Chapter 562: Blade Armor, the Fifth Life of the Martial Arts Madman?!!

You slash your skin with a dagger; your skin is as hard as a turtle shell. The process is slow, shattering dozens of daggers.

The dagger traces the skin's texture, peeling away the "armor" forged through thirty years of bitter cultivation, inch by inch.

Amidst gushing blood, you circulate your art and plunge back into the medicinal bath, just as at the beginning.

The old skin sheds; new skin regrows.

You soak in the medicinal barrel, madly circulating the Turtle Skin Shedding Technique.

No, this art can no longer be called the Turtle Skin Shedding Technique; it has incorporated the martial philosophy of snake shedding, and should be renamed the Turtle Snake Shedding Technique.

This art was originally passed down by your master Li Guishe, and taking this name also carries the longing to commemorate and remember him.

You cultivate without rest in the medicinal barrel; your qi and blood are almost completely squeezed dry, leaving you skin and bone, but new skin finally begins to grow.

【One month later, Turtle Snake Shedding Technique breaks through its limit!】

Your whole body is hunched and withered; your originally burly frame shrinks like a Gan Shi, but the new skin is smooth as jade, containing terrifying toughness!

Yet once attacked, the skin instantly sinks, absorbing the impact before slowly rebounding.

【Turtle Skin Shedding Technique Perfection → Turtle Snake Shedding Technique Limit Break】

【You have comprehended the Limit Break art—Blade Armor (Passive)!】

【General proficiency deduction calculation in progress...】

【Turtle Skin Shedding Technique Elementary → Turtle Skin Shedding Technique Middle Level, deducting 913 skill proficiency points.】

【Turtle Skin Shedding Technique Middle Level → Turtle Skin Shedding Technique High Level, deducting 5000 skill proficiency points.】

【Turtle Skin Shedding Technique High Level → Turtle Skin Shedding Technique Perfection, deducting 25000 skill proficiency points.】

【Total deduction 30913 skill proficiency points, remaining 67817 points.】

【Turtle Skin Shedding Technique Perfection → Turtle Snake Shedding Technique Limit Break】

【Normal skill points deducted 1 point, remaining 5 points.】

【Limit Break art Blade Armor (Passive): Whenever you suffer an attack, your skin can adjust its force points like a living thing, dispersing the impact across your whole body, and can also rebound part of the damage using the force.

Each time you are attacked, rebound 15% of the damage taken!!!】

You tremble as you step out of the medicinal barrel, laughing loudly, and die with oil exhausted and lamp dry!

"Cultivating a Fourth Grade martial art to Limit Break—if relying purely on proficiency, doesn't it need a full 31000 points?"

Watching proficiency drop by a third in one breath, Feng Mu suddenly feels he is still not well-off, still hovering on the poverty line.

The previous Crane Claw Technique was a Second Grade martial art; maxing out Limit Break required 4800 proficiency points.

Then Seven Killing Fist, Soul Chasing Step, Forest Finger are Third Grade martial arts; maxing out Limit Break requires 8000 proficiency points.

From Second Grade to Third Grade is nearly double.

Now, Turtle Skin (Snake) Shedding Technique is a Fourth Grade martial art; maxing out Limit Break actually requires 31000 points.

This differs from Feng Mu's expectation; he thought Third Grade to Fourth Grade would likewise double again, but it's double upon double?

Four times!!

Then from Fourth Grade to Fifth Grade, Fifth Grade to Sixth Grade, Sixth Grade to Seventh Grade... how many times more are they preparing to multiply?

I dare not estimate, I simply dare not estimate!

Housing prices!!

At this moment, Feng Mu seems to recall again the fear of being dominated by housing prices in his previous life.

That suffocating feeling of "no matter how fast wages rise, they can't catch up with housing prices" surges in his heart again—am I not working hard enough?

The only thing worth celebrating is that normal skill points still cost only 1 point, not inflating along with everything else; otherwise...

Feng Mu takes a deep breath, comforting himself:

"Good thing I'm a villain in this life!"

No matter how hard a good person tries, they can't afford a house, after all the system doesn't support "mortgage loans," but if a villain works hard, there's still hope.

Feng Mu sighs, feeling his memories have increased by 31 years.

On the surface he is only eighteen or nineteen, but actually he is already an old monster of nearly 300 years.

