Chapter 274: Gone? A Whole Coagulation Stage Expert, Just Gone?
Cultivation Tower, third floor training room.
“Is the current transcendent state this strong?”
After a simple clash between the two, while Bert was surprised by Lin Qi’s strength, Lin Qi also found it hard to believe that in his transcendent state, he could actually suppress a blood condensation realm master like Bert.
At a glance, Bert was clearly not an ordinary initial stage blood coagulation master, not to mention that he opened with a supernatural martial skill. His strength was definitely not inferior to Di Luoya, the City Lord of the City of Light Chasing.
He had originally thought he would suffer a loss with one Stardust Reversal, but unexpectedly he had instead gained a slight upper hand.
After repelling Bert’s strike, Lin Qi could not help but pull up his data panel.
He would not have known if he did not look; once he looked, he was shocked.
He had not expected that after his second cultivation method reached the bone forging realm, his transcendent state physical fitness had also undergone a tremendous change.
Originally, in the transcendent state, a bone forging realm initial stage martial artist had a strength standard of fifteen tons, far superior to an ordinary lifeform’s standard, and now it was even more terrifying.
In his transcendent state, his strength panel data had already reached as high as thirty-six tons; his base strength had more than doubled. Together with the 3,200 kilogram effect of the body strengthening secret technique, his strength panel data reached nearly forty tons, already close to the level of an initial stage blood coagulation.
With the buffs of martial skills and body strengthening secret technique, his actual strength had reached sixty-six tons, and under the amplification of immense power, it even reached nearly one hundred tons.
Such strength had clearly surpassed the baseline of an intermediate level blood condensation realm martial artist.
While Lin Qi was marveling at his current physical fitness, Bert on the other side had no intention of stopping. While he had been empty-handed before, at some unknown moment a dark blue battle saber appeared in his hand.
The instant this dark blue battle saber was drawn, the temperature of the entire training room dropped by dozens of degrees, and a layer of frost spread.
“A third-tier weapon?” Lin Qi looked at the dark blue battle saber in Bert’s hand, cold air surging, and his gaze grew more serious.
From what he currently knew, the highest grade weapon that bone forging realm martial artists could access was the tier 2 weapon. These weapons were either forged from alloy or from materials of lord-level monsters and possessed hardness and sharpness sufficient to harm advanced lord monsters.
Above tier 2 weapons were tier 3 weapons. These were owned only by a few blood condensation realm masters; even most city lords did not have a tier 3 weapon and at most used top-grade tier 2 weapons made from advanced lord monster materials, just like City Lord Di Luoya.
Tier 3 weapons were so rare not only because their materials required the bones of catastrophe level monsters, but also because only domain cities possessed the manufacturing technology. Ordinary mechanics and blacksmiths, even with the materials, could not create them.
Even if you handed the manufacturing devices to those mechanics and blacksmiths to use, they still could not successfully make them.
The main reason was that tier 3 weapons not only had terrifying hardness and sharpness, but also carried some abilities, or rather retained a portion of a catastrophe level monster’s power. This power could be triggered through qi and blood to unleash strength far beyond tier 2 weapons.
Now the dark blue battle saber in Bert’s hand had dropped the surrounding temperature the moment it appeared, clearly one of the abilities that only tier 3 weapons possessed.
“You do have some knowledge.” Bert looked at Lin Qi and could not help but laugh. “Originally, I wanted to capture you alive, but I have changed my mind now. I think it is better to present your corpse to the people behind your Obsidian Martial Arts Hall. They should better understand the attitude of our Earth Star Pharmaceuticals.”
Towards Lin Qi, the hall master of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, he had already put away his contempt after crossing blows. On the contrary, Lin Qi gave him considerable pressure.
Clearly, Lin Qi was not even an advanced bone forging realm martial artist, yet after transformation he could suppress him by a margin. It was simply inconceivable.
He was a super genius of Earth Star Pharmaceuticals. Among the younger generation of the entire Four Regions, he was one of the outstanding ones, and yet in the blood condensation realm, he had actually lost to Lin Qi in raw strength by a margin. If this got out, probably no one would believe it.
If such strength appeared in the Four Regions Youth Competition, he would absolutely be a genius that appeared once in decades, and in the future might well charge toward that realm.
Facing such a genius, since he had already provoked him, he naturally had to eradicate him completely. Otherwise, once Lin Qi grew up, even Earth Star Pharmaceuticals might not be able to protect him.
As he spoke, Bert swung his saber.
The third-tier battle saber Ice Shatter had only one ability: it could increase the power of cold energy, boosting the might of martial skills using cold energy by thirty percent.
Cold energy martial skills were Bert’s signature techniques, especially the Sequence Transcendent Martial Skill Ice Dragon Break he had learned, which allowed Ice Dragon Break’s strength to be maximized.
