"Lin Fan is my lucky star. With Lin Fan's arrival, the Five Elements Array is also mastered."
"It's a pity that there's still no clue about the concept of Clone Teleportation Technique."
Clone Teleportation Technique was a skill concept he proposed in the Spirit Mystery Realm of Ji Cheng Third High School.
It's the ability to achieve instantaneous teleportation back and forth between the main body and its clones by combining teleportation abilities with the clone technique.
Once this skill is successful, he will be able to teleport silently, without the delay that currently occurs with every teleport, making him too vulnerable to skilled opponents.
"I'll have to put this skill aside for now. Stillness breeds movement; I won't cultivate today. I'm going out hunting to improve my cultivation and test the Five Elements Array."
Lin Yu looked at his peak third-tier cultivation and shook his head. It had been a long time, and it was time to upgrade to fourth-tier combat power.
He left the academy and headed towards the armory, needing a flying artifact to assist him in traveling.
At the entrance of the armory.
Lin Yu placed his ID card on the induction platform.
"Beep, detected Supreme Academy student Lin Yu. What equipment do you require?"
"Flying skateboard!" Lin Yu said.
"Beep, the flying skateboard is a non-paid item. You can use it for free."
With a click, the armory door opened, and a robot approached, handing the skateboard to Lin Yu.
Lin Yu took the skateboard and left.
Although there was a road down the mountain, walking was too slow. He wanted to fly.
"For this hunt, my cultivation level is too low for the Guixu. I'll hunt in the mountains instead."
Between Nanjang City and Supreme Academy, there were rolling mountains, dense forests, and many fierce beasts. Lin Yu and his senior brother had deeply experienced this on their way here.
However, the fierce beasts in this area were much weaker and safer compared to Guixu. Going to Guixu with his current cultivation was still too dangerous.
Therefore, his destination was these vast mountains. His plan was not to venture deep and to remain as cautious as possible.
"My innate talent, Life Drain, should be put to use to enhance my foundation. Since upgrading to S-class, I haven't devoured any fierce beasts yet! This time, I'll show them what I'm capable of and boost my strength!"
Lin Yu clenched his fist and looked up at the distant mountains.
He put down the skateboard, switched it on, and immediately two azure energy streams shot out from the board, carrying him steadily down the mountain.
The speed was fast. Within a few minutes, he reached the foot of the mountain. Without stopping, he continued to control the flying skateboard, maintaining an altitude of a hundred meters, and flew towards a large mountain in the distance.
Leaving the mountain where the academy was located, the mountains here appeared small, and there were few that towered into the clouds.
Such mountains generally couldn't nurture very strong fierce beasts. Lin Yu chose a peak that was only a thousand meters high and flew into the forest.
As soon as he flew overhead, he heard a shrill bird cry.
Screech!
Suddenly, a large bird with a wingspan of about three meters rushed towards Lin Yu.
Lin Yu, seeing this, calmly controlled the skateboard to ascend and dodge. However, to his surprise, the flying bird was relentless and charged at him again.
Seeing this, a cold glint flashed in Lin Yu's eyes.
"If you want to die, I'll oblige!"
White light gathered in his hand, and a gleaming platinum greatsword appeared in his palm. He held the greatsword and snorted,
"This is the first time I've condensed a weapon with metal-elemental energy. Although its strength is still only that of a first-tier weapon, let's see whose neck is harder, mine or my weapon's sharpness!"
The flying bird screeched and spat out a whirlwind, attacking Lin Yu.
Lin Yu, not to be outdone, raised his greatsword and controlled the flying skateboard, charging towards the bird.
The moment the man and bird passed each other, he abruptly retracted his greatsword and then slashed it horizontally.
Before the flying bird could react, a bloodline appeared on its neck. With a thud, blood gushed out.
Lin Yu slashed again with his greatsword. A white light cut through the bird's neck. The next moment, the bird's head was severed from its body. It let out a final cry and plummeted to the ground, dead.
Lin Yu, seeing this, controlled the flying skateboard and flew over. He reached out and grabbed the bird's corpse, and a black vortex appeared in his hand.
Life Drain!
Boom!
The intense hunger made his eyes slightly red. The vortex in his palm madly devoured the bird's life essence, and streams of life energy merged into his body.
At this moment, strength, spirit, and physique were all improving.
In just a few dozen seconds, the bird in his hand was reduced to a pile of feathers and bones.
Lin Yu threw away the feathers and bones in his hand and muttered,
"Hoo, this bird was too weak. It only increased my physique and strength by one percent. As for my spirit, it was only a little bit."
"However, S-class Life Drain has a much faster absorption speed. This second-tier flying bird was absorbed completely in less than a minute."
