Chapter 270: Are Npcs Nowadays Really This Bold?
“So strong!”
“Is this the transformation of the Bone Forging Realm?”
Inside the martial arts hall, Fang Zhen and the others looked at Luo Wu Shang, whose entire body was surrounded by extremely dense energy. Each of them was deeply shocked and envious.
At this moment, Luo Wu Shang in the Bone Forging Realm, after transforming, clearly erupted with more energy than in the Viscera Refining Realm. If, in the Viscera Refining Realm, the enveloping energy was two to three centimeters thick, then now its thickness had already reached five to six centimeters.
Waves of energy could stir up violent winds. The surrounding gravel even rose against gravity, all levitating around Luo Wu Shang. It was simply unbelievable.
However, before everyone could recover from Luo Wu Shang’s Transcendent State, she took a step forward.
In just the blink of an eye, Luo Wu Shang, who had originally been inside the martial arts hall, appeared before Huo She. Her jade-like hand lifted, and she blasted out a punch.
Facing this sudden punch, Huo She instinctively raised his sword to block. He simply did not have time to do anything else.
Boom!
Like a 155 mm howitzer blast, everyone in the martial arts hall felt the ground tremble. Huo She’s entire body shot out like a cannonball, smashing through a wall more than a hundred meters away, then continued on to punch through a building on the street outside Obsidian Martial Arts Hall before finally stabilizing. The greatsword in his hand hummed without stopping.
This scene stunned everyone present, whether it was Wuka and the others from Lionheart Merchant Guild, or the geniuses from Earth Star Pharmaceuticals.
“What terrifying strength! Can this human race transformation enhance strength this much?”
Ying Ya stared fixedly at Luo Wu Shang, whose fist had yet to be withdrawn, his gaze incomparably grave and wary.
No one understood Huo She’s strength better than he did, as a fellow top genius of the same period. Without counting the support of his Tier 2 battle armor, his actual strength was more than 23 tons. This was a level ordinary Extreme Advanced Level Bone Forging Realm martial artists could not reach at all.
Yet Luo Wu Shang had sent Huo She flying with just an ordinary punch, and had even blasted him several hundred meters away. She was simply like a humanoid high-level lord monster.
At the same level, monsters were far stronger than martial artists. Under normal circumstances, martial artists could only use martial skills to make up for this gap.
And a high-level lord monster generally possessed more than forty tons of strength. If it was a strength-type high-level lord monster, it would be even stronger than an Initial Stage Blood Coagulation martial artist.
Luo Wu Shang at this moment had clearly already reached this level.
In fact, it was not only the others who were shocked by Luo Wu Shang’s strength; Luo Wu Shang herself was also a little surprised that her strength was so great.
“So this is the strength after the Bone Forging Realm transformation?” Luo Wu Shang checked her own stats, and was inwardly shaken.
Player: Luo Wu Shang
Martial arts realm: Bone Forging Realm Beginner Level （ Extraordinary Lifeform ）
Strength: 4 + 3200 kilograms. （ Bone Forging Realm Beginner Level martial artist standard: 15000 kilograms ）
Speed: 2 + 32 meters per second. （ Bone Forging Realm Beginner Level martial artist standard: 125 meters per second ）
After she advanced to the Bone Forging Realm, she had focused wholeheartedly on improving the third level of her cultivation method and had not tried to activate the Transcendent State. After all, once she activated the Transcendent State, she would need Type Three Energy Potions to replenish it quickly. Under normal circumstances, she naturally would not use it casually.
So she did not know what her stats would be after activating the Transcendent State.
And her current stats were more than enough to call her a humanoid monster. Previously, the standard for a Bone Forging Realm Beginner Level Extraordinary Lifeform after transformation was only 15000 kilograms, but now that she had truly reached the Bone Forging Realm Beginner Level, she was clearly much stronger than the Extraordinary Lifeform standard.
With her panel showing more than 27 tons, plus her martial skill at perfection and the first level perfection of her Body Strengthening Secret Technique, her actual strength had already exceeded 40 tons. Those Extreme Advanced Level Bone Forging Realm martial artists using advanced martial skills only had about this much strength, yet she could achieve it with a casual punch.
On the other side, Huo She, who had walked out from the building, was now staring fixedly at Luo Wu Shang, his eyes full of disbelief.
