Chapter 231: A Single Thought Becomes A World, Omniscience Within An Inch
“Finally succeeded.”
Lin Qi looked at the system prompt and let out a slight sigh of relief.
He was not sure whether the Stellar Explosion Meditation Technique could reach the Perfection Realm, since after all, the Stellar Explosion Meditation Technique was a meditation technique conceived by those mad scientists.
This meditation technique existed only in theory. It could make a person’s spirit explode like a stellar detonation, tempering the spirit through each explosion, and ultimately bringing about a qualitative change.
For players to master it, who knew how many times they had to die. If an ordinary person tried to learn it, even once would probably send them straight to heaven.
And every single tempering of the Stellar Explosion Meditation Technique was enough to cost a life.
His high proficiency in the Stellar Explosion Meditation Technique was built upon the corpses of countless players.
For such a purely theoretical meditation technique, even those mad scientists who created it probably did not know whether a Perfection Realm existed.
Just as Lin Qi exhaled in relief, countless memories surged into his mind, making him almost instinctively start practicing.
For a moment, Lin Qi only felt his spirit exploding again and again without end. Every explosion made his spirit stronger and more solid.
He had no idea how many times it had exploded, how many times his spirit had strengthened and solidified, until he felt as if it completely filled his entire spiritual world.
Boom!
It was as if the entire world exploded. The barrier of his spiritual world shattered completely, as though his spirit had burst the whole spiritual world. Lin Qi’s face turned deathly pale, and blood streamed uncontrollably from his seven orifices.
“What is going on?”
At this moment Lin Qi felt an unprecedented pain in his brain, as if countless pieces of information were being poured into it, forcing his brain into overdrive, on the verge of burning out.
There was so much inexplicable information suddenly flooding in that the brain seemed to trigger a protection mechanism. In order to handle this massive sudden influx, it directly cut off various bodily functions, causing Lin Qi to collapse to the ground, unable to move at all, like a vegetable.
Although his eyes were open, he could not speak at all. He could only quietly stare at the ceiling of the Gravity Room, unable to do anything.
After more than half an hour, as if his brain had adapted to this information, categorizing it and making it less chaotic, Lin Qi finally felt he could control his body again. Even so, his brain still felt overheated, in a state of overload.
“What is this situation?”
As Lin Qi got up, the information his brain had just received left him completely stunned.
Because this information was nothing else but everything within the Primary Gravity Room: how many floor tiles lay on the ground, how much dust was in the room. Everything within a ten-meter radius was presented before him, allowing him to clearly know it all.
It was as if his spirit had completely filled this ten-meter radius space. Any slight movement, even with his five senses shut off, he could still perceive clearly.
“Could this be the effect of the Stellar Explosion Meditation Technique reaching the Perfection Realm?” Lin Qi sensed everything within ten meters and could hardly believe it was real.
Although he was extremely unaccustomed to this sensation, he had to admit that this all-knowing perception within ten meters was like stepping into a new world.
Within a ten-meter radius was his world. He could even clearly sense the tiniest movements of the muscles in his own body.
Furthermore, under this powerful spirit, Lin Qi clearly felt that controlling his body became easier. He could precisely control how much force each muscle exerted, whether all at once or each differently. It was simply incredible.
“This level of control over my body is incredible. Now even if I do not extract the players’ Memory Inheritance, I can, by relying on myself, train those six supporting martial skills to the Perfection Realm without taking much damage.” Lin Qi marveled at his body, astonished. “But this Stellar Explosion Meditation Technique is too dangerous. If I had not cultivated the Second Level of the Body Strengthening Secret Technique and gained tremendous Recovery Power, then the countless pieces of information drawn in by the Perfection Realm Stellar Explosion Meditation Technique alone could have killed an Ordinary Martial Artist.”
The effect brought by the Stellar Explosion Meditation Technique at the Perfection Realm might be astonishing, but this power was clearly not something ordinary people could withstand.
Even now his brain was still overloaded by that sudden flood of information. If not for his powerful Recovery Power constantly repairing the damage to his brain, he would probably only be clinging to life with a Type II Healing Potion. For an Ordinary Martial Artist, death would be inevitable.
“The amount of information within a ten-meter radius is too much of a burden for me right now. I wonder if I can reduce this omniscient range.” Feeling his brain burning, Lin Qi tried to compress the range of his Spiritual Perception.
As Lin Qi attempted to compress his spirit, things went as he expected, and the range of perception began to shrink.
Ten-meter radius… nine-meter radius… eight-meter radius…
Only when Lin Qi compressed his spirit to a seven-meter radius did the burning sensation in his brain recede, returning to a relatively normal state.
But as Lin Qi compressed his spirit, he quickly discovered a new problem.
This feeling of compressing his spirit was like tensing every muscle in his body. It was exhausting and simply could not be maintained for long.
