Chapter 265: Players These Days Really Can’t Rest Easy Without Fusing Something
Chiyue Town, Cultivation Tower.
“Hall Master, are you really going to open the Cultivation Tower to the public?” Flo stared in shock at the management document on his smart watch, his mouth hanging open. He felt Lin Qi had gone crazy.
Summer Ling and Estina and the other Martial Arts Hall Guard Corps members at the side also all looked at Lin Qi, their hearts full of surprise and confusion.
They had already roughly felt the state of the Cultivation Tower, especially the training rooms inside. Just the training rooms on the First Floor had an unbelievable energy density, definitely the richest they had ever seen in a training room in their lives.
Simply cultivating in such a training room every day might double the cultivation method’s improvement speed. If they cooperated with energy potions on top of that, it would be even more frightening.
A single day inside might equal three or four days outside.
With training rooms this powerful, it was hardly enough for internal use alone, yet Lin Qi actually planned to open them to outsiders. It was simply insane.
“That’s right. I also wrote the prices on there. When the time comes, just follow that.” Lin Qi nodded, speaking with righteous conviction. “Our Obsidian Martial Arts Hall has always taken the cultivation of martial artists as our own duty. We cannot only look after our hall’s disciples. We also need to give others some opportunities.”
He could understand Flo and the others’ shock, but his own situation was different.
If he wanted to improve his system administrator permissions, he needed to recruit more martial arts hall disciples. But if the hall wanted to recruit more disciples, relying on its current fame alone was far from enough, especially if he wanted to recruit more than a million disciples in the future. Even as a Blood Condensation Realm master, he might not be attractive enough, let alone to those geniuses.
If he wanted to recruit more disciples and more geniuses in the future, he had to first let people who had not joined the hall experience some benefits.
The Cultivation Tower was an excellent advertisement.
With the Cultivation Tower operating normally, the energy within a five kilometer radius was already not much worse than the city center of a city. This could be said to lay a foundation comparable to a city, at least allowing many geniuses, who originally felt Chiyue Town was nothing, to live there more comfortably without affecting their daily cultivation.
Next, through the training rooms inside the Cultivation Tower, he would let everyone have a taste, especially with the Second Floor training rooms also open to the public.
Once those geniuses who had disdained joining got a taste, it would likely be hard for them not to get hooked. And with only two rooms on the Second Floor open externally and the remaining eight reserved for internal use, anyone who wanted continual access would have to fight tooth and nail.
If they wanted more access to the Second Floor or even the Third Floor training rooms, then they could only join the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
As for something like the Cultivation Tower, while its value was extremely high, to the true major powers it would, at most, be surprising, not enough to stir greed. After all, those true major powers all had their own custom-built training rooms. They might not match the Cultivation Tower, but they were not far off. The ones it would affect were the small factions.
As for those small factions, the current Obsidian Martial Arts Hall did not fear them at all and naturally would not be polite.
Besides, with external fees, two hours on the First Floor training rooms at fifty tons of energy ore, and two hours on the Second Floor training rooms at half an energy crystal, they could cover the Cultivation Tower’s daily operating costs and even make some profit.
“Right. Now that the Cultivation Tower has started operating, rental fees for plots of land within five kilometers must go up. We cannot let them profit for nothing,” Lin Qi instructed.
“Hall Master, rest assured, that price is definitely going to triple,” Flo replied, quite excited.
Previously, he had been worried about the future development of Chiyue Town. After all, Chiyue Town operated entirely under the safety guaranteed by the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, without any distinctive industries or features. It was hard to grow the population scale, much less attract major enterprises from other cities to set up there.
But now, with the rich energy brought by the Cultivation Tower, there was no worry about no one coming to develop Chiyue Town in the future.
An energy density comparable to a city center was not something just anyone could live in. For martial artist families, unless they had a Bone Forging Realm expert, they could only live in the city proper at best.
In a city of tens of millions, how big could the city center be?
By then, all the major martial artist families and factions from the surrounding cities would likely not be able to resist coming over to live. There would be no worries about Chiyue Town’s population not increasing.
And with a large population in Chiyue Town, the big enterprises from the cities would also come and set up, driving the development of various industrial chains in the town and earning more martial artist resources for Chiyue Town. Flo’s own position would also rise with the tide, and in the future he might even break through to the Bone Forging Realm.
Now that they had the Cultivation Tower, not to mention breaking through to the Bone Forging Realm, even the advanced stage of the Bone Forging Realm was no longer an unattainable dream.
