The Fourth Disaster: People become gods through high martial arts and gaming

Chapter 220 The Third Extraordinary Martial Skill and Unlocking Authority

Obsidian Martial Arts School.

As the last rays of the setting sun gradually dimmed, the lights inside the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy lit up one by one. A large number of wanderers who had come to register still lined up in long queues, waiting for the Academy's disciple assessment. The lively scene showed no signs of diminishing, and the long queue for the assessment had even become a unique sight in the abandoned human territory.

Inside the brightly lit martial arts gym, Donna sat alone in the beginner gravity chamber, training. After confirming that she had gotten used to the sixteen times gravity in the chamber, she took out a freshly washed pear from her pocket.

"Two energy crystals for each pear, hopefully the effect won't be too bad." Donna looked at the Vitality Pear in her hand and took a bite.

Now she has gradually reached a bottleneck in her training methods. Each time she cultivates, she can only slowly explore and carefully use the energy of the Type III energy potion to stimulate her entire body's bones. Even with the Type III healing potion, she will need to rest for several days if she makes a slight mistake.

With the recruitment period for Domain City drawing ever closer, if one cannot break through to the mid-stage of the Bone Forging Realm before then, the chance of entering Domain City is less than 30%.

As Donna ate all the Vitality Pear, she immediately felt a cool sensation slowly rising from her stomach to her brain, making her feel refreshed, as if she had just woken up from a dream, and the whole world seemed much clearer to her.

"How can this be!"

Donna was experiencing the amazing effects of the Vitality Pear in disbelief.

Simply by eating the Vitality Pear, her training method, which had previously hit a bottleneck, suddenly felt enlightened, as if the advanced Bone Forging Realm training method she was cultivating was not so difficult after all.

However, Donna herself knew very well how difficult it was to master the advanced Bone Forging Realm training method. Even her older brother Igor, who graduated from the Genius Training Camp, had not mastered it and could only choose to learn the intermediate Bone Forging Realm training method.

Among the top ten graduates of the same cohort of the genius training camp, only she and two others successfully completed their studies and had a high chance of being admitted to the Domain City before the age of thirty.

Now, after eating just one pear, she finds the advanced Bone Forging Realm training method not so difficult at all; it's simply unbelievable.

However, Donna was not stupid. After a brief moment of surprise, she immediately devoted herself to the cultivation of the advanced Bone Forging Realm training method, not daring to be distracted in the slightest.

Half an hour...an hour...two hours...

After the two-hour effects of Vitality Pear completely wore off, Donna in the primary gravity chamber took a deep breath. Her blood and energy were much stronger than before, but there was a hint of regret on her face.

"What a pity, it would have been better if the effects of the pear lasted a little longer." Donna thought that she was just one step away from fully mastering the training method and allowing the energy it contained to completely strengthen her entire skeletal system.

But as regrettable as it was, Donna's expression of disappointment quickly turned into excitement.

"The effects of this fragrant pear are amazing. I wonder if Master Lin has any more. If I can keep using this fragrant pear to help me during this period, I will definitely be able to break through to the middle stage of the Bone Forging Realm before the Domain City assessment."

Donna thought about the effects of the Vitality Pear and realized that Lin Qi hadn't lied. The two energy crystals were truly worth the money, making her cultivation speed much faster after reaching the Bone Forging Realm.

Before the assessment in the Domain City, with a large supply of resources, she believed that her chances of breaking through to the middle stage of the Bone Forging Realm were less than 10%. After all, tempering bones is a very long process, and mistakes cannot be made along the way. Otherwise, a mistake would at least result in serious injury, or even death. Therefore, even genius martial artists who have entered the Bone Forging Realm make very slow progress.

To break through to the middle stage of the Bone Forging Realm within three years of reaching the Bone Forging Realm is considered quite fast; most people take four or five years to break through to the middle stage after reaching the Bone Forging Realm.

She had already reached the Bone Forging Realm for over a year. Under normal circumstances, she was confident that she could break through to the middle stage of the Bone Forging Realm within two years. However, with the help of Vitality Pear, she could break through to the middle stage of the Bone Forging Realm within a month. This speed was absolutely divine.

Donna was quite relieved at this moment. Fortunately, her brother hadn't directly become enemies with the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy. The Obsidian Martial Arts Academy's foundation was unfathomable, completely unlike the kind of force that a Bone Forging Realm expert could create.

Especially now that there's such an incredible fruit as the Vibrant Pear, she's even more certain that Obsidian Martial Arts School must have a terrifyingly powerful force backing it up.

"By the way, I need to contact my brother quickly and ask him to prepare more energy crystals and send them over."

Thinking of this, Donna immediately contacted Igor using her smartwatch, asking him to send more energy crystals after returning to Wanxing City, as she urgently needed to buy fragrant pears for cultivation.

