Chapter 324: Power Skyrockets
Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, inside the lounge.
Lu Fanchen and Li Tianxing both looked at Lin Xinyao, who had just drunk the golden blood, and could not help feeling a little nervous.
They had tried the blood of powerful monsters before, but this was their first time trying the blood of a powerful NPC, and they were very curious what effect such blood might have.
However, after Lin Xinyao drank a drop of golden blood, nothing happened like everyone had imagined. Instead, she looked perfectly fine and just sat there quietly, without any reaction at all.
“No effect?”
Lin Xinyao moved her body a little, somewhat stunned.
Back then, just one mouthful of Two-Horned Leopard blood allowed her to immediately feel an indescribable energy spreading through her whole body, but now, after drinking golden blood, she did not feel a trace of energy, not even as much as from eating a piece of ordinary monster meat.
“Could it be not enough?” Li Tianxing looked at Lin Xinyao and analyzed, “Back then when we drank monster blood, we drank mouthful after mouthful. Now it is just a single drop, so we do not feel much.”
“One drop is not enough?” Lin Xinyao thought it over. It was indeed possible.
“That should not be a problem of quantity.” The thoughtful Lu Fanchen shook his head, then carefully observed Lin Xinyao and said seriously, “Try entering your transcendent state.”
“Okay.” Lin Xinyao did not hesitate and immediately activated her transcendent state.
Boom!
The moment Lin Xinyao entered her transcendent state, her whole body swelled by a size, her skin flushed red, and all her veins bulged out. The energy surrounding her body expanded to more than ten times its original level, filling most of the lounge and forcing Lu Fanchen and Li Tianxing, both at the Bone Forging Realm intermediate level, to be pushed back to the wall.
“So strong!” Li Tianxing looked at Lin Xinyao at this moment, filled with shock.
In the past, when Lin Xinyao entered her transcendent state, she was indeed powerful, and her physical fitness surpassed even the initial stage of the Blood Condensation Realm, but now, with her body expanded to three to four meters tall, it was no longer just powerful physical fitness. The energy throughout her whole body had increased more than tenfold. It was simply unbelievable.
This level of energy, without exaggeration, had probably completely surpassed the Blood Condensation Realm.
But before Lin Xinyao could say anything, her whole body suddenly exploded. Blood splattered across the room, and only a drop of golden blood slowly fell to the ground at the center, as if nothing had happened.
“This…” Li Tianxing looked at the exploded Lin Xinyao and could not help turning to Lu Fanchen. “Vice President, what is going on? Why did this golden blood suddenly become so terrifying?”
Just a single drop had directly blown apart Lin Xinyao in her transcendent state. Such energy was incredible, yet he could not sense it at all, even now.
“Just as I guessed.” Lu Fanchen looked at the exploded Lin Xinyao, his face showing delight. “I found it strange before. For such a powerful NPC, even a single drop of blood should be extraordinary, yet we could not feel anything. The only possibility is that the gap in level is too great, no longer in the same dimension, so we cannot sense it. Now that Xinyao has stepped into supernatural life, her life level has improved, so she can sense some of the energy and thus make use of it.”
After hearing this, Li Tianxing suddenly understood.
The gap in life level was too great, just like how a 2D creature could not understand a 3D creature. The power a 3D creature grasped could not be understood by a 2D creature, let alone being observed or used. That was why they had never been able to feel the power within the golden blood, and did not even know how strong that female NPC really was. All they had was an inexplicable sense of fear.
“However, the power of this drop of blood is still far beyond my expectations. Next, it depends on how we can better use the energy contained in the blood while in our transcendent state.” Lu Fanchen spoke with a bit of a headache.
In the transcendent state, he was already not very good at controlling his body, and his mind needed to divert a lot of effort just to maintain it. Trying to use the energy in the golden blood would undoubtedly increase the difficulty greatly.
