Allen returned to the riverside cabin.
He didn't want to waste time waiting for Feng.
He opened the system interface and reviewed the three fusion prompts he had received over the past two days.
The first prompt asked him if he would like to spend 7 potential points to fuse the 5th-level "Senri Kantei" with the 4th-level "Scrying Technique" to deduce the 7th-level teleportation secret technique.
Judging from the components of this secret technique, it should be an upgraded version of "Senri Kantei", capable of longer distance and greater precision.
Allen felt that "Senri Kantei" was quite good and sufficient for now, so there was no need to replace it for the time being.
The next prompt suggested fusing the Level 3 "Thunderbolt," the Level 4 "Five Finger Fierce Bomb," and the Level 5 "Wind Control" to create a ranged martial art with both force field and wind and thunder properties.
Alan pondered.
Having reached the early stages of Level 6, a ranged attack like "Five Finger Fierce Bomb" was becoming somewhat outdated.
It was adequate for back-up damage, but too weak for direct confrontation. A more powerful version was necessary.
So, he spent 7 potential points to deduce a new Level 7 martial art.
A moment later, he received a system prompt.
Ding Ding—
"Level 7 Martial Arts Fusion Completed. Please Name It!"
Level 7 Unnamed New Martial Arts: Spend 16 mana points, select a target, and instantly detonate, dealing 16 times the damage of "Thunderbolt Blast Wave," with added force field, knockback, armor penetration, and crush effects. Damage to brittle objects is doubled.
Range = 100 × Spirit Attribute (m)
Explosion Radius = Spirit Attribute (m)
…
Alan's Spirit Attribute is 61.
Using this martial arts, the maximum range is 6100 meters, with a damage radius of 61 meters!
It's no exaggeration to say that this move can, with a flick of the finger from six kilometers away, directly destroy a 20-story building, killing every living thing inside!
Wait a minute...!
This thing is called a "martial art"?
It's really not a guided nuclear warhead?!
To date, this is the move with the longest range and greatest damage area that Allen has mastered, and it also inherits the characteristics of "Five Finger Bomb" and "Thunderbolt Blast Wave."
Those seven potential points are well worth it!
After a moment's thought, Allen gave this move a rather impressive name—Finger Snap Thunder!
The final fusion hint was the one Allen was most looking forward to. "Should I spend 7 potential points to fuse the 1st-level 'Hound Step,' the 4th-level 'Freedom of Movement,' and the 5th-level 'Lightning Charge,' to develop a 7th-level displacement-type martial art?"
Alan chose "Yes" without hesitation!
Hound Step had been used for far too long, and Allen had long wanted to switch to a more powerful displacement technique, but he simply hadn't found one suitable.
Now that there was an opportunity to upgrade, it was certainly not to be missed.
Soon, the new 7th-level technique was developed, and its performance was beyond imagination!
...
Level 7 Unnamed Movement Technique: Transform into lightning and teleport within your field of vision, unhindered by restraints or terrain, dealing quadruple the damage of "Lightning Charge" to all targets along your path.
...
This martial art is both an instantaneous movement skill and boasts impressive damage, making it a perfect alternative to "Hound Step" and "Lightning Charge."
Alan named it "Thunderbolt Flash"!
...
Later, Feng arrived at the riverside cabin.
Alan didn't mention leaving the house, only that he had broken through to level six two days ago.
Feng didn't seem to notice he was lying and was very pleased with his progress.
Just as they had come, she took his hand and silently chanted a spell.
In a flash, the two of them vanished from the hut.
Alan felt a flash before his eyes, and when he came to, he found himself back in his castle bedroom.
"I have to go now. Send me a message if you need anything," Fenge said.
"Wait a moment!" Allen stopped her.
"What's wrong?"
"You said before that if I could fuse with the Behemoth or Titan bloodline, you'd take me to the riverside cabin to train."
"I've already secured the Behemoth bloodline. If I have the opportunity to fuse with the Titan bloodline during the trial, does your promise still count?"
Feng was stunned for a moment, then asked in surprise, "Fusing with the Cang Tian Behemoth would be enough for you to ascend to level seven or even eight, and you're still not satisfied?"
