Chapter 322 – Grandmaster Exertion Level ②, the Second Flower of [Three Flowers]!

After collecting his thoughts, Lu Yuan instructed Lin Protector to go back and search for any ancient texts about the legendary reincarnation of the daughter of the nightmare. Should he discover anything, he was to report it to Lu Yuan immediately.

He then inquired about the progress the evil martial alliance had made in searching for the secret realm entrance to the “Sky Wrath.” The response was reassuring-everything was under control and he could rest easy; it wouldn’t be long before all obstacles blocking the secret path would be cleared…

Since the battle of Penglai, Lu Yuan had firmly established himself as the most powerful God Emperor in the history of the evil martial alliance.

Now, he represented the ultimate path in the hearts of all practitioners who walked the dark martial way.

With every step he took forward, he was paving a new history for the evil martial system.

Moreover, he was also the Yellow Bear Flying Bear, a figure with significant official backing.

Lu Yuan’s importance to everyone in the evil martial alliance was beyond words, though the alliance itself was dispensable to him.

Thus, all the protectors in the evil martial alliance were eager to prove their worth before him.

Those adept at flattery flattered him as much as they could.

Those who weren’t resorted to diligently completing tasks for Lu Yuan.

Hawk Protector and Lin Protector both assured Lu Yuan with great conviction that the secret realm entrance regarding “Sky Wrath” was absolutely secure. They feared Lu Yuan might think they couldn’t handle such a small matter and would fall out of his favor.

Lu Yuan was quite aware of this, so he didn’t press further.

He was happy to give them the chance to show off.

Walking out of the Sliced Noodles restaurant, Lu Yuan strolled along the long street.

After a spell of rain and snow, the ground was wet and bright; the sun had even come out, yet the temperature had dropped further, making the streets scarcely populated.

Lu Yuan took a deep breath, exhaling large clouds of white vapor.

Though he had finally uncovered the truth about Xia Zhiqing’s disappearance, his mood remained gloomy.

Lu Yuan had witnessed many deaths, even brought about many with his own hands, and had watched entire civilizations fall.

But the idea of Xia Zhiqing, where every trace of a person left in the world is hidden and wiped away,

As if she had never existed, left him with a deep, unsettling chill.

Lu Yuan knew that if he did not stop the awakening of the daughter of the nightmare, his fate might be the same.

His parents might forget that they had a diligent and excellent son besides their troublesome elder daughter.

The people of No. 4 Middle High School Senior Year 2 class three would forget that they once had a classmate with the title of “top student.”

Old Liu would forget he had ever taken on a true disciple with extraordinary talent who was promoted to Grandmaster at the age of seventeen.

The evil martial alliance would lose their God Emperor forever.

The Lord of Heaven would fall, and the legend of Penglai would lack its protagonist.

The Yellow Bear would lose the strongest rookie in history, “Innate Divine Blood, Six Wings Flying Bear.”

Even Yuwen Tong…

Would be puzzled as to why she suddenly had a large expense in merits, paying off debts for someone else…

“Hmm, wait a minute!”

As Lu Yuan pondered, he suddenly realized something.

“Could it be that because I am too ‘brilliant,’ my network is too vast, and the people involved are too many and too powerful… that the daughter of the nightmare cannot wipe me out temporarily?”

Xia Zhiqing was an ordinary girl with an introverted and somewhat reclusive personality.

She had few friends and held little presence in the eyes of those around her.

But Lu Yuan was different.

He had risen powerfully like a comet, carrying the titles and labels of various forces and factions, leaving indelible impressions on countless people.

Moreover, he had connections with several ancient evil deities.

Wiping him out without a trace like Xia Zhiqing seemed clearly not an easy task.

It’s like secretly moving a trash can by the roadside-probably no one would notice.

But if you dismantle the LED screen outside a building in the city center square, you’d make the headlines that same day.

“So it seems, the more high-profile I am in the real world, the more difficult it is for the daughter of the nightmare to erase me?”

Lu Yuan stopped walking, contemplating, “Is this… a delaying tactic?”

…

The spacious underground martial arts training room.

Lu Yuan jumped down from the over-five-meter-tall golden Mecha God General. After indulging himself for a bit, it was now time for serious training.

He pulled up his professional panel and began considering his attribute and skill points allocation.

Currently, he had 5 attribute points and 2 skill points saved up.

First, he allocated the attribute points.

Without hesitation, Lu Yuan spent two attribute points, raising his constitution points from 29 to 30, officially entering the domain of the second limit break.

The moment the allocation was complete, the blood sphere within his body expanded significantly.

“Whoosh whoosh-“

The blood flowed through his veins with the sound of rushing rivers, akin to the Yangtze River and the Yellow River.

His heartbeat thundered like a drum, resonating through his chest.

The Five Viscera shone brilliantly, and the white light even permeated through his skin. His whole body, covered in nano armor, radiated like an oversized light bulb.

Lu Yuan felt an unprecedented sense of rejuvenation.

He felt several years younger, and even the air he exhaled from his lungs carried a fresh, woody fragrance.

Bathed in the white light, Lu Yuan found himself in a state of crystalline clarity from the inside out.

He could sense his skin, muscles, and bones… their densities continued to increase, undergoing many subtle and complex changes.

These changes occurred at such a deep level that neither his naked eyes nor his mental power could observe them.

He could only sense that his overall physical strength had multiplied several times-it was truly astonishing.

