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

Chapter 238 Copying your homework, hitting your child
Outside the rock face.

Lin Qi glanced at the storage box placed in the corner, and with a single reach, a force grabbed the storage box and carefully took it out of the space.

"As expected, it's a metal plate with a heritage design."

After taking out the metal plate, Lin Qi cut his palm and imprinted it on the silver-black metal plate. The mysterious runes on the metal plate lit up, and pieces of information were also imprinted into his mind.

After a full ten seconds, Lin Qi finished reading all the information, his eyes filled with shock and ecstasy.

"No wonder Isaac hired assassins from the Red Moon Merchant Guild to kill me. He couldn't possibly give up this heirloom metal plate." Lin Qi looked at the silver-black metal plate in his hand and couldn't help but sigh.

If he were in Isaac's situation, he would probably make the same decision as Isaac, and would do whatever it takes to reclaim the legacy metal plate.

Not for any other reason than that this legacy metal plate is too important, even more important than that severed arm.

The reason that severed arm was so valuable was because the player accidentally damaged the transparent container, causing a crack. Although the crack was very small, it was no longer enough to completely block the mental impact of the severed arm.

If it were a perfectly sealed, transparent container, then the severed arm would be of little value, or rather, completely worthless to martial artists of their level, serving only as an ornamental object.

The information within the Inheritance Metal Plate clearly states that the severed arm has existed for over a million years. Even the extraterrestrial civilization that created the Inheritance Metal Plate, despite using various methods, could not inflict the slightest damage on that arm. Researching it would be extremely difficult, let alone given the current technological level of the City of Light.

However, the alien civilization that possessed this severed arm did not come away empty-handed after countless years of research.

Those are three heritage metal plates!

To be precise, this is a complete set of secret techniques called Star Energy Construct Body. It is a secret technique created by imitating that severed arm. By absorbing a massive amount of star energy and cultivating it to the extreme, it is theoretically possible for the body to perform at one ten-thousandth of the level of that severed arm's body in a short period of time.

The complete set of Star Energy Construct Secret Techniques is divided into Body Strengthening Secret Techniques, Spirit Secret Techniques, and Energy Secret Techniques. Only by mastering and integrating all three can one be considered to have learned the Star Energy Construct Techniques, allowing for a qualitative change in one's life level.

A secret technique that can change the level of life—just thinking about such a technique is terrifying.

Because this has completely transcended the genetic level; it's no longer as simple as a person turning into a monster, but rather the difference between a two-dimensional being and a three-dimensional being.

If such a secret technique were to spread, it would definitely cause a sensation in major cities. Even the Domain City would probably fight tooth and nail to seize it. After all, the difference between humans and monsters is only in physical strength, but this secret technique is a difference in the level of life. The two are no longer on the same level.

The most important part of the entire Star Energy Construct Secret Method is this metal plate that contains the secret method of energy transmission.

This inheritance metal plate is different from the other two. As the core of the entire secret technique, the inheritor does not need to touch the inheritance metal plate. The holder only needs to touch the inheritance metal plate with the inheritor's blood, and then touch the inheritor. The inheritor can then directly obtain the inheritance of the energy secret technique.

Moreover, the amount of energy one can inherit depends entirely on the person who holds the inheritance metal plate.

The entire Energy Secret Technique has five levels. The Body Strengthening Secret Technique and the Mental Secret Technique are only auxiliary techniques for cultivating the Energy Secret Technique. The higher the level of cultivation of the Body Strengthening Secret Technique and the Mental Secret Technique, the better the auxiliary effect.

In other words, even without the physical strengthening techniques and mental techniques, ordinary people who obtain this metal plate that carries the inheritance of energy techniques still have a chance to learn the energy techniques. This is why the physical strengthening techniques and mental techniques are not subject to the same restrictions as the energy techniques.

Previously, players occupied the White Feather Gang's stronghold, and a large number of martial arts players were stationed there. Even the deputy commander of the city garrison was repelled. It would be almost impossible for Isaac, a martial artist, to take out the metal plate containing the inheritance of the energy secret technique from the stronghold.

For Isaac to make a comeback, the energy secret technique is absolutely indispensable.

Although he had only glanced at the energy technique, Lin Qi was certain that it was incredibly powerful. It was a technique that absorbed energy, burned it, and greatly enhanced the body's potential.

However, absorbing energy from the outside world is extremely difficult, and storing it within oneself is even more challenging. One wrong step and one will die instantly. It is extremely difficult to master this skill.

However, this secret technique is not difficult to learn in terms of burning energy, and this energy burning helps martial artists break through bottlenecks. As long as it is well controlled, it is no less effective than cheating in terms of improving a martial artist's skills.

