As Ren You pondered, two disparate auras like tides had already spread across most of the space, as if they were going to completely fill the vast interior.
The deep blue radiance from the "Pure Steel Whale Armor" shone in contrast with the blood-red brilliance of the "Warfare Strategy." They reflected off each other!
It was as if half the room was water and half was fire, overwhelming and sweeping across the surroundings!
When one hundred and sixty life nodes of the "Warfare Strategy" blazed brilliantly, Qin Shi’s gaze suddenly steadied.
He had reached his limit!
The life bar built by stacking the values of the Four Great Limits was long and thick.
However, it was only enough to simultaneously activate one hundred and sixty life nodes before breaking through the hundred-point barrier.
The blood-colored vortex madly absorbed the intense radiance, and even though Qin Shi’s life force purity had reached the second dimension’s "Solar State," it still couldn’t withstand the pressure, leaving his mortal body gradually empty.
"Such power, such wonder."
Qin Shi relaxed his whole body, letting his palm drop naturally as he stepped lightly.
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With the "Warfare Strategy" driving his mortal body, the power of the Hundred Forms Refining Stance increased by more than several folds.
Qin Shi seemed to move slowly but quickly, appearing suddenly in front of Lin Xiong as if the void had blinked.
A fierce, whistling whirlwind followed closely, resembling a warplane soaring in the sky, tearing open a vacuum tunnel!
Qin Shi raised his hand, clenched his fist, swallowing the raging airflow completely into his fist eye!
Like releasing a floodgate, it thundered, with terrifying power grinding through space, pressing horizontally toward Lin Xiong!
The metal floor shook incessantly, as if sparks flew when scraped by a blade.
Layers upon layers, densely packed white airflow surged like frolicking dragons and serpents, crashing in succession against Lin Xiong’s solid domain!
"So cool! Junior Brother Qin!"
In the main control room, Eighth Senior Sister Jian Yuzhu clenched her fist, giving a vigorous punch, filled with excitement.
"Third Senior Sister, look! That punch could at least make Younger Ninth’s face black and blue! Junior Brother Qin has officially moved up from the tenth to the ninth place in our school!"
Yu Weiwei smiled serenely, showing no emotional fluctuation.
Junior Brother Qin wishes to break through the specialized barrier again, even crossing the significant gap in life force.
This level was still not enough!
"Unless Junior Brother Qin’s life force extremely sublimates and enters the third dimension, the crystalline phase."
Yu Weiwei wasn’t sure if Qin Shi could achieve it.
The "Warfare Strategy" was indeed strong, but it came at the cost of "burning life bars."
"Impressive! This kind of battle is truly exhilarating!"
Lin Xiong’s eyes were fervent, neither dodging nor evading, as he operated his mortal body with "Pure Steel Whale Armor" to take Qin Shi’s punch head-on.
He spread his big hand forward to catch the punch with his palm!
The moment the fist and palm collided!
Simultaneously sinking down, stamping deep pits into the smooth, flat metal floor as if it were a single entity!
The ground shook like a landslide!
The entire training room seemed on the verge of being destroyed by a flood, plunged into intense tremors!
"Pain! To break a sliver of the top defense of the ’Pure Steel Whale Armor,’ allowing me to taste the sensation of pain!"
Lin Xiong grinned, revealing white teeth:
"You should be proud."
His palm seemed pierced by a sharp blade, tearing his thick and resilient skin, causing blood to spurt and splatter.
Although Qin Shi’s punch was incredibly fierce, Lin Xiong firmly blocked it from the front.
Next, as long as he activated the "rebound characteristic," Qin Shi would be defeated.
Even if he walked the Old Martial Road, breaking through the Four Great Limits, strengthening his physique, he couldn’t compare to proper horizontal training hard skills.
Moreover, Lin Xiong’s main practice, "Pure Steel Whale Armor," was nearly reaching the "Combat Body" stage.
The extreme damage he could endure, once rebounded, would surely heavily injure Qin Shi, completely ending the "challenge."
"Consider it doing Old Jiang a favor, though if this kid’s injuries are too severe later, I hope the Nanhuang Daoist School won’t hold me accountable?"
Lin Xiong’s thoughts flickered, his Specialized Domain traits already forcefully activated; as a Sequence Army of the Battle Group, he never had the habit of "going easy" on opponents.
"You’re celebrating too soon."
Qin Shi’s spiritual fluctuation suddenly rang out, and before the overwhelming rebound power could strike back, he launched his offensive once more.
Qin Shi, who had just given his all, surprisingly still had strength remaining?
This change not only left Ren You, who was observing from the corner, stunned but also caused Jian Yuzhu and Yu Weiwei in the main control room to show surprise.
"Hasn’t Junior Brother Qin reached his limit yet?"
