Chapter 232: Inconceivable Strength
Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, first floor primary gravity room.
In the twenty-times gravity environment, Dona, who was sitting cross-legged, suddenly opened her eyes. The qi and blood that had been calm over her body suddenly erupted at this moment, like a wild horse breaking free of its reins, madly surging in all directions and crashing again and again against the walls of the gravity room, making the entire gravity room tremble slightly.
After the rampaging qi and blood lasted for several seconds, it gradually returned to calm.
“I actually did it!”
Feeling the metamorphosis in her bones and the powerful qi and blood stirred with each breath, Dona’s face was full of surprise.
The breakthrough that had originally been expected to take nearly a month to possibly complete had now been accomplished after only a few short days in the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
And the most incredible thing was that large sausage; its effect was far more powerful than fragrant pears.
Fragrant pears only enlivened her thinking, making difficult things feel much easier, but the large sausage gave her many new perspectives on the cultivation method, even simplifying some of the difficult steps in controlling energy to a certain extent, making the advancement of the cultivation method and her cultivation speed many times faster.
She had even leaped in one go from Extreme Bone Forging Realm beginner level directly to Bone Forging Realm intermediate level.
With such strength, she was now almost certain to pass the domain city assessment.
And she would become the first genius of the Half-Beast Race in Wanxing City in more than twenty years to enter a domain city, and in the future she might even charge toward that level and become a City Lord.
“Now there is less than a month before the domain city assessment. If I can improve a bit more during this time, I might be able to impact the newcomers’ top ten. I wonder if Hall Master Lin still has any of those sausages.” Dona took a deep breath, feeling somewhat unsatisfied.
She had never experienced such progress speed since the day she was born.
Whether it was from an ordinary person to an apprentice, from apprentice to martial artist, and finally from Viscera Refining Realm to Bone Forging Realm, it had always been step by step, through more than twelve hours of hard training every day, even when doing tasks she still had to maintain eight hours of daily cultivation, slowly accumulating to her current strength.
Now, just twelve hours could rival one or two months of past cultivation results. Any martial artist who experienced this would find it hard to endure the previous snail-paced progress.
Thinking of this, Dona did not even bother to check whether the time was appropriate. She walked straight out of the primary gravity room and headed toward the hall master’s lounge.
But just as Dona had not walked more than a few steps, her pair of snow-white beast ears suddenly twitched.
“This qi and blood and fluctuation, could it be Bone Forging Realm experts fighting?” Dona’s gaze involuntarily turned toward the intermediate training room deeper inside the martial arts hall, filled with puzzlement.
At this moment, Dona could clearly sense that from the depths of the first floor of the hall, not only were there violent fluctuations spreading out, but even the burst of qi and blood made her feel considerable pressure.
With such fluctuations and qi and blood eruptions, there was almost no possibility other than a battle between Bone Forging Realm experts.
But inside the city, combat between martial artists was forbidden, and as for the battles of Bone Forging Realm experts, that was even more strictly prohibited.
The population density in the city was extremely high. A battle between Bone Forging Realm martial artists could change the terrain with ease, with a single strike extending hundreds of meters away. It was practically devastating for a city, so any combat between Bone Forging Realm practitioners was absolutely forbidden. Even if there were sparring sessions, normally they would not mobilize qi and blood at all and would only rely on physical strength to practice.
What she sensed now was clearly not a spar but a real battle.
This made the curious Dona rush over directly, wanting to see what was going on.
The Obsidian Martial Arts Hall was very important to her now. If it were damaged by two Bone Forging Realm experts, it might severely affect her future cultivation, which was something she absolutely could not allow.
And inside the martial arts hall, it was not only Dona who felt this terrifying qi and blood and shockwave-like fluctuations. Many others sensed it as well, and Meng Wei, Qin Mu, and the rest were the first to charge toward the intermediate training room.
However, the qi and blood erupting from the intermediate training room was too terrifying. Even if Meng Wei and Qin Mu wanted to get closer, they could not. One by one, they fell to the floor halfway there, unable to even stand. As for apprentices below the martial artist level, they could not even approach within a hundred meters of the intermediate training room.
Only Dona could run past the crowd unaffected and quickly arrive at the main door of the intermediate training room.
“This…”
Standing at the door of the intermediate training room, Dona froze for a moment at the scene inside.
Inside the training room, a four-armed Sub-demon Race man, his qi and blood terrifying, his strength clearly at advanced Bone Forging Realm, nearly three meters tall and fully encased in dark blue battle armor, was actually fighting against a more than two-meter-tall sparring robot.
But the four-armed Sub-demon man was like a child before the sparring robot, completely suppressed and beaten. He did not even have the chance to use martial skills; every swing of his blade was spent desperately trying to block the robot’s slashes.
In only a second or two of exchange, with dozens of blows traded, the Sub-demon was struck several times by the robot’s improvised changes in attack.
If not for the fact that the robot’s weapon was too poor to pierce that battle armor, the Sub-demon man would already be dead.
A sparring robot capable of suppressing an advanced Bone Forging Realm martial artist was unheard of.
But after watching for a moment, Dona quickly understood what was going on.
