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

Chapter 250 Earth-shattering
"If I win the contest, what price can I offer?"

"Does he want to play?"

"No way, didn't he see how powerful the Flame Horn Clan member was?"

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Lin Qi's question left the people of the City of Light puzzled, as they couldn't understand what the newly appointed deputy city lord wanted to do.

"He's not really planning to play, is he?" Wu Zhuoqun looked at Lin Qi, his brows furrowing slightly.

"Nonsense! Utter nonsense!" Elder Xiang exclaimed anxiously. "Those Holy Blood Mercenary Group members are not so easy to deal with! What is this young man doing getting involved in this mess!"

Tuan's strength is evident to all; it can be said that he is simply beyond the reach of any top-tier Bone Forging Realm expert who has mastered extraordinary martial arts techniques.

If Lin Qi were to go up now, he would be courting death.

"Master Lin, are you planning to go up into the arena?" Di Luoya was somewhat surprised to see that it was Lin Qi who spoke.

Lin Qi is already a top-tier Bone Forging Realm expert who has mastered extraordinary martial arts at a young age. It can be said that he has a bright future. In fact, contacting Lin Qi this time was just a formality. He didn't expect Lin Qi to do anything at all.

Humanity has been declining in the City of Light for a long time, and its voice has been diminishing. Even if the City of Light changes hands, it will not have a significant impact on humanity. Not to mention Lin Qi, the newly appointed deputy city lord. Since he has only recently become deputy city lord, he has not yet received any resources allocated by the city. Even if Lin Qi did not come today, no one could say anything about him.

"Just asking out of curiosity." Lin Qi smiled as he looked at the intense gaze that Di Luoya was casting at him.

He had no intention of participating in this city battle, since it wasn't a life-or-death struggle between the two cities. No matter how the City of Light changed hands, it wouldn't affect his Obsidian Martial Arts School.

Not to mention that he wasn't familiar with the city lord, Diroya, and had no reason to help him.

But the bounty offered by the city lord, Diroya, tempted him.

Five thousand energy crystals—this is the result that players couldn't earn even after robbing the Dead Mountain Range for so many days. And he was desperately short of energy crystals.

Not to mention that building the training tower requires a thousand energy crystals, just upgrading from a high-level martial arts school to a special-level martial arts school and unlocking the intermediate gravity chamber would require a massive amount of energy crystals.

To upgrade an intermediate gravity chamber, you first need a room made of alloy of grade B6 or higher. The cost of the upgrade is no longer in energy units, but directly in energy crystals. One room costs 500 energy crystals, and the cost of each use is also in energy crystals. It costs two energy crystals per hour, which is faster than fighting for it.

Of course, the intermediate gravity chamber is also really powerful. The maximum gravity environment of the basic gravity chamber is 20 times the normal gravity environment, while the intermediate gravity chamber is 300 times the normal gravity environment.

An environment with 300 times the gravity could crush a Bone Forging Realm martial artist to death. If used to enhance a body-strengthening technique, its efficiency would be astonishing.

The second level of the Body Strengthening Secret Technique has been stuck at the entry level of 20% for far too long, while his actual level has reached 54% of the entry level. Without a sufficient gravity environment, he simply cannot improve.

Constructing the intermediate gravity chamber using B6-grade alloy is relatively simple. Players can dismantle and use various scrapped B6-grade armors and weapons they acquire, or they can use the Rem Titanium deep in the wilderness, obtained through trade with the Orcs in Wanxing City, to fly there and mine it.

However, energy crystals are a big problem that cannot be solved simply by mining small energy veins or selling sausages to Donna.

Upon hearing this, Di Luoya burst into laughter and said, "If someone can actually win the competition, I can give an extra 100,000 energy crystals as a reward."

He had absolutely no hope that anyone in the City of Light could defeat Tuan. In his opinion, only the one in the Domain City could do it, and the price he offered was 100,000 energy crystals.

