Chapter 42: Three Inner Dan

  "A gentleman does not stand under a precarious wall... but I am... simply competing with the god of death!"

  Qin Tianyi, who had fallen to the ground, was dizzy and forced himself to get up with difficulty.

  At this moment, he could clearly smell the fragrance of meat on himself. If it weren't for the last moment when he broke through to Sword Master 9th level and relied on the power of the Lord-level inner elixir to stimulate his true energy to protect his body, he would have been thoroughly roasted alive, even if he hadn't been blown to ashes by this close-range explosion.

  "Hiss!"

  As he struggled to get up, it seemed to have pulled on the wound again, and a sharp pain shot through him once more, causing Qin Tianyi's forehead to break out in cold sweat.

  "That ferocious beast should be dead by now..."

  "Roar!"

  The moment Qin Tianji's mind flashed with that thought, a roar filled with pain and fury burst out in the blazing flames formed by the explosion, and a terrifying giant beast covered in blood and burned by the flames suddenly charged out of the fire.

  At this moment, the momentum and determination bursting out of this giant rhino war beast were like those of an unparalleled demon king who refused to fall into hell and instead charged out from the depths of hell itself. Its sole purpose was to thoroughly crush the human who dared to kill a member of the giant rhino war beast tribe standing before it.

  "Didn't die?!"

  Looking at the terrifying giant beast in front of him that was full of flames from head to toe, and was ferocious and cruel, Qin Tianyi's heart shook greatly.

  Not dead!

  This fierce beast was hit by a C-9302 shell and didn't die!?

  He underestimated the ferocity of the beast.

  Especially the Lord-level ferocious beast!

  Previously, relying on the advantage of his mechanical armor, he killed a level 10 Thunder Eagle and successfully evaded the pursuit of the Thunder Eagle tribe. This gave him an idea - that fierce beasts were not as formidable as he thought. As a result, when faced with a desperate situation, instead of going to large cities to buy elixirs or rare materials, he set his sights on the fierce beasts themselves.

  They struck those formidable beasts of lord class that all strong humans feared like tigers.

  But at this moment, seeing the beast lord rushing out of the flames, he finally understood the true meaning of the two words "beast".

  The giant rhino beast's speed is far inferior to that of a human swordsman, but in terms of defense and vitality, it is much stronger than humans.

  "Run!"

  Gritting one's teeth!

  Even if his body was severely injured at this moment and could collapse at any time, Qin Tianyi could only rely on the strong control of his 9th-level spiritual power over his body to forcibly cut off many nerve connections and mechanically rush forward again.

  He believed that the beast at the forefront was also the strongest!

  As long as he holds on and keeps running forward, that ferocious beast will definitely fall first.

  This is a contest of wills.

  Although...

  The two sides of the confrontation are a human and a ferocious beast!

  Run wildly!

  Deadly sprint!

  Although he had only been running for a few minutes, Qin Tianyi felt as if he had been running for several hours, several days, or even a lifetime!

  Weakness and severe pain filled every corner of his body, corroding his physique, weakening his will, making him feel that he had reached the limit, made the greatest effort, and stimulated all the potential in his body. At this time, what he should do is to fall down, have a good sleep, don't care about anything, listen to nature.

  But in his heart of hearts, there was always a conviction that supported him.

  Hang in there!

  Don't give up!

  Fall down, there is only one dead end!

  His future should be that vast starry sky, not defeated by a small Lord-level fierce beast!

  Run!

  Keep running!

  "Hoo! Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!"

  Qin Tianyi seemed to be able to clearly hear the flow of blood, as if he could clearly feel his own heartbeat, as if he could sense that one by one, neurons were being activated, opened and transformed under the transmission of information!

  Good!

  Just as Qin Tianyi felt that his life would never stop, and he would continue to run non-stop, a voice drifted in, seemingly from the depths of the universe and the end of the starry sky, echoing quietly in his spiritual world...

  "Beep! Now within effective attack range of 78mm metal storm rapid-fire cannon. Attack confirmed?"

  This sound lingered in his mind for a while, and Qin Tianyi's spirit, which was completely immersed in his own faith, seemed to have finally been pulled back a little.

  "BEEP! WARNING! CRISIS IMMINENT! CRISIS IMMINENT! RECOMMEND ACTIVATING 78MM METAL STORM ATTACK!"

  He came back to himself and in his mind, No. 2's second reminder had already sounded.

  "Attack?"

  At this time, Qin Tianyi suddenly woke up.

  He is running for his life.

  Behind him, there is a Lord-level fierce beast chasing to kill!

  In a flash of clarity, Qin Tianji's eyes suddenly sharpened.

  "Attack!"

  "Beep! Command confirmed!"

  "Rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble!!"

  In an instant, a metal storm poured down from the top of the Moonlight!

  The 78mm caliber Metal Storm Gatling gun was originally used to deal with small mechs and skyfighters, although the range is relatively short and the power is relatively small, but because of its terrifying rate of fire, it can weave a dense firepower net that covers the sky.

  At the moment when the command was given, Qin Tianyi felt as if the sky had flashed for a moment, and the deafening roar of the thunder shook the air behind him. The entire earth groaned in agony under the rapid-fire metal storm cannon's bombardment.

  The body of the giant rhino beast is strong and defensive, if it were to be placed in a federation, what heavy machine guns, armor-piercing bullets, even their scales would not be able to tear them open, let alone standard tanks, they wouldn't be able to do anything to them.

  However, facing this war weapon that sweeps through the universe, even if it's just the weakest rapid-fire cannon, it will still completely suppress the dozen or so ferocious beasts that are chasing and killing.