This left Igor somewhat bewildered upon receiving the news, feeling as if his sister had gone mad, becoming addicted to pears that cost two energy crystals each.

Since Donna had already said it was for cultivation, Igor had no choice but to obediently return to Wanxing City to retrieve it. After all, Donna's cultivation was the top priority. As long as Donna could pass the exam and enter the Domain City, the status of their half-beast race in Wanxing City would be greatly enhanced. Compared to the energy crystals they had invested, it was nothing at all.

While Donna was contacting Igor, Lin Qi, who had just renovated two more basic gravity chambers at the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy, suddenly heard a system notification in his mind.

System: Detected that player Luo Wushang has created the eighth level of martial arts. Congratulations to the host for completing the advanced hidden quest 'Path to the Extraordinary'. The reward is a super martial arts fusion. You can freely select two or more martial arts created by players to fuse. There is a 90% chance that the fused martial arts will become an extraordinary martial arts, and a 10% chance that it will become a high-level extraordinary martial arts. The martial arts you master will naturally reach the proficiency level.

System: The system detects that the player has created three extraordinary martial arts skills, triggering the second stage of the advanced hidden quest 'Path to the Extraordinary'. This allows the player to create ten extraordinary martial arts skills and rewards them with a super perfect martial arts fusion. Players can freely select two or more martial arts skills created by other players to fuse. There is a 90% chance that the fused martial arts skill will become an extraordinary martial arts skill and a 10% chance that it will become a high-level extraordinary martial arts skill. The martial arts skills mastered will naturally reach the perfect level.

"That's it?" Lin Qi looked at the system notification bar below his field of vision in surprise. He didn't expect that the third extraordinary martial skill would be achieved so silently.

He is no longer a novice who has just arrived in this world and whose understanding of martial arts is limited to that of ordinary people. He is now a councilor in the city, qualified to participate in high-level city meetings, and the information he can access is something that ordinary people cannot obtain.

That is why he is even more aware of how powerful extraordinary martial arts are, so powerful that among all the Bone Forging Realm martial artists in the entire City of Chasing Light, very few have mastered them.

Only the two deputy city lords are confirmed to be experts in the Bone Forging Realm who possess extraordinary martial arts skills.

That's right!

In the entire City of Light, there are only two Bone Forging Realm experts who openly possess extraordinary martial arts skills. Because of these two, they have been able to hold the position of deputy city lord for many years, while the other deputy city lord position has been changed multiple times.

And this is just learning extraordinary martial arts techniques; creating extraordinary martial arts techniques is several times more difficult.

It was already a stroke of luck that Ye Qinglu and Lu Fanchen were able to create extraordinary martial arts techniques. If a third extraordinary martial arts technique were to be created among the players, he was already prepared to wait several months.

Despite his surprise, Lin Qi was still very excited.

The reward of fusing super martial arts skills gives him another trump card. The only question is whether he should fuse them into an extraordinary martial arts skill now.

Although players have created many martial arts techniques, they are unable to fuse them into the extraordinary martial arts techniques they desire.

After all, his current weapon is a club. None of the many martial arts techniques created by players use clubs, but the two attribute effects attached to the club are definitely no less than those of extraordinary martial arts techniques, so changing weapons is not worthwhile.

In other words, even if you master an extraordinary martial art, your improvement won't be significant.

Instead, waiting until the player creates a staff-type martial art, or acquires a better weapon and combines it with a transcendent martial art, would be the best way to maximize the use of the reward.

"Forget it, I'd better master a transcendent martial skill first." After thinking for a moment, Lin Qi gritted his teeth and decided to fuse a transcendent martial skill first. Even a top-level Bone Forging Realm expert like Liu Tianzong had died, and he was now only at the high-level Bone Forging Realm level in all aspects. If the City of Light were to start its second recruitment and send him to the wilderness, no one knew what would happen, so he would naturally want to improve his strength as much as possible.

System: Please select two martial arts techniques created by the player.

"Since there are no suitable weapons, let's choose martial arts techniques that focus on strength." Lin Qi then chose the Heaven-Shaking Fist created by Lu Fanchen and the Boundless Full Moon created by Xiao Yuan.

The Heaven-Shaking Fist emphasizes the compression of the atmosphere with force, while the Boundless Full Moon extends the attack range of the sword with force. Moreover, swords are mainly used for slashing attacks, so even hitting with a club would be similar.

System: Fusion begins...

Immediately, a fusion dialog box popped up, as if the system itself was also having a headache, and it took quite a while for the progress to increase by 1%.

Lin Qi could only wait helplessly, and then arranged for the workers hired by the martial arts school to build a new gravity chamber.

Although he renovated two more basic gravity chambers, it was clearly not enough for the players. Moreover, he discovered a business opportunity in basic gravity chambers this time. Building more would allow him to earn more energy crystals.

While Lin Qi was arranging for workers to renovate the martial arts hall rooms with B2-grade alloy, Luo Wushang and the others were also resurrected in the underground confinement room of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.

