Chapter 285: Transcendent-grade Martial Arts And Starry Sky Powerhouses
Wushan Prison, lower level.
In the shaded courtyard, Xie Feina held an instrument the size of a football. After spending more than an hour, a faint smile could not help but appear at the corner of her mouth, and even her light golden eyes were filled with barely concealed excitement.
“Senior sister, how is the analysis? Is there recorded inheritance inside?” Precia looked at Xie Feina, a trace of excitement also in her beautiful eyes.
Although according to their agreement, the stored data of the other five prisoners had nothing to do with her, she could share the stored data of the solitary prisoner.
And as someone above the Blood Condensation Realm, if this solitary prisoner had stored any cultivation methods or martial skills in the guard robot, they would be an extraordinary help to her.
“There is no inheritance stored inside.” Xie Feina shook her head, but the smile at the corner of her mouth did not fade. Instead, she said happily, “But he recorded a lot of combat information, especially his battles with some opponents during his lifetime. The records start from the Bone Forging Realm and continue all the way until after his death, very detailed.”
“All the battle records from the Bone Forging Realm up to above Blood Condensation?” Precia was stunned when she heard this.
If anything in Wushan Prison was the most precious, it would be the inheritance of this demigod civilization. Yet even though Mist Mountain Domain City had explored Wushan Prison for over a hundred years, they had never obtained a complete inheritance, only various combat records.
Normally, the combat data obtained in the prison was scattered and fragmented, every recorded battle from different people. The martial skills and fighting styles they used were all different, making it extremely difficult to study and reference.
But the combat records stored by this solitary prisoner ran from the Bone Forging Realm all the way to above the Blood Condensation Realm, and all of it was this prisoner’s own combat data. One could say this kind of combat record was probably no less valuable than a complete inheritance.
“Mm. Just relying on this set of combat data, I am thirty to forty percent confident I can learn that Limit Breaking Level Martial Skill he mastered.” Xie Feina nodded, her excitement impossible to calm. She felt that coming into Wushan Prison this time was truly worth it.
The martial skill mastered by the solitary prisoner far surpassed Supernatural Level Martial Skills. According to the Domain City’s classification, it should belong to Limit Breaking Level Martial Skills, techniques that completely surpassed biological limits in their outburst.
Even in the Domain City, such skills were extremely rare. Only elders and above in the city were qualified to have a chance to learn them; others should not even think about it, because this was the Domain City’s foundation and core.
If a Blood Condensation Realm master could master such a Limit Breaking Level Martial Skill, they could fight across realms and contend with experts above the Blood Condensation Realm.
As an advanced student of the Domain City, if she wanted to learn such skills, her only option was to obtain them by entering Wushan Prison. There was no other way.
And the solitary prisoner did not disappoint her. He had actually hidden such complete combat records.
“Only battle records of the Limit Breaking Level Martial Skill, no inheritance?” Lin Qi beside them felt slightly disappointed when he heard this.
Limit Breaking Level Martial Skills were indeed what he wanted. After all, these skills were far stronger than Sequence Extraordinary Level Martial Skills. This was obvious just from watching players fight the guard robots, and that was with mechanical bodies, unable to bring out the true power of Limit Breaking Level Martial Skills.
Once martial skills reached the Supernatural Level, they were no longer simply about the use of the body, but more about pushing the qi and blood and energy of the body to their extremes.
And those Supernatural Level Martial Skills ranked in the sequences of each domain were all techniques that used qi and blood and energy to an ultimate degree.
According to the information about Wushan Prison given to him by the City Lord and Xie Feina, the martial skills mastered by the Star Energy Civilization could break through the limits of qi and blood and energy utilization, and were called Limit Breaking Level Martial Skills.
But for what he wanted, players had to be able to learn them so that he could extract the memory inheritance. Purely video battle records were completely useless. Only martial skill inheritances recorded specifically for learning could be extracted for players.
So the data Xie Feina had just analyzed was of no value to him personally. At most, he could let players watch it to perhaps increase the chance of players creating stronger martial skills.
Although Lin Qi was disappointed, Xie Feina and Precia were very satisfied. Xie Feina in particular could not wait to analyze the next guard robot.
But the very next analysis left Xie Feina speechless.
They were all prisoners locked in the same prison, yet the difference between them was enormous.
The solitary prisoner had directly recorded detailed combat data from before his death, from the Bone Forging Realm to above the Blood Condensation Realm, and had even made many summaries. But the second prisoner had very little useful data stored in the guard robot. Some recorded combat information was not even his own, but scattered fights between Blood Condensation Realm masters.
