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

Chapter 324 A sudden increase in strength
Inside the rest area of ​​the Obsidian Martial Arts School.

Lu Fanchen and Li Tianxing couldn't help but feel a little nervous as they watched Lin Xinyao drink the golden blood.

They had tried the blood of powerful monsters before, but this was the first time they had tried the blood of a powerful NPC, and they were very curious about what effect the blood of a powerful NPC would have.

However, after Lin Xinyao drank a drop of golden blood, there was no unusual reaction as everyone expected. Instead, Lin Xinyao sat quietly as if nothing had happened, without any reaction at all.

"It's not working?"

Lin Xinyao stretched her body, somewhat taken aback.

Back then, just drinking a mouthful of the blood of the two-horned cheetah allowed her to immediately feel an indescribable energy spreading throughout her body. But now, after drinking the golden blood, she felt no energy at all, not even as much as eating a bite of ordinary monster meat.

"Could it be that the amount is not enough?" Li Tianxing looked at Lin Xinyao and analyzed, "Back then, we drank monster blood one sip at a time, but now we only drink one drop, so we don't feel anything."

"Isn't one drop enough?" Lin Xinyao thought about it and realized that it was indeed possible.

“This shouldn’t be a matter of quantity.” Lu Fanchen shook his head in thought, then carefully observed Lin Xinyao and said seriously, “Try entering a transcendent state.”

"Okay." Lin Xinyao didn't hesitate and immediately activated her extraordinary state.

boom!
The moment Lin Xinyao activated her extraordinary state, she swelled up to a whole size, her skin turned red, her blood vessels bulged out, and the energy around her expanded to more than ten times its original size, filling most of the rest room. This caused Lu Fanchen and Li Tianxing, both at the mid-stage of the Bone Forging Realm, to be forced back against the wall.

"So powerful!" Li Tianxing looked at Lin Xinyao at this moment, his heart filled with shock.

While Lin Xinyao was indeed powerful when she entered the extraordinary state before, with physical attributes even stronger than those of a beginner in the Blood Condensation Realm, now that her body has expanded to three or four meters, it's not just her physical attributes that are powerful; her overall energy has increased more than tenfold, which is simply unbelievable.

This level of energy, without exaggeration, has probably completely surpassed the Blood Coagulation Realm.

However, before Lin Xinyao could say anything, she suddenly exploded, splattering blood all over the room. A single drop of golden blood in the center slowly fell to the ground, as if nothing had happened.

"This..." Li Tianxing looked at the exploding Lin Xinyao and couldn't help but turn to Lu Fanchen, "Vice President, what exactly happened? Why did this golden blood suddenly become so powerful?"

Just a single drop was enough to cause Lin Xinyao, who was in her superhuman state, to burst. Such energy was simply incredible, yet he couldn't sense it at all, even now.

"Just as I guessed." Lu Fanchen looked at the exploding Lin Xinyao with a happy expression. "I found it strange before. Such a powerful NPC should have an extraordinary bloodline, even a drop of blood should be quite extraordinary, but we couldn't sense anything. The only possibility is that the level difference is too great, and we are no longer in the same dimension, so we can't sense it. Now that Xinyao has stepped into the extraordinary life, her life level has been improved, so she should have sensed the energy in it to some extent, so she was able to make use of it."

Upon hearing this, Li Tianxing suddenly realized the truth.

The difference in life levels is too great, just as two-dimensional beings cannot understand three-dimensional beings. The power wielded by three-dimensional beings is completely incomprehensible to two-dimensional beings, let alone their ability to observe and utilize it. That is why they have never been able to sense the power in the golden blood, and they don't even know how strong the female NPC really is. All they know is a nameless fear.

"However, the power of this drop of blood far exceeds my imagination. Next, we'll see how we can better utilize the energy contained in the blood while in our extraordinary state," Lu Fanchen said with a headache.

