Chapter 266: Extraordinary Bones!
Cultivation Tower, Third Floor Training Room.
After downing a Type Three Energy Potion in one breath, Lin Qi did not immediately follow Luo Wu Shang’s method to break through to the Bone Forging Realm. Instead, he opened the System Panel and extracted the players’ Mental Secret Technique.
“Right now my Mental Secret Technique First Level proficiency is at 93%. As long as I can break through to the Perfection Realm, my control over my internal force and energy will improve further. That way, even if I activate the Transcendent State, I can reduce the risk of energy going out of control and won’t end up like Luo Wu Shang, who clearly mastered it yet was still devoured and killed by backlash.”
Recalling Luo Wu Shang tempering all her bones while in the Transcendent State, Lin Qi could not help quickly extracting the Mental Secret Technique First Level from the top-ranked players in proficiency.
In the Transcendent State, life level does undergo a fundamental change, but that state is not normal. In that state it is as if an ordinary person suddenly has the strength to casually crush steel with their hands. Without extremely powerful self-control, they cannot even properly hold a glass cup, let alone temper all their bones.
Luo Wu Shang’s biggest problem when attacking the Bone Forging Realm in the Transcendent State was that her control plummeted. Only after countless deaths did she gradually adapt a little to the Transcendent State, and finally succeeded in breaking through while in it.
In terms of body control and energy manipulation alone, he surpassed Luo Wu Shang by a large margin, but considering the unfamiliarity of the Transcendent State, he still planned to play it safe and first raise the Mental Secret Technique First Level to the Perfection Realm.
During this period regarding the Mental Secret Technique First Level, he had already reached 93% proficiency himself, but the players’ proficiency at this level was not very high before, so he had put the Mental Secret Technique First Level aside to focus on improving martial skills. Now all six of his martial skills had reached the First Level Perfected Realm, and on the Second Level they had all reached over 50% proficiency, showing considerable progress in martial skills.
Now, many top-tier players’ Mental Secret Technique First Level had generally reached over 80% proficiency, fully capable of assaulting the Mental Secret Technique First Level Perfection.
System: Congratulations to the host. Mental Secret Technique First Level proficiency increased to 96%.
System: Congratulations to the host. Mental Secret Technique First Level proficiency increased to 98%.
System: Congratulations to the host. Mental Secret Technique First Level proficiency increased to 100%.
System: Congratulations to the host. Mental Secret Technique First Level proficiency increased to 100%.
System: Congratulations to the host. Mental Secret Technique First Level proficiency increased to 100%.
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Until Lin Qi extracted the Mental Secret Technique for the eighth time, the vast amount of memory extracted from players’ minds seemed to link together, directly forming a qualitative change.
System: Congratulations to the host. Mental Secret Technique First Level has advanced to the Perfection Realm.
“This control over qi and blood is astonishing!”
Lin Qi felt his own control over qi and blood and was deeply shocked.
Back when he first learned the Mental Secret Technique, he was able to let internal force leave his body; that level of control over qi and blood was already impressive, but now it had undergone a qualitative change.
Although this qualitative change was not like a martial skill buff that directly appeared in the Panel data, the benefits for his future and the increase in combat power absolutely surpassed that kind of direct boost.
If his previous control over qi and blood had only allowed him to send and retract internal force through his palms and soles, now it was as if every pore of his body could freely emit and retract internal force.
In this situation, even if someone launched a sneak attack from behind, he would not need to move. He could directly mobilize internal force from his back to counter it, as if an invisible giant hand guarded his back, truly leaving no blind spots on his whole body.
“With this control, I should be able to attack the Transcendent Bone Forging Realm now.” Satisfied with the control over his qi and blood and energy, Lin Qi activated the Transcendent State and charged at the Bone Forging Realm.
Everything went as Lin Qi expected. In the Transcendent State, although his control over his qi and blood and energy decreased significantly, with the Mental Secret Technique First Level Perfection Realm’s control, he could still approach his normal-state level of control over qi and blood and energy.
He did not experience Luo Wu Shang’s situation where, after entering the Transcendent State, an unintentional squeeze could shatter a water glass or potion bottle, or where too much energy poured in during bone tempering led to all his bones shattering and death.
Because Lin Qi had Luo Wu Shang’s breakthrough memories and experience, and his control far surpassed Luo Wu Shang’s, tempering all his bones went remarkably smoothly, or rather, flowed naturally.
In less than five minutes, aided by the dense energy gathered by the Cultivation Tower and the Type Three Energy Potion, all his bones seemed to be plated with a layer of gold. His bones were no longer just bones; they were more like titanium alloy. The strength they could bear was incomparable to his previous body.
After the initial tempering of all his bones was complete, the blood-producing capacity of his bones also became completely different. The blood produced was no longer ordinary blood. If he cut his finger and watched the blood flow out, he would see that it was no longer bright red but faintly carried a layer of light, allowing each natural breath to naturally draw external energy into the blood to circulate through the body, strengthening him from the inside out. It was fundamentally beyond what the previous Viscera Refining Realm could compare to.
