Chapter 171: Prestige And Invitation
City of Light Chasing, Boran Villa in the city proper.
Inside the training room built entirely from energy ore, a three-eyed tribe woman with silver hair and a metal mask had her qi and blood surging continuously. Waves of heat crazily pounded against the surrounding walls, making the entire training room tremble slightly.
“Congratulations, miss, on successfully advancing to martial artist with a high-level secret skill!”
In the training room, an old man whose qi and blood had clearly reached intermediate martial artist level looked at the silver-haired woman who had just advanced. Shock shone in his eyes, along with deep reverence.
As an old martial artist great family in the City of Light Chasing, no one had expected that after years of decline, the Boran Family’s branch family second daughter, Estina, would successfully become a martial artist with a high-level secret skill. After entering the genius training camp, she would definitely become one of the brightest geniuses in the camp.
“Has there been any important news recently in the City of Light Chasing?” Estina opened her eyes and looked at the old man calmly.
“There is some important news,” the old man nodded and reported. “But there are only three major pieces. One is that two more genius martial artists have appeared among the Half-Scale Race. One of them has even caught the eye of an instructor from the genius training camp and was directly accepted as a disciple.”
“Caught the eye of a training camp instructor?” Estina was slightly surprised when she heard this.
As the place that gathered all the geniuses of the City of Light Chasing, being an instructor in the genius training camp was itself proof of strength. Their strength was at least advanced bone forging realm martial artist, and the stronger ones were even above the bone forging realm.
Many genius martial artists who graduated from the genius training camp generally only reached the bone forging realm. Those who truly reached advanced bone forging realm were extremely rare, often with only one appearing in several cohorts.
Generally, any genius who could catch the eye of an advanced bone forging realm instructor was someone that instructor could be sure would reach advanced bone forging realm. Otherwise, given the status of a genius training camp instructor, there was no need to take on a disciple who would not be of much help.
“Besides this major news, as for the other two: one is that Bei Ao, Bei En, Peiwen, and the Gorilla Gang, these four factions, have announced they will target a wilderness faction called the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall. This matter is already causing an uproar in the city,” the butler old man said.
“The four major powers targeting the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall together?” Estina was somewhat stunned. “Are you sure there is no mistake?”
Not long ago, she had personally tried to recruit the hall master of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, Lin Qi, but Lin Qi refused. She had originally planned to wait for Lin Qi to gradually realize how difficult the martial path was, that the Gorilla Gang’s targeting was something a newly advanced martial artist could not resist.
Yet in such a short time, the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had actually drawn the combined targeting of the four major powers in the suburbs. No matter how one looked at it, this sounded like a joke.
For a newly established wilderness gang, how could they possibly have the qualifications for such treatment?
“Miss Tina, I can guarantee this news is not wrong,” the old man said very firmly. “And this Obsidian Martial Arts Hall did another big thing early this morning. That is the third important piece of news I wanted to report.”
“What did they do?” Estina asked curiously.
“This morning at dawn, the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall wiped out the Iron Heart Gang in the suburbs, along with part of the elite experts of the four major powers, and even killed the Iron Heart Gang leader Fu Yihai in the street,” the old man said slowly. “Now all the major factions in the city believe that this Obsidian Martial Arts Hall will replace the former Iron Heart Gang and become the number one human race power in the suburbs.”
“Wiped out the Iron Heart Gang? Killed gang leader Fu Yihai in the street?” Estina was briefly taken aback when she heard this.
Although the Iron Heart Gang was only a second-rate gang in the suburbs of the City of Light Chasing, far inferior to first-rate forces like the Gorilla Gang or the Phosphor Fire Gang, it was still much stronger than many of the third-rate gangs in the suburbs. It was not something one could just destroy at will, let alone kill Fu Yihai, a limit beginner martial artist, openly on the street. Even for a first-rate gang in the suburbs, this would be very difficult.
The fact that the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall could achieve this was enough to prove that its strength already rivaled those first-rate gangs in the suburbs.