“Vice President, how about we use all of it to improve the Body Strengthening Secret Technique?” Li Tianxing suggested. “The energy in this drop of blood is astonishing. It is perfect for testing and can help us perfect the cell framework faster. And every time we reconstruct the cells, it consumes a huge amount of energy. This drop is very suitable.”
“This is indeed a treasure to further perfect the transcendent body.” Lu Fanchen’s eyes lit up after hearing this. “Alright, from now on we will use all of it to improve the Body Strengthening Secret Technique.”
At present in the game, the Body Strengthening Secret Technique was already recognized as the Child of the Version. You could tell just from seeing Luo Wu Shang being able to hold back the leader of the Dragon Hunting Corps. Her defense was simply inhuman, and even a Blood Condensation Realm boss could do nothing to her in a short time.
And this was when Luo Wu Shang had not even trained the Second Level Perfection Realm. It was hard to imagine how powerful she would be after reaching Second Level Perfection, or even completing the Third Level.
However, the further one trained in the Body Strengthening Secret Technique, the harder it became.
The reason was simple. The body’s cells became too strong, making it very hard to find ways to use energy to damage them. If they could not be damaged, there was no way to adjust the fine structure of the cells to reach the ideal structure described in the Body Strengthening Secret Technique. After all, everyone’s situation was different. The secret technique provided the general ideal structure, but each person’s ideal structure still differed slightly, requiring constant trial and error.
And the golden blood could undoubtedly make up for this point very well, truly a divine item for body refinement.
Just as Li Tianxing was about to ask more, the system notification suddenly sounded in their ears, making both of them pause.
“This beginner Mental Secret Tower is insane!” Li Tianxing looked at the system’s introduction, his eyes lighting up. “If we can build one, our cultivation speed might very well double in the future!”
For players like them, the greatest obstacle to improvement used to be resources, but now it was trial-and-error time.
At the Bone Forging Realm, once they died it took more than an hour to resurrect. In other words, they could only attempt one trial every hour or so, completely different from when they were apprentices and could try again in a few minutes. Their learning speed for cultivation methods and martial skills had become much slower.
Although their mental activity had greatly surpassed their apprentice days as their strength improved, the difficulty of learning cultivation methods and martial skills was also constantly rising, resulting in much slower overall improvement.
If the resurrection time was halved, their number of daily attempts would double. Their progress in cultivation methods and martial skills would definitely be much faster.
“The game manufacturer is very generous this time. This beginner Mental Secret Tower is not only incredible for cultivation; it is also amazing for pioneering in the wilderness. Just placing one casually in the wilderness can directly double the pioneering speed.” Lu Fanchen clicked his tongue slightly after reading it. “Could it be that because the player count has skyrocketed, the game manufacturer plans to lower the game’s difficulty a bit?”
“Vice President, should we start pooling funds now to build one in our base?” Li Tianxing asked impatiently. “It will benefit other players, but if we build one at our base, then not only will our cultivation speed there double, letting us hit the Blood Condensation Realm faster, but more newcomers will want to join us.”
With doubled trial opportunities plus the Third Floor Training Room in the Cultivation Tower, breaking through to the Blood Condensation Realm in a short time was not impossible.
As long as one of them reached the Blood Condensation Realm, their entire guild would be far ahead of other guilds and teams.
The promotion condition for a Three-star Guard Regiment was having at least one Blood Condensation Realm member, and a Three-star Guard Regiment could recruit up to two thousand people, twice as many as a Two-star Guard Regiment. On top of that, it would increase the amount of martial artist resources they could Purchase in Chiyue Town, which would greatly help with Recruitment.
Right now, in the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, the amount of Martial Arts Hall Resources each player could Redeem daily or weekly depended on their hall status and was limited. If players wanted extra martial artist resources, apart from going into the wilderness themselves, they had to buy from NPCs, or rely on Guard Regiment resources that were independent of players. Although the resources exchangeable through the Guard Regiment was not large, for ordinary players having one more share of redeemable resources each day was always good.