"Of course I want to try it if I have the chance to gain greater power," Allen replied calmly.
"You're too greedy!" Feng 's face darkened. "If you don't control your desires, you'll die of greed sooner or later."
"If you're not greedy, you won't die?"
Alan asked coldly. "Feng, believe it or not, most people in this world die not from their own greed, but from the greed of others."
"Do you think that if I remain content with the status quo, I can live a peaceful life and avoid becoming a victim of others' greed?"
"Not to mention others, you yourself wouldn't allow me to live peacefully as Allen Panthers, otherwise why would you come to me?"
"Why bother instilling the Holy Spirit's belief in hostility towards the world into a discarded Holy Spirit who has long lost his memory?"
"Don't you know that what you're doing could very well kill me?"
"I..." Feng was speechless.
"You know, but you don't care."
"Allen sighed."
"You have more important things to worry about than my life or death, and you shoulder a noble mission."
"You keep saying you'll overthrow the warlock class's brutal rule over this world at any cost and restore freedom to the people."
"I'm not opposed to overthrowing the corrupt and degenerate warlock family, but have you ever truly considered who the 'cost' is?"
"Perhaps in your eyes, I'm that expendable cost?"
"Perhaps I was once a noble saint, but now I'm just an ordinary person who desires a quiet life."
Allen looked at Feng, his eyes filled with pleading.
"I admit I'm frightened. I don't have the courage to become an enemy of Origin City. Please don't drag me and my family and friends into the conflict between the Holy Spirit Society and Origin City. Just pretend you've never met me and don't come looking for me again, okay?"
"Of course not!" Feng flatly refused.
"I knew it would be like this," Allen said with a wry smile, his arms folded. "Having been dragged aboard this pirate ship by you, I can't survive. Aside from risking my life and improving my strength as quickly as possible, what other options do I have?"
"I understand the principle that long-term gambling leads to losses."
"But think about it from my perspective: losing the bet, dying, isn't that also a kind of relief?"
"If you accuse me of giving up, I won't object."
Faced with his questioning, Feng remained silent, a hint of pity in her eyes.
"I'm sorry... Allen, I don't want to push you, but I really need you."
Realizing she'd let out an unnecessary amount of emotion, Feng quickly fell silent.
After a long pause, she snorted in frustration.
"You look so aggrieved, as if I'm deliberately trying to hurt you..."
"Of course, my words count!"
"If you can obtain the Titan bloodline, the riverside cabin will open its doors to you again!"
With these words, she vanished from Allen's sight.
...
Two days later.
Alan returned to the orc ruins, to the underground altar.
He was accompanied by three beautiful girls.
"Alan, is this the entrance to the secret realm you mentioned?"
Kelly gazed at the stone carvings surrounding the altar, curiosity in her eyes.
"These seven statues truly resemble the behemoths from the ancestral spirit's memories, along with six higher-level elemental behemoths."
She and her brother shared their cultivation experiences.
Having recently merged with the ancestral spirit of the ogre wizard prince, she was experiencing the same life of exile that Allen had endured.
Armed with the detailed strategy Allen provided, Kelly navigated the meditation world, anticipating every opportunity and thriving.
Kelly wasn't simply slaving over her brother's life; she had her own ideas and choices.
Same start, different twists.
When Allen fled to the Underdark, he was alone, his legs crippled, and in a miserable state.
Forced to survive, she had to sell her body and seduce the seven female minotaur sisters under the drow warlock Orlando.
Kelly, learning from her brother's lesson, escaped the orc fortress without revealing her whereabouts, entering the Underdark in good health with her totem behemoth.
She had planned ahead, using "monster charm" to seduce the seven female minotaur sisters and take them as her goddaughters.
With the help of her seven goddaughters, she secretly infiltrated Orlando's castle.
Orlando, the drow warlock, was oblivious to the disaster surrounding him.
The next morning, as usual, she drank the fresh milk offered by the female minotaur.
Little did they know, Kelly had already instructed her goddaughter to poison the milk.
Kelly, having learned from her younger brother, was at least an expert in poisoning.