“Looks like if I cannot improve my brain’s information-processing speed, or filter out some information, I will never solve this brain-burning problem.” After maintaining it for a few minutes, Lin Qi’s Spiritual Perception range returned to ten meters. He could not help but feel troubled by this omniscience. “Being too powerful really is a problem. If only there were something that could weaken my Spiritual Perception.”
System: Congratulations, Host. Intermediate Training Room reconstruction completed.
“It’s done?” Lin Qi glanced at the system prompt at the bottom of his vision, feeling a bit expectant. “I wonder what level my strength has reached now.”
Though the Stellar Explosion Meditation Technique at the Perfection Realm did not give any boost to Physical Fitness, the omniscience within ten meters and greatly enhanced control over his body would definitely raise his Combat Power significantly.
The Intermediate Combat Puppet in the Intermediate Training Room could exert the strength of an Extreme Martial Artist, and its combat level was set to High Microscopic Level. Its Combat Power might even surpass the Bone Forging Realm Beginner Level of the City of Light Chasing, making it perfect for practice.
Lin Qi immediately ran impatiently to the renovated Intermediate Training Room.
City of Light Chasing, inside a ruined building outside the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
Fred, wrapped in a pitch-black robe and fully enclosed in Dark Blue Metal Battle Armor so that his face was completely hidden, glanced at the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, now with fewer people, then checked the time on his wrist.
“This Obsidian Martial Arts Hall is really thriving. It is already past one in the morning, and there are still so many people.” Fred looked at the more than a thousand people still milling about the Street outside the hall, and grew a bit irritated. “Forget it. At this hour, even if something big happens in the Suburbs and is detected by the City of Light Chasing drones as a Bone Forging Realm battle, it will take at least five to six minutes for them to contact other Garrison Bone Forging Realm Experts to rush over. That is enough time for me to finish him and leave safely.”
The prosperity of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had completely exceeded Fred’s expectations.
He had arrived at the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall that morning and had been secretly observing it, looking for a moment with fewer people to make a move. A fight to the death between Martial Artists inside the City would already anger the City; assassinating a Bone Forging Realm Martial Artist inside the City was even worse.
Even though he was a Half-step Top Tier Bone Forging Realm Expert of Wanxing City, highly valued by the City Lord of Wanxing City and a possible successor to the City Lord position, if the City of Light Chasing found out, they would never let him go.
His Sub-demon Race identity certainly could not be hidden, but as long as people only saw his face and did not know the martial skills he used, the City of Light Chasing would not be able to guess it was him.
Battles between Bone Forging Realm Martial Artists caused tremendous commotion, enough to alter terrain. If bystanders recorded the martial skills he used, he would easily be exposed. So he could only look for a time with fewer people and minimize such trouble. Even if the martial skills he used were not those he practiced under his official identity, the less he exposed, the better.
He had even gotten off his Flying Car halfway to the City of Light Chasing and ran the rest of the way unnoticed to avoid suspicion that it might be him.
Caution.
That was why, after completing so many assassination Tasks for the Red Moon Merchant Guild, he had never been exposed.
If possible, Fred really wanted to wait a bit longer, but this time he had come from the Domain City on an important mission and could not delay too long for a single assassination.
Fred then leaped lightly, like a swallow in flight, landing without a sound. Moving faster than ordinary eyes could follow, he slipped through the back door of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall to search for Lin Qi’s whereabouts.
Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, Intermediate Training Room on the first floor.
A more than two-meter-tall Combat Puppet made entirely of liquid Metal stood at the center. Lin Qi looked at the Intermediate Combat Puppet after completing the final adjustments, very satisfied, even a little amazed by its power.
Previously the system only stated that the Intermediate Combat Puppet possessed the strength of an Extreme Martial Artist, but did not provide specific numbers.
This made Lin Qi assume its Strength would be only 4,000 kilograms, equivalent to a Peak High-Level Martial Artist.
But after seeing the Intermediate Combat Puppet’s data, Lin Qi was stunned.
The Intermediate Combat Puppet’s maximum Strength was not 4,000 kilograms at all, but 10,000 kilograms, with a Speed of 120 meters per second.
With such Strength and Speed, no one would object to calling it Bone Forging Realm Intermediate Level. After all, the lower limit of Bone Forging Realm Intermediate Level was 9,000 kilograms.
Lin Qi had also taught the Intermediate Combat Puppet three powerful martial skills: Startling Swan, Lightning Palm, and Thunder Flash. Though these three were only Advanced Martial Artist-level Martial Skills, they were very comprehensive, usable in both ranged and Melee Combat, on the ground or in the air.
Lin Qi even suspected that this Intermediate Combat Puppet could crush an ordinary Bone Forging Realm Intermediate Level Martial Artist. Its combat level was not only Microscopic, but High Microscopic Level.
“Now let me see your strength.” Lin Qi immediately activated the Intermediate Combat Puppet’s sparring mode and set its combat level directly to the highest High Microscopic Level.
