Back to the Peak

Chapter 65: Leveled Up Again

“Qingyang, it’s a pity that I can’t help.” Cheng Ran looked at Shi Qingyang, who was preparing the things he needed to kill the queen ant, and felt a little depressed.

“It’s alright. It’s not your fault. Later on, you’ll definitely become supremely powerful,” Shi Qingyang laughed and said, with full confidence in Cheng Ran. This was not blind trust, but because he saw how hard Cheng Ran worked these days.

“But I can’t induce the surrounding rad-energy at all.” Cheng Ran had been working hard these days, but he still couldn’t do it. He had told Shi Qingyang about it, but unfortunately, Shi Qingyang couldn’t tell the reason.

“It doesn’t matter if you can’t induce the surrounding radiant energy. Where you’re at is already good enough,” Shi Qingyang said. He bowed his head and kissed Cheng Ran on the face, then immediately put on his helmet and began to climb down the cave under Gu Changjin’s glare.

In front of Cheng Ran and Gu Changjin, he didn’t reveal anything, but in fact, he really wasn’t sure he could win now.

In his last life, he was too weak. Before dealing with the queen ant, he was just a level-2 rad-warrior, and his speed of killing ant beasts was also very slow. Because of this, the ant beasts in the cave didn’t pay much attention to him at first, and they only began to guard after he slowly killed them.

Moreover, at that time, he didn’t even plan to kill the queen ant, but he was accidentally forced into the cave where the queen ant was located by several male ant beasts, which made him angry. At that time, there were only a few male ant beasts left around the queen ant, and those worker ant beasts had even been eaten by them.

At that time, he relied on this, hid in the stone cracks where the queen couldn’t get in, and slowly killed the queen ant.

But this time things were different. Maybe it was because he was stronger this time, the queen ant also took precautions, called the rest of the ant beasts to her side, and moved all the food in the ant nest in with her…

He had to deal with not only the queen ant, but also a large group of ant beasts.

Shi Qingyang approached the huge cave carefully, and then rushed in swiftly.

The queen ant looked very clumsy, and there seemed to be no radiation energy in her body, but her actions were very fast. She dodged to one side, while the other ant beasts rushed towards Shi Qingyang.

Shi Qingyang quickly clambered into a stone crevice next to him that only allowed one person to stand inside, and sent several wind blades out, which prevented these ant beasts from biting him.

He had hidden in this crevice while thinking he was going to die, so he fought with the queen and unleashed unprecedented potential. Unfortunately, he couldn’t do this in his present life. Now, he cherished his life very much.

Shi Qingyang tried his best to save his radiation energy, and lifted a bottle to his mouth containing some ant egg liquid that could restore radiation energy. It wasn’t an exaggeration that he killed each ant as soon as he saw it.

But there were too many worker ants left, and new ones were even hatching. If things went on like this, it was likely that he’d become food for the ants once his radiation energy was exhausted.

How good were things in his last life, when that queen ant couldn’t enter this ant nest at all… Shi Qingyang suddenly blessed by fortune as an epiphany struck him, and he thought of a way.

Finding the right time, he immediately sent out several blades to the queen ant who was wandering not far away.

The queen ant was enraged, rushed towards him, and waved her teeth and claws outside the stone cracks. At this time, Shi Qingyang did not shoot out his wind blade, but began to rest.

Ant beasts were a low-level beast. They couldn’t induce radiation to attack him. The queen ant’s body was too big to enter the stone crack… Finally, this queen ant blocked the stone crack so much that other ant beasts couldn’t attack Shi Qingyang again.

In this case, Shi Qingyang was happy to see his success. He had a good rest. When the queen ant found that she had been unable to attack him and wanted to leave, he sent out several wind blades.

This weakest wind could can slice a worker ant into two parts after hitting its joints, but it wasn’t so destructive to the queen ant, and could only irritate her.

If it was one-on-one, Shi Qingyang had rich experience, and it wouldn’t be difficult to kill the queen ant, but there were many ant beasts outside. Those ant beasts could completely consume his radiant energy…

Shi Qingyang simply didn’t rush to use his bigger moves. He found time to rest when the queen ant wanted to attack him. When the queen ant angrily wanted to leave, he sent out several blades to attract it back…

After Shi Qingyang felt his radiation had almost recovered, he would let the queen ant leave, and then began to deal with those worker ants who wanted to attack him after the queen ant left the crevice.

When he killed some worker ants and felt a little tired with his rad-energy running out, he sent a few more wind blades to attract the queen ant to block the hole, so that he could have a good rest.

Without realizing it, the number of ant beasts had decreased a lot, and the injuries on the queen ant had become more and more serious.

Of course, it took Shi Qingyang a long time. It was even a whole day and night before he left the cave.

Cheng Ran and Gu Changjin must be very worried… After attracting the queen ant, Shi Qingyang closed his eyes and squinted slightly for a few minutes. When the queen ant wanted to retreat, he quickly opened his eyes, and then continued to send out several wind blades.

Shi Qingyang had somewhat of an ability. As long as he was very tired, he could squint his eyes and sleep for a few minutes any time. During this time, he was also very alert. He could wake up if there was a slight disturbance.

