Chapter 563: Ability Fusion Jin Gang Body (Seeking monthly votes)

Time passed like a white horse passing a gap, and the selection time before the Fire Seed Trial was getting closer and closer.

Across the entire Blue Star, all high-realm martial artists were cultivating desperately.

Even Ninth Realm martial artists were still working desperately hard.

In the blink of an eye, another month and a half passed.

Martial Path Era 2048, June 23rd

The Xia Guo college entrance examination had already ended, and the results were all out; the college entrance examinees had once again created a new high.

At the same time, there were over a hundred S-level geniuses, all of whom were geniuses who had awakened abilities; it should be said that future S-level geniuses would all be awakened geniuses.

And the pressure of future competition would also become greater.

Beijiang Province, Black Dragon Base!

The sun shone on the earth, and on the vast scorched earth and ruins, a disaster beast tide was erupting.

"Roar~"

Endless disaster beasts charged out from the space gate, emitting roaring sounds, wanting to swallow all the humans they saw.

Like a black wave, they surged toward the Black Dragon Base.

"Kill!!"

At the same time, a large number of martial artists roared, and a large amount of Gang Qi shot out, piercing through the massive disaster beast bodies, fresh blood pouring like a waterfall, and they collapsed to the ground and died with a boom.

"Boom!!"

Such wars erupted every few days, and the martial artists in the base were already used to it.

Today's disaster beast tide was just a large-scale disaster beast tide, with no Level 9 disaster beasts appearing.

It lasted until 5 PM and then ended!

The weather was hot, and it would only be cool for a moment at sunset; at the entrance, a large number of martial artists began to return to the base.

A group of martial artists sat at the entrance, chatting while resting, watching the returning martial artists, discussing gossip, which was also one of the few pleasures.

A green-armored shadow holding a battle sword walked into the base, and someone said:

"This is Wood Flower Sword Xu Qing; now Lin Qi, Sun Sheng, Li Tianxing, and others have broken through to the Eighth Realm."

"In our Black Dragon Base, she is the strongest Seventh Realm martial artist."

"In the selection half a month later, she has a great possibility of getting a spot to represent Seventh Realm martial artists in the Fire Seed Trial!"

Then another black-armored man appeared.

"It's Black Thunder Sword—Shen Heng, an SSS-level genius, the genius ranked 5th among Seventh Realm martial artists in our base, also having a chance to get a spot."

Then several more figures passed by, all high-realm martial artists, and a few people discussed in low voices.

"Whoosh!!"

In the fishy wind, a tall figure wearing black gold battle armor, dancing a black gold great spear, appeared in everyone's line of sight.

The man's expression was cold and stern, his whole body surrounded by terrifying baleful aura and sharpness, his eyes like sharp blades.

Even from a distance of several meters, everyone didn't dare to look him in the eye; until the person walked far away, they looked at his back and discussed in low voices:

"Is this the Jin Gang Spear Demon?"

"His aura is too strong; I feel like I'm going to be pierced by a sharp blade in an instant."

"The killing intent is so heavy; just the moment we looked at each other, I felt cold all over."

"Jin Gang Spear Demon·Lin Qi, he is our Blue Star's top-tier genius."

"For nearly five months, he has been the man of the hour in our Black Dragon Base, the God of Slaughter on the battlefield!"

"The number of high-level disaster beasts he has hunted is countless!"

"Some Ninth Realm martial artists said that Lin Qi alone can be used as ten peak Eighth Realm martial artists!"

"A month ago, our squad faced the attack of the Level 7 disaster beast Earth-Splitting Wolf!"

"I was almost trampled to death, and the Spear Demon, a hundred meters away, accurately shot out a spear Gang Qi, piercing the Earth-Splitting Wolf to death on the spot."

"The 20-meter-long Earth-Splitting Wolf just died like that!"

Someone recounted excitedly, and others sighed after hearing this:

"In the selection in half a month, I think the Spear Demon can get a spot."

"I think so too; he is too powerful!"

Room 206, Lin Qi couldn't hear others' discussions.

He hunted disaster beasts as usual, suppressed disaster beast tides, his birthday had already passed, and he was 21 years old now.

Taking off his battle armor, he entered the bathroom.

A moment later, changing into a martial arts uniform, he sat cross-legged in the martial arts room, consuming a bottle of Life Water.

Preparing to continue cultivation.

"Beep!"

"Master, a video call from Lin Zhen!"

Xiao Chan on the side suddenly spoke, directly projecting a large green screen in front of him.

