Age of Evolution

For the first time in this life and the previous one, Lin Zhen crossed hands with Chen Jingchou. In his past life, being kicked wasn’t considered a real fight.

Lin Zhen originally thought that with his own Level Nine Warrior Peak abilities and having mastered the first two layers of his spear technique, even without using his spiritual power, defeating Chen Jingchou wouldn’t be a problem.

However, it was only when they began to clash that Lin Zhen discovered just how formidable Chen Jingchou’s strength was.

“Zing, zing, zing, zing!”

Chen Jingchou’s twin blades rolled towards Lin Zhen like waves, forcing him to rely on the defensive power of his long weapon and quick reflexes just to block the attacks, unable to seize the offensive.

“Clang, clang, clang, clang! Too weak, too weak! Lin Zhen, is this all you’ve got? Clang, clang, clang, clang! Too slow, too slow, your dodging is alright, but your counterattacks are like a snail’s crawl!”

Chen Jingchou didn’t stop talking while attacking, and Lin Zhen’s ears were filled with a constant stream of noise.

The spear shaft trembled and wailed, and Lin Zhen discovered a fact: Chen Jingchou’s strength was greater than his own and the quality of his weapons was superior.

But Lin Zhen had never been one to merely take a beating. Amidst the fierce attack and defense, he twisted and dodged Chen Jingchou’s continuous deadly moves. Enduring the pain from the blade grazing his waist, he finally broke free from the defensive position.

Despite the minor injuries, Lin Zhen didn’t care and swung his spear to create a burst of spear flowers. A series of flashes leaped out, and the spear’s radiance

The speed of both fighters was incredibly fast, leaving a chaotic trail of footprints on the snowy wilderness ground, appearing either individually or in clusters, or far apart from each other.

“Pfft!”

Chen Jingchou took a hit to his thigh, but in his counterattack, his blade also slashed Lin Zhen’s shoulder.

With one injury on Chen Jingchou and two on Lin Zhen!

Chen Jingchou sneered, “Lin Zhen, I have to admit you’re strong. You really live up to the reputation of someone who can increase their physique by 99%, especially your reflexes, which leave me far behind. However, compared to me, your strength and speed are still slightly lacking. You have no chance of winning. ”

Lin Zhen also took deep breaths while gripping his long spear. Chen Jingchou was indeed mighty. Although he hadn’t utilized his spiritual power, the strength he displayed were already on par with an ordinary low-level War General.

Even with Lin Zhen having comprehended Storm, he still couldn’t overcome Chen Jingchou and, to be precise, was even at a slight disadvantage.

Chen Jingchou didn’t care about the injury on his shoulder and didn’t give Lin Zhen a chance to breathe. After a brief pause, he swung his twin blades again and charged forward.

However, from the look in his eyes, Lin Zhen could tell that he was running out of patience and was preparing to use his killing move.

Indeed, the moment their weapons crossed, two flying knives rose from behind Chen Jingchou. The green aura on the knives revealed that he was a Spiritual Mind Master at the Bronze Stage.

Among the green hues, there was no glimmer of silver, indicating that he hadn’t reached the peak of the Bronze Stage, probably being at the intermediate level.

The flying knives tore through the air, pushing back the swirling snowflakes on the ground and shooting towards Lin Zhen like lightning!

Just as Chen Jingchou thought he had victory within his grasp by launching a sneak attack with his flying knives, a smile appeared at the corner of Lin Zhen’s mouth, “Chen Jingchou, you are indeed a genius, but it’s a shame that you met me.”

With a raise of his hand, Chen Jingchou suddenly felt that he had lost control of his flying knives!

“This is impossible!”

In an instant, Chen Jingchou’s pupils dilated, staring in shock at the flying knives spinning out of control in midair.

The green aura vanished, replaced by a bright silver with traces of golden hue flowing through it.

“Golden Early Stage! A Spiritual Mind Master at the Golden Early Stage?! How is this possible? How can this be?! I must be hallucinating!”

Lin Zhen didn’t say anything more. With a flick of his finger, the two flying knives zipped through the air at more than ten times the speed of sound, cutting through Chen Jingchou’s throat and ending his life painlessly.

Upon killing Chen Jingchou, Lin Zhen’s heart momentarily felt empty.

As his physical strength increased once more, Lin Zhen could feel that he was on the verge of breaking through. If he was willing, he could now sit down in meditation to comprehend the energies of the world, stimulating the Dan Tian Qi in his body, forming the Dark Force to travel within his body, and enter the War General Stage.

