Chapter 323: Founding The Sect: 【holy Grail Body】
Bypassing the five orcs attempting to demand higher treatment, Yuan Zhu looked again at the goblins who had also undergone Frog System Modification. After a period of careful feeding, their height showed no obvious change, but their body outlines had clearly thickened by a large margin.
From their original emaciated and skeletal state, where even breathing felt weak and powerless, to now having muscles puffed up like they’d eaten lean meat essence and inflated like balloons, it made Yuan Zhu immensely nostalgic for the fulfilling life of working overtime at the Veterinary Drug Factory.
Once the underground laboratory of the Frog Factory was built, he could return to his old trade and try to recreate the crystallization of knowledge he had painstakingly studied on Earth for many years. Once successful, and then “extraordinary-izing” these potions, he would have the capital to reign supreme.
Yuan Zhu then looked at A Tiao, pointing at the Muscular Goblins whose numbers had clearly increased again, and asked puzzledly: “What’s going on? The numbers seem to have increased?”
Yuan Tiao nodded and said honestly: “Big Sister and Senior Nie wanted to test the special training effects, so they added 4 more reserves. The results were very good. Big Sister thinks this batch of goblins is ready to be put out to pasture.”
Yuan Zhu got interested: “Oh, tell me all about it. Introduce their situation.”
“Got it!”
In A Tiao’s introduction, the later-added 4 reserves went from “accepting modification” to barely catching up with the other 10 frontrunners, taking no more than 5 days in total.
Such high efficiency was mainly due to the Artificial Stupidity Big Data Sharing Optimization Mechanism single-handedly led by Yu Jingzi Daoist Priest of the Yuan Clan Group.
The specifics were like Naruto using shadow clones to speedrun cultivation.
Following the training plan provided by Snake Snake, Yuan Tiao divided the daily training content into four sessions. After each session, the goblins had 1 hour of rest to replenish with Holy Mummy protein powder, nutritional supplements, Body Tempering Fluid…
During rest periods, Yuan Tiao could also use Anti-Law authorization to directly extract cultivation data from the “Brain Eggplant CPU”, compile and optimize it.
He personally refined it, extracting the essence and discarding the dross, then poured it back into the Brain Eggplant, allowing all goblins to collectively achieve Enlightenment, and through the next round of cultivation training, quickly adapt and habituate. Absorbing the “shared Martial Arts and Acting Skill” of other similar ones, achieving collective progress.
Over time, they achieved group progress through daily 4 awakenings of the body, with “Fighting and Acting Skill” advancing by leaps and bounds. At this point, A Tiao extracted a more mature Shockingly Wise Module, attempting “wisdom empowerment” on goblins with no cultivation or Fighting experience, trying to mass-produce battle-hardened “veteran Fighting performance artists”.
The experiment was very successful, and the 4 supplemental goblins also caught the last train, evolving rapidly without falling behind, graduating together with the 10 seniors!
A Tiao: “Big Sister says that now, what’s limiting them is the daily food and potions. The ‘potions and supplements’ bought by Senior Nie are running out more and more, unable to keep up with their consumption speed. So everyone agrees this batch of goblins is ready to go out and make money.”
With that, Yuan Tiao shifted his gaze to the trembling group of muscular little steel cannons, then ordered in a low voice: “You few, put on a show for Big Brother!”
As soon as Younger Brother spoke, the highest-status lead goblin suddenly let out a ghostly wail: “┗|｀O′|┛ Awoo~~ Dog! Whoosh~ Skip!”
Then it performed a front somersault in mid-air. Not satisfied, it huffed and puffed through a set of flashy Fist Technique. With its short stature and plump muscles, continuously rolling and dodging, it gave a hilarious, amusing, yet incredibly agile feeling.
If Half-blood Orcs’ combat was savage and powerful slaughter and brawling, then this group of Muscular Goblins had a bit of a monkey show flavor, plus somewhat exaggerated performance traces, exuding a demonic charm.
Yuan Zhu commented: “Looks decent, fancy and flashy, but the facial features are too ugly, affecting the viewing experience.”
A Tiao said: “Senior Nie was prepared early, already custom-sewing a batch of different image hoods for them. There’s the Bull Warrior you specifically instructed, and also a full classical Twelve Zodiac set.”
In ancient times before the Twelve Mandates were born, Earth culture dominated Du Ling, with a set of original zodiacs. Unfortunately, it couldn’t compete with the contemporary Twelve Mandates and became niche culture.
At this moment, the commanded Muscular Goblins each pulled out dyed and sewn “elastic Frog Skin hoods” from their pockets, put them on their heads to cover the ugly facial features, vaguely distinguishable as “cattle horses sheep monkey”, instantly looking much more pleasing.
