Chapter 562: Hundred Strands and 24 Apertures (Seeking monthly votes)

"Inhale~ Exhale~"

Lin Qi frowned, adjusted his breathing, removed all distracting thoughts from his heart, and devoted himself to cultivation.

"Drip!"

Sweat beads continuously dripped from his cheeks, falling onto the ground.

His current state was as if he were in the final hundred-meter sprint of a 1000-meter run.

He had to go all out, persist to the end in one breath, and complete the breakthrough, otherwise, all previous efforts would be wasted.

If he wanted to break through again, he would have to wait for the next time.

For him, time was the most precious thing.

Every day was precious, and he absolutely could not wait until the next day.

The Fire Seed Trial was too important; he wanted to raise his strength to the limit.

Thinking of this, Lin Qi's heart turned ruthless, and he continued to cultivate.

"Boom!!"

Soon, he felt bursts of coolness, his mental power continuously differentiated, instantly breaking through the limit.

98, 99, 100 strands!

Finally, he successfully differentiated his mental power into 100 strands.

The next instant, he mobilized the hundred strands of mental power, began to thread the needle, and wove them into a large mental net.

The entire perceived world instantly became suddenly enlightened.

Like a large net, filtering out countless distracting thoughts, allowing his mind to remain active and pure at all times.

The entire mental power was firm and solid.

In "Divine Thought Thousand Strands," it was written that in the universe, many mental power masters had means to attack the mind.

A solid mind could also resist similar attacks.

And not face mental attacks, suffer consciousness damage, become an idiot, or even lose one's life.

At the same time, the large net went deep into his body, clearly feeling the flow of Qi and blood, as well as the operation of a large number of apertures.

【You consumed Soul Marrow, cultivated "Divine Thought Thousand Strands," successfully broke through the limit, reached the realm of hundred strands forming a net, mental power was tempered, mental power +500】

【Mental power: 24500→25000】

Lin Qi looked at the information on the panel, his eyes shining brightly, shooting out essence light, his eyes deep and bright, as if he could see the gorgeous starry sky.

"Finally broke through!"

Lin Qi looked at the rich mental power that had already formed a large amount of liquid and immediately revealed a smile.

Over the past three months, he hadn't expected that the fastest improvement would actually be mental power.

It had increased by more than 10,000 in three months, and now he had already walked halfway through the Eighth Realm.

During this period, he hadn't encountered any bottlenecks; as long as he consumed Soul Marrow, he could significantly improve.

He almost had to consume it every day; in three months, just the merit points consumed were tens of millions.

"Beep!"

"Master, a video call from Mountain-Senior Shanhe Wang!"

Just as Lin Qi was thinking, the blue-robed Xiao Chan on the side spoke slowly, quickly projecting a large green screen in front of him.

Mountain-Senior Shanhe Wang's resolute face appeared on the opposite side.

"Grandmaster!"

Lin Qi took the lead to greet him.

Mountain-Senior Shanhe Wang nodded and said:

"Lin Qi, I have good news to tell you."

"Red Emperor spent a lot of money from the universe to purchase a brand-new technology that can extract the pure essence from a large amount of disaster beast flesh and compress it into pills."

"After consuming it, it can make the body transform and quickly open the body's apertures; it is currently listed on the House of War, and it is called—Disaster Beast Crystal."

Lin Qi's eyes lit up after hearing this; three months ago, he had thought about this matter.

Extracting the essence of disaster beast flesh to improve the efficiency of opening apertures.

He hadn't expected that it really existed.

Mountain-Senior Shanhe Wang looked at Lin Qi and said:

"This was specially prepared by Red Emperor for you geniuses; with Disaster Beast Crystals, you, Sun Sheng, Li Tianxing, and other geniuses can all make rapid progress."

Speaking of this, Mountain-Senior Shanhe Wang also sighed:

"Ever since the Fire Seed Trial, you geniuses have all been cultivating like crazy."

"The fighting on the Seventh and Eighth Realm leaderboards is truly intense."

"Not just our country, the whole world is like this; everyone wants to get a spot and fight in the Fire Seed Trial."

"But what surprised me most is that Sun Sheng, Li Tianxing, and the others have all awakened three special abilities."

"Actually, on the Eighth Realm leaderboard, you have led them by 10 places, steadily suppressing Sun Sheng and the others."

Lin Qi revealed a smile and said: "Maybe it's because I like hunting disaster beasts more!"

Mountain-Senior Shanhe Wang nodded and said: "That makes sense; you are worthy of being called the Jin Gang Spear Demon."

"To disaster beasts, you are simply a existence like a great demon king!"

