Chapter 237: Third Stage, Perfect Core!
Lin Xiong's whole body emitted a crackling series of explosive sounds, like a string of firecrackers going off inside him.
His body, akin to cast alloy, kept vibrating, humming and trembling like a plucked tuning fork.
The power of Qin Shi's punch reverberated back and forth, making his bones feel numb, as if electrified with a biting itch like ants gnawing.
Lin Xiong, who was pushed back with one punch, showed a look of astonishment in his eyes, seemingly incredulous:
"The 'Pure Steel Whale Armor' combined with the specialized level's unique domain can be shaken, shattered? This kid, too fierce!"
Lin Xiong's body stiffened, hung on the wall, struggling to gather some qi power to disperse the spontaneous feeling of weakness.
He opened his palms, his wide back muscles tensed, pushing himself out of the metal wall inch by inch.
Standing back on the ground, feeling a rare leg weakness, almost unable to stand.
"The 'Pure Steel Whale Armor' was broken, allowing me to experience the sensation of 'counter-shock' characteristic."
Lin Xiong shook his thick neck and grinned.
Life force surged from within his hundred bones, like a richly stocked oil well, the immense vitality contained in every inch of flesh bursting outward as his mortal body awakened.
Swoosh!
Thick waves of qi were compressed, Lin Xiong stood solidly in the room like a solid steel pillar weighing tens of tons, able to slice through space with a mere gesture.
As life force gathered to the extreme, threads of deep blue light intertwined, transforming into a huge whale leaping out of the sea!
The power of the specialized level was undeniably displayed!
"Just a moment of carelessness."
Lin Xiong clenched his fist, his face serious.
"This is my truly perfect state!"
He had to admit one thing, the young disciple from Nanhuang Daoist School truly had the capital to earn his respect.
It's hard to imagine, a graduate of Southwest United, a top soldier of the Seventh Battle Group's Wind Scythe Sequence Army.
Actually having to focus to handle an underage kid?
Indeed, as Scholar Wu Yong said.
Winning wouldn't be glorious.
Always labeled as a "top student," Lin Xiong finally understood how others viewed him chasing high scores.
The last time he saw such a mind-breaking, extraordinary "demon" with his own eyes.
Was at the Battle Group's big martial arts competition, witnessing the "Imperial Capital's crown prince" appear.
"The new generation pushes the old! The talents of the youth are overwhelmingly strong!"
Lin Xiong couldn't help but marvel, the opponent becoming Tai'an Region's supernova, selected for the Fire's preparatory list, couldn't find any faults.
During their batch, he would have without doubt been admitted to the Four National Universities exceptionally, the prize they would all chase after.
"The body of a specialized level expert is indeed tough."
Qin Shi squinted, scrutinizing Lin Xiong whose aura was rising to its peak.
His fist was reddening, joints aching, even as the cultivation furnace operated at full force and used the Hundred Forms Refining Stance to absorb the specialized domain's "counter-shock" feature, he couldn't topple his opponent in one go.
"Domain! The life force domain massively reduces the damage from ordinary attacks! This is one reason why specialized level experts can penetrate small battlefields, most kinetic impacts are neutralized..."
Qin Shi's eyes flashed, life magnetic field continued to cover Lin Xiong, combined with the inner and outer reflections of the Void Ancient Mirror, seeing everything clearly.
The opponent activated 'Pure Steel Whale Armor,' like a hundred-meter-long massive whale, life breath strong as the ocean, vast beyond measure.
Every muscle of the body seemed covered by biological armor, indestructible!
"Must use 'killing move' to conclude the match."
Qin Shi concentrated, in countless combat retrospects within the inner realm, being constantly struck, he summarized insights through blood and tears.
To injure a specialized level expert requires either using traits of the same order to condense a killing move; or finding a critical flaw for a fatal strike.
"The defense of 'Pure Steel Whale Armor' is extremely strong, even if there's a weakness, I may not catch it."
After numerous failures and attempts, Qin Shi gained exceptional experience in battling specialized level experts.
The 'Dimension Slash' skill created by Void Meditation Technique had too long a pre-action, difficult to hit.
The wind-fire joint attack of Hundred Forms Refining Stance couldn't penetrate whale armor counter-shock.
Opening the second stage of the cultivation furnace, pushing it to the limit, maybe could give it a try.
Thoughts flickered, mind raced, Qin Shi decided to use 'Warfare Strategy.'
According to old Liang's saying, this path developed by Marshal Qin personally had no threshold, the only requirement was a long health bar, enduring burning.
The second millennium of New Dongxia, the most frequent and intense stage of the Great Expedition War.
The Warfare Strategy practiced by everyone in the Fourth Battle Group was reputed to be able to cut the Star God if the health bar was thick enough!
"Student Qin, I might not be able to hold back next."
Lin Xiong stepped forward, the whale leaped into the sea, stirring the atmosphere, his aura violently turbulent beyond measure.
Whoosh!
Qin Shi remained silent, only activating the life light, like a blazing torch igniting node after node.
The light points gathered like stars, illuminating the hundred bones within, forming countless blood-red vortexes.
The spacious practice room was momentarily filled with the aura of both.
Ren You standing in the corner quietly activated a specialized domain, as Nanhuang Daoist School's ninth-ranked true inheritor, he sighed.
Initially thinking junior brother Qin could let him briefly escape the miserable fate at the bottom of the food chain of their sect.
But now it seemed he would soon be left far behind, back to the bottom again.
"Talent so good it's unmatchable."
Ren You recalled the Martial Arts Association's evaluation of Qi Wuxiang during his youth.
"Not just catching up shoulder-to-shoulder, even catching a glimpse of his shadow is as difficult as climbing to the heavens."