Chapter 220: The Third Transcendent Martial Art And Unlocking Permissions
Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
As the afterglow of the setting sun gradually dimmed, the lights inside Obsidian Martial Arts Hall lit up one after another. A large number of vagrants who had come by reputation to register were still lined up, waiting for the disciple assessment of Obsidian Martial Arts Hall. The lively scene showed no signs of diminishing; the long line for the hall’s assessment had even become a scenic sight of the Human Race Abandoned Area.
Inside the brightly lit hall, Dona sat cross-legged alone in the primary gravity room to cultivate. After confirming she had adapted to sixteen times gravity, she could not help taking out the washed vitality fragrant pear from her pocket.
“Two energy crystals for one fragrant pear, I hope the effect is not too bad.” Dona looked at the vitality fragrant pear in her hand and took a bite.
At present, she had gradually reached a bottleneck in her cultivation method. Each cultivation session could only be slowly explored, carefully using the energy of the Type Three Energy Potion to stimulate all the bones in her body. With the slightest mistake, even with the Type Three Healing Potion, she would have to recuperate for several days.
And the recruitment time for the domain city was getting closer and closer. If she could not break through to the Bone Forging Realm Intermediate Level before then, her chances of entering the domain city could be said to be less than thirty percent.
As Dona finished eating the entire vitality fragrant pear, she immediately felt a chill slowly rush from her stomach straight to her brain, making her mind suddenly clear, as if waking from a dream. The entire world appeared much sharper.
“This… how is this possible!”
Dona could not believe the astonishing effect brought by the vitality fragrant pear.
Just from eating the vitality fragrant pear, her cultivation method, which had been stuck in a bottleneck, suddenly felt enlightened at this moment, as if the high-level Bone Forging Realm cultivation method she practiced was not that difficult.
But Dona knew very well how difficult the high-level Bone Forging Realm cultivation method was to master. Even her older brother Igor, who had graduated from the Genius Training Camp, had not succeeded in cultivating it and could only choose to learn the intermediate-level Bone Forging Realm cultivation method.
Among the top ten graduates who graduated from the Genius Training Camp in the same period as her, only she and two others had mastered it, and all three had great hope of being admitted to the domain city before the age of thirty.
Now she had only eaten one fragrant pear, yet she actually felt that the high-level Bone Forging Realm cultivation method was not so difficult. It was simply unbelievable.
However, Dona was not stupid. After a brief moment of shock, she immediately devoted herself wholeheartedly to the cultivation of the high-level Bone Forging Realm cultivation method, not daring to be distracted in the slightest.
Half an hour… one hour… two hours…
Until the two-hour effect of the vitality fragrant pear completely ended, Dona in the primary gravity room took a deep breath. Her qi and blood had become much richer than before, but there was some regret on her face.
“What a pity. If the effect of this fragrant pear could last a bit longer, it would be perfect.” Dona thought that she had just been one step away from having her cultivation method fully reach proficient level, allowing the wrapped energy to completely strengthen all the bones in her body once.
But regret was regret. The regret on Dona’s face quickly turned into excitement.
“The effect of this fragrant pear is too amazing. I wonder if Hall Master Lin still has more. If I can keep using this fragrant pear as support during this period, before the domain city assessment, I will definitely be able to break through to Bone Forging Realm Intermediate Level.”
Thinking of the effect of the vitality fragrant pear, Dona felt that Lin Qi really had not lied. Two energy crystals were truly great value, allowing her cultivation speed after reaching the Bone Forging Realm to be faster than ever.
Originally, even with abundant resources before the domain city assessment, she believed her chances of breaking through to Bone Forging Realm Intermediate Level were less than ten percent. After all, quenching the bones was a fairly long process and could not go wrong. Otherwise, even a single mistake would mean at least serious injury, and in severe cases, death. So even for genius martial artists, after stepping into the Bone Forging Realm, progress was very slow.
Being able to break through to Bone Forging Realm Intermediate Level within three years after entering the Bone Forging Realm was already quite fast. More often, people only broke through to Bone Forging Realm Intermediate Level four or five years after reaching the Bone Forging Realm.
She had already been in the Bone Forging Realm for more than a year. Under normal circumstances, she was confident she could break through to Bone Forging Realm Intermediate Level within two years. But now, as long as she had the vitality fragrant pear to cooperate with her cultivation, she could break through to Bone Forging Realm Intermediate Level within one month. This speed could definitely be called miraculous.
At this moment, Dona also felt quite fortunate. Fortunately, her brother had not directly become an enemy of Obsidian Martial Arts Hall. The foundation of this Obsidian Martial Arts Hall was simply unfathomable, completely unlike a faction that a single Bone Forging Realm expert could build.
Especially now that there was such an incredible fruit as the vitality fragrant pear, she was even more certain that there must be a terrifying major power behind Obsidian Martial Arts Hall providing support.
“Right, I need to contact my brother quickly and have him prepare more energy crystals to send over.”
