All the way to the west.

At nightfall, Ji Xinghuo had already moved from the central area of the Peak Valley to the edge to the west.

After camping in a hidden crevice of a stone cliff, and eating food with Qinghong, he opened the interface of the Vientiane Star Pupil.

[Spiritual Source Energy: 3474]

In addition to the contribution of more than 1,000 stone sickles, today in the hurry, I easily eliminated two more stone sickle groups, plus the accumulation of a few days ago, the spiritual source energy has reached a new height.

"It's time to upgrade."

Ji Xinghuo carefully watched the interface information.

Two interfaces, one is your own ability information, and the other is Qinghong's.

In fact, you don't need to look too much, Ji Xinghuo also knows the progress of the ability level. Usually, when he has free time, he will open and study for a while, which ability should be upgraded, which ability needs how much spiritual source energy, the most cost-effective, I don't know how many times he has calculated.

After simply calculating the spiritual energy required for upgrading, he quickly made a choice.

The first one is the Golden Scale Iron Spine!

This defensive ability has made meritorious contributions many times, and it can greatly improve the life-saving ability of himself and Qinghong, but after being promoted to level four, he didn't move much.

But last time, when he fused the blood of the titanium cobalt dragon, the golden scale iron spine produced a chain effect, and the progress increased significantly.

It is now level four (4126/5477).

With just over 1,300 points of spiritual energy, the Golden Scale Iron Spine can be upgraded to level five.

Today, when Qinghong rushed up to fight with the Stone Scythe Giant Ray, he relied on the strong defense of the Golden Scale Iron Spine, but he was still injured.

The next step is to go to the bloody plateau, which may have to face greater dangers and require more powerful defense capabilities.

Moreover, Ji Xinghuo had a hunch.

If you go up one level more, you should be able to advance!

"Come here."

Ji Xinghuo beckoned to Qinghong, it crawled over from the corner of the tent, several wounds on its abdomen and back had healed, and the broken scales had also regrown, but they had not fully grown, and it would take a few more days for the hardness of the scales to reach its high point.

He reached out and stroked the new scales, which felt hard and cold to the touch, like pieces of iron.

Spiritual energy begins to invest.

The golden scale iron spine is obtained by heterogeneous symbiosis, Ji Xinghuo improves himself, and Qinghong will also change synchronously.

Suddenly, its eyes widened and it looked up at its master.

With the continuous investment of spiritual source energy, the progress is moving forward, and the gold on the scales is getting deeper and deeper, and the lines are becoming more and more obvious.

Scales also appeared on Ji Xinghuo's skin, shining with three-color light.

Soon.

The progress of the Golden Scale Iron Spine has reached [Level 4 (5477/5477)], and it will no longer change, and the spiritual source energy has also stopped investing.

Ji Xinghuo felt that the qi and blood in his body were surging, the blood of the titanium cobalt dragon was churning, and the scales outside his body were undergoing qualitative changes. In the body, the spine, which was already as hard as alloy, began to harden to the bones outside the spine, and from the back, the bones became harder and harder.

In the interface, the bones in the body of the human phantom on the right glow.

You can clearly see that a golden energy emanates from the spine and gradually spreads to your whole body.

"Hmm......"

Ji Xinghuo raised his hand, the scales on the back of his hand became larger and thicker, and the gap between the scales became smaller, cast into pieces, like a gorgeous armor.

The roots of the scales sprout thin stalks, digging deep into the flesh and connecting with the bones inside, like leaves growing from the trunk of a tree, forming a tightly connected defense system.

Bones are the support of the body.

Each strengthening of the bones brings about an increase in strength.

Ji Xinghuo clearly felt that his strength was improving step by step, and the progress of the blood of the titanium cobalt dragon was also slowly advancing. As early as when he first fused, he discovered that there was a complementary relationship between the blood of the titanium cobalt dragon and the golden scale iron ridge, one was the inner core and the other was the outer shell, which complemented each other.

At the same time, Qinghong's scales were also increasing simultaneously, but it didn't have the blood of the titanium cobalt dragon, so the effect was not so strong.

A moment later.

Ji Xinghuo and Qinghong's scales finally stopped changing and stabilized again.

Ability information in the UI updated.

[Ability: Holy Scale Armor (Level 5 1/27767)]

"Sure enough, it's advanced!"

Ji Xinghuo was pleasantly surprised in his eyes, his hunch was right, but it was a little unexpected.

Previously, other abilities were leveled up the same, such as before and after "Aether Sensitivity" was upgraded to "Aether Affinity," which was level 3.

The Golden Scale Iron Spine advanced to the "Holy Scale Armor", but it was upgraded to the fifth level.

There doesn't seem to be a pattern.

Ji Xinghuo seriously felt the upgraded ability, indeed as its name suggested, the scales were all connected as if they were wearing armor, and the gaps between the scales were just dents, like patterns, but they were actually close to being completely closed, and they couldn't be pierced.

"Holy Scale Armor......" he struggled to remember for a moment, making sure he hadn't heard of it.

It should be an ability that hasn't been seen on Earth, and it's not in the database.

But at least overlimit!

The Holy Scale Armor was upgraded from level 5 to level 6, and it actually required 27,767 points of spiritual energy, making it the most difficult ability for him to upgrade.

With such a high demand, its power and potential can be seen.

Ji Xinghuo didn't need to test it, but he knew that his defense had skyrocketed a lot, not only could he resist physical blows, but he also had good resistance to energy damage.

The strength has also increased a lot, and now the bench press weight should be 18 tons!

He pressed hard against the back of his hand, and the scales only sagged and popped out slightly, extremely resilient, and there was a force to bounce.