The video connected, and the faces of his old dad Lin Zhen and old mom Fang Huiyi appeared on the opposite side.

And his old mom Fang Huiyi's belly was slightly bulging.

"Mom and Dad!"

Lin Qi revealed a smile and greeted them.

Nearly five months had passed, and Mom and Dad often called to chat.

In the third month, they also successfully awakened special abilities, making their talent transform.

Now his old dad Lin Zhen, after consuming a large amount of resources, had even broken through to the Fifth Realm Organ Training.

A month ago, his old mom Fang Huiyi also officially became pregnant.

In a few months, he would also have a younger brother or sister.

After a round of reminiscing, his old dad Lin Zhen laughed heartily:

"Little Qi, there is still half a month, and the trial selection is about to begin!"

"You also have to work hard; we believe that with your talent, you can definitely be selected."

"We won't disturb you anymore!"

After saying this, he waved his hand and hung up the video call.

Lin Qi looked at the quiet martial arts room, clenched his fists, and picked up his phone to check.

【Name: Lin Qi (Black Dragon Base)】

【Realm: Eighth Realm Aperture Training】

【Merit points: 9.806 million】

【Base ranking: 6→5】

【Xia Guo ranking: 25→24】

【Blue Star ranking: 101→99】

Lin Qi looked at his merit points and nodded secretly.

Today was just a large-scale disaster beast tide, with not many high-level disaster beasts.

The disaster beast tide was suppressed quickly, and he had gained 9 million merit points.

Now his merit points were hard to exceed 10 million, as every time he had to spend them to buy Soul Marrow and Disaster Beast Crystals.

Looking at the ranking again, at the Black Dragon Base, he was already ranked 5th.

Except for a few old people, like Xue Zhou who had hunted disaster beasts for more than ten years.

He currently couldn't catch up to the other party.

The Xia Guo had also entered the 24th place, and the entire Blue Star had entered the top hundred.

He could see that his real combat power was definitely higher than the House of War ranking.

He entered the shopping module and placed an order for three Level 3 Disaster Beast Crystals.

【Beep!】

【Fingerprint verification successful, 9 million merit points have been paid successfully!】

【Your Disaster Beast Crystals will be delivered to your door within tomorrow.】

Lin Qi saw this and chose expedited delivery, which was delivery within half an hour.

He needed Disaster Beast Crystals very much now.

A moment later

He received a call, opened the door, took the metal box from the staff member, quickly signed for it, and returned to the martial arts room.

"Beep!"

Looking at the red crystal embedded in the black metal box, Lin Qi slowly took out one and put it into his mouth, chewed it, and then swallowed it.

He sat cross-legged, his hands in the five-hearts-toward-heaven posture.

In the past month or so, he had consumed too many Disaster Beast Crystals and was already familiar with them.

The energy within it exploded with a boom after entering his stomach!

The majestic energy made him feel as if he were full, and his body began to digest the essence within it.

And he mobilized his mental power, mental power differentiated into two hundred strands, wove into a net, and guided the majestic Qi and blood to impact the apertures.

"Now it has been a month and a half since the fusion degree reached 39.9%!"

"I cultivated hard, and I feel it getting closer and closer!"

"Perhaps the breakthrough is today!"

Lin Qi thought secretly!

"Boom!"

Qi and blood, under the guidance of mental power, gathered toward his right hand; the leg apertures had all been opened, 24 apertures connected into a net, accumulating a large amount of Origin Energy.

Now it was the turn of his arms; his arms, after a month and a half, had successfully opened 18 apertures.

Still missing five, he would be able to open all the apertures of his arms.

It was already comparable to the results of the previous three months!

"Boom!"

Feeling his right hand numb and swollen, followed by bursts of stinging pain, Lin Qi endured it hard, not shouting out.

He continued to guide Qi and blood to continuously launch impacts; in continuous impacts, the apertures gradually began to loosen, as if breaking a shackle.

Until two hours later, Lin Qi felt his whole body shake, the pain intensified, followed by a feeling of comfort, and strength surged up continuously.

It opened!

He successfully opened the 19th aperture!

【You consumed a Disaster Beast Crystal, successfully opened the 43rd aperture, physical strength improved, arm strength significantly improved, Qi and blood value +300】

【Your realm has broken through, template fusion degree +0.1%】

【Qi and blood value: 22600→22900 (43 apertures)】

【Template: Erlang Zhenjun·Yang Jian】

【Fusion degree: 39.9%→40%】

Lin Qi opened his eyes suddenly, golden light blooming.