As a super genius of Earth Star Pharmaceuticals, he could be said to have few rivals.
But now he had actually been blasted away by a disciple of Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, and had almost been injured. If such a thing spread, he would not be able to keep his standing in Earth Star Pharmaceuticals.
“Your strength is indeed very strong, but the power of a martial artist does not depend only on strength!”
Huo She looked at Luo Wu Shang, his qi and blood erupting as well. A unicorn giant snake phantom more than a hundred meters long suddenly appeared, while flames surged around him. As Huo She lunged at Luo Wu Shang with a thrust, the towering giant snake phantom bit at her again.
Sequence Transcendent Martial Skill Flame Snake Seven Transformations, first level Snake Shadow Transformation!
Facing Huo She’s repeated use of a Sequence Extraordinary Martial Skill, Luo Wu Shang once again unleashed Transcendent Martial Skill: Absolute Heaven, swinging her sword in a fierce slash.
Boom!
The sky-piercing sword light collided with the giant snake phantom. The terrifying impact of the internal force from both sides directly shattered the ground within several hundred meters into pieces.
By the time the horrifying shockwave dissipated, everyone present was stunned.
In the center of the battlefield, Luo Wu Shang had taken one step back, while Huo She had been blasted back more than ten meters. But he had clearly not suffered much injury. Only, the street outside the martial arts hall had been completely turned into a crater. If the people outside the street had not been evacuated in time, even Bone Forging Realm martial artists might have died on the spot.
“How is this possible!”
Ying Ya looked at Luo Wu Shang, who had gained the upper hand in the crater, his eyes full of shock and confusion.
In his view, Luo Wu Shang’s strength was indeed terrifying, but it had not yet reached the Blood Condensation Realm. Flame Snake Seven Transformations, as a Sequence Transcendent Martial Skill, was truly a martial skill that allowed one to fight across realms.
It allowed Bone Forging Realm martial artists like them to fight true Blood Condensing Realm masters. And for martial artists wanting to step into the Blood Condensation Realm, there was not a single one who had not learned a Transcendent Martial Skill. Yet Luo Wu Shang clearly did not possess Blood Condensation Realm strength, but could still gain the upper hand while facing Flame Snake Seven Transformations. It was simply incomprehensible.
However, compared to the shocked Ying Ya, Fang Zhen and the others watching from afar were even more shaken.
It was not that they had never dealt with real Blood Condensing Realm experts. Although they had managed to injure a Blood Condensing master through their crazed mutual destruction, that was something else.
But now Luo Wu Shang, having stepped into the Bone Forging Realm, was merely in the Bone Forging Realm yet gaining the upper hand against Huo She, who was also in the Bone Forging Realm. They really could not understand how a Bone Forging Realm boss could be this powerful.
“This martial skill is really strong. It seems the game truly will not let us exploit loopholes. We need to carefully study these bosses’ martial skills later. Otherwise, wanting to solo-kill these same-level bosses in the future will probably be impossible.” Luo Wu Shang looked at the Tier 2 long sword in her hand that was still trembling, feeling somewhat emotional.
She had originally thought that after transforming, she would be invincible in the Bone Forging Realm. But now it seemed that even when facing a Bone Forging Realm boss, she only had a slight upper hand. This was still because the energy enveloping her whole body was dense enough to greatly weaken the incoming internal force, so she only retreated one step. Otherwise, her outcome would not have been much better than Huo She’s.
However, if Lin Qi knew what Luo Wu Shang was thinking, he would probably curse her for being insatiable.
On the path of martial arts, each step is a new heaven. Every step in the later martial realms is vastly different, like cloud and mud. Extraordinary Lifeforms were already extremely defiant of the natural order. Merely stepping into the Bone Forging Realm Beginner Level gave players strength comparable to advanced lord monsters, and their defense was even stronger than advanced lord monsters.
Not to mention, the Star Energy Construct Secret Method that Luo Wu Shang had learned was not even complete. She had only learned the first level of the Star Energy Construct Secret Method. Having strength comparable to Initial Stage Blood Coagulation was already heaven-defying. Local residents would laugh themselves awake from their dreams if they could learn it.
After a brief moment of emotion, Luo Wu Shang once again engaged Huo She in battle.
