194: Chapter 194 High-Tech City

Now it seems... without using Dou Qi to enhance himself, his current physical strength isn't worth a damn.

"Go Master, we believe in you." Xiao Yao suddenly cheered.

Not far away, she, the Little Demon Fox Emperor, was also nearby. Clearly, she had already dealt with all the Black Giant Rats.

"This guy isn't simple, I must be careful in dealing with him." Mu Cheng now personally understood this.

However, he was still extremely cautious in handling it, choosing to dodge several times instead of meeting force with force.

"Remaining calm in danger, understanding where his own advantages lie. It seems he truly isn't as simple as I imagined." The Little Demon Fox Emperor took everything in and spoke.

Xiao Yao: "Of course. Master indeed doesn't have that strength now, but that doesn't mean he won't in the future."

She now understood very clearly that no matter how powerful Bloodline Power was, it was ultimately just an external force.

True, genuine strength should be like Lu Yunzi, The Four Littles of Super-Ability Academy, and the Little Demon Fox Emperor before her.

Without using Divine Power or Bloodline Power, they are still terrifyingly powerful.

"Perhaps! If he can truly break through both Bloodline Power and Shackles, he would be the first among the human race." The Little Demon Fox Emperor slowly spoke.

Xiao Yao: "That's hard to say... but on Master, it really might happen."

There are only two paths to becoming stronger: either choose to enhance Bloodline Power, or break through Shackles and continuously surpass oneself.

From ancient times to the present, someone like Mu Cheng, who can not only enhance Bloodline Power but also break through Shackles, is indeed the first.

On the other side, after a good while, Mu Cheng still hadn't determined the victor...

The surroundings had also changed. Boulders had become rubble, and Mu Cheng had been left in a wretched, disheveled state.

"Should we intervene? He probably can't hold on much longer." The Little Demon Fox Emperor asked again.

Xiao Yao: "Don't worry. Growing stronger in battle, Xiao Yao also wants to see Master's limits."

He wasn't using Bloodline Power, but that didn't mean he didn't possess it. Even if beaten to the point of shitting himself...

He could still recover quickly...

Over ten minutes later.

"To be able to hold on to this extent, it seems it should be the Strongest Body Refining Technique." The Little Demon Fox Emperor slowly spoke.

Xiao Yao: "Mm-hmm, the Three Great Strongest Techniques are certainly not just talk. Even if one cannot use Bloodline Power, they can still operate."

"Damn it, is this the limit? No... it's still far from it." Mu Cheng was in a wretched state.

But the Black Giant Rat before him was completely unharmed, as if it were a perpetual motion robot, doing nothing but attacking.

Mu Cheng also had no other options. He had tried every kind of attack... but just couldn't inflict any damage on it.

Another ten minutes passed.

"It seems this is the limit. Should we intervene?" The Little Demon Fox Emperor finally couldn't hold back and asked again.

Xiao Yao, however, disagreed. "Sister, don't forget, Master is of the human race, not like us."

"True. What is considered a 'limit' doesn't really exist in the eyes of the human race... they only continuously surpass it." The Little Demon Fox Emperor ultimately still didn't intervene, watching very calmly.

"Is this the limit? No... this isn't it." Over there, Mu Cheng was still like an unkillable cockroach.

Wherever he fell, he got up from there...

Another ten minutes passed. Mu Cheng still hadn't fallen, though now he couldn't even stand steadily.

"Really not intervening?" The Little Demon Fox Emperor grew anxious again.

Xiao Yao: "No need. Let's watch a bit longer!"

Finally, Mu Cheng fell down. Struggling desperately to stand up... but he didn't have a shred of strength left to lift his body.

"Is this the end? No... it's not over yet." Mu Cheng once again surpassed his own limits and stood up again.

Xiao Yao: "I told you, Master could definitely do it."

"Please... he can, but with his strength at one Shackle, defeating the Black Giant Rat will be difficult." The Little Demon Fox Emperor was quite speechless.

Xiao Yao suddenly became very serious and said, "Don't worry! Master is no worse than anyone in the Super Ability Academy. He can definitely do it."

"Alright then. I'll listen to you." The Little Demon Fox Emperor finally made up her mind, showing no intention of intervening.

"Is this the limit? No, it's still far from enough." Mu Cheng grew braver the more he fought.

Even he himself didn't know where this seemingly endless power was coming from.

"Did he break through a Shackle?" The Little Demon Fox Emperor asked, dumbfounded.

Xiao Yao: "He broke through. It seems like he directly reached two Shackles."

Even she couldn't tell for sure now, but being able to trade blows with the Black Giant Rat... definitely meant a breakthrough of no less than two Shackles.