The third guard robot was the same, with only a few more battle records above Blood Condensation compared to the first solitary prisoner, but still far inferior.
The fourth guard robot gave Xie Feina a bit of comfort. Besides battle records at the Blood Condensation Realm, it also rarely contained recorded inheritance. However, this Blood Condensation Realm inheritance was only graphical content and incomplete, yet it still made Xie Feina very happy.
Watching the delighted Xie Feina, Lin Qi, who had also finished viewing the stored data, glanced at her in surprise, not understanding why she was so pleased.
The recorded Blood Condensation Realm cultivation method in the stored data was only a little more than half, enough to cultivate only to the initial stage of the Blood Condensation Realm, with no way to continue afterward.
As if seeing through Lin Qi’s thoughts, Xie Feina explained with a smile, “Hall Master Lin may not understand. Our Mist Mountain Domain City is not short of Blood Condensation Realm cultivation methods, but all of our methods are at the intermediate level. We do not have a single advanced or super level Blood Condensation Realm cultivation method. Yet the cultivation methods in the prison are generally advanced level or above. Even just half of one is worth a fortune and can lay a very solid foundation after advancing to the Blood Condensation Realm.”
“Senior sister is right,” Precia said with great envy. “Although the Domain City also has Heavenly Human Realm cultivation methods above Blood Condensation, it only has early Heavenly Human Realm methods. In terms of building a foundation, they are actually about the same as intermediate-level Blood Condensation Realm methods when one is at the Blood Condensation Realm. For cultivation methods above high-level Blood Condensation, even if only half, many factions would exchange a complete intermediate-level Blood Condensation method without hesitation. Some top major powers might even be willing to trade early Heavenly Human Realm cultivation methods for them.”
Right now she cultivated the early Heavenly Human Realm method given by her teacher, but if possible, she would gladly cultivate even half of a high-level Blood Condensation Realm cultivation method. After cultivating to the initial stage of the Blood Condensation Realm, she could simply switch to another method. It would not hinder her from impacting the Heavenly Human Realm; instead, it would significantly help her impact that realm.
“Top major powers would even trade Heavenly Human Realm cultivation methods?” Lin Qi’s eyes lit up. He felt this was a business worth doing.
Compared to half of a high-level Blood Condensation Realm cultivation method, he wanted complete Heavenly Human Realm cultivation methods more, and the more the better.
For other factions, early Heavenly Human Realm methods might not be of great use, but for him, as long as he had enough early Heavenly Human Realm methods, he could fuse them into higher-level cultivation methods.
“If Hall Master Lin is willing, I can offer one Heavenly Human Realm cultivation method in exchange for this prisoner’s half cultivation method. How about it?” Precia made an active proposal when she saw Lin Qi’s interest.
“You have a Heavenly Human Realm cultivation method?” Lin Qi looked at Precia full of surprise.
A Heavenly Human Realm cultivation method was something even the City Lords of the major cities in the Wushan Region did not dare to dream of. Even an early Heavenly Human Realm method was an excellent thing that could allow martial artists to impact the Heavenly Human Realm.
When he had players explore the Emerald Sky mobile city, all they had obtained were more than a dozen incomplete Bone Forging Realm cultivation methods. One could imagine how precious cultivation methods above the Bone Forging Realm were, let alone those of the Heavenly Human Realm.
“I obtained this by chance in a wild ruin. Although it is the weakest of the Heavenly Human Realm methods, it is still an early Heavenly Human Realm cultivation method. If Hall Master Lin is willing to trade, I can send it to you right now,” Precia nodded without any hesitation.
“No problem.” Lin Qi agreed without a second thought.
For him, breaking through realms was far more important than building foundations. If he could directly obtain a Heavenly Human Realm cultivation method, this trip to Wushan Prison would be more than worth it.
“Alright, I will send it to you now.” Seeing Lin Qi agree, Precia was overjoyed. She quickly tapped her smart watch and sent a complete Heavenly Human Realm cultivation method to Lin Qi, afraid he might change his mind.
After Lin Qi roughly read through the Heavenly Human Realm cultivation method, he could not help but suck in a breath.
“So this is a Heavenly Human Realm cultivation method?”
Looking at the introduction, Lin Qi felt it was basically a huge pit.
To advance from the Bone Forging Realm to the Blood Condensation Realm, one tempered all the bones again and again until the blood underwent a qualitative change. To advance from the Blood Condensation Realm to the Heavenly Human Realm, one used the condensed blood to repeatedly temper and develop the brain until its development reached one hundred percent, achieving the Heavenly Human Realm.
