Individual Progress

Under normal circumstances, it is possible to learn or even master a skill in a short period of time, which requires long-term practice day and night.

However, if there is a teacher who has perfectly mastered this technique and can teach it every day and every moment, and even use real combat to teach it, then the speed of learning the technique will be greatly improved, and it may even be mastered in a short period of time.

The killing field in the virtual universe happens to have this function.

Zhou Tong's favorite thing was the sword, so he chose to learn various sword techniques from the Three Thousand Great Daos.

The minor supernatural powers and low-level spells derived from the Three Thousand Great Daos are quite different from those of the Devouring World.

But the great path leads to the same destination, even if the routes are different.

Over countless years, the virtual universe has recorded countless techniques and secret arts. As long as they do not involve laws and rules, ordinary secret arts and techniques can still be simulated.

Therefore, as long as Zhou Tong practices the sword technique he wants to learn once in the killing field, he can immediately set up an opponent who has perfectly mastered this sword technique.

Then Zhou Tong practiced with it repeatedly until he learned and even mastered it, and then continued this process to learn the next skill.

And so it goes, and a year passes in the blink of an eye.

During this period, Zhou Tong learned the Void-Piercing Strike from the Great Slaughter Technique and the Instant Slash from the White Emperor Golden Emperor Slash.

Then he learned a set of Instant Step techniques from the Great Blink Technique, and some conventional techniques from the Great Five Elements Technique.

To verify the effectiveness of this system in combat within a virtual universe, Zhou Tong conducted a simulated battle in the killing field.

The opponents are 10000 level 9 Hengxing, half of whom are martial artists and half are mentalists, and half of them are randomly assigned to different domains.

"kill!"

Gazing at the endless crowd, Zhou Tong, amidst the deafening shouts of battle, used his Instant Step to rush into the throng.

"Sky-Piercing Strike!"

This move has spatial properties; when the sword is thrust out, the enemy will be sucked to the tip of the sword, as if the enemy is willingly going to their death.

"Instant Slash!"

Extreme speed brings extreme attack power; often, the enemy is dead before they even realize the attack.

After an unknown amount of time, Zhou Tong's ordinary longsword was broken, and the corpses at his feet had piled up into a small hill.

He scanned the remaining people with his mental power and found that there were still two-thirds left.

Zhou Tong was quite satisfied with the close-combat performance.

So he threw away the broken sword, flew into the air, and began using the Five Elements spell on the crowd.

"Extreme freezing! Exploding fire rain! Golden thorns! Earthquake-shattering! Binding vines!"

In an instant, the crowd was overwhelmed by the Five Elements magic, falling in droves.

Mass killings or area-of-effect attacks are faster.

Before we knew it, the crowd thinned out until there wasn't a single person left standing.

[Battle over!]

Looking at the projection prompts in the killing field, Zhou Tong breathed a sigh of relief and left the virtual universe.

Coincidentally, Luo Feng, Hong, and Lei Shen also returned to reality to rest at this time.

"Hey! Finished your training?" Thor greeted him with a smile.

Seeing the three of them looking energetic and full of life, Zhou Tong smiled and replied, "You've all made great progress."

"Not bad!" Luo Feng replied with a smile.

"Everyone, sit down and let's chat!" Hong said, pouring tea as he did so.

Seeing this, Zhou Tong, Luo Feng, and Lei Shen naturally agreed.

The four of them chatted about their cultivation progress while sipping tea.

During this period, Luo Feng has successfully mastered the basics of the White Emperor Golden Emperor Slash and the Great Devouring Technique.

This allowed Luo Feng to master the Golden Domain even before the Golden Horned Beast broke through to the cosmic level, and at the same time, he also touched upon the laws of space, leaving behind a spatial illusion.

With the support of the domain, Hong successfully mastered the basics of the Great Dark Arts.

Through mutual encouragement, he comprehended the ninth level of the domain, just one step away from touching the entry point of the fundamental law of light.

Thor was already just one step away from mastering the domain, and the Great Lightning Technique and various lightning supernatural abilities that Zhou Tong passed on to him helped him take that step.

While successfully comprehending the realm of lightning, Thor also mastered the basics of a minor supernatural power: the Purple Lightning Yin Lightning Blade.