He didn't mind telling everyone about this, to give some encouragement to the various races of the City of Light, so that they would be more motivated to compete on stage.

Upon hearing this, everyone in the hall gasped in astonishment. Even the Bone Forging Realm experts from Star Tower City were incredibly tempted, some even wanting to step up and defeat Tu An.

"One hundred thousand energy crystals, you're quite generous." Hu Lei looked at Di Luoya, also marveling at Di Luoya's generosity.

If it weren't for his identity restrictions, he would have wanted to sell 100,000 energy crystals.

“How can you gain without giving up something?” Diroya couldn’t help but look at Tuan on the arena. “Besides, I don’t think the price you paid for hiring the Holy Blood Mercenary Group was any less than mine.”

After the Red Moon Rebellion, the Holy Blood Mercenary Group became famous throughout the Misty Mountain region, and ordinary forces simply couldn't afford to hire them.

If he could mobilize the Holy Blood Mercenary Group by spending 100,000 energy crystals, he wouldn't hesitate at all.

"It's a pity that no matter how high the reward is, it's useless." Hu Lei said with a smile, "Tu An's strength is simply not something that you Bone Forging Realm martial artists who live in the city can fight against. If more of you come up, you will only be sending yourselves to your deaths."

The members of the Holy Blood Mercenary Group behind Hu Lei nodded in agreement.

The only experience that martial artists in the city can have is fighting monsters in the wild, and these battles usually involve a group of people hunting a single monster.

The Holy Blood Mercenary Group is different; all of its official members are from the Flame Horn Clan.

Because they have always lived in the wild, spending almost every day in killing, there is no such thing as a group of people hunting a monster. It is always one person to deal with one monster. The various training they receive is extremely rigorous, with only one in a hundred surviving. They truly walk with death.

Tuan was one of the best among them, having awakened his bloodline three times. Each time his bloodline awakened, he became stronger and closer to the god of his Flame Horn Clan.

What are the genius martial artists in the city, or the deputy city lord? They are all a joke in front of the Flame Horn Clan.

As soon as Hu Lei finished speaking, Lin Qi immediately raised his hand to sign up.

"Lord of the City, may I give it a try?" Lin Qi looked at Di Luoya and asked softly.

"You really want to go?" Di Luoya looked at Lin Qi, who had signed up, with surprise in his eyes.

In his view, Lin Qi was so young yet already possessed the strength of a deputy city lord, and the possibility of him becoming a Blood Condensation Realm expert in the future was extremely high. Moreover, Star Tower City would not target the human race, so normally there was no reason for Lin Qi to go.

Of course, 100,000 energy crystals is an astronomical number for any Bone Forging Realm expert, and Lin Qi, as a young man, could not help but be tempted. However, facing a monster like Tu An, it was hard for Lin Qi to imagine what the situation was like.

"With such a generous reward offered by the city lord, I doubt anyone could resist such a temptation." Lin Qi nodded, his expression resolute.

His earlier request was merely an attempt to get Diroya to pay more.

He originally thought that Diroya would be willing to add 20,000 or 30,000 at most, but he didn't expect him to ask for 100,000 right away. How could he refuse?

"He's gone mad! He's gone mad! Stop him!" Old Xiang almost jumped up when he saw Lin Qi volunteering.

Humanity finally has someone capable of breaking through to the Blood Condensation Realm, but unexpectedly, he is so greedy for money that he is even willing to risk his life.

However, before Elder Xiang and the others could dissuade him, City Lord Di Luoya directly agreed to let Lin Qi go on stage right now, which made Elder Xiang and the others almost despair.

City Lord Diroya had already given permission, and Lin Qi had taken the initiative to go on stage. If they dared to cause any more trouble, they might all be kicked out. "It's over, it's all over now." Old Xiang looked at Lin Qi going on stage, his eyes filled with indescribable disappointment.

