Chapter 289: Unlocking Pay-to-win In This Game Takes Real Talent!
City of Light Chasing, Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
In the quiet intermediate gravity room, Lin Qi listened to Yinuo, this Extreme Advanced Level Bone Forging Realm martial artist, giving her report while cultivating the second level of the Body Strengthening Secret Technique.
“Hall master, this is all the information about the hall during this period.” Yinuo finished reading all the messages in her hand and looked at Lin Qi with great respect, her eyes filled with indescribable shock.
Since she joined Obsidian Martial Arts Hall in Chiyue Town and took over the hall’s daily statistics, while also being responsible for the management of the Cultivation Tower and the gravity rooms, she had usually been qualified to enter the intermediate gravity room to cultivate.
However, the optimal gravity she could withstand for cultivation was a thirtyfold gravity environment. Even the Martial Artist Association could not provide such a training environment; the foundation of Obsidian Martial Arts Hall was completely beyond her imagination.
At this moment, Lin Qi had adjusted the room to one hundred times gravity. In such a gravity environment, let alone cultivate, it would be difficult for her even to move, yet one hundred times gravity was only Lin Qi’s normal cultivation environment.
If all the major powers had confirmed that Lin Qi had indeed entered Wushan Prison, she would have suspected that Lin Qi had already reached the Blood Condensation Realm, and not just an ordinary Blood Condensing Realm master.
“Mm, not bad. It seems the hall has developed very fast during this period.” Lin Qi stopped cultivating and nodded.
In the three days he was away, not only had the number of players increased by another three hundred, but with the hall’s cultivation equipment, the number of player martial artists had broken through to 1,Among them, the number of advanced martial artists had surpassed eight hundred.
During this period, many players in the prison had gained new insights through actual combat, improving their control over their bodies and internal force. The number of Bone Forging Realm martial artists had also exceeded twenty, fulfilling the first condition for upgrading administrator permissions.
As for Chiyue Town, during this time, because of the Cultivation Tower, the number of wilderness nomads and even family disciples from other cities coming for Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had surged. Now the number of hall disciples had exceeded five hundred thousand, only half short of one million.
Among them, more than three thousand disciples had reached martial artist level in strength. Those who had reached the Bone Forging Realm, plus Yinuo, numbered as many as fifteen.
These Bone Forging Realm martial artists who had joined Obsidian Martial Arts Hall halfway were now all under Yinuo’s unified management. They were usually responsible for guarding the Cultivation Tower and the gravity rooms to prevent disciples or outsiders from causing trouble. After all, the Cultivation Tower and gravity rooms were so popular that demand far exceeded supply. Without sufficient strength, there was no way to manage them. Qin Mu was specifically responsible for training the Martial Arts Hall Guard Corps and cultivating the core members of the hall.
“The hall can develop this fast all because our cultivation conditions are good.” Yinuo looked at the satisfied Lin Qi and spoke with slight concern. “Hall master, because Chiyue Town is going to hold an auction, quite a few Bone Forging Realm experts have already arrived in town today. Members of major powers from the Wushan Region will likely come one after another. With the hall’s current strength, those Organ Refining Realm martial artists are not a problem, but for Bone Forging Realm level martial artists, I’m afraid it will be very hard for just us to manage them.”
Fast development of the hall was naturally a good thing, especially the growth of Chiyue Town, which was changing practically every day. She had never seen a town develop so fast.
Even just counting Chiyue Town’s current combat strength, without adding the grey-robed disciples of the hall, it was not inferior to the regular garrison of an ordinary city.
But for Chiyue Town, which was going to hold an auction, this level of strength was still stretched thin, let alone when the auction actually began.
When she herself received this news, she was shocked and could not understand what this hall master Lin Qi was thinking.
“Don’t worry, when the time comes I will have the hall disciples help maintain public order in Chiyue Town.” Lin Qi smiled, took out a large sausage, and handed it directly to Yinuo. “You have been stuck at the Extreme Advanced Level Bone Forging Realm for quite some time. This thing can help you quickly learn cultivation methods. Later I will also give you a Blood Condensation Realm cultivation method. With the Cultivation Tower, it should not be difficult for you to break through to the Blood Condensation Realm using that method.”
“Break through to the Blood Condensation Realm? Me?” Yinuo looked at the Magical Large Sausage in her hand, then looked at Lin Qi in astonishment.
She had only joined Obsidian Martial Arts Hall a few days ago. Although she joined precisely to break through to the level of a city lord and had been mentally prepared to work hard in the hall for more than ten years,
she had not expected Lin Qi to give her a chance to break through to the Blood Condensation Realm so soon. It was like a dream.
“Mm, but I cannot guarantee that you can break through to the Blood Condensation Realm. That still depends on you.” Lin Qi nodded. “If you succeed, then the public order of Chiyue Town will be placed under your unified management.”
