Chapter 175: Cultivating All Three Paths
“These damn Obsidian Martial Arts Hall disciples!”
“Take them out. Never allow them to run wild again!”
The North Ao Family’s guard squad, seeing the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall members causing chaos in the shop, immediately rushed in to kill them.
“They finally came.”
Lu Fanchen watched the four North Ao Family quasi-martial artists and limit apprentices in A6-grade battle armor charging over, and took the initiative to meet them head-on.
However, in this battle, Lu Fanchen had no intention of using any martial skills. He only used the A6-grade arrows in his hand to resist. During the fight, he imitated the mechanical man, doing his best to control his body to perform the most extreme evasions, while counterattacking with as few unnecessary movements as possible.
In terms of reaction speed, the North Ao Family’s quasi-martial artists and limit apprentices were far inferior to Lu Fanchen, who had studied the Stellar Explosion Meditation Technique. This allowed Lu Fanchen, even without the assistance of A6-grade battle armor, to deal with the four from the North Ao Family without too much difficulty.
And it was not only Lu Fanchen. Lin Xinyao and Li Tianxing were the same. Facing the encirclement of three or four North Ao Family elites, their body movements when dodging attacks became more and more extreme, and the excess movements in their counterattacks became fewer and fewer, and faster and faster.
For a time, all three of them could fight the North Ao Family elites on equal footing, which made the North Ao Family people keep shouting for more help, continuously increasing the pressure on the three. Wounds would appear on their bodies from time to time, and as more support from the North Ao Family arrived, the number of wounds on the three also increased.
But the three of them instead were enjoying it, because they found that as more enemies swarmed in and the pressure grew, every one of their movements had to become more concise and efficient. If their bodies made too many unnecessary movements, they would be hit.
When the three of them saw that they could no longer hold out, they chose self-detonation at the first moment, taking the surrounding North Ao Family elites with them. This left the watching members of all the major gangs stunned.
They had not expected the disciples of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall to be so fierce, choosing to take the enemy with them even in death.
But the North Ao Family was even more enraged. The attacks of just over ten people from the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had caused them to lose more than forty elites. Such losses could only be described as devastating.
Meanwhile, in the underground confinement room of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
“Damn, that was great. I feel like I gained a lot this time. If I can remove all unnecessary movements, I should be able to reach the microscopic realm in this game.” After resurrecting, Lu Fanchen was so excited he could not contain himself.
“I also grasped a bit of the feeling. Just now, if my arm had not moved that extra centimeter, I would not have been cut.” Lin Xinyao nodded, feeling that this subtle control over the entire body was incredibly interesting.
There was no need to rely on absolute strength or absolute speed to deal with enemies. Using only the most appropriate strength and the most appropriate speed was enough. This not only greatly reduced stamina consumption in battle, but was also more efficient. Compared with their previous combat style that relied on reaction and strength, it was clearly more interesting.
“It is still early. Let’s continue.” Li Tianxing urged as well.
At sunset, in the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
In the hall master’s lounge, Lin Qi sat cross-legged on the floor. He slowly opened his eyes and picked up the Type II Healing Potion he had prepared earlier, downing it in one gulp. The pallor on his face eased noticeably.
“Cultivating the Second Level cultivation method really is dangerous.” Lin Qi looked at the two empty Type 2 Energy Potion bottles on the floor and sighed. “Fortunately I used Type 2 Energy Potions. If I had directly used energy ore, I might have been seriously injured this time.”
At noon today, Li Ranxing had used the Reverse Star Triple of the strength system to successfully break through to martial artist, so Lin Qi immediately chose to extract Li Ranxing’s Reverse Star Triple. At the same time, he extracted Luo Wu Shang’s and Ye Qinglu’s as well, causing all three cultivation methods to grow significantly.
With that, he also wanted to see what would happen if he cultivated three cultivation methods at the same time, so he started cultivating the balance system’s Cloud Mist Transformation and the strength system’s Reverse Star Triple in one go.
He had not known before, but once he trained, he was shocked.
