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

"Are you sure? If we open the portal now, the randomness is too great. If... it will add many unpredictable surprises to your plans."

"Time is the least valuable thing to you, so if you take it slow, your plan might have a chance to turn around. Besides, it may not be that it came with malice."

Gaia was stunned when she heard the answer from the other party. She sighed almost imperceptibly, feeling a mix of emotions: some emotion, some disbelief, and a hint of sadness.

"I'm sure I have no other choice now. I can't gamble my years of planning on his goodwill. Rather than sit and wait to die, I'd rather put myself in a do-or-die situation."

"And I hate gambling."

"Row!"

As the last word fell, Gaia and the mysterious voice vanished instantly into the Origin Void Sea of ​​Earth Star.

At the same time, as Gaia's dark anger disappeared, the raging waves on the western coast of the Pacific Ocean of Earth Star gradually subsided.

Within minutes, the fierce and unstoppable storm had completely dissipated, and soft golden sunlight broke through the sky, embracing the west coast of the Pacific Ocean once again.

however.

"The rustling—"

High in the sky, in the azure firmament, a black line with jagged edges suddenly appeared, but it disappeared in just an instant.

It was as if nothing had happened, yet, subtly, the Earthly Elemental Universe seemed to have undergone some inexplicable change.

……

Above Bozhou City.

After the storm subsided.

"It's difficult to test my true defensive capabilities with this kind of test." After the violent explosion, Shen Bailian's clothes were only slightly disheveled.

Nothing else.

However, Shen Bailian had already anticipated this, since the current level of the elemental energy of heaven and earth was no longer on the same level as his own elemental energy.

Now, he can truly break free from the primordial energy of heaven and earth and fight against ferocious beasts and divine beings with his own strength.

"The next step is very simple; there are only two things to do."

"The first thing is to grind experience points; the second is to search for large amounts of divine substances." Shen Bailian's eyes flashed slightly, and the panel immediately appeared before his eyes—

Character Level: LV10 (683/4000)

Physical Strength: 21.5; Spirit: 21.7

【…】

Passive Skill: Iron Body LV5 (610/2000)

【Cure point: 1】

[Divine Matter: 333]

"Don't even think about leveling up your character anytime soon. Four thousand experience points is terrifying enough." Shen Bailian looked at the four thousand experience points on the character level panel and couldn't help but gasp in astonishment.

You need to fill the experience bars for both level 5 Iron Body skills to get 4,000 experience points.

"However, at this stage, the most important thing for me is to upgrade my various skills, not to upgrade my character level."

Leveling up a character only increases their physique and spirit by 10%, which is far less satisfying than leveling up skills to increase their physique and spirit attributes.

"Before participating in the Freshman Cup, perhaps I could move my training location to the border." Shen Bailian looked at the experience bar for his Iron Body skill and the divine matter, and pondered deeply.

Sudden.

"Ok?"

"Why do I feel..." Shen Bailian suddenly raised his head, alarm bells ringing in his mind, and his Divine Eye began to explore, rapidly spreading out in all directions.

After a long time, no abnormalities were found.

However, Shen Bailian's heart was not at peace; instead, a vague sense of unease surfaced, as if something was pricking at his heart.

"What exactly happened? I clearly felt it just now." Shen Bailian frowned slightly and looked around in confusion.

He had only recently broken through to the Sea Opening Realm. Although his essence, energy, and spirit had begun to decline from their peak, his perception remained exceptionally strong under this state of harmony with nature.

Just a moment ago, Shen Bailian sensed an aura that did not belong to this world, which vanished in a flash.

"It seems I'm still not strong enough. I need to improve my strength as soon as possible." Shen Bailian didn't believe that his perception in the state of oneness with heaven and man could be wrong.

That could only mean someone was secretly monitoring him, but he couldn't detect it.

"Kill ferocious beasts, obtain divine matter, and advance your skills!" Shen Bailian sensed the impending danger and, without hesitation, headed directly towards Bozhou City.

……

A university nestled amidst mountains and seas, a place where all four seasons unfold.

boom! Bang bang bang!
With a sound like thunder and a speed like lightning, a fiery red streak and a blue streak of light collided violently hundreds of meters above the mountain peak, like dazzling shooting stars streaking across the sky.

The fiery red light is intensely hot and aggressive, carrying a mysterious sense of burning everything in its path; while the azure light is as cold as ice, giving people a chilling feeling and freezing their thoughts.