Currently, the native combat strength within Obsidian Martial Arts Hall was far too low. Although the guard corps they had established was doing its best to cultivate and recruit talent, that would require a lot of time and could not be achieved overnight.
Among the people he could use, apart from Meng Wei and Qin Mu, there was also Wu Zhuoqun, who had not been in the hall for long, the former leader from the City of Light Chasing, just like Yinuo.
The strength of the first three was insufficient. Even if he gave all the Magical Large Sausages drawn from the advanced roulette rewards to one person during this period, it would still be impossible for them to quickly reach advanced Bone Forging Realm, let alone the Blood Condensation Realm.
Now, due to the upcoming auction in Chiyue Town, more and more Bone Forging Realm experts were coming. While players who had reached advanced martial artist level could handle these Bone Forging Realm opponents through their transformations, that was not a long-term solution. He still needed Blood Condensation Realm masters to support the situation, and Yinuo was undoubtedly the best choice.
As for his daring to host an auction of guard robots in Chiyue Town, it was no impulsive arrogance but something he had no choice but to do.
By analyzing the twenty guard robots, he had become very clear that obtaining cultivation methods above the Blood Condensation Realm was extremely difficult. Even Blood Condensation Realm cultivation methods were not easy to acquire.
In just three days, the proficiency of the three cultivation methods he had extracted from the players had already reached over 70 percent entry-level. Very soon, the three methods would reach proficient level, and he was confident he could attempt to impact advanced Bone Forging Realm within five days.
After all, in three days, his physical fitness, aided by Type Three Energy Potions and the rich energy in the prison, had nearly reached intermediate Bone Forging Realm. Only the proficiency of the three cultivation methods lagged somewhat. As long as one of them reached proficient level, he would already be an intermediate Bone Forging Realm martial artist.
With players going all out to capture guard robots, he had achieved such a speed of improvement. If the players later focused entirely on cultivation, his improvement would be even faster. Therefore, he had to quickly obtain at least one powerful Blood Condensation Realm cultivation method. Moreover, once he broke through to the Blood Condensation Realm, Earth Star Pharmaceuticals would probably no longer be able to do anything to him.
However, trying to buy a Blood Condensation Realm cultivation method through normal means was impossible. These were the foundations of the major powers and would not be casually put up for sale. The guard robots in his hands were actually of limited use to him. He had originally planned to simply throw them into the prison, but the major powers treated guard robots as treasured assets. This was precisely his best opportunity to collect a large number of cultivation methods.
Although he also wanted to exchange for powerful martial skills, the major powers would not necessarily sell those. After all, every major power already had cultivation methods, and no matter how one cultivated them, they only went up to initial or intermediate Blood Condensation Realm, with a very rigid ceiling. Even after reaching the Blood Condensation Realm, one still needed a large amount of energy and essence blood to continue cultivating. Martial skills were different. Even Bone Forging Realm martial artists could learn Sequence Transcendent Martial Skills or even Limit Breaking Level Martial Skills, allowing Blood Condensation Realm martial artists to fight across realms.
Only a fool would sell such martial skills for the sake of an uncertain guard robot inheritance.
Within five days, according to his estimate, he could at least reach the extreme of intermediate Bone Forging Realm. Then, by activating his Transcendent State, with his club and mental domain, he would be able to fight even high-level Blood Condensation Realm martial artists, not to mention that he could escape using his supersonic aerial speed and let Bone Forging Realm players wear the enemy down.
Bone Forging Realm players had managed to wear down and destroy even the physically invulnerable guard robots. He did not believe Blood Condensation Realm martial artists could outlast guard robots.
In the intermediate gravity room, after Lin Qi finished giving instructions, he sent Yinuo half of a Blood Condensation Realm cultivation method obtained from a guard robot. Yinuo, excited and clutching the Magical Large Sausage, immediately ran to a beginner meditation room to learn and cultivate, unable to wait even a moment to assault the Blood Condensation Realm.
“Next, it depends on the breakthroughs in these players’ cultivation methods.” Watching the excited Yinuo leave, Lin Qi could not help but pull up the system panel to check the players’ cultivation progress.
He had been very generous in this event, putting out a lot of contribution points with the goal of getting players to spend them on beginner meditation rooms and the Cultivation Tower to accelerate their growth.
But after checking the status of those Bone Forging Realm players, Lin Qi was stunned.
“What is going on?”
He saw that, in half a day, not only had many Bone Forging Realm players made no progress in their cultivation methods, some were even in a death state. It was as if one after another had no idea what they were doing.
Even when he checked some players who had reached advanced martial artist level, he found that some of them were also in a death state, with no improvement in their cultivation methods.
