Chapter 270: Rin Character Technique Overlimit State! Flame Armor Major Accomplishment, New Phenomenon In Sea Of Qi! Lili Zi, Caught By The Past
【Rin Character Technique】
【Mastery Level: 10.004%】
【Effect One: After use, generates a barrier at will.】
【Effect Two: After use, enhances oneself.】
This is the previous panel of the Rin Character Technique.
After the mastery level broke through the “10%” limit, an unprecedentedly long Effect Three appeared in the effect description.
It appeared.
【Effect Three: Overlimit State.】
In high-intensity combat or cultivation, you will continuously accumulate “Limit Breaking Value”. When the Limit Breaking Value is full, you can consume all of it at once to enter the “Overlimit State” from （one of the two） options.
Overlimit State·Cultivation: Your comprehension ability greatly increases, perception ability greatly increases, cultivation efficiency greatly increases.
At the same time, obtain the limited-time state “Perfect Comprehension”: Your comprehension level of the current cultivation method will reach the level of the creator himself, and you can make the most correct decisions in cultivation.
Overlimit State·Combat: All your attributes greatly increase, state of mind greatly increases, perception ability greatly increases, recovery ability greatly increases.
At the same time, obtain the limited-time state “Future Sight”: Acquire the situation in the current combat from this moment to one second in the future.】
【Current Limit Breaking Value: 0/100】
【——The beginning of all things, commanding everything, breaking through shackles.】
After reading Effect Three of the Rin Character Technique word by word unhurriedly, Shangshan Che, facing the sunrise, couldn’t help but smack his lips.
Just reading the effect description, he could feel that this so-called “Overlimit State”, which requires long-term accumulation to activate, is simply incredibly powerful.
Whether “Cultivation” or “Combat”, even disregarding a bunch of attribute boosts, Perfect Comprehension and Future Sight are both bug-level skills.
The latter goes without saying; this is not the so-called pre-reading after the state of mind enters the “Clear Mirror” stage, which is effective against the weak.
But against the strong, or evenly matched opponents, it would completely fail, and sometimes might even backfire and deceive oneself.
Knowing the future one second later.
One second, for a supernatural like Shangshan Che at this level, what can it achieve?
——It is already enough for him to unleash all the spiritual power and Qi Barrier in his body, turning them into lightning and Qi Sword, and also enough for Minamoto Shizuka to swing dozens or hundreds of swords, finely slicing him into minced meat.
If considering the substantial rise in base attribute values, Shangshan Che felt that perhaps in this Overlimit State, he could compare sizes with a real Ghost God.
As for the former’s “Perfect Comprehension”, it might not seem like much at first glance.
But just make a comparison—if Shangshan Che who picked up Abe no Seimei’s Onmyōdō fragment obtains this state…
Then, Shangshan Che’s comprehension of this Onmyōdō would become that of the most renowned Great Onmyoji of the Heian Period a thousand years ago, Abe no Seimei.
Achieving perfection in cultivation instantly would be the least; more likely, he would directly complete the fragment—since the person himself has come, wouldn’t accomplishing such a small thing be effortless?
Terrifying as such.
“It’s just that who knows how to accumulate this Limit Breaking Value…”
Shangshan Che examined the clearer and more refined silver pattern on the back of his hand, knowing that at least for now, he couldn’t try the feeling of the Overlimit State.
This Rin Character Technique is really stingy… not even giving an experience card.
Let’s try the normal Rin Character Technique boost first.
Shangshan Che clenched his right fist.
The pattern on the back of his hand, which was about to fade, immediately lit up, making his entire body’s surface tremble violently, emitting bursts of bone-cracking sounds.
Thunder roared fleetingly in the bedroom, startling Kaga Kiyomitsu in the living room outside, who was using the hilt to rub the controller while playing a game.
“Good thing I had mastered Tiger Leopard Thunder Sound before, or I almost shook the floor apart.”
Shangshan Che secretly sighed in relief, relaxing after seeing no cracks on the wooden floor.
