Infinite Fighting

Chapter 79: Chapter 70: Breakthrough

The efficiency of Zhang Ji’s body’s energy conversion was now dragging down the speed of his training.

A normal diet was far inferior to basking in the scorching sun and drinking the Essence of the Moon.

If he wanted to speed up again, he needed to eat foods that were easier to absorb and convert.

Additionally, Zhang Ji had some other ideas.

For example, building a structure for himself that could gather sunlight and moonlight.

He could feel that, limited by his own attributes, he was far from reaching the full potential of his Dela’s Blood.

After all, what he had transplanted was the first generation of Dela’s Blood.

The bloodline of a pure A-rank expert.

Right now, the bloodline within him was still in the slow process of growing and transforming his body.

He needed to supply it with enough nutrients to completely convert all the blood in his body into the crimson-gold Blood of the Sun God.

’Once I reach B-rank,’ Zhang Ji thought, ’I should prioritize obtaining the [Great Eater Skill].’

That skill, which increased the efficiency of energy utilization from food, would only reduce the use of consumables for a player in a game. In reality, however, it was an absolutely god-tier support skill.

.....

「For the next ten days.」

Zhang Ji spent almost all his time at the top of the Divine Wind Tower.

Only at night, when the Moonlight Cup was placed atop the tower to absorb moonlight, would he come down to rest for a bit and eat something.

He spent the rest of his time training at the summit.

While climbing the tower, Zhang Ji had also been using the techniques of the Wind God Kick to try and sense the air currents, familiarizing himself with the spiritual resonance frequency of the Divine Wind Sect’s martial arts.

His Spirit cultivation was already considerable, and his comprehension was high.

As a result, Zhang Ji could now preliminarily sense and utilize the air currents.

However, he still hadn’t achieved mastery of the Wind God Kick.

It was, after all, an Excellent (Seven Stars) martial art.

’To master it,’ Zhang Ji figured, ’even I would need about two months.’

That wasn’t slow by any means, but for Zhang Ji, it was unacceptable.

Therefore, he wouldn’t be focusing on it as his primary martial art for now.

He would wait until he reached B-rank before cultivating it as a supplementary martial art.

That night, Zhang Ji drank a full cup of the Essence of the Moon and continued his training at the top of the Divine Wind Tower.

He was now cultivating all five forms simultaneously and had once again trained each of the Five Elements Fists to the level of nine essences. Tonight was the night he was meant to break through.

Zhang Ji was eager to see what kind of martial skill crystal he could create by breaking through with double the Five Elements Fist crystals.

As midnight arrived, Zhang Ji’s body trembled. He threw a punch, and a warm current naturally flowed through him.

At the same time, he saw the prompts for acquiring essences.

[Prompt: Acquired 1x Snake Form Fist (Fine) Martial Skill Essence. Can be extracted and stored in the Limited Space.]

[Prompt: Acquired 1x Crane Form Fist (Fine) Martial Skill Essence. Can be... ]

[Prompt: Acquired 1x Leopard Form Fist (Fine) Martial Skill Essence... ]

....

"Extract!"

With a thought, the five newly cultivated essences on his body entered the Limited Space.

His consciousness sank into it, where he saw the numerous martial skill crystals and essences floating within.

There were ten essences for each of the Five Elements Fists, all glowing with a faint green light. Among them were also seven essences of the Iron Body Skill and one essence of the Raccoon Claw Skill.

The Raccoon Claw Skill essence was all by itself, looking quite out of place.

Zhang Ji glanced at it but didn’t pay it much mind.

He looked at the fifty Five Elements Fist essences and made a grasping motion with his hand.

The next moment, the fifty essences began to synthesize.

A dazzling green light flashed. Before long, five more Five Elements Fist crystals had appeared, bringing the total in his Limited Space to two sets of Five Elements Fist martial skill crystals.

Seeing this, Zhang Ji couldn’t help but feel a sense of wonder.

