Long Haochen sat cross-legged on the ground, still using his aura barrier to protect himself, isolating himself from the harmful air outside, while silently absorbing the light elements from the air.

This world was definitely not a good place for Long Haochen, because the light element here was so scarce. It was even less than one percent of what was available on the Holy Demon Continent. He had to constantly filter through the mixed magic elements in the air to extract even a little bit.

Long Haochen took out two bottles of medicine from his bosom. One of them contained pills that could increase his spiritual power by two hundred for each pill, which Long Haochen named “Spirit Return Pills.” The other bottle contained “Spirit Burst Pills,” which could instantly stimulate his potential and increase his overall combat power by 20% for 30 seconds, but would leave him weakened for twelve hours afterward.

In this place where he couldn’t absorb more light elements, the effect of these two bottles of medicine was self-evident. Standing quietly at the cave entrance, Long Haochen carefully sensed everything around him, while constantly observing the surroundings.

Just then, suddenly, a surge of surging spiritual power and a strange aura of spiritual energy emanated from within the cave.

A layer of hazy purple light spread out in the next instant, not only from the cave entrance, but even through the surrounding rocks into the outside air.

Haoyue was breaking through. Long Haochen’s heart tightened. Haoyue had told him that once it completed its final breakthrough, the aura it emitted might attract powerful magical beasts. This was the most dangerous time.

Along with the appearance of this purple aura, Long Haochen was suddenly surprised to feel a faint sense of heat appear in his body. Looking down, the blood vessels under his skin had turned a light purple. A powerful sense of strength was constantly growing in his body, and his physical strength was continuously increasing. At this moment, Long Haochen felt that his external spiritual power was increasing like a geyser. Every movement seemed to have become more powerful.

Haoyue’s evolution also prompted my external spiritual power to increase?

Long Haochen understood what was happening after only a little thought. Without a doubt, this enhancement came from the blood pact. He and Haoyue both had each other’s blood within their bodies, and coupled with the effect of the contract, they were truly connected by blood. Therefore, when Long Haochen’s cultivation improved, Haoyue would sense it and receive some benefits. Conversely, when Haoyue evolved, Long Haochen would also receive some enhancements from it.

It seemed that the stone sphere Haoyue had so eagerly desired was used for its body to evolve.

While Long Haochen was pondering, suddenly, he clearly felt that the various magic elements in the air became extremely violent, especially the dark element, which poured into the cave behind him like a waterfall. No matter how manic the spiritual power elements were, at this moment, they seemed to have only one target: the cave behind him.

Long Haochen even vaguely saw a swirling dark cloud beginning to appear in the sky due to the cave’s suction, absorbing all the surrounding spiritual power elements like the sea accepting hundreds of rivers.

Such a big commotion, no wonder Haoyue was worried that magical beasts would come to attack.

Long Haochen observed his surroundings even more vigilantly. He didn’t notice that the contract rune on his forehead had reappeared.

This rune had a total of nine purple lines. Originally, the first two lines were particularly bright, but at this time, the third rune had also begun to brighten.

After a professional’s cultivation breaks through to the third tier, further advancement requires internal spiritual power. No matter how much external spiritual power is improved, it cannot affect the advancement of the profession. In other words, even if your external spiritual power reaches two thousand, if your internal spiritual power does not reach two thousand, you still cannot step into the fifth tier.

Long Haochen only felt that the warm sensation within his body, which made him feel full of strength, was constantly strengthening, but he didn’t know to what extent his external spiritual power had reached. However, the golden liquid vortex surrounding the Holy Spirit Stove in his chest didn’t change at all. This was the liquid spiritual power he had finally cultivated, and it was also a symbol of his entry into the fifth tier.

After entering the fifth tier, Long Haochen clearly found that the speed of his cultivation improvement had greatly reduced. To improve even a little bit of spiritual power, it would take at least ten times as long as before. After a day of hard cultivation, being able to improve two or three points of spiritual power was already the limit.

As a knight, little did he know that if he were to tell others about his cultivation speed, it would definitely scare countless people. After breaking through to the fifth tier, how could there be anyone who could improve their spiritual power every day through cultivation? If all professionals had this ability, then they would only need to continue cultivating, and they would eventually be able to break through to the sixth tier.

As his strength improved, the benefits of Long Haochen’s Son of Light physique began to become more and more obvious. It was just that he hadn’t noticed it himself yet.

The fifth tier is the threshold for professionals to become strong, but to truly cross this door, they must break through to the sixth tier. Because only when they reach the sixth tier can professionals truly utilize liquid spiritual power, open their spiritual apertures, and increase the speed of liquid spiritual power cultivation.