This Rin Character Technique boost, unlike using cards to incarnate as a demon, the power is simply equivalent to appearing out of thin air, directly elevating a huge chunk on the already exceptionally robust foundation.
Pulling up the personal panel, even though Shangshan Che had anticipated it, he couldn’t help but be startled by the three-dimensional attributes.
【Shangshan Che】
【Physique: 100→115】
【Willpower: 66→80】
【Charm: 13】
【Spiritual Arts: 80】
With only the Hannya Mask hanging at his waist and the Four-tailed Fox Jade Token, the Rin Character Technique directly provided him with a full twenty-nine points of extra attributes.
Originally it was less than twenty points boosted, now it’s directly a 50% increase.
Note that attributes become harder to improve the higher they get; Shangshan Che’s Flame Armor at minor accomplishment only added one point to physique, this is equivalent to five sets of Flame Armor minor accomplishments.
Willpower even more so, this thing has almost no daily opportunities to improve.
As for duration…
Shangshan Che quietly experienced it for a minute, roughly figuring out that the state maintaining the twenty-nine points attribute boost could only last about twenty minutes.
If reducing the attribute boost amplitude and using it intermittently, the time should be extendable to over an hour.
In any case, it’s absolutely no problem for coping with one or two normal combats.
Shangshan Che canceled the attribute boost, then used the Rin Character Technique to summon a nearly transparent barrier.
Thump thump.
Knocking the barrier with his knuckles, Shangshan Che immediately felt its strength had increased significantly.
But the barrier’s use isn’t that great.
Because the Rin Character Technique can currently only maintain one effect at a time, compared to the attribute surge, this barrier isn’t so appealing.
Moreover, now for defense means, Shangshan Che also has Flame Armor, so the barrier isn’t very usable.
It can only be said that it can be used as an unexpected trump card—letting Flame Armor be deliberately shattered as bait should easily realize the idea.
One more tactic against enemies.
Rubbing his temples, Shangshan Che canceled the Rin Character Technique boost, immediately feeling as if his body had been hollowed out.
Although now he really wanted to go to the Special Affairs Office’s two hundred times Spirit Energy Room for cultivation again, to fill up the last few hundred proficiency points of Spirit Control Technique.
But his body still full of spiritual energy told Shangshan Che not to go; going again today would cause him to burst from being overfilled.
“So, today let’s use the Flame Seed to consume this excess spiritual energy.”
He actually didn’t figure out how he absorbed so much spiritual energy yesterday all at once, all piled up in his body, even unable to “expel” it using Spirit Control Technique.
It was as if his body had locked all this spiritual energy.
If in a spiritual energy deficient environment, of course it’s good, because it means no need to rely on the external heaven and earth environment for a period of time.
But now places with abundant spiritual energy are plentiful, this becomes a bad thing…
After grumbling a few times, Shangshan Che looked at the cloudless sky, thought for a moment, walked out of the bedroom to the rooftop, and sat cross-legged.
Still more comfortable to bathe in sunlight while condensing the Flame Seed.
For the last two Flame Seeds, Shangshan Che decided to bury them in the knee joints.
Because the abdominal dantian already has the Sea of Qi, and in the foreseeable future, there will be an additional Star River Qi Sea from the Life River Breathing Technique here.
Thus, no need to put extra things in the abdominal area.
Placing them in the knees, one is to let Flame Armor more completely cover the lower body.
More importantly, it can nourish and enhance the explosive power of the knee joints via the Flame Seed, making one’s movement faster.
After simply making the decision, Shangshan Che stopped overthinking.
He first emptied his thoughts, rested for half an hour to recover his spirit, then focused all attention on condensing the Flame Seed.
Time flies, sun and moon shift.
When Shangshan Che completed the last two Flame Seeds stroke by stroke according to the memory, the blazing sun originally hanging in the sky had already fallen near the horizon.
“This time it was much faster; two seeds took only this much time.”
Feeling the heat in his knees and the explosive power deep within, Shangshan Che’s mouth curved up.
