I Can See Your Combat Power
Chapter 1165 - Chapter 1165 Chapter 459 4.0

Chapter 1165: Chapter 459: 4.0 Chapter 1165: Chapter 459: 4.0 Without a moment’s rest, Tang Luo vigorously rebuilt the top fifth-grade Divine Array, pouring the remaining Spiritual Power into his back.

Heaven Sect, Soul Entrance, Spirit Gate, Heavenly Pillar, Great Vertebra, Spiritual Platform, Supreme Yang!

Once the fourth-grade Undying Body was complete, the soil-born golden Void Dual Wheels reappeared, and on this day, the dark clouds over the northern palace in Chaochang’s sky, Xuanwu Illusion was pacing clouds and sprinkling rain.

People thought it was a celestial omen of good fortune, unaware that a proud warrior was remaking his body.

The Undying Xuanwu Body circulated within, with the Two Ambiguity Innate Qi emanating from his internal organs. His old wounds and hidden illnesses were crushed by this divine force and dissipated, including the dark scars on his body, which were also erased as dead skin fell away, leaving Tang Luo with a bodily form as pristine and tender as a newborn’s.

Feeling his internal organs growing continuously stronger and more robust, and the Innate Spiritual Power nourishing his own body, Tang Luo finally heaved a sigh of relief.

Although his Spiritual Power was exhausted yet again, starting from the Mortal Realm and strengthening all the way was not without benefits. After solidifying his foundation, his bodily form could become even more powerful.

A rough estimate showed that, likewise reinforcing to the limit, a fourth-grade Undying Body starting from the Mortal Realm to the peak of the Fierce Realm, compared to starting directly from the Fierce Realm, the final strength differed by at least twenty percent.

For a cultivator of Tang Luo’s caliber, sometimes even a five percent difference could determine victory or defeat, let alone a twenty percent increase.

Lying in bed during these days, he reflected on many deficiencies in his own martial path. Trading blows with Wang Invincible’s Dharma Body made him realize many weaknesses in his martial practice.

Or rather, the understanding of martial practice by Fierce Realm warriors as a whole was insufficient. While they were complacent about their second transformation spiritual injuries, the opponents’ casual use of a Dharma Body involved Spirit Arts with a third transformation.

This signified that a single blow from the opponent could easily cause spiritual injuries surpassing one hundred thousand in strength. Such a level of attack was hard to bear even for the peak warriors of the Fierce Realm, and for an average Martial Ancestor, it would be a matter of life or death.

No wonder after the grand rise of martial practice post-body refinement, the art of body cultivation had declined so sharply. If one spent their entire life fortifying their body only to have it shattered by a single blow, then what’s the point of such cultivation?

And Tang Luo also realized why Saint Han, with a second-grade Undying Body, died under siege; because the destructive power of Spirit Arts of the same grade far surpassed the defense limit that a body cultivator of the same level could achieve.

To win through defense is only plausible when facing martial practitioners who are of a lower level than oneself; instead, one must take the path of attack versus attack.

However, due to certain peculiar reasons of his own, he couldn’t unleash Spirit Arts as freely as an ordinary cultivator without fully resolving those issues, meaning the common path of attack versus attack was also impracticable.

Therefore, in these days, as Tang Luo lay in bed, he was constantly contemplating how to establish a set of attack methods uniquely his own.

In the end, it was the insight from Xiushi Emperor, a rare genius in the Asura Path in a thousand years. Although his martial prowess was not comparable to that of grandmasters, the Xiushi Emperor’s divine ability “Covering Barrier–Great Black Heaven” gave Tang Luo quite a bit of inspiration.

In that Great Black Heaven, consciousness was murky, the soul spirit was dispirited, and the Covering Barrier Spiritual Power isolated all the Heavenly and Earthly Qi into a true vacuum. There, the Spirit Art models which relied on connecting the soul to the Heavenly and Earthly Qi couldn’t continue, and one could only perform Spirit Arts based on their body’s internal Spiritual Power.

