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

Chapter 319 Fourth-Tier Guardian Heavy Armor

Inside the rest room for advanced students at the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy.

"Brother Wu, what did Master Lin say?" Hong Luo looked at Wu Zhuoqun as he entered the room, his eyes filled with anticipation. "Can the inheritance metal plate be sold?"

"The master explicitly refused." Wu Zhuoqun shook his head and asked with some concern, "Brother Hong, the master refused that person. Won't this cause some serious trouble?"

According to what Hong Luo had said before, the son of the elder of Tianhe City originally wanted to participate in the Red Moon Auction and bid for the inheritance metal plate.

Normally speaking, the sons of the elders of the domain city are not considered important figures. After all, the elders in the domain city have many children, just like the high-ranking members of those city gangs. They have dozens, if not more, a dozen or so children. Only with more children is there a greater chance of a talented person being born.

However, this elder's son is different. He is already a half-step Celestial Realm expert, and he is only one step away from achieving the Celestial Realm by strengthening his brain. His status is incomparable to that of the elder's ordinary children.

“It’s not going to be a big problem.” Hong Luo explained to the worried Wu Zhuoqun, “The cities in the four domains are all in charge of their own affairs and will not interfere in the affairs of other domains. Even if that person is furious, it will not affect the Wushan region. It’s just that that person is the one who has the best chance of persuading the deputy city lord of Tianhe Domain City to negotiate cooperation with the Obsidian Martial Arts School.”

Wu Zhuoqun breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this, and asked again, "In that case, does our Obsidian Martial Arts School still have a chance to negotiate cooperation with Tianhe Domain City?"

He was aware of the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy's desire to cooperate with Tianhe Domain City, as it involved the production of energy blood essence, and he was responsible for arranging manpower for it.

But now that they've rejected the elder's son, it's clearly more difficult to purchase energy blood essence manufacturing equipment from Tianhe Domain City.

Without energy blood essence manufacturing equipment, it is foreseeable that everyone in the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy will likely stop at the initial stage of the Blood Condensation Realm and find it difficult to achieve higher levels.

"Among the people we know in Azurewing City, there is one who can pass on the message, but persuading that person will be even more difficult. I can only give it a try," Hong Luo said with a wry smile.

He originally thought it would be easy to pass on a message to the higher-ups in Tianhe City, but he didn't expect things to turn out this way. Now, it's become quite difficult for him to earn the Fruit of Life.

……

Tianhe District, Tianhe City.

On the majestic mountaintop, a half-beastman, who was over forty years old but looked no more than twenty-five, sat quietly on a stone platform made entirely of energy blood essence. With each breath, the energy within a hundred meters radius was involuntarily drawn into the half-beastman's body, but the energy drawn into his body quickly dissipated, restoring calm to the hundred-meter radius.

"As expected, my blood energy concentration has reached its limit, and I can't absorb even a tiny bit more." The half-beastman frowned. "It seems that if I want to further improve my blood energy and safely complete the final brain enhancement, I can only rely on the effects of the body-strengthening secret technique mentioned by the Red Moon Merchant Guild."

Just as the half-beastman got up to practice his martial arts, an elderly half-beastman with the strength of a high-level Blood Condensation Realm cultivator strode over.

"Young Master Rexxar, news has arrived from Azurewing City." The orc elder stepped forward and looked at the man with great awe.

Rexxar Zornk!

This name is known to everyone in Tianhe City. He is Elder Fanel's most outstanding son. He is not even 45 years old and has already reached the half-step Celestial Realm. Many people in Tianhe City believe that Rexar will become the next elder within five years.

"What did that Obsidian Martial Arts School say?" Rexxar asked. "How many Energy Blood Essences do they want?"

"Young Master Rexxar, the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy has refused, saying they will not sell the inheritance metal plate," the orc elder reported in detail.

“Refuse to sell?” Rexxar narrowed his eyes, his voice suddenly becoming low. “I’m already giving them face by paying a high price for what they snatched from the Red Moon Merchant Guild. It seems the Obsidian Martial Arts School is indeed as arrogant as the rumors say.”

"This Obsidian Martial Arts Academy is indeed very arrogant. According to my investigation, it has offended many forces, including the Red Moon Merchant Guild, the Smiling Skull, and Earth Star Pharmaceuticals." The elder of the half-beast race nodded. "However, the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy is also very powerful. It has more than two hundred martial artists with the strength of the initial stage of the Blood Condensation Realm. The academy master even killed one of the seven guardians of the Smiling Skull, Mo Xiao, by himself. His strength should be comparable to that of a half-step Celestial. The Mist Mountain region is resource-poor and there are no powerful forces. That's probably why it is so arrogant."

"The reason they contacted you through Azurewing City this time is probably because they offended the Red Moon Merchant Guild. They wanted to use you as a connection to get in touch with the Deputy City Lord to purchase energy blood essence manufacturing equipment. Now that they have rejected you, they will likely contact someone else through Azurewing City to go to the Deputy City Lord."

