Chapter 194 – Amitabha Body, Martial Deity Strength, Night Emperor

“Hiss—”

A sound like the opening of a cryogenic chamber valve.

The large humanoid chamber door in the living room slowly opened.

A figure emerged from within, with sculpted muscles that looked like a statue. Gray-brown liquid quickly flowed down his body, following the smooth lines of his calf muscles, and left a small puddle on the floor.

“Pah—”

Lu Yuan spat out the repair liquid from his mouth and ran his hand through his wet hair, pushing it back.

Then he walked barefoot to the doorway, letting the mountain breeze blow over his body, enjoying the slight coolness after the stuffy heat.

It was the third day since he had entered the cultivation state.

Lu Yuan casually brought up his professional panel.

[Name: Lu Yuan]

[Age: 17]

[Strength Points: 18]

[Agility Points: 20 (Limit Break 1)]

[Constitution Points: 20 (Limit Break 1)]

[Intelligence Points: 20 (Limit Break 1)]

The Four Basic Attributes had hardly changed.

Actually, each attribute had increased slightly, but not enough to satisfy a full point, so it wasn’t shown on the panel.

Lu Yuan mainly looked at the martial artist panel.

[Advanced Professional Skill: Ten Thousand Refined Body Level 4 (678/800)]

[Steel Bones Level 4 (456/800)]

[Amitabha Golden Garment Level 3 (12/400)]

[Heavenly Ultimate Physique Level 1 (56/100)]

[Kesa Skill Level 2 (10/200)]

[Ten Thousand Refinements’ Heavenly Limit Amitabha Kasaya Crane Bone Strength Level 3 (234/400)]

In three days, Lu Yuan had successfully initiated “Amitabha Golden Garment” and “Heavenly Ultimate Physique.”

He had also learned a new skill, “Kesa Skill.”

The progress of “Amitabha Golden Garment” was faster than Lu Yuan had expected.

In just three days, it had reached the third level.

According to the cultivation techniques description, this process should have taken more than six months.

Even with the aid of cell repair liquid and the equipment, it should have taken at least one or two months.

Lu Yuan speculated that the cultivation time required for “Amitabha Golden Garment” as written might be calculated for someone with no foundational body training.

Lu Yuan’s Spirit Crane Body had long been at max level, his Ten Thousand Refined Body was at Level 4, and he had the body training techniques of the Steel Bone Sect.

In essence, he was already on his third round of body training.

“Nine transformations to sainthood, nothing more.”

With such a solid foundation, progressing through the initial levels of “Amitabha Golden Garment” was exceptionally fast.

The “Kesa Skill” that Lu Yuan was also practicing required resistance training, and it had reached Level 2 along the way.

In comparison, the progress of “Heavenly Ultimate Physique” was much slower, just at the introductory stage.

Lu Yuan had just begun to attempt to open his first Ultimate Meridian.

Lu Yuan gently pulled on his smooth, delicate skin, feeling that it was indeed much tougher than before.

After the first limit break in constitution, Lu Yuan’s skin had become as smooth as jade.

Now, with further changes, his skin had a slightly metallic feel when touched.

“Let’s test the effect after activation.”

Lu Yuan’s expression shifted, and then he activated his inner strength.

In an instant, a golden glow burst forth from within him, as if a beam of morning sunlight had suddenly fallen on him.

A layer of golden radiance covered most of Lu Yuan’s body.

His jade-like skin turned a brilliant golden color.

“Again.”

Lu Yuan’s eyes gleamed as he directly activated Level 2 [Kesa Skill]!

In an instant, his skin turned slightly red, and shallow golden patterns appeared rapidly on its surface.

The ultimate effect of [Kesa Skill] is for the entire body to turn red, covered in golden patterns, making it impervious to blades, weapons, and fire-hence the name Kesa Skill!

With [Kesa Skill] activated, Lu Yuan felt as if he had become “harder” once again.

[Kesa Skill] was, after all, an S-level external martial art, and reaching Level 2 was already quite significant; it would take others years to achieve this level.

“One more time!”

Lu Yuan focused his mind once more, and this time he activated Level 1 [Heavenly Ultimate Physique].