Immediately after, they huffed and puffed through a performance-oriented Fist Technique, beating each other with solid punches to the flesh, but deliberately avoiding vital points, greatly improving the viewing experience.
Yuan Zhu nodded in satisfaction: “Not bad! It’s got some flair now.”
He recently planned to focus his energy on maintaining the Shadow Domain, preparing for the decompression installation of the Great Desolation Immortal Scripture. He didn’t plan to pay too much attention to the orcs and goblins.
Instead, he planned to hand their fate over to Nie Yin and the brother and sister to practice with. This was also a form of investment, cultivating his subordinates’ decision-making, Management, and operational abilities.
Even if they teamed up and played these goblin orcs to death or incurred losses, it wouldn’t cause much damage, easily recoverable.
Once the three earned revenue through operating goblins and orcs, gaining valuable management and operational experience, they could become independently capable talents in the future, allowing him to live a happy life of reaching out for clothes and opening mouth for food.
Yuan Zhu: “Since we’ve decided to put them out to pasture, I have a question. With so many goblins and orcs, how do you plan to arrange them? Last time you took them to compete, you saw—an amateur Underground Arena can’t accommodate so many orc contestants. Not to mention the addition of over a dozen goblins, how to handle them?”
Younger Brother thought briefly: “Big Sister says you know an intermediary organization called Cat House that can provide a lot of Employment Positions, right?”
Yuan Zhu nodded: “Then we’ll act tonight, take this batch of goblins to Cat House for interviews.”
Yuan Tiao scratched his head: “Uh, can we bring Big Sister too? I’m not very familiar with the specific industry rules, not good at dealing with them, haggling prices.”
Yuan Zhu shook his head: “That’s why you need more tempering opportunities. Don’t worry, Cat House is different from other Underground Arenas, I have a life-and-death friendship with the Boss there. Feel free to negotiate with them, no worry about losses. By the way, how’s the training of the batch of Holy Knight Goblins assigned to you? Goblins and orcs are just for small money, but this batch of Holy Knight Goblins relates to your future cultivation path.”
Mentioning Holy Light Goblins, Yuan Tiao suddenly got excited: “Results achieved! The Holy Light Breathing Technique you provided, Big Brother, is incredibly miraculous, bypassing Polluting Energy, directly tapping Holy Cough Particles for Physical Body reinforcement and cultivation.”
“These goblins, when operating the Breathing Method, saw significant improvement and reinforcement in physical qualities, but no True Qi energy produced in their bodies, nor activation of the Eight Extraordinary Meridians. More like external horizontal tempering in Insect City martial arts, but with differences.”
Candle humbly asked: “What differences?”
“Uh, I can’t quite put it into words. The effects of Holy Breathing seem like horizontal tempering, but somewhat different.”
Yuan Tiao had never encountered orthodox Knight System Breathing Method, only feeling that Holy Cough Breathing Technique and Source Qi Breathing Method seemed very similar, yet qualitatively different. Not involving “Meridians, acupoints, True Qi”, yet able to generate power not inferior to Qi Refining.
Yuan Zhu asked again: “Besides the temporary massive reinforcement, after the Holy Light Power dissipates and disappears, does the Breathing Method produce some kind of permanent beneficial qualitative change that won’t disappear?”
Yuan Tiao thought, then nodded affirmatively: “Yes!”
Besides temporary all-around quality enhancement, Holy Breathing, after implanting Holy Flask in the goblins, indeed triggered a brand new “permanent mutation”, but only leaving very small traces, undiscoverable without close inspection.
According to Yuan Tiao’s description, this batch of Holy Knight Goblins, after multiple uses of Holy Light Breathing Technique to reinforce the Physical Body, and at the end of each Holy Light Outbreak, ultimately recycled residual “Energy” ending at the “Dantian” position in Insect System Martial Arts Theory.
However, this endpoint didn’t re-store the not-yet-fully-dissipated “Holy Light Power” back into the Holy Flask, but permanently smelted it into the cellular tissue centered on the Dantian.
Younger Brother, from the high-ranking perspective of Anti-Law D Group Group Leader, meticulously observed the four lower goblins, recording their every change. Finally racking his brains, he came up with a “Tempering, Forging, Blacksmithing” description.
He had never seen steel smelting from childhood to now. Fortunately, Snake Snake had left complete enlightenment textbooks for the two siblings in the Shadow Domain Cockroach Dreamland. It included many “forging knife competition video fragments” stripped from Yuan Zhu’s Memory, leaving a deep impression on A Tiao.
In his observation, the Holy Cough Breathing Technique hammered and modified the cells near the Holy Knight Goblins’ Dantian in a “Blacksmithing”-like manner:
Holy Light Goblins, in ascetic cultivation of Holy Breathing, first extracted raw “Holy Cough Particles” from the Flask. Then through special breathing rhythms, transported the “Holy Cough” into the Blood, pumped into the Lungs via the heart.