The two intertwined and fought in the air at such a high speed that they collided more than ten times in just a moment, and blinding beams of light exploded, which was a manifestation of energy.

At speeds of hundreds of meters per second, ordinary martial artists are simply too fast to keep up with, leaving only afterimages flashing in the air.

As time went by, the battle gradually entered a fierce stage.

suddenly.

The fiery red light grew even hotter, and the surrounding flames suddenly rose up, with bursts of flame burning fiercely and turning into threads, their color changing from fiery red to pale white.

The moment this flame color formed, the surrounding temperature instantly soared to three or four thousand degrees, causing the surrounding space to appear distorted from a distance, with a visible curvature.

Of course, this is just a visual illusion caused by excessively high temperatures.

"Phoenix! Soar! Glory! Journey!!!"

A sharp, bright sound suddenly rang out, and the surrounding air surged, creating visible ripples that spread in all directions like waves.

In the blink of an eye, the pale white flames condensed into a giant creature with a wingspan of tens of meters, a phantom of a phoenix about to take flight, its wings shimmering with dazzling golden light.

The phoenix phantom suddenly let out a loud cry, flapped its wings and soared into the sky, dyeing the surrounding 100,000 square meters of azure sky fiery red.

Then, like a falling meteor, it hurtled towards the icy blue figure, trailing a trail of brilliant flames and accompanied by a storm of fire that could pierce through clouds and split rocks.

Unstoppable.

However, even with such a fierce attack, the icy blue figure only sighed slightly, then unleashed a torrent of primal force from within. "Boom—"

The phoenix phantom shattered with a deafening roar, and fiery fragments scattered violently in all directions, flying out like dazzling flower petals hundreds of meters in the air.

"Alright, that's enough for today." Yu Linglong dissipated her immense primal force, and the icy flames around her body extinguished in an instant, revealing her curvaceous figure.

After a while~
"Not bad, really not bad. Your attack today is equivalent to the full-force attack of an ordinary martial artist who has just entered the early stage of the Sea Opening Realm."

Yu Linglong sat on the sofa, her long, slender legs crossed. She handed several cups of icy Longjing tea from the table to a person across from her who was clad in full armor, with only a pair of bright, expressive eyes visible. She said with great tenderness, "Have a cup."

Longjing tea from the snowy plateau region is produced at the summit of the snowy plateau.

The cup in Yu Linglong's hand was made from second-tier heavenly treasures, and its origin was a small grotto-heaven atop a mountain ten thousand meters high.

Its main effects are to rectify the root cause, quell inner turmoil, enhance affinity with the primordial energy of heaven and earth, and heal from mental trauma.

Furthermore, as the saying goes, every medicine has some toxicity, but Xueyu Longjing tea does not.

In the face of truly rare and precious ingredients, money is just a string of numbers. And the price of such a cup of Snowland Longjing tea is worth hundreds of thousands, or even nearly one million, Daxia coins in the outside world.

The price of one tael is an average of four million Xia coins, and it is truly a case of having a price but no market.

In order to suppress and dissipate the intense inner fire in her body, Li Hongling had to consume at least one ounce of icy snow-covered Longjing tea every day.

"Mm." Li Hongling nodded, and with a wave of her hand covered in fiery red scales, the Icy Snow Region Longjing tea in the cup instantly transformed into streams of water, which she drank in one gulp.

“Master, I feel that I have now adapted to my current level of power and am mentally prepared to carry out the second phase of the God-Making Plan.”

"Don't rush, take your time." Yu Linglong shook her head helplessly, a bitter smile appearing on her face: "These things can't be rushed."

"But if there's no rush, how am I supposed to participate in this year's Global Martial Arts Tournament?"

"We can wait until the next session."

"The path of martial arts is a race against time. I don't want to, and I can't, lose to that person again!" Li Hongling recalled the scene from the martial arts competition in Bozhou City, and her fists clenched tightly amidst the clanging sound of scales colliding.

"Next time we meet, I will win!"

Upon hearing this, Yu Linglong fell silent. She knew who Li Hongling was talking about; it was none other than Shen Bailian, the current top martial arts prodigy of Tiangang Academy.

"Don't worry, with your current strength, you can even fight a 50/50 opponent against a martial artist in the early stage of the Sea Opening Realm."

“But I feel that if it’s just like this, it will be very difficult to defeat that person.” Li Hongling shook her head, looked at her fist, and remained silent again.

Logically speaking, she has now perfectly passed the first stage of the God-Making Project. Whether it is strength or martial arts potential, she is worthy of being called a top-level martial arts prodigy.