At this moment, not only was Flo somewhat excited, but Summer Ling, Estina, and the others were also restless with anticipation.
Although the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s resources had already been astonishing before, whether the gravity rooms or the Beginner Meditation Rooms, all of them were excellent tools for rapid improvement. But the gravity rooms and Beginner Meditation Rooms were not places one could enter at will. Advancement still depended more on their own daily cultivation.
Now that the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had the Cultivation Tower, if they could live within a five kilometer radius, and especially if they could enter the Second Floor or higher training rooms to cultivate, that would probably feel better than the genius training camps in the cities.
They just did not know how Lin Qi would arrange things for them, the Guard Corps disciples.
While Summer Ling, Estina, and the others were curious about Lin Qi’s arrangements, Lin Qi also turned his gaze to Summer Ling and the others.
“As disciples of the Martial Arts Hall Guard Corps, besides your daily training, it is time for some actual combat,” Lin Qi directly laid out his initial plan. “It was a pity you barely took action in the previous city war. From now on, your task is to guarantee a safe route between the City of Light Chasing and Chiyue Town and take over Chiyue Town’s defense. As for the Cultivation Tower, half of its quota is reserved for you. Based on your monthly contribution and progress rankings, you will earn cultivation time in the Cultivation Tower. First place will have the right to use the Third Floor of the Cultivation Tower for three days.”
“Yes!”
Upon hearing this, the Guard Corps disciples could not help but rejoice, especially Summer Ling and Estina, whose eyes were full of fighting spirit and desire.
They had originally thought the Cultivation Tower was prepared specifically for the hall’s true disciples, and that as non-core disciples, getting a few Second Floor slots would already be fortunate. They had not expected even quotas for the Third Floor training rooms.
Though it was only three days a month, that was already extremely impressive. According to Lin Qi, the Third Floor training rooms’ energy density was eight times that of the outside world. Such density was almost unheard of.
If they could really stay inside for three days, the cultivation effect would probably match twenty days outside.
In other words, if they would normally need two years of cultivation to reach the Bone Forging Realm, with the Third Floor training rooms, even using them three days a month, they would likely achieve the Bone Forging Realm within at most a year.
Becoming a Bone Forging Realm martial artist within one year of becoming a martial artist at all was a level of talent that would be unimaginable even in a genius training camp.
Watching the excited looks of the Guard Corps members, Lin Qi had actually wanted to add that not only the Cultivation Tower but also the Intermediate Gravity Chamber currently being rebuilt would be made available to them.
However, the disciples who could use the Intermediate Gravity Chamber would, inevitably, be only those with very high talent.
He planned to cultivate a group of disciples capable of learning the Body Strengthening Secret Technique. But the Body Strengthening Secret Technique was somewhat dangerous for ordinary people and would also require Big Banana as support. By then, with a team of Guard Corps disciples who had mastered the Body Strengthening Secret Technique, even if they were only advanced martial artists, they would possess the strength of Beginner Level Bone Forging Realm. Station such a group in Chiyue Town, equip them with superconducting electromagnetic guns, and they would be enough to suppress any unrest.
Just as Lin Qi finished arranging all of Chiyue Town’s affairs and was preparing to personally experience the effects of the Third Floor training room of the Cultivation Tower, a system notification suddenly sounded in his ears.
System: Congratulations, Host. A player has reached the Bone Forging Realm, triggering the advanced task “Masters Like Clouds.” When the number of Bone Forging Realm players reaches ten, the reward will be one martial skill enhancement, allowing the system to raise the level of one martial skill mastered by the Host, to no higher than an Extraordinary Martial Skill.
“Bone Forging Realm?”
“Someone has already reached the Bone Forging Realm?”
Looking at the system notification, Lin Qi was momentarily stunned.
According to his estimates, it was not difficult for those top tier players to advance to the Bone Forging Realm. At most it would just take some time. After all, each of them had cultivated the Super Tier Cultivation Method Second Level to the Perfection Realm. If they still could not advance, that would be the real anomaly.
But the leap from the Viscera Refining Realm to the Bone Forging Realm was not simple.
The Viscera Refining Realm was only using energy to stimulate the internal organs once, completing an initial strengthening. The Bone Forging Realm was different. It was a process from the inside out, using one’s own qi and blood and external energy to continuously quench each bone in the body.