"The ’Warfare Strategy’ truly deserves to be a masterpiece of Marshal Qin! It won’t rest until my health bar is burned down to just a sliver!"
After Qin Shi broke through the Four Great Limits, his life force accumulation was nearly inexhaustible. For the first time, he felt the sensation of being "completely emptied and drained."
The hand forming the fist eye grasped Lin Xiong tightly, with black sinews like python muscles crazily bouncing, pumping bright red blood from the bone marrow, thick and heavy, rolling like mercury spills.
Finally, his skin turned crimson in an instant, as if cooked, due to the unrestrained release of life energy, forming bizarre patterns like floral vines.
The perfection of force and beauty!
Three-stage unfolding!
As Qin Shi’s breathing and aura boiled fully, countless blood-red vortices gathered from life nodes shattered instantly!
The entire room’s atmosphere shook, circles of ripples appeared, hundreds connecting together, generating extremely terrifying destructive power!
Lin Xiong’s face was aghast; he found that the mortal body’s hundred skeletons operating under ’Pure Rigidity Whale Armor’ started to lose control from outside to inside, as if strongly influenced by the force of that vibration.
Tough skin, solid bones, sturdy flesh... as if an invisible giant hand forced them into a blender!
Lin Xiong seemed to experience an auditory hallucination; a sharp, clear shattering sound suddenly echoed, entering his ears.
His arm bore fine cracks, not from flesh injury, but from the destructive blow to the flesh’s vitality, seeming to be pulverized and annihilated!
Surface instantly turned charred black!
Fortunately, Qin Shi’s assault lasted less than a fraction of a second, equivalent to unleashing "half a strike."
Otherwise, half of Lin Xiong’s body would have disintegrated, with no chance of rescue!
The atmosphere calmed, the aftermath dispersed.
The room was in dead silence, even a thin needle falling on the ground could be heard.
"Have you stepped into the Specialized Domain?"
Lin Xiong’s throat rolled, with Specialized Level intuition telling him that had Qin Shi not stopped in time, he might very well have died.
The terrifying palpitation of spinning around the gates of hell froze him, and chilly anxiety surged from his back.
Qin Shi, with his hundred bones squeezed clean, had no strength left, making it difficult to speak.
So he spoke concisely:
"Probably tonight or tomorrow."
Lin Xiong examined his left arm, the terrifying charred black color spreading to the shoulder, nearly reaching the neck and descending on the head.
It looked like a skin burn, but was actually partial necrosis of flesh vitality.
The kind of fatal injury Specialized Level experts found most irreparable!
"What’s the name of this move?"
Lin Xiong cautiously lowered his arm, fearing it might shatter.
Luckily, the boy hadn’t struck to kill; otherwise, he’d at least lose an arm, retire on the spot, ending his military career.
If word got out, a proud warrior of the Seventh Battle Group Wind Scythe Sequence Army ended up disabled because he couldn’t beat a high school student.
This joke would be talked about for a lifetime!
"Hundred Forms Refining Stance, as swift as lightning."
Qin Shi stood shaky and unsteady; he too was blessed with spiritual insight, understanding the Heart Posture Imagery of movement like wind, aggressiveness like fire, and as swift as lightning, combining with ’Warfare Strategy’ to successfully penetrate Lin Xiong’s Specialized Domain!
"Old Liang was right. When facing battle group warriors, one must act swiftly and decisively, especially when striking with weakness against strength. Within three moves, the decisive hand must be pressed, the kill technique initiated."
Hundred Forms Refining Stance?
Lin Xiong silently remembered it, then said:
"I’m looking forward to your ’spar’ with Old Jiang. He’s one of the top-notch figures in the Wind Scythe Sequence Army; if you can win, all the battle groups will open their doors to welcome you."
Qin Shi seemed oblivious; if he truly took the battle group route, it must be through Old Liang’s pathway.
Perhaps he knew some company commander or battalion commander, that’d count as having backing.
As for beyond that, regiment commander and division commander?
Qin Shi dared not imagine.
Old Liang wouldn’t have retired in such bleakness, stripped of his medals, and unable to receive injury compensation.
"Specialized Domain, already succeeded."
When Lin Xiong left, only then did Qin Shi stop maintaining his image, falling backward.
The active consciousness of Nanhuang Daoist School, Xuan Ming, instantly caught him, preventing a fall.
Exhausted to the extreme, Qin Shi closed his eyes, within the mortal body, a real and unimagined "diamond-shaped crystal" gradually emerged.
It was like a second heart, thriving "growing" within the flesh, all inheritances swirling like stars around the sun, slowly rotating, glowing with radiance.
This is what Specialized Level dreams of.
The "perfect core" that unifies the flesh and spirit!