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Chapter 373 - 0246 Tai Sui’s Evil Energy (3k for double monthly ticket)

Chapter 373: 0246 Tai Sui’s Evil Energy (3k for double monthly ticket)

Lu Chenzhou looked toward the cliff face and found that there were far fewer inscriptions; it seemed that the Cangtian Dragon King had tirelessly left his profound maxims upon the stone wall... The Dragon King’s personality differed from other Absolute Peak strong. He was exceedingly confident and ostentatious.

Lu Chenzhou used his hand as a brush, attempting to inscribe for the second time.

Humming vibrations! An invisible barrier blocked him, shaking incessantly. His veins bulged, his Martial Arts Will blazed like wildfire, and after a struggle, Lu Chenzhou withdrew his right hand.

"Forget it, this place isn’t high enough."

He arrived at the desolate area where the Life Spring seemed to have expanded, nourishing the earth as verdant grass sprouts poked through, radiating vitality.

The towering Meat Divine Palace stood erect, with its completion already over seventy percent. As more stone slabs were piled up, it grew taller as though it aimed to stand shoulder to shoulder with heaven itself, suppressing the land.

The Mystic Tiger Spirit had become increasingly substantial, and the Tiger Tai Sui even more imposing. As Lu Chenzhou officially stepped into the Martial Arts End Realm, his Essence, Qi, and Spirit transformed entirely in every aspect.

"Ha!"

Leaving the Inner Realm Land, Lu Chenzhou abruptly stepped forward as his right arm shot out like a spear, taut and straight. Golden power emanated from his pores, his entire body brimming with explosive strength.

"Tiger Suppressing Mountains and Rivers!"

Boom!

With a single punch, the C4 alloy pile bent and toppled, electricity flickering on its surface. Lu Chenzhou’s right arm, like a freshly roasted sweet potato, steamed with rolling white vapor.

"Now, if I use a Divine Weapon to launch my strongest move, ’Wind and Thunder Flash,’ I should be able to break through Old Hong’s protective True Qi quite easily. In the early stages, both the quality and quantity of Qi from a Martial Arts Master are average... but it would only break their defenses. The speed, strength, reaction, and presence of a Break Second Shackles completely overwhelm a Martial Artist. I’m not just a target to them; they could easily dodge my attacks."

The stronger he became, the more Lu Chenzhou reflected on the vastness of the chasms and shackles.

"However, there’s still a lot of room to improve my Qi-Blood and power. Once I bring my Cross Training True Skill and Spear Skill True Skill to the extreme limit of a Martial Artist, and upgrade my Divine Weapon to Grandmaster quality, I should indeed have the power to shake a Martial Arts Master."

Ding————

[Your Hidden Dragon List points have increased by 2234. Your ranking on the Hidden Dragon List has risen to the 300th place. Maintain your current ranking to acquire a reward of 20 Great Merit points each month.]

[You have received a transfer of 200 Great Merit from the school affairs office (Note: Birthday gift), your current great merit balance is 300 points.]

After becoming a Martial Artist, birthday blessings in Great Merit had also doubled.

Unbeknownst to him, Lu Chenzhou had made it into the top 300 of the Hidden Dragon List. In this past year, his strength had soared rapidly, nearly catching up with the veterans of Class 9.

Fang Xue was just ahead, not far off at rank 289.

Lu Chenzhou subconsciously looked back.

[Li Fu: 361st place]

[Wang Hongdao: 400th place]

On the Hidden Dragon List, Li Fu was climbing slowly, but as someone with "Innate Nine Apertures," he naturally had late-stage talent. It was normal that he couldn’t compete with other Martial Arts Geniuses in the early stages. Wang Hongdao had recently advanced to the Martial Arts Middle Realm and remained Su City Dragon Martial’s perpetual second place, inferior to Lu Chenzhou, but more than enough to outmatch others.

Lu Chenzhou opened his mobile bank and checked his balance.

"53 million... it’s burning fast."

