Shattered Star Sea.

Athletic Island.

The blood-colored energy barrier shrouds the island, with an arena in the center and a ladder that stretches infinitely into the sky in the back, with no end in sight.

The outer walls of the arena are made of huge stone blocks, and the stones are tightly intertwined, and they are still as strong as ever after tens of thousands of years of wind and frost, and there is a faint liquid flowing inside.

In the afterglow of the setting sun, the outer walls of the arena are draped in a layer of golden light, showing the sacredness.

At the center of the arena is a massive amphitheater with a semi-dome spanning the entire field, with enough seating for thousands of spectators beneath the dome, surrounded by rows of towering stone pillars, each intricately carved.

At this time, a battle had just been experienced on the arena, and the shattered field was quickly repairing and healing.

The cheers also stopped abruptly at this moment.

"Whew, survived."

Dragging his tired body, which was seriously injured, Cao Lie staggered into the tunnel outside the arena and returned to his room, closed the door and lay on the bed and began to gasp for breath.

Recalling the moment of life and death in the arena, a touch of ruthlessness appeared on his face.

In his third month here, he has been through three battles, each of which has been dangerous.

Cao Lie had heard of this place for a long time, but he never thought that he would become a member of this place.

Known as the "Arena of the Furious Gods" by the alien races of the open seas, this island is one of the three major arenas established by the Furious God, and it is necessary to please, and provide power to the Furious God by capturing alien warriors and entering the arena for endless battles.

He was a four-year veteran of the Famine Legion, but he was captured by the followers of the Wrathed God in a battle before he was about to receive the Blue Star Mark, and was thrown into the arena, where he was forced to become a low-level competitive fighter to amuse the Wrathful God.

If you want to escape, it's impossible.

The entire island was shrouded in the power of the Wrathful God, and even the Lord of Famine was defeated in the battle with the Wrathful God.

After three months of adaptation, Cao Lie has a clearer understanding of this arena.

The arena he is currently in is called the first-order arena, which is the lowest arena on the athletic island, and if you get ten victories, you can step on the heavenly steps and go to the second-order arena to face the challenge of stronger competitive fighters.

Legend has it that the top floor of the Arena Heavenly Stairs is known as the Arena of the Gods.

The Wrathful God has captured a large number of evil gods from the outer seas, throwing them into the god arena to please themselves through battles between the gods.

There is only one way to rush out, and that is to fight your way through the Arena of the First Order, and then face the Rage God.

How difficult it is to achieve this goal, far more difficult than becoming a "famine god's choice".

But he didn't have a choice.

After being forced to become a competitive fighter, he has only two options: death and fighting.

Choosing death is a sign of cowardice, and it is a blasphemy against the belief of Emperor Xiushen, and he can only fight.

It's been three months since he's been here, and every month he's going to have a life-and-death contest where only the winner can get off the stage alive, and then wait a month for a new challenge.

Lying on the bed, Cao Lie's breathing intensified.

He didn't know how much longer he would last, and the injury made him realize that he probably wouldn't survive the next fight.

Just then, there was a knock on the door.

Hearing the sound, Cao Lie's eyes changed, and he got up and opened the door.

He wasn't worried about being attacked here.

The most intolerable thing for the Rage God is sneak attacks and assassinations, except for killing opponents in the arena, competitive fighters are not allowed to attack and kill other competitive fighters outside the arena.

If you do so, you will be thrown into the purgatory of rage by the god of rage, and the soul will be subjected to endless reincarnation of torment.

When the door was opened, standing outside the door was a short figure resembling a kappa.

I saw that it was holding a green pot in its hand, held it high, and on it was placed a spiritual plant that emitted rich life fluctuations.

The kappa raised his head at this moment and nodded at him in the ancient language:

“*@&￥*#。”

Realizing that Cao Lie couldn't understand his own language at all, Kappa shook his head in annoyance, and then opened his mouth to spit at him, and suddenly a green mark erupted from his mouth, and after making contact with Cao Lie's body, it was imprinted into his body.

"I am a believer in the God of Wrath, you have completed the three-win challenge, according to the rules set by the God of Wrath, your fighting spirit has been initially recognized, and the God of Wrath has given you a Divine Healing Spirit Plant to help you recover from your injuries, and I also look forward to your more wonderful performance."

As he spoke, the kappa stood on tiptoe and lifted the tray high.

Reaching out to pick up the spiritual plant in the kappa tray, Cao Lie put it in front of his nose and sniffed it lightly, and suddenly the rich medicinal fragrance poured into his body along his nose.

Under the cool wash, the pain caused by the injury is instantly reduced.

"This is a Level 6 Spirit Plantation Ground B Grass?"

"It seems to be the name of this kind of spirit plant by a certain sea race, it should be correct."