The old man continued, “Because of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s astonishing performance, and since its hall master Lin Qi is also an association-certified genius, the master intends for you to come forward and establish some business cooperation with the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, and plans to entrust some transport business to them, to ease the tension between you and Lin Qi. After all, both you and Lin Qi will enter the genius training camp in the future, so there is no need for things to be unpleasant.”
“Alright, I understand,” Estina nodded, fully understanding what the Bolan Main Family’s family head had in mind.
The rise of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall was now foreseeable. As long as Lin Qi did not fall, the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall might well become another major power in the city proper. Although the Bolan Main Family did not fear them, there was no need to be hostile.
By having her step forward and allocate some of the Boran Family’s transport business to the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, it would also serve to resolve the unpleasantness from Crimson Moon Mountain.
And throughout the City of Light Chasing, it was not only the Boran Family thinking this way. Many wilderness factions and suburban factions were also sending people to the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, intending to engage in some cooperation with them.
After all, the battle this morning had produced such an astonishing record for the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall that many suburban factions now suspected that the battle in the valley from the video was very likely also done by the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
If this were true, then the strength of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall might not be inferior to the combined strength of the four major powers. A faction as powerful as this naturally should be carefully courted and cooperated with.
City of Light Chasing, Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
With Meng Wei and the others returning, large quantities of loot stripped from the Iron Heart Gang’s stations by the players were transported back in batches, leaving Lin Qi inside the hall somewhat dazed.
He had sent the players to follow Meng Wei and the others to rescue people, but they instead completely cleaned out the Iron Heart Gang’s bases. That was brutally thorough.
However, he had to admit that the Iron Heart Gang’s loot was of great help to the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall at this stage.
From the spoils alone, there were more than two thousand bottles of type 1 energy potion, more than eight hundred bottles of type 1 healing potion, and more than twenty tons of blood essence rice. These were all crucial resources for cultivating local residents in the future.
Without these supplies, there would be no way to start cultivating the newly recruited local residents from scratch.
And beyond the type 1 potions, there were also twenty bottles of type 2 energy potion and twenty bottles of type 2 healing potion. These were the key to his rapid improvement.
He was ultimately not a player and did not have that many energy crystals on hand. If he relied only on energy stimulation from energy ore, then even with mastery of the second level cultivation method, his body would still be injured, whether lightly or heavily, which would seriously affect his improvement speed.
To speed up, he could only use gentle type 2 energy potions, and once injured, use type 2 healing potions for recovery. This was also why, after extracting the cultivation methods of Luo Wu Shang and Ye Qinglu today, he had not actually cultivated or improved his realm.
These twenty bottles of type 2 energy potion and twenty bottles of type 2 healing potion were enough for him to cultivate for twenty days, which was sufficient for him to advance to intermediate martial artist.
“Hall master, someone named Qin Mu wishes to see you,” Meng Wei entered the lounge and reported respectfully.
“Big brother Qin Mu wants to see me? Please, send him in quickly!” Lin Qi nodded.
Since the destruction of the Iron Heart Gang, wilderness and suburban factions had been constantly sending people over to offer congratulations, and he had handed all these matters over to Meng Wei to handle, which had been a great help to him.
Not long after, under Meng Wei’s guidance, Qin Mu arrived at the lounge.
After Qin Mu entered the lounge, Lin Qi could clearly sense that Qin Mu’s qi and blood were no longer at the quasi-martial artist level.
“Big brother Qin Mu, you have become a martial artist?” Lin Qi looked at Qin Mu, who appeared refreshed and was smiling, and was very surprised.
“Yes. Previously, thanks to the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, Hou Fei and I gained some harvest in the city proper of Emerald Sky, which allowed both of us to successfully advance to martial artist,” Qin Mu nodded and said with a smile. “But I did not come today for this matter. I came to tell brother Lin some good news.”
“Good news? What good news?” Lin Qi asked curiously, seeing Qin Mu’s excitement.
“You should know about the genius training camp,” Qin Mu said slowly. “A great figure of our human race who is graduating from the genius training camp this year plans to form a wilderness hunting group. After learning about you, he intends to invite you to join his hunting group. Are you interested?”