“It must be that individual cells have evolved again, elevating the level of life itself once more…”

Lu Yuan carefully felt the changes in his body, guessing and contemplating in his mind.

He stood up from the ground and tried practicing his “divine elephant style” martial arts.

He found that the most challenging move within the “divine elephant style” system, [dragon devourer], became significantly easier to execute after reaching the second limit break in constitution.

No longer did it carry the side effect of injuring himself.

Of course, this also meant that the power of [dragon devourer] could continue to rise to a whole new level.

Lu Yuan then decided to test the techniques of [Grandmaster Exertion].

“Buzz buzz buzz-“

This time, as Lu Yuan activated the [Grandmaster Exertion] technique, his entire body seemed to heat up almost instantly, causing his skin to turn red.

However, as streams of white steam erupted from his pores, the reddened skin swiftly reverted to its original alabaster state.

When Lu Yuan began to move, he was enveloped in a thick white mist that obscured his appearance, giving him an inexplicable aura of detachment and grace.

He casually threw a punch…

“Boom!”

The punch caused the air around it to collapse, with the white mist converging and then exploding outward.

A terrifying shockwave, like a white dragon, surged forward, leaving a distorted, transparent trail before it crashed into the high-strength superalloy wall a few hundred meters away, creating a massive dent before finally dispersing.

“Muscle multi-frequency vibration!”

Within the white mist, Lu Yuan’s eyes gleamed with intense excitement.

“At least five thousand tons of explosive punching power!”

Before his constitution was enhanced, he could only achieve high-frequency vibrations of his muscles, like a tightly drawn bowstring.

Using the oscillation force of the muscles, he could unleash greater power, even developing the [Overload State] of a martial arts grandmaster.

But now, with his constitution points increased, he had gained even more precise control over his strength, allowing him to make a single muscle fiber vibrate in multiple phases simultaneously.

This undoubtedly added several times the difficulty to the original exertion technique, and the resulting power also increased severalfold.

Lu Yuan glanced at his [Martial Arts Grandmaster (Extraordinary)] panel.

Sure enough, the [Grandmaster Exertion] skill, originally at lv1, had automatically advanced to lv2 after he comprehended the multi-frequency vibration technique.

“An explosive punching power of over five thousand tons is almost catching up to my strength when I activate the Ming King’s Body.”

“If I were to use this exertion technique while in the Ming King’s Body state… how terrifying would that be?!”

Lu Yuan’s heartbeat quickened slightly, and he felt a rush of excitement and fervor.

He was eager to enter his Consciousness Space to try it out immediately.

But after a moment of contemplation, he decided to wait until all his enhancements were complete before conducting a comprehensive test.

So, he suppressed his excitement and continued allocating his points.

Lu Yuan decided to hold off on using the remaining 3 attribute points. He planned to wait until his strength points and agility points also reached 29, so he could boost them all to 30 at once.

This would elevate all four basic attributes to the second limit break.

There wasn’t much to consider for the 2 skill points; he would continue to upgrade [Three Flowers].

By allocating the 2 skill points, [Three Flowers], which was at lv1, instantly upgraded to lv2.

The skill’s suffix gained a new entry-

(Qi Flower): Qi and blood increase threefold.

“Qi and blood increase threefold?”

Lu Yuan blinked and attempted to activate it.

To his surprise, upon reaching lv2, the original “Flesh Flower” and the newly added “Qi Flower” could be activated independently.

He activated “Qi Flower.”

Upon activation, the basketball-sized blood sphere within him instantly swelled to three times its original size!

It expanded so much that it felt like it was about to burst out of his chest.

For a moment, Lu Yuan felt as if his entire body might explode at any second.

But quickly, the blood sphere, having expanded to its limit, began to contract.

Dense, crimson light collapsed inward, condensed, and finally transformed into a crystalline blood lotus that gently rotated at the center of his chest.

“Whoo-whoo-“

In the state of Qi Flower activation, Lu Yuan could feel the extremely dense and vigorous qi and blood surging within him, almost as if they were about to gush out from his pores.

With every gesture, an unprecedented surge of immense power accompanied him.

The blood sphere was the core of Lu Yuan’s system and the source of his Strength.

With the blood sphere swelling threefold, Lu Yuan’s overall strength increased nearly threefold as well.

As he moved slightly…

“Whoosh-“

He suddenly appeared at the far end of the martial arts arena.

Only then did the sound of tearing fabric follow him.

A blurry afterimage of his original position quickly faded away.

He casually lifted his hand and threw a punch.

Accompanied by a thunderous boom, the superalloy wall beside him crumpled like a piece of paper, leaving a deep punch mark.

Lu Yuan’s eyes lit up.

It was important to realize that he had used less than half of his Strength and achieved destruction comparable to the damage dealt while using the lv2 technique of [Grandmaster Exertion].

He had to admit, the amplification Effect of the Qi Flower was indeed terrifying.

Lu Yuan pondered for a moment and then attempted to summon [Grandmaster’s Qi].

The moment he did, he startled himself.

An overwhelmingly dense Platinum Qi surged from Lu Yuan’s body like a flood.

Both in quantity and quality, this Qi far surpassed any previous records.

The Qi was so thick that it immediately formed a platinum flame on his body’s surface, exuding an indescribable, terrifying aura.

He lifted his hand and executed a slashing motion. The platinum flame surrounding him instantly burst forth, creating a crescent-shaped flame blade that roared as it shot forward…