Chapter 270: Plague Palm Poison, Ice Marrow Finger

"Name: Zhou You.

Qi and Blood: 777 (1000).

Occupation: Martial Arts Disciple (Whiteboard Martial Master).

Experience Points: 108120.

Level: Qi and Blood 7th Stage (Tiger Crane Dual-Action Fist), Qi and Blood 6th Stage (Seven Step Poison Sand Palm), Qi and Blood 10th Stage (Five Blessings Palm and Fist Record).

Skills: Tiger Crane Dual-Action Fist Lv37, Seven Step Poison Sand Palm Lv6 (Attributes: Corrosion, Stealth), Zhou Family Fist Lv3, Basic Lightness Skill Lv6/Lv10, Pipa Lv3, Seal Script Lv10, Medicine Refining Lv19.

Techniques: Tiger Crane Jiaodie Technique Lv7 (Copper Tiger), Boneless Heart Method Lv6, Secret Art of the Transcendent Profound Heart Lv1, Heaven-Participating Yuan-Nurturing Technique Lv1, Five Blessings Palm and Fist Record Lv10.

Ultimate Moves: Three-Fold Technique Lv2, Tiger Malice Lv6, Poison Malice Lv3, Feather Gang Lv2, Primordial Iron Garment Lv2.

Talent: Hunger Lv2.

Armory: Void Face (Flesh Magic Treasure) - False Identities: First Lu Zhigang, Second Yan Ping, Wuxiang Tongkui (Seven Step Poison Sand Palm technique currently being calculated).

Trial Project One (Three-Star Level):..."

Zhou You reviewed his current comprehensive strength data and decisively chose... to upgrade.

"Experience Points -10080, Tiger Crane Jiaodie Technique Lv7 -> Lv8."

Originally, after his internal Qi and Blood entered the later stage, it had condensed to the extreme, and he felt there was no possibility of further compression.

However, this time, after raising it another level to the Qi and Blood 8th Stage, it was as if he had pushed open a door and seen a different world.

His Qi and Blood compressed once more, causing its internal structure to change, faintly emitting the luster of a ruby.

Having had the experience of upgrading as a Whiteboard Martial Master, Zhou You knew this was the necessary path to the threshold of a Martial Master.

Boom—, his bones, blood vessels, and internal organs, having undergone this wave of Qi and Blood baptism, became even more sturdy and strengthened.

A violent itching and numbing sensation came from the wounds on his skin; it was because the flesh and skin were growing and healing frantically under the scouring of his Qi and Blood.

In the blink of an eye, Zhou You advanced further in the later stage of Qi and Blood, only one step away from the peak of Qi and Blood.

But this was not enough!

To break Qi Fengxiao's turtle shell, the righteous path would not work; he had to take a side path.

"Seven Step Poison Sand Palm."

Zhou You had recently been using the Wuxiang Tongkui to deduce this poison palm technique, attempting to find the path to advancement with the highest chance of victory and the least future trouble.

He was about to consume Experience Points to upgrade it from Lv6 to Lv7, to also raise the poison palm to the later stage of Qi and Blood.

Suddenly, the panel gave a prompt: Plague Ghost's Charm Core, abnormal extreme poison detected, can be used for auxiliary improvement of the Seven Step Poison Sand Palm.

Zhou You took the Charm Core from his bosom and decisively chose to use it.

"Experience Points -71000, one Plague Ghost Charm Core deducted, Boneless Heart Method Lv6 -> Lv7."

"Experience Points -14100, Seven Step Poison Sand Palm Lv6 -> Lv7."

Zhou You's two arms swelled up as if being blown into, and as his blood surged, five-colored flowing light permeated through his blood vessels and pierced through his skin.

The Palm Poison he had refined in the past was instantly activated from its dormant state, including the poison among poisons... Gray Jade Snake Poison.

After digesting the Plague Ghost Charm Core, a brand-new, strange poison merged into it, further strengthening the power of his Poison Malice.

Gray Jade Snake Poison, Golden Ring Snake Poison, Plague Ghost Snake Poison, and so on, all tangled and intertwined, finally transforming into a brand-new form.

The Poison Mark was like a withered tree; the main trunk branched out vertically and horizontally. The main trunk was a brand-new extreme poison mixed from the Gray Jade and Plague Ghost extreme poisons, while the branches were the various types of snake poison he had refined into it.

"Poison Malice Lv3 -> Lv4, additional skill... Ten Thousand Things Poison Channel."

"Ten Thousand Things Poison Channel, upgraded from Malice attached to objects, any physical object in the world is converted into a channel for the spread of extreme poison."