With one slash from Bert, a phantom ice crystal dragon filling the entire training room appeared before Lin Qi, flapping its wings as it roared at him. It bit toward Lin Qi, not giving him any chance, going all-out from the start, intending to end the battle quickly.
Facing this sudden slash, Lin Qi felt the threat of death and almost instinctively used Divine Might, the only supernatural level martial skill he had mastered.
Suddenly, with Lin Qi as the center, all the air in the training room gathered in an instant at that moment.
What seemed slow was in reality instantaneous. The air in the entire training room, and even the energy, were drawn away by Lin Qi and condensed at a single point at the tip of the club, radiating light like a star and then expanding in all directions.
Boom!
The terrifying shock wave collided with the dragon phantom. The dragon phantom easily pierced through the rapidly expanding air, like a dragon plunging into water, constantly swimming toward the center of the expansion.
However, as this dragon approached the center, the upward impact grew stronger and stronger.
By the time the dragon phantom was less than one meter from Lin Qi, it passed over his head, blasted through the solid wall of the Cultivation Tower, and left a hole with a radius of more than five or six meters.
“Deflected? How is this possible?” Bert stared blankly at the unscathed Lin Qi.
To ensure he could quickly kill Lin Qi, he had held nothing back.
That slash felt to him like the pinnacle of his life. Even if intermediate level blood condensation realm masters also used Sequence Extraordinary Martial Skills, he had confidence he could crush them.
But that slash had actually had its trajectory deflected by Lin Qi using a single supernatural martial skill, skimming over Lin Qi’s head. Such control of power was simply unbelievable.
You had to know that this slash, though appearing as one blow, was in fact a giant dragon formed by cold energy unleashing countless attacks, like a rainstorm. Such an attack was not just hard to deflect; it was difficult even to block.
Yet for some unknown reason, all these attacks were seen through and deflected by Lin Qi, forcibly diverted away. From the outside, it looked like a dragon phantom just flew over Lin Qi’s head, but in reality the difficulty of this exceeded threading dozens of needles simultaneously with internal force from a hundred meters away.
While Bert was briefly stunned, Lin Qi stepped forward, using the perfected Startled Swan Steps with its inherent effect, crossing a hundred meters like teleportation. He appeared before Bert and smashed down with his club.
He did not use Reverse Star Hand this time, just simply channeled Lightning Palm into the strike. Unlike ordinary attacks, Lightning Palm required no charging, as swift as a normal attack, fast as lightning.
This strike was also the limit of what Lin Qi could control in his transcendent state.
Although Bert reacted quickly and raised the third-tier battle saber Ice Shatter to meet it almost instantly, Lin Qi’s club, empowered by Lightning Palm, carried nearly three hundred tons of force. Even if Bert’s slash could naturally draw upon the power of ordinary martial skills, the gap between a bit over one hundred tons and nearly three hundred tons was not on the same level.
At the instant of contact, Bert failed to hold Ice Shatter steady. The saber was blasted out of his grasp on the spot, and the terrifying power numbed Bert’s arm. If his body had not been suffused with the qi and blood energy of the blood condensation realm, forged as hard as iron, his arm would already have been reduced to mince.
After the first strike, Lin Qi pressed the advantage and swung again, not giving Bert the slightest chance to catch his breath, or rather not daring to.
Bert was a blood condensation realm master who had mastered Sequence Transcendent Martial Skills, and in terms of explosive power he was stronger. If not for Lin Qi’s mental domain having expanded to fifteen meters, allowing him to narrowly use Divine Might to deflect the attack, that last blow would have cost him half his life.
Now that he had finally caught Bert’s opening, he naturally had to claim Bert’s life.
Boom!
With just one strike, the arm Bert used to block with his tier 2 battle armor bent, forcing a muffled groan from him.
Seeing Lin Qi’s club descending once more, Bert was greatly alarmed.
“I am the representative of Earth Star Pharmaceuticals! If you dare kill me, Earth Star Pharmaceuticals will never let you go!” Bert shouted repeatedly as he watched the incoming blow.
Lin Qi’s strength was far beyond his expectations. Injured, he no longer had the power to fight Lin Qi. To survive, he could only rely on the prestige of Earth Star Pharmaceuticals.
As the representative of Earth Star Pharmaceuticals this time and a super genius of the blood condensation realm, his death was on a completely different level than Huo She and Ying Ya’s. As long as Lin Qi knew anything about Earth Star Pharmaceuticals, he would never dare to kill him. Even Mist Mountain Domain City would not openly do such a thing.
Because doing so would truly be a declaration of war against Earth Star Pharmaceuticals.
“Only begging for mercy once you lose? Do you really take me for a club?”
With a look of disdain, Lin Qi did not stop his club because of Bert’s threat. It ruthlessly smashed onto Bert’s other blocking arm.
One strike after another, he continuously hammered until Bert’s tier 2 battle armor was shattered everywhere and Bert himself had become a heap of mangled flesh before he stopped.