Utilizing the Underdark's abundant poisonous mushrooms, she could easily create a colorless, odorless, and potent poison.
Orlando was also skilled in poisoning, but he hadn't anticipated the sudden and unexpected consequences.
The minotaur he had treated as a servant had the audacity to poison his master's milk!
The poison took effect, and Orlando experienced severe abdominal cramps.
Thinking it was a stomachache, he ran to the toilet.
He untied his trousers and vomited. Just as he was enjoying himself, the toilet door was kicked open.
The ferocious face of the Behemoth appeared before him.
...Choosing this time and place for a sneak attack? How shameless!
Orlando will die with his eyes open!
After taking over Orlando Castle, Kelly's ambitions grew in strange directions.
Allen couldn't understand how his sister had managed to seduce the vicious and perverted drow mistress, Elina, and yet, he let her go and accepted her as his general.
With the help of the drow, Kelly easily destroyed her necromancer brothers. Then, with the help of the dark elves, she launched a counterattack on the surface world and reclaimed the orc territory...
Something seems amiss...?
Where's the Mirror of the Abyss?
Where's the Burning Legion?
Kelly didn't even need the Mirror of the Abyss. With the drow legion, she was more than capable of reclaiming her lost territory and ascending the throne of orc chieftain.
Dark elves are no more kind than demons.
However, they are naturally afraid of sunlight and cannot survive long-term on the surface world, so their interests won't conflict with Kelly's base.
After reclaiming the territory, Kaili fulfilled her promise and led the orc army back into the Underdark.
She assisted Elina in conquering the other three drow dungeons in the Underworld, becoming the joint leader of both the drow and orcs.
Afterwards, Kaili led the coalition forces in a raid on the Swamp Fortress of Titania, forcing the Swamp Alliance to sign a humiliating treaty.
The Swamp Alliance's Green Dragon Princess married Kaili, cementing the alliance through a political marriage.
This way, Kaili brought both the Green Dragon Princess and the Drow Mistress into her harem.
Next, she planned to extend her talons to the Saint of the Lion-Griffin Empire, the Queen of the Elven Court...
"Sister, you really are..." Allen was at a loss for words.
Luckily, sister isn't a man, otherwise it would have been Long Aotian himself!
In contrast, Renee, who also received Allen's strategy manual, didn't pull off any tricks.
She copied Allen's assignments exactly as he had.
When Allen criticized her for being too lazy to think about her cultivation, she remained unconvinced.
He argued convincingly, "No matter what I do in the meditation world, I can't change the fate already determined by the ancestral spirits."
"Instead of dwelling on fantasy and weeping for the ancients, I should take my own life seriously and devote more time to caring for my family and friends."
Alan had to admit that Renee's strict separation of meditation from reality was rare, perfectly aligning with the essence of atavistic meditation: "Heaven and Earth are unkind, treating all things as straw dogs"!
Even Allen couldn't claim to be able to achieve this all the time.
Perhaps Renee's calm, "worldly" state of mind is also a precious gift.
No wonder she didn't practice diligently, like a salted fish, yet her progress was unfailing.
Recovering from his thoughts, Allen walked over to the altar and examined the runes he was already so familiar with.
After a moment's thought, he extended his left hand and a bone spur sprang from his palm.
The ivory-colored bone spur transformed into a black-blue adamantine gold, effortlessly cutting through the rock.
Allen used the bone spur as a pen, writing and drawing on the altar, modifying the runes.
"Brother, what are you doing?" Ella asked curiously, leaning over.
"The runes on the altar weren't perfect, so I used the knowledge I learned from the Behemoth Ancestor Spirit to complete them."
"In addition, I've improved the runes so they can be sacrificed simultaneously by two people."
"This way, my sister and Renee can be transported to the Behemoth Absolute Ridge together and challenge the Behemoth together."
Alan retracted the bone spur, examined the modified runes, and nodded with satisfaction.
"Kelly, Renee, you're both still at the late fourth stage."
"Although your strength has greatly increased after absorbing the bloodlines of the Thunder Leopard and Sea Tiger, your chances of winning a one-on-one battle against a Behemoth are slim."
