Starting with Proficiency Panel-Chapter 500 - 497: Non-stop

Watching as the beam of golden light directly pierced through his palm and was about to sink into the earth, Sun Wukong was anxious, and the ground suddenly swayed violently.

He saw the shackles on his hands and feet begin to emit a purple dazzling light, mysterious runes trembling slightly, while waves of penetrating pain seeped deep into Sun Wukong’s soul.

The intense pain made the veins bulge all over his body, his fangs protruding, his expression fearsome and terrifying. He clutched his head with one hand, while the other hand emitted True Power, forcibly capturing the fleeing beam of golden light.

"Damn it, Tathagata, Jade Emperor, I will kill you all clean!"

With the overwhelming pain, Sun Wukong could no longer endure and had to withdraw his True Power, covering his head with both hands, continuously banging, trying to alleviate the pain.

The strand of Mountain God authority, blocked momentarily by Sun Wukong, flew in another direction instead of entering the ground.

Sun Wukong watched with wide eyes, only after a slight reduction in the agony within his body and soul did he gather enough energy to step out and pursue fiercely.

Whoosh!

Beyond the horizon, a flash of golden light streaked by, instantly penetrating Lu Ren’s body, who was swinging his fists and feet, causing his body to pause momentarily, then continued unabated to slay the oncoming spiritual monsters.

He was full of doubt, pondered why the Mountain God authority flew to him, wondering if accumulating enough earth authority might attract these wandering Mountain God authorities by itself.

Lu Ren couldn’t find the answer, so he decided not to think about it since it was a good thing anyway.

And in the nearby city, just after school, Xu Qing stood blankly on the street corner, her gaze habitually unfocused, watching the rolling tide madly moving in a certain direction outside the city, filled with spirit ghosts.

She had never thought that a city could have such gigantic spiritual monsters, some even exuding rolling black Qi, polluting the environment.

Beside her, on display, the shop’s television was broadcasting live via helicopter, showing Lu Ren’s fierce punches and kicks, each with terrifying Giant Strength, sending visible shock waves through the air.

But in Xu Qing’s view, countless terrifying ghosts were desperately swarming toward Lu Ren, densely covering, then seemed to be diminished by some force, quickly turning into powder.

Lu Ren was calm, unperturbed, as if he was unaware, continuing to punch and kick, effortlessly destroying large waves of spiritual monsters, which turned into small heaps of black dust when hit, disappearing.

In the city, some spiritualists, although not able to see clearly like Xu Qing, also felt unimaginable sinister Qi exploding frantically, making everyone wary, afraid to go out.

Almost a week later, after Lu Ren’s final punch shattered a fifteen-meter-tall spiritual monster, he cleared out all the spiritual monsters within a hundred kilometers radius, even sweeping away those wandering at nine heavens above.

And more powerful spiritual monsters, seemingly sensing danger, with improved intelligence, only glared hungrily from atop, looking for an opportunity in Lu Ren’s weakness, like a snake hidden in the dark.

However, Lu Ren’s performance shocked them, he was like an untiring machine, continuously for nearly seven days, devouring the low-level spirit ghosts ruthlessly driven by them.

In the end, they drove all the low-grade spirit ghosts within a hundred kilometers, yet it did not diminish Lu Ren’s strength in the slightest, instead his strength grew continually, as if using these spiritual monsters for cultivation.

When they realized it, those spiritual monsters were finished for good, with almost none remaining.

Lu Ren slowly withdrew his fist, looking at the skill level accumulated in the Body Forging Technique, he felt somewhat helpless, nearly seven days without rest, yet he only pushed the skill level up to about ninety-five percent, needing a significant amount to advance the technique further.

Thinking of this, Lu Ren’s gaze couldn’t help but drift to those terrifying monsters in the sky, appearing like fierce beasts, so abominable that just a glance felt like spiritual contamination, requiring several days of short video watching beautiful women to purify.

To be honest, even those extraterrestrial monsters appeared more exquisite than them, truly compared to them, a charmingly delicate maiden.

Should he continue, after slaying these fellows, it should suffice for an upgrade.

While contemplating, Lu Ren decided to temporarily dismiss the notion, knowing those fellows above wouldn’t simply be a matter of swinging fists anymore, though it’s still three punches and kicks away, but effacing them at such a level in large numbers would bear inconceivable consequences.

More importantly, Lu Ren was wary of those higher-level existences at nine heavens above, those entities already fully possessed Spiritual Essence and detected his presence.

Though they haven’t grasped Lu Ren’s depth yet, despite feeling immense malice, they haven’t taken action.

The curse seal left by that old dragon Snake Mountain God seemed to be a rule of this world, forcibly engraved in his heart, Lu Ren even tried to scrape off the flesh imprinted with the curse seal, but as the flesh regenerated, the seal reappeared on his chest.

Lu Ren decided to ignore it, knowing that after acquiring the ability to devour beasts, these spirit monsters would be dealt with sooner or later, just a matter of time.

This Chapter was merely a small episode in Lu Ren’s quest to perfect earth authority, nearly scouring the planet to gather as much earth authority as possible, intentionally avoiding powerful Mountain Gods controlling regions over a thousand miles, Lu Ren almost ransacked the low-ranked Mountain Gods of this world.

Even running tirelessly, he spent almost two years before pushing the earth authority in his sea of consciousness to about thirty-five percent.

Due to the dispersion of authority regions, Lu Ren did not precisely calculate how much area he could control, but roughly estimated at least over one hundred thousand square kilometers, undoubtedly an astounding figure.

"Remaining ones should be those Mountain Gods with authority covering over a thousand kilometers."

Beyond a thousand miles, the Mountain God’s power will undergo qualitative changes, each possessing True Immortal Level combat power, requiring careful handling.

Moreover, due to Lu Ren’s relentless hunt for Mountain Gods, it made those divine beings feel insecure, ultimately banding together, forming various groups for mutual protection.

Several times Lu Ren found himself in dangerous situations, needing Sun Wukong’s assistance, with multiple occasions where even Mountain Gods controlling regions over a thousand miles took action to eliminate this instability.