We made you practice martial arts, and you've mastered the Great Golden Body?

Chapter 192 A Massive Amount of Divine Matter

0.001th second.

Melbourne snapped out of his daze in shock. Feeling the burning power in his abdomen, he subconsciously mustered all his strength, which surged like waves, trying to push Shen Bailian away.

But it discovered that the boy was like a leech, his eyes gleaming with a deathly cold light, like brilliant stars.

Then it turned to ashes in the white light.

"Roar!!!"

Melbourne, feeling the powerful impact and the temperature of millions of degrees, roared angrily to the sky.

It couldn't understand, it just couldn't fathom how Shen Bailian dared to do such a thing. As a top martial arts prodigy, why did he not cherish his own life?

why?
why!
Next 0.001 seconds.

"Rumble--"

The sky, shrouded in thick black clouds, seemed to have been torn open, and endless light, like an angry beast suddenly breaking free of its restraints, poured down violently, enveloping everything in a blinding white light.

In the blazing white light, Melbourne's voice grew fainter and its shadows blurred until it was torn apart and completely swallowed by the intense white light, turning into ashes.

All the confusion was buried in the endless, blazing light.

Hundreds of kilometers away~
"Old Li, look! What's that?" A man with a crew cut hadn't heard the explosion yet, but the beam of light was so dazzling, even blinding, that it was millions of times brighter than the sun.

Furthermore, a towering mushroom also rose up along with it.

"It's highly likely that someone perished along with the ferocious beast." Old Li stared at the rising "sun" in the distance, his heart clenching. Although he didn't know the other person's name, he knew that the other person was definitely in grave danger.

When carrying out missions issued by the Great Xia government or participating in the Beast Tide War, you will receive a ten-cubic-meter ring issued by the Great Xia government.

Within the storage ring, depending on each mission, different supplies, cultivation resources, nutritional potions... and most importantly, a device for mutual destruction will be provided.

Yes, it's a device designed to cause mutual destruction.

There is no such thing as dying standing up, only living on your knees.

This has been the common belief of martial artists in the Great Xia Dynasty for hundreds of years, and it is also the reason why martial artists are respected by the mainstream society of the Great Xia Dynasty.

Most of the self-destructing devices are one or more simple, portable miniature nuclear fusion devices.

Once a miniature nuclear fusion device initiates its self-destruct sequence, its explosive power is equivalent to that of a small-yield hydrogen bomb.

The cost of a miniature nuclear fusion device is not considered very high in the current Great Xia Dynasty (compared to high-level cultivation resources), so some martial artists like to use such miniature nuclear fusion devices as "hand grenades".

Facing a low-yield hydrogen bomb at close range, a martial artist at the peak of the Sea Opening Realm might be lucky enough to leave behind only a skeleton.

Because within a hundred meters of the epicenter of the explosion, the air temperature can reach an astonishing several million degrees Celsius. This high temperature is enough to instantly vaporize 99.9999% of the things in the world.

Even a martial artist at the Sea Opening Realm with Force Armor cannot directly withstand this level of high temperature.

Not far away, in other directions, martial artists also noticed this spectacular scene. Subsequently, some martial artists who were not in combat immediately reported this information to the war base.

Yu Hu, stationed at the war base, will thoroughly investigate each and every one of the warriors who was attacked, and whether they need support or rescue, among other things.

It was hundreds of miles north of the explosion's epicenter.

Rumble~
One after another, towering pillars of light descended from the dark clouds. Hundreds of ferocious ape-like beasts moved with incredible speed, constantly dodging the pillars of lightning while frantically hurling boulders and heavy arrows into the sky.

Each of them was over five meters tall, with stone-gray skin and extremely sparse hair. At first glance, they looked like terrifying upright apes in their early stages of evolution.

Some of them carried sharp stone weapons, as well as spears made of ironwood.

Some ape-like ferocious beasts used whatever materials were available, constantly picking up huge rocks from the surrounding area and launching them at Yuwen Changkong like cannonballs.

however.

All of this was before Yuwen Changkong, who possessed the advantages of favorable timing (thick dark clouds filled the sky), advantageous location (he was in the wilderness after the hydrogen bomb explosion, with no obstacles to hide from), and popular support (the Thunder Pearl).