"Reni and I can easily defeat the Totem Behemoth of the Meditation World. Isn't that enough?" Kelly asked unconvinced.
Ellen shook her head and solemnly warned her sister, who had been acting a bit arrogant lately.
"Kelly, the Totem Behemoth is just a weakened version of the real Behemoth."
"You can use the Totem Behemoth as a sparring partner to learn its fighting style. It will be very helpful for the upcoming challenges."
"But don't think a real Behemoth is that easy to deal with. Their size, strength, and speed are not on the same level!"
"You and Renee team up to take on two Behemoths. Your chances of success are better than a one-on-one duel."
Kelly nodded in understanding.
Behemoths are accustomed to fighting alone, so she and Renee do have the advantage in tactical coordination.
Ellen opened her storage bag, took out two potions and two glass bottles, and handed them to her sister and Kelly respectively.
The potion was an anti-venom he'd crafted from his own blood.
The glass bottle was a simple poison gas bomb he'd made himself.
After it shattered, a large amount of gas infused with Level 7 Leviathan toxin erupted, forming a haze in the air.
The toxin was taken from the Kraken, the Kraken.
This was the only Level 6 sea monster in the entire trial space, and Allen had already slain it.
This meant that no one else could obtain a Level 6 sacrifice to awaken the elemental behemoth.
Allen gave his sister and Renee each a heart of a deep-sea squid, to be used as a sacrifice to awaken the behemoth. Success in the challenge would grant them bloodline essence.
Kelly and Renee had previously fused with the bloodline of the Mutated Shifter, gaining lightning and water attributes. After fusing with the bloodline of the Behemoth, they had room for further growth.
In the future, reaching Level 6, they might evolve directly into "Thunder Behemoth" and "Raging Behemoth"!
Kelly and Renee accepted the trial supplies Allen had prepared for them, stripped off their clothes, and initiated Level 4 Atlas.
The two half-naked beauties simultaneously grew in size!
In the blink of an eye, they transformed into two tall, muscular, beastly figures.
A female giant with a human body.
Spider-silk panties and a bra cover her sensitive areas.
In her giantess form, her ample breasts, hips, and long legs are doubly sexy and alluring.
Kelly's leopard wizard form is slightly different from her previous one.
A hazy halo surrounds her body, and two tentacles, resembling blue ribbons, extend from below her shoulder blades.
The tentacles end in bean-pod-shaped buds, their inner edges covered in spikes.
The spikes crackle and flicker with electric sparks.
After merging with the Thunder Leopard's bloodline, Kelly gained two new abilities.
One is the "displacement halo" that shrouds her body, permanently enveloping her in a shroud of illusion.
Unless the opponent possesses clairvoyance or possesses the "True Seeing" spell, attacks against Kelly have a 50% chance of hitting the phantom.
The tentacles extending from Kelly's back are also a natural weapon inherited from the Thunder Leopard.
They are as flexible and flexible as two arms, extending and contracting at will, and even possessing an electric shock effect.
By channeling her own magic power into these tentacles, Kelly can unleash "cross lightning," effectively firing two simultaneous "lightning beams"!
Renee's Magic Tiger Wizard form also possesses the same "displacement halo" as Kelly, along with a pair of barbed tentacles.
However, her tentacles were cyan, enchanted with the "Wither" effect, instantly evaporating the water from their prey, transforming it into a mummy!
Kelly and Renee prepared themselves, walking side by side to the altar and placing the Deep Sea Squid Heart.
A circle of magical light rose from the altar, transporting them both to the Behemoth Ridge.
Ella stood guard beside the altar, her pretty face etched with nervousness.
Alan, on the other hand, remained calm.
Equipped with the secret weapon he provided, Kelly and Renee faced the two Behemoths with a guaranteed victory.
While waiting for his sister and Renee to return, Allen sat leisurely on the altar, checking and retrieving mail.
In addition to Kelly and Renee, Julie and Flynn, Sonia's twin demon wolves, and Beck and Hogg of the Silvermoon Monastery, can also advance to Behemoths.