“Elder Xiang, according to my investigation, that Master Lin is not a fool.” Xiong Yuedie looked at Lin Qi, who had a calm expression, and couldn’t help but express her thoughts. “Since he is willing to go on stage to compete, he must have a certain degree of confidence.”

"Are you confident?" Looking at Lin Qi on the stage, Old Xiang felt a glimmer of hope. He thought Xiong Yuedie's words made a lot of sense. He had been too impatient and had even forgotten that Lin Qi was a genius.

After witnessing Tuan's performance, a genius like him would not have chosen to fight unless he was confident, since it was a matter of life and death and could not be taken lightly.

"Hold on? These humans are really dreaming." The elegant noblewoman of the Feather Clan glanced at Elder Xiang and the others not far away, her heart filled with disdain and schadenfreude.

Tuan did demonstrate his strength, but that was only a part of it. Hulei, the city lord of Star Tower City, said that Tuan could transform twice more, which means he could increase his combat power twice more. Who knows how much his combat power would increase by these two transformations?

Lin Qi had only recently killed a four-armed sword demon who wasn't even a top-tier Bone Forging Realm expert, and had also destroyed a lot of the martial arts school, which shows that Lin Qi's strength wasn't that great.

Even if Lin Qi had been hiding his strength, he was at most a little stronger than Tu An in his current state. Once Tu An transforms again, the outcome of the battle will be uncertain.

On the arena, as the barriers around the arena rose, Tuan, who was nearly five meters tall, looked at Lin Qi with some curiosity.

“I thought the City of Light was just a bunch of old, weak, sick and disabled people, not a single one of them a brave warrior. You’re quite something though,” Tuan praised. “With your courage, I’ll make sure you die without pain.”

"I'm afraid you can't do it." Lin Qi shook his head as he looked at Tu An, who resembled a demon in fire.

Although he didn't know exactly how strong Tuan's physical abilities were, even in his normal state, he was terrifyingly strong.

His actual strength is close to seventeen tons, and his speed is nearly two hundred meters per second.

Once the club is used in combat, the strength can be increased by 50%, reaching 25 tons. This is a strength that even top-level Bone Forging Realm experts who have mastered the third level of super-grade martial arts can never achieve.

A normal top-tier Bone Forging Realm expert's punch force is only about 20 tons, and with the second-tier armor, it's only 26 tons. But when he's wearing second-tier armor, the force of his blow is nearly 35 tons. This is a difference that can't be bridged by simply increasing body size.

“Diloya, your deputy city lord is quite interesting. He can remain so calm in the face of Tuan. It seems he is quite strong.” Hu Lei looked at Lin Qi, who had a calm expression, and chuckled. “It seems that you and I are both very lucky today, and we have the opportunity to witness Tuan’s second transformation.”

Diroya remained silent, watching Lin Qi on the arena with some nervousness.

He knew very well that since Lin Qi was willing to go on stage, he must have some confidence. Although he didn't think Lin Qi could beat Tu An, he just needed to stall for time, unlike the Crystal Clan elder before, whose battle lasted less than a second. By the time the one from the Domain City arrived, he would probably be bankrupt.

On the stage.

"You're quite good. It seems you're confident you can defeat me now." Tu'an looked at the unmoved Lin Qi, his excitement growing even stronger. "Then I won't hold back anymore. Feel honored! You will become the 33rd person to make me use my second transformation!"

After speaking, Tuan's body grew taller again, and jet-black scales sprouted all over his body, making him look like a giant of the Mountain Clan. Fortunately, the second-tier battle armor was made of nanomaterials, which could change shape at will according to the person's body, and Tuan immediately turned back into a blood-red beast.

At this moment, Tu'an not only underwent a significant change in appearance, but his qi and blood also surged dramatically. His terrifying qi and blood even naturally transformed into a pillar of energy, rushing straight towards the energy barrier above. People outside the energy barrier could feel waves of heat and an indescribable sense of suffocation.

"How could it have improved so much?" Diloya was astonished as he looked at Tuan after his second transformation.

