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

Chapter 266 Extraordinary Bones!

The third level of the Cultivation Tower, inside the cultivation chamber.

After consuming three types of energy potions in one go, Lin Qi did not immediately attempt to break through to the Bone Forging Realm using Luo Wushang's method. Instead, he opened the system menu and extracted the player's spiritual secret technique.

"Now I'm 93% proficient in the first level of my mental technique. Once I break through to the perfect level, my control over my own strength and energy will be further improved. This way, even if I activate the extraordinary state, I can reduce the risk of energy loss of control. I won't be like Luo Wushang, who clearly mastered it but still died from the backlash."

Lin Qi recalled Luo Wushang's tempering of her entire skeleton in a transcendent state, and quickly extracted the top-ranked players in the first level of mastery of the spiritual technique.

While the extraordinary state fundamentally alters the level of life, it is not the norm. In this state, it's like an ordinary person suddenly gaining the power to crush steel with their bare hands. Without extremely strong self-control, they couldn't even lift a glass, let alone temper their entire skeletal structure.

The biggest problem for Luo Wushang when she tried to break through to the Bone Forging Realm in the extraordinary state was that her control was greatly reduced. After countless deaths, she gradually got used to the extraordinary state and finally succeeded in breaking through in the extraordinary state.

In terms of personal control over his body and manipulation of energy, he could be said to be far superior to Luo Wushang. However, considering the discomfort of being in the extraordinary state, he decided to play it safe and first raise the first level of his mental techniques to perfection.

During this period, he had already reached 93% proficiency in the first level of mental arts. However, since players' proficiency in the first level of mental arts was not very high, he put the first level of mental arts aside and focused on improving his martial arts. Not only have all six of his martial arts reached the first level of perfection, but he has also achieved more than 50% proficiency in the second level, making considerable progress in martial arts.

Many top players have now reached over 80% proficiency in the first level of their mental techniques, making it entirely possible for them to achieve perfection in the first level of mental techniques.

System: Congratulations, host, the first level of your mental technique has been upgraded to 96% proficiency.

System: Congratulations, host, the first level of your mental technique has been upgraded to 98% proficiency.

System: Congratulations, host, the first level of your mental technique has been upgraded to 100% proficiency.

System: Congratulations, host, the first level of your mental technique has been upgraded to 100% proficiency.

System: Congratulations, host, the first level of your mental technique has been upgraded to 100% proficiency.

……

It wasn't until Lin Qi extracted the mental secret technique for the eighth time that the massive amount of memories extracted from the player's mind seemed to connect together, directly causing a qualitative change.

System: Congratulations, host, that you have reached the perfect state in the first level of your spiritual technique.

"This control over Qi and blood is astonishing!"

Lin Qi was deeply shocked as he felt his control over his qi and blood.

When I first started learning the secret techniques of the mind, I could make my energy leave my body, which was already quite impressive in terms of control over my qi and blood. But now it's a qualitative leap.

Although this qualitative change is not a buff like martial arts skills that can be directly reflected in the panel data, its benefits to the future and the improvement in combat power are definitely stronger than the direct improvement brought by martial arts skills.

If in the past, the control of Qi and blood was simply a matter of using the palms and soles to generate and release force, now it seems that every pore of the body can freely generate and release force.

In this situation, even if someone attacks him from behind, he doesn't need to move. He can simply draw strength from his back to fight back, as if there is an invisible hand behind him. He truly achieves complete protection without any blind spots.

"With this level of control, I should be able to break through to the Transcendent Bone Forging Realm now." Lin Qi felt satisfied with his control over his own blood and energy, and then activated his Transcendent state to attempt to break through to the Bone Forging Realm.

As Lin Qi had predicted, in his extraordinary state, although his control over his own blood and energy had decreased considerably, he was still able to approach his normal level of control over his blood and energy thanks to the control he had achieved at the first perfect level of his mental techniques.

Unlike Luo Wushang, who, after entering a transcendent state, could accidentally crush water cups and medicine bottles, or who died from excessive energy input during bone tempering, resulting in the shattering of all her bones.

Because Lin Qi had the impactful memories and experience from Luo Wushang, coupled with his control far exceeding that of Luo Wushang, the tempering of his entire skeletal structure was exceptionally smooth, or rather, a natural progression.

In less than five minutes, with the help of the rich energy gathered by the cultivation tower and the three types of energy potions, his entire skeleton seemed to be plated with gold. His bones were no longer just bones, but more like titanium alloy, and the power they could bear was incomparable to his previous body.

After the initial tempering of the entire skeleton is completed, the bone's blood-producing ability also becomes completely different, or rather, the blood produced is no longer ordinary blood. If you cut your finger and bleed, you will find that the blood is no longer bright red, but faintly glows. With each natural breath, external energy can be naturally absorbed into the blood and circulate throughout the body, continuously strengthening the entire body from the inside out. This is incomparable to the previous organ refining stage.

