Here’s the English translation of the provided Chinese content:

In the blink of an eye, three months had passed. The members of the 21st General-level Demon Hunt Squad emerged from their closed-door cultivation one after another, their spiritual power reaching new heights.

After three months of seclusion, Cai’er’s internal spiritual power had risen to 3,850. Han Yu reached 3,670. Sima Xian, benefiting from his innate spiritual power of 80, saw a massive increase, reaching as high as 3,500. Wang Yuanyuan was slightly higher than Sima Xian, at 3,560. Lin Xin reached 3,660, and Chen Ying’er even managed to increase to 3,320. Everyone in the team had reached the 7th rank of the 5th level or higher.

However, during those three months, Long Haochen still hadn’t managed to break through to the 6th level and was still lingering at the peak of the 5th level.

This wasn’t due to a lack of effort on his part. It was simply because his energy had been scattered during those three months. Whenever Long Haochen entered a meditative state, the memories he received within the Eternal Tower would naturally surface in his mind, forcing him to comprehend them. He couldn’t avoid it; if he didn’t try to understand, he couldn’t calm his mind and cultivate.

Long Haochen naturally didn’t want to learn necromantic magic. Therefore, during the first month of seclusion, he was almost entirely at war with his own memories.

In the end, he had to give in because if he didn’t comprehend these necromantic spells, he wouldn’t be able to cultivate at all, let alone break through the bottleneck. Breaking through required complete focus, and with these memories interfering, how could he concentrate?

Reluctantly, Long Haochen could only accept reality. Fortunately, the memories the Eternal Tower forced upon him weren’t too overwhelming. As long as he comprehended a skill or some mysteries, these memories would disappear for a while, seemingly wanting him to fully integrate what he had learned. Long Haochen had never imagined that one day his own memories would become a strict teacher. But what could he do? Unable to resist, he could only accept it.

During the second month, he was able to patiently focus on breaking through the bottleneck. However, the difficulty of breaking through from the 5th to the 6th level was truly astonishing. Within the Sacred Attraction Spiritual Stove, it felt as if the spiritual aperture had already formed, but it was always just one step away. Long Haochen could only accumulate, attack, accumulate again, and attack again. But he still couldn’t successfully break through this bottleneck.

By the third month, the spiritual aperture hadn’t yet formed, but Long Haochen’s Sacred Attraction Spiritual Stove seemed to be on the verge of evolving. This caused a period of chaos within his body. In the end, the Sacred Attraction Spiritual Stove was just one step away from evolving, and it was clear that he needed to break through to the 6th level to finally complete it.

It could be said that these past few months had been quite a torment for Long Haochen, but it wasn’t without its benefits. The speed of his cultivation had indeed been extremely fast, but precisely because of this, it had been somewhat unstable. After these three months of seclusion, his own spiritual power had completely stabilized, becoming even more profound, and the state of various abilities within his body had been adjusted to their optimal state.

It wasn’t that he couldn’t continue to improve once his cultivation reached a bottleneck. It was just that if he didn’t break through the bottleneck, the spiritual power he gained would dissipate on its own. But this wasn’t the case for Long Haochen. If he couldn’t absorb it himself, it didn’t mean that the Light Elemental Elf and the Blue Rain, Light Hibiscus within him couldn’t absorb it! So, these three months had been a boon for them. However, it was clear that it wouldn’t be possible for either of them to evolve again in the short term.

While Long Haochen was cultivating, Haoyue entered a deep sleep. It had consumed quite a few magic crystals, which it had been controlling and not digesting and absorbing. Now that it had time to rest, it naturally had time to improve as well.

However, at this very moment, their seclusion had to come to an end. An urgent message came from the Demon Hunt Squad Mission Tower – a mandatory war mission. All Demon Hunt Squads remaining in the Holy City were required to participate. Failure to do so would result in a penalty of 10,000 merit points per person for the General-level Demon Hunt Squad. The higher the level of the Demon Hunt Squad, the more merit points would be deducted.

Such emergency war missions were rare, and the Mission Tower would only issue such missions when the Alliance faced a major crisis. But it also had extremely strong coercive power, and the price of not participating was considerable.

Although Long Haochen and his group had enough merit points to pay the fine, losing 60,000 merit points was still something they were unwilling to endure! Although they could exclude the squire knight, Han Yu, from the calculation, it was still something they absolutely did not want to bear.

After discussing it with his partners, Long Haochen went to the Mission Tower and accepted the mission. The Mission Tower gave all Demon Hunt Squads three days of rest. The specific mission content and details were not disclosed.

The seven members of the 21st General-level Demon Hunt Squad gathered in the villa’s main hall.

Sima Xian said with a ferocious grin, “War missions are good! I’ve just improved my cultivation quite a bit. It’s the perfect time to vent my anger on the little demons!” As he spoke, he made a flexing muscle gesture.

Long Haochen said, “Everyone is here, let’s get going then. Lin Xin, what is our current total number of merit points?”

Lin Xin didn’t even need to check. He said directly, “There are still 264,823. I sold some useless magic crystals and demon corpses that we brought back last time, so we gained some more merit points.”

