47: Chapter 47 Becoming a Rank 3 Martial Artist
He no longer hesitated, immediately walking into that luxurious, top-tier cultivation room and sitting cross-legged.
The entire room was so quiet that a needle drop could be heard; only the silver-white spiritual energy pipe continued to emit a faint, imperceptible hum, steadily delivering pure energy.
Wang Pingan pulled up the system panel that only he could see, looking at the excessively long string of numbers.
【pay-to-win points: 12272】
At this moment, his gaze became incredibly resolute.
“System!”
“Add points!”
“Break through the Third-Rank barrier!”
He spoke these words in his mind.
【Command received, beginning to upgrade host attributes...】
The cold mechanical voice sounded like heavenly music.
【Strength attribute increased to 50.0, consumed 3 pay-to-win points.】
【Speed attribute increased to 50.0, consumed 3 pay-to-win points.】
【Constitution attribute increased to 50.0, consumed 3 pay-to-win points.】
【Recovery attribute increased to 50.0, consumed 3 pay-to-win points.】
...
A series of notification tones rang out in his mind.
A total of 12 pay-to-win points vanished like a stone sinking into the ocean, without even creating a ripple.
But at this moment, a subtle change occurred in Wang Pingan's body.
He felt every muscle and every bone in his body reach an unprecedented state of perfection.
Now is the time!
【Starting life-level leap, host please be prepared...】
Prepared?
Wang Pingan didn't even have time to think about what those words meant.
BOOM!
An unprecedented, terrifying energy, so majestic it was beyond description, exploded without warning from the deepest depths of his body!
If every previous upgrade was just a gentle warm current,
then this time, it was a tragic nuclear explosion that swept through his entire body!
“Ugh, ah—!”
Wang Pingan's body suddenly arched backward, and an irrepressible roar of pain was squeezed from the depths of his throat.
Pain!
An indescribable, unimaginable intense pain!
He felt his body had become a block of iron thrown into a forge.
That violent energy was an invisible yet omnipresent giant hammer.
Clang!
And again!
Slamming heavily, savagely, and unreasonably against his bones!
He clearly 'heard' the two hundred and six bones in his body let out an overburdened wail simultaneously.
Then they were crushed inch by inch!
Immediately after, they were forcibly swept up by that violent energy and recombined into a brand new, stronger, and denser structure!
And it wasn't over yet!
His meridians—meridians several times tougher than an ordinary martial artist's—were like balloons being inflated at this moment.
They were forcibly widened, torn, and then repaired by that violent energy!
Over and over again!
His internal organs and every inch of his flesh were being tempered and transformed at the deepest level by a higher tier of energy.
That feeling was like someone holding a red-hot iron and ironing back and forth over every cell in your body.
A wave of pain, far exceeding any previous instance and nearly tearing his soul to pieces, washed over his consciousness like the most turbulent tide.
His vision went black in fits and starts.
His consciousness was like a small boat in a sea of intense pain, liable to capsize at any moment.
It's over...
I'm going to pass out...
At the very last moment before Wang Pingan's consciousness was swallowed by darkness,
his mental strength, as high as 50 points, acted like a stabilizing pillar, deathly and stubbornly guarding the last trace of clarity deep within his mind.
I can't pass out!
Once I lose consciousness and control over my body, that violent energy will go completely out of control!
When that happens, the best-case scenario would be his body exploding!
“Hold... it... together!”
Wang Pingan's teeth chattered, and a trace of blood even seeped from the corner of his mouth.
He forcibly mobilized that last bit of clarity.
【Eye of Truth】, activate!
Hum.
In his vision, which was nearly drowned by pain,
the world before him instantly changed.
He was no longer just 'feeling' the pain,
but 'looking down' upon it!
He 'saw' everything inside his body.
He saw that violent energy like a runaway horse, crashing around inside his body.
He saw his bones being crushed and reorganized.
He saw his meridians being torn and repaired.
Everything was presented before his 'eyes' in the most direct and clear form of a data stream.
Enduring that inhuman pain, he used his abnormally powerful mental strength to begin carefully guiding and combing through that violent energy.
Like the most brilliant surgeon, he was performing the most precise and dangerous operation on himself.
He bit by bit tamed the power meant to destroy him into nutrients to nourish him.
He transformed that lethal poison into a divine medicine that helped him shed his mortal coil!
Time lost its meaning at this moment.
No one knew how much time had passed.
Maybe it was a century, maybe just an instant.
When the intense pain that swept through his body slowly receded like a tide,
an unprecedented and indescribable sense of power, like the warmest spring water, slowly surged from every corner of his body.
Wang Pingan slowly opened his eyes.
He looked down at his hands.
The skin was still the same skin, but it had gained a layer of warm, jade-like luster.
He gently clenched his fist.
A faint sonic boom actually sounded in the air.
He felt that with one punch now, he could kill a cow!
No!
He could kill ten!
He felt that his every move contained a higher level of power that far exceeded that of a Second-Rank Martial Artist.
The world in his eyes became clearer, more transparent, and even smaller.
He couldn't wait to pull up his system panel.
【host: Wang Pingan】
【Realm: Third-Rank Martial Artist (blood qi value 500/1000)】
【Strength: 50.0】
【Speed: 50.0】
【Constitution: 50.0】
【Spirit: 50.0】
【Recovery: 50.0】
【pay-to-win points: 11742】
It's done!
He, Wang Pingan!
Had officially entered the ranks of Third-Rank Martial Artists!
While Wang Pingan was immersed in the ecstasy of his explosive increase in strength,
he didn't notice
that at the moment of his breakthrough, a surge of blood qi fluctuations too powerful to hide soared into the sky from his body like a ripple!
The entire Heaven Grade Room Number One trembled slightly under the impact of this blood qi fluctuation.
And that silver-white pipe, which had been silently delivering spiritual energy, at this moment became like an activated ancient beast!
Hum—!
The runes on the surface of the pipe suddenly lit up!
It was no longer gently 'delivering' spiritual energy.
Instead, it became a greedy black hole, starting to crazily and savagely pour external spiritual energy into Heaven Grade Room Number One like a whale sucking in water!
Within a few short seconds, the spiritual energy in the room became concentrated to an appalling degree!
A slowly rotating spiritual energy vortex, visible to the naked eye, even formed around Wang Pingan!
...
Meanwhile.
Special Recruitment Camp Central Monitoring Room.
Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep!
A piercing alarm suddenly rang throughout the entire monitoring hall without warning!
On the huge energy monitoring screen in the center of the hall, a coordinate point representing 'Heaven Grade Room Number One' was flashing a blinding blood-red, indicating the highest alarm level, at a frantic frequency!
“What's going on!”
“The energy index has gone off the charts! The spiritual energy supply pipe for Room One is operating under overload!”
“Quick! Go check it out!”
Several instructors on duty instantly sprang from their chairs, their faces filled with shock and confusion.
Just then.
A burly figure appeared in the center of the monitoring room as if teleporting.
It was the Chief Instructor, Thunderstorm!
He glanced at the red light on the screen that was about to burst, then at the time displayed next to it.
On his fierce face, for the first time, an expression of 'speechlessness' appeared.
“The first night of camp...”
“Someone fucking broke through to the Third-Rank?!”
“Is it him?!”
Before his voice had even faded,
Thunderstorm's figure had already turned into an afterimage difficult to see with the naked eye, racing toward Wang Pingan's dormitory with a violent airwave!