Chapter 117: Qi Transformation Cultivation, Ghost Severing Transformation

September 30th.

It was the end of the month again, and the Master Wuji Hall was to conduct its end-of-month assessment again.

In the last monthly exam, the Master Wuji Hall participated in the three-academy joint big search to arrest Ghost Face.

In the monthly exam before that, the Master Wuji Hall, together with people from the Supervisory Academy and the Stop-Goe Academy, went into the mountains to wipe out the Divine Peace Sect.

After every monthly exam, the situation in Xingcheng underwent a change.

And this monthly exam finally became very calm, because neither the Supervisory Academy nor the Stop-Goe Academy had any action, so the Master Wuji Hall's end-of-month assessment this time returned to its original mode—the arena tournament.

Now that Li Fei had revealed his realm in front of Hao Yi as having just broken through to the middle stage of Body Breaking, he participated in this arena tournament with the cultivation of the middle stage of Body Breaking.

After Yuan Dao and others of the Tiger Blade Gang were arrested, besides Li Fei, there were only two people among the Grade A students of the Master Wuji Hall who had the cultivation of the middle stage of Body Breaking.

And these two people used implants of lower grade, their application of implants was not as good as Li Fei's, and their martial arts skills were not as good as Li Fei's either. Even if Li Fei didn't rely on the Myriad Blood Bead, he could defeat these two people by virtue of the strength trained by Hao Yi.

So in the end, Li Fei won the top spot in the September monthly exam without any suspense.

At this point, Li Fei had won the top spot in the monthly exam for three consecutive months. According to the current trend, it was almost a certainty that he would win the quota for the university's Stop-Goe Department next year.

On the other side, the infighting between the General Manager's faction and the Tiger Blade Gang was still continuing, but after the decline in momentum, the hearts of the people in the Tiger Blade Gang faction were shaken, and many officials who originally supported the Tiger Blade Gang began to waver, which put the Tiger Blade Gang at a disadvantage in the struggle.

It seemed that this tiger that had been dominating Xingcheng was starting to fail.

In the following October, the General Manager's faction sang all the way and 'captured cities and seized territories' in the officialdom, while Li Fei focused on cultivation.

He continued to follow Hao Yi for perception training during the day. Even though his real realm was already the Qi Transformation stage, the perception training designed by Hao Yi for him was still very useful and could effectively improve his combat power.

At night, Li Fei used the excuse of going to the Qingyuan Fist Village to fight in matches to temper his martial arts skills, and under Shangguan Xiao's guidance, he carried out the cultivation of the Qi Transformation stage.

In order not to make outsiders feel strange, Li Fei would fight a match in the Qingyuan Fist Village every night under Shangguan Xiao's arrangement.

Qingyuan Fist Village, Shangguan Xiao's residence.

Li Fei was sparring with Shangguan Xiao holding Ghost Severing, and the Ghost Severing in his hand emitted a dark golden aura, looking as if it had been plated with a layer of gold.

This dark golden aura was Li Fei's Geng Metal True Qi.

Innate Qi is not force and is not condensed enough, so it will dissipate rapidly once it leaves the body. Under normal circumstances, it cannot be attached to weapons.

And the power of alien weapons is reflected here.

For martial artists below the Qi Transformation stage, Ghost Severing is just a sharp weapon that can cut iron like mud, but for martial masters at the Qi Transformation stage, Ghost Severing is also a divine weapon that can attach Innate Qi, or even strengthen Innate Qi!

This Ghost Severing in Li Fei's hand was mainly forged from the bones of the metal-attribute alien beast Ghost Swallowing Beast, and also incorporated the body tissues of several fire-attribute alien beasts, so it was most suitable for the infusion of metal-attribute and fire-attribute Innate Qi.

When Li Fei injected Geng Metal True Qi into Ghost Severing, Geng Metal True Qi would become more condensed and more sharp!

In the courtyard, only a golden blade light flashed, and a translucent air vortex was directly slashed open.

With the blessing of Geng Metal True Qi, Li Fei could use Ghost Severing to directly slash open Shangguan Xiao's Storm Gang Force!

This also made him truly able to pose a threat to a Dao Foundation stage powerhouse like Shangguan Xiao, and Shangguan Xiao could no longer deal with him as easily as before.

The two sparred for dozens of moves, during which Li Fei maintained the 'Tyrant Body' state and did not 'change breath'.