"What a guy. If he weren't so badly injured, he should have been able to deal with the Black Giant Rat much earlier." The Little Demon Fox Emperor was utterly shocked.

Xiao Yao: "No, no, no. It seems the Strongest Body Refining Technique also broke through, reaching the third Breaking and Rebuilding."

"Again! Again! I refuse to believe I can't kill you today." Mu Cheng also sensed the changes in his body.

Fist after fist landed on the Black Giant Rat's head.

If once wasn't enough, then he'd do it again.

Finally, after another ten minutes, he managed to finish off the Black Giant Rat.

"Finally dealt with." Mu Cheng could no longer hold on, collapsing to the ground, panting heavily.

Xiao Yao hurried over. "Master, rest well! This place doesn't allow the use of storage functions, so you can only recover slowly."

"You... you're becoming more and more unfathomable." The Little Demon Fox Emperor also came over, unable to help but praise him.

Mu Cheng: "You two really didn't intervene, but... indeed, it was right not to."

He could now feel that his strength had increased by at least more than tenfold, and he was certain of it.

The Strongest Body Refining Technique had broken through again, reaching the third Breaking and Rebuilding.

"This Strongest Body Refining Technique is truly monstrous. Just reaching the third Breaking and Rebuilding has brought me to such strength."

"Of course. The Three Great Strongest Techniques aren't just empty boasts." The Little Demon Fox Emperor stated with certainty.

Mu Cheng: "Speaking of which... what's my situation? It seems like the bones and tendons in my upper body didn't shatter, yet I still completed Breaking and Rebuilding."

Xiao Yao explained: "Master, what are you thinking? Completing Breaking and Rebuilding doesn't require shattered bones and tendons."

"To be precise... I remember it should be called continuously surpassing one's own limits." The Little Demon Fox Emperor thought for a moment and said.

Xiao Yao: "That's roughly the idea!"

"Speaking of... you two understand the Strongest Body Refining Technique so well. What happens after completing the ninth time?" Mu Cheng suddenly became interested and asked.

"Also, upon reaching the ninth time, can one also reach the Nine Shackles realm?"

Little Demon Fox Emperor: "Go to sleep! Maybe in your dreams, you'll find someone who has broken through Nine Shackles. Looking across the entire universe's human race, the highest only reached the Eight Shackles realm."

"Mm-hmm, Master breaking through Nine Shackles won't be that easy. But Xiao Yao can confirm that when Master completes the ninth Breaking and Rebuilding, he will achieve the Demon Body." Xiao Yao nodded and said.

The moment the Little Demon Fox Emperor heard 'Demon Body', she was instantly greatly shocked.

"You mean... that indestructible, immortal Demon Body? Wouldn't that make him a killing machine?"

"A Heart of the Ordinary, a Demon Body. Of course, there are methods to control it if one achieves the Demon Body." Xiao Yao, however, didn't think it was a problem.

Mu Cheng: "Can't you two... speak in plain language? What's a Heart of the Ordinary? What's a Demon Body?"

"Master only needs to know now that after completing the fourth Breaking and Rebuilding... you will understand the terror of the Demon Body." Xiao Yao ultimately said no more, ending the topic.

Mu Cheng: "Alright. It seems my strength is ultimately still insufficient."

"Your current strength at three Shackles, without using Bloodline Power, is indeed not much to look at." The Little Demon Fox Emperor nodded and said.

Mu Cheng was instantly shocked. "Huh? I've already broken through the third Shackle?"

He thought it was false, but upon carefully sensing it, he truly had broken through the third Shackle.

"How is this possible... Didn't they say breaking through Shackles grants Divine Power?" He asked with a completely bewildered expression.

Little Demon Fox Emperor: "Goodness... you don't mean to tell me you don't know that Bloodline Power *is* Divine Power, do you?"

"Master really doesn't know... probably." Xiao Yao was also speechless.

After all this fuss, the mistake ultimately lay with Mu Cheng, with him not even knowing what Divine Power was.

"This... could you two explain, please?" Mu Cheng was also quite embarrassed.

However, thinking carefully about the journey so far, it was true that wanting to condense Divine Power was indeed related to Bloodline Power.

"Such a profound question, better let Sister answer it!" Xiao Yao simply didn't know how to explain.

There were indeed many definitions of Divine Power. Some believed it came from the power of bloodlines, others thought it wasn't one's own power, etc...

The Little Demon Fox Emperor thought for a moment and explained. "It is indeed quite profound. Just think of it as... a power unleashed by breaking through limits!"

"So that's it... Put that way, we actually already possessed Divine Power long ago, we just didn't know it." Mu Cheng thought it over and finally understood.

The arrival of Global Survival, being able to kill a fifth-tier at fourth-tier... wasn't that precisely the power of surpassing limits?