As Lin Qi activated sparring mode, the Intermediate Combat Puppet’s hands morphed into a Long Sword, and its eyes lit up with red light as it entered battle mode.
Just as Lin Qi was about to pick up the Black Cudgel lying beside him, the door of the Intermediate Training Room was suddenly kicked open, and a nearly three-meter-tall Sub-demon Race man with four arms, his whole body encased in Dark Blue Battle Armor, rushed in.
This Sub-demon Race man was none other than the assassin, the Four-armed Blade Demon Fred.
The instant Fred saw Lin Qi, he used a high-level footwork Martial Skill on the Advanced Martial Artist level, and in a flash appeared in front of Lin Qi, who had been a hundred meters away. In his hand, the Bone Blade forged from a Lord Monster’s Teeth slashed toward Lin Qi with lightning speed.
This was Moon Shadow, a Super-tier Martial Skill Fred had secretly learned in the Domain City.
A single slash contained twenty-four variations. Even a Advanced Bone Forging Realm Martial Artist could not see through its attack trajectory, much less block it.
With this move, Fred had once killed an Advanced Bone Forging Realm Expert in a single exchange.
But just as the blade was about to land on Lin Qi, Fred’s instincts screamed danger. Almost reflexively, he pulled his blade back to block to the side.
Bang!
Sparks flew.
The powerful impact echoed throughout the Intermediate Training Room. However, the room had been reinforced by the system, making it extraordinarily sturdy, so the collision caused no damage.
Fred himself was driven back more than ten steps before he barely managed to steady himself.
“A combat robot?” Fred stared in surprise at the Intermediate Combat Puppet, filled with shock and confusion.
That sudden, silent strike had been incredibly powerful, definitely exceeding thirty tons. If he were not already an Extreme Advanced Level Bone Forging Realm Martial Artist with nearly fifteen tons of Strength, plus the support and impact reduction of his Tier 2 Battle Armor, that one blow would have injured his arm.
For a Combat Robot to be able to harm him was unthinkable. Even the sparring robots in the Domain City could at best spar with a Bone Forging Realm Beginner Level opponent. To fight someone like him, an Extreme Advanced Level Bone Forging Realm Martial Artist, was a fantasy.
Yet he could not deny the force of that blow.
Before Fred could recover from his shock, the Intermediate Combat Puppet used Startling Swan, appearing before him in the blink of an eye. Its arm, now a Sword Blade, slashed toward him, faint arcs of electricity flickering along its edge.
The Intermediate Combat Puppet’s Attack Speed was so fast that, despite using Lightning Palm, its strikes looked like ordinary slashes, as if there were no Internal Force accumulation or explosive release at all, just simple cuts. Fred had no time to use martial skills to Block and could only rely on his own Strength and the Tier 2 Battle Armor to defend.
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
Almost every clash of blade and sword forced Fred back again and again. His Arms were numbed by the shocks, while the Intermediate Combat Puppet’s Lightning Palm strikes were relentless, and every blow seemed to anticipate exactly how Fred would defend.
The sudden changes in its attacks left Fred unable to respond. He could only rely on his extremely fast reflexes to forcibly Evade.
Because of these abrupt variations, some blows carried only ten tons of force. Even when they landed on the Tier 2 Battle Armor, they did not harm Fred much, but they made him feel as if he had gotten up on the wrong side of the bed.
He was actually being suppressed by a sparring robot.
While Fred was being overwhelmed by the Intermediate Combat Puppet, Lin Qi, on the other side, watched in astonishment.
“So this is the power of the High Microscopic Level?” Lin Qi looked at the Intermediate Combat Puppet using Lightning Palm as casually as ordinary swings, deeply shaken by this realm.
He had sensed Fred’s Attack and Killing Intent the moment they appeared. He could also judge Fred’s Strength, or rather, once Fred stepped into his ten-meter radius, it was impossible not to.
Extreme Advanced Level Bone Forging Realm.
In the City of Light Chasing, this was definitely a top expert. Even for Lin Qi previously, facing such a master without using an Extraordinary Martial Skill, he would not have been sure of victory.
And now this opponent was being suppressed by the Intermediate Combat Puppet.
The High Microscopic Level realm had opened the door to a whole new world. Its control over the body reached a transcendent level, turning martial skills that usually required some buildup into ordinary attacks.
In a fight, this was like one side being limited to pure physical strength while the other freely used martial skills. It was basically cheating.
“Damn it! I cannot waste any more time!”
Seeing the unending assault of the Intermediate Combat Puppet, Fred no longer dared hold back. His remaining three Arms drew Bone Blades as well. While two Arms swung to hard-block the puppet’s strikes, another blade suddenly slashed toward Lin Qi, who was less than ten meters away.
Super-tier Martial Skill Moon Shadow!