The entire process had to be completed in one go; otherwise, if some bones were left unquenched, it would cause the whole structure to collapse.
Players cultivating the Super Tier Cultivation Method certainly had more than enough qi and blood. However, they needed to familiarize themselves with the quenching process for every bone in the body, since each bone was different, and the amount of qi and blood and external energy required varied.
If a bone was over-quenched, it was like overheating food while cooking: overdone and ruined. If it was underheated, there would be no effect. So the cultivator had to slowly become familiar with it and then plan the optimal quenching process according to their own qi and blood reserves. The higher the qi and blood, the greater the margin for error.
Therefore, for top tier players, there was no real difficulty in advancing to the Bone Forging Realm. It was just a matter of spending the time to get used to it.
He simply had not expected someone to succeed this quickly.
Lin Qi immediately pulled up the system’s player list to quickly see who had completed the Third Level of the cultivation method.
He soon spotted Luo Wu Shang on the list.
At this time, Luo Wu Shang’s martial arts realm had changed from advanced martial artist to Bone Forging Realm martial artist, indicating she had successfully advanced to the Bone Forging Realm. She was no longer an ordinary martial artist in the city, but someone who could stand as a mainstay expert.
“Extract!”
Without another word, Lin Qi chose to extract, wanting to see Luo Wu Shang’s experience in quenching all her bones.
A flood of memories poured into Lin Qi’s mind. After a few seconds, he was completely stunned.
“Damn! Is she even trying to play the game normally?”
Looking at Luo Wu Shang’s inheritance memories, Lin Qi could not help cursing.
Normal players followed the game’s design, terrified of making a wrong move. But Luo Wu Shang was simply insane. She felt the Third Level of the cultivation method was not good enough and forcefully fused it with the Star Energy Construct Secret Method for cultivation.
At this point, it would be more accurate to say Luo Wu Shang cultivated the Third Level of a transcendental cultivation method than the Third Level of the Dark Light Cultivation Method.
In the state of an Extraordinary Lifeform, she completed a full-body bone quenching. That was literally courting death.
An Extraordinary Lifeform was not a stable life state to begin with. To perform bone quenching at the level of a supernatural life in such an unstable state meant there were only two possible outcomes if the quenching succeeded.
One was obtaining a Transcendental Bone. After reverting to her original life level, the bones, having completed quenching at a transcendental level, could not revert and would remain.
The other outcome was explosion. After the life level dropped back to its original state, the Transcendental Bone would regress, but the immense energy it had absorbed would not vanish. Accumulated throughout the body, how could an ordinary lifeform possibly withstand power of that level?
Luo Wu Shang, it had to be said, won the gamble.
She obtained stable Transcendental Bones. Even without using the Star Energy Construct Secret Method, all the bones in her body were those of a supernatural life. The strength of bones at that level was needless to say.
Even at just the initial stage of bone tempering, their strength was incomparable to that of ordinary lifeforms. Saying they were several times stronger than normal Bone Forging Realm bones would not be an exaggeration.
Because of such astonishing bone strength, Luo Wu Shang was now terrifyingly powerful.
Her base strength alone had reached 12 tons, and her speed 125 meters per second. This was something newly advanced Bone Forging Realm martial artists could not dream of approaching. It was double the original standard, directly comparable to an Advanced Bone Forging Realm martial artist.
And that was only her base data upon becoming Bone Forging Realm. With the Second Level of the Body Strengthening Secret Technique, Luo Wu Shang’s base strength exceeded 15 tons, and her speed surpassed 150 meters per second. In other words, Luo Wu Shang’s physical fitness had already surpassed the level of an Extreme Advanced Level Bone Forging Realm.
Though Lin Qi had been sure that after Luo Wu Shang reached perfection in the Cultivation Method Second Level and then advanced to the Bone Forging Realm she would improve by a large margin, he had never expected that relying on the Cultivation Method Second Level Perfection plus the Transcendental Bones would allow Luo Wu Shang to directly possess physical fitness beyond the extreme Bone Forging Realm. The boost was truly terrifying.
“Do I train this way?”
Staring at Luo Wu Shang’s memories and panel data, Lin Qi hesitated for 1 seconds, then immediately took out a bottle of Type Three Energy Potion, downed it in one gulp, and began cultivating according to Luo Wu Shang’s memories.
Although the players’ cultivation had deviated considerably, the result was excellent, and with such a strong body, there was no reason not to practice it.
(The chapter ends.)