Lin Yu developed the idea of collecting the corpses of fierce beasts and absorbing their life essence to feedback on himself.
Gurgle!
Suddenly, a loud gurgle came from his stomach. Lin Yu touched his stomach and sighed inwardly.
Although this talent was good, its only drawback was that it easily induced hunger. Perhaps his physique had improved, requiring more food to supplement his nutrition? Lin Yu thought to himself.
This hunger was extremely intense and could make one lose their mind, generating the urge to eat voraciously. If not alleviated and restrained, one might become a puppet to their appetite.
However, as long as he didn't devour too much at once and didn't use the Life Drain talent too frequently, he would be fine after a while. At most, it would just make him uncomfortable.
"Land!"
Controlling the skateboard to descend into the forest, Lin Yu looked around and silently said, "Clone!"
With a flash of white light, a total of one hundred clones of various colors appeared around him. These one hundred clones were all Five Elements Clones, divided into twenty groups. They formed teams of five and, under Lin Yu's command, dispersed in all directions.
Lin Yu found a place to hide and continuously directed the clones' actions.
Soon, the clones encountered battles, but under the clones' attacks, these fierce beasts were easily resolved, and his upgrade points slowly increased.
Everything went smoothly, so he simply found a place to hide and waited for the clones to return after killing monsters.
Suddenly, a loud noise came from the distance. Lin Yu quickly directed his consciousness over.
He saw a ten-meter-tall ape carrying a large tree and swinging it wildly. Not only that, but it was also roaring as if the air in front of it was its enemy.
"It's the Five Elements Illusion Array!" Lin Yu saw five clones, positioned around, forming the Five Elements Illusion Array with a special formation. The fierce beast in front of him was trapped by the array and was experiencing hallucinations.
"The Illusion Array's effect on fierce beasts is surprisingly good!"
After a while, the ape-like fierce beast finally grew tired. At this moment, the five clones quickly changed positions, and the array instantly transformed.
"This is the Five Elements Sword Array!"
The Five Elements Sword Array could combine the strength of five people to form a powerful attack.
He saw that in the center of the five people, energy swords from all directions stabbed towards the fierce beast.
The fierce beast struggled left and right, sustaining several injuries, bleeding profusely. Soon, it was exhausted and fell to the ground, unable to move. Finally, a greatsword descending from the sky pierced its throat.
"This array is powerful."
Lin Yu was also startled. This was just an ordinary array, and it had already produced such immense power. What about the advanced arrays?
As soon as he thought of this, he became excited, wishing he could immediately obtain advanced arrays and wreak havoc.
As the fierce beast died, a system prompt sounded in Lin Yu's mind.
"Ding, you have killed a Black-backed Ape (Fourth Tier). Upgrade points +2500!"
Lin Yu walked out, and the clones instantly shifted positions, forming the Five Elements Shield Array to protect Lin Yu.
Lin Yu was very pleased. This batch of clones was very clever. He walked in front of the Black-backed Ape fierce beast and used his Life Drain talent.
Immediately, the intense hunger made him frown. Resisting the urge to eat, he placed his hand, from which a black vortex was emerging, on the Black-backed Ape.
Instantly, pure life energy poured into his body ceaselessly. At this moment, his physique and spirit were slowly increasing.
Only when no more life energy flowed in, leaving only a pile of fur and bones, did Lin Yu release his hand.
He rubbed his temples. His head was somewhat dizzy. After resting for a while, he felt better.
"It seems I need to pay attention to the frequency of using this talent!" Rubbing his temples, he muttered to himself.
What happened here was just a minor incident. There were many fourth-tier fierce beasts in this forest. With the arrays, weaker fourth-tier fierce beasts were no match.
At this moment, Lin Yu arrived at another battlefield.
Here, a giant snake covered in bone spurs was nailed to the ground by a greatsword.
The giant snake struggled for a moment and then ceased its vital activities.
"Ding, you have killed a Bone Vein White Snake (Fourth Tier). Upgrade points +2800!"
This Bone Vein Giant Snake was clearly stronger than the Black-backed Ape. Lin Yu repeated the process, using Life Drain. Although it made him dizzy, he endured it.
After absorbing the life energy of the giant snake, Lin Yu's physique and spirit were further enhanced. After devouring these fierce beasts, he felt he was about a third stronger than when he arrived, but his mental power had only increased by less than a tenth.
"Now my clone control range is about eleven hundred meters!"
A look of joy appeared on Lin Yu's face.
Just then, his expression changed dramatically.
"What's going on? A group of clones has disappeared!"
Lin Yu quickly accessed the memory of the vanished clones. After a while, he revealed a look of surprise.
"There are fifth-tier fierce beasts in this place!"