Chapter 273: Is It Possible You’re Actually Facing A Primordial Devourer?
Cultivation tower, third floor training room.
After hanging up the call, Lin Qi could not help opening his attribute panel to take a look.
Just last night, Li Ranxing had successfully mastered the third level of Reverse Star Triple. Moreover, perhaps inspired by Luo Wu Shang, he had also cultivated Transcendental Bone in Supernatural Lifeform state.
So once Li Ranxing finished cultivating, Lin Qi did not hesitate and immediately extracted and learned it.
As for the message passed on by Bert from Earth Star Pharmaceuticals, he naturally set it aside, even if Bert was a Blood Condensing Realm master.
On his territory, they still wanted to seize his apothecary. Did they really think he was easy to bully? Let alone that he had already reached the Bone Forging Realm, even if he had not, he would not be polite to Earth Star Pharmaceuticals.
Host: Lin Qi.
Age:
Administrator permissions: level two.
Permission level: level three merit-based admission authority.
Martial arts level: Bone Forging Realm Initial Stage Martial Artist.
Strength: 4+3200 kilograms. （Bone Forging Realm Initial Stage Martial Artist standard: 6000 kilograms）
Speed: 2+32 meters per second. （Bone Forging Realm Initial Stage Martial Artist standard: 80 meters per second）
Internal organs: internal refinement and strengthening completed 150%.
Bone tempering: overall bone tempering completion 25%.
Cultivation method: Startling Spirit Breathing Technique （Ghostly Light Six Forms third layer entry-level 7%, Cloud Mist Transformation Second Level Perfection Realm, Reverse Star Triple third level entry-level 4%）
“So powerful! I actually increased my strength by fifteen thousand kilograms in one go.” Looking at his latest panel, Lin Qi could not help clicking his tongue slightly.
Although he had long guessed that after cultivating a second cultivation method there would be some improvement, he had not expected such a huge boost.
Now his actual strength could reach thirty-two tons. If he added the 50% effect of great strength amplification, that would be more than forty-eight tons, already far beyond the baseline of Initial Stage Blood Coagulation.
Of course, his strength still fell far short of the ninety tons of an Intermediate Level Blood Condensing Realm Martial Artist, but if he activated his transcendent form, he might not be unable to touch that level.
“Three cultivation methods, now I just lack the last one. Should I simply issue a notice that in the future all players advancing to the Bone Forging Realm should best advance in a transcendent state?” After closing the system panel, Lin Qi could not help having some thoughts.
Achieving the Bone Forging Realm in a transcendent state would bring unquestionable benefits for later advancement, but it would also make his own cultivation a troublesome matter.
If ordinary players did not advance to the Bone Forging Realm in a transcendent state but advanced normally, he might still be able to extract from them, but cultivating the third cultivation method would become a problem. He would need to personally attempt to cultivate it in a transcendent state. Although the cultivation process was essentially the same, there would still be some differences. After all, the structure of a Supernatural Lifeform was vastly different from that of an ordinary lifeform. If something went wrong and there was no good medicine to treat it in time, it might cost him his life.
Especially for future cultivation methods, players who stepped into the Bone Forging Realm in a transcendent state would ultimately be very few. That meant the number of player experiences he could extract from would be limited, greatly slowing the advancement speed of the three cultivation methods, and even impacting the difficulty of reaching Perfection Realm.
Thinking of this, Lin Qi updated the mechanism for stepping into the Bone Forging Realm on the official forum, letting players choose for themselves whether to advance in a normal state or in a transcendent state.
Advancing to the Bone Forging Realm in a normal state was undoubtedly easier, while advancing in a transcendent state would greatly enhance all aspects of physical fitness after reaching the Bone Forging Realm and be more helpful for future growth, much like changing class into an advanced profession.
Players were free to choose between these two advancement methods. There were neither rewards nor punishment. Whether they wished to change class to an advanced profession depended entirely on themselves.
However, in Lin Qi’s view, who could refuse the temptation of changing class to an advanced profession?
Just as Lin Qi finished issuing this system announcement, knocking sounded at the door. Qin Mu opened it, allowing a forest tribe youth to walk in, while the others waited outside.
At the moment Qin Mu opened the third floor training room door, an energy so dense it was almost mist surged out from within, engulfing everyone outside.
“This energy… how is this possible?”
On site, aside from Qin Mu, everyone, including Bert and Yinuo, could not help being shocked.
Though it was only the portion of energy spilling out from the room, for Bone Forging Realm Martial Artists who could freely absorb external energy, such density was absolutely unprecedented in their lives.
It was like previously absorbing external energy had been like breathing air, but now they were breathing liquid. The difference between the two was obvious at a glance.