Cultivating all five forms simultaneously was only as difficult as cultivating a normal Fine-grade martial art, but the results were five times greater, if not more.

The founding patriarch of the Five Elements Sect was truly a prodigy.

He had split an Excellent-grade martial art into five parts, lowering the barrier to entry for cultivation without changing its upper limit.

’If I only cultivated the Five Elements Fist, I could obtain an Excellent-grade crystal in about twenty days.’

’Can you believe it? I’d reach A-rank in two hundred days!’

’Before the Sacred King War even started, I’d be leagues ahead.’

’But the first Sacred King was no pushover. He had an Alchemy Organ furnace, was the creator of Spiritualization, possessed superpowers, was a Celestial Thunder Sect martial artist, and had an S-rank bloodline.’

’If I really tried to rely on just the Five Elements Fist, I’d end up as the weakest of the Sacred Kings.’

Zhang Ji didn’t just want a seat at the table; if possible, he wanted to be the Sacred King among Sacred Kings.

The distracting thoughts vanished as Zhang Ji focused on the ten martial skill crystals, his mind set in motion.

[Prompt: Do you wish to synthesize the 2x Snake Form Fist (Fine) Martial Skill Crystals, 2x Crane Form Fist (Fine) Martial Skill Crystals, 2x Leopard Form Fist (Fine)... into a new Martial Skill Crystal?]

"Yes!"

His confirmation was sent, and the ten crystals instantly began to entwine.

Within the Limited Space, the ten crystals spun, tangled, and merged...

A dazzling light bloomed, gradually shifting from green to blue.

Before long, the blue light stabilized and softened.

The blue martial skill crystal hovered silently in the void, rotating as if displaying its form.

[Prompt: Successfully synthesized 1x Five Elements True Art (Excellent) Martial Skill Crystal.]

Zhang Ji’s heart pounded with excitement.

’B-rank.’

This was the true watershed that separated the real masters.

On Origin Star, only by reaching this level could one truly begin to transcend the secular world through their own power.

Even a nation like the Eastern Extreme Country would find a B-rank martial artist to be a major headache.

If a B-rank martial artist was dead set on killing someone—as long as the target wasn’t a martial artist of the same level—even the most terrifying worldly power couldn’t save them. It was a dead end.

This level of deterrence was a social trump card; as long as you didn’t go too far, everyone had to give you some face.

Even the greatest powers had to consider the consequences of you going berserk.

"Come on! Let me see if you’re really worth it!"

With a thought, the martial skill crystal vanished, entering Zhang Ji’s body.

In an instant, Zhang Ji’s consciousness blurred as a flood of memories surged forth. His entire body began to change rapidly; his cellular structure, even his genes, started to alter, and his bloodline began to develop special properties.

In the ancient history of the Eastern Extreme Country, B-rank was known as the level of an Earthly Immortal.

This was not only because of the great power they wielded but also because their lifespan was incomparable to that of an ordinary person.

A Grandmaster could only be guaranteed a healthy life of up to one hundred and twenty years.

But an Earthly Immortal, at the very least, started with a lifespan of five hundred years.

Such a long life was possible because the very essence of their being had evolved, transcending the scope of normal humanity.

After stepping into this realm, one would even become reproductively isolated from ordinary people below this level.

This was because an ordinary person’s body would be unable to conceive or bear the information contained within their genes.

As he absorbed the martial skill crystal, all the related insights and memories flooded into Zhang Ji’s mind.

The information described a person who, after practicing the Five Elements Fist to its peak, found his path blocked. He found a way to discard his cultivation and then started over with the Five Elements Fist. After rebuilding his skills, his upper limit was expanded, and the Five-Elements-in-One state his body possessed was even stronger than before. So he rebuilt his skills again, gradually improving them in the process.

Again and again, he rebuilt and improved, until his fifteenth time, when he broke through his limits. The Primordial Qi extracted within his body naturally converted into Five Elements Primordial Qi. He no longer needed to deliberately activate the Five-Elements-in-One state; he could maintain the Five Elements Stance in his normal state.