Long Haochen nodded and said, “Good, we’ll go to the Trading Center. We’re about to carry out an emergency war mission, and this time the danger is probably no less than the Fear Howl Cave mission. Everyone doesn’t need to save money. We only need to keep 100,000 merit points in reserve to upgrade the Demon Hunt Squad. We’ll try to spend the remaining 160,000 today. Once we get to the Trading Center, everyone can look at the equipment they need. Only Brilliant-level equipment or higher. If you see something you like, report it to Lin Xin immediately. You don’t need to notify me, just buy it directly. Lin Xin, you’re responsible for overseeing everything, making sure that everyone can get at least one Brilliant-level equipment. We can’t be stingy at a time like this. You have to buy for yourself too, understand?”

This chapter isn’t finished, please click the next page to continue reading!

Please favorite God’s Throne (novelonl.com), God’s Throne 20 Novel Network updates the fastest on the entire network.

“Yes, Captain.” The other five people, except for Cai’er, said in unison. Who wouldn’t want to buy powerful equipment! With 160,000 merit points, even if it was Brilliant-level equipment, it would be enough to buy more than a dozen high-quality items. This was the benefit of having merit points.

After accepting the mission, Long Haochen’s decision to go buy equipment first was clearly the most correct choice. They weren’t the only Demon Hunt Squad that needed equipment. Other squads would definitely be strengthening themselves as they were about to face the mission. Being a step ahead meant they had a better chance of choosing something more suitable.

As they walked towards the Trading Center, Long Haochen asked Lin Xin, “How are our pill reserves?”

Lin Xin grinned and said, “Very sufficient. There are forty-two Great Recovery Pills, twenty-five Bloodthirst Pills, and twenty-five Spirit Burst Pills. There are also the two types of pills I made earliest, one is the Strength Pill, and the other is even crazier. It’s the Conjoined Spirit Enhancement Pill, which I made using Greater Demon magic crystals as the main ingredient. The Conjoined Spirit Enhancement Pill can instantly connect the spiritual power of those who take it, and quickly convert it into the attribute of the person releasing the spiritual power during the process of spiritual power injection. It’s like the conjoined attack technique of the Greater Demon Cavalry. However, it only lasts for thirty seconds. And this thing is too expensive to make, I only made two sets of seven pills each, which can allow us to react twice. With our current strength, seven people combining their strength should exceed 20,000 spiritual power. We should be able to fight with an Eighth-Level powerhouse, right?”

Long Haochen asked doubtfully, “But, if the person who ultimately releases the spiritual power can’t withstand the enormous spiritual power impact after using the Conjoined Spirit Enhancement Pill, what happens?”

Lin Xin said triumphantly, “I’ve already thought about this. Even the Demon Clan couldn’t solve this problem, but I can solve it with pills. This involves the combined use of medicine. The person responsible for releasing the spiritual power must also take a Strength Pill at the same time as taking the Conjoined Spirit Enhancement Pill, greatly increasing their physical strength and naturally making them more resistant to the impact of spiritual power. Moreover, my Conjoined Spirit Enhancement Pill doesn’t gather all of our seven people’s spiritual power onto one person all at once. The person responsible for releasing the skill can decide how much to receive depending on their physical condition. For example, with your ability, Captain, after taking my Strength Pill, your resistance can reach at least 10,000 spiritual power or more. Fighting against an Eighth-Level is just me talking nonsense, but fighting against a Seventh-Level is not a problem.”

Seeing his triumphant appearance, Long Haochen couldn’t help but laugh, “It seems that your narcissism is justified. Although I’m reluctant to praise you, I have to say, you’re truly a genius.”

“Wahahaha, that’s for sure.” Sure enough, after being praised, some people immediately became a little carried away.

Sima Xian teased, “Got Yaoge, pay attention to your image, Li Xin is coming.” (Yaoge = medicine bro, Lin Xin’s nickname because of his pills)

“Ah? Where is she, where is she?” Lin Xin instantly restrained himself, his previously arrogant and invincible appearance instantly becoming well-behaved and honest. He looked around furtively, searching for Li Xin’s figure.

Speaking of which, the relationship between Lin Xin and Li Xin has been confirmed after these few months. Although the two haven’t seen each other much due to their respective closed-door cultivations, Lin Xin finally managed to get Li Xin to acknowledge their relationship with his powerful shameless and persistent divine skills. However, this also added a symptom to Lin Xin, severe henpecking! When he saw Li Xin, he was like a mouse seeing a cat. He didn’t know if this was a sequela left by being forcibly kissed by Li Xin. But it was certain that he was really good to Li Xin, secretly stuffing her with a lot of pills. But Li Xin was unwilling to take advantage of him and gave him the corresponding merit points each time.

“I said! Baldy, you dare to lie to me, I’ll give you fake medicine next time.” Lin Xin didn’t find Li Xin and shouted angrily at Sima Xian.

Sima Xian smiled and said, “Whatever you want. But I heard Li Xin say that she hates people who don’t care about the big picture the most. She likes young people like our captain who are kind-hearted, have a bright heart, and are good to others.”

(To be continued)

Please favorite God’s Throne (novelonl.com), God’s Throne 20 Novel Network updates the fastest on the entire network.