Especially since his brain received energy from this blood, his thinking speed and calculation ability increased greatly, and his concentration underwent a qualitative change.
“So this is the Bone Forging Realm?”
After exiting the Transcendent State, Lin Qi felt that even the way he saw the world was different.
As long as he focused slightly, he could clearly see the leaves of trees several kilometers outside the Training Room window. If he concentrated further, even the falling leaves would seem to slow down.
Compared to the terrifying enhancement of his vision, his hearing had also undergone a qualitative change. By merely opening the Training Room window slightly, the sounds within a one-kilometer range around the Cultivation Tower seemed to pour into his ears. He could hear with perfect clarity the Martial Arts Hall Guard Corps disciples below the tower discussing what to eat in town after training and which guard corps newcomer female disciple was the prettiest.
More importantly, Lin Qi also discovered that his Mental Domain had expanded in range.
From the original ten meters, it directly increased to fifteen meters, and his head no longer burned as much.
“No wonder they say that those in the Bone Forging Realm are no longer human. This feels completely like being reborn.” With a slight breath, the surrounding energy was naturally drawn into his body, carried by the blood to all parts of him, stimulating every cell. He no longer needed any Breathing Technique or Cultivation Method to continuously become stronger.
This made Lin Qi somewhat understand why Bone Forging Realm Martial Artists always sought places with high Energy Density as their residence and even needed Gravity Rooms.
He had to admit that a Martial Artist who cultivated to the Bone Forging Realm was completely different from before.
At the Viscera Refining Realm, Martial Artists still had to struggle to find ways to draw external energy into the body to stimulate the internal organs, but once they reached the Bone Forging Realm, even without a Cultivation Method, every cell in the body would be stimulated by external energy at every moment. This increase in efficiency was on a completely different level.
What Bone Forging Realm Martial Artists needed to do was find ways to accelerate this process. Whether by staying in places with high Energy Density or using Gravity Rooms to squeeze their cells, they could strengthen their whole body more effectively.
If they lacked such an environment, unless they were geniuses who could further strengthen all their bones so that the blood produced could absorb external energy even better, their progress along the Bone Forging Realm path would become extremely slow.
“I wonder how strong my body is now.” After experiencing the Bone Forging Realm for a while, Lin Qi could not help but open his Attribute Panel.
Host: Lin Qi.
Age:
Administrator Permissions: Level Two.
Permission Level: Level Three Merit-Based Admission Authority.
Martial Arts Level: Bone Forging Realm Beginner Level Martial Artist.
Strength: 3 + 3200 kilograms. （Bone Forging Realm Beginner Level Martial Artist standard: 6000 kilograms）
Speed: 1 + 32 meters per second. （Bone Forging Realm Beginner Level Martial Artist standard: 80 meters per second）
Internal Organs: Internal Refinement and Strengthening completed 150%.
Bone Tempering: Whole body Bone Tempering completed 15%.
Cultivation Method: Startling Spirit Breathing Technique （Ghostly Light Six Forms Third Level Entry-level 4%, Cloud Mist Transformation Second Level Perfection Realm, Reverse Star Triple Second Level Perfection Realm）
“Has the improvement really been this big?” Lin Qi was somewhat stunned looking at his Panel.
In his normal state now, he was practically like an advanced Martial Artist level player in the Transcendent State, and his base strength was three tons higher than Luo Wu Shang’s. And this was with only one Cultivation Method having reached the Third Level. If he could raise the remaining two Cultivation Methods to the Third Level as well, all his stats would definitely improve further.
Even so, he was already terrifying. Previously, when his three Cultivation Methods were at Second Level Perfection, his actual strength was only close to twenty tons. But now his actual strength far exceeded twenty tons. First, three Super-tier Martial Skills had reached the Perfection Realm, giving a 35% strength buff. Then, the Body Strengthening Secret Technique added another 30%. His actual strength was 65 times his current Panel value.
That meant a casual punch from him now carried thirty tons of force, enough to blast apart a Top Bone Forging Realm Expert with one blow.
If he added his Great Club, which increased his brute force by 50%, he could reach forty-five tons. Yet the standard for an Initial Stage Blood Coagulation Realm Martial Artist was only forty-five tons.
In other words, with the Club in hand, his strength was already equivalent to an Initial Stage Blood Condensation Realm Martial Artist. Although that was the weakest tier of the Blood Condensation Realm, it was still a genuine Blood Condensation Realm existence capable of controlling a City.
“If I can raise the other two Cultivation Methods to the Third Level, then even without activating the Transcendent State, my strength should be about the same as a normal Initial Stage Blood Condensation Realm Martial Artist.” Lin Qi was very satisfied as he felt his own strength.
