Infinite Fighting

Chapter 73: Chapter 64: Preparing to Leave

On the clinic’s rooftop.

Under the warm sun, Zhang Ji lay on a chair, sunbathing. A numb, tingly, and slightly itchy sensation came from where his right leg had been severed.

It was the feedback from his cells rapidly regenerating.

After a full day of sun yesterday, it had already grown three inches today.

The prosthetic leg Robby had made for him had been removed; he no longer needed it.

"Looks like you’re adapting well," Robby said to Zhang Ji.

"Finished with the surgery?" Zhang Ji asked.

Robby had just been fitting someone with a new prosthetic limb.

"All done. It was just a minor operation." Robby nodded and looked at Zhang Ji. "How do you feel?"

"Not bad," Zhang Ji nodded. "Your skills are truly extraordinary."

He now possessed the bloodline ability of the A-rank fighter, War God Dela, and it was gradually transforming his entire body over time.

His cellular activity had increased dramatically, to the point where he could now regenerate severed limbs.

Most of the scars on his body had already faded. A couple more days in the sun, at most, and they would disappear completely.

Regrowing his right leg completely would probably take about seven or eight days of sunbathing. If he supplemented his diet well—eating more bones to get extra calcium—it might not even take that long.

Speaking of sunbathing, this brought up another function of Dela’s Blood.

It allowed a person to absorb sunlight to replenish the nutrients their cells needed.

He was basically a mini-Kryptonian now.

Beyond that, Zhang Ji could feel his body’s various attributes slowly increasing. Cultivating his skills had become easier, and he had gained considerable heat resistance. Not only would being burned by ordinary flames not injure him, but it actually felt quite comfortable.

In the game, after a player obtained this bloodline, they would also gain one hundred fire resistance and a bonus to fire affinity. If they later came into contact with the martial arts of the [True Flame Sect], they would also gain more proficiency when practicing them.

All in all, its performance was more or less the same as in the game.

It boosted some attributes, added the ability to restore his stamina bar by sunbathing, and gave him fire resistance and an affinity with the [True Flame Sect].

’However, I feel that the bloodline I’ve received is still gradually growing and strengthening its effects, slowly transforming my body. I remember that the "Blood of the Sun" from the game had no such growth potential.’

’I guess it’s because Robby later improved his technique, diluting the bloodline’s concentration to make its properties milder.’

’I, on the other hand, probably received a direct transplant of the original, first-generation bloodline. It’s a miracle I managed to fuse with it successfully without being burned to death.’

’The Five Forms Union’s Celestial Serpent stance really saved my life!’

’Still, the risk was worth it. After all, the rewards far exceeded my imagination.’

Just then, Zhang Ji saw Robby walk over to the Divine Flower plant in the corner.

When Robby created the Dela’s Blood transplant potion, he hadn’t used the entire Divine Flower. He had left the roots, managed to cultivate it back to life with some medicine, and it had even sprouted a small bud.

Now, Robby took out a vial of potion and dripped its contents onto the Divine Flower.

In the next instant, the Divine Flower began to tremble, then rapidly grew, bloomed, and withered...

"Looks like you failed," Zhang Ji said. "Isn’t it better to let it grow naturally? You’ve already brought it back to life, so can’t you just wait for the rest?"

Robby gritted his teeth and said, "What’s natural isn’t necessarily good, and what’s unnatural isn’t necessarily bad! It’s human nature to interfere with natural selection. Besides, from a certain perspective, we’re part of nature too, so how can our actions be unnatural? Sigh, looks like I’ll have to buy another flower!"

He was clearly pained by the thought of his wallet.

"I have to remind you, even if you succeed in creating the potion again, an ordinary person probably couldn’t withstand it," Zhang Ji said.

"The first-generation Dela’s Blood, no, but it’ll be fine as long as I dilute the concentration. Isn’t that what the current royal family of Guning Country does?" Robby said.

Having studied Zhang Ji’s blood, he naturally knew that Zhang Ji was a special case.

Other than Zhang Ji, he had never met a second individual with such a compatible gift.

While answering Zhang Ji, he also took out his phone and contacted the royal family member from the Color Cluster Country again to place an order.

...

「Color Cluster Country.」

Douglas’s expression lit up with joy when he saw that Robby had placed another order so quickly.

He and Robby had met at the birthday banquet of the young princess of Guning Country.

He had always been fascinated by the mysterious field of alchemy. After meeting Robby, the two hit it off and quickly established a budding friendship. Later, with Robby’s help, he even built an Alchemy Workshop.

However, he had ultimately underestimated how quickly alchemy burned through money.

It was truly comparable to just setting gold on fire!

But it was too late to back out now.

So he had to take a risk and sell the Divine Flowers.

Well, it wasn’t that much of a risk.

Although the Divine Flower was strictly controlled to outsiders, for a royal family member like him, he received a fixed quota every month.

As long as you had the dung of a Divine Elephant, the plant wasn’t actually difficult to grow. The royal family simply didn’t sell it to outsiders in order to consolidate their power.

If he were truly discovered, he would probably just be put in confinement, told not to do it again, and that would be the end of it.

In fact, he wasn’t the first to secretly sell them on the side.

’He’s willing to pay thirty million for a single flower! What about the others at their science academy? If I can open up this sales channel and sell my little brother’s flowers too, my bloodline modification plan can begin ahead of schedule...’

With this in mind, Douglas replied to Robby and also sent a message to the dean of the Guning Country’s Royal Science Academy: "Honorable Mr. Leonard, the Divine Flower your disciple purchased from me will be arriving shortly. If you have any need for more, please feel free to contact me..."