Xiao Yao: "No, no, no, Master. Thinking that way is wrong. Divine Power originates from Bloodline Power, that's correct, but it's very complex."

"Mm-hmm, being able to kill across tiers is not Divine Power." The Little Demon Fox Emperor nodded in reply.

This left Mu Cheng utterly confused. "What is all this... Can you explain it more clearly?"

Xiao Yao: "To put it more clearly, Master can understand it as... one's attack power instantly skyrocketing tenfold, a hundredfold, a thousandfold, even ten-thousandfold, and this power being world-destroying, forming a domain."

"A domain? So that's it." Only then did Mu Cheng understand.

An hour later.

"Is this the Three Shackles realm? It seems encountering a Black Giant Rat again would mean instant kill." Mu Cheng himself doubted his own life.

He originally thought he was very weak, but now it seemed he just hadn't recovered yet.

"Since you've already recovered, let's continue on our way!" The Little Demon Fox Emperor didn't waste time, darting across the rubble in the blink of an eye.

Xiao Yao and Mu Cheng followed closely behind. Along the way, they indeed encountered many Black Giant Rats, but Mu Cheng dealt with them with one punch each, like swatting children.

"Your physical power has almost reached the Four Shackles level. It seems surpassing me is only a matter of time." The Little Demon Fox Emperor was shocked once again.

Mu Cheng: "What are you saying... Sister, you haven't even used Bloodline Power and possess such terrifying strength. Compared to you, I'm still far behind."

This point he was very clear about. Specializing in cultivating Bloodline Power makes it very difficult to improve physical power.

And it requires expending a large amount of rare flowers and exotic fruits.

"Master, that's about enough. Surpassing us is just a matter of time." Xiao Yao also suddenly spoke up.

How long has it been since Global Survival descended? It hasn't even been half a year... and Mu Cheng has gone from zero to where he is now.

One must know the Little Demon Fox Emperor is already several thousand years old, and only now has she reached such a level of physical power.

As for Xiao Yao, if it weren't for the source of all things altering her bloodline while also... completely transforming her body.

She absolutely couldn't have reached the power of Four Shackles either.

"Speaking of... let me ask you something. Exactly how much physical power can one with one Shackle unleash?" Mu Cheng suddenly became curious and asked.

He also wanted to know his current strength level.

Xiao Yao: "Ninefold Wanshi is one hundred thousand. Breaking through one Shackle is equivalent to one hundred thousand jin. Three Shackles naturally is three hundred thousand jin."

"Goodness, one punch can deal tons of damage. Then breaking through to ninefold would be nine hundred thousand jin." Mu Cheng was shocked.

Xiao Yao: "No, no, no, not like that. The breakthrough from three to four is a qualitative leap, already reaching one million jin. As for the higher Five Shackles, it is no longer just about the physical body."

"Five Shackles... is already the level of a God of Destruction. Not only has physical power reached its limit, but Divine Power can also be perfectly controlled." The Little Demon Fox Emperor added.

Mu Cheng suddenly remembered and said, "Right, that... Su Mo of the Super Ability Academy, is it true? Wielding a million-ton heavy sword? Isn't the physical limit only one million jin?"

"Of course it's true. That's my Mo-ge, could it be fake? As for the million-ton heavy sword... he indeed wielded it." The Little Demon Fox Emperor suddenly spoke a bit unseriously.

Mu Cheng was dumbfounded: "Goodness, does this world really have... such a heavy sword? Are you sure you're serious?"

"Master means that sword? It indeed exists... It should be on the fourth layer of the Battlefield now!" Xiao Yao suddenly chimed in.

Little Demon Fox Emperor: "It is indeed on the fourth layer of the Battlefield. It could only be forged within the Battlefield."

"Alright then. Pretend I never asked. Next, let me get more practice." Mu Cheng didn't ask further.

Although there were many Black Giant Rats, with his current strength, it was completely like punching children.

Twelve hours later.

"This... it's actually a city. Quite unexpected." Mu Cheng looked ahead, greatly shocked.

Before them was a city, not one of skyscrapers, but filled with high-tech buildings.

Airships visible to the naked eye, roads that weren't highways but pipelines... and so on.

Xiao Yao: "It seems all the answers lie atop that tall tower."

"It's really a bit strange... why isn't the high-tech bracelet reacting at all? Logically, it shouldn't be like this!" The Little Demon Fox Emperor wasn't concerned with the sight before her.

What made her feel very strange was... clearly the technological level here was relatively high, yet the high-tech bracelet was still useless.

It couldn't even power on, let alone... any storage functions, etc.

"It is indeed strange, but we are currently in the Trader Space... or more accurately, perhaps another world!" Mu Cheng also found it very strange.