In his superhuman state, he already had little control over his body, and his mind required an even greater amount of effort to maintain it. Therefore, utilizing the energy in his golden blood undoubtedly became much more difficult.

“Vice President, how about we use it all to enhance the Body Strengthening Secret Technique?” Li Tianxing suggested. “The energy in this drop of blood is astonishing, which is perfect for testing. It will allow us to improve our cellular structure more quickly. Each time cells are reconstructed, they consume a lot of energy, so this drop of blood is very suitable.”

“This is indeed a treasure for further perfecting the extraordinary body.” Lu Fanchen’s eyes lit up after hearing this. “Alright, we’ll use it all to enhance our body-strengthening techniques from now on.”

Currently in the game, the Body Strengthening Technique is widely recognized as the best technique of the current version. This can be seen from the fact that Luo Wushang can restrain the leader of the Dragon Hunting Legion. Her defense is so high that it is inhuman. Even the big boss in the Blood Condensation Realm cannot do anything to her in a short time.

This is already so powerful even before Luo Wushang has reached the second level of perfection. It's unimaginable how powerful she would be if she reached the second level of perfection, or even the third level.

However, the more you practice the body-strengthening techniques, the more difficult they become.

The reason it's difficult to train is quite simple: the body's cells are too strong, and it's hard to find a way to destroy them with energy. If they can't be destroyed, then it's hard to know how to readjust the subtle structure of the cells to achieve the ideal structure described in the body-strengthening secret method. After all, everyone's situation is different. The secret method tells you the general ideal structure, but everyone's ideal structure is still slightly different, which requires constant attempts.

Golden blood can undoubtedly make up for this, making it a divine item for body refinement.

Just as Li Tianxing was about to ask something else, a system notification suddenly sounded in his ear, startling both of them.

"This beginner-level Spirit Tower is incredible!" Li Tianxing's eyes lit up as he looked at the system's description. "If we could build one, our cultivation speed might double!"

The biggest obstacle for these players to improve, if resources were the issue before, is now the time for trial and error.

Those who have reached the Bone Forging Realm will take more than an hour to revive after dying, meaning they can only try once every hour or so. Compared to when they were still apprentices, they could try once every few minutes. In terms of learning training methods and martial arts, this is much slower.

Although their mental activity far surpassed that of apprentices as their strength increased, the difficulty of learning training methods and martial arts techniques also continued to rise, resulting in a much slower overall improvement rate.

If the resurrection time is halved, it's equivalent to doubling the number of attempts per day, which would definitely make progress in training methods and martial arts much faster.

"The game developers are really generous this time. This beginner-level Spirit Tower is not only incredibly powerful in terms of cultivation, but also incredibly powerful in terms of wilderness exploration. Just placing one in the wilderness can double the speed of exploration." Lu Fanchen clicked his tongue slightly after seeing it. "Could it be that because the number of players has skyrocketed, the game developers are planning to lower the game's difficulty?"

"Vice President, should we raise funds now to build one at our base?" Li Tianxing asked impatiently. "Although it will benefit other players, if we build one at our base, not only will our cultivation speed double and we can break through to the Blood Condensation Realm faster, but we will also have more newcomers willing to join us."

With double the opportunities for trial and error, and the availability of the third-level training room in the cultivation tower, it's not impossible to break through to the Blood Condensation Realm in a short period of time.

If any of them achieves the Blood Coagulation Realm, the entire guild will be far ahead of other guilds and teams.

The promotion requirement for a three-star garrison is that it must have one member at the Blood Condensation Realm. The three-star garrison can recruit up to two thousand people, which is more than double the number of people in a two-star garrison. In addition, it can increase the number of martial arts resources that can be purchased in Red Moon Town, which will greatly help with recruitment.

Currently, the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy has a limited number of martial arts resources that players can exchange each day and each week, depending on their academy status. If players want to obtain additional martial arts resources, they can either go to the wilderness to obtain them themselves or purchase them from NPCs. The remaining resources are from the Guardian Corps, which are independent of players. Although the Guardian Corps doesn't provide many resources for players to exchange, it's always good for ordinary players to have an extra resource to exchange each day.

