Chapter 112: Metamorphosis
Host: Lin Qi.
Age: 25.
Managerial Authority: Level 1.
Permission Level: Level 2 Priority Admission Permission.
Martial Arts Level: Initial Stage Martial Artist.
Strength: 1356.8 kilograms. (Middle Tier Martial Artist Standard: 2000 kilograms)
Speed: 32.5 meters per second. (Middle Tier Martial Artist Standard: 40 meters per second)
Five Organs and Six Viscera: Inner Refinement Strengthening completed 20%.
Cell Secondary Tempering: Current Completion 0%.
Training Technique: Shocking God Breathing Technique (First Realm of Perfection)
"Is this really the effect of the First Realm of Perfection?"
Lin Qi looked at the strength on the panel, feeling a bit dazed for a moment.
Regarding martial artists' situations, he had learned something from Qin Mu, knowing that when a pre-martial artist becomes a martial artist, all cells in the body will undergo secondary tempering with Energy Ore energy. Upon completing the first secondary tempering, the body's qualities will improve rapidly.
This improvement is approximately 200 kilograms, and for those with higher completion of secondary tempering, the enhancement is more significant.
However, he had not yet learned the second layer of the Shocking God Breathing Technique, meaning he had not begun the secondary tempering, yet his physical qualities had qualitatively improved, which was simply incredible.
Not to mention, the richness of his Blood Qi now was almost comparable to Feng Geling he had seen before.
Subsequently, Lin Qi casually threw a punch.
Boom!
A blast echoed throughout the cave, leaving a faint fist imprint on the rock wall several meters away.
"Even just hitting the air has such a strong effect now?" Lin Qi looked at the fist imprint on the rock wall, it was just like the empty palm strike from martial arts novels, and this was just a casual punch of his, without any technique, purely the impact of speed and strength, "If I add my 10% strength buff, my current punch should reach nearly 1500 kilograms, with this speed, if facing experts wearing A6 grade battle armor, I could probably knock them down effortlessly without any martial arts techniques."
After testing his strength, Lin Qi tried various martial arts techniques in the cave.
Shattering Stone Fist!
Leopard Shadow Step!
Thunder Light Palm!
After performing all the martial arts techniques several times, he stopped fully satisfied.
"Martial artists really are incomparable to pre-martial artists." Lin Qi looked at the rock wall with several large holes blasted out of it, marveling at the power of martial artists, even understanding why the status of martial artists and pre-martial artists is completely different, even just freshly promoted martial artists have combat power that pre-martial artists can't match.
A normal pre-martial artist breaks through to become a martial artist by first boosting their Blood Qi to the body's limit, pushing until it can't rise anymore, then training to the second layer of a martial artist's training technique, using Energy Ore to complete the cell stimulation, finally transforming into a martial artist.
However, most pre-martial artists prematurely believe their Blood Qi has reached its limit, attempting to break through, only to find their Blood Qi insufficient, causing their cells to fail to withstand the Energy Ore's stimulus, leading to their demise.
Normally, newly ascended martial artists should have strength generally above 1200 kilograms, there shouldn't be any martial artist below 1200 kilograms of strength.
The 200-kilogram strength gap for pre-martial artists can be made up with martial arts techniques, but the effectiveness of a martial artist using martial artist-level martial arts techniques compared to a pre-martial artist using the same is worlds apart, or rather, the attack range is worlds apart.
The Shattering Stone Fist and Leopard Shadow Step at the Apprentice Level are manageable, but the Thunder Light Palm at the Martial Artist Level requires a pre-martial artist to strike the opponent's body to work.
But after becoming a martial artist, when used, Lin Qi could truly launch a thunderous strike, blasting out a large hole in the rock wall five or six meters away, as if actually hit by Thunder Light Palm.
This kind of attack, with the same power but drastically increased range, makes facing opponents with similar strength seem like one person is barehanded while the other has a gun, it's just a one-sided slaughter.
Then Lin Qi spent an entire night getting familiar with the combat style of martial artists using weapons.
It wasn't until the next morning that Lin Qi was still immersed in Swordsmanship, unable to extricate himself, until a jungler hero at the gate sent a message with a smart watch, causing Lin Qi to stop.
"So they've finally come." Lin Qi frowned slightly as he read the message from the player.
The message from the jungler hero was brief—just a few words.
The Great Ape Gang is attacking!
"It's time for these players to show their skills." Lin Qi replied with a received message, glancing towards the players cultivating in the small energy ore vein, feeling a sense of confidence welling up inside.
These players at Red Moon Mountain, after a day and night of frenzied enhancement, their overall strength was no longer comparable to before.
Currently, there are as many as 40 Advanced Apprentices, 15 Extreme Apprentices, 5 pre-martial artists, and the others are Intermediate Apprentices.
This kind of strength openly surpasses old gangs like the Cyan Sparrow Gang, even being able to compete with the top thirty major gangs.
And this is just the visible strength of the players, the true situation is that these players have all mastered martial artist-level martial arts techniques and can fight beyond their level.
However, compared to players mastering martial artist-level martial arts techniques, the greatest improvement over the day and night were those experts like Luo Wushang.
Especially Luo Wushang, Li Ranxing, Fang Zhen, Zhao Hu, Ye Qinglu, Zhang Qingwei, Xiao Wan Ye Kuang, and Chen Ya, were incredibly outstanding.
In less than a night's time, these eight people had learned the Body Strengthening Secret Technique and were now at the beginner stage, with at least 3% to as much as 5% proficiency.
Now the toughness of these eight people's bodies is simply unbelievable; their outer skin is tougher than cowhide, yet still smooth as jade, and the muscles beneath the skin are as hard as stone. Without using weapons, just ordinary punches and kicks from people of the same level would likely cause only minor injuries, at most.
However, the most terrifying thing about the eight is not their body's toughness but their recovery power.
After learning the technique, they tested with weapons on their own bodies, and superficial wounds would heal in mere minutes. Wounds affecting tendons and bones would recover five to six tenths in over ten minutes.
As for internal injuries caused by strong impacts, unless it smashed the internal organs on the spot, they wouldn't greatly affect combat power, making them akin to humanoid monsters.
And this is just their beginner level; reaching proficiency would further enhance their body's toughness and recovery power.
However, thanks to these eight, Lin Qi also extracted the proficiency of six of them at the first opportunity in the morning.
Now his Body Strengthening Secret Technique has reached a beginner level of 15%, combined with his transformation as a martial artist, with every cell in his body having undergone a transformation, bringing his body's toughness and recovery power to a more terrifying level.
Lin Qi even suspected that with his current body, he might not need the protection of the A6 grade battle armor against a pre-martial artist's punch without martial arts techniques and would likely be unscathed.
"Master of the Hall, everyone has been assembled."
Zhang Qingwei walked up to Lin Qi, reporting with great excitement.
As the jungler hero reported the message, it also notified all members of Celestial Might, now everyone was aware that the Great Ape Gang was at their doorstep and that the defense of Red Moon Mountain was finally about to start.
"Great! Everyone follow me. Let's have a good look at those from the Great Ape Gang!"
Lin Qi looked at the crowd, fully equipped, nodded, and directly turned to head outside the cave.