As they chatted, Thor suddenly challenged, "...How about we practice? Talking is no fun!"

Zhou Tong, Luo Feng, and Hong understood Thor's meaning perfectly well; they felt that having a domain meant they were now in a position to succeed.

"Good! The Golden Horned Beast has been lying in the mine for so long, it's time for it to stretch its body." Luo Feng looked at the group with excitement.

Hong had been thinking of taking a break because he had hit a bottleneck in his cultivation. Now, hearing Luo Feng and Thor's challenge, he was also feeling restless and eager to fight.

"Perfect timing, I also want to try to comprehend the fundamental laws in battle."

Zhou Tong was speechless when he saw that the three of them were looking at him. He had just fought a fierce battle in the killing field and didn't want to move at all.

"How about I call Irina out to fight you?"

"We want to spar, not be humiliated!"

"That..."

Seeing that Zhou Tong was still trying to play tricks, Luo Feng and Thor immediately pulled out their weapons and attacked Zhou Tong.

Helpless, Zhou Tong dodged the attack with a quick movement, then used the Great Teleportation Technique to travel into space.

If they were to fight on Earth now, even the slightest aftershock of their conflict would be a catastrophe.

A moment later, Luo Feng arrived first in his Sky-Piercing Shuttle, followed by Thor, enveloped in lightning, and Hong, who was flying at the very back.

"Since you're so eager to fight, then let me properly teach you how to use the Three Thousand Great Daos!"

After speaking, Zhou Tong took out the Crimson Copper Mother Flying Sword and slashed at Luo Feng with the White Emperor Golden Emperor Slash. He then unleashed a great light spell at Hong, and finally used the Five Elements Divine Thunder of the Great Five Elements Technique to bombard the Thunder God.

In a single encounter, Luo Feng, Hong, and Lei Shen were suppressed and had to use their strongest domains to deal with Zhou Tong.

However, Zhou Tong's expertise is greater and stronger than theirs.

The sparring match ended abruptly after only two rounds, leaving Luo Feng, Hong, and Lei Shen feeling quite discouraged.

It was a three-on-one situation, and Zhou Tong was unilaterally dominating and beating us like a punching bag. We had no experience at all.

Of the three, Luo Feng was the most resilient thanks to the thick hide of the Golden Horned Beast, Hong had the strongest domain realm and could hold his own against Zhou Tong, while Thor was the weakest in everything and could barely get involved in the battle.

With a sigh, Thor pouted and said, "In the end, I'm still the last one."

Luo Feng was curious as to why Zhou Tong's White Emperor Golden Emperor Slash was different from his own.

"Zhou Tong, why does your White Emperor Golden Emperor Slash have that platinum-gold sharpness?"

Zhou Tong said calmly, "That's the energy of Geng metal. Once you've mastered the White Emperor Golden Emperor Slash to the point where you can condense the White Emperor Talisman and the Golden Emperor Talisman, you'll be able to refine the energy of Geng metal."

Luo Feng immediately had a headache: "The Golden Horned Beast is a gold-devouring monster, and the White Emperor Golden Emperor Slash also requires all sorts of high-quality metals, but where am I going to get so much high-quality metal?"

Zhou Tong shrugged and said, "The metal resources I found weren't enough to perfect the Great Five Elements Technique. Why don't you dismantle the Meteorite Starship?"

Luo Feng immediately shook his head: "Babata will not allow it. Besides, the Meteorite Star is the last stronghold of the Meteorite Star lineage. It cannot be lost."

At this point, Hong chimed in, "To cultivate the Great Light and Great Darkness spells, various special resources or special environments are required. Resources are priceless and unavailable for purchase, and the environment is even more unpredictable."

Thor, thinking about the Great Lightning Bolt spell, also had a headache: "Earth's lightning can't be used to cultivate the Great Lightning Bolt spell, and I don't know where to find suitable resources?"

Zhou Tong replied, "It must be a resource or a special region that carries the aura of the law of lightning."

The three of them were instantly helpless. They had already experienced the benefits of the Three Thousand Great Daos, but the difficulty of cultivating them was indeed harsh.

During this period, they mainly focused on cultivating the Three Thousand Great Daos, only occasionally going to the killing field, so they did not encounter any recruitment attempts from the virtual universe branch in the original work.