The Sub-demon man had killing intent. Showing killing intent toward a sparring robot was strange in itself, not to mention that martial artists normally wore armor instead of battle armor when sparring, since battle armor had auxiliary functions and would only reduce the effectiveness of training.
And with Lin Qi, wearing only a martial robe, standing to the side, the only possibility was that the Sub-demon man was an assassin who had come to kill Lin Qi, but was picked up by the sparring robot’s defense mechanism, which detected an external enemy invasion and thus took the initiative to protect Lin Qi and engaged the Sub-demon in combat. Otherwise, as a sparring robot, facing its training subject, it would never use every blow as a lethal, merciless strike on the Sub-demon.
“Damn it! Who is so crazy as to send an Extreme Advanced Level Bone Forging Realm expert to assassinate him?” Dona’s expression turned grim as she watched man and machine locked in combat.
Because she had been training in the gravity room these days, she was not wearing Tier 2 Battle Armor, while the Sub-demon was a fully armed Extreme Advanced Level Bone Forging Realm expert. Even though she had reached Bone Forging Realm intermediate level, she was in no position to intervene and could only watch from the side.
As for Lin Qi, although at their first meeting he had given them a sense of extreme danger, like a Lord Monster, his strength at most should have just stepped into advanced Bone Forging Realm.
Now, facing a fully armed Extreme Advanced Level Bone Forging Realm expert, Lin Qi without Tier 2 Battle Armor probably could not block more than a few moves.
Just as Dona grew increasingly anxious, Fred inside the training room suddenly drew three more bone blades, enduring the sparring robot’s attack, and unleashed all his qi and blood in a slash toward Lin Qi.
“Get out of the way!”
Dona, whose five senses were unusually sharp, saw this and shouted almost instinctively.
Because the instant she saw Fred raise his blade, she sensed the aura of death, the same feeling she had experienced when facing an Advanced Lord Monster.
This meant that the power of the Sub-demon’s slash was absolutely comparable to a strike from an Advanced Lord Monster. A single strike from such a creature, even against an advanced Bone Forging Realm martial artist wearing Tier 2 Battle Armor, if not dodged, would mean severe injury if not death. For a Bone Forging Realm martial artist without Tier 2 Battle Armor, it would undoubtedly be fatal.
But before Dona’s voice could fully leave her lips, Fred’s blade had already fallen.
That slash was like flowers in a mirror and the moon in water, carrying a hazy beauty, and that beauty lasted for only a fleeting instant.
Boom!
A brilliant blade light tore through the floor and walls of the intermediate training room, extending all the way past more than a dozen houses outside.
“You!”
Having swung the blade and already intending to turn and flee, Fred now stared in disbelief at Lin Qi standing less than ten meters away from him, his heart full of confusion and incomprehension.
Standing not far away, Lin Qi was not only uninjured; the Super-tier Martial Skill Moon Shadow had not even touched him, only brushing past him.
Such a mistake was something Fred should not have been able to make. But the idea that Lin Qi had actually dodged his Moon Shadow was even more impossible.
A single Moon Shadow slash contained twenty-four variations. Only when the blade fully descended would the final attack trajectory be determined. By the time the blade light was unleashed, its speed exceeded Mach
To dodge a Mach 5 blade light within a distance of less than ten meters was something he could not achieve even with Tier 2 Battle Armor assisting him.
“Did it not hit?”
At the doorway, Dona let out a breath of relief as she watched the blade light pass by Lin Qi.
If that slash had hit, it would definitely have taken his life.
But the relaxation was only momentary. Dona hurriedly warned Lin Qi to escape through the broken wall behind him at once.
The Sub-demon’s first slash might have gone astray, but he would not miss every time. To survive, Lin Qi had to flee quickly and wait for the City of Light Chasing Defense Group’s Bone Forging Realm experts to arrive.
But Lin Qi seemed not to hear her, taking one step after another toward the Sub-demon.
Seeing this, the Sub-demon man also laughed.
“Since you are seeking death, I will oblige you!” Fred, delighted in his heart, endured the intermediate combat puppet’s attacks and swung another slash at Lin Qi.
If Lin Qi had chosen to flee immediately through the broken wall, Fred would have had a hard time killing him. If the Bone Forging Realm experts of the City of Light Chasing Defense Group arrived, he would have had to retreat.
But for Lin Qi to walk toward him so ignorantly, foolishly believing that the puppet’s attacks would cause Fred to slip again, was a grave miscalculation.
Another brilliant blade light then illuminated the entire training room.
And the result this time left the ecstatic Fred utterly dumbfounded.
Again!
He had missed again!
“Is my state off today?” Fred looked at Lin Qi, who walked toward him unharmed, convinced he had simply not rested well and thus kept missing.
“How about you try again?” Lin Qi said with a smile, looking at the puzzled Fred.
Fred’s Super-tier Martial Skill Moon Shadow was undeniably beautiful.
One slash bloomed like a lotus, and until the final instant, it was impossible to know which of the twenty-four variations it would become. Under normal circumstances, evading it within ten meters was impossible.