Of course, if he hadn’t been a teenager now, with a body that had high requirements for sleep, he wouldn’t need this. In his previous life, he could survive even if he didn’t sleep for three days and nights.

After this cycle repeated several times, when he opened his eyes again, Shi Qingyang saw that the queen ant was a little tired and wanted to retreat. At this time, the radiant energy in his body had recovered a lot. He generously released the queen ant and began to deal with other ant beasts.

The queen ant finally took advantage of this time to have a good sleep. Unfortunately, it didn’t sleep long, and Shi Qingyang’s radiant energy was almost used up, so several wind blades flew towards it…

The angry queen ant rushed over again and blocked the entrance, giving Shi Qingyang a safe environment.

After spending 30 hours, Shi Qingyang finally found that there were no other ant beasts in the ant nest except the queen ant, and the queen ant’s minor injuries had gradually worsened into a serious injury.

It didn’t take much time to solve an ant queen in this condition, and this battle was also the one where he came out with the least injuries he’d ever gotten after he entered the ant nest–this time he wasn’t injured at all.

After the queen ant fell to the ground, the first thing Shi Qingyang did was to cut off her body, and then quickly cut off a few pieces of meat and stuffed them into his mouth, just like when he couldn’t eat trapped in the crevice for three days in his previous life.

The queen ant’s meat was old and stringy, and very unpalatable. If he hadn’t been forced nearly to death by the queen ant in his last life, he wouldn’t have eaten it even if he wanted to eat the corpse to vent his anger. But this time, he was very proactive and even deliberately ate a few more bites.

Shi Qingyang ate the meat as he cut it. After eating almost all of it, he packed the rest of the meat and began to walk back.

Shi Qingyang climbed with his hands and feet up along the exit of the ant nest for a while, but his stomach suddenly hurt and became more and more painful. Every part of his body seemed to crack. Not only that, small blood beads began to ooze out of his hands and pores.

The pain came so suddenly that Shi Qingyang could not even grasp the rock wall. He wanted to climb up in a hurry, but the pain made him unable to use his strength at all.

In the severe pain, Shi Qingyang remembered one thing. After killing the queen ant in his last life, he had been in a coma for a long time and had severe pain all over, because he had lost his strength in the battle at that time and was seriously injured. So it wasn’t a surprise back then, but this time, he wasn’t even injured…

So, he fell unconscious at that time because he ate the queen ant’s meat? But he was not as miserable as he was now, he had just felt uncomfortable then.

Maybe he was too greedy and ate too much. Shi Qingyang shivered against the rock wall. The pain made him want to pull out all his hair. By this time, he even had no strength to find the cave.

Suddenly, the pain intensified fiercely, and the radiant energy on his body suddenly began to rush left and right in his body. Shi Qingyang’s eyes went black, and everything he saw seemed to have become black and red.

Usually, in such a situation, he would inflict a wound on himself to wake up, but now, his pain had reached the extreme, and his whole body convulsed.

Unable to grasp the rocks at hand anymore, Shi Qingyang almost fell straight down. In a trance, he heard someone calling his name.

Shi Qingyang had gone out for too long. At first, Cheng Ran could wait confidently. As time passed, he could no longer settle down, so he finally pushed away some of the stones at the mouth of the cave, and then looked down from time to time, waiting for Shi Qingyang.

For two days and one night, Cheng Ran was not in the mood to sleep at all, lest something should happen to Shi Qingyang. He had now seen Shi Qingyang climbing up and worried that Shi Qingyang would be distracted when he heard his voice, so he didn’t speak, but he didn’t expect Shi Qingyang to suddenly stop halfway and start to fall down again.

Cheng Ran’s face instantly turned pale, but he couldn’t do anything except call Shi Qingyang’s name. Looking at him like this, Gu Changjin also understood that something might have happened outside: “Young master, is something wrong with Shi Qingyang?” He was a level-5 radiant warrior. He should have taken care of these two children, but in the end, he had to let the two children take care of him… Gu Changjin’s mood was extremely complicated.

“Grandpa Gu, i… I’ll go down and have a look…” Cheng Ran’s voice trembled. He would stay in the cave after Shi Qingyang left so as not to make Shi Qingyang worry about him going out to make trouble, but in this case, he couldn’t sit idly by.

“Young master, go ahead. You must be careful. I’ll wait here,” Gu Changjin said. Cheng Ran had never lived in the wild and was likely to encounter danger when he went out, but if something happened to Shi Qingyang, would they still be alive?

Shi Qingyang fainted in pain. He knew that he fell down, and his last thought before he fainted was he was glad that he hadn’t climbed too high.

When Shi Qingyang woke up in pain again, he didn’t even know how long he had been unconscious. He only saw Cheng Ran’s face stained with blood, his eyes rimmed red as he held Shi Qingyang.

“Qingyang, are you awake?” Cheng Ran’s voice trembled. As soon as he came down, he found that Shi Qingyang had been shivering. Not only that, under the combat suit, Shi Qingyang was covered with blood, but he couldn’t see any wounds.