"What is this?"

Ji Xinghuo was a little uncertain.

So he picked up the Lei Chi knife and struck it the arm with the back of the knife, the scales splashed out of the sparks, intact, but the knife was rebounded at a faster speed.

"Sure enough, it's a rebound!" Ji Xinghuo was pleasantly surprised.

"Rebound" is a premium ability that bounces back a portion of the force that hit you, but it's more limited.

It's a passive ability, which sounds great, but it's a beating-only ability, and only a few defensive Inhumans are willing to fuse.

And the rebound is not immunity, it only weakens the blow.

Ji Xinghuo never thought of fusing the "rebound", but he didn't expect that after the upgrade of the Golden Scale Iron Spine, it would come with this effect, which was an unexpected joy.

He looked at Qinghong.

The guy was still immersed in the enhanced scales, happily spinning around the tent, turning back to lick the scales on his body.

"It's not over yet." Ji Xinghuo reached out and pressed it on its body, "Don't move." ”

As he spoke, he continued to invest in the spiritual source energy.

This time it was the "gravity mutation" that was raised, and Qinghong immediately felt the change in herself, and honestly lay on her stomach and didn't dare to move.

The sudden change in gravity is (Level 2 1/347).

Soon it was promoted to level 3 and became (level 3 1/1427).

The gravity mutation that has been upgraded to level 3 allows Qinghong to manipulate the range of gravity changes to about five times, allowing it to become lighter and increase its speed exponentially; It can also become heavier in an instant, bursting with more damage when attacking enemies.

Qinghong's eyes were full of happiness and she was eager for more improvement.

The remaining spiritual source energy is enough to make the gravity mutation go up to another level, but Ji Xinghuo is not ready to do this, and has an ability upgrade.

【Claw of the Sky (Level 1 1/239)】

Ever since Qinghong fused this ability, it hasn't been upgraded, but it's already showing its power.

The stone sickle giant had a basalt body, and its body was as hard as a rock, but it couldn't withstand Qinghong's claws, and it was only one level.

This shows the enormous potential of the Claw of the Broken Sky.

It's an overrun ability, after all!

Ji Xinghuo invested in spiritual energy, and the claw of the broken sky became (level 2 1/1459).

He didn't stop, and soon upgraded again, becoming [Sky Claw (Level 3 1/6869)].

Qinghong rolled happily, looking at Ji Xinghuo with a blank eye, wanting more.

"It's gone."

Ji Xinghuo glanced at the interface, there were only a few dozen points of spiritual energy left, anyway, it was not much, so it was enough to satisfy Qinghong to throw all of them into the claw of the Splitting Sky.

"Let's go outside and try it."

Ji Xinghuo got out of the tent, and Qinghong also came out.

It appeared a true body more than six meters long, stood upright, and the sharp claws on its forelimbs waved, and suddenly condensed ten energy blades, which were more condensed and wide than before, and the length had also increased by half, close to one meter six, swallowing gray-white energy.

"Give it a try." Ji Xinghuo pointed at a boulder a hundred meters away.

Qinghong's figure flashed, her weight instantly became lighter, and she rushed to the boulder in the blink of an eye, raised her claws and quickly waved them a few times.

There was a screeching sound, and gravel flew everywhere.

The hard boulder was like tofu, quickly cut by Qinghong's Sky Claw, and in the blink of an eye, it was reduced by half.

The incisions on each side are flat, like the effect of a stone cutter.

"That's it."

Ji Xinghuo nodded with satisfaction.

The Claw of the Sky Splitter was more powerful than he expected, not to mention rock, even steel could cut through several layers. If you fight the Stone Scythe Giant Ray today, the Claw of the Sky Splitting has three levels, and you don't need to shoot it yourself, Qinghong will be able to kill it.

Qinghong put away her blade, shrunk her body, and quickly ran back to ask Ji Xinghuo for credit.

Ji Xinghuo saw through its careful thinking at a glance.

"No, wait for next time." Ji Xinghuo smiled, "You have to work hard in the future, and the more enemies you kill, the faster I can strengthen you." ”

Qinghong tilted her head to think, and immediately understood, nodding excitedly.

Return to the tent to rest.

When entering the starry night, Ji Xinghuo woke up and got up to clean up.

The night of the astral plane is 24.8 hours, and it is the beginning of the intermoon, and the night duration is about 11 hours, and he doesn't need to sleep so long at all, only six or seven hours is enough. Qinghong's physical strength recovered faster, she slept for two or three hours, ate some food, and immediately jumped up and down again.

"Let's go."

Ji Xinghuo quickly packed up the tent, jumped on Qinghong's back, and continued to hurry.

After dawn, he left the Valley of the Peaks.

In front of him was an endless forest, which still belonged to the Thousand Peaks Abyss Forest, the territory of the Heavenly Feather Royal Court.

Along the way, Ji Xinghuo avoided the Hanging City of the Winged People far away, and there were some local races and tribes, and they didn't want to provoke.

The further west you go, the higher the altitude gets.

The density of the forests began to decline, and the tree species gradually changed from broad-leaved forests to coniferous forests, which were mostly flat basins, and the terrain became steeper, and on the horizon there were mountains with no end in sight, and the peaks were higher and higher, and the weather was getting colder and colder.

Finally, after a dozen astral heavens, a continuous stream of huge mountains appeared in front of them, and looking at the horizon, you could see snow-capped peaks under the blue sky.

The magnificent and majestic plateau scenery makes Ji Xinghuo's mood surging.

The Bloody Plateau has arrived!

(End of chapter)