To some extent, the reason why the Xiushi Emperor was easily slain by Tang Luo was, first, due to his exhaustive battles that depleted his Spiritual Power, and second, because his most proud divine ability, the Great Black Heaven, was utterly useless against Tang Luo.

In Tang Luo’s martial system, the only tactics that truly connected to the Heavenly and Earthly Qi were the Fallen Imperial Magnetic Beads and the Xuanwu Faziang. Both techniques did not occupy a significant portion of battle power and were more often used for clearing the field.

What really determined the victory or defeat was the supernatural power from the Undying Battle Body and Tang Luo’s mastery of bodily techniques.

In this era where Spirit Arts were widely practiced, Tang Luo’s style of martial arts indeed caught many strong practitioners off guard.

As a pragmatic martial arts master, Tang Luo naturally would not entertain fanciful solutions to his problems just because he could not defeat Wang Invincible’s Dharma Body. At least, from the present perspective, the cost of learning to live with his physical defects was much, much lower than that of defying fate and changing his destiny. Investing time and energy into reliable research directions was what he ought to do.

Opening his Void Stomach, he took out the notebook he hadn’t seen for quite some time and began to write furiously on the desk in the early morning light–strength enhancement plan, 4.0!

A good memory is not as reliable as bad handwriting; to devise a meticulous plan, the most important thing is to write it down on paper, then review it periodically.

Doing so not only clarifies your goals and aspirations but also serves as a guide, keeping you on track.

In this latest version of the plan, Tang Luo eliminated many unnecessary requirements from version 3.0, or what he saw as combat methods that were destined to be obsolete in the King Realm.

At the same time, he added many new requirements. As an outstanding martial arts researcher, he knew that no one had ever found a way to strip away Spiritual Power before.

Even the stripping method of the Sutra of No Suffering and Extinction or the spirit force vacuum of the Great Darkness’s Covering Barrier were still within the realm of Spirit Arts, or rather, these Spirit Arts were simply composed of special Spiritual Power, capable of isolating the Heavenly and Earthly Qi.

Such techniques were more than sufficient against the doubly transformed Spirit Art models, but they fell short against the triply transformed ones.

So what Tang Luo had to do was to collect these special divine abilities to see if he could develop his own Sealed Spirit Demonic Domain!

Just imagine, in a space where Spiritual Power is completely sealed off, martial artists can only rely on the Spiritual Power within their bodies to fight, and when their Spiritual Power is depleted, they must resort to physical combat.

It’s the romanticism of martial artists where punches lead to flesh flying in all directions; spirit energy bombardments and combined attacks pale in comparison!

Caught up in his writing, Tang Luo was completely unaware of the passage of time until the sound of knocking on the door made him stop his pen reluctantly. He closed the notebook and put it back into his Void Stomach.

Opening the door, Tang Luo stepped out, and Xiu’er, who was about to scold him for getting up late, looked up and was taken aback. Then, after sensing Tang Luo’s aura more carefully, her heart couldn’t help but skip a beat.

“You… are you alright?”

“What could be wrong with me?”

Having reshaped his martial body and found a new direction in life, Tang Luo felt refreshed and full of optimism, “Hurry, hurry, if we’re late to the market, all the good meat will be gone!”

Although Tang Luo was all smiles, how could Xiu’er not sense that he was putting on a brave face?

Here was an incredible warrior known as Devil Lord, with peak Fierce Realm cultivation enough to dominate the world, yet now heavily injured and with an aura even weaker than peak Mortal Realm.

Still, he had to smile and deal with her, his heart must be bleeding, she thought.

Suddenly, Xiu’er felt terribly selfish. The peace and quiet she cherished might have been torment for someone else.

“We’re not setting up the stall today. Let’s go to Fuyun Temple. Master Yanshan is an expert in medicine; he must have a way to cure you!”

“????”

Tang Luo, with a face full of question marks, was hurried along by Xiu’er before he even had a chance to listen to the explanation.