If it had been the old him, he could only have chosen to meet it head-on with a wide-area attack martial skill.
But now he was aware of everything happening within a ten-meter radius. He even knew exactly how many particles of dust Fred’s raised blade brushed against, not to mention the muscle activation, internal force flow, and eruption across Fred’s body.
So he did not need to guess which variation it would be. He only had to observe Fred’s muscles and internal force to know. In other words, before the blade light was unleashed, he already knew the exact attack trajectory of the slash and could move ahead of time to dodge.
It was as if, at the final instant of Fred’s swing, the target location was already wrong, and naturally the attack would not hit him.
Of course, achieving this was not easy; it required extreme mental concentration and instantaneous body control. Without a great deal of practice, it was hard to predict and evade so precisely. The first time he dodged the blade, it had almost grazed him.
At this moment, an Extreme Advanced Level Bone Forging Realm martial artist like Fred was rare in the City of Light Chasing. If Lin Qi missed this chance, it would be difficult to find such a good practice partner again.
And Lin Qi’s words instantly enraged Fred.
“You are courting death! Do you really think your luck will last forever?”
Today he had first been suppressed by a sparring robot, and now a hunting target was mocking him. As someone who had earned entry into a domain city as a genius and a half-step Top Tier Bone Forging Realm expert, Fred’s pride could not tolerate this.
With that, Fred swung his four bone blades wildly at Lin Qi, interweaving them with Moon Shadow, completely ignoring the intermediate combat puppet’s attacks, planning to kill Lin Qi even at the cost of injuries.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
For a time, countless blade lights danced through the training room, hacking the entire intermediate training room into a battered ruin. Fred himself was blasted against a wall by the intermediate combat puppet’s sword, blood spraying from his mouth, but there was a smile beneath his helmet.
He had taken several direct hits from the robot’s sword, but with the impact dampened by Tier 2 Battle Armor, his internal organs had only suffered mild damage. After going back and drinking a bottle of Type II Healing Potion, he would be fully recovered by tomorrow morning.
But Lin Qi had faced his four-blade frenzy from less than two meters away, with hundreds of strikes in total and six Moon Shadows among them. No matter how lucky Lin Qi might be, he would have been hit dozens of times and by now would have been cut into unrecognizable pieces.
“I have assassinated so many Bone Forging Realm experts, and you are the first to make me use so many strikes. Even in death, your disciples can be proud of you.” Fred glanced at the center of the training room, shrouded in dust, and laughed. “Unfortunately, I took too long. The City of Light Chasing will definitely have detected this and sent Defense Group experts. Otherwise, I would really like to see the state of your corpse.”
Just as Fred was preparing to leave the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall through the damaged wall, a figure emerged from the dust.
“Since they are almost here, it seems I cannot let you go.”
With that voice, before Fred could react, Lin Qi was already standing in front of him, holding a black cudgel that he swung down toward him.
Extraordinary Martial Skill Reverse Star Hand!
With Lin Qi’s physical strength already exceeding twelve tons, the fourfold power boost of Reverse Star Hand combined with great strength amplification made this swing exceed ninety tons. Even an Advanced Lord Monster would be injured by such a blow, let alone a Bone Forging Realm martial artist.
Fred, facing this strike, instinctively swung a bone blade to meet it with Moon Shadow.
But just as the black cudgel was about to collide with the bone blade, its attack trajectory suddenly shifted, bypassed the slashing bone blade, and crashed directly into Fred.
Although this blow no longer carried the amplified force of Reverse Star Hand, it was still enhanced by great strength, with nearly twenty tons of power.
The impact on Fred’s helmet nearly drove his head into the ground, leaving him completely dazed.
Before Fred could raise his head, Lin Qi unleashed another Reverse Star Hand. Fred again tried to parry, but as before, the black cudgel slipped past and slammed into his head, making it ring.
After a dozen such hits in a row, Fred felt on the verge of madness.
He could not understand what was happening. No matter how he attacked, it was as if he were hacking at a ghost, unable to touch Lin Qi. Now, no matter how he blocked, he was destined to be struck.
He seriously suspected the Lin Qi before him was not human. Otherwise, how could he, a half-step Top Tier Bone Forging Realm expert, be humiliated so miserably?
At the doorway of the training room, Dona stood stunned.
A fully armed Extreme Advanced Level Bone Forging Realm expert was being beaten like a child by an adult. It was simply unbelievable.
“No! Run! I have to get out of here!”
Watching Lin Qi swing the cudgel yet again, Fred was truly terrified. He had crossed blades with many powerful figures, yet even when facing true Top-tier Bone Forging Realm experts, he had never felt such helplessness.
He could not hit, and he could not block. How was he supposed to fight?
At this moment, Lin Qi also felt somewhat helpless. Tier 2 Battle Armor was simply too tough. With his own strength alone, even hammering Fred for hours might not kill him, while using martial skills head-on would turn into direct clashes with Fred.
Seeing Fred about to flee, Lin Qi shifted his grip to hold the cudgel with one hand, suddenly exploded all his internal force, and swung upward into the air.
Extraordinary Martial Skill Divine Might!