He looked at the information popped up on the panel; opening the aperture was just incidental, he locked onto the template fusion degree.

"Finally, finally reached 40% fusion degree!"

Lin Qi exhaled a heavy breath of turbid air.

It had been more than a year since he last obtained a new talent.

Although his current talent was considered not bad in the universe.

In a primary civilization like the Spark Civilization, it was even a top-tier genius.

But for him, it was not enough; he needed more talent.

【Your fusion degree has reached 40%, in ten minutes, the transformation will officially begin!】

Looking at the popped-up information, Lin Qi's expression froze.

Looking at the box in front of him, there were still two Level 3 Disaster Beast Crystals left, and a large amount of functional drinks were prepared in the refrigerator next to it.

Even Life Water, he had prepared several bottles.

Everything was ready.

Ten minutes passed in a flash.

【Transformation officially begins!】

Information popped up on the panel, and Lin Qi trembled all over after seeing it.

Deep in his consciousness space, a golden remnant banner floated, emitting a mysterious aura.

"Boom!"

The next instant, the remnant banner emitted dazzling golden light, shooting out a beam of light.

"This is..."

Lin Qi felt a force surge into his body out of thin air.

Instantly igniting his body, mysterious power erupted, starting to change from his bloodline genes.

"Ah!!!"

Lin Qi widened his eyes, veins bulging, emitting a painful roar, as intense pain erupted from all over his body.

"Boom!"

Intense golden light was released from his body, and double-layered golden patterns emerged. Like a spiral, they condensed into two layers of patterns.

But the next instant, a golden pattern emerged out of thin air, intersecting with the other two patterns to form a triangular shape.

The patterns became more profound, intense sharpness was released from his body, accompanied by bursts of fierce wind.

And Lin Qi couldn't see it anymore; now he frowned, gritting his teeth to endure the intense pain.

The sharp pain surged from his bone marrow, spreading to every part of his body.

The Golden Emperor Gang Qi originally flowing in his body instantly differentiated, turning into 【Golden Sharp】 and 【Golden Light】 two types of power.

The two powers entangled, and from the depths of his bloodline, a brand-new power emerged; this power was heavy and solid.

The two powers were stirred by the new power, like boiling metal solution in a furnace.

Lin Qi knew that this was the third special ability of the metal attribute—【Jin Gang】.

Capable of making people possess an unbreakable super defensive ability.

Lin Qi only felt his body scorching hot, as if practicing some kind of metal.

And this metal was his entire body.

"Crack!"

"Swish swish!"

In an instant, his body began to reshape; his body talent had been reshaped several times, allowing him to possess strong stomach, dragon spirit and tiger ferocity, and steel bones and iron muscles talents.

Now he was undergoing an even more thorough reshaping.

The pain was also more intense than any previous time, even his steel-like will seemed to have reached its limit, making life worse than death.

"Clang clang!"

Suddenly, he seemed to hear the sound of forging steel coming from his bones; his bones were reshaping.

He endured the intense pain, gritting his teeth, but found that his teeth began to loosen; he opened his mouth, and all the teeth in his mouth fell out.

"Drip!"

Accompanied by golden blood beads falling to the ground, also falling were his fingernails.

And his hair; his thick black hair also detached from his scalp, continuously falling, scattering all over the ground.

In a moment's time, accompanied by sweat on the ground

In an instant, he felt like a beast that had lost its claws, incomparably weak and painful.

"Hiss~"

Then his body felt intense pain again; it was his muscles being torn, and his body's tendons snapping.

Pain, too painful!

Lin Qi felt his body transforming, like a precise and cruel metallurgy.

Three powers gathered in his body, finally merging into one, entering his heart.

Lin Qi felt the intense change, his body veins bulging, blood flowing out, but starting to emit a golden luster.

Unknowingly, Lin Qi's consciousness began to blur, completely falling into a deep sleep.

The body's transformation was still continuing, and a large amount of Origin Energy in the air continuously entered his body.

Deep in the consciousness space, the golden remnant banner still floated, and a large amount of golden Origin Energy was absorbed by it.

In the blink of an eye, a night passed.

Time came to the morning of the 24th.

"Whoosh whoosh!!"

In the quiet martial arts room, only Xiao Chan, who had condensed a body, was guarding Lin Qi, who was lying on the ground, wrapped in blood filth.

"Whoosh~"

Lin Qi, breathing steadily, opened his eyes suddenly, and essence light flashed by in an instant, like a sharp blade shooting out.