He finally had some ability to protect himself in this world. Even if Star Tower City’s City Lord, Hu Lei, such a Blood Condensation Realm Intermediate Level expert, came for him, he was confident he could fight.
After savoring the new sensations brought by the Bone Forging Realm for a while, Lin Qi resumed cultivation to stabilize his current qi and blood and state.
The next day, City of Light Chasing.
With the end of the City War, the entire City of Light Chasing had recovered its former prosperity. As the victor, it attracted more and more Martial Artists from nearby cities to live here, making the Skyscraper of the Martial Artist Association extremely busy.
On the top floor of the Martial Artist Association’s Skyscraper, as a Sky Battleship bearing the Domain City flag slowly descended, all the association’s Martial Artists were stunned.
“Why have Martial Artists from the Domain City come here?”
“There are so many of them, and they are so strong. I feel that any one of them is probably at least Bone Forging Realm Intermediate Level and above.”
“Is the gap between people really this big? I am only applying for the Genius Training Camp this year, yet they are about the same age as me and each one is already in the Bone Forging Realm. Are these the geniuses of the Domain City?”
Martial Artists coming and going on the Skyscraper rooftop watched the group of young men and women disembarking from the Sky Battleship and could not help but gasp.
All of the more than one hundred young men and women coming down from the Sky Battleship were in the Bone Forging Realm, and the weakest among them was Bone Forging Realm Intermediate Level. Their ages were generally under twenty-four, and anyone around twenty-five or twenty-six already had the aura of an Advanced Bone Forging Realm Martial Artist.
At their head was a young Forest Tribe man. The moment he stepped off the Sky Battleship, all the Bone Forging Realm Martial Artists present almost could not resist the urge to kneel.
“This qi and blood! Blood Condensation Realm! How is this possible!”
“Does the Domain City actually have a Blood Condensation Realm Martial Artist this young?”
Some Bone Forging Realm Intermediate and Advanced Level Martial Artists of the City of Light Chasing present looked at the Forest Tribe youth and could not believe their eyes.
The Blood Condensation Realm was their lifelong dream. Even as geniuses who had graduated from the Genius Training Camp, if they could reach it before sixty, they would consider their lives worthwhile and might even become an urban legend.
Yet here was a young man not even thirty who had already achieved what they might never reach in their entire lives.
After this Forest Tribe youth descended, a man and a woman followed him down from the Sky Battleship. The man was of the Half-Scale Race, his aura also extraordinary, clearly a Blood Condensation Realm expert, though already over thirty-five. The woman was clearly around twenty-five or twenty-six, with long golden hair and two silver-gray long horns on her forehead, giving her an indescribable, stunning allure.
“Miss Precia, thank you for leading the way.” The leading Forest Tribe youth smiled at the beautiful Precia with a gentle expression.
“Bert, as representatives of Earth Star Pharmaceuticals in the Tianhe Region, what are you doing suddenly coming here? You are not going to tell me you just want to enjoy the scenery of this City of Light Chasing, are you? If you do not have a clear reason, then we are obliged to continue following you.” Precia showed no friendliness at all, her tone icy.
Earth Star Pharmaceuticals in the Tianhe Region was a giant not inferior to the Domain City. Among all Four Regions, it controlled over fifty percent of Type Three and above Potions.
This time, Star Tower City’s emergence of a second Blood Condensation Realm expert was also due to Earth Star Pharmaceuticals’ handiwork.
Now, the representatives of Earth Star Pharmaceuticals who had come to Wushan Prison suddenly appeared in the City of Light Chasing, and the Domain City could not help but be on guard.
“Please rest assured, Miss Precia, we are not bad people. We are a legitimate enterprise,” Bert said with a smile at the cold Precia. “And rest assured, we will not do anything to the City of Light Chasing. Star Tower City is just our client. Whatever happens to a client has nothing to do with us.”
“Then why insist on coming specifically to the City of Light Chasing? The Energy Density here should not be enough to satisfy your daily cultivation,” Precia asked, voicing her doubts as she looked at Bert.
As a top ten competitor in the last Four Regions Competition, Bert’s future was limitless. Now that he had broken through to the Blood Condensation Realm, he had a real chance to fight for the top five in the upcoming Four Regions Youth Competition. Instead of stabilizing his Blood Condensation Realm and preparing, he had come to this desolate City of Light Chasing. If not for matters involving Star Tower City, it was truly strange.
“For a traitor,” Bert’s expression suddenly turned cold. “One of our company’s employees not only betrayed the company but also took an important document when leaving. By chance we obtained information that this traitor is in the City of Light Chasing, so I came by to capture them. I believe this should not be a problem for you, Miss Precia?”
“To capture a traitor from your company?” Precia asked in some surprise. “Could you tell me that person’s information? At least a name? I need to confirm.”
“Her real name has long been concealed,” Bert said casually. “Her current name is Yaklo. She seems to be called Poison Rose in various cities.”