Of course, if one does not learn how to absorb and store energy, this secret method of energy burning will burn one's own life force. Without replenishment, each use will reduce lifespan and is irreversible, which is equivalent to overdrawing one's life to break through the bottleneck.

Even so, Lin Qi was certain that there would be plenty of people willing to do this, and as long as Isaac mastered the metal plate that inherited the energy secret technique, he would have no worries about the future growth of the power he had built.

"We have to find a way to kill that Isaac." Lin Qi looked at the silver-black metal plate in his hand, feeling a growing urgency to kill Isaac. "Otherwise, the secret of my mastery of energy techniques will be exposed sooner or later, and may even become my downfall."

Currently, the only people who know the secret of the energy technique are the higher-ups of the White Feather Gang. However, apart from Isaac, everyone else in the White Feather Gang has been dealt with by the garrison. In other words, the only one who knows the secret is Isaac.

If Isaac still harbors ambitions to rebuild his power, he will certainly keep the secret to himself, but there is no guarantee that such ambitions will continue. He might use them to exchange for resources and benefits.

At that time, his situation became dangerous.

After all, he now possesses a great treasure, and he is not invincible in the Fog Mountain region. If Isaac were to reveal this secret to a force like the Smiling Skull, and the Smiling Skull believed him, he would likely face annihilation.

The only way to solve this problem is to eliminate Isaac before he leaks the information.

However, taking down Isaac now will not be an easy task for him.

Isaac stayed in the Dead Mountain Range. The Smiling Skull's strength left all the major cities in the Mist Mountain region helpless, with only Domain City able to overpower him. His current strength was only comparable to that of a deputy city lord. He entered the Dead Mountain Range alone to assassinate Isaac.

Leaving aside whether he could successfully kill Isaac in front of the Smiling Skull, he didn't even know where the Smiling Skull was in the Mountains of the Dead.

You must know that the planet he is currently living on has been completely changed after the great catastrophe. The entire planet is many times larger than before. Even the Martial Arts Association does not know exactly how big it is. The mobile city can only operate in a few areas, and most other places are inaccessible.

The Martial Arts Association records that the Fog Mountain region covers several million square kilometers and contains dozens of cities. According to the map data provided by the Martial Arts Association, the Dead Mountain Range is roughly one-third the size of the entire Fog Mountain region and is also a monster's lair.

Finding the Smiling Skull's stronghold in a place like this is like finding a needle in a haystack, which is one of the reasons why Domain City has been unable to deal with the Smiling Skull. After pondering for a while, Lin Qi shook his head and temporarily put aside the idea of ​​killing Isaac.

Taking down Isaac is inevitable, but neither he nor the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy currently possesses the strength or means to kill him. Under these circumstances, instead of worrying about Isaac leaking information, it's better to focus on improving our own and the academy's strength first.

"It seems we have to put the branch school on the agenda." Lin Qi clicked on the two martial arts school branch schools that the system rewarded. These two branch schools can immediately transform a stadium-sized building into an existing high-level martial arts school.

The advanced martial arts school has ten beginner training rooms and three beginner gravity chambers.

As long as there are branch schools, even if the current Obsidian Martial Arts School is gone, it won't have a big impact on him. He can still bring players into this world.

For security reasons, the more secluded the location of this branch, the better. Ideally, it should be like the Smiling Skull, where only members of the Smiling Skull know where the base is, and no one else knows.

Once Isaac exposes the secrets of energy techniques, he can hide in the branch, develop slowly, and remain invincible in the Fog Mountain region before emerging from the mountains.

Lin Qi then entered the space inside the rock wall and used his mental domain to explore what good things the White Feather Gang might have left behind. As for the results of the players' exploration, he didn't expect them to find out.

Once they learn that dying can enhance their mental strength, they probably won't report the investigation results to him anymore; they'll just die as many times as they can.

Now that he knew the situation inside the space, the only danger was the severed arm. Fang Zhen and the others had already searched the entire area without incident, so he naturally had no more worries.

"Why is the White Feather Gang researching these things?" Lin Qi looked at the research data left by the White Feather Gang on various instruments through his mental perception, and his heart was full of curiosity.

According to the research data and results on the paper on the table, the White Feather Gang can screen out people who are more suitable for cultivating energy secret techniques through experiments on a large number of lord monster remains.

Those selected have a greater than 50% chance of learning a part of the first level of the energy secret technique, which means being able to burn energy and greatly enhance their potential.

The mortality rate for teaching energy secrets to others is as high as 99%.

Because the White Feather Gang mastered this technology, the number of people who learned the energy secret technique increased dramatically. They no longer needed to go through the trouble of passing it down one by one and waiting for the survivors. They only needed to select a group from the vast number of vagrants, which not only prevented the energy secret technique from being exposed casually, but also greatly improved efficiency.

However, this approach truly puzzled Lin Qi.