"In the past three months, I don't know how many martial artists have been shocked by you."

"Your strength has progressed truly exaggeratedly; in the selection two months later, you have great hope."

Lin Qi revealed a humble smile and said: "The road I need to walk is still very long."

After hanging up the video call.

Lin Qi immediately switched to the House of War; sure enough, advertisements for Disaster Beast Crystals had already appeared on the homepage.

On the homepage of the exchange table, the first one was it.

【Item: Level 1 Disaster Beast Crystal】

【Description: A crystal extracted from 30 tons of Level 7 disaster beast flesh, possessing pure essence, capable of significantly improving physical strength.】

【Merit points: 30,000/piece】

Lin Qi was slightly stunned; so it started from high-level disaster beasts?

Level 7 disaster beasts generally had a weight of 50 tons; removing the precious organs, there were still dozens of tons, actually able to be extracted into a crystal.

The price of 30,000 was also reasonable.

He continued to look down and found that for Level 8 disaster beasts, one crystal required 300,000, and the merit points had increased tenfold.

But this was not his goal.

【Item: Level 3 Disaster Beast Crystal】

【Introduction: A crystal extracted from 1000 tons of flesh from a Level 9 disaster beast, capable of significantly providing Qi and blood and enhancing physical strength.】

【Merit points: 3 million/piece】

Lin Qi exhaled a breath after seeing this.

This price was truly expensive, but it was still within the range he could accept.

After hunting a Level 9 disaster beast, there were several million merit points, so buying a Level 3 Disaster Beast Crystal was completely no problem.

Lin Qi himself could afford it by hunting a few more Level 8 disaster beasts.

So he decisively placed an order to exchange.

【Beep!】

【Fingerprint verification successful, 3 million merit points paid!】

【Mr. Lin Qi, the Level 3 Disaster Beast Crystal you exchanged for will be delivered to your door within tomorrow.】

Lin Qi nodded; once the crystal arrived tomorrow, he could try to open more apertures.

He entered his personal space to check his information.

【Name: Lin Qi (Black Dragon Base)】

【Realm: Eighth Realm Aperture Training】

【Merit points: 9.2 million】

【Base ranking: 15】

【Xia Guo ranking: 60】

【Blue Star ranking: 255】

Lin Qi looked at his information and exhaled a breath; he originally had over 12 million merit points.

Saving another 2 million merit points would allow him to buy a Peregrine Falcon fighter jet.

But for the sake of his strength, he had to spend 3 million merit points again.

Everything was for the sake of improving his strength.

Then he looked at his three rankings; in three months, at the Black Dragon Base, he had risen from 60th to 15th.

And his Xia Guo ranking had also entered the top 100, and he was very close to the top 50.

His Blue Star ranking, among 2700 Eighth Realm martial artists, was at 255th.

It could be said that among Eighth Realm martial artists, he was also at an upstream level.

This was the result of his three months, living at the Black Dragon Base, conducting crazy slaughter in every battle.

Then he looked at other people's rankings.

Among them, Li Tianxing and Sun Sheng, who had awakened three abilities, were respectively at 61st and 62nd in the Xia Guo.

Following closely behind him, in the Blue Star total ranking, they were also ranked 262nd and 268th respectively.

Following tightly behind him.

Lin Qi thought of three months ago, when Sun Sheng and Li Tianxing had far surpassed him.

Later, he quickly caught up, and even conducted a counter-surpass.

Then it was mutual counter-surpassing, and the ranking never pulled too big a gap.

As long as there was no disaster beast tide, he would easily be surpassed by the two.

Lin Qi had confidence in himself; now was just a beginning, and soon he would far surpass the two of them.

He continued to look down and saw Gu Jian at the 290th position; the other party's ranking was also rising very fast.

Very much in line with the rising speed of a top-tier genius.

It was just that he couldn't compare to him, Sun Sheng, and Li Tianxing.

Two months later, there was also hope to get a spot.

He turned off the screen, rested simply, and then began to cultivate spear art.

"Xiao Chan, turn on 110 times extreme gravity!"

"Okay, Master!"

The blue-robed Xiao Chan nodded, her eyes shining, instantly starting the 110 times extreme gravity.

"Hum!!"

Gravity, like a tide, instantly wrapped around Lin Qi's body; he felt as if he had fallen into the deep sea, the heavy pressure around him squeezing his internal organs.

The 5000-kilogram great spear had now reached a weight of 550 tons.

Lin Qi gritted his teeth, dancing the great spear, veins bulging on his arms, muscles tensed.

He thrust the great spear with difficulty, mobilizing the cells in his body; at this time, he could already mobilize more cells.