Thinking of this, Dona immediately used her smart watch to contact Igor, asking him to send more energy crystals over after returning to Wanxing City. She urgently needed to buy fragrant pears for cultivation.
This left Igor, who received the message, a bit dumbfounded for a moment, feeling his sister had gone crazy. A fragrant pear costing two energy crystals, and she had actually gotten addicted to eating them.
But since Dona said it was for cultivation, Igor could only obediently return to Wanxing City to fetch more. After all, Dona’s cultivation came first. As long as Dona could be admitted into the domain city, the status of their Half-Beast Race in Wanxing City would greatly improve as well. Compared to those invested energy crystals, that was nothing.
While Dona contacted Igor, Lin Qi, who had just modified two more primary gravity rooms inside Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, suddenly heard a system prompt in his mind.
System: Player Luo Wu Shang has created the eighth-stage martial skill. Congratulations, host, the advanced hidden task “Path to the Extraordinary” you triggered has been completed. Reward: one Super Martial Skill Fusion. You may freely choose two or more player-created martial skills to fuse. The fused martial skill has a 90% chance to become an extraordinary martial skill and a 10% chance to become a high-level extraordinary martial skill. The mastery of the fused martial skill will naturally reach proficient level.
System: Three extraordinary martial skills created by players detected. Advanced hidden task “Path to the Extraordinary” second phase triggered. Have players create ten extraordinary martial skills. Reward: one super perfect martial skill fusion. You may freely choose two or more player-created martial skills to fuse. The fused martial skill has a 90% chance to become an extraordinary martial skill and a 10% chance to become a high-level extraordinary martial skill. The mastery of the fused martial skill will naturally reach perfect level.
“That’s it already?” Lin Qi looked in surprise at the system prompt panel at the bottom of his vision, not expecting the third extraordinary martial skill to be achieved so quietly.
Now he was no longer the novice who had just come to this world, whose understanding of martial skills was limited to the level of ordinary people. He was a council member in the city, qualified to attend the city’s senior meetings. The information he could access was far beyond the reach of ordinary people.
Precisely because of this, he was all the more aware of how powerful extraordinary martial skills were, to the extent that among all Bone Forging Realm martial artists in the entire City of Light Chasing, there were not many who had mastered them.
The Bone Forging Realm experts confirmed to have mastered extraordinary martial skills were only the two vice city lords.
That’s right!
Among all Bone Forging Realm experts in the City of Light Chasing who openly mastered extraordinary martial skills, there were only two. It was precisely because these two had mastery of extraordinary martial skills that they had firmly occupied the positions of vice city lord for so many years, while the other vice city lord position had been replaced many times.
And that was just learning extraordinary martial skills. To create an extraordinary martial skill was several times more difficult, not just slightly.
Previously, Ye Qinglu and Lu Fanchen being able to create extraordinary martial skills was already a stroke of luck. For players to create a third extraordinary martial skill, he had mentally prepared to wait several months.
Though surprised, Lin Qi was still very excited.
The reward of Super Martial Skill Fusion gave him another trump card. The only question was whether to fuse an extraordinary martial skill right now.
Although many martial skills had been created by players, they could not yet be fused into the extraordinary martial skill he wanted.
After all, his current weapon was a club. Among the many player-created martial skills, there was not one for using a club. But the two attribute effects attached to the club were definitely not inferior to extraordinary martial skills, so changing weapons would not be worthwhile.
That meant even if he mastered an extraordinary martial skill now, the improvement would not be too great.
On the contrary, if he waited a bit longer until a player created a staff-type martial skill, or until he drew a better weapon, then fused an extraordinary martial skill, that would be the best use of the reward.
“Forget it, I should master an extraordinary martial skill first.” Lin Qi thought about it and still gritted his teeth, choosing to first fuse an extraordinary martial skill.
Even a top Bone Forging Realm expert like Liu Tianzong had fallen. His current overall level was only that of an advanced Bone Forging Realm. If the City of Light Chasing initiated a second summon, sending him to the wilderness, no one knew what might happen. Naturally, any increase in strength he could get, he should get.
System: Please select two player-created martial skills.
“Since there is no suitable weapon, then I will choose martial skills that emphasize internal force.” Lin Qi then chose Lu Fanchen’s Heaven Shaking Fist and Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang’s Boundless Full Moon.
Heaven Shaking Fist emphasized using internal force to compress the air, while Boundless Full Moon used internal force to extend the attack range of the blade. And blades mainly used slashing attacks; using a club to smash was pretty much similar.
System: Fusion begins…
The system immediately popped up a fusion window, as if it had run into a headache. Only after quite a while did the progress increase by one percent.
Lin Qi could only wait helplessly while he continued arranging for the workers hired by the hall to build new gravity room rooms.
Although two more primary gravity rooms had been modified, that was clearly not enough for the players. And this time he had also discovered the commercial potential of primary gravity rooms. Building more could earn more energy crystals.
