Chapter 154: Birth Of A Warrior-level Player
Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, the morning sun rose.
As a tremor shook a room on the second floor, it startled the newbies still staying up late to improve themselves, as well as the players in the surrounding lounges who were assaulting the Martial Artist Realm.
“An earthquake?”
Fang Zhen, who had been enduring several days and nights without sleep, suddenly opened his eyes and walked out of the lounge door in some astonishment.
At this time, the slight shaking of the entire second floor continued. For ordinary people, this kind of tremor might barely be noticeable, but for Limit Quasi-Martial Artists who had tempered some of their internal organs, the shaking was very obvious and simply impossible to ignore.
This could be called one of the drawbacks after the five senses became sharp.
Not long after Fang Zhen came out, people began to step out from the lounges where the other Elite Disciples lived.
“The qi and blood coming from that lounge is so rich!”
“This qi and blood feels almost on par with Master of the Pavilion.”
“No way, did they already break through?”
Yi Ye Fu Yun, Li Ranxing, Zhao Hu, Zhang Qing Wei, Ye Qinglu, and the others could not help looking in surprise toward the lounge from which the dense qi and blood radiated, their hearts full of curiosity and astonishment.
Everyone present had already trained the first level of Startling Spirit Breathing Technique to 100% proficiency and were constantly striking at the bottleneck that blocked the path to becoming a Martial Artist.
But after attempting for most of the day, including more than a few who had died over a dozen times, they all knew how difficult the second level of Startling Spirit Breathing Technique was to practice.
In other games, ranking up was also difficult, but it was absolutely nothing as terrifying as High Martial Arts Descend.
Especially the step of guiding the energy from Energy Ore into the body to stimulate the internal organs, that was truly something else.
If it went wrong, it was bleeding in a fragile heart, or lung hemorrhage, or liver bleeding. In just minutes, it could cost someone their life.
Calling it cultivation, it was basically torture.
Everyone suspected this was the malice of the Game Manufacturer, letting everyone experience what “a hundred thousand ways to die while advancing” really meant.
In the second level of Startling Spirit Breathing Technique, the process of using Energy Ore to stimulate the five or six internal organs had to be completed in one go, and at speed.
Otherwise, the powerful blood supply brought by the first step of heart strengthening could cause the unreinforced blood vessels in the spleen, lungs, and kidneys to rupture in minutes, or they would simply be unable to withstand the surging blood.
The mild energy stimulation of the brain was especially fatal; a slight mishap and you were left with cerebral palsy, unable even to die cleanly, and needing people in real life to come and pull the plug.
It was hard to imagine anyone could master the second level of Startling Spirit Breathing Technique so quickly.
Just then, Yaklo, who had just gotten up and stepped out of her room, heard Yi Ye Fu Yun and the others talking and could not help being stunned.
“Breakthrough to Martial Artist? Is Obsidian Martial Arts Hall really letting Disciples break through to become Martial Artists like this?” Yaklo stared dumbly at the Elite Disciple lounge from which qi and blood were overflowing.
A Quasi-Martial Artist breaking through to become a Martial Artist was an extremely important event for any Faction. Wealthy Major Powers would even rent Training Rooms from the Martial Artist Association specifically for the breakthrough.
The reason for doing so was to increase the success rate, since breaking through to become a Martial Artist was very difficult.
Moreover, the Training Rooms of the Martial Artist Association were built from Energy Ore, and equipped with auxiliary Equipment inside that could make the energy coming from the Energy Ore more gentle. Together with a bottle of Type 2 Energy Potion, the stimulation to the cells of the internal organs would not be so violent, while also briefly improving the cell strength of the internal organs, so the one attempting breakthrough would avoid all kinds of troublesome issues.
Richer Major Powers would even provide Type II Healing Potions, so that once any minor issue occurred during the breakthrough to Martial Artist, the terrifying Recovery Power of the Healing Potion could forcibly carry them through, completing all the Quenching, and even if they could not finish all of it, at least their life would be saved.
But what about Obsidian Martial Arts Hall?
The Elite Disciples’ lounge was completely bare, just an ordinary Room, and it was obvious Obsidian Martial Arts Hall did not have Type 2 Energy Potions or Healing Potions.
Letting Martial Arts Hall Disciples break through to become Martial Artists directly like this, even a Demon would not be so ruthless, afraid it might fail to kill them.
Yet in the brief moment Yaklo stood there stunned, Luo Wu Shang also walked out from the lounge. Her face was full of laughter, and the waves of hot qi and blood radiating from her body announced that her assault had succeeded and she had officially become a Martial Artist.
“A Martial Artist! She really did it!”
“This escaping qi and blood feels like even internal force would struggle to pierce it. Is this suppression from a higher rank?”