A faint red line appeared on his chest, and Lu Yuan instantly felt a surge of energy. His entire body’s muscles tightened slightly.

“Whoo—”

At this point, Lu Yuan had reached the peak state of external martial arts reinforcement.

He stepped out of the living room, glanced around, and without a second thought, charged straight at the cement fountain in the courtyard.

“Boom!”

Lu Yuan felt like he had hit something, encountered a slight resistance, and then found himself on the other side of the pool.

Turning back.

The large circular pool was pierced through by two gaps, front and back. The cement statue in the middle was shattered, and the steel rods that served as its core support were twisted and broken.

It looked like something had torn them apart.

“Amazing.”

Lu Yuan’s eyes sparkled.

Level 3 [Amitabha Golden Garment], Level 2 [Kesa Skill], and Level 1 [Heavenly Ultimate Physique].

This combination had elevated his pure physical defense power by several levels, allowing him to break finger-thick steel rods just by crashing into them. It was simply unbelievable.

“My inner strength now combines three types, bringing the total to six. Just by quality alone, it is at least six times more potent than the inner strength of other martial artists.

It is much stronger than the inner strength cultivated solely from ‘Amitabha Golden Garment.’

Thus, the actual effect of activating [Amitabha Golden Garment] far exceeds the original.”

“A three-layer Amitabha Golden Garment, driven by this kind of inner strength, combined with Kesa Skill and Heavenly Ultimate Physique, achieves an effect comparable to four layers.”

Lu Yuan raised his hand and examined it closely.

The brilliant golden inner strength flowing between his fingers looked like floating sunlight.

The original [Amitabha Golden Garment] produced a pale golden inner strength, but Lu Yuan’s, having fused with various other inner strengths, had turned into a radiant golden color.

More dazzling and spectacular.

“What a golden legend. This level of coolness is off the charts.”

Lu Yuan was very pleased with the color of his inner strength, though he was not too fond of the name that resulted from the fusion.

—Ten Thousand Refinements’ Heavenly Limit Amitabha Kasaya Crane Bone Strength.

“Can’t I rename it?”

Lu Yuan frowned, and as the thought occurred to him, he saw the name of the inner strength on the [Martial Artist] panel start to melt away like ink.

“It actually works?!”

Lu Yuan blinked, pleasantly surprised.

After a quick thought, Lu Yuan came up with a simple and memorable new name for his inner strength.

“Let’s call it… Martial Deity Strength.”

Martial Deity Strength Level 3 (234/400), confirmed.

In the future, when Lu Yuan integrates tens, hundreds, or even thousands of different inner strengths, tearing apart Mecha with his bare hands, crushing the extraordinary, and achieving the pinnacle of the Martial Deity’s path—what else could it be called but Martial Deity Strength?!

“Snap.”

The golden inner strength dissipated, and Lu Yuan lightly shook his body, brushing off the dust and stone fragments clinging to him.

He bypassed the wrecked fountain and walked back into the living room.

He still had 1 attribute point and 3 skill points unused.

Excluding the skill point reserved for the first core skill of his [Death Messenger (Extraordinary)] profession, he had two points left. Lu Yuan planned to use these to upgrade the only super killer move on his [Martial Artist] panel—[Thousand Crows Salute the Moon].

Alternatively, he could save them to enhance the “Amitabha Golden Garment” and other external martial arts, or for the third profession core skill [Undefeated Instinct].

Lu Yuan had already experimented with this.

Upgrading a super killer move skill required 2 skill points per level.

This was one of the reasons he hesitated and hadn’t yet decided how to use these skill points.

He casually took a shower, wiping the water off his body with a towel, and sent a message to the villa’s property management to have someone repair the fountain at the entrance.

Returning to the living room, he sat down on the sofa and picked up two notebooks.

One was Lin Zhiqin’s compilation of his martial arts insights.

The other was Xiang Lei’s diary from the Hundred Refinement Sect.

Yes, Lu Yuan had pulled out Xiang Lei’s diary again.