Before Lin Qi could investigate further, an earth-shattering boom suddenly rang out through the entire hall. The terrifying impact made the ground shake wildly, like an magnitude-eight earthquake, and it lasted for several seconds before stabilizing.
“Enemy attack?”
Steadying himself, Lin Qi quickly stood up, intending to go outside to see what had happened, when a system notification suddenly sounded in his mind.
System: congratulations to the host. A player has created an Extreme Super-Class Martial Skill, triggering the epic hidden task “Beyond the Extreme.” Have the players create a Limit Breaking Level Martial Skill. Reward: one perfect martial skill evolution. You may select one martial skill the host has mastered for perfect evolution, with a certain chance to evolve it into a Limit Breaking Level Martial Skill, which will naturally reach perfect level.
System: congratulations to the host for completing the second stage of the Path to the Extraordinary task. Players have created ten Supernatural Level martial skills. Reward: one super perfect martial skill fusion.
“Extreme Super-Class Martial Skill? That tremor just now, was it because of this?” Lin Qi stared at the system notification at the bottom of his vision, momentarily dazed.
He had never expected that a player could create a martial skill beyond Supernatural Level, and not only that, but at the same time complete a high-level hidden task. This truly surprised him.
A Supernatural Level martial skill was not something one could create just like that. For ten Supernatural Level martial skills, he had thought it would take months or even half a year to complete the task. After all, creating such martial skills required talent, continuous research, and testing, and very few people could do it.
Especially martial skills above Supernatural Level: even learning them required an extraordinary level of control over internal force and energy, let alone creating them.
Lin Qi immediately clicked the system panel, wanting to see who was so powerful as to create an Extreme Super-Class Martial Skill.
“Ye Qinglu?”
Looking at the name Ye Qinglu, who had created the new martial skill in the system panel, Lin Qi was quite surprised.
The Ten Heavens Thunder Fang that Ye Qinglu had previously created was already very powerful, with destructive power no weaker than those Sequence Transcendent Martial Skills in the Domain Cities. He had not expected her to so quickly create an even stronger martial skill, one that the system specifically designated as an Extreme Super-Class Martial Skill.
This made Lin Qi very curious about what level this Extreme Super-Class Martial Skill actually was.
In the hall’s intermediate training room, the entire room had turned into a ruin. Even the intermediate combat puppet had lost half its body, and the ceiling and walls of the training room were completely gone. Only Ye Qinglu remained, her face as pale as snow, blood flowing from her seven orifices, surrounded by long swords scattered all over the floor.
“It worked! I finally mastered the Heavenly Cycle Sword Formation!” Ye Qinglu looked at the three hundred long swords lying on the ground, her eyes full of excitement. “As expected of the hall’s advanced meditation technique. If I can reach proficient level and master the Thousand Sword Diagram, that should not be a problem either.”
While Ye Qinglu was immersed in wild joy, the players watching outside the intermediate training room were in an uproar.
“So this is the enhancement from mastering the Shocking God Meditation Technique?” Yi Ye Fu Yun stared at the destroyed intermediate training room, mouth wide open, completely in disbelief.
Previously, Ye Qinglu had already demonstrated to him the effect of mastering the Shocking God Meditation Technique: in terms of controlling long swords, with just a thought she could control three hundred of them, directly doubling her previous control count.
Everyone who saw it was shocked by the effects of the Shocking God Meditation Technique.
Although they had long known that an advanced meditation technique would significantly improve players, they had not expected such a huge boost. Calling it a boost was not even accurate; it was an epic-level enhancement for the control system.
Now, after cultivating for only half a day, Ye Qinglu had taken down an intermediate combat puppet in one move. Her combat power was simply defying the heavens.
“What the hell is this advanced meditation technique? I’ve been cultivating for half a day and still haven’t reached entry-level. Why does her head explode the moment she starts, while no matter how I cultivate, I can’t blow mine up?”
“This game is truly the most insane I’ve ever seen. Other games beg players to spend money, but in this game, if you want to spend money, you still need talent…”
“Can someone teach me how to make my head explode? I’ll pay ten million credit points!”
The players watching Ye Qinglu in the hall were full of envy. Since learning the Shocking God Meditation Technique, her head had exploded four times in total, the highest number among everyone who had learned it.
And with only four explosions, she had become this strong, making the few advanced and intermediate martial artists who had learned it wish their heads would explode a few more times so they could quickly catch up with the first-tier players.
“Your head explodes and you get stronger? What kind of nonsense is this?”
From a distance, Lin Qi, who was observing, listened to the players’ discussion and was utterly confused. He did not remember ever teaching the players such a meditation technique.
He immediately opened the system panel and used his last extraction attempt for the day on Ye Qinglu, directly extracting the Shocking God Meditation Technique to see what was going on.