Even compared to the holy sons of the various martial halls, whose realms and physical qualities are similar, her combat strength is by no means inferior.

But the impression Shen Bailian left on Li Hongling at that time was really too deep.

Li Hongling was certain that none of the hundreds of thousands of spectators at the Bozhou City Martial Arts Competition, nor the teachers from various martial arts universities, would have imagined that Shen Bailian, who was at a disadvantage on every front, would be able to turn the tide against all odds.

Moreover, in this short period of six months, Shen Bailian's progress did not slow down with the improvement of his martial arts realm. On the contrary, he was like a sesame seed in a period of rapid growth, rising higher and higher.

During the Golden Cup Martial Arts League, he was able to fight to a draw with a martial arts prodigy in the late stage of the Transcendent Realm from a top-tier martial arts university.

What kind of achievement is this?
It can be said that there is no one like it before, and it is unlikely that anyone will be able to do it again.

If she hadn't successfully completed the first phase of the god-making plan, Li Hongling felt that she would never have been able to catch up with that boy in her lifetime, and even looking up to him would have been a luxury.

"How can you not be able to defeat them? You are already at the peak of the Transcendent Realm. There is still some time before the Freshman Cup Tournament. As long as you calm down and focus on your cultivation, you may be able to fight to a draw even against a martial artist in the early stage of the Sea Opening Realm."

"But……"

"No buts, Shen Bailian is a human, not a god." Yu Linglong drank a cup of tea, and only after the primal force within her body had completely subsided did she continue helplessly:

"As someone who's been there, I can tell you with certainty that the path of martial arts becomes slower and slower as you progress. Judging from his growth rate, his current physical fitness level is at most level 20.0."

"As long as your physical fitness level is higher than his, you have no chance..."

Sudden.

"Om - hum -"

Before Yu Linglong could finish speaking, she noticed that the smart bracelet on her wrist was vibrating wildly. It was an emergency notification from the school.

'Um? '

"Could it be that another large-scale beast tide has appeared on the border?" Yu Linglong didn't dare to hesitate. She gestured to Li Hongling to keep quiet, and then immediately turned on her smart bracelet.

however.

"what?!"

"The Sea Opening Realm? How is that possible?!" When Yu Linglong saw the emergency notification, the faint smile that had been on her fair face vanished instantly.

Her small mouth was slightly open, but she couldn't make a sound for a long time. Her eyelashes trembled, her eyes were wide open, and her pupils were slightly dilated, flashing with disbelief.

The atmosphere seemed to freeze.

"Master, what's wrong?" Li Hongling frowned slightly and looked puzzled as she noticed Yu Linglong's unusual behavior.

In this world, there are very few things that can shock a martial artist at the peak of the Sea Opening Realm, not even a large-scale beast tide.

Yu Linglong took a deep breath, looking at the girl opposite her who was no longer human and could only be covered by scales. Her expression was conflicted, and she hesitated to speak.

"Master, it has something to do with me, right?" Li Hongling wasn't stupid; she immediately understood that this matter must be related to her.

"Hmm." Yu Linglong nodded with some hesitation. She didn't want to hide it from her disciple, but she was also afraid that the other party would become too eager for quick success and thus hurt her.

God-making plan?

It sounds like a good thing, but those who really know the truth know that it's a gamble with lives, betting on that one in a million chance of survival.

The pain involved is self-evident.

Besides, what young girl in her prime doesn't love beauty?
Li Hongling, on the other hand, had to stay wrapped up inside the Crimson Flame Armor all day, constantly using expensive ice-type rare materials to suppress the explosive flames within her body, and enduring the pain of childbirth to prevent her consciousness from collapsing.

This is just the price to pay for the first phase of the god-making project.

"Alright then." Yu Linglong looked into those determined eyes, sighed helplessly. She knew this would be the outcome, and could only say in a low voice:

"According to the information from our teachers who recruit students in Bozhou City, Shen Bailian challenged a martial artist in the early stage of the Opening Sea Realm at Bozhou No. 3 Middle School, achieved the Opening Sea Realm in two steps, and defeated his opponent with a single strike."

……

"What? The Sea Opening Realm? Teacher, you're not kidding, are you?" Yuwen Changkong suddenly stood up from the ground, staring incredulously at the three-dimensional projection in front of him.

"You heard me right, he has indeed broken through to the Sea Opening Realm, surpassing everyone's expectations... and now some people in the Great Xia government have begun to study his title." (End of Chapter)