The scene at that time almost made him think that he was about to lose Shi Qingyang. Fortunately, he soon found that Shi Qingyang was still breathing.

“How long have I been unconscious?” Shi Qingyang asked, but suddenly found that his body was getting more and more painful. His upper and lower teeth collided with each other and he couldn’t speak any more.

“Qingyang, you’ve been unconscious for less than an hour. What’s the matter with you? You’ll be fine…” Cheng Ran stroked Shi Qingyang’s body again and again. These days, he had been gathering the radiant energy in his body into his hands. At this time, this radiant energy also entered Shi Qingyang’s body.

The restless radiant energy in Shi Qingyang’s body suddenly seemed to be comforted. If his pain made him seem to be roasted by fire, Cheng Ran’s radiant energy was like a clear spring, which made him feel better.

Unfortunately, there was too little of that clear spring. After it disappeared, the feeling of pain became more intense.

Shi Qingyang lost consciousness again.

Shi Qingyang was unconscious for a short time. Before, Cheng Ran could do nothing but hold him, until now, when he found that his radiant energy seemed to be useful to Shi Qingyang.

However, his radiant energy was too little!

Cheng Ran suddenly remembered what Shi Qingyang said about the queen ant, and saw the meat that Shi Qingyang put next to him. According to Shi Qingyang, the effect of the queen ant’s meat was better than that of the ant’s eggs… Regardless of his nausea, Cheng Ran cut the meat with a knife and stuffed it into his mouth little by little. What made him happy was that after eating the meat, the radiation energy in his body did reappear and vaguely increased.

After sending all this radiant energy into Shi Qingyang’s body, Cheng Ran was relieved to see Shi Qingyang’s painful expression ease, but after his radiant energy was exhausted, Shi Qingyang’s expression became very painful again.

Seeing this, Cheng Ran immediately cut off another piece of meat, swallowed it into his stomach, and slowed down for a moment. After the radiation in his body recovered again, it was all lost to Shi Qingyang’s body as usual.

The rad-energy was exhausted again and again, and each time he seemed to have a little more than last time, but Shi Qingyang was still in a lot of pain, and Cheng Ran really couldn’t eat so much meat… Cheng Ran’s eyes held on that meat. Eating ant eggs was very good for Shi Qingyang, and this meat should be the same; Shi Qingyang had been unconscious for a day… Cheng Ran chewed a piece of meat without hesitation, and without caring about how Shi Qingyang’s mouth and face were smeared full of blood, fed the meat mouth-to-mouth to Shi Qingyang.

Shi Qingyang felt that he was being roasted in a furnace. It was enough to bake him alive, but someone would cool him down halfway.

Cooling down was a good thing, but if the pain continued, that was it for him. He felt dizzy all the time, but it often slowed down halfway and made him wake him up, and then when the pain reappeared, he would feel more painful…

It wasn’t easy to get through this to feel better, but then someone even added a handful of firewood… Who knew what he ate. He seemed to feel even more pain.

Every cell of his body seemed to be changing. The radiation energy in his body was completely dispersed, but it soon recombined…

Shi Qingyang was unconscious for two days and two nights this time. When he woke up again, he felt completely different all over.

So much so that his situation was even more different from that of his previous life. His current radiation energy was gentler than it had been in his past. His body seemed to have experienced a baptism. When operating his radiation energy, its flow was unimpeded and even more powerful.

Moreover, it he wasn’t mistaken, he should have reached level 4.

Even if the cultivation of rad-energy was faster the younger one was, and there was a high probability that he wouldn’t have any chance of progressing after he got older, reaching level-4 at the age of eighteen was too rare… Fortunately, his radiant energy was too gentle now, so it was likely others couldn’t see his radiant energy. Just as he knew that Cheng Ran already had radiant energy, but he couldn’t feel the slightest fluctuation of radiant energy from Cheng Ran.

This matter had to be concealed!

Although he suffered a bit, there was no doubt that this was a good thing. After finding that all the pain had dissipated, Shi Qingyang also had a smile on his face.

“Qingyang, are you finally waking up?” Cheng Ran asked. He had been holding Shi Qingyang these two days, and the blood stains on Shi Qingyang had also gotten on him, making him a little smelly, but at this time, there wasn’t anyone who would care.

“I’m fine. I’m fine now. What happened to that meat?” Shi Qingyang thought of the meat he had collected before.

“There’s only this bit left. I’ll keep it for Grandpa Gu.” Cheng Ran took out a small piece of meat from his arms, which made him a little embarrassed. Shi Qingyang brought a large bag of meat. He should have kept a little more for Gu Changjin, but Shi Qingyang’s situation was too serious…

“I didn’t take all of the meat. Let’s go back and get some, and then go to Grandpa Gu,” Shi Qingyang said. They shouldn’t waste the body of the queen ant at all. In addition, the ant eggs that had not yet hatched should also be well preserved.

The blood stains on Shi Qingyang and Cheng Ran were almost dried up, and both of them had become dark with blood. Just as they went looking for the queen ant’s meat, a mobile fortress arrived nearby…