“Brother Qin, is this third floor training room reserved for the hall master?” Yinuo could not help asking Qin Mu.
Although Qin Mu was only a Martial Artist and still far from the Bone Forging Realm, as a coach of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall Guard Corps, his current status was no worse than the leader of the city guard.
Others in the City of Light Chasing might not know, but she was very clear: any grey-robed advanced martial artist disciple of Obsidian Martial Arts Hall could easily crush an Advanced Bone Forging Realm Martial Artist, and Qin Mu’s status in Obsidian Martial Arts Hall was higher than that of those grey-robed disciples.
“This third floor training room is not exclusively for the hall master.” Qin Mu shook his head and explained with a smile. “As long as you are a member of Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, you will have a chance to use this training room.”
“Members of Obsidian Martial Arts Hall have a chance to use it?” Yinuo’s breathing grew slightly rapid when she heard this.
Although she had yet to personally experience the exact effect of the third floor training room, from the energy seeping out alone, she could tell that cultivating inside would definitely be several times more efficient than outside. One day could equal many days, greatly reducing the time needed to cultivate cultivation methods, and it would likely have great use in impacting realms as well.
And such an extraordinary training room was actually open to all members of the martial arts hall. If this were spread, no one would believe it.
At this moment, let alone Yinuo’s intense temptation, even the members of Earth Star Pharmaceuticals on the side were filled with envy.
“These days, has a city faction from the Wushan Region actually surpassed our Earth Star Pharmaceuticals in welfare benefits?”
They risked their lives doing tasks for Earth Star Pharmaceuticals, improving their reviews. Yet, they had no chance to use even the second floor training room of the cultivation tower, let alone the third floor. But members of Obsidian Martial Arts Hall could use it whenever they wanted. These benefits were simply better than those of Earth Star Pharmaceuticals.
It made them seriously doubt whether their Earth Star Pharmaceuticals was truly a domain-level overlord faction.
Among the people of Earth Star Pharmaceuticals, the one who felt it most deeply was Bert, who had entered the room.
“The energy density here should be about eight times that of the outside. Energy this dense would be greatly beneficial not only to the Bone Forging Realm but even to a Blood Condensing Realm cultivator like me. Even the domain city does not have such technology. Where did this Obsidian Martial Arts Hall obtain it?” Looking at the training room the size of two or three basketball courts, Bert was extremely shocked.
He had visited both the domain city of the Mist Mountain Region and the domain city of the Tianhe Region, and had even taken a proper tour of these domain cities.
But the best training rooms those two domain cities could create had energy densities only four to five times that of the city center of major cities. He had been lucky enough to experience that once, and the cultivation feeling simply could not be described by the word “pleasant”.
If he could train in that environment every day, he might have already advanced to the Blood Condensing Realm long ago, and perhaps by now he could be charging toward the Intermediate Level Blood Condensation Realm, competing for the championship in the Four Regions Youth Competition.
Now this third floor training room of Obsidian Martial Arts Hall was even more terrifying, starting directly at about eight times the density. If he had constant access to this, winning last year’s championship would not have been difficult at all.
Yet such a terrifying training room was in the hands of an unknown Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, which was truly unbelievable.
“Please sit.”
“I wonder, your excellency has come in person. What is it you wish to discuss?”
Just as Bert was immersed in shock, a deep voice reached his ears, causing him to look instinctively toward the source of the sound.
In the center of the training room, a human youth in a pitch-black martial robe sat quietly cross-legged on a stone platform. Careful observation would reveal that this stone platform was made of energy crystals and was the core of energy convergence in the entire training room.
“You are the hall master of Obsidian Martial Arts Hall?” Bert looked at Lin Qi, a trace of surprise in his eyes.
Others might not see it, but as a super genius of Earth Star Pharmaceuticals, his eye for people and things was extraordinary. Although he could not lock onto Lin Qi with qi and blood, and Lin Qi’s life force was extremely strong, he was certain this human youth was not at the Extreme Advanced Level Bone Forging Realm, nor even at the Advanced Bone Forging Realm. He was nothing like the rumor that he was only one step away from the Blood Condensing Realm.
“That’s right, I am Hall Master Lin Qi.” Lin Qi nodded. Under the shroud of his mental domain, he also sensed that Bert had likely perceived the general level of his martial arts realm.
In this world, although the vast majority judged others’ levels through the clash of qi and blood, there were always exceptions who did not rely on qi and blood, but on experience or a sixth sense.
Bert was clearly one of the latter. Even though Lin Qi’s qi and blood and life force far exceeded that of a normal Extreme Advanced Level Bone Forging Realm Martial Artist, Bert could still tell that he was not an Advanced Bone Forging Realm Martial Artist.
