Chapter 81: Third Heavenly Realm Breakthrough

Chapter 81: Third Heavenly Realm Breakthrough

It was the same female staff member at the desk as Chen Chu walked out of the elevator. She greeted him with enthusiasm. "Chen Chu, are you going to exchange for some resources again?"

Chen Chu nodded. "Yes, could you please help me check how many contribution points I have?"

Last night, after submitting the battle video to verify personal kills, he had gone straight to sleep. As a result, he didn’t learn exactly how many contribution points he had.

"No problem, please enter your student ID for facial recognition."

Soon, the female clerk exclaimed in surprise, "Chen Chu, you currently have a total of 36 contribution points."

No wonder she was so surprised. Several trial participants had come to exchange for supplies this morning, and most of them had only had around 10 contribution points. Only three had reached 20 points.

Earning 33 points meant that this young man had killed the most rebel cultivators last night.

33 points, yeah?

Chen Chu didn't feel surprised by this result. If he had turned in the mutated bull, his total from last night would have been 45.

This amount was almost equivalent to his rewards for half a year at school, and this was with the additional income from being ranked forty-ninth. Under normal circumstances, he wouldn't have been able to accumulate so many contribution points in two semesters.

Indeed, a horse couldn’t get fat without an extra ration, and a man couldn't get rich without a windfall. If it weren't for the fact that it was the age of technology now, and most cultivators didn’t carry cash with them anymore, he could have earned even more last night.

Thinking of this, Chen Chu couldn't help but wonder about the source of funds for those rebels. Did they not engage in any trades?

Lost in thought, Chen Chu politely said, "I would like to exchange for three Level 2 Life Crystals, please."

A Level 2 Life Crystal cost 15 contribution points each, with a twenty percent discount making it 12 points each. He had just enough points to exchange for three.

The level of Life Crystals depended on the level of the mutated beasts they were harvested from, with Level 2 containing more pure life energy than Level 1, making them much more expensive.

The mutated beast they had killed last night, however, hadn’t had any crystals inside. According to the information Chen Chu had found, the spawn rate of Life Crystals was very low, generally only found in extremely powerful mutated beasts at the peak of their level.

Some people had done experiments and discovered that when a peak level 2 mutated beast broke through and evolved into a level 3 beast, the crystals inside its body would dissolve and disappear.

It seemed that the life energy condensed in the crystals was what was used for the breakthrough. This phenomenon was similar to how the avatar accumulated evolution points and evolved after reaching a certain amount. After the evolution, it would consume all of the points and have to start all over again.

Compared to normal mutated beasts, however, the avatar’s potential was even greater. At every evolution, it could absorb the characteristics of living beings and turn them into abilities, and there was no bottleneck in its evolution.

Meanwhile, just like cultivators breaking through realms, mutated beasts would also often be stuck at their current level after they broke through, and many of them couldn't reach a higher level before dying.

With the three Life Crystals in hand, Chen Chu took the elevator back to the eighteenth floor. Just as he stepped out of the elevator, he met Li Meng, who was about to go down for a meal.

Li Meng curiously asked, "Chen Chu, I heard you killed a level 3 mutated beast last night."

Chen Chu smiled. "It was just luck. It was a somewhat aggressive bull, and I only killed it by working together with some other classmates."

After experiencing the surge of power within him, Chen Chu summoned the attribute page with a thought.

Level: Third Heavenly Realm

Physique: 145→165+

Strength: 155→185+

Agility: 115→125+

Spirit: 113→118+

Innate Ability: Soul Splitting

Arts: Lotus Platform Meditation Art [Perfected], Dragon Elephant Art [Third Stage], Insightful Blade [Second Stage]

Attribute Points: 19

Equipment: Ordinary battle armor [Durability +10]

Avatar: Six-horned Armored Beast

Level: Low-level mutated beast

Abilitiess: Strength, Defense

Evolution Points: 240/300

This time, Chen Chu saw the greatest increase in Strength, by 30 points. This was followed by a 20-point increase in Physique, while the increases in Agility and Spirit were not as significant.

Even so, his basic attributes had already exceeded the limits of the Third Heavenly Realm. Under normal circumstances, the peak strength of the Second Heavenly Realm was 800 kilograms, and the base strength of a cultivator who had just broken through to the Third Realm was generally around 1,000 kilograms.

Later on, with continuous cultivation, the base strength of a cultivator at the peak of the Third Heavenly Realm would reach 2,000 kilograms.

However, the true strength of cultivators lay not in their physique. After all, no matter how much humans cultivated, they couldn't compare to mutated and colossal beasts in terms of physique.

The cultivator’s actual strength lay in their true power.

Under the cover of the misty true power, Chen Chu's base strength had increased by four times, and his defense was even more terrifying. This true power could also attach to weapons to form a coating of qi, enhancing the weapon's sturdiness and increasing its killing power.

Chen Chu didn’t have a way to test how strong he was at the moment, and his endurance was slightly lacking, since the beginning stage Dragon Elephant True Power couldn’t match the quantity of middle to late stage cultivators. But even though he had just broken through, his combat power probably already surpassed that of most cultivators in the Third Heavenly Realm, even those in the middle and later stages.

Now, Chen Chu could truly be considered a real cultivator, gradually beginning to transcend ordinary people. With his powerful body density and elephant-patterned flesh, coupled with the protection of true power, he could withstand ordinary rifle bullets and grenade explosions with his flesh and blood alone, no longer needing battle armor.

Not to mention his terrifying explosive power and speed, and an abundant endurance to fight for days and nights without fear of being worn down. In ancient times, he could have probably taken over the world by himself.