The spiritual power accumulated in his body yesterday had also been consumed by about half; presumably in another two days, Spirit Control Technique would definitely break through.
After a series of subtle bone thunder sounds, Shangshan Che lowered his gaze—
【Due to condensing the fifth Flame Seed, Onmyōdō·Flame Armor rank has been elevated to “Great Accomplishment”!】
【Due to your Flame Armor elevating to Great Accomplishment, your physique +3!】
【Flame Armor（Great Accomplishment）】
【Effect: Five seeds complete, flowing fire on the body! Can be armor, or spear!】
【——A Onmyōdō ancient method created by someone at the end of the Heian Period, but not yet completed. You did not treat this method as the foundation, but you also do not need to rely on it to achieve Ghost God.】
Constructing and placing the five Flame Seeds is Great Accomplishment; linking them one by one seamlessly to form a stable cyclic structure is Perfection.
Like the previous steps, facing the “linking difficulty” that stumped countless onmyoji, Shangshan Che just needed to follow the Memory Orb.
No difficulty at all.
Just needs a bit more time.
With a thought, Shangshan Che felt flowing fire surging from the five Flame Seeds, instantly wrapping every inch of his body without leaving any gaps.
“Besides the basic full coverage, it can also…”
Whoosh!
Half-red half-black glow intertwined with sunlight.
Moments later, a fully crystallized heavy armor was donned on Shangshan Che’s body.
He slightly hooked his finger, letting a wisp of deep purple lightning strike from outside.
Boom…
The lightning hadn’t even roared before it was resolved and absorbed by the crystallized Flame Armor.
“Landing on one point, but shared by the entire armor, spiritual power defense is also greatly improved, and it can even draw some spiritual power from it as supplement.”
Shangshan Che nodded, somewhat regretful: “It’s just that this crystallization state can’t move, directly turning into a beaten turtle shell.”
Canceling the turtle shell state, Shangshan Che felt the accelerated circulation and blood flow due to the five Flame Seeds, knowing his recovery ability should also have strengthened considerably.
Besides that, the Uguisudori’s Feather in the Sea of Qi also received nourishment from the Flame Seed, now showing signs of wanting to stir again.
Speaking of which…
Shangshan Che used internal vision on his currently calm Sea of Qi, and could see the much more active Uguisudori’s Feather, plus in the mid-air besides the drifting thunderclouds.
Five clusters of translucent small flames.
Undoubtedly, this is the manifestation of the five Flame Seeds in the Sea of Qi… as expected of the Void Qi Sea, able to tolerate and absorb anything.
If it were a normal Sea of Qi, it would have driven out this messy thunder and fire long ago.
The small flames looked somewhat in stupor, different from other existences in the Sea of Qi, but at least the natives weren’t eyeing them.
After confirming the Uguisudori’s Feather had no stray thoughts or unusual movements, Shangshan Che withdrew his consciousness, not using tangible hands to regulate.
Right.
After completing the Flame Armor cultivation, Shangshan Che remembered the morning matter regarding “Limit Breaking Value”.
High-intensity cultivation can also increase Limit Breaking Value.
Then for laboriously condensing two Flame Seeds at once this time, let’s see how much it adds.
【Limit Breaking Value: 1/100】
Limit Breaking Value, almost no change.
That is, condensing Flame Seeds was not considered “high-intensity” cultivation.
“Could it be determined by my physical and mental fatigue level…”
As Shangshan Che pondered, the sky gradually darkened.
……
On the other side, in the Arakawa Ward venue holding the seed battle winner’s group event.
Due to the now popular Lili Zi, today’s venue had nearly full tens of thousands of audience seats, with cheers rising again and again from the girl on the field easily winning.
This day, Lili Zi drew the bamboo sword and achieved full victory.
Because as soon as encountering Sword Domain, most competitors would lose inexplicably.
Only a few competitors who also had achievements in sword technique and had personally seen Sword Domain could react to what they were facing now.