Boom— A loud roar tightened Long Haochen’s tense nerves again, and he looked down the mountain.

When he saw the situation down the mountain, he immediately took a deep breath. He saw skeletons, large groups of skeletons, coming towards the mountain. The roar just now was caused by a skeleton accidentally knocking off a large rock, which fell down the mountain.

The number of these skeletons was impossible to see, and they were almost endless at a glance. They were all black, of varying heights and sizes, but all were humanoid. They quickly climbed upward, and their target was obviously the cave behind Long Haochen.

Taking a deep breath, Long Haochen took a half step back, sinking his body into the cave entrance. In this way, he didn’t need to face enemies from several directions at the same time, and only needed to focus on the front.

He didn’t have time to think about the reason for the arrival of the skeleton army. All he could do now was to do everything in his power to resist these skeletons and buy enough time for Haoyue.

Inside the cave, Haoyue’s body was trembling violently, and the scales on its body had completely cracked. The Holy Light Shield that Long Haochen had applied to it earlier had no effect at all.

But both Xiao Guang and Xiao Huo gritted their teeth and refused to let out a scream. Because they were afraid that their screams would affect Long Haochen.

The bulge on its neck had grown as long as Xiao Guang and Xiao Huo’s necks, and blue-green light was constantly shining on it. Although Haoyue’s entire body was just a blur of flesh and blood, strands of purple light patterns were slowly emerging on its body.

A large amount of spiritual energy elements pouring in from the outside frantically poured into its body, and its entire body continued to emit a series of cracking sounds of bones breaking and the grating sounds of armor plates rubbing against each other, which made people grind their teeth. Extremely unstable spiritual power elements raged wildly on its body. An aura that would make even ancient times tremble quietly rippled, and Xiao Guang and Xiao Huo’s eyes turned purple again, cold and ruthless, full of eerie purple. The bloody body was constantly expanding.

Bang—, Long Haochen’s left hand slightly angled his Glory Shield, deflecting a heavy blow from a black skeleton, and his right hand thrust forward with his Light Sword, colliding with the skeleton’s chest bone.

The closer he got, the more Long Haochen felt the horror of these black skeletons. Although they only had bones left, these bones were as strong as steel, and their strength was very great. The eye sockets of the skeleton heads were emitting dark red flames.

When he really fought them, Long Haochen realized that the blackness on these skeletons was not the original color of their bones, but a layer of dark attribute spiritual power. With a sickening stench, they madly attacked him.

Long Haochen was now grateful for his light attribute. Although the bodies of these black skeletons were extremely hard, when the aura of light emitted from the Light Sword and Glory Shield in his hand fell on these skeletons, they were obviously very afraid. Once Long Haochen’s attack fell on them, a burst of white smoke would immediately rise. Obviously, the light attribute had a considerable restraining effect on these skeletons.

Crack, Light Slash Sword was released, and three skeletons were knocked down by Long Haochen in succession, temporarily blocking the skeletons behind. After the inner spiritual power was upgraded to liquid spiritual power, the power of using any skill was obviously enhanced.

Slightly catching his breath, Long Haochen quickly took a Spirit Return Pill. His spiritual power consumption was not actually very large, but facing the situation in front of him, how could he dare to let his spiritual power be consumed to a certain extent before replenishing it? Staying in the best condition at all times was the best choice.

Facing the skeleton army, he rarely used skills, trying to save his spiritual power as much as possible. This was not a one-on-one battle, nor was it a competition, but a real life-and-death fight. A little carelessness could mean staying here forever.

One skeleton after another kept shattering in front of him. Although Long Haochen had the momentum of one man guarding the pass and ten thousand men could not open it, the skeleton army was endless, and he couldn’t see the light of hope at all.

However, in this kind of battle, Long Haochen gradually discovered the benefits of a Guardian Knight. There is no doubt that the attack and explosion of a Retribution Knight are much stronger than that of a Guardian Knight. But in terms of continuous combat ability, it is obviously far inferior to a Guardian Knight.

After applying several buff skills of the Guardian Knight to himself, Long Haochen would only consume about one point of spiritual power for every skeleton he killed. Moreover, what he had to do now was not to completely destroy these skeleton army, which was impossible to complete. He only needed to buy enough time for Haoyue.

The biggest defect of these black skeletons was that they were stupid. They had no wisdom, nor would they use any skills, but just kept charging forward. In this case, Long Haochen could persist for a long time by using the terrain and Spirit Return Pills—

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(To be continued)