While Lin Qi was having workers refit the hall rooms with B2 grade alloy, in the underground confinement room of Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, Luo Wu Shang and the others were resurrected one after another.
Although Luo Wu Shang and the others had all died deep in the wilderness, each of them had an unprecedented look of joy.
“What a pity we were just a bit short. We might have been able to take down that beginner lord.” Yi Ye Fu Yun said excitedly after resurrecting.
“Yeah, if Vice President Luo had a good sword, even if we could not kill that beginner lord, at least we could have chopped off one of its tails.” Fang Zhen added regretfully.
A lord monster’s entire body was treasure. Although the blood of the six-tailed giant scorpion they faced was far inferior in effect to the Two-Horned Leopard, if they could have gotten a scorpion tail, the profit would definitely have exceeded that of the Two-Horned Leopard’s essence blood.
Unfortunately, even with the terrifying Heavenly Severance strike, the B6 grade long sword used by Luo Wu Shang only managed to injure that six-tailed giant scorpion, leaving a sword mark over one meter deep on its body and splashing some blood.
When they all joined forces to restrain it, and Luo Wu Shang unleashed the fifth sword, the six-tailed giant scorpion was heavily injured. However, the consumption of Heavenly Severance was too great. Even as an advanced martial artist, after using the fifth sword, Luo Wu Shang died from qi and blood exhaustion.
If only Luo Wu Shang had been able to use a dozen more strikes, that six-tailed giant scorpion might have been killed.
“It’s fine. Our harvest this time is already huge.” Lu Fanchen said. “Now we already have the strength to face beginner lord monsters head-on. Next, even if we cannot get essence blood from the Two-Horned Leopard, we can find ways to cut off some flesh and blood from those beginner lords. This game is very realistic. As long as we store that flesh and blood properly and keep other monsters from finding it, after I resurrect, I can go back to retrieve it. With that flesh and blood, our improvement speed will not necessarily be worse than with the Two-Horned Leopard’s essence blood.”
After hearing this, everyone nodded in agreement, feeling that their gains this time were indeed not small.
Although only Luo Wu Shang had been promoted to an advanced martial artist, they had gained the ability to fight beginner lords, which would make their future operations deep in the wilderness much easier.
Once Ye Qinglu and Lu Fanchen and the others also broke through to advanced martial artists, their chances of killing a beginner lord would definitely reach thirty to forty percent.
For such an over-version boss, if they managed to kill one, they did not even dare imagine how generous the dropped rewards would be.
Just as everyone finished discussing and prepared to venture into the wilderness once again, a system prompt sounded in their ears.
System: The game system needs to be upgraded. All players, please prepare to log off within fifteen minutes. In fifteen minutes, all players will be forcibly logged off. The update time for this version is sixteen hours.
With the system prompt sounding, all players in the hall were stunned.
“What is going on?”
“Why is the system upgrading all of a sudden?”
“A sudden system update… are we getting a major version update?”
The players were all confused by this sudden prompt. Previous updates had mostly been done while online; there had only been one forced log-off update.
“No way! We just got a chance, and now the game manufacturer is onto us?” Yi Ye Fu Yun stared at the system prompt in shock.
They had finally gotten a chance to over-level kill a wilderness boss, and now the game manufacturer seemed to have discovered their plan.
“That shouldn’t be it, right? We have not even made a move yet.” Fang Zhen looked at the system prompt, equally stunned.
At this moment, not only Fang Zhen and the others were surprised and confused. Even Lin Qi, who was supervising, was staring at the system prompt panel in astonishment.
System: Congratulations to the host for owning an advanced martial arts hall. The number of martial artist level players has exceeded twenty. Secondary administrator authority unlocked.
System: This upgrade to secondary administrator authority will take sixteen hours. All players will be forcibly logged off for sixteen hours after fifteen minutes. Other system functions will not be affected.
“An update of sixteen hours?”
Lin Qi looked at the system panel and felt that this administrator authority upgrade was a bit exaggerated.
Previously, authority upgrades had been instantaneous. This time, upgrading from primary administrator authority to secondary administrator authority actually required sixteen hours, and it even affected the players. It was truly unbelievable.
But since the system had decided, he had no choice but to wait quietly.
However, during this system administrator authority upgrade, Lin Qi discovered that his system management page had changed from primary administrator authority to secondary administrator authority.
Lin Qi then clicked on the secondary administrator authority to see what was different from the primary administrator authority that justified a sixteen-hour upgrade.
“Is this going crazy?” Lin Qi stared at the secondary administrator authority, stunned, hardly believing his eyes.
Although there was not much content in the secondary administrator authority description, one line really shocked him.
Previously, the maximum number of players that could be managed under primary administrator authority was five hundred. Based on Lin Qi’s guess, secondary administrator authority should raise that to around one thousand.
However, he had greatly underestimated secondary administrator authority.
Secondary administrator authority: maximum number of players managed is