They were all like ants.

"Thunder!"

A thunderous roar echoed across the wilderness, instantly resonating with the thick black clouds in the sky, which turned grayish-white. Blinding lightning bolts exploded in the dim wilderness.

Strands of blue lightning, like nimble serpents, tore through the shackles of night, dancing and swirling in the air, relentlessly attacking the ape-like beasts below.
At this moment, with the help of the power of heaven and earth, Yuwen Changkong was fully qualified to fight against a martial artist in the early stage of the Sea Opening Realm, let alone these ferocious beasts whose strength was only at the late stage of the second tier.

Any ferocious beast that dares to cross the line will suffer a fatal blow; even if it doesn't cross the line, it can only delay the blow by a few seconds.

In less than a minute, half of the original hundreds of ape-like beasts, especially the weaker ones, were completely reduced to ashes by the thunder's fury.

Another part turned into charcoal, emitting an extremely unpleasant odor that mixed with the smell of rainwater, permeating the air.

"hu~hu~"

The air was filled with Yuwen Changkong's heavy and rapid breathing. His face, which was usually ruddy from his youthful vigor, suddenly turned deathly pale, as if struck by the frost of winter.

His chest heaved violently, and his body temperature had reached nearly 100 degrees Celsius, as if he were about to explode at any moment. The sweat that had just appeared was almost instantly evaporated, leaving only streaks of white marks.

"Look...it seems that this Thunderous Strike cannot be used reliably before advancing to the Sea Opening Realm." Yuwen Changkong's consciousness sank into every inch of his body.

He felt as if his body was a live volcano, ready to erupt at any moment, and his temperature began to slowly decrease with each breath.

Yuwen Changkong stood silently in the sky, breathing softly as he recovered.

Because of the nuclear explosion, the ground below had an extremely high iron content, and his body naturally floated in mid-air under the influence of electromagnetic force.

As for various treatment medications?

At this moment, Yuwen Changkong absolutely dared not use it, as it would be tantamount to pouring a bottle of water onto a blazing fire, and the resulting violent reaction would surely damage his body.

Unless there is a particularly mild treatment.

However, such high-level restorative elixirs are not included in the standard configuration. In order to enable Yuwen Changkong to effectively train his combat skills, Lei Zhentian has temporarily confiscated his original storage ring.

After a while.

"Glug~" Yuwen Changkong took out two high-grade second-tier nutritional potions from his storage ring and drank them down in one gulp. *Buzz~*
In just a moment, the extremely pure nutritional medicine, before even reaching the stomach, transformed into abundant energy. It gradually permeated the limbs and bones through the capillaries in the esophagus with the flow of blood, and heat burst forth from every pore.

However, this heat is a harmless, gentle warmth.

however.

Just as he was enjoying himself immensely, Yuwen Changkong's ears twitched slightly; he seemed to have heard something strange.

"Crackling..."

In an instant, Yuwen Changkong's bones and muscles throbbed, his strength surged, his nano-suit covered his entire body, and his eyes emitted dazzling electric light, as bright as stars, as he suddenly rose into the sky.

Combat stance.

The next moment, Yuwen Changkong realized that he had been overthinking things.

"call--"

A strong wind howled, and the shockwave from the hydrogen bomb explosion instantly caused a gale of level 18, constantly whistling through the canyon formed by the explosion, making a roar that would terrify ordinary people.

An extremely oppressive atmosphere filled the air, and the ferocious beasts around them took advantage of the moment when the "Thor" in the sky was stunned to flee in all directions.

"That direction?" Yuwen Changkong disarmed himself and stood firm as a mountain amidst the raging storm brought by the powerful shockwave.

He stared intently at the direction in which the miniature nuclear fusion device had been detonated, "tick-tock~ tick-tock~", and ripples of emotion stirred within him.

Because Yuwen Changkong felt a strange sense of familiarity with that direction. He lowered his head and pondered for a moment, then thought to himself, "Hiss~, I remember now, Shen Bailian seemed to have explored that direction before."

"Moreover," Yuwen Changkong frowned slightly and said with a puzzled look, "what's even stranger is that after the explosion, the feeling of panic in my heart seemed to gradually subside."

