30: Chapter 30 Experience Pack Received, Skin Refining Achieved Minor Success

The wind blew through the treetops, whipping up a few blood-stained leaves.

The massive War Boar lay in the mud pit, its hind legs still twitching occasionally.

Lin Qi maintained his post-throw stance, hands braced on his knees, gasping for air.

Sweat dripped from his chin into the mud.

This strike had drained all his stamina; even his fingers were trembling uncontrollably.

"Gulp."

The sound of Zhang Wei swallowing was exceptionally loud in the quiet forest.

He wanted to shout "Brother Qi," but was stopped by Instructor Su Qing's stern gaze.

Lin Qi had no time to pay attention to the people around him.

In his field of vision, a dense, almost milky-white stream of Qi was rising from the boar's corpse.

It was more than ten times stronger than the energy from the Wind Wolf before.

"It's here."

Lin Qi closed his eyes, not resisting, and let the hot current drill into his palms.

Hot.

It felt as if someone had poured boiling mercury into his veins.

This energy rampaged through his Meridians, and wherever it passed, the bruised blood caused by the impact was directly dispersed.

The damaged muscle fibers reorganized amidst the tearing, becoming tighter and tougher.

Lin Qi felt as if countless ants were crawling under his skin.

This was his skin undergoing its final transformation.

He didn't dare to be careless, sitting cross-legged on the muddy ground, assuming the five-centers-facing-the-sky posture.

His breathing became long and heavy, his chest rising and falling with a strange rhythm.

"What is he doing?" Wang Gang muttered softly. "Sleeping at a time like this?"

"Shut up." Instructor Su Qing glanced at him coldly.

She walked to a spot five meters in front of Lin Qi, drew two daggers from her waist, and held them in a reverse grip.

"Everyone, stay alert. No one is allowed to come within ten meters."

Instructor Su Qing stared at Lin Qi's flushed skin, having roughly guessed what was happening.

A Breakthrough in the heat of battle.

Such things, which only existed in ancient Dao legends, had actually happened.

Li Shaobai didn't speak.

He walked over to the dead boar, suppressing his nausea, and reached into the boar's eye socket.

That was the only wound.

There was no magic fluctuation, no lingering Battle Qi.

Just by relying on pure strength and technique, he had turned a fragile tree branch into a lethal weapon.

Li Shaobai tried to pull out the tree branch protruding from the outside.

It didn't budge.

It was stuck too firmly, having even embedded itself deep into the skull.

"How did he do it..."

Li Shaobai looked at the expensive enchanted longsword in his hand and suddenly felt it was a bit hot to the touch.

If he didn't use skills, his sword couldn't even cut through the boar's hide.

Yet Lin Qi had one-shot it with a broken piece of wood.

"Squad leader, this boar... who counts as the killer?" a boy asked, leaning in.

"Nonsense." Li Shaobai stood up and shook the mud off his hands. "If you have the ability to solo a Level 8 monster, then it's yours."

The boy shrank his neck and didn't dare to say a word.

Ten minutes passed.

The heat radiating from Lin Qi's body slowly dissipated.

His skin, which had been flushed red from congestion, returned to normal, taking on a healthy bronze color.

If one didn't look closely, they wouldn't notice that his skin was more delicate than before, but now possessed a metallic texture.

Lin Qi opened his eyes.

There were no messy light effects in his pupils, only a sense of satisfaction like being full and well-fed.

He stood up and casually clenched his fist.

Pop.

The air in his palm was compressed and exploded, emitting a crisp sound.

Skin Refining, Minor Achievement.

His current body could withstand the slashes of ordinary swords even without using any deflection techniques.

If he encountered that boar again, he could completely stand still and let it ram him.

"Awake?" Instructor Su Qing put away her daggers and looked him up and down. "How do you feel?"

"Not bad."

Lin Qi moved his neck, which made a cracking sound.

"I'm hungry."

He was telling the truth.

Although he had absorbed the essence, this stuff only replenished his mana bar and experience; it didn't fill his stomach.

The strengthening of his bodily functions had consumed a large amount of bio-energy, and now his stomach was burning.

Lin Qi walked straight toward the boar.

He reached out to grab the half-exposed tree branch and flicked his wrist.

Thwip.

The branch was pulled out.

The originally two-meter-long branch was only half left, the tip completely shattered into wood shavings.

This was the result of being unable to withstand the infusion of immense power.

"What a pity."

Lin Qi casually threw away the ruined branch and asked Zhang Wei for the fifty-dollar dagger.

"Brother Qi, what are you doing?" Zhang Wei handed over the dagger.

"Splitting the loot."

Lin Qi skillfully cut open the War Boar's head.

From that pile of red and white matter, he pulled out an earth-yellow crystal the size of a fist.

Source Crystal.

This piece was worth at least thirty thousand.

A chorus of swallowing sounds echoed around him.

For these high school students who still relied on pocket money from their families, thirty thousand was a huge sum of money.

But no one dared to speak.

Even Wang Gang, who usually loved to take petty advantages, kept his mouth firmly shut.

Just kidding.

Someone who could kill a boar could definitely kill people even faster.

Lin Qi wiped the Source Crystal on his clothes and stuffed it into his pocket.

Then he didn't stop moving.

The dagger flashed quickly across the boar's back.

Two pieces of the most tender tenderloin were cut off intact.

Then came the hind leg meat and the heart meat.

Any part of the boar that was edible and had the highest energy was cut off by him and stuffed into Zhang Wei's backpack, which had originally been filled with various potions.

"Hey, hey, hey! Brother Qi! That's the bag for the antidotes!" Zhang Wei looked at his expensive waterproof backpack being stuffed with raw meat, wanting to cry but having no tears.

"Wash it when we get back, it'll still be usable." Lin Qi didn't look back. "If you don't want to starve to death, carry it for me."

Zhang Wei immediately lost his temper.

This was the boss's rations; carrying it was an honor.

After processing the most valuable parts, Lin Qi stood up and clapped his hands.

Although the remaining hundreds of pounds of meat and the hide were also valuable, he couldn't take them with him.

They were still in the wild; carrying too much weight was just asking for death.

"Do whatever you want with the rest." Lin Qi pointed at the pile of rotting meat.

A few brave boys immediately crowded around, wanting to get some boar tusks or hide as souvenirs.

"Don't dawdle."

Lin Qi looked at the sky.

The sun had already dropped below the treetops, and the light in the forest was getting dimmer.

Those predators hiding in the shadows were about to clock in for work.

"If we don't get out of this forest before dark, this boar will be our fate."

Lin Qi slung the backpack onto his shoulder and walked back to the front of the team.

This time, no one looked at the radar.

Everyone's eyes were fixed firmly on that back, which, while not broad, was absolutely reliable.

Li Shaobai followed silently. This time, he didn't walk at the very front but consciously fell half a step behind.

Instructor Su Qing watched this scene and raised an eyebrow.

This kid really had managed to lead the team out.

"Let's go."

Instructor Su Qing waved her hand.

The group stepped in Lin Qi's footprints, quickly passing through the swamp filled with the smell of blood.

After walking a few hundred meters, Instructor Su Qing walked quickly to Lin Qi's side.

"That move just now wasn't taught by the school."

Instructor Su Qing's voice was very low, audible only to the two of them.

"That way of exerting force is a bit like the 'Penetrating Force' of the military special forces."

Lin Qi didn't stop, his gaze scanning the bushes ahead.

"Want to learn?"

Instructor Su Qing was stunned for a moment.

"It's not impossible to teach you." Lin Qi turned his head and glanced at the instructor. "But you have to pay tuition."