the first commander was extremely surprised. He stood up instantly and said, "Okay. With this, we will not have to worry about the strength of our Huaxia soldiers!"

"Yes, this is a powerful method." The bodyguard gave his comment again.

"Alright, you may leave." The first commander put away the USB flash drive and was ready to send it back to the capital in person.

After the bodyguard left, the first commander did not wait. He immediately dialed a number of the military region of Nanjiang from the phone on his desk.

When the phone was connected, the first commander laughed and said, "Yes, it's me. In the military drill last time, your military region of Nanjiang stole the limelight. Well, I'm not convinced."

"What? Are you looking for trouble?" A proud voice came from the other end of the line.

"Don't be too cocky in advance"

The first commander smirked and said, "Do you dare to compete again? I will definitely turn defeat into victory this time and beat you!"

"Yo, old man, you are quite confident!" Laughter came from the other end of the line.

"Aren't you also arrogant?" The first commander said.

The person on the other end of the phone said, "Anyway, it's almost time for the joint military drill. At that time, all the special forces under our command will be the Ranger. Since you want to compete, then let's compete again at that time. But I have to make it clear that you are not allowed to cry at that time!"

The first commander laughed and said, "Who wants to cry? I won't cry anyway. I'm looking forward to this competition, ha-ha."

The next day, after staying in the base for a night and getting up early to practice for a while, Fang Qiu was asked by the first commander to go together with him to Lop Nor.

They needed to take a plane and the car would send them there.

Due to the fact that it was already classified as a military restricted zone, the region had been marked out and the army had already commenced work there.

Soon, they arrived outside Lop Nor.

The car suddenly stopped.

The first commander and Fang Qiu got out of the car and saw a team member in front of the car pulling away the carcasses of the giant carnivorous lizards.

"Why are these carcasses still here?" Fang Qiu was confused.

Logically speaking, these carcasses should have sunk into the yellow sand long ago.

"They were dug out from the sand overnight," the captain said.

"It's so big?" The first commander looked at the huge carcass and was very shocked.

"This should be a small one."

Fang Qiu said and then added, "There's a bigger one inside."

"Good lord."

The first commander exclaimed and then said, "Keep it secret. Collect all the carcasses of these lizards and study them carefully."

"Yes, sir." The captain responded with a salute.

The first commander beckoned Fang Qiu to get into the car again, as he drove around the area, went directly into Lop Nor and came to the huge pit formed by the nuclear explosion experiment.

At this moment, the underground abyss which was about 3,000 meters deep, had a simple lift installed in it.

There were also many lightbulbs installed in the cave.

The road was brightly lit all the way.

After using the lift and arriving at the bottom of the abyss, Fang Qiu took the first commander and his bodyguard into the underground maze.

In the maze, the first commander saw another special force squad carrying a ten-meter-long giant carnivorous lizard's body and walking out.

This time, not only the first commander but the bodyguard too, were shocked!

A ten-meter-long giant lizard was too big!

Then, they continued to move forward.

The three of them walked all the way to the oasis in the deepest cave.

At this moment, professional experts who had been assigned to this place had already marked out the underground road.

"Good, it's a good place." Standing on a flat rock on the periphery of the oasis, the first commander observed the situation in the cave and nodded his head constantly, praising it.