Kappa tilted his head and thought about it, nodding a little uncertainly.

Hearing Kappa's answer, Cao Lie secretly said to himself, Level 4 or above Spirit Plants are known as rare resources in the Human Empire, and they are expensive, and the value of Level 6 Spirit Plants is far greater than that of Level 4 Spirit Plants, and it may take 15-25 years for a Spirit Plant Cultivator to cultivate one, and a high-grade Spirit Field with abundant spiritual energy is also needed.

Such a precious spiritual plant, the Furious God gave it away so easily.

He had heard that the God of Wrath was one of the most powerful gods in the open sea, and that he was sitting on countless treasures and resources, and he felt it firsthand.

"After you get five victories, you can get permission to go to the Soul Skill Pavilion, come on."

"Soul Skill Pavilion, what is that?"

Seeing the kappa's reminder, he turned around and was about to leave, Cao Lie immediately asked.

"It's a soul secret technique developed by the best warriors of the Wrath God Inscription Challenger, which can help warriors quickly improve their strength."

"Soul cultivation skills?" Cao Lie was stunned.

In his cognition, the soul must exist, but human beings are still in the exploration stage of the soul, and they have not yet figured out what the soul is.

"That's right, the ability of soul cultivation, every soul skill is extremely precious, and it is a treasure that can cause countless forces to compete for it outside, but as a competitive fighter, as long as you reach five victories, you can read and learn it for free...... This is the gift of the wrathful god to the competitive warriors. ”

In Kappa's narration, Cao Lie gradually understands soul skills.

Since the establishment of the arena by the Raging God, there have been countless strong people fighting and growing here.

The strongest of them have all challenged the Furious Gods, and after their defeat, the Furious Gods have refined their souls into soul seals, inscribed with their lifelong combat experience and skills, known as Soul Skills.

It is similar to the cultivation exercises of traveling through the previous world.

But the difference is that the cultivation of soul skills directly acts on the soul.

** cultivation is very different because of the body structure, the direction of the meridians in the body and other issues, and the cultivation methods of different races are bound to be different.

But the soul technique is different, this is a kind of cultivation ability that ignores ** and directly acts on the soul.

In the process of comprehending the soul technique, ** will also be nourished by the gradual growth of the soul and obtain a powerful infusion of power.

This was the first time Cao Lie knew that there was such a thing as soul skills.

In fact, the Human Empire is also researching the technology of soul enhancement, and has even studied the source of pollution for this purpose, trying to "tame" the crude enhancement of the soul by the source of pollution, so that it becomes a gradual enhancement.

However, the results of this technical research have not been made public so far, and there are obviously no new breakthroughs.

After all, once the technologies of the Human Empire are successfully developed, they will inevitably be directly put into the battlefield for actual combat testing.

According to Kappa's description, the bottom arena has also produced many powerful warriors through the cultivation of soul skills, and many of them have weak racial potential, but they have grown rapidly after cultivation, and finally even have the qualifications to challenge the Raging God.

This made Cao Lie have a strong interest in soul skills.

But before that, he still has to go through two competitive battles, and only five wins can he be eligible for the opportunity to get the initial contact with soul skills.

The kappa left after explaining, and Cao Lie closed the door and sat on the edge of the bed looking at the spirit plant in his hand.

Without hesitation, he stuffed the spirit plant into his mouth and chewed and swallowed.

The cooling sensation slides down the throat and travels throughout the body after a rapid ablation in the stomach.

Looking down, the purple bruises on his body were reduced and smoothed out at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the scratches left by the sharp claws on his arms were also healed and scabbed under the washing of the medicinal effect.

The medicinal effect of the level 6 spirit plant is very domineering, and after repairing the injury, it continues to wander in the body.

The pores under the energy wash are dilated, and the smelly black impurities are discharged, making the body cleaner.

At the end of the room, he opened the door to a lake under a waterfall, where Cao Lie began to exercise after washing up.

He wants to take advantage of the effect of the medicine to still swim in the body, and absorb the effect of the medicine more effectively through physical training to nourish the body.

When you look up during the exercise, you can see that there are also competitive fighters in other rooms doing physical exercises in front of the lake, and they are all physical exercises.

It's about the rules of the arena.

The Raging God is disdainful of curses, viruses, pestilences, spells, and other abilities.

believes that only pure ** collision and skill fighting are real warriors, so multiple restrictions are set in the arena, and the elemental energy in the arena is completely evacuated to prevent the emergence of combat methods other than ** fighting.

So if you want to survive here, the only way to temper your strength and combat skills is to do so.

After two consecutive days of cultivation, the medicinal effect of the level 6 spirit plant dissipated.

Cao Lie could clearly feel that his nourished body had become different, and his physical fitness was much stronger than before.