"Do you want to contact the deputy city lord?" Rexxar nodded and then instructed, "A force that has only recently made some progress in the Mist Mountain region, since they don't give me face, then they can forget about the energy blood essence manufacturing equipment in Tianhe Domain City. Inform those who have influence that they should leave this matter alone, consider it a favor I owe them."

"Yes." The elder of the half-orc clan bowed and left.

Inside a magnificent arena in Tianhe Domain City.

A human man who was only thirty-five or thirty-six years old and a little over two meters tall had already reached the limit of the high-level Blood Condensation Realm. He fought a Calamity-level earth dragon with a body length of more than two or three hundred meters by himself and his sword.

Although the limbs of the Cataclysmic Earth Dragon were bound by chains imprinted with mysterious runes, preventing it from unleashing its full power, as a dragon creature, its strength was still somewhat greater than that of a normal Cataclysmic monster. However, this human man was able to suppress it, and the phantom of its blood energy could even easily pierce through the Earth Dragon's body. However, the Cataclysmic Earth Dragon's recovery ability was also terrifyingly strong. In just a few seconds, the blood hole the size of a well was completely healed, and it became even more ferocious than before.

After fighting for quite some time, the human man's health was reduced by more than half, so he stopped fighting and quickly left the battlefield, leaving the bound Calamity-level Earth Dragon only able to roar in anger, but unable to do anything about it.

"I still can't kill a Cataclysmic-level monster by myself." Looking at the Cataclysmic-level earth dragon, whose blood and energy were still surging like fire, the man couldn't help but give up fighting.

As the man prepared to leave the arena, a human woman, around twenty-six or twenty-seven years old, with the strength of the initial stage of the Blood Condensation Realm, short red hair, one pale gold eye, and one pale green eye, walked in.

"Junior Sister Lingye, is there something you need?" the human man asked with a smile when he saw the red-haired woman.

"Brother Yinghu, it's been a while since we last met, and your physical abilities have improved a lot. It seems that you're only three to five years away from becoming a half-step Celestial Realm expert. When that happens, you'll be the youngest half-step Celestial Realm expert in our Tianhe Domain City in the last thirty years," Ling Ye said, looking at the man with great admiration.

"Breaking through physical limits isn't that simple. Even that genius Rexxar took seven years." Shadow Tiger looked at his junior sister Ling Ye and couldn't help but shake his head. "Let's talk about something."

"The Azure Wing City has contacted us, hoping that you, Senior Brother, can help a force called Obsidian Martial Arts Academy by sending a message to the Deputy City Lord," Ling Ye said. "However, Rexxar also said that we shouldn't get involved in this matter; consider it a favor we owe him."

“Back in the restricted area, I did owe Azurewing City a favor.” Shadow Tiger couldn’t help but wonder after hearing this. “But how exactly did Obsidian Martial Arts School offend Rexxar that they would be willing to owe him a favor?”

“It seems that the Obsidian Martial Arts School didn’t sell Rexxar anything he wanted,” Ling Ye said. “Brother Yinghu, this is a good opportunity to make Rexxar owe us a favor. With this favor, we can get Rexxar’s help when we go to the Forbidden Zone. If we use it well, we might even be able to get some good stuff from the Forbidden Zone to quickly break through to the Half-Step Celestial Realm.” “Indeed,” Yinghu also fell into deep thought.

As the elder's closed-door disciple and a key talent cultivated by Tianhe Domain City, he was one of the few people in the domain city who could directly contact the deputy city lord. However, this contact was not casual; it was normal to incur the deputy city lord's displeasure unless it was something serious.

After all, the deputy city lord is a very busy person who manages many affairs of the domain city. If he is asked to do something trivial, it will only lower his evaluation and he can forget about any benefits or resources in the future.

Furthermore, it would offend a genius like Rexxar, who is at the half-step Celestial Realm, so it's a losing proposition.

"Senior brother, I'll go and reply to Cangyi City now. I can't help with this." Ling Ye said.

"Wait a minute!" Yinghu called out to Lingye, speechless. "How many times have I told you, you can't rush into anything. Think it over carefully before making a decision. That's how you maximize your benefits."

"Then what do we do?" Ling Ye asked.

“Go to the Obsidian Martial Arts School yourself and investigate it thoroughly,” Shadow Tiger said with a smile. “Rexar is just one step away from breaking through to the Celestial Realm. He won’t ask for anything for no reason. I guess that thing should be of some help to Rexar. Since that thing is of some help to Rexar, it might also be of some help to me. If it is of great help to me, I might as well help him. If it is of no use, then I’ll have to put aside the favor I owe to Azurewing City for now.”

"Senior brother, I understand! You want to reap the benefits!" Ling Ye said with great admiration after hearing this. "Then I'll go and do it right away."