In particular, the brain receives energy from this blood supply, which greatly increases its thinking speed and computing power, and its concentration undergoes a qualitative change.

"Is this the Bone Forging Realm?"

After Lin Qi exited his superhuman state, he felt that the world looked different.

With just a little concentration, one can clearly see the leaves on the trees several kilometers away outside the cultivation room window. If one concentrates even further, the falling leaves will appear to slow down.

Compared to the terrifying improvement in eyesight, hearing has also undergone a qualitative change. Just by slightly opening the window of the training room, all sounds within a kilometer radius of the training tower can be heard clearly. Even the disciples of the martial arts garrison below the tower discussing what to eat in town after training, and which new female disciple of the garrison is the prettiest, can be heard perfectly.

However, in addition to these, Lin Qi also discovered that the scope of his mental domain had actually expanded.

Not only has the distance increased from ten meters to fifteen meters, but my head doesn't burn as much anymore.

"No wonder everyone says that those in the Bone Forging Realm are no longer human. This feeling is like a complete transformation." Lin Qi took a slight breath, and the surrounding energy was naturally absorbed into his body, automatically sent to his entire body through his blood, stimulating every cell. He could continuously become stronger without needing any breathing techniques or training methods.

This also made Lin Qi understand why martial artists in the Bone Forging Realm seek out places with high energy concentration as their residences, and even need gravity chambers.

It must be said that a martial artist who has cultivated to the Bone Forging Realm is completely different from before.

When martial artists reach the Refining Organs Realm, they still have to struggle to find ways to introduce external energy into their bodies to stimulate their internal organs. However, when they reach the Bone Forging Realm, even without training methods, all the cells in their bodies will be stimulated by external energy at every moment. The efficiency improvement is on a completely different level.

What martial artists in the Bone Forging Realm need to do is find ways to speed up this process. Whether in places with high energy concentration or by squeezing all the cells in their bodies through a gravity chamber, they can achieve better strengthening of their entire body.

Without such an environment, unless one is a genius who can further strengthen their bones and make their blood more capable of absorbing external energy, progress on the path to the Bone Forging Realm will be extremely slow.

"I wonder how strong my body is now." After experiencing the Bone Forging Realm for a while, Lin Qi couldn't help but open his attribute panel.

Host: Lin Qi. Age: 25.

Administrator privileges: Level 2.

Permission level: Level 3 merit-based admission permission.

Martial Arts Level: Initial Stage of Bone Forging Realm Martial Artist.

Strength: 15000.3 + 3200 kg. (Standard for a beginner-level Bone Forging Realm martial artist: 6000 kg)

Speed: 160.1 + 32 meters per second. (Standard for a beginner-level Bone Forging Realm martial artist: 80 meters per second)
Internal organs: 150% of internal training and strengthening has been completed.

Bone tempering: The overall bone tempering level is 15% complete.

Training method: Shocking Breathing Method (4% of the entry level of the third stage of the Six Forms of Ghostly Light, the second stage of the Perfected Realm of Cloud and Mist Transformation, and the second stage of the Perfected Realm of the Three Stages of Reverse Stars)
"Such a big improvement?" Lin Qi looked at his panel and was somewhat surprised.

In his current normal state, he is practically like a high-level martial artist in his superhuman state. His base strength is three tons higher than Luo Wushang's. And this is only the third level of his first training method. If he can reach the third level of the remaining two training methods, all his data will definitely improve further.

Even so, he is still terrifying now. Before, when his three training methods reached the second level of perfection, his actual strength was only close to twenty tons. But now his actual strength far exceeds twenty tons. First of all, the three super-level martial arts have reached perfection, which increases the strength buff by 35%. With the addition of the 30% from the body strengthening secret technique, his actual strength is 1.65 times his current stats.

In other words, his ordinary punch now has the force of thirty tons, enough to blow up a top-level Bone Forging Realm expert.

If you add the big club in his hand, the force will increase by 50%, reaching 45 tons. The standard force for a martial artist at the initial stage of the Blood Condensation Realm is only 45 tons.

In other words, with the club in his hand, his strength was equivalent to that of a martial artist at the initial stage of the Blood Condensation Realm. Although he was the weakest of the Blood Condensation Realm, he was still a genuine Blood Condensation Realm expert, capable of controlling a city.

"If I can get the other two training methods to the third level, even without activating my extraordinary state, my strength should be about the same as a normal early-stage Blood Condensation Realm martial artist." Lin Qi felt his power and was very satisfied.