Letting the cells exert force in a specific way, Jin Di Gang Qi also participated.

His whole person was coordinated and unified, natural and smooth; even under 110 times gravity, he could still thrust a faster spear.

"World-Extinguishing Spear Canon" was unleashed, the power of the domain expanding outward.

Shrouding the entire martial arts room, confronting and offsetting the 110 times gravity.

Making him feel as if he were in an environment of 88 times gravity, the gravity being offset by one-fifth.

This was an astonishing ability.

His whole body erupted with golden light, frantically thrusting the great spear.

Golden light flowed on the spear tip, like golden threads continuously thrusting out, making the martial arts room shrouded in a golden vortex.

Several hours later, the gravity dissipated.

"Xiao Chan!"

Lin Qi roared while dancing the great spear; the next instant, Xiao Chan condensed a shield with her arms.

"Swish swish!!"

"Clang clang!!"

The next instant, the golden spear tip frantically thrust out in an instant.

25 Golden Light Consecutive Strikes; he thrust 25 spears continuously at a speed that defied common sense.

Making people unable to see clearly how he made his move, only seeing afterimages and golden threads shooting out straight.

"Boom!"

Amidst a burst of air waves, a depression appeared on the silver shield formed by Xiao Chan's arms, sparks splashing; that was what Lin Qi had left behind.

【Under the condition of 110 times extreme gravity, you have gained new insights into the "World-Extinguishing Spear Canon," spear art breakthrough, spear art +1%】

【Spear art: Fifth-Order 24%→25%】

Lin Qi retracted his spear, looked at the depression on Xiao Chan's shield, and nodded.

Xiao Chan was now equivalent to a Ninth Realm martial artist, her body built from special alloys, her defensive power astonishing, no worse than Ninth-Order battle armor.

Looking at his own spear art again, Fifth-Order spear art, the improvement was becoming more and more difficult.

It had been more than three months, and it actually hadn't exceeded 30% of the Fifth-Order.

But he was not in a hurry, because only Ninth Realm martial artists could break through the mid-stage of the Fifth-Order in martial arts skills.

Many Eighth Realm martial artists had been stuck for years or even longer, unable to break through.

His teacher, Mu Hong, had already been far surpassed by him.

In terms of martial arts skills, many veteran Eighth Realm martial artists were already not as good as him.

In two months, finally let him break through and start cultivating a new volume of spear art.

Another world, Iron Great Wall

This was the Xia Guo, the strongest base besides the Black Dragon Base.

In a luxury apartment, in the martial arts room.

Clad in gold armor, the lean and capable Sun Sheng placed his golden staff flat on his knees.

In front of him, a panel was projected, playing exactly the Eighth Realm total leaderboard on the House of War; he frowned and gritted his teeth:

"It's understandable that Li Tianxing is a bit stronger than me!"

"He is a mental power master and has learned 'Divine Thought Thousand Strands,' significantly increasing his slaughter efficiency; mental power masters themselves are the most adept at hunting disaster beasts."

"It's normal that I can't compare to him for a moment!"

"But why on earth is Lin Qi?"

"We have all awakened a third ability, yet we haven't surpassed him; it's truly too shameful."

"Could it be that he lives on the battlefield, hunting disaster beasts every day?"

Sun Sheng felt intense pressure, turned off the projection, and threw himself into cultivation again.

"I have already opened 24 apertures; Lin Qi shouldn't be able to compare to me."

The next day, Black Dragon Base

At the entrance of Room 206, a burly man revealed a smile and handed over the black metal box in his hand:

"Mr. Lin Qi, your express delivery, please sign for it!"

Lin Qi nodded, took the tablet, signed his name, and pressed his fingerprint.

Then he took the metal box from the Fifth-Order martial artist's hand.

The staff member left, Lin Qi quickly closed the door and returned to the martial arts room.

He sat cross-legged, looking at the metal box the size of a mobile phone box.

This was the most expensive resource he had exchanged for so far.

"Beep!"

It opened automatically, revealing the thing inside; this was a sphere the size of a ping-pong ball, resembling a red precious pearl.

This was the Level 3 Disaster Beast Crystal, emitting a peculiar fragrance.

"Gulp~"

Lin Qi couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva.

He didn't hesitate, put the entire crystal into his mouth, chewed it hard with his sharp teeth until it shattered; the taste was like a compressed biscuit.

Soon he chewed it up and swallowed it into his stomach.

A moment later, Lin Qi's body emitted a feeling of "fullness," and majestic energy was released from the crystal.

His internal organs began to operate at high speed, frantically digesting the essence within.

