201: Chapter 201 Qi and Blood Crystallization, A New Opportunity

Lin Qi stood up and patted off the non-existent dust from his body.

He walked toward the depths of the wasteland.

With every step, the tenfold gravity combined with the weight of the Prototype Golden Body directly stamped a small pit into the bone-powder ground beneath his feet.

A trail of deep footprints extended straight into the distance from that battlefield full of crippled men.

He walked neither fast nor slow, his posture relaxed as if he were out for a stroll; behind him, that group of prodigies didn't even dare to breathe loudly.

Xiao Kyunyun lay behind a dragon bone, his head poking out a bit before retracting; the sour taste in his mouth hadn't quite dissipated. He nudged Han Qianchi next to him with his elbow and lowered his voice.

"He's gone? Really gone?"

Han Qianchi ignored him.

"Then what do we do? Do we follow?"

Still, no one answered.

Xiao Kyunyun grew anxious and looked around, finding everyone standing there like wooden stakes. Two of the prodigies' legs were still trembling, and one of them had lips that were turning blue.

"Damn it, no, you guys give me a straight answer."

Han Qianchi finally moved his lips, uttering four words.

"Follow if you want to die."

Xiao Kyunyun's mouth hung open, and all his words were stuffed back down.

True, follow that Devil King? His brain hadn't been crushed by tenfold gravity yet. What if that lord got into a bad mood while walking and turned around to "disassemble" them too?

Those thirty-some Li Family Death Warriors on the ground were still moaning; some were in so much pain their eyes were rolling back, their limbs bent in directions they shouldn't bend. They were alive, all alive, but not a single one could move.

This kind of method was even more terrifying than killing them outright.

Xiao Kyunyun glanced over there again, his stomach churning once more, and he quickly turned his head back.

"Not following, not following. We'll just stay right here and go nowhere."

No one objected.

On the other side.

Li Pojun was still kneeling on the ground.

Two guards stood three steps away, neither daring to step forward to pull him up. No joke, leaving the young master earlier was an instinctive reaction, and although Lin Qi was gone now, who knew if he would pull a U-turn?

Li Pojun's knees were kneeling on bone shards, and blood was seeping out, but he felt nothing at all.

He was dazed, as if he had lost his soul.

Only one thought kept spinning in his mind.

Over.

It's all over.

Plan B, over thirty elite Death Warriors, a trump card the Family spent billions of Federation Credits on.

All useless now.

Less than three minutes.

They hadn't even touched a corner of his clothes.

He even began to wonder if the result would be the same even if the entire Li Family were moved here.

As soon as this thought emerged, Li Pojun's blood ran cold.

Lin Qi had already walked far away.

Martial Intent Insight spread out, taking in every movement within a radius of several hundred meters. That group of prodigies huddled behind, not daring to move; Li Pojun knelt on the ground in a daze, and the two guards were like quails.

They were all characters not worth being distracted by.

The bone powder beneath his feet grew thicker, and massive beast bones were scattered everywhere, some of which exceeded normal understanding in size. A rib bone was stuck diagonally in the ground, a full dozen meters long, covered in cracks.

Lin Qi glanced at it and didn't stop.

His perception remained locked onto the source of the Blood Qi fluctuations deep underground; as he got closer, that warm pulsation became clearer and clearer.

The Prototype Golden Body responded spontaneously, a faint numbing sensation coming from deep within his bones, a reaction similar to a starving person smelling the aroma of food.

Before long, the terrain suddenly dipped.

A massive pit appeared ahead.

It was over a hundred meters in diameter, with jagged edges and a bottomless depth. Various strangely shaped giant beast bones hung on the pit walls, some of which were species humans couldn't even name, twisted and embedded in the rock layers, emitting an indescribable sense of desolation.

Lin Qi stood by the edge of the pit and looked down.

It was pitch black, and the situation below couldn't be seen clearly with the naked eye.

But Martial Intent Insight told him that the densest source of Blood Qi was at the very bottom of this pit.

"They really hid the good stuff deep enough."

He muttered a sentence and, without half a second of hesitation, tapped the edge of the pit with his toes and leapt straight out.

Under tenfold gravity, his body's descent speed was terrifyingly fast, the sound of the wind whistling in his ears.

For any normal person, this jump would basically be suicide.

But Lin Qi was not a normal person.

During the fall, his body constantly adjusted its posture. Every time he was about to accelerate to a dangerous speed, his toes would precisely tap on a protruding beast bone on the pit wall.