After stepping from the Body Breaking stage into the Qi Transformation stage, there was no need for an interval to use the implant's supernatural abilities, so there was no so-called 'weak period'. As long as one's own physical strength was sufficient, one could continuously use the implant's supernatural abilities.

After the two sparred for a few minutes, Shangguan Xiao used a flick of her finger to shake open the blade edge of Ghost Severing, but her finger was also cut by the Geng Metal True Qi attached to the blade edge, leaving a wound.

Seeing this, Li Fei stopped immediately, wanting to apologize, but Shangguan Xiao waved her hand with a smile:

"Just a little skin wound, it doesn't matter."

While speaking, she exerted force with her finger, using Flash Thunder Force to completely clear away the Geng Metal True Qi attached to the wound, which stopped the bleeding.

"Not bad, your application of Geng Metal True Qi is already quite proficient."

Shangguan Xiao looked at Li Fei with appreciation.

In the ten days after the September monthly exam, Li Fei carried out the cultivation of the Qi Transformation stage under Shangguan Xiao's guidance.

First of all, it was still taking elixirs every day, but the elixirs needed for the Qi Transformation stage were different. He mainly took two types: one was Yuan Qi Powder, used to replenish energy for the implant, so as to quickly restore the consumed Innate Qi.

This medicine was something Li Fei had been taking when Hao Yi gave him Qi-traveling training every day, but Li Fei still didn't know it until now.

There was another medicine called Gold Armor Pill, which was specifically for metal-attribute implants at the Qi Transformation stage, and could accelerate the growth speed of the implant and increase the total amount of Innate Qi.

These two types of elixirs would be cheaper if bought in the Master Wuji Hall, and would have more premiums if bought on the black market, and one must have channels to buy them.

One portion of Yuan Qi Powder was 67 yuan, which could be used at most three times. One bottle of Gold Armor Pill was 128 yuan, and one bottle had 20 pills.

Fortunately, the Qingyuan Fist Village had purchasing channels, and Li Fei was not short of money for the time being, and still had tens of thousands of yuan in savings, so he didn't need to worry about cultivation resources.

After taking the elixirs, Li Fei would use Geng Metal True Qi to 'scour' all parts of his body over and over again.

This process was not only to strengthen his own physique, but also to exercise his control over Innate Qi, because there were many fragile places in the body that could not withstand the overly violent 'scouring' of Innate Qi, and if one was not careful, one would hurt oneself, so this process needed to be sufficiently detailed.

After ten days of strengthening, Li Fei's Blood Souls increased by another 8, and now the total amount had become 141!

And besides taking elixirs and using Innate Qi to strengthen himself, another item of Li Fei's daily training was sparring with Shangguan Xiao. This process was to train his application of Geng Metal True Qi.

When a martial master spars with others, they can use Innate Qi to enhance their speed, strength, defense, etc., but the amount of Innate Qi is limited, and it needs to wait for the implant to absorb enough energy to recover after being used up, so how to use limited Innate Qi to enhance combat power as efficiently as possible is an extremely experienced and skillful matter.

Having sparred with Shangguan Xiao during this period, Li Fei learned many useful little tricks. Although he dared not say he was already an expert among martial masters, he was definitely no longer a novice.

He broke through to the Qi Transformation stage by way of 'Breaking Mental Obstacles', and his mental power was far superior to that of martial masters in the same realm, and strong mental power helped him better control Innate Qi, so whether it was using Innate Qi to temper the body or using Innate Qi for combat, his progress speed was very fast, which made Shangguan Xiao full of praise.

"With your current control over Geng Metal True Qi, you can try to develop the second function of Ghost Severing."

Shangguan Xiao suddenly said to Li Fei.

"The second function?"

Li Fei looked at the Ghost Severing blade in his hand, "What other functions does it have?"

Shangguan Xiao smiled: "The main material of this blade is the bones of the Ghost Swallowing Beast, and the Ghost Swallowing Beast has a supernatural ability of deformation. Its bones can deform arbitrarily, thereby changing its own form, and even its color can change. This blade used the bones of the Ghost Swallowing Beast and also retained this supernatural ability. You can try to stimulate it completely with Innate Qi, and then control this blade to produce deformation through Innate Qi."

"It actually has such a wonderful function?"

Li Fei was very pleasantly surprised after hearing this.

This Ghost Severing blade was so easy to use; whether it was his own identity or the identity of Ghost Face, he needed to use this blade, but this made it easy to be exposed.

And with this deformation function, Li Fei didn't need to worry about this problem anymore.

He himself used the original form of the Ghost Severing blade, and Ghost Face would just change the form of the blade.