He recovered his consciousness and slowly sat up from the ground.

"Has the transformation finally ended?"

As soon as this thought emerged in Lin Qi's mind, a strong idea came from every cell in his whole body.

"Hungry!"

"Thirsty!"

Lin Qi didn't have time to check his state, only feeling hungry and thirsty, looking at the metal box not far away.

He opened it immediately, put the Level 3 Disaster Beast Crystal inside into his mouth, chewed it hard, and then swallowed it.

The second Level 3 Disaster Beast Crystal, he didn't let it go either, and ate it too.

Then it was thirst; he opened the refrigerator, took out functional drinks, and performed one bottle of water per second.

"Gulp~"

In a moment's time, 24 bottles of functional drinks went down his stomach.

"Whoosh~"

Lin Qi exhaled a long breath, sat cross-legged, his whole body heavy, and his body operated at high speed.

His body heated up, and he clearly perceived that his Qi and blood were like a mercury waterfall, flowing heavily and majestically.

The two consumed Level 3 Disaster Beast Crystals were quickly digested by his body.

Lin Qi guided them to impact apertures; continuously consuming Disaster Beast Crystals, if he didn't utilize them, it would be too wasteful.

He presented the five-hearts-toward-heaven posture, his right hand felt a burst of stinging pain; that was Qi and blood impacting the apertures.

"Whoosh!"

Lin Qi's whole body shook, hot current surged into his body, it opened!

The 20th aperture was opened!

It was simply too easy, with no difficulty at all.

He continued to try, this time switching to his left hand, controlling Qi and blood, instantly impacting.

"Boom!"

Hot current surged out, strength surged up continuously, and it opened again; the 21st aperture was opened!

Lin Qi continuously impacted, opening 5 apertures in a row before stopping.

The 24 apertures of his arms were all opened, like 24 vortices, absorbing a large amount of Qi and blood and Origin Energy.

The 24 apertures connected into a net, and together with the 24 apertures of his legs, a total of 48 apertures were connected.

Strength was released continuously.

Lin Qi only felt his body heating up, bursts of hot current, and the connection with the heaven and earth became closer.

This transformation made him undergo a earth-shaking change; once the transformation was completed, he actually opened 5 apertures in a row, which was simply astonishing.

His gaze also locked onto the panel, finding that a large amount of information had popped up.

【Your template fusion degree reached 40%, fused with 40% of Erlang Zhenjun's talent, your body began to transform!】

【You awakened special ability—Jin Gang】

【Your special abilities, Golden Sharp, Golden Light, Jin Gang, the three abilities of the metal attribute fused and sublimated.】

【Your talents Strong Stomach, Dragon Spirit and Tiger Ferocity, Steel Bones and Iron Muscles, Extreme Sublimation, Golden Pupil, fused with the three abilities, making the body sublimate, condensing special talent (constitution)—Jin Gang Body!】

【You possess Jin Gang Body, cultivation talent significantly improved, you possess unparalleled metal attribute affinity, your comprehension significantly improved!】

【You consumed two Level 3 Disaster Beast Crystals, opened 5 apertures, physical strength significantly improved, Qi and blood value +1500!】

【Qi and blood value: 22900→24400 (48 apertures)】

【Template: Erlang Zhenjun·Yang Jian】

【Fusion degree: 40%】

Lin Qi gasped after seeing the popped-up information.

His prediction was correct, but not entirely correct.

He did awaken the special ability—【Jin Gang】

Gathering the three abilities of the metal attribute, and also gathering his only shortcoming, which was the defensive ability problem.

But it was not just the 【Jin Gang】 ability; he also condensed a stronger talent—【Jin Gang Body】

It was as if several good talents combined to form a top-tier talent.

Just like in a game, some fragments combined into a divine weapon.

His talent now was also the same; many good talents combined into Jin Gang Body.

It should be more powerful than just the three abilities alone.

He clicked on the description of Jin Gang Body.

【Jin Gang Body: Special talent (constitution), possessing strong metal attribute affinity, physical strength far exceeding ordinary people, all-around improvement!】

Lin Qi began to carefully feel the changes in his body.

He looked at himself in the mirror, opened his mouth, and found that new teeth had grown, white and neat.

Emitting cold light, possessing astonishing bite force.

The fallen fingernails also grew back; he scratched hard against the wall, like a sharp weapon, leaving white scratches on the wall.

He perceived his body, only to find that the inside of his body had undergone earth-shaking changes.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 564 =====