At that point one would possess abilities far beyond ordinary people, virtually a different class of life.
But advancing all the way from the Blood Condensation Realm to the Heavenly Human Realm was not easy. It required external items, or rather high-density energy, something with a higher energy density than Energy Crystals, otherwise it could not assist the blood in tempering the brain.
Without this, one would be stuck at the initial stage of the Blood Condensation Realm.
Among the things he knew that had higher energy density than Energy Crystals, there was only one: Energy Blood Essence, created through energy compression technology using Energy Crystals. The value of a single unit exceeded a thousand Energy Crystals.
The City of Light Chasing produced it, and as Vice City Lord he knew that twelve units could be produced each year. This was also what every city in the domain was required to hand over annually to the Domain City: ten units, with the remaining two belonging to the City Lord personally.
After becoming Vice City Lord, he had wondered why the City of Light Chasing produced this stuff. Half of the city’s electricity, half of the output of its energy mines, and over a million people were invested into this.
If all that were used for city development, the City of Light Chasing would definitely be far more prosperous.
But after reading the Heavenly Human Realm cultivation method, he completely understood.
Once one achieved the Blood Condensation Realm, further improvement required Energy Blood Essence. Without it, it was impossible to advance within that realm. No wonder that once a Bone Forging Realm martial artist broke through to the Blood Condensation Realm, he immediately wanted to become a City Lord. This was why a city would never have two Blood Condensation Realm martial artists.
In a city with a population of over ten million and with a large energy vein, only twelve units of Energy Blood Essence could be produced a year. Without a city’s entire foundation, one could forget about Energy Blood Essence.
And the ten units of Energy Blood Essence each city paid yearly were essentially protection fees for the Domain City, not charity.
“Hall Master Lin, do you regret it?” Xie Feina could not help but laugh as she looked at Lin Qi’s slightly darkened expression.
Heavenly Human Realm cultivation methods were extremely precious, but in essence no different from intermediate-level Blood Condensation methods. Without something as precious as Energy Blood Essence, no one could obtain further improvement.
High-level and above Blood Condensation cultivation methods were different. Although they also required scientific products like Energy Blood Essence, compared to intermediate-level methods they consumed far less Energy Blood Essence and made the blood’s energy density much higher, greatly assisting in breaking through brain development bottlenecks.
This was why all the major factions in the Four Regions were willing to trade even Heavenly Human Realm methods for such techniques.
“It is not about regret.” Lin Qi shook his head and smiled. “I am just surprised. I did not expect that after cultivating to the Blood Condensation Realm, one would still need an external item like Energy Blood Essence.”
If things were as stated in the Heavenly Human Realm cultivation method Precia provided, then his future development plan would have to change.
Leaving aside the technology to create Energy Blood Essence, simply growing the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall in Chiyue Town alone would be far from enough. He would have to seize more large energy veins to earn more Energy Crystals, and also establish more cities in the Mountain of the Dead or other areas outside the Domain City’s control.
Otherwise, with only two units of Energy Blood Essence a year from one city, there would not be enough for the players to cultivate, let alone for him alone.
After Xie Feina finished analyzing all six guard robots, only the fourth one had given her a great surprise. The others had nothing unexpected, just some combat data.
By the time the three-day visitation period was about to end, the 197 players who had entered the lower level did not disappoint Lin Qi. They had captured a total of twenty guard robots, two more than his original estimate of eighteen.
“The nineteenth already. As expected, good stuff is too hard to get.” Lin Qi looked at the analysis instrument in his hand, then glanced at the last unparsed guard robot lying on the ground, and began the analysis again.
He continued until the analysis completed.
When the analysis instrument beeped, Lin Qi carefully opened the stored data of the last guard robot.
There was very little data, only three videos.
The first combat video showed a battle in cosmic space, in first person. Two people who could survive in the vacuum with their bodies were fighting beside a star. The shockwaves from their battle completely pulverized the surrounding asteroid belt.
“What is going on?”
“Starry Sky experts?”
Watching the analyzed footage, Lin Qi was stunned. He had never imagined a martial artist could be so powerful. The shockwaves from their fists and kicks alone could shatter an asteroid belt thousands of kilometers around. Such strength was unbelievable.
But the video was very short, less than a minute. Even so, the two sides exchanged blows tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of times, far too fast to follow, only countless points of light interweaving.
Lin Qi then clicked on the second video, wanting to see what else this prisoner had recorded.
