92: growing up

However, there was no rush. Chen Qing still focused on his System panel.

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【Ice God System】

【Name: Chen Qing】

【Race: Carbon-based Human】

【Ability: Bone Wing Ice Dragon King (S)】

【Vitality Index: 11.2】

【Mental Energy Index: 4.3 (1%)】

【Vitality Multiplier: 1】

【Strength Control: 76%】

【Realm: Third Rank Early Stage】

【Cultivation Technique: Basic Breathing Technique (Great Master-level), Nine Refinements of Divine Body 1/100 (Not yet initiated), Nine Refinements of Divine Consciousness Upper Volume: 22/1000 (Proficient-level), Nine Refinements of Divine Consciousness Divine Refinement Volume: 24/1000 (Proficient-level), Cat Breath Art 130/1000 (Proficient-level)】

【Martial Skill: Ice Prism Mirror (B) 100/10000 (Grandmaster-level), Ice Soul Spear (C) 1810/3000 (Great Master-level), Earth Shattering Fist (E) 2300/10000 (Grandmaster-level), Shadow Step (E) (Expert-level)】

【Ice God Tower Space: First and Second floors unlocked (Each Vitality advancement will unlock the next floor)】

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The rapid increase in Vitality caused Chen Qing's Strength Control to drop significantly. Even though he had been fighting in the Ice God Space these past few days, the rapid improvement still made his Strength Control unable to keep up.

His Martial Skills also made great progress, especially Shadow Step. This E-Rank Cultivation Technique, related to speed and specialized for escape, was the first he Cultivated to Expert-level. Expert-level is the limit for Martial Skill proficiency and cannot be further improved.

To continue increasing his speed, Chen Qing needed to find a more powerful speed-type Martial Skill.

In terms of Cultivation Techniques, he had recently been focusing on Cultivating the Divine Refinement Volume of Nine Refinements of Divine Consciousness. He had successfully initiated it, reaching the lowest Proficient-level.

He tried to operate this Divine Refinement method and found that it could indeed refine Mental Energy, and it also added a percentage progress bar after the Mental Energy Index on the panel.

【Mental Energy Index: 4.3 (1%)】

However, this progress bar increased very slowly, even slower than the Cultivation speed of these several Cultivation Techniques.

He suspected that it would take at least three months to reach 100%.

Because he couldn't just do nothing but Cultivate the Divine Refinement Volume.

However, without resources, he would still prioritize the Divine Refinement Volume, as he had personally experienced the power of Mental Energy's qualitative change. This might be the fastest way for him to improve his combat power next.

Chen Qing couldn't help but think of someone, Li Tianyang!

“I wonder how Lao Yang’s Cultivation has been recently? Last time I heard him say he was already at the Third Rank Mid Stage. Third Rank Vitality is between 10 and 30, and Mid Stage is between 15 and 20. That’s very strong!”

One had to admit, Li Tianyang’s Cultivation talent was terrifyingly strong!

Chen Qing had the System's boost, plus the non-Martial Artist limit he forcibly raised to 1, to achieve this Cultivation speed.

And Li Tianyang, what did he have?

Was that guy's ability Rank really A-Rank?

Chen Qing was becoming more and more suspicious of this. Fu Mingyu and the others were all A-Rank, and Li Cunxu was even S-Rank. They didn't start practicing Martial Arts after entering school; their Families had been funding their Martial Arts practice long before, which led to their current achievements.

Yet, Li Tianyang, an ordinary person from a small city, with an A-Rank ability, managed to suppress many Prodigies.

He was the true Prodigy who only started practicing Martial Arts after entering school, reaching Third Rank in one year, not even just entering Third Rank!

And that guy's Martial Skill Cultivation was definitely not bad either!

“This is a true Prodigy! Could that guy also be a Transmigrator?”

Chen Qing smiled, feeling happy.

The more he Cultivated, the more he felt the mystery and unknown of this Martial Artist world!

The Martial Dao path, perhaps Chen Qing had only just truly entered it today.

“Lao Yang, I hope this time I can have a fair duel with you in the arena!”

...Space Battlefield.

Li Tianyang slashed through the air with his blade, striking a Giant Spirit Race member who was three meters tall.

“Boom!”

That Giant Spirit Race warrior was sent flying several meters, crashing into a large pile of rocks.

On his chest, a deep sword mark appeared on his iron-black armor, with blood gushing out.

He endured the pain, crawled out of the pit, propped himself on the ground, and spat out a string of incomprehensible words: “@#&*!&#(!!”

Li Tianyang knew the common language, but this Giant Spirit Race guy didn't speak it. He was probably cursing him in the Giant Spirit Race language.

Li Tianyang didn't bother listening to his nonsense and finished off the Giant Spirit Race warrior with another slash.

A pure energy emerged from the Void Realm and flowed into Li Tianyang's body.

“So little? It only added less than 1 point of Vitality. This guy really isn’t worth much!”

The Space Battlefield is an extremely special place. In this place, as long as you can kill enemies beyond your Rank, or kill some extremely talented Prodigy existences, the Space Battlefield will give you certain special rewards based on your kill contribution.

This reward could be Vitality, Mental Energy, or it could be weapons, Martial Skills, or anything else.

This seems to be a rule here, and it is because of the existence of this rule that there is constant slaughter on the Space Battlefield.

Li Tianyang cursed, then stepped forward to clear the battlefield, taking off the Giant Spirit Race's tattered armor and wrapping it around himself. He then searched the Giant Spirit Race member's body for a moment, collected anything valuable, and quickly moved away from the area.

“Bang!”

A strange beam of light instantly pierced through the stone where Li Tianyang had just stood. A figure resembling a Human suddenly appeared, his eyes deep and dark blue, with demonic patterns flowing. He looked at the large fellow lying on the ground.

“Tie Ji of the Giant Spirit Race, Third Rank High Stage, was actually killed by a Human who was weaker than him!”

The figure flickered, looking in the direction Li Tianyang had left, and chuckled.

“Humans and the Giant Spirit Race are truly incompatible! Well, it’s good. Find someone to inform Tie Ji’s brother and let them fight like dogs!”

The next moment, the figure flashed and disappeared from the spot.

In the distance, Li Tianyang, who had already gone far, looked back in the direction he had left and raised his eyebrows.

The newcomer was very strong!

If his Mental Energy couldn't be released, he might not have been able to sense it in advance. The Space Battlefield was indeed more dangerous than he imagined!

But his gains were also good. He was progressing quickly here, and perhaps it wouldn't be long before he could challenge the Third Rank High Stage!

Before coming, the principal of Jiangnan Martial Arts University had personally sought him out and told him that this Martial Dao ranking competition was very important, perhaps determining the federal government's resource allocation to Jiangnan Martial Arts University for the next 10 years.

The principal personally gave him some supplies and an A-Rank alloy long saber, hoping that he could represent Jiangnan Martial Arts University in the competition and win glory.

Li Tianyang naturally wouldn't refuse. Jiangnan was the root of his Martial Dao, and he was a person who valued sentiment. Even if the principal hadn't done this, he would still do his best.

Looking at the continuous battlefields of armies in the distance, Li Tianyang composed himself, avoided the main battlefield, and headed towards some smaller battlefields.

A lone wolf naturally had a lone wolf's fighting style.