There are 23 days left before the next competition, and the time in the arena is called "Shuo".

It is the time set by the periodic luminescence of an algae plant in the competitive sea, regardless of the alternation of the sun and the moon, and the time of each new year is 26 days, and each new year experiences a battle.

The rest of the time, in addition to physical training and watching the death matches of other competitive fighters, Cao Lie also began to recall the fighting skills taught by the instructor.

The real battlefield fighting technique is not a one-trick back and forth dismantling, and in many cases, it is a matter of separating victory and defeat and life and death in a short period of time.

But battlefield fighting doesn't work in arenas.

Battlefield fighting is only attacking, there is no defense and retreat, and it requires an indomitable charge.

But the fight in the arena needs to be "guarded".

Pure ** fighting to block and dodge the opponent's lethal moves, blind attack can easily lead to both defeats, or even both deaths.

This requires him to dismantle the battlefield fighting techniques taught by the instructors, and on this basis, eliminate those offensive methods that sacrifice their lives.

The time came 23 days later.

Cao Lie walked out of the room and walked through the passage to the arena's auditorium.

At this time, there were two figures in the ring engaged in a fierce fight, and the battle ended after 1 minute.

The defeated who fell in a pool of blood were corroded and absorbed by the ring, including the blood flowing on the ground and the clothes they were wearing, and the ring was cleaned and repaired in a matter of seconds.

It's a good thing to watch the learning process, and he comes to watch the competitive fighters clash with each other almost every day.

After 2 hours.

Two characters appeared above the ring, one of which was the character printed on the door of Cao Lie's room.

Taking a deep breath, he turned and entered the tunnel.

After a long time, he jumped into the ring and looked at the other side of the tunnel.

A three-meter-tall figure gradually emerged from the darkness.

Its head was covered with yellow fuzz, its forehead had five rough wrinkles, and its body was bronzed in the sun, as if every muscle contained endless power.

After jumping into the ring, he opened his mouth to reveal a pair of sharp fangs in his mouth, like two deadly daggers.

The thick and powerful limbs fell to the ground at this moment, the claws that popped out were as sharp as knives, and the long, powerful tail swayed with the shaking of the body.

Before the battle could begin, the beast-like monster let out a deafening roar of deterrence at him.

A wild and domineering aura came to his face.

In the face of provocation, a trace of anger appeared in Cao Lie's eyes, and he lowered his body and prepared to attack.

In his school career before he went to the battlefield, the sentence he heard the most was:

"If you hesitate, you will lose, and in the face of a strong enemy, you can only forge a way out."

Under pressure, Cao Lie was ready to fight to the death.

As the characters above the arena turned red and dissipated, onlookers cheered, and Cao Lie's lowered body pounced on the beast-like competitor like an arrow from a string, and smashed his right fist straight into his neck.

But with the disadvantage of arm length, the beast's claws were the first to bully the head.

Cao Lie's figure pressed down again in the process of advancing, sliding forward with his claws at a thrilling angle, and when he approached the beast, he violently exerted force under his feet, and pushed his head against the beast's jaw.

Click!

At the same time as the sound of bones shattering, his right arm lit up with a spirit streak.

This is the ability given to him by the Life Enhancement Liquid developed by the Human Empire's Life Weaving Technology after being injected into his body, which can instantly improve his physical fitness by consuming life force, including strength, speed, etc.

The clenched right arm, led by its twisted body, slammed into the beast's dislocated jaw.

This punch instantly lifted the beast away, but the beast subconsciously hugged and counterattacked, and also scratched blood marks on both sides of his waist and abdomen.

The pain didn't make Cao Lie stop his movements, he chased after him with a vicious tiger pounce posture, and the life spirit pattern reappeared, although doing so was undoubtedly consuming his physical potential.

But he couldn't care about that much anymore.

Only by living can there be a future.

A whip leg slammed into the beast's head from the right side, causing its newly stable form to flip on its side again.

Then came a torrential assault of kicks to the beast's neck, shattering the beast's neck bone and breathing like a fan.

At this time, it was powerless to resist, and when Cao Lie's whip leg hit the beast's neck again, the beast's eyes instantly turned white and fell to the ground.

But Cao Lie did not stop attacking, and the battle in the ring ended with only the opponent dead.

Even if the opponent seems to be dead, he must not stop, and he must not give the opponent the possibility of respite and turn the tables.

Finally, when the characters in the ring appeared, Cao Lie, who was sweating like rain, stopped attacking, looked down at the sides of his waist and abdomen, blood was still flowing, and the severe pain made him realize that he was not lightly injured.

In addition to these two scars, there were also superficial scratches on the beast's body as it struggled to swing its claws.

But a smile appeared on Cao Lie's face.

Survived!