361: Star Trace

Seeing that the other party was refusing a toast to drink a forfeit, Chen Hean also roared, "Good, good, good."

He said the word "good" three times in a row.

"Truly young and promising, yet ignorant of the immensity of heaven and earth!"

"As an Advanced Martial Artist, I have given you enough Face, but I didn't expect you to insist. In that case, this place will be your burial ground today!"

"What if the Itera Civilization is powerful?"

"Our Big Ear Civilization can just leave the Gloomy Land!"

After Chen Hean finished speaking, he flew up again, looking down at Chen Du from a condescending position.

Because of his tall stature and one Big Ear, the other party blocked Chen Du's view like a curtain.

The normal height of the Big Ear Civilization is 2-3 meters, but Chen Hean was about 3.5 meters, nearly twice as tall as Chen Du's 1.83 meters.

Although it exceeded the normal height range of the Big Ear Civilization, it was nothing, as the Big Ear Civilization is different from the Giant Civilization; it is not a race where strength is determined by height.

Chen Hean held a long spear and floated in mid-air, which is the customary fighting style for Sky Soaring Warriors. Higher ground makes their attacks and defenses easier.

However, the opponents of Sky Soaring Warriors are generally also Sky Soaring Warriors, and with everyone in the same situation, this advantage is no advantage at all.

More often, the purpose of flying to battle is a warning, indicating that this is the battlefield of Sky Soaring Warriors, and Martial Artists should not enter!

The aftershocks of a powerful Sky Soaring Warrior are enough to kill an Advanced Martial Artist; this is not an exaggeration.

It was also Chen Hean's first time fighting an Advanced Martial Artist from a floating stance, which showed Chen Du's strength.

Chen Du's eyes were incredibly serious. Although the power of his every strike could now reach millions of jin, the opponent was, after all, a Sky Soaring Warrior, so he had to be extra careful.

Although Chen Du was only Rank 16, when he trained Martial Skills with Xu Tian, he learned a lot about Sky Soaring Warriors.

The reason Sky Soaring Warriors can fly is that when they advance to Rank 20, a Mark condenses within their bodies.

Everyone calls this Mark the "Star Mark."

The reason for this name is that when advancing to Sky Soaring Warrior, there is an influx of energy from the Great Universe into the body.

This influx is like stamping; you reach Sky Soaring Warrior, and you get a stamp, which is considered recognition.

This stamp is the so-called Star Mark.

The Star Mark is a feature of the Sky Soaring Warrior stage, similar to the Mystic Treasure, and there are a total of five.

Except for the first one that naturally condenses upon advancing to Sky Soaring Warrior, the other four are extremely difficult to condense, and currently, no resource has been found that can condense a Star Mark.

The Star Mark has two functions. The first, like the Mystic Treasure, is to increase basic strength.

But unlike the percentage increase of the Mystic Treasure, the Star Mark increases a fixed basic strength value.

The basic strength provided by the first Star Mark is 1 million.

The second is 5 million.

The third is 25 million.

The fourth and fifth are unknown, because in the High Martial Civilization, the highest Star Mark condensed at the Sky Soaring Warrior stage is three.

And that person was somewhat beyond Chen Du's expectation; it wasn't Yan, the world's strongest expert who had already died, but Raen, the only one of the three great experts he had met!

It's not that Raen wasn't worthy; it's just that his publicity was much less compared to the other two, which made him seem weaker than them.

Chen Du was also surprised when he heard this, as Yan was his idol and known as the world's strongest expert.

He immediately asked Xu Tian if the ranking of the three strong individuals was their current strength ranking.

Chen Du knew that strength can fluctuate, just like someone who was much stronger than you before, but their talent was limited, and they eventually got stuck at a certain position, unable to advance.

And as time passed and your talent emerged, you gradually surpassed them.

Xu Tian's answer also matched Chen Du's guess.

The ranking of the three great experts in the High Martial Civilization was not based on strength, but on chronological order.

Yan was called the world's strongest expert because he was the first person in the High Martial Civilization to advance to Domain Warrior.

Durags was the second, and Raen was the third.

Calling Yan the world's strongest expert was a sign of respect for him.

But it doesn't mean Yan was necessarily inferior to the rising stars. In that era and under those conditions, he was able to single-handedly elevate the High Martial Civilization from a middle-tier Civilization to an Upper Civilization.

Yan was definitely on the level of a Dragon among men and a Phoenix among horses.

However, according to Xu Tian, these three had never fought, and no one cared about the title of who was the strongest.

Although they had never fought, Chen Du already had a faint answer in his heart at the time: since Raen was the only one in the High Martial Civilization to condense the third Star Mark.

Then it could largely be inferred that he was the strongest among the three great experts of the High Martial Civilization!

Of course, this was just Chen Du's personal guess.

The second ability of the Star Mark is "Ability Selection."

This selection is active, but it's not like choosing a license plate number, where a bunch pops up and you pick any ability; instead, you choose a direction.

This direction is one of three aspects: body, mind, or skill, and then you randomly gain an ability from the direction you chose.

In this situation, everyone adheres to the principle of "the better, the better," choosing the one where their talent is highest.

According to the description Chen Du first heard near the magma egg, Chen Hean's Rank should be 21.

But after arriving at the scene, Chen Du found that his Rank was only 20, which clearly indicated a fundamental injury; not only did his strength not improve, but he couldn't even maintain it and began to decline.

Rank 20 corresponds to a basic strength of 500,000 jin, but Chen Du, based on years of combat, could intuitively judge that the opponent did not have 500,000 jin of basic strength.

The reason he hadn't fallen below was that the rule that life levels cannot decrease kept him stuck as a Sky Soaring Warrior.

The opponent could not have Awakened the second Star Mark, so Chen Hean's basic strength bonus was 1 million.

As for Mystic Treasures, the opponent only came underground after becoming a Sky Soaring Warrior, so it was impossible for him to have consumed things like the secret treasure heart and secret relic.

The Big Ear Civilization is, after all, only a lower-tier Civilization, and the secret treasure heart is considered a supreme treasure even in stronger Upper Civilizations like the High Martial Civilization, so it's even more impossible for them to have it.

Therefore, the opponent's number of Mystic Treasures is most likely 2, and at most 3.

This was also the reason Chen Du dared to carry out this plan; he had carefully calculated the opponent's strength.

Furthermore, at the moment of confrontation with the opponent's long spear, he could feel that the opponent's Martial Skill level was Entrance to the Microscopic 3%, and Martial Skill levels do not decline.

This proved that the opponent's talent was limited to this; Entrance to the Microscopic 3% was his limit, as after Martial Skills enter the second stage, every 1% is a Bottleneck, and it's not strange to stop anywhere.

Whoosh!

Chen Du suddenly disappeared, and the next second he appeared behind Chen Hean, who was still intending to observe.

At this moment, Chen Du didn't need to hide any abilities. He directly activated the Hand of God's ability to swap behind the opponent, intending to strike first.

At the same time, he also used the item "Wings," and the unfolding of three pairs of wings made his visual form appear even larger than Chen Hean's.

At this moment, Chen Hean's advantage as a Sky Soaring Warrior also disappeared.

Chen Du acted decisively. The moment after the swap, he swung his sword at the opponent's only ear.