This time, Luo Wu Shang did not give Huo She any chance to use martial skills. The long sword in her hand stabbed at him like a torrential downpour, her attacks unending.
When neither side had a chance to use martial skills and their combat skill was about the same, the side with the stronger physical fitness gained an absolute advantage.
For a time, Luo Wu Shang forced Huo She to retreat step by step. Although she only inflicted minor wounds from time to time, with Huo She’s level of super genius cultivation method, his body could withstand it. But under the continued attacks of a Tier 2 weapon, his Tier 2 battle armor became more and more damaged, its defense effect weaker and weaker, causing the impact he suffered to grow steadily.
After dozens of exchanges, Huo She could not help but spit out a mouthful of blood, clearly suffering serious internal injuries.
“Ying Ya, come help!”
Huo She gritted his teeth and finally called out to Ying Ya for help.
For super geniuses like them, he truly did not want to ask for help if he could avoid it. But if he were to die here for no reason, he would be unwilling, especially since this task had to be completed perfectly for a super genius like him to receive a high review.
At this point, for the sake of perfectly completing the task, he could not care about anything else.
Ying Ya did not refuse. He immediately joined the battle, planning to deal with Luo Wu Shang quickly and then take Yaklo and leave.
Although only a few dozen seconds had passed from their appearance to fighting Luo Wu Shang, they still needed quite some time to escape and shake off the city guard. If they did not quickly take care of Luo Wu Shang, they would not be able to complete their task at all.
But before Ying Ya could rush up to Luo Wu Shang, several figures intercepted him. These people were none other than Fang Zhen and the others.
“You want to gang up on her and really think we don’t exist?” Fang Zhen said.
One boss had already been taken by Luo Wu Shang. They were unwilling to give up another.
“You ants dare block me?
“Get lost!”
Ying Ya looked at this group of ants who were only Peak High-Level martial artists, frowned slightly, and swept his spear horizontally without a word, using his specialty Transcendent Martial Skill Heart Burst Liberation.
In an instant, his entire body grew several sizes larger, his skin turned faintly red, his strength increased more than tenfold, and his speed tripled.
The power of a single spear strike exceeded two hundred tons of internal force. Even a strength-type high-level lord could be blasted away and injured. Any advanced martial artist who was grazed would be turned into minced meat.
But as Ying Ya activated Heart Burst Liberation, the life force of Fang Zhen and the others surged as well, and Fang Zhen, without any hesitation, used Golden Roar.
A colossal illusory lion over a hundred meters tall let out a heaven-shaking roar, directly blasting Ying Ya away.
This scene left the geniuses of Earth Star Pharmaceuticals dumbfounded.
“Sequence Extraordinary Martial Skill Golden Roar?”
“What is the origin of this Obsidian Martial Arts Hall? How can they also have such a super genius hidden away?”
The major powers of the Four Regions had all recorded Golden Roar, a martial skill held by the Smiling Skull faction. What’s more, Golden Roar was the signature skill of Smiling Skull. Few people from major powers did not know of it.
Anyone able to learn a Sequence Transcendent Martial Skill was without exception a super genius, an existence capable of contending with the Blood Condensation Realm.
At this moment, not only were the geniuses of Earth Star Pharmaceuticals overwhelmed with shock, but Yaklo and the members of Lionheart Merchant Guild inside the martial arts hall were also staring with their mouths agape.
“How much strength has this Obsidian Martial Arts Hall been hiding?” Yaklo looked at Fang Zhen, who could confront Ying Ya head-on, and Luo Wu Shang, who was suppressing Huo She. She began to suspect she was dreaming.
She had thought she understood Obsidian Martial Arts Hall well enough, but now it seemed that after living there for such a long time, her understanding of Obsidian Martial Arts Hall was still only the tip of the iceberg.
Two super geniuses of Earth Star Pharmaceuticals with strength comparable to the Blood Condensation Realm!
And now they were being suppressed just like that. Who would believe this if it were told?
“Damn it!” Ying Ya looked at Fang Zhen and Yi Ye Fu Yun and the others who were charging at him again, then turned to the other geniuses of Earth Star Pharmaceuticals and ordered, “You go capture Yaklo. I will deal with these people!”