Just by cultivating the balance system’s Cloud Mist Transformation, he actually became an intermediate martial artist. And his Cloud Mist Transformation jumped from 7% entry-level directly to 26% entry-level. The improvement in his physical fitness was terrifying, enough to scare those who cultivated intermediate or advanced martial artist level cultivation methods to death.
Normally, when cultivating intermediate martial artist level cultivation methods, one would reach 100% entry-level to become an intermediate martial artist. But by cultivating two cultivation methods together, with neither of them even reaching 30% entry-level, he had forcibly become an intermediate martial artist. It was simply unbelievable.
So he struck while the iron was hot and continued to cultivate the third cultivation method of the strength system, Reverse Star Triple.
However, when cultivating the third cultivation method, the operation became too complex, and some energy flow routes were highly repetitive, almost causing his cells and internal organs to collapse. Fortunately, he had learned a body strengthening secret technique and his body was exceptionally tough, or even Type II Healing Potions would not have been enough to save him.
“I wonder what level my physical fitness has reached now.”
Lin Qi opened his system panel.
Host: Lin Qi.
Age:
Administrator permissions: level one.
Permission level: Merit-Based Admission Authority Level Two.
Martial arts level: intermediate martial artist.
Strength: 6 kilograms. （Advanced martial artist standard: 3000 kilograms）
Speed: 2 meters per second. （Advanced martial artist standard: 50 meters per second）
Internal organs: internal refinement and strengthening 9% complete.
Cultivation methods: Startling Spirit Breathing Technique （Dark Light Six Forms Second Level entry-level 42%, Cloud Mist Transformation Second Level entry-level 39%, Reverse Star Triple entry-level 34%）
“My internal organs strengthening is not even halfway done, and my physical fitness is already close to an advanced martial artist?” Lin Qi looked at his panel, feeling shocked.
Whether an organ refining realm martial artist could attempt to become a bone forging realm martial artist depended mainly on the degree of strengthening of the internal organs. Normally, after reaching 90% completion, one could attempt to break through to the bone forging realm. At 90%, an organ refining realm martial artist had already reached the limit of physical fitness, which was the peak high-level martial artist.
Right now, with his internal organs strengthening not even halfway complete, his physical fitness was already close to an advanced martial artist. If his internal organs were fully strengthened, it was unimaginable what level his physical fitness could reach.
And this was only his surface stats. By relying on the first level perfection of Lightning Palm for a 20% strength increase, his punch had already exceeded 3300 kilograms, reaching the level of an advanced martial artist.
As for speed, with the Leopard Shadow Steps Second Level Perfection buff, it had also surpassed the baseline of 50 meters per second for advanced martial artists.
He was now almost no different from a true advanced martial artist.
“With my current self, as long as I do not encounter a bone forging realm martial artist, with the seventh stage secret technique I have mastered, no one should be able to do anything to me.” Lin Qi felt his own strength, and his gaze fell on the five empty Type II Healing Potion bottles on the floor. “But cultivating three cultivation methods simultaneously like this consumes too many healing potions. The fifteen remaining Type II Healing Potions are probably only enough for me to cultivate three more times.”
Previously, he had thought that the Type 2 Energy Potions and Healing Potions would last him for a while, but now it seemed he had been overthinking.
Without enough Type 2 Energy Potions and Healing Potions, he might be stuck in the organ refining realm, unable to ever reach the bone forging realm in his lifetime.
Just as Lin Qi was thinking about where he could get more Type 2 Energy Potions and Healing Potions, Meng Wei suddenly knocked on the door.
“Hall master, I have something important to report.”
“Come in.”
Lin Qi looked at the flustered Meng Wei walking in and was a bit puzzled. He did not understand why Meng Wei was so nervous.
“Did something happen?” Lin Qi asked.
“Something big happened.” Meng Wei nodded, taking a few deep breaths before saying in a low voice, “I do not know what kind of madness has taken hold of our martial hall disciples. Throughout today, they went to the territories of those four major powers, caused a huge scene in each of the four major powers’ territories, and they still have not stopped…”