Douglas could never have imagined that Robby had already been expelled and had even faked his own death for stealing the blood of Dela.

He also couldn’t have known that Robby’s teacher had been forced into retirement over the incident, and that the Royal Science Academy now had a new dean.

Of course, Robby would never tell him any of this.

Without the title of a professor from the Royal Science Academy, Douglas might not have been willing to cooperate with the person Robby was today.

.....

「Guning Country.」

Because of Douglas’s email, Robby’s case was pulled back out and reinvestigated.

The twenty-six-year-old princess, Yali Montu, knelt on the floor. From his throne, King Hick Montu asked, "Why?"

"I love him," Yali said, looking directly at her father.

Upon hearing this, Hick couldn’t help but press a hand to his forehead.

Perhaps because she was the daughter of his old age, he had always been one to grant her every request.

After all, in his eyes, those things weren’t important—just material satisfactions.

But he had never imagined she would do something like this with an alchemist.

He had thought that with the alchemist dead, the matter would be over. And yet? The man was still alive? And his own daughter had personally sent him away!

"Fine. Perhaps I have been too lax in your upbringing," Hick said. "Things have come to this, and there must be an end. He has blasphemed against a god; his sins are monstrous. He cannot be allowed to live. Hasting."

"I am here, Your Majesty."

High Priest Hasting Montu, dressed in a pure white robe, bowed to Hick.

"Have Falin take some men. Make sure there are no mistakes. By next month, I don’t want to see any information suggesting he is still alive," Hick said.

"The Winged Guard!!" Yali’s eyes widened. "No, you can’t do this!"

But this time, she did not receive the doting affection she was used to.

The King waved his hand, and a handmaiden stepped forward to lead her to the confinement chamber.

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「Midliss City.」

Now fully recovered, Zhang Ji wore only a pair of shorts, facing the sun and absorbing its light and heat with all his might.

At this moment, not a single scar remained on his body. The leg that had been severed had grown back, not pale at all, but the same healthy skin tone as his left leg.

Under the sunlight, crimson-gold patterns appeared all over Zhang Ji’s body.

Strictly speaking, they weren’t patterns. They were the color of his blood showing through, a feedback from having absorbed a massive amount of solar energy that he hadn’t fully digested.

Those patterns were, in fact, the color of his various blood vessels.

Once his physical body was strong enough, this would no longer happen, and he would be able to conceal these unusual phenomena.

Suddenly, Zhang Ji moved.

The muscles all over his body trembled, from the outside in, from his organs to his flesh, sinews, and bones—not a single part was missed.

This was the method for practicing the Iron Body Skill.

Without medicinal aid, relying solely on the bit of lunar essence drawn by the Moonlight Cup, Zhang Ji’s practice should have slowed down.

But now, fortified by Dela’s Blood, sunbathing during the day also greatly increased the speed of his practice.

All things considered, he was back to the state he was in when he hadn’t lacked resources.

Unless he ran into a cloudy day, he could still maintain the pace of producing one essence of the Iron Body Skill every two days.

He now had five essences of the Iron Body Skill. In a little while, he would be able to form another Iron Body Skill crystal, which would raise his body’s toughness by another huge margin.

On a side note, Zhang Ji discovered that the bloodline buff from Dela’s Blood couldn’t absorb moonlight, just as the Moonlight Cup couldn’t absorb sunlight. This completely violated the laws of physics he had learned in his past life.

Yet, when he brought this up with Robby, Robby had simply stated that the moon and the sun were fundamentally different celestial bodies, so how could their light possibly be the same?

’How is reflected light any different?’

However, considering his own lack of common knowledge about this world, he didn’t argue further with Robby and just chalked it up to being one of the world’s unique quirks.

After a long while, Zhang Ji stopped circulating his energy.

The sea breeze drifted in, causing Zhang Ji to close his eyes in comfort on the clinic’s rooftop.

"It’s time to leave," Zhang Ji murmured.

「Evening.」

Robby asked in surprise, "You’re leaving?"

"I have my own things to do," Zhang Ji said.

"Where are you going?" Robby asked.

"The Roman Country," Zhang Ji replied.

"If you leave, Damian will definitely not let me off the hook. I won so much money from his place, he’ll want to tear me apart, won’t he?" Robby said. "I have to leave too. But I’m planning to go to the Color Cluster Country. I’ve heard they have a lot of bloodline fighters there, so I can continue my research."

"Then get ready. We’ll leave on the same day," Zhang Ji said.

Robby nodded in agreement.

Two days later, Robby and Zhang Ji arrived at the port, where a smuggling ship was already docked, waiting for them.

They were both people without identities and could only leave via a smuggler’s ship.

It was impossible for them to buy tickets for legitimate ships or planes.

Robby was drenched in sweat, pushing his huge pile of luggage back and forth between the shore and the smuggling ship.

"Why don’t you just hire someone to help? How much could it cost?" Zhang Ji asked with a puzzled look as he carried two of the suitcases onto the ship for him.

"Those guys are so clumsy. If they broke even one thing, I’d lose hundreds of thousands. How could I let them handle this?" Robby said.

Zhang Ji didn’t know what to say, so he just continued to help carry the luggage.

Just then, he suddenly felt someone watching him.

His gaze shifted to the distance. Not far away, a bald, muscular man who was at least a little over two meters tall was watching him quietly.

The man was dressed like someone from Guning Country, with a white robe covering his body and slightly brownish skin. Zhang Ji felt he looked a little familiar.

A sense of threat radiated from him, letting Zhang Ji know he was no ordinary person.

His gaze shifted slightly downward, and Zhang Ji saw the golden wings on his white robe.

In an instant, Zhang Ji’s pupils contracted sharply!

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