206: Chapter 206 Face-to-Face Cultivation, Lurking Vipers, Deadly Crisis

Lin Qi stood amidst a pile of severed limbs, tossing a hundred-pound rock up and down in his hand.

Whoosh.

Whoosh.

The rock rose and fell, creating dull gusts of wind.

Xiao Kuangyun's heart rose and fell along with the rock, nearly jumping out of his throat.

He stared wide-eyed at the blood-stained rock, his Adam's apple bobbing frantically.

"Brother Lin! Lord Lin! Don't throw it!" Xiao Kuangyun fell to his knees in the rubble with a thud, clutching his head tightly with both hands.

If that hit home, his head would definitely look even better than a burst watermelon.

Han Qianchi curled into a ball even more, wishing he could bury his head in his crotch, his teeth chattering so hard they made a clicking sound.

The female Prodigy's legs went weak, and she slumped to the ground, not even daring to cry out loud, just shaking her head incessantly.

These Prodigies, who were usually high and mighty and the top talents in the entire Federation, were now worse than dogs.

Lin Qi looked at these cowards and curled his lip in boredom.

"Pointless."

He swung his arm outward.

Swooosh.

The hundred-pound rock flew like a cannonball, slamming straight into the rock wall over ten meters away.

Boom!

A large crater was smashed into the wall, and rubble rained down.

Xiao Kuangyun shrunk his neck in fear, cold sweat soaking his clothes as he collapsed into the mud, gasping for breath.

Lin Qi didn't even spare them a glance, turning around and striding toward the center of the area he had just collapsed using his Bloodline Qi explosion.

He didn't care about these cannon fodder at all.

Whether he killed them or not didn't matter; they couldn't cause any trouble anyway.

His only goal now was what lay beneath the ground.

Lin Qi walked to the deepest part of the collapsed area, where the ground was covered in shattered ten-thousand-year-old beast bones and massive rock slabs.

The temperature here was much higher than outside; even the air he breathed into his lungs was scalding.

He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and spread out his Martial Intent Insight once more.

His net of perception probed down along the cracks in the ground.

He hadn't guessed wrong.

The pure high-dimensional Bloodline Qi Crystals he had sensed earlier were right beneath this layer of debris.

The explosion from the Bloodline reversal earlier had blasted open the hardest rock layers, saving him the effort of digging.

Lin Qi squatted down and thrust his hands directly into the scalding rubble and soil.

He didn't use any tools, relying entirely on the insane defense of his Prototype Golden Body to dig with his bare hands.

He tossed large chunks of rock aside and turned over the soil.

He dug down about half a meter.

Soon, a faint dark red light glowed below.

Lin Qi sped up, using both hands to claw away the hard stone shell with his fingernails.

Several fist-sized crystals appeared before him.

The objects were translucent, appearing as if magma were flowing inside, emitting a terrifyingly high temperature.

As soon as the crystals were exposed, the surrounding air warped and distorted from the heat.

Even the dry clumps of earth on the ground were scorched black and brittle.

Lin Qi reached out and grabbed one.

So hot.

The temperature definitely exceeded that of boiling water.

But the moment he touched the crystal, the blood in Lin Qi's body seemed to boil, flowing with frantic speed.

The bones of his Prototype Golden Body emitted a very clear humming sound.

Hunger.

Extreme longing.

Every cell in his body roared to devour the object before him.

This was pure Bloodline essence accumulated over ten thousand years by the ancient Dragon Clan, without a single trace of Impurities from the System panel; it was the perfect supplement for tempering the Indestructible Golden Body.

Lin Qi grinned.

He had come to the right place.

Without any nonsense, he found a relatively flat rock at the bottom of the pit and sat cross-legged on it.

He held a dark red Bloodline Qi Crystal in each hand.

He prepared to start consuming them immediately.

In the distance, Xiao Kuangyun peeked up and saw this scene.

He was completely dumbfounded.

"No way? What is he doing?" Xiao Kuangyun lowered his voice, his jaw nearly hitting the ground.

Han Qianchi followed his gaze, his eyes bulging like copper bells.

"Is he crazy? He's going to Cultivate in this place?"

The female Prodigy next to them also forgot her fear, her face filled with disbelief.

"He closed his eyes... Should we take this chance to climb up and run away?" she whispered.

"Run my ass!" Xiao Kuangyun glared at her fiercely. "Can you climb up in this ten-times gravity? If he's just faking it, he'll slap you to death the moment you move!"

They couldn't understand it.

In this Dragon Tomb where all Laws were stripped away, unknown dangers were everywhere.

A pile of professional assassins who might not be fully dead were lying nearby.

This group of ill-intentioned Prodigies was still breathing too.

Shouldn't a normal person deliver the finishing blows first, pack up the loot, find a safe hiding spot, and then slowly absorb it?

He actually sat down and started absorbing energy.

Entering seclusion right in front of his enemies?

He completely disregarded them as human beings!

Lin Qi indeed didn't regard them as human beings.