Each year he needed 40 to 50 Enlightenment Elixirs alone, costing around 4000 Great Merit points, and considering expenses for Grinding Sand Medicine, Healing Medicine, and others, his remaining cash would only suffice for a carefree year of Cultivation. He was still 60 acupoints short of breaking his first shackles, and it might take around two more years to break the second one.

Most importantly, the Gravity Training Room was also a significant expense. Having experienced the effects of the Gravity Room, Lu Chenzhou was no longer satisfied with using it just for Cross Training.

It was excellent for training in the Heavenly Pile and Fist Technique.

Without any exaggeration, the Gravity Room was one of the most important Martial Arts related technological inventions of the Da Xia era. If it could be widely implemented, it would undoubtedly significantly speed up the cultivation rate for Martial Artists and give rise to more martial powerhouses.

"I need to find a way to make some money."

After becoming a Martial Artist, there were essentially two ways to earn money.

Doing tasks and competing in tournaments.

As for tournaments, he was in an awkward position; events like the Peak Martial Arts Tournament, the Hundred Schools Debate, and the Sky Road Cup only had divisions for Martial Artists and the Supernatural. In the Supernatural division, anyone below 35, regardless of their Cultivation level, was eligible, but he couldn’t secure a place.

As he pondered his future plans, Lu Chenzhou exchanged another 3000 Great Merit points, spending 2700 on purchasing 30 Enlightenment Elixirs and the rest on the Gravity Training Room.

...

In the Gravity Training Room.

Wang Hongdao had just finished training and stepped out:

"Brother Lu, are you here to experience the Gravity Training Room as well? I’ve just been practicing Fist Technique in there for 2 hours; the effects are much better than outside. It’s a great thing."

Lu Chenzhou smiled and said:

"Yeah, just to try it out."

Wang Hongdao:

"It’s great, but so expensive, 1 Great Merit for 1 hour. If you train for 5 hours a day, it’ll cost over a thousand Great Merit in a year, which is simply too much for the wallet to bear.

By the way, Brother Lu, I heard that the Taihu Virtual Realm is going to open to top Martial Artists from top universities. Let’s team up and train there next month."

Wang Hongdao had greatly improved from his last experience in the Void Realm.

Gradually, he found his path through life-and-death battles!

Lu Chenzhou:

"You go ahead, Brother Wang. I’ve got some matters to attend to."

He planned to first head to the Changbai Mountain Void Realm; he had already made arrangements with his senior fellow disciple.

Watching Lu Chenzhou enter the training room, Wang Hongdao sighed:

"I wonder how much of ’Lu’s strength’ I have now."

Lu Chenzhou’s aura became even more unfathomable.

No matter how hard he tried, he seemed out of reach.

In the golden chamber.

Lu Chenzhou had already stripped down to just his large underpants.

"Activate Cross Training mode."

[Please choose a Hard Qi Gong. The system will automatically adjust the striking direction and rhythm, using the mechanical arms to strike the corresponding stimulation areas of the selected Cultivation Technique. Currently, the system supports 27 Cross Training Martial Arts modes, including 23 ordinary Martial Arts and 4 True Skills.]

Lu Chenzhou couldn’t help but say,

"This Gravity Room is way more advanced than that little horizontal one."

The little horizontal one was just a mess of random strikes, but this one really knows what it’s doing.

He opened the list of Martial Arts; the most common ones like Iron Cloth Shirt, Arhat Skill, and Golden Body Skill were all there, missing Iron Crotch Skill. Among the four True Skills, it included the Ming King Body.

Lu Chenzhou:

"I choose the Ming King Body, 20 times gravity, intermediate attack intensity."

System voice came through.

[Program loading, mechanical arms are preheating...]

[Cross Training mode has been activated, please pay attention to safety.]

Lu Chenzhou concentrated utterly, and began cultivating the "Ming King Body."

Buzz, buzz!

The 20-times gravity activated instantly, and Lu Chenzhou remained unfazed, as stable as Mount Tai. After an 8-hour training session the day before, he had already begun to adapt to the 20-times gravity stimulation.

From the walls of the sealed chamber, suddenly, long and slender artificial mechanical arms emerged, as soft as jelly, instantly turning rigid like whips, they struck towards Lu Chenzhou.

