58: Chapter 58 Muscle Resonance: The Most Deadly Physical Cheat

As the lever was pulled all the way down, a dull hum echoed through the air of the training ground.

The previously transparent air became viscous, like a pot of boiling glue. Dust on the ground eerily floated up, then disintegrated into even finer particles mid-air.

The alarm lights outside the protective shield flashed frantically, glowing with a piercingly sharp red.

“Are you crazy?” Zhao Lei cursed, taking a large step back to press himself against the protective glass. “Spatial Vibration?”

“This method is usually only used when an Abyss Rift goes out of control, meant to indiscriminately wipe out all low-level creatures within range. And you're using it to test a freshman?”

Li Shaobai had lost his previous composure as well, his expression looking very grim.

“It's full-spectrum coverage; there's no room to dodge. Unless he has a spatial-type defense skill, he has no choice but to tank it with his Physical Body.”

“Tank it with his Physical Body?” The mage boy next to him swallowed hard. “That frequency could vibrate bones into powder, couldn't it?”

Inside the field, Lin Qi felt an invisible pressure.

This pressure didn't come from any single direction; it came from all sides, and even from within his body. Every inch of skin and every bone was being tugged by a certain frequency.

This was the power of the technology side.

Lin Qi slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air.

If he were still that max-level Martial Saint, this level of vibration wave would be nothing more than an itch. But right now, he was only in the Flesh Refining stage; if he tanked it head-on, his internal organs would definitely hemorrhage.

“Can't dodge it,” Lin Qi judged.

But that didn't mean it couldn't be defended against.

As long as it was energy, it had a frequency. As long as there was a frequency, there were peaks and troughs.

Lin Qi closed his eyes.

He was feeling it.

Every hair on his skin stood on end, acting as the most sensitive of sensors. The buzzing vibration frequency in the air gradually became clear in his world of perception.

It was coming.

A visible transparent ripple, like a wall pushed by a bulldozer, swept across the entire field.

Everywhere it passed, the alloy floor emitted a tooth-aching sound of distortion, as countless fine cracks split open out of nowhere.

Watching that ripple crash toward Lin Qi, Examiner Wang Su's fingers gripped the edge of the console tightly, his knuckles turning white.

“Get down on the ground!” he roared in his mind.

Just a split second before the ripple made contact with Lin Qi's body...

Lin Qi moved.

He didn't run, nor did he jump. He stood in place, and the muscles all over his body began to tremble at an extremely high frequency.

This trembling was very subtle; it was impossible to notice without looking closely. His entire person looked like a holographic projection with a bad signal, his edges somewhat blurred.

He was adjusting the vibration frequency of his own muscles and bones.

He was attempting to match that spatial wave.

Like a master surfer, he wouldn't be foolish enough to fight the waves; instead, he would make himself a part of the wave.

Hum—!

The vibration wave swept through.

There was no earth-shattering explosion, only a slight sound of cloth tearing.

Rippp.

The cheap street-stall tracksuit Lin Qi was wearing turned into strips of flying cloth in the blink of an eye, then was vibrated into dust.

It's over.

Many girls outside the field instinctively covered their eyes.

But no scene of flesh and blood flying everywhere appeared.

The smoke and dust dissipated.

That figure was still standing.

Lin Qi was bare-chested, his lean muscle lines exposed to the air. His muscles weren't exaggeratedly bulging like a bodybuilder's; instead, they presented a smooth, streamlined shape.

Every bundle of muscle fiber was tightly entwined together, like armor woven from countless steel wires.

At this moment, his skin was flushed with an eerie crimson—the high temperature brought about by high-speed blood flow—and a faint layer of white mist even steamed off his body's surface.

“Phew...”

Lin Qi opened his mouth and exhaled a breath of hot air tinged with the scent of blood.

He lowered his head, looked at his bare upper body, then at the pile of clothing dust on the ground, and his brow furrowed.

“Those clothes were quite expensive,” he muttered.

The entire venue was silent.

Everyone was like a duck being choked by the neck, their mouths open but unable to make a sound.

Examiner Wang Su stared wide-eyed, his gaze switching back and forth between Lin Qi and the data screen beside him.

The screen displayed Lin Qi's vital signs.

[Heart Rate: 120 (Slightly High)]

[Blood Pressure: 140/90 (Fluctuating within normal range)]

[Skeletal Integrity: 100%]

[Muscle Damage Rate: 0.01%]

“Impossible...” Examiner Wang Su murmured to himself. “This is a Spatial Vibration! It's a strike that acts directly on the cellular level! How can he be fine?”

If a shield had blocked the attack, the System would have shown energy feedback.

But Lin Qi had no shield.

Just now, the monitoring System showed that the vibration wave had indeed passed through Lin Qi's body.

But he was like a sponge, letting the water flow through while remaining unharmed himself.

“How did he do it?” Li Shaobai's voice was a bit dry. “Is this... the Martial Dao?”

He had always thought the so-called Martial Dao was just brute force plus technique.

But this had already exceeded the scope of technique; this was practically playing tricks on the laws of physics.

At this time, the ten-minute countdown ended.

That cold, mechanical female voice rang out again.

“Test concluded. Target survived. Rating determination in progress...”

The System was silent for two seconds.

It seemed to be struggling with how many points to give this 'Bug'.

“S+.”

Two golden characters jumped out on the large screen, followed by three eye-catching exclamation marks.

Applause first started sparsely from a corner—that was Zhang Wei clapping desperately. Soon after, the applause seemed contagious, quickly spreading throughout the venue.

Regardless of whether he was a 'blank slate' or whether he had a class panel.

In this world that worshipped strength, the strong deserved respect.

Being able to tank a Spatial Vibration wave with his Physical Body without falling—that was simply badass.

Zhao Lei didn't clap; he strapped the giant sword back onto his back and looked at the figure in the center of the field, the contempt in his eyes completely gone.

“Damn, how is this a blank slate? This is clearly a Demonic Beast wearing human skin,” Zhao Lei muttered.

Lin Qi walked to the edge of the field, picked up his old backpack, and pulled out a spare white T-shirt to put on.

After getting dressed, he walked to the glass window below the control room.

He looked up.

His gaze pierced through the thick bulletproof glass, stabbing straight at the pale-faced Examiner Wang Su.

Examiner Wang Su felt like a fish that had been stripped bare and thrown onto a cutting board.

All his pride, all his theories, and all his 'data supremacy' had shattered even more thoroughly than Lin Qi's clothes in the face of that S+ rating.

The broadcast System hadn't been turned off yet.

Lin Qi's voice echoed clearly throughout the entire stadium through the microphone.

His tone was flat, without anger or mockery, as if he were asking about a trivial matter.

“Examiner Wang, now, do I count as barely passing?”