Now he finally has a bit of self-protection in this world. Even if a mid-level Blood Condensation Realm expert like Hu Lei, the city lord of Star Tower City, comes, he is confident that he can fight him.

After experiencing the new sensations brought by the Bone Forging Realm for a short while, Lin Qi continued his cultivation to stabilize his current Qi and blood and state.

The next day, in the City of Light.

With the end of the city war, the entire City of Light returned to its former prosperity. In fact, as the victor, more and more martial artists from surrounding cities couldn't resist coming to live there, making the Martial Arts Association building extremely busy.

On the top floor of the Martial Arts Association building, all the martial artists in the association were astonished after a giant skyship bearing the flag of the Domain City slowly descended.

"Why are the martial artists from the Domain City here?"

"So many martial artists have come, and they are all so strong! I feel that any one of them is probably at least at the mid-stage of the Bone Forging Realm."

"Is the gap between people really that big? I'm only applying to the genius training camp this year, and they're all about my age, yet they're all at the Bone Forging Realm. Is this what geniuses in the Domain City are like?"

The martial artists coming and going on the rooftop of the building couldn't help but gasp as they watched a group of young men and women descend from the giant ship in the sky.

The hundreds of young men and women who disembarked from the giant sky ship were all at the Bone Forging Realm, with the lowest being at the mid-stage of the Bone Forging Realm. Moreover, they were generally under twenty-four years old, and those who were twenty-five or twenty-six years old all exuded the aura of high-stage Bone Forging Realm martial artists.

The young Sen Clan man, who was leading these young men and women, almost made all the Bone Forging Realm warriors in the audience kneel down simply by stepping off the giant sky ship.

"This blood and qi! Blood Condensation Realm! How is this possible!"

"Does the Domain City actually have such a young Blood Condensation Realm martial artist?"

Some of the high-level martial artists in the Bone Forging Realm from the City of Light couldn't believe their eyes as they watched the young man from the Forest Clan walk down.

The Blood Coagulation Realm is their lifelong dream. Even if they are geniuses who graduated from the genius training camp, they feel that their life has been worthwhile if they can achieve it before the age of sixty. They can even become urban legends.

But a young man who was not even thirty years old had achieved something that they could never achieve in their entire lives.

After the young man from the Forest Clan stepped down, a man and a woman also disembarked from the giant ship in the sky. The man was a half-scaled race member, and his aura was equally extraordinary. He was clearly a master of the Blood Condensation Realm, but he was already over thirty-five years old. The woman was clearly twenty-five or twenty-six years old, with long golden hair and two silver-gray horns on her forehead, giving her an indescribable beauty.

"Miss Precia, thank you for showing us the way." The young Sen tribesman leading the group smiled at the beautiful Precia, his kindness evident.

"Bert, what are you doing here as representatives of Earth Star Pharmaceuticals in the Tianhe region? You're not going to tell me you just want to see the scenery of this City of Light, are you? If you don't have a clear reason, then we have an obligation to continue following you." Precia's attitude was completely unfriendly, and her words were indescribably cold.

In the Tianhe region, Dixing Pharmaceutical is a behemoth that rivals Yucheng in size, and it holds more than 50% of the market share for type 3 and above drugs in the four regions.

The fact that Star Tower City was able to produce its second Blood Condensation Realm expert was thanks to Earth Star Pharmaceuticals.

The sudden arrival of representatives from Earth Star Pharmaceuticals at Fog Mountain Prison has forced the city to take precautions.

"Miss Precia, rest assured, we are not bad people, we are a legitimate company." Bert looked at Precia's cold words and smiled, "And don't worry, we will not do anything to the City of Light. Star Tower City is just our client, and our clients' affairs have nothing to do with us."

"Then why did you insist on coming all the way to the City of Light? The energy density here probably can't meet your daily cultivation needs," Precia said, looking at Bert and voicing her doubts.

Bert, as one of the top ten contestants in the last Four Domains Grand Competition, can be said to have a bright future. In fact, after advancing to the Blood Condensation Realm this time, he has a real chance to compete for the top five. Instead of consolidating his Blood Condensation Realm and preparing for the next Four Domains Youth Grand Competition, he came to this desolate City of Light. It's really strange that he came here for the Star Tower City.

"For a traitor." Bert suddenly said with a cold expression, "One of our company's employees not only betrayed the company, but also took an important document with him when he left. We accidentally got information that this traitor is in the City of Light, so I came here to arrest him. I think Miss Precia should have no problem with this, right?"

"Are you arresting a traitor to your company?" Precia asked, somewhat surprised. "Could you provide information about that person? Just tell me their name, I need to confirm it."

“Her real name has long been concealed,” Bert said casually. “Her current name is Jacques, and she seems to be known as the Poison Rose in major cities.”

(End of this chapter)