The reason was that in recent days, he had reviewed a large number of top-tier cultivation techniques, including six or seven true skill visualization diagrams. This had imperceptibly enhanced Lu Yuan’s martial arts foundation and knowledge.

Looking back at Xiang Lei’s diary, he discovered a “new world”!

It came from the ghostly true skill visualization diagram of the “Ten Thousand Refined Domain Breaking Technique”!

—On the white paper, countless circles were scribbled with a black pen.

At first glance, it seemed like a child’s random doodles.

But upon closer inspection, it was actually…

From Xiang Lei’s diary, it was evident that he was arrogant, careless, and loved to boast.

Therefore, Lu Yuan had never taken this true skill visualization diagram seriously, treating it as a joke.

But now.

Looking at it more closely, he began to sense something different.

Lu Yuan reclined on the sofa, staring at the childlike drawing in his hand, squinting his eyes in focused observation.

As he watched.

The black lines on the paper seemed to blur and merge together.

Eventually, they transformed into a massive black vortex, like a black hole, filled with the power to devour and destroy everything.

“Boom!!”

Suddenly, Lu Yuan, who had been lying still, threw a punch.

His fist created a small, invisible distortion in the air, and visible white airwaves spread out rapidly. The glass around the living room vibrated with a buzzing sound from the shockwave.

“No, it’s still missing something.”

Lu Yuan slowly retracted his fist, shaking his head with a slight frown.

He felt he had grasped some of the True Intent from Xiang Lei’s true skill visualization diagram, but for some reason, he couldn’t fully manifest it.

Something was missing.

But he couldn’t pinpoint what it was.

“Whoo—”

Lu Yuan exhaled, casually setting the notebook aside, planning to continue his cultivation in the training pod.

“Beep beep beep—”

At that moment, a message alert came from the Golden Bear’s backend.

Lu Yuan casually clicked it open, his expression changing instantly.

He had paid a thousand merit points a while ago to have the Yellow Bear internally investigate Lin Zhiqin’s whereabouts and contacts in Xiabang. Now, the information had been collected and organized.

Lu Yuan immediately opened it to review.

The data was detailed.

From the first day Lin Zhiqin entered Xiabang, every place he visited, every person he contacted, and the information of those contacts were meticulously recorded.

“Shengli Medical and Health Center in Xiabang.

I think I saw this hospital on my way back.”

“Doctors… nurses…

Lin Zhiqin was fined and warned three times for smoking in public places.”

“He booked a hotel but spent most of the month sitting in the hospital corridor? Sigh.”

Lu Yuan reviewed each piece of information, gradually forming a mental image of Lin Zhiqin, alone and drifting like a rootless weed in Xiabang, with his critically ill daughter.

“The notes he gave me were probably written during his time seeking medical help in Xiabang.”

Lu Yuan thought silently.

At this moment, he noticed a highlighted video in the file.

His eyes flickered as he quickly clicked on it.

The footage was blurry, barely recognizable as being shot in a hospital corridor.

In the video, Lin Zhiqin seemed to be talking to someone, conversing.

But.

The person he was talking to was a pitch-black blur!

It was as if someone had forcefully erased the person’s presence from the video!

“Uncapturable!”

Two beams of sharp light shot from Lu Yuan’s eyes, “Evil energy field!”

Only a powerful follower of the Evil Deity Sect, who wielded the Power of the Evil Deity, would have such an evil energy field that could disrupt electronic devices.

This meant Lin Zhiqin encountered a man with the Power of the Evil Deity in Xiabang.

And this person made Lin Zhiqin feel shocked and terrified, causing him to immediately try to stop Lu Yuan upon learning that he was about to participate in the Southern Martial Arts Hundred Cities Tournament next month.

Considering Lin Zhiqin’s relatively simple social network and the information Lu Yuan had previously gathered.

A candidate quickly popped into Lu Yuan’s mind.

Then, he quickly saw Yellow Bear’s compiled identity speculation under the video data—

Pei Ye!

The legendary Eighth Senior Brother who defected from the Sky Water Stream Crane Style fifteen years ago.

And a small line of notation—suspected to be the current Evil Emperor of the Evil Martial Alliance—”Night Emperor”!