Snap!

Snap!

Snap!

Their ferocity was no less vicious than that of Chen Jiu.

"Good, good, good, this is exactly the feeling I wanted!"

Lu Chenzhou’s Qi and Blood surged, transforming into the Immovable Ming King, his steel-like body deliberately collided with the mechanical arms, using his flesh to withstand the stone-breaking force of the mechanical arms.

"If I get this down, those bionic Black Knights will be no match at all."

An hour later, Lu Chenzhou ended his Cross Training cultivation.

[Golden Bell Jade Drum Ming King Body: Mastery (56%)→Mastery (57%)]

He showed a look of delight and said to himself, "Cultivating in the Gravity Room, the speed of cross training is even faster than practicing with Mr. Chen, say no more, time to make money!" If not for the lack of funds, Lu Chenzhou would do nothing but hover in the Gravity Room except for resting and eating.

...

These days.

The news of the Gravity Room’s completion spread.

Teachers and students from the branch school came in droves.

The students from talent class 1, each showed their divine powers like the Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea.

Chen Xiaoyun, Yao Cheng, Zhou Xingkong and others tapped into their family’s wealth, spending 5 hours a day training in the Gravity Room. Those with ordinary family conditions could only look on enviously, like Old Tian who had to count every penny even when buying an Enlightenment Elixir.

As for Xiao He, not yet a Martial Artist, he didn’t have this kind of trouble.

In fact, the Gravity Room was more beneficial to someone like Old Ji who wasn’t a genius Martial Artist. He wasn’t eligible to purchase Enlightenment Elixirs, but as long as he had money he could practice in the Gravity Room. Consequently, Old Ji went all out, spending every day practicing in the Gravity Room for three hours to open his Acupoints.

Full-time cultivation along with the help of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, the earnest Old Ji’s speed of opening Acupoints was several times faster than before; though breaking through the second shackle was still far away, it no longer seemed out of reach.

During a dinner gathering, Qingtian Cang couldn’t help but express,

"The advancement of technology has been of great assistance to Martial Arts; many things, things I didn’t dare to dream of when I was young, are now within reach for your younger generation. In the next hundred years, the number and quality of Da Xia Martial Artists will surely climb to new heights."

...

January 10th.

Inside the Gravity Room.

Lu Chenzhou opened his eyes, a streak of sharpness piercing the Void Realm.

He used Inner Vision on his limbs, Tai Sui’s Evil Qi sharp as a knife, rubbing against his rock-hard body, stimulating the already opened Acupoints to surge with Qi and Blood, endlessly flowing in torrents. Meanwhile, a faint black aura quietly emerged, exuding a sense of ill omen and decay.

"Is this the Tai Sui’s Calamity Qi?"

After this strand of black Qi completed a Grand Circulation, it entered his Mud Pill Palace and hovered three inches above the mini Tiger Tai Sui in his brain, turning into a black sword.

"This black sword is my Sixth Sense intuition, which can preliminarily sense the direction of hostility and killing intent nearby, just like a compass.

I remember at the All Nations Martial Arts Competition, there was a Fighting Master from the Silver Eagle Federation known as ’Spider Lady’ with a very strong sense of danger, I believe it’s called ’Spider Sense’, which allowed her to foresee danger on many occasions and display divine prowess."

Spider Lady Daisy, ranked 20th among Fighting Masters on the Earth List.

Lu Chenzhou had a vivid memory of this person’s abilities.

"However, my current Sixth Sense still falls short compared to Spider Sense, only after reaching the sixth layer of the ’Tiger Demon Tai Sui Technique,’ will I then be comparable to it."

He looked towards the Martial Arts Tree.

[Tiger Demon Tai Sui Technique: Third Layer (1%)]

He went to the Qi Blood Measurement Device.

Boom! Lu Chenzhou threw out a punch, straightforward without any fancy frills.

The force of the blow swept across like a gale, curtains fluttered, rustling loudly.

[Congratulations, your Qi Blood Value has reached 40 points, only 3 points away from the End