  In the end, except for three giant rhino war beasts with master-level strength that relied on their strong defense and vitality to barely escape the firepower coverage area, the remaining ten giant rhino war beasts were completely shot dead, including one master-level giant rhino war beast.

  As for the first giant rhino war beast that reached the peak of the lord level, it actually exhausted all its energy and fell to the ground after chasing Qin Tianyi for less than a kilometer. However, at that time, Qin Tianyi was already somewhat disoriented due to the intense pain from the explosion and didn't notice.

  "The inner elixir of a ninth-grade demonic beast...wasted..."

  Qin Tianyi glanced in that direction and sighed.

  He can barely maintain his standing posture now, let alone have enough strength to dig out the inner elixirs of those fierce beasts.

  Just in case something else happens, Qin Tianyi directly lay down and quietly transported the true energy inside his body to recover from his physical injuries.

  Three hours later, he had barely recovered some of his energy and started walking again towards the Moonlight.

  The Moonlight suffered heavy losses, but fortunately, a treatment cabin was preserved. Even though Qin Tianyi's injuries were severe enough to be on the verge of death, lying inside for a few hours would allow him to recover immediately.

  Less than nine kilometers, Qin Tianyi walked for nearly two hours with great difficulty before finally arriving at the Moonlight, and crawled into the treatment cabin of the Moonlight.

  Qin Tianyi's injuries looked very serious, but in fact most of them were burns. With the Federation's technology, these burns were relatively easy to treat.

  As for the real internal injury, only the leader of the giant rhino beast's peak-level shockwave can cause such an injury, which cannot be cured in a short period of time in the treatment room.

  Furthermore, Qin Tianyi was thinking about the inner elixirs of those level 10 ferocious beasts and lord-level ferocious beasts outside. Less than two hours later, after his external injuries had recovered, he had already left the treatment cabin, disembarked from the Moonlight Warship, and arrived at the battlefield nine kilometers away.

  "The power of a planet-class warship is truly astonishing, and this is still the weakest metal storm rapid-fire cannon. The target it killed was a giant rhino beast with an astonishing defense... If it were human, even a great sword master would have no choice but to die under this metal torrent..."

  Looking at the ground in front of him that had been ravaged beyond recognition, as well as the almost unrecognizable corpse of a nine-headed giant rhinoceros, Qin Tianyi muttered to himself.

  Although he had made great contributions with the help of this planet-class warship, Qin Tianyi did not look down on the cultivators of this world at all.

  Don't forget how their pride, this planet-class warship, crashed.

  If a cultivator can really reach that peak state... relying on one person's power, destroying the entire Federation world is not impossible.

  Qin Tianji hesitated for a moment, and then arrived in front of a level 10 ferocious beast, dissecting its corpse.

  "Sure enough, after seven or eight hours, the inner elixirs in these tenth-level fierce beasts had basically dissipated."

  No inner elixir was found, which was expected.

  Shaking his head, Qin Tianyi didn't feel too disappointed and soon arrived in front of another Head Leader-level Giant Rhinoceros War Beast, digging out its inner dan.

  This giant rhino war beast should have just entered the Lord level not long ago, and compared to the inner elixir and the one Qin Tianji swallowed earlier, its quality is obviously inferior.

  Despite this, Qin Tianyi carefully put the inner elixir into the jade box.

  Such a tyrannical beast's inner elixir, if utilized properly, might just help Yunlai Sword Sect forge a great swordsman-level powerhouse.

  After taking the inner elixir, Qin Tianyi quickly found that giant rhino war beast with flames all over its body extinguished three kilometers away from this battlefield.

  Seeing this giant rhino war beast, Qin Tianji fell silent for a moment, and finally, he slightly bowed.

  As for the leader of the giant rhinoceros beast tribe, it is undoubtedly qualified.

  After the courtesy was over, he didn't hesitate much. Soon, he took out his sword and dissected the beast with great dexterity. Before long, he found the inner elixir from its body.

  If the inner elixir of the two-headed beast kings was previously the size of a ping-pong ball, then this inner elixir had already begun to undergo another qualitative change.

  The entire inner elixir, although not fully transformed, gives off a crystal clear and transparent feeling, as if it were an exquisite work of art being held in one's hand, rather than just an inner elixir.

  "Practitioners of the Sword Master level, when their true energy liquefies and they refine their true yuan, after going through the stages of air rotation and true fire, they can impact the Great Sword Master boundary. Once they use true fire to refine the liquid true yuan in their body into a dan, their true energy transforms from a liquid state to a solid state, which is equivalent to entering the Great Sword Master boundary."

  Qin Tianyi thought back to the records he had seen in his sect's books about Sword Masters and Great Sword Masters, and already had a rough idea in his mind: "This giant rhino war beast should have already reached the edge of evolving into a Great Overlord, just half a step away. The inner dan within its body can be completely transformed, reaching the equivalent of a human Great Sword Master..."

  The preciousness of such an inner elixir far exceeds that of any ordinary lord-level fierce beast's inner elixir. If it were to spread, even a strong Sword Master would be envious of it.

  "I have just swallowed the inner elixir of a Lord-level ferocious beast, and the life essence within has not been fully refined. Even if I were to swallow this elixir now, there would be no significant effect... The best approach is to wait until I have fully refined the life essence of that Lord-level ferocious beast's inner elixir and reached the 9th level of swordsmanship, then swallow this quasi-Great Lord-level ferocious beast's inner elixir. At that time, I will surely be able to smoothly enter the realm of a Great Swordsman."