Daily Intelligence System: Don't Kill Me, Honey!

Crack, crack, crack...

The sound of the stones splitting grew louder, and everyone’s eyes widened in horror as their faces filled with fear.

Especially Chen Jiusi, whose first instinct was to jump off the stone platform and turn to run, but just then, with a snap, a massive gate suddenly dropped down and sealed the passage they had come through.

Snap, it completely sealed off the passage, blocking the way.

At this moment, everyone had the same expression, yes, disbelief.

Then, in the center of the area, all the stone sculptures began to crack, crack, crack...

Boom, suddenly, a stone sculpture near Zhao Ya exploded, followed by a strange, loud scream.

Then, a clam soldier about one and a half meters tall, hunched over with a long sword in his left hand and a shield made of clamshell in his right, jumped up and fiercely slashed his sword toward Zhao Ya.

”Commandery Princess, be careful!”

Seeing this, Ah Da leaped up and struck the clam soldier with his palm, sending the clam soldier flying with a smack.

With a smack, it landed heavily on the ground, and just as everyone thought the clam soldier was dealt with, to their surprise, it bounced up after a moment with a smack.

Hiss, hiss, hiss~

It made a strange sound from its mouth.

Seeing this, everyone was shocked; although Ah Da was skilled with weapons rather than remote hand techniques, he was still a master of the Holding Core Realm, not just anyone.

That a master like him couldn’t even injure these bizarre clam soldiers with a leaping palm strike was terrifying.

This thought flashed through everyone’s mind, but it was immediately pulled back to reality by what was happening before their eyes.

Because more and more stone statues exploded, and an increasing number of monsters jumped out, attacking people nearby.

Chen Jie frowned upon seeing this, assessing that there were nearly eighty to ninety of these creatures, meaning that each person in the area would have to deal with about ten, not even counting the General Clam, who was still unconscious.

What was more terrifying was what the person who left the elixir said, that General Clam was petty-minded, and it might be true—after all, Chen Jie had stolen his elixir, and who knew if the general would focus on him later.

With his current level of Energy Transformation, it was completely insufficient to handle the upcoming battle; he needed to at least enter the Holding Core Realm.

Thinking this, Chen Jie touched the elixir he had just acquired, initially intending to find a secluded place to quietly absorb the elixir, but there was no chance for that now.

Thinking this, Chen Jie directly threw a Condensation Pill, with twice the effectiveness of a Qi Blood Pill, into his mouth.

In an instant, a terrifying potency dispersed in his mouth, making it feel like he had swallowed a mouthful of pungent radish, the overflowing spiritual energy nearly bursting out.

At this moment, Chen Jie feared that opening his mouth would release a significant amount of the elixir’s effect.

Chen Jie forcibly swallowed the pill, then his eyes bulged, his pupils filled with a terrifying blood red.

Now the elixir rapidly turned into fearsome spiritual energy, rushing straight to Chen Jie’s Dantian.

A vortex seemed to have struck up within his Dantian at that moment, whooshing around and spiraling upwards toward the highest heavens, the dreadful power nearly overflowing.

At that moment, this energy swirled within the Dantian, eventually solidifying into a Vigorous Air Pill within the Dantian.

In an instant, Chen Jie felt an unlimited supply of Gang Qi within him, as if a water pump had been added to his body.

If the Dantian were likened to a large pond, the prior usage of Gang Qi, before reaching the Holding Core Realm, was primitive, like manually digging a channel to the hands and slowly guiding water there, extremely inefficient.

But reaching the Holding Core Realm was like throwing a high-powered water pump into the Dantian, drastically increasing the speed of water flow.

This was the biggest difference in the Holding Core Realm, and if there were anything else to mention, it might be a slight increase in the quality of Gang Qi.

As for why, in the Holding Core Realm, Gang Qi could be released from the body.

This was easily explained using the same pond analogy; before, the water flowed slowly, and covering the body was the most it could do.

But with the Holding Core, having this powerful pump allowed for pressurized release of Gang Qi, like seeing a water pump spraying water outward.

Chen Jie was experiencing the wonders of the Gang Qi within his body, and at that time, those clam soldiers outside began to emerge lively from the stone statues.

Then, wielding their weapons, they charged toward the people nearby.

Seeing this, Zhao Ya, Ah Da, and Mu Ge all drew their weapons and engaged in combat with these clam soldiers.

These clam soldiers were incredibly tough, and even with swords and spears, it was quite challenging to deal with them.

Meanwhile, those without weapons fighting these clam soldiers was akin to fighting against solid meat dummies.

With a smack, they would stand up right after being hit, pat their buttocks as if nothing had happened.

Damn it!

At that moment, Elder Liu’s angry shout was heard not far away.

It turned out that just moments ago, as Liu Laoguai was on full alert, a shell soldier suddenly leaped up and swung its long sword toward Elder Liu, who, in shock, knocked the clam soldier back with a palm strike.