“Since you are the hall master of Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, good.” Bert did not dwell on it and said bluntly, “My name is Bert, which you probably have not heard. I am here on behalf of Earth Star Pharmaceuticals to issue you a final notice. Hand over the traitor Yaklo, and you must also give us an explanation for the deaths of the two super geniuses Huo She and Ying Ya. Otherwise, no matter who stands behind you, or even if the domain city wants to shelter you, every one of you in Obsidian Martial Arts Hall will be buried with Huo She and Ying Ya!”
As he spoke, Bert’s qi and blood surged, instantly enveloping the entire training room, the terrifying pressure enough to render even an Extreme Advanced Level Bone Forging Realm Martial Artist unable to move.
As a super genius of Earth Star Pharmaceuticals, especially after advancing to the Blood Condensing Realm, there was no faction in the Four Regions, aside from the domain cities, that he particularly cared about. This was not only his personal confidence, but also the confidence of Earth Star Pharmaceuticals, which nearly monopolized advanced potions in the Four Regions.
Before Earth Star Pharmaceuticals, even the Smiling Skull, feared by all in the Mist Mountain Region and untouchable even by the Mist Mountain Domain City, had to give them sufficient respect, let alone an Obsidian Martial Arts Hall that had only recently risen.
Before coming, he had carefully ordered an investigation into Obsidian Martial Arts Hall. From the data, the hall was likely backed by a major power. Otherwise, it would not have risen so quickly, dared to challenge the Smiling Skull in the Mountain of the Dead, and even crushed the allied forces of Star Tower City and the Holy Blood Mercenary Group head-on.
But even if a major power stood behind Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, Earth Star Pharmaceuticals could still easily annihilate it. Leaving aside their own strength, simply by controlling the lifeline of martial artists’ cultivation—advanced potions—they could incite all major factions in the Mist Mountain Region to band together and eradicate Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, wiping it out from the Mist Mountain Region.
Of course, doing so would certainly enrage the Mist Mountain Domain City. Unless absolutely necessary, he would not choose that option. For now, he mainly wanted to pressure Obsidian Martial Arts Hall so he could obtain the cultivation tower and even the technology to construct it, in order to give an account to his superiors.
Otherwise, even he could not bear responsibility for the loss of two super geniuses.
“You at Earth Star Pharmaceuticals are truly overbearing. You came to our Obsidian Martial Arts Hall headquarters to seize our people, got beaten, and now you want an explanation from me? Do you not think that Earth Star Pharmaceuticals owes us an explanation?” Facing Bert’s might, Lin Qi rose without the slightest sign of being affected. His qi and blood likewise erupted, his aura covering nearly half the training room and standing in direct opposition to Bert’s.
Before advancing to the Bone Forging Realm, he had held some fear of Blood Condensing Realm masters. Now that he had reached the Bone Forging Realm and cultivated two cultivation methods, he no longer feared facing even two Initial Stage Blood Condensing Realm masters at once.
“Your qi and blood are indeed impressive, but that is not enough for you to be arrogant before me.” Bert looked at the unaffected Lin Qi, surprised but quickly reaching out with one hand to grab him. “I will capture you now, and then let the power behind you come ransom you.”
Bert had no intention of negotiating with Lin Qi. In his eyes, Lin Qi was merely a spokesman pushed forward by the power behind him. Not even in the Blood Condensing Realm, he had no qualification to talk to him.
This grab was no ordinary move. He used the Extraordinary Martial Skill Prison Sky Hand, using internal force to blockade and suppress a portion of space. Even super geniuses like Huo She and Ying Ya, faced with his sixty tons of physical strength, could do nothing even if they used their full strength. Let alone Lin Qi, who was not even at Advanced Bone Forging Realm.
An invisible giant hand that filled the training room reached for Lin Qi, trying to suppress him on the spot.
“You, an Initial Stage Blood Condensing Realm Martial Artist, dare to try to seize me?” Feeling the invisible giant hand grasping around him, Lin Qi could not help but shout coldly. “Who gave you the courage!”
Before the sound fully fell, Lin Qi opened his transcendent state. Energy surged from his body, forming a layer of energy ten centimeters thick around him.
He swung Club up toward Bert.
Super-tier Martial Skill Reverse Star Hand second level: Stardust Reversal!
At once, wild winds roared through the training room as the internal force from Club crashed into the invisible giant hand. The terrifying impact caused cracks to appear in the training room itself.
“How is this possible!”
After the clash, Bert took two steps back, his grabbing hand numb with pain, staring in disbelief at Lin Qi, who had only taken a single step back.
At this moment, Lin Qi was clearly uninjured and had even gained the upper hand in the exchange.