And the resources of a Three-star Guard Regiment were 20% more than those of a Two-star Guard Regiment. That meant a player in a Three-star Guard Regiment could Redeem one extra bottle of Type 2 Energy Potion or Type Three Energy Potion each week compared to a Two-star Guard Regiment player. This was by no means a small help.
“There is no need to rush building the tower in town. That benefits all players and should be funded by everyone together, and I do not think anyone will object.” Lu Fanchen shook his head and said very calmly, “What we do need is to build a beginner Mental Secret Tower as soon as possible along the safe route in the Mountain of the Dead. That way it can serve as a temporary stronghold for our Guard Regiment, and other players will help us open up a safe route faster. As long as we can establish a safe route between the two regions ahead of other Guard Regiments, we can start trade between both regions earlier and earn more resources.”
“I will go have people prepare right away.” Li Tianxing’s eyes also lit up when he heard this, and he hurried to contact the guild members.
Even a fool could see the huge profits in trade between the two regions. If they could complete it ahead of other teams, the overall improvement speed of their team would definitely surpass that of all others by a large margin.
At the same time, it was not only Lu Fanchen who thought this way; the major teams all had the same idea.
As more and more players entered the game, resources would only become more strained. Since there were only so many resources on one map, naturally they would prioritize securing another New Map with less Competition.
So the major teams first reached a preliminary agreement to pool funds and build a beginner Mental Secret Tower in the center of Chiyue Town. As for the Mountain of the Dead, each team would build its own, since the Mountain of the Dead was too vast and there would be more than one safe route between the two regions. Rather than sharing one safe route with others, monopolizing a single safe route was obviously preferable.
For a time, whether in Chiyue Town or along the various safe routes in the Mountain of the Dead, players from the major teams were like they had been injected with chicken blood, frantically Carrying Energy Ore to construct beginner Mental Secret Towers.
Meanwhile, the usual free players also tacitly gathered around the beginner Mental Secret Towers, forming one stronghold after another in the Mountain of the Dead. Players became more and more concentrated, and their numbers grew.
From a few hundred people at the start, each stronghold gradually grew to several thousand players, putting considerable pressure on the Smiling Skull, who had been surrounding strongholds and ambushing reinforcements. They thought the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall was planning something big, pulled their lines back by dozens of kilometers, and sent out many scouts to find out what Obsidian Martial Arts Hall was up to.
In the battles in the Mountain of the Dead up to now, Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had indeed suffered heavy losses, but Smiling Skull was not unscathed either. They had still lost many Bone Forging Realm martial artists and several Blood Condensing Realm masters, and those deaths were only from battles involving a few hundred people. In a clash of several thousand, they dared not imagine how many would die.
Meanwhile, Chiyue Town was getting more and more lively. In just three days, the pooled beginner Mental Secret Tower in Chiyue Town was fully upgraded. A strange energy enveloped the entire town, making all players feel that their mental burden had suddenly been cut in half.
Inside the hall’s Intermediate Gravity Chamber.
In their transcendent state, Lu Fanchen, Li Tianxing, and Lin Xinyao were desperately holding on. Even though their bodies had expanded to more than four meters tall, they endured and continually adjusted the collapsing cells, trying to find a way for their cells to withstand more energy.
Bang!
Li Tianxing suddenly exploded on the spot, and a drop of golden blood that had been mostly consumed slowly fell to the ground.
“As expected, without reaching the Blood Condensation Realm, stepping into the Third Level is too difficult.” Lin Xinyao glanced at the exploded Li Tianxing and sighed inwardly.
During these three days, powered by the golden blood’s energy, whether it was because of that terrifying energy continually bursting their bodies or not, the physical fitness of all three of them had soared. They had all reached the Bone Forging Realm Advanced Level Limit, strengthening all their bones as if it were nothing, and their proficiency in the new cultivation methods had all exceeded 85% proficient.
However, after reaching the Second Level Perfection Realm of the Body Strengthening Secret Technique, they were completely stuck and could not achieve the Third Level Entry-level at all.