Then exchange silent looks.
——A sword master came to the preliminary selection; how to fight?
And this sword master is surnamed Tokugawa… very likely also practices Four Extremes Breathing Technique, just hasn’t used it yet.
Facing this situation, sensible competitors would choose to concede directly under Lili Zi’s unkind gaze.
Only those who couldn’t recognize Sword Domain would be happily beaten up by Lili Zi.
Chisa by the field watched the whole day, cheering for Lili Zi the whole day.
——So combat is mostly like this.
The girl thought.
Fair competition, stopping at the point, pretty good.
Right, even Special Affairs Office missions have several reliable teammates, and when encountering Supernatural Phenomenon and demons, they can ruthlessly gang up on them.
At the same time, the intelligence department confirms mission difficulty to ensure safety.
The kind of danger she and Shangshan brother encountered before should still be the minority.
If that’s the case, then perhaps she really can apprentice under Shangshan brother.
Chisa-chan, with the handsome figure of Lili Zi deeply imprinted in her mind, dokidoki wanted to grow stronger.
The young Chisa didn’t know that what she saw was the minority; many documents where the intelligence department erred, Nanjo Emi hadn’t let her handle.
“Arakawa Ward competitor Tokugawa Ririko, wins!”
In another round of full-field cheers, Lili Zi glanced at the dojo competitor she had beaten into unconsciousness, went off the field as usual, brushing off all the media rushing for interviews.
But refusing interviews itself can become a news and hot topic headline.
In the crowd, an old and a young voice sounded.
“Lili Zi… the little fellow is really arrogant.”
“Yes, she’s been like this since she was little.”
This voice was instantly drowned out; Chisa naturally didn’t hear it.
The girl trotted over, handing a pre-prepared wet towel to the sweaty Lili Zi: “Lili Zi Sister, good work.”
Lili Zi was stunned for a moment, took the towel and smiled at her,
“Thanks.”
“Good grief, turned into a fangirl already.” Tamamo poked out her neck with narrowed eyes, clicking her tongue, “Never seen you so attentive to your big sister.”
As Tamamo speechlessly wanted to call back her little sister and ask where to eat local specialties today, her peripheral vision caught a weird situation in the crowd.
An old and a young were ignoring the surging crowd, slowly and steadily approaching this side… accurately, towards Lili Zi.
No.
Professional instinct made Tamamo sharply stand up, remembering Shangshan Che’s instruction from yesterday.
She immediately casually pretended to play with her mobile phone while walking to Lili Zi’s side, took her hand, wanting to lead her to the competitor rest room and then leave the venue.
“Lili Zi Miss, let’s go.”
She tugged the wrist still dripping with sweat beads, but found it as heavy as a thousand pounds, staying rooted in place, unmoving.
“I have something to do; Tamamo Miss and Chisa-chan go first.” Lili Zi spoke towards Tamamo, then realized upon seeing her expression after lowering her head.
“Oh, so it’s what Shangshan Jun instructed you, Tamamo Miss… but it’s fine.”
Lili Zi patted Tamamo’s cool hand back, smiling at her: “Don’t worry, I already talked to him about this yesterday, so you don’t need to worry anymore, Tamamo Miss.”
After hesitating a moment, Tamamo nodded: “Okay.”
After one “okay”, Tamamo turned and grabbed Chisa’s hand, heading to the rest room.
Lili Zi lightly exhaled, turning her gaze to another direction.
And the next second after feeling Lili Zi’s gaze shift away from her, Tamamo extremely quickly pulled out her mobile phone, swiftly opening Shangshan Che’s Line interface.
Message, sent!
——No matter what Lili Zi says, she, Tamamo, will report the situation faithfully upon seeing it!
This is called, professional instinct!
In the noisy crowd, Lili Zi’s gaze was fixed on the approaching old and young.
She stared at the youth standing behind the cane-leaning old man.
After a long time, Lili Zi disappointedly lowered her eyes,
“Eldest Brother, you’ve come.”