Their bloodlines are relatively pure.
After advancement, most abilities can be inherited, eliminating the need to risk bloodline collapse by fusing them.
If they're interested, Allen can provide detailed strategies.
Master Shiva, Sister Lion, Adam of the Bear Monastery, and Beck of the Pig Monastery also possess bestial bloodlines.
However, they had all advanced to the Gaiding Celestial Clan, and a parallel transition to the Behemoth class wouldn't bring a significant improvement.
As for the Gaiding Celestial Clan, could they incorporate the Behemoth bloodline?
Alan didn't know.
So he sent a letter to Master Shiva, asking about this question.
Before Master Shiva replied, Allen received an unexpected letter.
The sender was his second-in-command, Taffman.
Taffman was Allen's informant within the Beast Cult. To avoid arousing suspicion, the two brothers rarely interacted in public.
Unexpectedly, Taffman had become so successful.
He unexpectedly received instructions from the Pope, "Spider Queen" Caroline, to renew his master-disciple relationship with Allen, building bridges and turning enemies into friends.
Tuffman revealed that it was the wolf girl, Beiting, who urged him to befriend her and successfully persuaded Caroline.
Of the other Beast Cultists, only Spanner strongly supported Beiting's proposal.
Beiting's brother, Akbar, and "Rat Prince" Max both opposed the idea and harbored deep prejudices against Allen.
Spenza, the eldest Spider daughter, had a negative opinion of Allen's personal life.
But she also acknowledged that this young man was exceptionally talented and one of the most promising stocks among all the trialists, worthy of significant investment.
The strangest thing was Nora, the representative of the Bat Clan.
This sinister little girl, nicknamed "Ghost Girl," bore a grudge against Allen for murdering her brother, and her father was killed by the White Tiger Martial Master while pursuing Allen.
Both moral and logical, she should oppose the Beast Cult's entanglement with Allen.
Yet she chose not to openly object.
Even when Akbar and Max repeatedly egged Nora on, deliberately using the vengeance of her father and brother to provoke her, she remained silent.
Her pale, delicate face was expressionless.
Her glazed eyes made her look even more lifeless than the rag doll she held in her arms, like a soulless, lifeless doll.
At the end of the magic transmission, Taffman revealed a piece of news.
"Junior Brother Allen! Your previous sea monster hunting in the Arctic Ice Sea aroused Beiting's suspicion!"
"After over a month of exploration, and spending a fortune on intelligence purchased from housekeeper Miri, we finally cracked the mystery of the orc ruins."
"These days, Beiting has been taking Akbar and me on sea monster hunts, and we've obtained three level-five sea monster hearts."
"If nothing unexpected happens, we'll go to the orc ruins this afternoon to offer sacrifices and open the passage to the Behemoth Ridge."
After reading the letter, Allen rubbed his hands, a smile rising at the corners of his lips.
"Brother, you're smiling so wickedly..." Ella asked timidly from the side. "Are you up to something bad again?"
"What nonsense!"
Alan patted the little sister's head and told her about the impending arrival of the three members of the Wolf family.
"Brother! Are you planning to sabotage the altar and prevent the Wolf siblings from challenging the Behemoth?" Ella whispered.
Alan shook his head gently.
"Junior Sister, I'm... a kindhearted person! I absolutely oppose anything that harms others and benefits oneself!"
"I won't stop Akbar and Beiting from performing the sacrifice, but it won't be easy for them to enter the Giant Beast Ridge. They'll have to ask me for advice and pay a consultation fee."
"Brother, aren't you afraid that blackmailing the Wolf siblings will lead to a grudge against them and antagonize the Beast Cult?" Ella asked worriedly.
Alan smiled faintly.
"Making enemies? On the contrary, the Beast Cult is eager to establish a good relationship with me right now."
"Junior Sister, it's like your crush comes to your house, eats and drinks for free, goes shopping, and asks you to pay. Don't feel wronged. They're doing you a favor. You should feel honored."
"Wow! That metaphor...it's so relatable. It brings back memories. I'm already angry!"
Ella puffed up her cat paws.
"Brother, I really want to scratch your face!"