The silver-black metal plate clearly states that both the mental cultivation technique and the body strengthening technique are excellent auxiliary cultivation methods. Anyone who learns the mental cultivation technique and the body strengthening technique has a high probability of learning the complete energy technique. As for learning simple energy burning, it can be said that it is not difficult at all.

Moreover, after learning the mental and physical secret techniques, one's control over energy combustion will be more precise. It's hard to imagine what the point of Bai Yu's research is.

If one truly wanted to teach someone how to burn energy, all that was needed was to teach them mental and physical techniques. While these two techniques were quite difficult to learn, they were far safer than energy techniques. Anyone below the martial arts level could be saved with a single type of healing potion. It could be said that if there were enough type-one healing potions, almost everyone below the martial arts level could learn mental and physical techniques.

As for warriors, they need type 2 healing potions, so there's no need to go through such a troublesome screening process and waste the flesh and blood of the boss monster.

"Wait, did Isaac not obtain the metal plate with the spiritual magic back then?" Lin Qi was taken aback as he looked at the results that the White Feather Gang had spent many years researching.

The mental magic metal plate he obtained was from the vice leader of the White Feather Gang. He originally thought that the White Feather Gang had known about the existence of the mental magic metal plate for a long time, and had even used it countless times. It was just that the vice leader of the White Feather Gang accidentally brought it out, which is why it was so good for him.

But now it seems that the vice leader embezzled the Spiritual Mystic Technique without Isaac's knowledge. Otherwise, with the incomplete Body Strengthening Technique left in the metal space under Crimson Moon Mountain, as well as the metal plate of the Spiritual Mystic Technique, Isaac could have created a large number of experts as long as he had enough healing potions, without having to waste a lot of Lord Monster remains for experiments.

Wasting so much of the monster's flesh and blood could have bought countless Type I and Type II energy potions.

Thinking of this, Lin Qi immediately smiled.

Isaac had schemed and plotted, but in the end, he was ruined by his subordinate, the deputy leader. All those years of research were wasted. If Isaac knew what had happened, he would probably be furious.

"However, this research result and development model is quite good. It can directly select a group of talented people to learn energy secrets, improve quickly, and there is no need to worry about it spreading too widely and being easily leaked." Lin Qi carefully looked at these reports and couldn't help but be impressed.

The entire secret method of Star Energy Construct is too complex and not suitable for untrustworthy people to learn completely. However, learning only a part of energy burning is a good way to quickly create powerful individuals.

Becoming a master of the Bone Forging Realm is incredibly easy.

The Obsidian Martial Arts Academy is currently facing a severe shortage of Bone Forging Realm experts. If it can cultivate a group of Bone Forging Realm experts in a short period of time, it can then let the players focus on acquiring resources without worrying about losing them.

Moreover, he has four huge advantages over Isaac: his mental magic, his beginner meditation room, his severed arm, and the Qi and Blood Watermelon rewarded by the martial arts hall's roulette wheel.

The practice of mental techniques can reduce the difficulty of learning energy techniques. The beginner meditation room can enhance mental activity, further reducing the difficulty of learning.

While the mental impact of that severed arm is incredibly destructive, as long as a person remains at a safe distance, prolonged exposure to that mental impact can subtly enhance their mental strength. It doesn't require players to go to extremes like completely shattering their own minds to temper their spirits. Doing so might result in significant improvement, but doing it too often will turn a person into an idiot.

After all, the self-explosion tempering of being shattered by external objects and the self-explosion tempering of the star explosion visualization are completely different things. The self-spirit explosion, while tempering, is also a process of enhancing one's will. Being shattered by external objects will not enhance one's will.

Spirit is the soldier, will is the general. If the general's ability is insufficient, commanding too many soldiers will only have the opposite effect.

The truly correct approach is to practice mental techniques and visualization within a safe range. This will not only rapidly increase mental strength but also stabilize and enhance willpower, without any future problems.

Among his four major advantages, the Qi and Blood Watermelon is like a divine artifact. The Qi and Blood Watermelon itself is a huge energy that is integrated into the body, thereby enhancing vitality in a short period of time and greatly improving Qi and Blood. If you burn energy to enhance your potential after eating the Qi and Blood Watermelon, the speed of improvement will be absolutely rapid.

Moreover, with the new energy secret technique, players can learn the complete set of Star Energy Constructs. Once players learn the complete set of Star Energy Constructs, their combat power will definitely be upgraded to another level. Even the Dead Mountain Range, which the Domain City dares not set foot in, players should be able to take a peek.

"However, leaving this arm here isn't a solution. I wonder if I can take it back and use it as a mental cultivation room." Lin Qi's mental detection covered a ten-meter radius around the arm, and he couldn't help but want to try it out to see if he could take this artifact for mental cultivation with him.

(End of this chapter)