Of course, Lin Zhen wasn’t going to do that. His breakthrough process wouldn’t allow failure. It wasn’t the time to enter the War General Stage yet, at least not until he had prepared the Qi Sensing Elixir.

For a martial artist, a clear understanding is vital, and grudges left unavenged can cause frustration and obstruct the flow of Qi, limiting future achievements.

In his previous life, Chen Jingchou was one of Lin Zhen’s enemies. Killing him made Lin Zhen feel much better, and naturally, he would make some breakthroughs.

However, this battle also made Lin Zhen realize that his strength was far from enough. Although he had killed Advanced War Generals, it was just sneaking up on them when they were extremely exhausted, which was a mere coincidence and didn’t mean much.

Inside Chen Jingchou’s Humvee, Lin Zhen saw a backpack on the driver’s seat and immediately opened it.

“It’s quite heavy.”

Lin Zhen opened it and saw lots of things inside.

Among them, there were about forty to fifty mutated beast crystals, all C-level. As a lone ranger, it was already very difficult to obtain so many crystals. Lin Zhen unceremoniously put them in his space ring.

There were also many materials from mutated beasts. Lin Zhen looked over them one by one, with a total value of about 40 million, which he also collected.

When he reached the bottom of the backpack, a blue-black stone appeared in Lin Zhen’s eyes.

Seeing this, Lin Zhen was stunned for a moment.

He carefully took out the stone. Despite being only the size of a goose egg, it weighed more than a hundred pounds!

“This is… could this actually be a planet core? I’m not mistaking it, am I?”

Lin Zhen looked at it over and over, even biting it twice. Five minutes later, he shouted excitedly: “There’s no mistake! This really is a planet core!”

“No wonder… No wonder Chen Jingchou from my previous life came up with the meteorite trade idea to Base City. At this moment, he had gotten the planet core and tasted the benefits, which is why he came up with the idea of meteorites.”

Lin Zhen’s hands trembled with excitement. The planet core was extremely precious in the interstellar world, and he didn’t expect that someone in Ice City would actually find one, and that person was Chen Jingchou.

Planets don’t just appear out of nowhere. Generally speaking, for a planet to be born, it first needs to give birth to a star core, also known as the planet core.

According to astronomy, planets are formed by the accumulation of free objects in the universe, which condense together, cool down gradually, and form planets over a long period.

Some astronomers also believe that planets are born from cosmic black holes, so there are different theories.

However, Lin Zhen knew this because his soul had once traversed through a cosmic black hole, traveling through time and space to arrive in this world. So, he was somewhat knowledgeable about black holes.

He believed that there wouldn’t be anyone else in the universe who had such an experience.

Although planets were indeed formed by celestial bodies gathering, the core part of the planet was not entirely formed by the aggregation of ordinary celestial bodies. Many planet cores originated from black holes.

Black holes are the most mysterious and dangerous places in the entire universe, and the planet cores born from them are also extraordinary objects.

Planet cores have their own gravity, which enables them to condense celestial bodies. After the celestial bodies are formed and go through a long evolution process, their energy is injected into the planet core.

Therefore, even a small piece of a planet core is really impressive. The powerful energy it contains, if absorbed and used by martial artists, can bring about miraculous power.

In his previous life, Lin Zhen had encountered martial artists who had absorbed the energy of a planet core. One of the most impressive moves was called Space Seizure.

It meant that even if the opponent ran into the sky, with a wave of the hand, they would be drawn back by the gravitational force. Just like a bird, no matter how powerful it was, it couldn’t escape the Earth’s gravitational field and would eventually fall back to the ground.

Martial artists who could absorb even a little bit of the core power would benefit immensely.

Gravity is just the basic power of a planet core. Some planet cores contain other energy bodies, like the one Lin Zhen held in his hand.

A black, neat, and hard stone faintly emitted blue light. When Lin Zhen touched it, he could feel his hairs stand upright, one by one. That was the elemental power of thunder and lightning.

“The Leo Meteor Shower is actually a shattered planet, with numerous meteorites falling to Earth. The planet core is broken too. This piece in my hand is the Thunder Core.”

“There should be a few other planet cores on Earth, but the one in my hand is the most precious because the power of thunder and lightning elements is the most domineering.”

“With this thing, if I can absorb the gravity and thunder and lightning and use them for myself, I will truly gain the qualification to climb to the peak!”

In the dark night, Lin Zhen’s eyes flashed gold and silver, looking extremely chilling in the darkness, showing just how turbulent his emotions were!