The resources of a three-star defense group are 20% more than those of a two-star defense group. This means that players in a three-star defense group can exchange for one more type 2 or type 3 energy potion per week, which is a significant advantage.

“There’s no rush to build a tower in the town. It’s beneficial for all players. If we’re going to build one, everyone will contribute, so I don’t think anyone will object,” Lu Fanchen said calmly, shaking his head. “However, we need to build this beginner-level spirit tower as soon as possible on the safe route through the Dead Mountain Range. This way, it can not only serve as a temporary base for our garrison, but other players will also help us clear a safe route faster. As long as we can open a safe route between the two regions before the other garrison groups, we can start trading between the two regions first and earn more resources.”

"Then I'll go and have someone prepare right away." Li Tianxing's eyes lit up upon hearing this, and he immediately went to contact the guild members. Even a fool would understand the enormous profits involved in trade between the two regions. If they could complete this before the other teams, their overall team's improvement speed would definitely surpass that of the others by a large margin.

At the same time, it wasn't just Lu Fanchen who thought this way; all the major teams thought the same.

As more and more players enter the game, resources will only become more and more scarce. With only so many maps available, it is natural to prioritize creating a new map where there is less competition.

So the various teams reached a preliminary consensus to pool funds in the center of Crimson Moon Town to build a basic spirit tower. As for the Mountain of the Dead, each team built its own. After all, the Mountain of the Dead was too big, and there was more than one safe route between the two regions. Rather than sharing with others, it was undoubtedly more desirable to have a safe route to yourself.

In an instant, whether in Crimson Moon Town or along the safe routes in the Dead Mountain Range, players from various teams were working like crazy, frantically moving energy ore to build basic spirit towers.

Meanwhile, the regular free players also tacitly gathered around the beginner spirit tower, forming strongholds within the Dead Mountain Range. The players became increasingly concentrated, and their numbers grew larger and larger.

Starting with a few hundred people, they gradually grew to several thousand at each stronghold, putting considerable pressure on the Smiling Skull, who had been besieging the strongholds and attacking reinforcements. They suspected that the Obsidian Martial Arts School was planning something big, so they retreated their battle lines by dozens of kilometers and sent out a large number of scouts to find out what the Obsidian Martial Arts School was up to.

The battle in the Mountain of the Dead has raged on, and although the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy has suffered heavy losses, the Smiling Skeletons have not been unscathed either. They have lost quite a few Bone Forging Realm warriors and several Blood Condensation Realm experts. And these deaths were only in the battle against a few hundred people. If it were a battle against thousands of people, it would be unimaginable how many would have died.

Meanwhile, in Red Moon Town, things were getting more and more lively. In just three days, a basic mental tower funded by Red Moon Town was completed. A strange energy enveloped the entire town, making all the players feel that their mental burden had been greatly reduced.

The intermediate gravity chamber of the martial arts school.

Lu Fanchen, Li Tianxing, and Lin Xinyao struggled to maintain their superhuman state. Even though their bodies had swelled to over four meters tall, they persevered, constantly adjusting their broken cells and trying to make them withstand more energy.

boom!
Li Tianxing suddenly exploded on the spot, and a drop of golden blood, which had been mostly consumed, slowly fell to the ground.

"As expected, without reaching the Blood Condensation Realm, it's too difficult to step into the third level." Lin Xinyao glanced at the exploding Li Tianxing and sighed inwardly.

In the past three days, thanks to the energy of the golden blood, or perhaps because the terrifying energy was constantly pushing their bodies to their limits, the physical abilities of the three of them have improved by leaps and bounds. They have all reached the high-level limit of the Bone Forging Realm, strengthening their bones is as easy as playing with them, and their proficiency in the new training method is all above 85%.