Ultimately refined by the Breathing Method into Life Energy, redistributed throughout the body via Blood, bringing all-around temporary amplification and reinforcement. This power could bless and reinforce the Physical Body like the Knight Breathing Technique.
When this “Holy Light Power” was vented, released, and collided in battle, it was like a round of blacksmithing-like counter-shock Tempering on the Physical Body.
After this collision round ended, the Holy Power blessing was fully consumed. But the “cultivation effect” produced through “collision, counter-shock, battle” with the Physical Body as medium wouldn’t disappear, but was recycled by the Breathing Method and permanently infused into the Dantian.
Specifically manifesting as a small number of cells in the Dantian core area being coated with this sublimated “Holy Light System substance (cultivation Experience value)”.
On the cell membrane surface, forming a layer of Biological Force Field.
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After reading the data collected from A Tiao’s observations, Yuan Zhu unexpectedly discovered that this thing like “cultivation Experience” was clearly degraded Beaker Power.
The Breathing Method transforms the Physical Body, must involve the Flask (Energy source) to convert “Holy Cough Particles” into temporary blessing reinforcement. Then through collision and battle, like Forging Steel, temper the Physical Body, using will to refine “trace byproducts”, recycle and inject into cells.
Completing the “Holy Light Force Field (Holy Grail Power)” transformation of cells, specifically manifesting as Cell Membrane Microscopic Biological Shielding Force Field, which is the Steel Body of the Great Holy Grail that Yuan Zhu desired. Constantly enchanting the Flesh and Blood Body with “Shielding Force Field”, every move carrying “Force Field” effects.
The current transformation effect on Holy Knight Goblins is that a small amount of “sacred cells” can store trace Holy Light inside the cell without dissipation, like Holy Grail/Flask.
Secondly, each cell consumes Vitality through metabolism until aging and death replacement. But this “Holy Light cell membrane” can collect microscopic cellularly dissipated Vitality, recycle it as fuel to burn Holy Light maintaining the “Biological Field”‘s existence.
Equivalent to secondary recovery and utilization of dissipated heat energy in the Industrial System.
Finally, individual “Holy Light cells” are very weak, this reinforcement ≈0. But countless sacred cells forged and reinforced by Holy Breathing gathered together can spontaneously control opening or closing a “sacred Biological Field (Sanctuary Biological Energy Version)” similar to Knight System Steel Body.
…
“Hiss—!”
Yuan Zhu inhaled a cold breath—was this the “Holy Light Version” of Steel Origin?!
Orthodox Knight Breathing Technique draws the “Steel Concept” contained in metal, through breathing and battle, hammers these “Origin” into cells, reinforcing and transforming blood-flesh tissue.
Ultimately becoming cells with biological characteristics “Active Metal cells”, thereby gaining Steel Body and indestructible Steel-like Life Force Field. Even without armor, achieving Vajra indestructibility, self-carrying “Steel Force Field” for offense and defense.
Now, his Holy Cough Breathing Technique combined with Flask Power Pillar also refined “Beaker Power” similar to “Steel Origin”. Through intense battle collisions, refining “essence” that transforms cell structure, modifying cell membrane with “Shielding Force Field”. Turning every cell into a temporary “Flask”.
Snake Snake joined in at this time, using Anti-Law to take over the bodies of the four Lower Holy Knight Goblins. Scanning and examining the already mutated small amount of cellular tissue.
Soon, Snake Tail summarized: “I found two problems. First, the Flask’s output power is too small; after each Holy Breathing round, the finally refined ‘Experience value’ is limited, only able to transform a few cells. A human has 40-60 trillion cells, a goblin at least 30 trillion; to temper them all once would take many, many years of cultivation!”
“Secondly, I don’t know if the Knight System Steel Body transformation is once-and-for-all? But our Holy Light Cells only plate a layer of ‘Holy Light Force Field barrier’ on the cell membrane, not making cells immortal. They still die when they should, just with this extra ‘Force Field shield’, cells are tougher, Wear and Tear speed lower; if most body cells are tempered, it will definitely extend lifespan! Also permanently passively constant Sanctuary Blessing, greatly resisting all pollution…”
“Holy shit! Boss, I found a blind monk! This no longer belongs to the traditional Holy Light System. This is clearly a brand new path originating from you, highly involving Holy Light Power but detached from Holy Light System! The biggest characteristic is no Holy Mark, Holy Seal, Soul Crystal, while mixing Knight System Breathing Method, your unique Beaker Power… sewn into a ‘personal class’! Already has a bit of Insect Cultivator Qi Refiner flavor.”