He could eat 10,000 kilograms, or 10 tons, in one meal now, and he would be full.

But this crystal was the essence from 1000 tons of flesh.

Lin Qi felt the heaviness of his body, and a large amount of Origin Energy was released within it, being absorbed by his body.

He began to operate the "Jin Di Secret Canon"; such massive energy was meant to be used to open the body's apertures.

"Whoosh whoosh!"

In a moment's time, the cells in his body moved violently, making his body start to heat up, white hot air steaming and permeating the martial arts room.

"Swish swish!"

The blood in his body obtained massive energy, like a roaring angry wave, pumped by the heart, this super engine, to all parts of the body.

Lin Qi guided Qi and blood, Gang Qi condensed; yesterday he had successfully reached the realm of hundred strands forming a net.

Mental power wrapped around Qi and blood, guiding the impact on the leg apertures.

In his perception, 22 vortices appeared on his legs; those were 22 apertures, containing a large amount of Origin Energy.

The connection with the heaven and earth also became closer.

Lin Qi guided Qi and blood, following the network formed by the apertures, charging toward the next hidden aperture.

Only martial artists with high enough talent could easily find them.

If the talent was poor and the foundation was not strong enough, the apertures were hidden in the fog; they couldn't even find them, let alone impact the apertures.

They could only proceed to the next stage, impacting other large apertures, and giving up on small apertures.

"Boom!"

Lin Qi's whole body shook, Qi and blood began to launch an impact, and a burst of stinging pain surged into his heart.

Then he continued to launch the impact, like attacking a city, taking down the entire city wall.

Wanting to succeed in one go was basically impossible.

He could only continuously impact; no matter how solid the city wall was, there was a day it would be broken.

"Boom boom boom!!"

Under the replenishment of massive energy, Qi and blood were like waves, one after another, the impact force becoming stronger and stronger.

Finally, at a certain moment, Lin Qi felt a stinging pain surge into his heart, followed by a large amount of river water flowing from his legs to all parts of his body.

His body began to transform.

And Lin Qi felt that there was still massive energy in the consumed crystal.

He could continue to impact!

Lin Qi decisively launched the impact; his legs had a total of 24 apertures, and now he had already opened 23 apertures, just missing the last one.

"Boom boom!!"

Then Lin Qi continued to impact, sweat overflowing uncontrollably, sliding down from his forehead.

The majestic energy was absorbed and digested by his body, and his body was also continuously transforming.

Time passed continuously!

Finally, not knowing how long had passed, Lin Qi continuously impacted mechanically, and the 24th aperture was finally opened.

【Your comprehension has significantly improved, cultivating "World-Extinguishing Spear Canon," your understanding of the "Golden Light Volume" has significantly improved, spear art +5%】

Accompanied by another burst of stinging pain, followed by a feeling of smoothness surging into his body, streams of hot current connected the 24 vortices, forming a network.

The 24 apertures of his legs were all opened; Lin Qi felt an exceptionally refreshing feeling, and strength surged up from his legs continuously.

This feeling was too great.

Lin Qi opened his eyes suddenly, golden light blooming, and a terrifying aura was released from his body.

"Whoosh whoosh!!"

The intense momentum kicked up bursts of strong wind.

【You consumed a Level 3 Disaster Beast Crystal, absorbed massive essence, successfully opened two apertures, body transformed, Qi and blood value significantly improved, Qi and blood value +600】

【You have a breakthrough, template fusion degree +0.1%】

【Qi and blood value: 16600→17200 (24 apertures)】

【Template: Erlang Zhenjun·Yang Jian】

【Fusion degree: 39.8%→39.9%】

"Whoosh~"

Lin Qi puffed out his chest, expelling the waste gas from his internal organs.

Looking at the information on the panel, clenching his fists, stepping his feet on the ground, feeling the thickness of the earth, strength surged up continuously.

"The effect of the Disaster Beast Crystal is too strong!"

"It actually allowed me to open two apertures in a row!"

Lin Qi revealed a smile; this improvement was too big.

Without the Level 3 Disaster Beast Crystal, he would have needed at least another week.

Now he had saved a lot of time.

Next, he could continue to buy Level 3 Disaster Beast Crystals, and the speed of opening apertures could continue to increase.

3 million merit points, this was not expensive.

In one war, he could at least obtain over 10 million merit points.

Finally, Lin Qi's gaze fell on the template fusion degree.

The fusion degree was just missing the final 0.1%.

He had already felt a force gestating; once it reached 40%,

he would have a reborn change.

And it wouldn't take too long; before the selection, he would definitely be able to awaken.

And what he could do was wait patiently.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 563 =====