"Could it be that the formidable enemy I'm facing was severely injured, or even killed, in that explosion?"

A sudden urge is a special kind of early warning among martial artists. It is a kind of advance warning of future danger after the body and mind have become strong to a certain extent.

Just over ten minutes earlier, while Yuwen Changkong was in the middle of a battle, his heart inexplicably began to beat rapidly, and he felt a sharp pain between his eyebrows, as if he were shrouded in the shadow of death.

Since he didn't know which direction the danger would come from, he could only contact several seniors in the mid-stage of the Sea Opening Realm nearby in advance to lie in ambush not far away.

In case of danger, the nearest mid-stage Sea Opening Realm martial artist can arrive at his location in less than ten seconds. Coupled with the various weapons and equipment in his storage ring, as well as the Thunder Pearl, he can be considered completely safe.

"Thank you for your trouble, seniors. My master will repay you handsomely once we get out," Yuwen Changkong said softly after gazing at them for a moment.

Three martial artists at the mid-stage of the Sea Opening Realm, several miles away, exchanged glances for a moment upon seeing this. Then one of them immediately reacted and replied with a smile, "It's nothing, it's nothing. There's no need for a generous thank you. It was just a small favor, nothing to mention."

“Yes, it’s nothing, just a small matter. Young friend, there’s no need to thank me, Sun Dazhuang,” another martial artist immediately added.

However, he made a point of mentioning his own name in his words.

“That’s right. As martial artists of the Great Xia Dynasty, it’s only right that we help each other. I, Gu Xinjiang, am duty-bound to do this. Just let me know if anything else comes up.” The last martial artist followed suit and absorbed the essence of the two.

After saying this, the three of them fell silent and left satisfied.

What a beautiful thing this is.

He did nothing but come over to help with the ambush for a few minutes, and he already had the opportunity to make contact with a future Moon Embracing Realm expert.

If this isn't a good thing, what is?

Two days later~
In the treasure land where Shen Bailian was before.

The dense fog that originally enveloped the core area has now thinned out considerably. Although it still serves to obscure visibility, its power is much weaker than before.

Furthermore, in the mountains and forests, there were almost no ferocious beasts to be seen, and not even the chirping of insects or the singing of birds could be heard; it was eerily quiet.

In the thick fog of the core area, in front of a nearly 90-degree cliff overlooking the central lake, there are several enormous mounds of heads made up of hundreds of ferocious beasts.

Before they died, each of the ferocious beasts had their pupils wide open, and one could see emotions such as fear, trembling, resentment, and confusion in those pupils of different sizes and shapes.

Some ferocious beasts seemed to have experienced some terrible torment before their death, while others, in a daze, unknowingly embarked on the road to the underworld.

This was Shen Bailian's revenge against the ferocious beasts that had attacked him before.

Rumble~Rumble~
Not far from those mounds of Jing, in the center of the lake, came a series of terrifying roars, like the panting of a monstrous beast, each tremor seemingly causing the surrounding air to resonate.

Shen Bailian was completely enveloped in the Force Armor. Thanks to his fourth-level mastery of martial arts, even while in a cultivation state, he could maintain the state of walking on water by extracting even a sliver of his mental energy.

He held a second-tier Star Crystal in each hand, completely calming his mind and immersing himself in cultivation. His powerful mental energy continuously guided the primordial energy within the Star Crystals into his body.

Furthermore, within this swirling primordial energy of heaven and earth, there was also a trace of extremely faint yet incredibly powerful stellar energy, which slightly increased the boy's weight.

Speed ​​is mass.

But quality is quality, and it doesn't need any conversion.

at the same time.

[Congratulations! Your Five Elements Breathing Technique skill has been upgraded. Experience points +5]

Congratulations! Your character level experience has increased by 5.

[Congratulations, your divine matter has been upgraded, divine matter +1]

Congratulations! Your Iron Body skill has been upgraded. Experience points +1

[Congratulations, your divine matter has been upgraded, divine matter +1]

【…】

[Divine Matter: 839]

Every so often, a notification message would pop up on Shen Bailian's panel, and every few minutes or ten minutes or so, the divine matter would increase by 1.

There is no sign of it slowing down.

(End of this chapter)