High-level martial arts: Starting with a heart of steel, stats crush everything.

Chen Mo rubbed his temples; mastering some basic knowledge was indeed necessary.

You could also learn the Abyss Language, mainly to learn how to translate some of the quintessences of Chinese culture.

It's about challenging the dojo...

Chen Mo had a bit of a headache. He wasn't worried about getting beaten up by the students, but rather about getting beaten up by the level twelve martial arts academy dean if things went too far...

"We'll see."

Chen Mo sighed. It seemed that the Great Xia Grandmaster Academy was planning to make its debut by taking a domineering approach.

Indeed, as the gathering place of the most outstanding geniuses in the entire Great Xia Dynasty, the Great Xia Grandmaster Academy must show an invincible attitude.

This is the only way to deter villains and boost morale.

"Now that the Great Xia Grandmaster Academy is stepping into the limelight, does that mean the higher-ups are planning to announce the existence of the Deep Abyss and the Abyss Demons?"

"Could it be that the Southern Island's newly formed abyssal rift also connects to the deeper abyss?"

"Or is there some unusual activity in other parts of the abyss?"

After thinking for a moment, Chen Mo realized he couldn't figure it out, so he simply gave up trying.

"Who cares? As long as my stats are high enough, even if a god comes, it won't work."

"Speaking of which, how exactly do you simulate fire-attribute blood using ordinary blood and qi...?"

Chen Mo was pondering this matter while practicing the Fiery Intent at the Bone Forging Square when Dai Emei interrupted him.

His initial idea was very simple, based on the most primitive method: making fire by friction.

The high-speed friction between Qi and blood and the meridians will generate high temperatures. Although it is unknown whether it can be ignited, it is still worth trying.

Only Chen Mo dared to try this method; anyone else would be terrified by his idea.

Those are the meridians, the most important parts of a martial artist's entire body. Who would dare to act recklessly like that?

Chen Mo is different; even if his meridians are destroyed, he can recover them. This is the confidence that the Golden Bone gives him.

With his mind focused, Chen Mo sensed the qi and blood slowly flowing through his meridians.

Suddenly, the flow of qi and blood began to accelerate, and Chen Mo's meridians began to feel a series of stinging pains.

As his blood and qi flowed faster and faster, Chen Mo's body began to turn bright red, and the wooden bench beneath him began to emit a burnt smell.

"No, the speed of friction alone isn't enough to reach the temperature of fire-attribute blood..."

Chen Mo gritted his teeth. His temperature had reached nearly 400 degrees Celsius. If it weren't for the super-strong recovery ability granted by the Golden Bone, he would have already cooked himself.

"What exactly is this fire-attribute bloodline? Why doesn't it cook itself?"

Chen Mo couldn't understand how those who controlled fire-attribute blood and qi could do it when he was already struggling to tolerate raising his blood and qi temperature to 400 degrees Celsius.

"By the way, Ma Wanglin seems to have fire-attribute bloodline. If all else fails, we should ask her."

Chen Mo knew that it would be almost impossible to find a way to simulate fire-attribute blood and qi by blindly figuring things out on his own.

"Gu Feng also seems to have fire-attribute bloodline; let's take their opinions into consideration..."

...

At night, Gu Feng, Ma Wanglin, and Chen Mo gathered together in Chen Mo's courtyard.

"What do you want from me? I've been practicing martial arts all day and haven't showered yet. I smell terrible."

Ma Wanglin frowned; she had a faint smell of sweat on her body.

Gu Feng was also very curious. It was really strange that Chen Mo would say he wanted to ask them for help.

"Both of you have the fire attribute in your Qi and blood, right?"

Chen Mo didn't stand on ceremony and went straight to the point.

"Yes, I have fire-attribute blood." Gu Feng and Ma Wanglin nodded at the same time, looking at Chen Mo with some confusion.

"Why are you suddenly asking this? Have you finally awakened your true nature?"

"No, that's not it. I just wanted to ask how to simulate fire-attribute blood using ordinary blood energy, which I need when practicing the Blazing Flame Technique."

Chen Mo shook his head. He hadn't awakened his blood and qi attributes even after reaching the sixth level of the Steel Bone Realm, so he figured it was unlikely he would in the future.

"How is it possible to simulate fire-attribute qi and blood?"

Ma Wanglin was somewhat puzzled; there really are people in this world with no elemental attributes or blood.

However, their blood volume is much higher than that of attribute-based blood warriors, and the concentration is also much higher, so apart from not having additional attribute damage, there is no downside.

"I actually tried it this afternoon, using my blood and qi to rub my meridians to generate heat."

As Chen Mo spoke, he began to rub his meridians with his qi and blood, causing his qi and blood temperature and body temperature to rise rapidly.

"As a result, the temperature could rise to 400 degrees Celsius, which was already quite a strain on my body."

"......?" Gu Feng and Ma Wanglin were dumbfounded when they saw Chen Mo radiating high temperature in front of them.

How can it not die? With blood and qi flowing through its meridians at over 400 degrees Celsius, isn't it just a living magma being?

"Stop right now! You'll damage your meridians!"

Gu Feng was the first to react and quickly shouted.

"It's alright, the damaged area will be fine in a bit." Chen Mo waved his hand. He was only losing 1,500 health points per second, which was less than what he was regaining.

"The fire attribute bloodline has absolutely nothing to do with what you're doing right now. The only similarity is the high temperature."

Seeing that Chen Mo's body temperature had returned to normal, Gu Feng finally breathed a sigh of relief and spoke.

"To put it simply, fire-attribute qi and blood means that the nature of qi and blood has changed, making it ignitable."

"Your Qi and blood are too heavy, and their nature hasn't changed, so they can't be ignited."

"Ignite the blood..." Chen Mo's eyes lit up, and he repeated these four words.

"I see, I understand now!"

As he spoke, Chen Mo took out a glass test tube containing energy liquid that had reached normal temperature.

"I've tried it before; the energy liquid can be ignited. So if I inject energy particles into my blood and qi, wouldn't my blood and qi also be able to ignite?"

"Wait! That might just blow it up..."

Before Gu Feng and Ma Wanglin could snatch the test tube from Chen Mo's hand, Chen Mo had already poured the ten-gram energy liquid into his mouth.

Everyone else uses energy liquid to absorb the spilled energy; no one ever drinks it directly into their stomach—that would be suicidal.

Sure enough, the moment Chen Mo drank the energy liquid, his face turned bright red, and his body began to swell.

"Oh no! Chen Mo is about to explode!"

Gu Feng pulled Ma Wanglin out of Chen Mo's courtyard, and the two hid at a distance to observe the movements inside the courtyard.

The explosive power of ten grams of liquid energy is no less than that of ten kilograms of C4.

C4 can even penetrate armor; even a level 7 enemy would be injured if hit by it.

Not to mention Ma Wanglin, who is of a lower rank than him.

Only a monster like Chen Mo could withstand the power of ten kilograms of C4 exploding inside his body.

But after a while, no explosion was heard in the courtyard, and everything seemed so calm.

"It didn't explode?" Gu Feng was sweating profusely and it took him a while to dare to return to the courtyard to check on Chen Mo.