With a slight borrow of force.

Half of the falling momentum was shaved off.

The essence of the Ghost Shadow Yu Step movement technique was applied fluidly in this extreme environment; the timing, angle, and force of each tap were calculated to the millimeter.

After a dozen or so taps.

Both feet landed steadily.

The bottom of the pit was more than a level darker than above, the dark red mist was thicker, and visibility was compressed to within twenty meters.

What he stepped on was no longer bone powder, but hard rock layers.

Lin Qi crouched down, his palm pressed against the ground, sensing for a few seconds.

Scalding hot.

Not the kind of heat that burns the skin, but a warmth seeping out from the inside. The Blood Qi fluctuations pulsed up from beneath this layer of rock, one after another, rhythmic, like a heartbeat.

"It's here."

Standing up, his gaze swept around and quickly locked onto a spot where the rock layers and beast bones met in a corner of the pit floor. The color of that patch of rock was several shades darker than its surroundings, showing a rich dark red.

He walked over, his right hand's five fingers splayed into a claw shape; he had no tools, and he didn't need any.

His arm sank, and his five fingers plunged directly into the rock surface.

With the Prototype Golden Body operating at full power, those incredibly hard rock layers were no different from tofu to his fingertips. His knuckles sank three inches deep, and his arm jerked violently.

"Crack—"

A large chunk of rock was ripped raw from the wall, making a dull thud as it hit the ground.

On the exposed cross-section, several fist-sized crystals were embedded.

Dark red, translucent throughout, with dark patterns flowing slowly inside.

Most bizarrely, these crystals were slightly throbbing at a slow but visible frequency. With every pulse, a ring of warm aura radiated outward.

Once exposed to the air, that Blood Qi power directly exploded outward.

The temperature at the bottom of the pit suddenly rose by several degrees.

Lin Qi's body reacted immediately.

The Prototype Golden Body vibrated like crazy, and the layer of gold leaf covering his bones emitted a faint hum. The Blood Qi in his body surged and galloped like a hungry wolf that had seen meat, frantically converging toward his palm.

"Hiss..."

Lin Qi took a sharp breath, not from pain, but from pleasure.

It had been too long since he experienced this feeling.

The last time he had such a reaction was when he killed that Mutant Beast King in the outside world and absorbed high-purity essence. But the feeling that time was worlds apart from this.

The energy contained in these crystals was excessively pure.

There were no digitized Impurities at all.

It was completely natural High-dimensional Blood Qi Essence, repeatedly compressed and condensed by ten thousand years of time and tenfold gravity, finally crystallizing.

Lin Qi picked up a crystal and weighed it in his hand.

It was not light and felt warm to the touch.

"Good stuff."

When those two words popped out of his mouth, his money-grubbing excitement couldn't be hidden.

The value of each of these Bloodline Qi Crystals in front of him couldn't be measured in Federation Credits. Take them outside? Impossible. This kind of natural treasure that transcended the digitized System was simply not within the System's recognition.

It was useless to give it to others too.

Only a martial arts Cultivate-or like him, who relied purely on his Physical Body, could maximize the value of these things.

In other words, this was a special favor from the heavens.

"Dragon Tomb, tenfold gravity tempering environment, plus these Bloodline Qi Crystals..."

Lin Qi's breathing grew a bit heavier.

For the Prototype Golden Body to Breakthrough to the Indestructible Golden Body, what it lacked most was a large amount of pure high-dimensional Blood Qi energy to cleanse the marrow and recast the bones.

Previously, killing monsters outside to gather essence had an efficiency like ants moving a house.

Now it was fine; the Mineral Vein in front of him was a ready-made mountain of treasure. Without a word, he sat down cross-legged.

Holding the Bloodline Qi Crystal in both hands, he operated the Blood Moving Technique, guiding the True Qi in his body to begin contacting the energy on the crystal's surface.

At this moment, Lin Qi's movements suddenly stopped.

The operation of the Blood Moving Technique didn't interrupt, but his attention had already shifted away from the crystal.

Martial Intent Insight captured an extremely faint breath fluctuation.

It had been following him since he walked out of the battlefield.

Very careful, very well-hidden, its aura converged almost to the point of blending with the air.

If it weren't for the lack of System Law interference in the Dragon Tomb, which caused his perceptual sensitivity to skyrocket several times over, he might not have been able to detect it.

Lin Qi looked up and glanced at the drifting dark red mist above the massive pit.

"After following me for so long, are you still not going to show yourself?"