The Seven Step Poison Sand Palm, from initially injuring people from a distance with palm wind, to later the Poison Malice condensing into substance, being able to change form and attack attached to objects, and finally to the Ten Thousand Things Poison Channel, could even spread extreme poison through objects.

The power of the Poison Palm thus underwent a heaven-shaking improvement. From now on, Zhou You was a poison source with extremely strong penetration; even if he were locked in an iron box and buried deep underground, it could not isolate the invasion of his Palm Poison.

As for the brand-new Poison Mark...

Zhou You looked at the colorful 'withered tree' Poison Mark and was instantly dizzy; it was this poisonous?

The appearance of the Poison Mark alone carried lethality; what if the Poison Mark struck a flesh-and-blood body directly? He spent some time finding mice, rabbits, and even brought over a ram to test the power of the brand-new Palm Poison.

Half a day later, Zhou You looked at the clean ground, and as if stung by a bee, he jerked his palm back.

Just by the palm brushing against them, no matter what animal it was, they died on the spot, melted into pus in the blink of an eye, and in another blink, the pus evaporated into water vapor and drifted away with the wind.

The breeze, tainted with the water mist, also instantly turned into a wind of extreme poison; wherever it passed, mosquitoes, insects, rats, and ants all died, followed by melting and evaporating.

It was only when Zhou You used his Poison Palm to recover all the extreme poison that he avoided a tragedy.

If he had let the extreme poison spread, the Inner City would have been about to face a 'Plague'.

That's right, the newly added infectious ability of the Palm Poison was exactly what had been fused from the Plague Ghost's Charm Core; it was fierce and boundless.

The brand-new Palm Poison had both the ferocity of the Gray Jade Snake Poison and the extremely strong infectiousness of the Plague.

Although the toxin would weaken sequentially as it spread, eventually reducing to a harmless level.

However, in the process, the number of creatures that would die from the poison would be calculated in at least the tens of thousands.

In other words, after absorbing the Plague Ghost's Charm Core, Zhou You had become a shrunken version of a Plague Ghost, capable of triggering a plague at any time.

"Do not use high-level arts lightly, do not use high-level arts lightly!"

Zhou You could only warn himself to be more careful, to control the scale when using the Poison Palm in the future, and never to make the scene too big.

With this Poison Palm skill, when he used Lu Zhigang's mask to assassinate Qi Fengxiao another day, his chances of victory would greatly increase.

Even a Martial Master's Amulet could not block the infiltration of the all-pervading extreme poison.

Hmm, unless the Qi Family's fist technique had a heart method that was immune to the Hundred Poisons, which was unlikely.

Zhou You was smug and satisfied; seeing that he still had surplus Experience Points, he did not rush to upgrade his realm but fell into deep thought.

The second mask, Yan Ping, was currently a Whiteboard Martial Master and also his greatest trump card.

He couldn't always be a meat shield; he had to give him some basic configuration! What Zhou You selected was a martial skill... Ice Marrow Finger.

Ice Marrow Finger was one of the supporting martial skills of the Five Blessings Palm and Fist Record, gathering the Qi of frost, snow, and sleet to freeze enemies with a finger.

This is an exclusive skill for the Martial Master level; those at the Qi-Blood level shouldn't even think about it.

The effects of freezing are extremely broad; it can inflict damage, trap enemies, and even serve as a large-scale crowd control tool.

However, one must possess the body of a Martial Master to withstand the physical backlash brought on by the extreme cold when executing this Ice Marrow Finger.

The first martial technique Zhou You prepared for his blank-slate Martial Master persona was this Ice Marrow Finger.

He formulated his plan with Qi Fengxiao as his imaginary enemy; once Ice Marrow Finger is unleashed, the surrounding temperature drops sharply, making it impossible to even bend one's fingers, severely diminishing the power of fist techniques and swordsmanship, leaving the target to be slaughtered at will.

Furthermore, by freezing an Amulet with ice, one can even delay and weaken the damage caused by a Martial Master's Qi-Blood.

"Experience Points -30,000, Ice Marrow Finger lv0 → lv1."

"Experience Points -40,000, Ice Marrow Finger lv1 → lv2."

Zhou You switched to the Yan Ping persona and watched as his ten fingers rapidly turned from flesh and blood to transparent, with a bone-chilling cold radiating from the depths of his marrow.

His blood vessels, skin, and muscles shed their original color, becoming transparent with a slightly light blue appearance.

Unless it is the tempered body of a Martial Master, merely circulating the power of Ice Marrow Finger slightly would instantly freeze all moisture from the bones to the flesh and skin, causing it to disintegrate into a pile of debris.

After a few breaths, this Ice Marrow Finger was thoroughly mastered, "Ice Marrow Finger."

(End of this chapter)