Chapter 212: Martial Art Perfection!
Chapter 212: Martial Art Perfection! (Requesting Monthly Votes)
Lin Qi nodded at the explanation. His gaze settled on a silver metallic platform nearby, where a meditation cushion sat beside a groove holding smoldering incense.
"This is the Mobile Meditation Pod", Dean Liu explained calmly. "It connects your AI neural interface to control its movement. Since the eighth-grade Disaster Beast is too large, you'll need to observe it from multiple angles using this device."
Lin Qi stepped forward, his shoulder-mounted AI Xiaochan—a miniature Blue Metal Sphere—automatically linking with the pod.
"Vrrrmm!!"
The machine hummed to life, lifting off the ground like a hovering disc.
"You’ve got three days for observation", Dean Liu added. "After that, you’ll need to pay again."
Lin Qi smiled confidently. "Three days won’t be necessary."
Dean Liu chuckled. "The higher one’s innate talent and affinity, the less time required. I’d wager you’ll perfect your martial art by tomorrow."
With that, Dean Liu departed, leaving Lin Qi alone.
Lin Qi maneuvered the pod to examine the Golden Vajra Tiger’s corpse. His vision pierced every detail—each strand of fur, skin pattern, blood vessel, and muscle fiber. It was astoundingly vivid, surpassing even divine projections.
He reached out, touching the beast’s icy claws and rough golden hide. The corpse had been preserved with special anti-decay compounds. Staring into its eyes—twin orbs of extinguished golden flame—he felt an invisible aura radiating from its lifeless form. Even in death, its presence lingered like a storm waiting to erupt.
After half an hour, Lin Qi sat cross-legged before the beast’s head, igniting fresh incense to calm his mind. He dissolved his previous mental projection of the Golden Vajra Tiger, deeming it a pale imitation, and began reconstructing it from scratch using his consciousness as a brush.
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B01 Area – Earth-Shattering Dragon Carcass
Huo Wanyang sat on a Mobile Meditation Pod before the colossal Earth-Shattering Dragon. "My affinity with the Earth-Shattering Dragon Evolution Method is nearly 99%. I’ll perfect it tomorrow and break through to the Third Realm!" His voice brimmed with rivalry. "Lin Qi’s speed won’t outpace mine this time!"
Though defeated by Lin Qi before, he now saw him as the ultimate rival to surpass.
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B03 Area – Forest Mountain Python
Ao Feng hovered before the python’s massive eye, exhilarated. "This feels nothing like my old practice—it’s real now! My evolution method will reach perfection in a day. I’ll be the first to break into the Third Realm—no one shares the python’s affinity with me!"
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Across other zones, twelve S-Rank freshmen faced eighth-grade Disaster Beasts, each striving to refine their martial arts. Though the Freshman Competition had ended, an unspoken rivalry hung thick in the air.
In a quiet office, Master Li observed twenty holographic monitors, each showing a meditating student. "Every year, Academy Heads with high affinity perfect their arts in two days. Those awakened with Special Abilities do it overnight. Ordinary prodigies pale in comparison—awakening a Special Ability is like ascending to heaven itself."
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A06 Area – Golden Vajra Tiger
Lin Qi’s consciousness realm shimmered as a skeletal Golden Vajra Tiger took shape. With painstaking focus, he etched every detail—bones, fur, sinew—into existence, its breath rising and falling like a living creature.
This time, the challenge was tenfold. His earlier projection had required 36,000 brushstrokes; now, 360,000 strained his mind.
"Boom!!"
The projection shattered. Lin Qi exhaled, reopening his eyes. Adjusting his focus, he immersed himself again, his mind dissecting every microscopic detail until he became the beast, flesh and spirit merging.
Time dissolved. His consciousness fused with the corpse before him.
"Roar~"
In his mind, the Golden Vajra Tiger thundered through jungles, hunting, battling, its form sharpening stroke by stroke—60,000, 100,000, 200,000…
Hours bled into night. Moonlight bathed the museum as Lin Qi’s aura began harmonizing with the beast’s.
330,000… 340,000… 359,999…
The final stroke struck. The tiger’s eyes blazed gold.
"Roar~"
Its body surged with life—fur rippling, muscles flexing, a roar shaking the heavens. Lin Qi’s heart soared.
[Golden Vajra Tiger Evolution Method perfected!]
[Your Spiritual Power has been tempered! Spiritual Power +3 (46 → 49)]
Joy surged through him. The tiger’s newfound vitality dwarfed its previous form. Every detail now pulsed with authentic essence.
Suddenly, the consciousness realm trembled. Lin Qi sensed a cosmic shift—primordial energy particles swirled like stars, denser than he’d ever encountered. His dorm’s training hall paled in comparison.
Without hesitation, he began absorbing the energy.
"Whoosh!!"
A vortex swirled around him as the Golden Vajra Tiger devoured the energy like a ravenous beast. It surged through his body, transforming muscles, tendons, bones, and genes.
Lin Qi sensed an unfamiliar force stirring within—a latent power, faint yet promising. His Mind’s Eye detected only a shadowy outline, but instinct whispered: This is no ordinary change.
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Master Li’s Office
Master Li’s eyes snapped to a monitor. Lin Qi’s form radiated golden light, his aura warping the air.
"Primordial energy levels dropping?" Master Li murmured, calculating the timeline. "Seven hours… He perfected his martial art in seven hours?"
A rare smile crossed his face. "This one… he’s extraordinary." He sighed, gazing at the screen. "Humanity has no shortage of martial artists, but those reaching the Nine Realms… those are the true saviors we crave."
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Lin Qi’s absorption slowed as his body signaled satiety. His transformed Golden Vajra Tiger stilled, sinking into contemplation.
He snapped his eyes open—golden light blazing.
"Crack!!"
His tendons sang as a storm of aura erupted.
The Status Panel flickered with new notifications…
(End of Chapter)
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