Even death, he has experienced more than once.

Limit break, limit break—how can you limit break without dying?!!

Seven Killing Fist died once!

Turtle Skin Shedding Technique died once again!

So,

Now it is already Feng Mu's third life lived.

Wrong,

If adding the two deaths from Blood Flesh Initial Solution True Art, now it is actually the fifth life!

Feeling much emotion for a time, Feng Mu's gaze wanders back and forth on the skill panel.

Originally, he wanted to upgrade Heart Crushing Palm, but thought better of it.

Heart Crushing Palm is merely a paltry Second Grade martial art, not worthy of Limit Break at all!

Heart Crushing Palm: "......"

Feng Mu ultimately cannot escape convention, living into the very image he once most despised, and has also begun to "despise poverty and love wealth."

"Remaining 67817 points..."

Feng Mu calculates in his heart,

"Just enough to upgrade two Fourth Grade martial arts; this week I'll find time to return to the Martial Arts Hall and get my master to cough up some Fourth Grade secret manuals, then I can upgrade Blood Flesh Initial Solution True Art."

One of the advancement prerequisites for 《Blood Flesh Initial Solution True Art》 is needing three Fourth Grade martial arts to reach Perfection.

Thinking about it, it's been decades since he last saw his master; Junior Disciple Feng Mu suddenly feels a bit of longing for his master Li Guishe.

After one last glance at the system panel, Feng Mu closed the panel.

Name: Feng Mu

Game Inheritance Degree: 17%

HP: 【1237/1357】

Strength 24.2 (10.5+13.7)

Agility 16.1 (8.3+7.8)

Constitution 9.9999 (11.2+5.7) 【Explosive Breakthrough】

Spirit 9.9999 (1.4+21.7) 【Explosive Breakthrough】

Remaining Attribute Points: 6.5

Iron Eater: Second Stage

Absorbed Metal Property Slots: 【Mold Embryo (Blue)】

Available Metal Property Absorption Slots: 1

【Current Consumption Slot: Divine Shackles Binding Lock (Defective) · Yin Sha Nine Nether Calamity Resentment Iron (Consumption Progress 18.4/100%, Storage 2.3%.)】

General Skill Slots:

Blood Flesh Initial Solution True Art·Third Unraveling (157/10000)

Folding...

General Skill Points: 5

Remaining General Skill Proficiency: 67817

Secret Arts: Tongue Root Death Curse lv1, Marry Death Twin Birth lv2, Acting Agent's Grace lv1, Blood Bar Ghost Eye lv3

Remaining Special Skill Points: 0

Stored Life Essence: 1177 days

Equipment: Deceiver's Glasses (B)

Magician's Card (B)

Ghost Mist Cloak (C)

1 Equipment Grid remaining.

Items: Gene Injection C*1

One-time Upgrade Ticket*1

Special Item Base Vehicle*1

Judging simply from the panel numbers, Feng Mu estimated his paper strength had already entered Fifth Grade.

According to New Martial Theory, the lowest attribute value among the three dimensions of Fist Force, Attack Speed, and Technique, falling within the 50-100 scoring range, constitutes a Fifth Grade Martial Artist.

Fist Force and Attack Speed are linked to Strength, Agility, Bone Hardness, Muscle Explosiveness, Nerve Reaction Speed, and so on.

In between lies an extremely complex conversion formula; the actual conversion formula is complex enough to make a high school student calculate until bald.

Feng Mu, a dropout, couldn't figure it out either, but he could roughly estimate that his Fist Force and Attack Speed were both above 50.

24 points of Strength + 16 points of Agility + 【Mold Embryo (Blue)】's Bone Hardness + Blood Flesh Initial Solution True Art Third Unraveling's muscles, etc... altogether stacking Fist Force and Attack Speed to 50 points score was more than sufficient.

As for Technique, originally his weakest item, but now after 300 years of martial arts research, Technique has likely surpassed the rest to become his strongest item.

After all, these 300 years, he has been a Martial Maniac obsessed and demonized by martial arts.

Averaged out, continuous 300 years of martial arts training exceeding 20 hours every day!

As for more precise scoring data, Feng Mu couldn't calculate it, nor did he care very much.

Because that is merely his paper strength, fundamentally unable to represent his true strength.

His true strength.....

End of Chapter