After saying that, Ling Ye disappeared from his spot in one step. When he was seen again, he was already more than 500 meters away. His speed was so fast that it was as if he had teleported.

……

Red Moon Town, Obsidian Martial Arts School.

After announcing the conditions for players to learn the third level of the Body Strengthening Secret Technique and simultaneously opening the modification of the Elementary Martial Arts Training Room, Lin Qi finally returned to his personal Elementary Meditation Room, picked up the two smartwatches on the table, and started checking them.

"As expected of the shop owner, he has a lot of training methods and martial arts techniques at his disposal." Lin Qi looked at the shop owner's smart watch and couldn't help but sigh.

This time, the player wiped out the Red Moon Merchant Guild's branch, which can be said to have made him a lot of money. Not only did he earn a large amount of energy ore, but he could also renovate nearly a thousand rest areas and obtain a large number of training methods and martial arts skills. This has increased the foundation of the Obsidian Martial Arts School. In the future, new players can choose to learn more basic martial arts skills and will no longer be limited to fist and foot kung fu. They can also learn basic martial arts skills such as swords, spears, and halberds.

However, compared to the dozen or so training methods and martial arts techniques collected from the store before, the martial arts techniques in the store owner's smartwatch are truly numerous, numbering over a hundred, especially the martial arts techniques, including one of the extraordinary-level martial arts techniques.

Named the Heavenly Shadow Step, it allows the user to create up to a hundred shadows. These hundred shadows are difficult to distinguish with the naked eye, and each one has a certain attack power, making it an incredibly powerful martial art.

Even for him personally, the Heavenly Shadow Step is more powerful than those extreme extraordinary martial arts techniques. After all, many martial arts techniques can be used at the same time, but movement-type martial arts techniques can be used together with many other martial arts techniques.

However, the Heavenly Shadow Step is also exceptionally difficult to learn, as it creates a hundred shadow clones, essentially requiring a multitasking mind. This demands an exceptionally high level of mental focus, but this is not a major problem for players.

After examining the shop owner's smartwatch, Lin Qi then opened Elder Kui Lang's smartwatch and was quickly drawn to a cracked encrypted file.

After watching for a while, Lin Qi's breathing became somewhat rapid.

"Where did Kui Lang get this thing from? Didn't he just hand it over to the Red Moon Merchant Guild in exchange for benefits?" Lin Qi couldn't help but gasp as he looked at the thousands of pages of pictures and text.

Kui Lang's previous attempt to extort him was nothing more than a desire to exchange some cultivation resources in order to break through his bottleneck and achieve the Celestial Realm.

But now, seeing what's inside the smartwatch, he suddenly felt that Kui Lang was probably no longer satisfied with just the Red Moon Chamber of Commerce.

After Lin Qi finished reading everything, he immediately had someone contact Luo Qi and asked her to take a flying car to Chiyue Town, regardless of what Luo Qi was doing or what she wanted to do.

"What is it that you had to call me here directly? Couldn't you have just said it in the store?" Luo Qi looked at Lin Qi in the beginner meditation room with a speechless expression.

Since she officially became a member of the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy, she felt like she had never had a moment's rest. She was used as a ruthless mechanic 24 hours a day, either repairing second-tier armor or developing third-tier weapons.

Although her life is much better than before, she lives on the most bustling commercial street in the City of Light, and the food she eats is no longer synthetic food, but all-natural delicacies made by the chefs in the restaurants. She can eat monster meat until she's stuffed, and becoming a martial artist is no longer a dream.

"I've got something good to show you." Lin Qi smiled and handed Luo Qi the Kui Lang smartwatch.

"Something good? An exercise method?" Luo Qi took the smartwatch, wondering what good thing Lin Qi could show her.

Lin Qi had told her before that he could help her become a martial artist, or even more than that, and that she would have the opportunity to reach a higher realm. So she stopped training. After all, her training method was just the basic training method taught at school. It was impossible for her to become a martial artist, let alone reach a higher realm in the future.

When Luo Qi finished looking at what was inside the smartwatch, she was completely astonished.

"Tier 4 battle armor design blueprints!"

"How did you get that?!"

Luo Qi stared intently at Lin Qi, unable to believe that Lin Qi could obtain such an incredible item.

In major cities, and even across the four regions, the highest-level armor known to people is only Tier 2 armor, suitable for warriors in the Bone Forging Realm. Tier 3 armor, which is designed to be suitable for warriors in the Blood Condensation Realm, has not yet been perfected, let alone manufactured.

But the blueprints Lin Qi showed her were for a Tier 4 battle armor, a battle armor that could never exist!
Tier 4 Guardian Heavy Armor!
A battle armor suitable for legendary Celestial Realm Grandmasters!

"How about it? Can you make it?" Lin Qi asked with a smile.

(End of this chapter)