As a super genius, he did not want others’ help if possible. But with limited time, especially when the other side also had someone who mastered a Sequence Transcendent Martial Skill, he could only rely on their numerical advantage to quickly seize Yaklo.
The geniuses of Earth Star Pharmaceuticals reacted quickly and rushed toward Yaklo.
But just as they charged toward Yaklo, a group of figures appeared in front of them, blocking their path. Leading them were Ye Qinglu and Chen Ya, who had just come out of the lounge.
Facing more than eighty Bone Forging Realm Advanced Level and above martial artists at once, Ye Qinglu, Chen Ya, and the others did not hold back. They all activated their transformations.
In an instant, several dozen more experts with terrifying life force appeared on the side of Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, causing the overwhelming advantage of Earth Star Pharmaceuticals to suddenly turn into a stalemate.
“Damn it! What kind of faction is this Obsidian Martial Arts Hall? How can they have so many experts?”
At this moment, both Huo She and Ying Ya, who were bitterly fighting, looked at Chen Ya in her transformed form among the crowd, and at Ye Qinglu, with dozens of long swords suspended around her, wantonly slaughtering the Bone Forging Realm Advanced martial artists of Earth Star Pharmaceuticals. Their hearts were filled with doubt and confusion about Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
Whether it was Chen Ya or Ye Qinglu, both were existences not inferior to super geniuses. In terms of strength, they were much stronger than ordinary vice city lords; they merely had not mastered Sequence Transcendent Martial Skills.
And yet an Obsidian Martial Arts Hall they had never even heard of had so many geniuses. The two of them seriously suspected they had gone to the wrong place.
After more than a minute of fighting, the dozens of geniuses from Earth Star Pharmaceuticals were all wiped out by Ye Qinglu, Chen Ya, and the others. None could escape. Only Huo She and Ying Ya were left struggling to hold on, and their situation was quite dire.
Because Huo She had been struck by Luo Wu Shang multiple times, his Tier 2 battle armor had shattered badly. He was already gravely injured, his combat strength less than thirty percent of his peak. Ying Ya, surrounded and attacked from all sides, was also occasionally struck by Li Ranxing and the others, his injuries by now not much lighter than Huo She’s.
“Run!”
“We can’t continue this task!”
Huo She and Ying Ya exchanged a glance, gritted their teeth, and both used Transcendent-Level footwork to flee in opposite directions away from the martial arts hall, no longer caring about the punishment for mission failure.
As super geniuses of Earth Star Pharmaceuticals, even if they failed the mission, they would at most receive a lower review. Compared to being killed here, that punishment was nothing.
But while their plan sounded good, Luo Wu Shang and the others did not give them any chance. Especially since both men were already seriously injured, their speed was clearly inferior to Luo Wu Shang, a Bone Forging Realm martial artist skilled in speed. She caught up in just a few steps.
“You shelter the traitor of our Earth Star Pharmaceuticals. That alone is a major crime. We are both super geniuses of Earth Star Pharmaceuticals. If you dare kill us, Earth Star Pharmaceuticals will never let you go!” Huo She looked at Luo Wu Shang blocking his path and spoke proudly in the human language.
Now, in order to survive, he no longer cared whether his identity was exposed.
With the reputation of Earth Star Pharmaceuticals, anyone who wasn’t a fool should know what to choose.
“Sheltering a traitor? If we kill you, Earth Star Pharmaceuticals will never let us go?” Luo Wu Shang was a bit surprised after hearing this.
She had originally thought this was just an ordinary surprise attack plot, but she had not expected it to be the opening of a new expansion pack. However, it seemed that to unlock this new expansion pack, she had to kill Huo She in front of her.
This left her with no choice but to kill him.
“All right, since you’re so brave, I will give you a quick death.”
“I am brave?”
Then Luo Wu Shang slashed again. Her sword pierced through a gap in the Tier 2 battle armor, and Huo She’s head flew into the air, dead beyond any doubt. His heart, in his final moment, was full of confusion. He could not understand how Luo Wu Shang still dared to attack. Had he not made himself clear enough?
Not far away, Ying Ya was also killed by Ye Qinglu and the others working together, leaving every member of Earth Star Pharmaceuticals dead in Obsidian Martial Arts Hall. Not a single one escaped.