Compared to the last time, even without measuring with instruments, it's clear how amazing this improvement is. It's fair to say that Tuan is no longer human; calling him a king among high-level lords wouldn't be an exaggeration.

"The transformation of the Flame Horn Clan is indeed as good as its reputation suggests." Hu Lei, who was standing to the side, was also extremely shocked.

He had seen the first stage transformation of the Flame Horn Clan quite a few times before, but this was the first time he had seen the second stage transformation, and he hadn't expected it to be so powerful.

Having completed his second transformation, Tu'an thrust out his spear without using any techniques, a simple thrust that was as fast as lightning, catching many Bone Forging Realm experts below the stage off guard.

clang!
clang!
clang!
A series of loud explosions followed, and sparks flew everywhere.

"You actually managed to block it?" Tuan looked at Lin Qi, who was holding a black club, in astonishment, hardly believing it was true.

His second-stage transformation is much stronger and faster than the first stage. With the help of his third-level super-class martial skill and second-class armor, the force of a single spear thrust is nearly 37 tons. Such force would send even the deputy city lords flying instantly without using any martial skills.

But Lin Qi simply parried normally and took it all down as if nothing had happened, which was simply unbelievable.

"Very good! No wonder you were so confident before. You're worthy of making me use my full strength!"

Tu An burst into laughter, taking a step back to a corner of the arena. With a roar, his body rose to nearly seven meters tall, resembling a high-level monster. His blood and qi filled the entire arena, causing ripples to appear around the barriers.

"I've already demonstrated the three-stage transformation to the captain. You're fortunate enough to be the second one. Even if you die, you can still be proud." Tuan looked at Lin Qi, his fighting spirit rising.

Although his second-stage transformation was not incapable of defeating Lin Qi, he still enjoyed the feeling of crushing a genius.

Under the third stage of transformation, his actual strength can reach 45 tons, which is comparable to that of a Blood Condensation Realm expert. However, among all the members of the Holy Blood Mercenary Group, only the leader knows this.

However, the leader is too strong. Even in the third stage of transformation, he is just an infant in front of the leader. He has no sense of fighting and is just being toyed with.

But now he felt that Lin Qi in front of him should be able to give him a sense of fighting.

"A three-stage transformation? Something to be proud of?" Lin Qi looked at Tu An, who was as big as a small mountain, and couldn't help but laugh. "You don't think you're the only one who can transform, do you?"

As he spoke, Lin Qi activated the Star Energy Construct Body Secret Technique. His entire body was enveloped in a transparent energy, and his hair and clothes moved without wind. An indescribable life force directly dominated the entire scene.

"You can actually transform? How is that possible!" Tu'an looked at Lin Qi, whose life force was surging, his scarlet eyes filled with disbelief.

Not only Tuan was shocked, but everyone in the venue was stunned, unable to understand how a human could transform.

On the arena, Lin Qi, who had activated his extraordinary form, did not want to waste energy. He appeared in front of Tu An in an instant and swung his staff fiercely, giving Tu An no chance to use his martial arts skills.

Tuan reacted quickly, immediately raising his gun to defend himself.

boom!
The spear and the club did not collide at all. Instead, the club in Lin Qi's hand seemed to be alive. At the critical moment, it changed its attack trajectory, avoided Tu An's spear block, and hit Tu An with the club.

As an extraordinary life form, Lin Qi's strength limit far exceeds fifteen tons, reaching a full twenty-one tons. Although it is not as much as the limit under normal circumstances, with the amplification of the club's immense force, a single blow can reach fifty-six tons.

This blow to Tu'an's second-tier battle armor was no less powerful than Tu'an enduring a strike from a top-tier Bone Forging Realm expert using a martial skill.

In a single impact, Tuan was sent hurtling into the energy barrier of the arena. His armor shattered, and his internal organs were broken by the force of the impact. He collapsed onto the arena, barely breathing, blood gushing from his mouth. It was clear he was beyond saving...

(End of this chapter)