In the face of absolute martial power, these few pieces of trash couldn't even pierce a single layer of his Protective Aura membrane even if they had knives.

Moreover, he urgently needed this pure Bloodline Qi to replenish the emptiness left by clearing his Meridians and to further solidify his foundation for resisting the erosion of Void Realm energy.

The sooner he completed the Indestructible Golden Body, the more confidence he would have.

Blood Moving Technique, activate.

Lin Qi's eyes were tightly shut, his mind completely immersed in his body.

A violent pulling force erupted from his palms.

The energy within the two Bloodline Qi Crystals was roughly torn out, rushing through the Meridians in his arms straight into his internal organs.

Boom!

Lin Qi's body jolted violently.

Too intense.

This energy was more than ten times wilder than the aftershocks that had seeped from the surface earlier.

The pure high-dimensional Bloodline Qi was like a crazed fire Dragon, rampaging through his Meridians.

The gold leaf on the surface of his bones flashed frantically, greedily swallowing these potent nutrients.

White high-temperature steam billowed from every pore of Lin Qi's body.

In just a few breaths, he was surrounded by thick white smoke, looking like a boiler about to explode from a distance.

Lin Qi's brow furrowed tightly, his teeth clenched.

If he couldn't suppress it, his body would explode.

He had to focus all his attention on his body, using Martial Saint-level Internal Energy for micro-manipulation to tame this fire Dragon bit by bit.

His defenses against the outside world dropped to an all-time low at this moment.

...

In a spatial fold two hundred meters away.

A translucent shadow pressed tightly against the rock wall, even his heartbeat had stopped.

Ying Wan's eyes were fixed on the churning white steam.

The opportunity he had been waiting for had finally arrived.

From Lin Qi tearing apart the Death Soldiers with his bare hands to using his violent Bloodline Qi as a bomb to collapse the ground, Ying Wan had seen it all, and his heart felt chilled.

This youth's Physical Body strength was simply monstrous, completely exceeding human understanding.

A direct confrontation was definitely out of the question.

But an assassin never cares about direct confrontation.

No matter how strong your martial power is, it's useless if your brain doesn't work.

A cold smile appeared on the corner of Ying Wan's mouth.

Did he think he was invincible just because he wiped out some cannon fodder? Daring to enter deep meditation and Cultivate in front of others in a place like this was the height of arrogance.

He had absolute confidence in his profession.

A Void Walker was the top branch of S-rank assassins.

Even in this magic-suppressing Dragon Tomb, he could still use the residual privileges of Void Realm power to perform minor spatial leaps.

This was suppression on a dimensional level; no matter how strong the physical defense, it couldn't stop an assassination via spatial leap.

Ying Wan was like a venomous snake lurking in the grass, staring intently at Lin Qi's state.

Just a little more.

Not yet.

The circulation of Bloodline Qi through the Greater Orbit required a full cycle.

When that violent energy hit the nodes of the heart and brain, that would be the moment Lin Qi's spirit was weakest, a fatal opening where he would be completely unable to divert his attention to defense.

Ying Wan tightly gripped the Void Dagger that emitted a foul stench, patiently counting down.

He was going to plunge this blade precisely into the back of that monster's head.

...

Meanwhile, at Longya Academy's highest-clearance remote monitoring center.

Only the buzzing of instruments remained in the vast underground base.

The images on the screen were full of fragmented data and garbled code.

But on a nearby monitor connected to a special Law fluctuation detector, a curve was skyrocketing.

Elder Mo stood before the screen, the pen in his hand falling to the floor with a click.

His whole body was trembling.

"This value... this energy intensity..."

Elder Mo leaned his face close to the screen, his withered lips trembling.

"The purity is too high! This is Bloodline condensation from the bottom of the ancient Dragon Tomb! Compressed by ten-times gravity for over ten thousand years, every drop is more volatile than a nuclear reactor! He actually dares to absorb it directly without any filtration! Does he not want his life?!"

This mad scholar, obsessed with ancient martial arts theory, felt fear for the first time.

He wasn't afraid of anything else, only that this unique experimental field would burst from being overfilled.

At the main control console nearby.

Instructor Su Qing, wearing a tight black combat suit, clenched her fists so hard her nails nearly dug into her flesh.

Her gaze was fixed on another radar screen.

There was a faint light source representing Lin Qi, flashing violently.

Near the light source, a black line representing the shadow frequency was approaching silently in an extremely eerie, leaping manner.

Thirty meters.

Twenty meters.

Ten meters.

Instructor Su Qing's face was pale, her heart beating so fast it felt like it would burst through her chest.

She knew all too well how troublesome the top assassins of the Shadow Blade Alliance were.

They were machines more cruel and malicious than abyss monsters; once they struck, it was always a killing move.

At the moment Lin Qi was defenselessly fighting against the violent energy, the Void Walker's assassination was almost an unsolvable dead end.

Instructor Su Qing bit her lip, her eyes turning red.

She grabbed the remote communicator on the desk and whispered into the microphone, which couldn't transmit sound.

"Lin Qi, you must hold on."