As Bert was beaten to death, Qin Mu and the others outside the training room door rushed in due to the massive commotion inside.
“This…”
Yinuo stared, dumbfounded, at the devastated training room and the pile of flesh on the floor.
From the clothing on the flesh, it could be roughly judged that this was undoubtedly Bert of Earth Star Pharmaceuticals.
“Hall master?”
At this moment Qin Mu also stared blankly at the corpse on the ground.
He had no idea what had happened in the short time after Bert entered the room. A blood condensation realm powerhouse had actually died at Hall Master Lin Qi’s feet.
“Lord Bert?”
The dozen-plus Earth Star Pharmaceuticals members present looked at the thoroughly dead Bert, unable to believe their own eyes.
Bert had brought them here, and they clearly knew that he meant to demand justice from the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall. They had only come to watch the show. After all, as a super genius who had advanced to the blood condensation realm, in the entire Wushan Region outside the domain city, Bert had enough confidence to face any faction, let alone deal with an Obsidian Martial Arts Hall they had never even heard of.
But now Bert was dead. What was this?
After a brief shock, the dozen-plus Earth Star Pharmaceuticals members reacted.
“Run!”
Almost without hesitation, these dozen-plus geniuses of Earth Star Pharmaceuticals bolted for the door, not daring to stay even a second.
As the representative of Earth Star Pharmaceuticals in coming to the Wushan Region this time, Bert was no nobody; he truly represented Earth Star Pharmaceuticals.
No matter what reason Lin Qi had, by killing Bert he had effectively declared war on Earth Star Pharmaceuticals.
And if Lin Qi did not want this exposed, then he would of course kill everyone, leaving no witnesses, to conceal the fact that Bert had been taken out.
At the moment these dozen-plus geniuses of Earth Star Pharmaceuticals turned to flee, Qin Mu and Yinuo had yet to recover, but Lin Qi, in his transcendent state, had already appeared ahead of them. He grabbed and twisted at the air.
In an instant, those dozen-plus intermediate level bone forging realm geniuses trying to escape felt as if seized by invisible giant hands. All of them were crushed to death by Lin Qi’s terrifying internal force without any power to resist.
As the dozen-plus Earth Star Pharmaceuticals members died on the spot, Qin Mu and Yinuo finally came to their senses, looking at Lin Qi with fear.
They had not known the cause of Bert’s death before.
But now that Lin Qi had alone killed a dozen-plus people from Earth Star Pharmaceuticals, if they still did not understand what had happened, they would truly be fools.
“Hall Master Lin, are you determined to fight Earth Star Pharmaceuticals to the death?” Yinuo looked at Lin Qi, her eyes full of shock and confusion.
She did not know exactly how strong Earth Star Pharmaceuticals was, but from the attitudes of the City Lord and Domain City, she understood that Earth Star Pharmaceuticals was an absolute colossus. Even Domain City likely had to give them some face.
The earlier annihilation of over a hundred bone forging realm experts from Earth Star Pharmaceuticals, though their own fault, was enough to enrage them.
Now Lin Qi had killed Bert and the rest. Bert especially was a blood condensation realm master, a combat force extremely important even to Domain City. If Earth Star Pharmaceuticals could tolerate this, that would be unbelievable.
As for trying to conceal the news, that was simply impossible.
As an outsider blood condensation realm master, Bert’s every move was monitored by Domain City. Even if he came to Chiyue Town without Domain City experts openly accompanying him, there were still covert monitors. Moreover, Bert and the others had come so ostentatiously that their deaths could not possibly be hidden.
Qin Mu by the side also nodded, feeling that Lin Qi’s actions were utterly insane.
The Obsidian Martial Arts Hall was indeed powerful now and could even defeat the army of Star Tower City, but Earth Star Pharmaceuticals was on another level entirely.
Earth Star Pharmaceuticals could easily send some blood condensation realm masters to wipe out the current Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
“From the moment they dared to seize our people from Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, we were already in a fight to the death,” Lin Qi replied indifferently. “If they dare to come again, I do not mind making them bleed more.”
With that, Lin Qi walked over to the fallen third-tier battle saber Ice Shatter, picked it up, and put it away, as if killing Bert and the others just now had been a trivial matter.
Perhaps Earth Star Pharmaceuticals was powerful, but with more and more players advancing to the bone forging realm, he truly did not fear them. After all, spreading news took time. The headquarters of Earth Star Pharmaceuticals was in the Tianhe Region; even if they sent people, the number would be limited. By the time he entered Wushan Prison this time, who would be stronger or weaker was still uncertain.
While Lin Qi instructed Qin Mu to repair the Cultivation Tower and calmly waited for Wushan Prison to open, Precia, who had been resting in the City of Light Chasing, received a report from her subordinates.
“What did you say? After Bert and the others entered Chiyue Town, they have not come out again in these past two days?”