Yi Ye Fu Yun and the others looked at Luo Wu Shang, whose presence had skyrocketed, and they all felt indescribably shaken.
Although they had faced Martial Artists before, it was their first time facing one at such close range with qi and blood fully unleashed like this.
Normally, a Martial Artist would not fully unleash their qi and blood in battle. After all, Martial Artists fought using qi and blood; releasing it so recklessly only wasted their own reserves.
Of course, it could provide some degree of Defense, but this kind of Defense was useless against experts of the same level.
“She did it? Just like that?” Yaklo stared at the approaching Luo Wu Shang, her jaw almost dropping.
Luo Wu Shang had clearly become a Martial Artist by now; otherwise her qi and blood would never have reached such a terrifying level. Yet precisely because Luo Wu Shang had become a Martial Artist, Yaklo was even more shocked and astonished.
She simply could not imagine how Luo Wu Shang had succeeded without any external assistance.
Calling her a genius felt like the most ordinary evaluation.
“Sister Wu, how much Strength do you have now?” Yi Ye Fu Yun could not help asking as he watched Luo Wu Shang, whose every movement radiated a sense of Threat.
“4 kilograms.” Luo Wu Shang did not hide anything and directly spoke out the data shown on the player System Panel.
“Fifteen hundred kilograms?” Fang Zhen sucked in a sharp breath after hearing this. “I remember you chose the Agility System, right? Even so you already have a base Panel of fifteen hundred kilograms. How fast must that be!”
The others present were now looking at Luo Wu Shang as if she were a Monster.
They all knew that Luo Wu Shang’s Crushing Stone Fist and Leopard Shadow Steps had both reached Perfection, giving bonuses to both Strength and Speed.
With the second level of Crushing Stone Fist at Perfection, the Strength bonus alone was 15%, meaning every casual strike from Luo Wu Shang contained nearly 1800 kilograms of force.
Such Strength could already rival the Leader Monsters in Emerald Sky wearing B1-grade Battle Armor, and Luo Wu Shang’s Class Change was to an Agility System profession, so her Speed would be even more terrifying.
“The base Speed Panel is 4 meters per second,” Luo Wu Shang said with a smile. “Running normally, it’s about the Speed of an Intermediate Martial Artist.”
“This Class Change boost is insane! She is basically a humanoid mini boss.” Yi Ye Fu Yun’s eyes were full of envy.
With such terrifying stats, if she went to Emerald Sky, she could probably crush those Leader Monsters wearing B1-grade Battle Armor, and might even be able to truly go head-to-head with Martial Artist bosses wearing B-grade Battle Armor.
“No way, I have to Class Change too!” Fang Zhen finished speaking and dove back into his lounge to continue assaulting the Martial Artist realm.
The others present also turned and returned to their own lounges one after another, determined to complete their Class Change; otherwise the gap would be so big there would be no way to play together.
As for Yaklo watching from the side, she was completely confused, utterly unable to understand what these players were talking about.
Class Change?
Agility System?
She understood every single word they said, but once strung together, she truly did not understand.
She had no idea when Martial Artists had started having class divisions.
And what the hell was the Agility System?
Could it be that, as a Limit Quasi-Martial Artist who had been roaming the Wilderness, the information she had was already lagging behind the times?
“Finally, someone succeeded.”
Lin Qi watched Luo Wu Shang, who had already started practicing the matching Martial Skills, and could not calm down for a long time.
Although he had long known that players would definitely be able to break through to become Martial Artists, he had not expected Luo Wu Shang to do it so quickly, and with her Entry-level mastery of the Second Layer Cultivation Method already not low, starting at entry 4%. In all aspects, her stats completely crushed his.
He had to admit that the super-grade Bone Forging Realm Secret Technique was indeed powerful. Even with his own First Level Perfection, it could not compare to a Martial Artist Level Cultivation Method at Advanced Level.
Once Luo Wu Shang learned the matching Ghostly Light Six Forms, her Combat Power would be enough to suppress Beginner Martial Artists wearing B2-grade Battle Armor.
Moreover, with Ghostly Light Six Forms’ Ghostly Light Step, her Speed would directly double; she could strike or retreat at will, and Intermediate Martial Artists wearing B-grade Battle Armor would probably be helpless.
Because of this, Lin Qi decided not to hold back any longer. He went straight back to his Hall Master lounge, locked the door, spread a pile of Energy Ore around him, carefully took out the last two Energy Crystals and held them in his hands, then opened the System Panel.
“It can begin!”
Lin Qi took a deep breath, sat cross-legged on the floor, and chose to extract Luo Wu Shang’s Second Layer Cultivation Method.