"You try to fill this blade completely with Geng Metal True Qi."

Shangguan Xiao said.

So Li Fei began to pour Geng Metal True Qi into the Ghost Severing blade continuously. After he poured about 40% of the Geng Metal True Qi in his body into the blade body, he finally couldn't continue to pour, and Geng Metal True Qi began to overflow, and then the Ghost Severing blade in his hand emitted a slight vibration, bringing the Geng Metal True Qi in the blade body to vibrate together.

"Remember this frequency of vibration. In the future, if you want to make the Ghost Severing blade deform, you don't need to inject so much Innate Qi every time. Just use Innate Qi to keep this frequency of vibration in the blade body for a while."

Shangguan Xiao said, "Now, while maintaining the vibration of Innate Qi, control the Innate Qi to flow in the blade body, and flow according to the shape you want. This feeling is like kneading a clay figure."

Li Fei did as Shangguan Xiao said, and the Ghost Severing blade in his hand really began to deform slowly, the blade edge gradually widened, and the blade body was also slowly lengthening.

It was indeed not easy to maintain the Innate Qi vibrating at a specific frequency while controlling the Innate Qi to flow in the blade body according to his own ideas. If it weren't for Li Fei's training during this period, he really wouldn't be able to do it.

He spent more than half an hour mastering the deformation method of the blade body and could freely control the shape and color of the Ghost Severing blade.

However, this blade was not entirely cast from the bones of the Ghost Swallowing Beast, and also fused with many other materials, so the general framework had been set. Even if it could deform, it wouldn't be too outrageous, such as turning into a long spear, an axe, etc.

Li Fei could make certain adjustments to the width, length, and the streamlined shape and color of the blade edge.

What could finally be changed was the part connecting the handle and the blade body, which was the ghost-faced fanged blade jaw.

With a click, Li Fei actually took the whole blade jaw directly off the Ghost Severing blade.

"This blade jaw is cast from a complete piece of Ghost Swallowing Beast bone and is inlaid on the blade body, so it can be taken off."

Shangguan Xiao explained to Li Fei:

"I guess the person who cast the blade felt that the main framework of the blade body was already set, and in order to increase some changes and fully exert the characteristics of the Ghost Swallowing Beast, they specially inlaid such a blade jaw. You can deform this blade jaw into a handguard, deform it into an iron chain tied to the blade, or something else. In short, it depends on your own imagination and actual needs."

Li Fei weighed the blade jaw in his hand and looked at this ghost-faced fanged form, smiling:

"There really is something it can be used to change into."

As he said this, he injected Geng Metal True Qi into the blade jaw in his hand and began to control the blade jaw to deform.

The fist-sized blade jaw was constantly flattened and elongated like a piece of dough...

Shangguan Xiao looked curiously at the blade jaw in Li Fei's hand, wanting to know what he intended to deform the blade jaw into.

A few minutes later, a cyan ghost mask appeared in Li Fei's hand.

Shangguan Xiao was startled, then smiled:

"This idea is good; this thing is truly most suitable for being used as a mask."

Before, the mask worn by Ghost Face was just an ordinary mask, which was easy to be knocked off or broken.

Even if Li Fei added a headgear under the mask, it was not safe enough.

Now that he made a mask with the bones of the Ghost Swallowing Beast, it was extremely hard, so he didn't need to worry about the mask being broken, and he could also treat this mask as a protective gear for the head.

Li Fei also added a ring behind the mask for fixing. He put the cyan ghost mask in his hand on his face, and the ring just passed over his ears and covered his head.

As he controlled the Geng Metal True Qi inside to change, the ring began to tighten, finally letting the mask be firmly fixed on his face.

In this way, he didn't need to worry about the mask being knocked off either.

"Not bad, this way Ghost Face's equipment is considered upgraded."

Li Fei said with satisfaction, wearing the brand-new mask and holding the deformed Ghost Severing blade.

When Li Fei was upgrading Ghost Face's equipment, Yu Hu was receiving someone in his study.

This person had a large frame, strong muscles, and somewhat dark skin, wearing coarse linen clothes, looking like a man who did hard labor.

"Is everything ready?"

Yu Hu asked.

The man in front of him nodded, speaking with a somewhat strange accent:

"Ready."

"Then start."

Yu Hu looked out the window, his eyes fierce like a tiger:

"It's time to let this Xingcheng change its sky!"

Under the night, Xingcheng had ten thousand lights, a scene of peace.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 118 =====