However, after reaching the second level of perfection in the Body Strengthening Secret Technique, it got stuck there and couldn't be mastered to the third level.

Just when Lin Xinyao felt she was about to collapse, Lu Fanchen's swollen body suddenly shrank, from a huge figure that was over four meters tall to only a little over two meters tall.

But in the blink of an eye, Lu Fanchen's size began to grow again, and in less than two seconds, he became a giant with a height of nearly five meters.

"Vice President, you succeeded?"

Lin Xinyao looked at Lu Fanchen, whose appearance had suddenly changed, with surprise in her eyes.

They practiced a secret method to strengthen their bodies, which was to make their cells withstand more energy. However, the energy of the golden blood was too terrifying, forcibly swelling them up until they finally exploded.

The fact that Lu Fanchen can shrink his body at the moment proves that the upper limit of energy that the constructed cells can withstand has increased a lot in that instant. However, because of the golden blood, it was stretched out again.

Since everyone was at the second level of the Body Strengthening Secret Technique, the only possibility she could think of that could increase the cell limit so much was that they had mastered the third level of the Body Strengthening Secret Technique.

"I succeeded by sheer luck." Lu Fanchen nodded slightly, his excitement undisguised.

The third level of the Body Strengthening Secret Technique was too difficult to master. This was something that should originally only be practiced by martial artists in the Blood Condensation Realm, but fortunately, he managed to master it thanks to his golden blood.

The third level of the Body Strengthening Secret Technique: 6% entry level!

Although his proficiency was low, Lu Fanchen could feel that the moment he mastered the third level, his cells underwent a qualitative leap, far surpassing his level of perfection at the second level.

However, the moment Lu Fanchen relaxed, his body was once again bursting from the strain of the golden blood.

At the same time that Lu Fanchen mastered the third level of the Body Strengthening Secret Technique, Lin Qi, in the cultivation room on the third floor of the Cultivation Tower, also stopped cultivating and looked at the system prompt with some surprise.

System: Congratulations, host, a player has become a complete pseudo-transcendent life form, triggering the hidden advanced quest 'Life Evolution', which will allow ten players to become complete pseudo-transcendent life forms. Reward: Intermediate Cultivation Tower Construction Permission.

"A complete pseudo-transcendent life form? Construction permission for an intermediate cultivation tower?" Lin Qi looked at the system notification, his heart filled with astonishment.

He knew about extraordinary life forms, but what the hell was a complete pseudo-extraordinary life form?

Moreover, he even suspected that the system had made a mistake with the reward. All it took was for ten players to become complete pseudo-transcendent life forms to obtain the construction rights for the intermediate cultivation tower. This reward was far too generous.

Although I only glanced at the functions of the intermediate cultivation tower and didn't examine them in detail, it was enough to send chills down my spine.

The beginner cultivation tower has three levels, while the intermediate cultivation tower has five levels. Not only are there more cultivation rooms, but the energy concentration also increases significantly.

However, these are all minor issues. What's truly terrifying is that the intermediate cultivation tower has an additional hidden function.

Energy Enhancement!

Within a radius of fifty kilometers, players, including the host, will have their physical energy limit and strength increased by 30%, and their energy absorption rate increased by 30%.

With this function, both he and the player can boost their combat power to a higher level, roughly equivalent to the energy level required to advance from the initial stage of the Blood Coagulation Realm to the middle stage, or from the middle stage to the advanced stage.

With the current number of Refining Organs and Forging Bone Realm martial artists at the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy, if an intermediate cultivation tower is built, then within a radius of fifty kilometers of Crimson Moon Town, no Celestial Realm experts from major forces will be able to enter. Even if forces from a region join forces, no one can do anything to Crimson Moon Town. It is practically a guardian artifact.

"But what exactly is this complete pseudo-supernatural life form?"

Lin Qi composed himself and then opened the player section of the system, wanting to see just how powerful this complete pseudo-transcendent life form was, that it could earn such a generous reward from the system.

(End of this chapter)