This was the Five Elements True Art.

Zhang Ji returned to his senses from the flood of memories.

He clenched his fist slightly, carefully sensing the changes in his body.

His strength was far greater than when he had used the Tiger Stance before. His muscles naturally maintained a state of firmness and resilience.

His Control Power and bodily awareness were also much, much stronger. The temporary energy-channeling organs he had once constructed with Primordial Qi in his Spirit Crane Stance were now naturally part of him, built from flesh and blood, as if he had been born with them.

His claws, tendons, and so on were much tougher, and it was easier to unleash explosive power.

His cellular activity had increased again, raising the upper limit of the energy he could store. The surging Primordial Qi in his body had all been converted into the special Primordial Qi of the Five-Elements-in-One state.

Compared to before, his total amount of Primordial Qi was at least twenty times greater.

And it wasn’t the Primordial Qi of the Dragon Form Fist, but the higher-quality Primordial Qi of the Five-Elements-in-One state.

He now roughly estimated that he could fire twenty of the Primordial Qi waves from the Bombing Missile he had once used all his strength to unleash.

Additionally, his skeletal structure seemed to have been fine-tuned again.

Zhang Ji could clearly feel that the efficiency of power transmission in his body had increased once more.

This was especially true for his spine. A special new bone structure had formed along his entire dragon spine, connecting the vertebrae in parallel, allowing him to transmit force more easily when he exerted himself.

This was clearly a benefit from the Dragon Form.

His attributes had increased dramatically, he was in a constant Five-Elements-in-One state, his body had grown new organs, and his entire physique had been adjusted and reformed.

These were the changes brought about by mastering the Five Elements True Art.

But Zhang Ji didn’t have any concrete data on just how much stronger he had become.

He looked down from the Divine Wind Tower.

Looking down from a height of a thousand meters was enough to give anyone a fear of heights.

If the pre-breakthrough Zhang Ji had jumped from this height without using Primordial Qi to soften the impact, he would have ended up in a rather sorry state.

But now, he felt he could ignore this height completely.

Taking a shallow breath, Zhang Ji bent his knees and leaped.

The next moment, his figure soared off the edge of the Divine Wind Tower.

His body immediately went into a freefall.

Mid-air, Zhang Ji felt no fear at all. He could sense every minute change in his body; this speed was nowhere near enough to harm him.

Five hundred meters... three hundred meters... one hundred meters...

The tips of Zhang Ji’s toes touched the ground. His skin, muscles, and joints rapidly dissipated the force of the impact until it was borne by his entire body.

He landed smoothly.

He only crouched slightly, completely unharmed and without causing any damage to the ground.

This level of control was something he was absolutely incapable of before.

After a moment’s thought, Zhang Ji decided to test the result of an all-out effort.

He brought his palms together. Azure Primordial Qi gathered and compressed, its light illuminating the surroundings.

Then, he pushed the wave of Primordial Qi toward a deserted patch of woods in the distance.

"ROAR!"

A colossal, dragon-shaped wave of Primordial Qi, a full sixty meters long and over three meters high, was unleashed by Zhang Ji.

The blue, dragon-shaped wave flew straight ahead, destroying trees, overturning soil, and pulverizing boulders in its path before finally fading into the distance.

When it had completely vanished, it left behind a trench that was, by visual estimation, over five hundred meters long, about four meters wide, and nearly a meter deep.

The Primordial Qi in Zhang Ji’s body was depleted, and he felt slightly fatigued.

But he was extremely satisfied with the scene before him.

This ultimate move was already comparable to the full-power attack of a typical B+ rank martial artist.

Afterward, Zhang Ji tested his regular attack strength.

After a while, Zhang Ji had a rough assessment of his own strength.

Normal state: B-rank. Ultimate move’s destructive power: B+ rank.

’If I were to face Falin again,’ he thought, ’I’m confident I could win within a hundred moves.’

If Falin took the full force of his Primordial Qi blast, he would be blown to pieces!

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