Although Luo Wushang and the others all died deep in the wilderness, each of them wore an unprecedented joy on their faces.

"It's a pity we were so close. We might have been able to take down that low-level lord," said the resurrected Leaf of Cloud, filled with excitement.

"Yes, if Vice President Luo had a good sword, he could at least cut off one of its tails, if not kill that low-level lord," Fang Zhen said regretfully.

The Lord Monster is a treasure from head to toe. Although the blood of the six-tailed giant scorpion they fought was far less effective than that of the two-horned cheetah, obtaining even a scorpion tail would be far more rewarding than getting the essence blood of the two-horned cheetah.

Unfortunately, even with the terrifying Heaven-Slaying Sword, the B6-grade longsword used by Luo Wushang only managed to injure the six-tailed giant scorpion, leaving a sword wound more than a meter deep on its body and splattering some blood.

With all of them working together to restrain Luo Wushang, the six-tailed giant crab was severely injured when Luo Wushang used her fifth sword. However, the consumption of the Heaven-Slaying Sword was too great. Even Luo Wushang, who had become a high-level martial artist, died from exhaustion of qi and blood after using the fifth sword.

If Luo Wushang could have used a dozen or more sword strikes, that six-tailed giant scorpion might have been killed.

"It's alright, we've already gained a lot this time," Lu Fanchen said. "Now we have the strength to fight against low-level boss monsters head-on. Even if we can't get the essence blood from the two-horned cheetah, we can still find a way to get some flesh and blood from those low-level bosses. This game is very realistic. As long as we keep that flesh and blood safe and don't let other monsters find out, I can still go back and get it after I revive. With that flesh and blood, our improvement speed might not be worse than that of the two-horned cheetah's essence blood."

After hearing this, everyone nodded in agreement, agreeing that they had indeed gained a great deal this time.

Although only Luo Wushang advanced to a high-level martial artist, they gained the power to fight against a low-level lord, which made their subsequent actions in the depths of the wilderness much easier.

Once Ye Qinglu, Lu Fanchen, and the others also break through to become high-level martial artists, their chances of killing a low-level lord will definitely reach 30% to 40%.

Such a powerful boss, if they could defeat it, they wouldn't even dare to imagine how rich the rewards would be.

Just as everyone finished their discussion and prepared to venture into the wilderness once again, they heard system notifications in their ears.

System: The game system needs to be upgraded. All players are requested to prepare to log off within 15 minutes. After 15 minutes, all players will be forcibly logged off. This update will take 16 hours.

As the system notification sounded, all the players in the martial arts hall were stunned for a moment.

"What's going on?"

"Why did the system suddenly upgrade?"

"A sudden system update, is a major version update coming soon?"

Players were all bewildered by this sudden notification. Previous updates had all been online, with only this one offline update.

"No way! We just had a chance, and the game company is already targeting us?" Yi Ye Fu Yun was shocked when he saw the system notification.

That's how they got the chance to kill the wild boss beyond the current version, but the game developers discovered their plan.

"No way, we haven't even made a move yet." Fang Zhen was also extremely surprised when he saw the system notification.

At this moment, not only Fang Zhen and the others were surprised and puzzled, but Lin Qi, who was supervising the project, also stared at the system notification bar in astonishment.

System: Congratulations, host, you have acquired an advanced martial arts school with more than twenty martial arts-level players. You have unlocked Level 2 administrator privileges.

System: This upgrade to Level 2 administrator privileges will take 16 hours. All players will be forcibly logged out in 15 minutes and will remain logged out for 16 hours. Other system functions will not be affected.

"Sixteen hours of updates?"

Looking at the system panel, Lin Qi felt that the upgrade of administrator privileges this time was a bit too much.

Previously, privilege upgrades were instantaneous, but this time, upgrading from Level 1 to Level 2 administrator privileges took a whopping 16 hours, even affecting players, which is truly unbelievable.

But since the system was already in this state, there was nothing he could do but wait quietly.

However, when the system administrator privileges were upgraded this time, Lin Qi found that his system management page had also changed from the initial level one administrator privileges to level two administrator privileges.

Lin Qi then clicked on the Level 2 Administrator permission to see the difference between Level 2 and Level 1 Administrator permissions, which required an upgrade of sixteen hours in one go.

"Is this some kind of killing spree?" Lin Qi stared at the Level 2 Administrator's credentials, completely stunned, hardly believing his eyes.

Although the description of the second-level administrator's permissions was brief, one thing really surprised Lin Qi.

Originally, a Level 1 administrator could manage a maximum of 500 players, but according to Lin Qi's guess, a Level 2 administrator could manage about 1,000 players.

However, he greatly underestimated the authority of a second-level administrator.

Level 2 administrator privileges: The maximum number of players that can be managed is 4000.

(End of this chapter)