Just as Lin Xinyao felt she was about to reach her limit, Lu Fanchen’s swollen body suddenly shrank by a size. His huge figure of more than four meters instantly dropped to just over two meters tall.
Then, in the blink of an eye, Lu Fanchen’s body began to expand again, and in less than two seconds, he grew into a Giant Man nearly five meters tall.
“Vice President, you did it?”
Lin Xinyao looked at Lu Fanchen’s suddenly changing figure, her eyes full of shock.
Their cultivation of the Body Strengthening Secret Technique was all about enabling their cells to endure more energy, but the energy of the golden blood was too terrifying, forcefully inflating them until they exploded.
Now that Lu Fanchen could shrink his body, it proved that, in that instant, the maximum energy his constructed cells could bear had increased significantly, and it was only because of the golden blood that he was once again forced to expand.
Since they were all at the Body Strengthening Secret Technique’s Second Level Perfection, for his cell limit to increase so much, the only possibility she could think of was that he had completed the Third Level of the Body Strengthening Secret Technique.
“Barely succeeded.” Lu Fanchen nodded slightly, his excitement plain in his eyes.
The Third Level of the Body Strengthening Secret Technique was extremely hard to train. It was something originally meant only for Blood Condensation Realm martial artists, but with the help of the golden blood, he had still managed to achieve it.
Body Strengthening Secret Technique, Third Level Entry-level, 6%!
Although that proficiency was low, Lu Fanchen could feel that the moment he completed the Third Level, his cells had undergone a qualitative leap, far beyond what they were at the Second Level Perfection Realm.
But in the instant Lu Fanchen relaxed his mind, his body was once again blown apart by the golden blood.
At the same time that Lu Fanchen completed the Third Level of the Body Strengthening Secret Technique, Lin Qi, in the Third Floor Training Room of the Cultivation Tower, also stopped cultivating and looked at the system notification with some surprise.
System: Congratulations to the host. A player has become a complete pseudo-supernatural life form. Hidden advanced task “Life Evolution” triggered. Have ten players become complete pseudo-supernatural life forms to earn the Construction Permission for an Intermediate Cultivation Tower.
“A complete pseudo-supernatural life form? Intermediate Cultivation Tower Construction Permission?” Lin Qi stared at the system notification, full of astonishment.
He knew about extraordinary lifeforms, but what on earth was a complete pseudo-supernatural life form?
And this system reward made him suspect the system had made a mistake. Just by having ten players become complete pseudo-supernatural life forms, he could gain the Construction Permission for an Intermediate Cultivation Tower. The reward was too generous.
He had only skimmed the functions of the Intermediate Cultivation Tower without reading in detail, but even that was enough to make one’s scalp tingle.
The Beginner Cultivation Tower had three floors, while the Intermediate Cultivation Tower had five. Not only were there more training rooms, but the Energy Density would also rise sharply.
But those were minor compared to the truly terrifying part: the Intermediate Cultivation Tower had an additional hidden Function.
Energy Enhancement!
Within a fifty-kilometer radius, including the host and all players, the upper limit and strength of bodily energy would increase by 30%, and the speed of Energy Absorption would increase by 30%.
With this Function, whether for him or for the players, combat power would surge by a whole tier, roughly equivalent to boosting from Initial Stage Blood Coagulation to Blood Condensation Realm Intermediate Level energy, and from Blood Condensation Realm Intermediate Level to High-level Blood Condensation Realm.
Given the number of Viscera Refining Realm and Bone Forging Realm martial artists in the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, if the Intermediate Cultivation Tower was built, then within a fifty-kilometer radius of Chiyue Town, as long as the Heavenly Human Realm experts of the major powers did not show up, even a coalition of all forces in one region would not be able to do anything to Chiyue Town. It would practically be a town-guarding Divine Weapon.
“But what exactly is this complete pseudo-supernatural life form?”
Lin Qi calmed his mind, then opened the system’s player tab, wanting to see how powerful this complete pseudo-supernatural life form was, that it could make the system offer such a generous reward.
