Chapter 127 - 126: Hammer from the Heavens?

Chapter 127: Chapter 126: Hammer from the Heavens?

He Xiaotian focused his mind and lightly tapped on "Enhance."

["Fire-refined Golden Body"-∞+, "Golden Bell Shield"-∞+, "Iron Cloth Shirt"-∞+, "Thirteen Grand Protectors’ Cross Training"-∞+, "Golden Armor Divine Skill - Giant Stone Chapter"-∞+, "Black Tiger’s Tyrannical Aura"-∞+, "Bone Shrinking Skill"-∞+, "Crossing the River on a Blade of Grass"-∞+, "Grasshopper"-∞+, "Flying Bird Crossing Skill"-∞+, "Vajra Lion’s Roar"-∞+.]

[Would you like to spend 10,000 Experience Points to enhance "Golden Armor Divine Skill - Giant Stone Chapter"?]

’This is making me sick. Back when I broke the limit for "Eight Steps Chasing Cicada", it only took five hundred Experience Points.’

’Why are you so damn expensive?’

The price had suddenly skyrocketed to ten thousand!

’Are you taking me for a rich idiot? A sucker?’

Besides, it had only taken a little over twenty thousand Experience Points to max it out from zero.

’I... I can only grit my teeth and confirm.’

’For the big octopus’s head... I mean, Experience Points... Bah!’

’This should be about protecting the safety of the people. It is my, He Xiaotian’s, undeniable duty.’

’Enhance!’

[Enhancing "Golden Armor Divine Skill - Giant Stone Chapter"... Please wait... 1%... 50%... 88%... 99%... 100%. Enhancement complete.]

["Golden Armor Divine Skill - Giant Stone Chapter" - 0/20000+ (Outstanding: Inner Strength +40, Strength +15, Hardness +10, Special Attributes - Solid Rock Body Protection +3, Adamant Stone Energy Seal +3, Meteorite Strike +2)]

Son of a bitch!

Twenty thousand Experience Points to level up.

He Xiaotian had, all told, barely sixty thousand points.

The four people from the Gourmet Kitchen had contributed nine thousand five hundred, and the Martial Artists from the Gate of Greed had contributed twenty-three thousand.

The rest all came from the aberrations he’d hammered to death in the various residential complexes on Huayang Road.

"Can’t I just spend them already?"

He Xiaotian said through gritted teeth, tapping the + symbol as he spoke.

BOOM!

His body suddenly began to tremble. His muscles writhed and his frame shot up, heading toward three meters in height.

The meridians in his body tore apart and reformed in a repeating cycle.

His Inner Strength surged, skyrocketing!

In the Shanghai Cleaner conference room, everyone’s hearts leaped into their throats as they watched this sudden development.

X was the only combatant inside the mental barrier. If something happened to him...

Thinking of the giant Abyssal Voyager on the screen, everyone’s hair stood on end.

One night would be enough for that thing to destroy all of Huayang Road.

["Golden Armor Divine Skill - Giant Stone Chapter" - 0/30000+ (Miraculous: Inner Strength +60, Strength +20, Hardness +15, Special Attributes - Solid Rock Body Protection +5, Adamant Stone Energy Seal +5, Meteorite Strike +4)]

PFFT!

When He Xiaotian saw the Experience Points needed for the next level, he felt as if someone had just stabbed him in the heart.

’You’re doing this on purpose, aren’t you?’

’Did you calculate this precisely based on my sixty thousand Experience Points?’

’I just fucking finished extorting the top brass of the city’s Cleaners, and now you turn around and screw me over!’

What could he do? He was desperate, too!

’Fine, Laozi will bite the bullet, alright?’

’As long as I kill the giant octopus, I can get back everything I’ve lost.’

He Xiaotian closed his eyes, gritting his teeth so hard they might shatter, and tapped the + symbol.

And with that, the Experience Points he had worked so hard to accumulate were completely wiped out.

THUMP!

A wave of pain even more intense than the last level-up washed over and engulfed He Xiaotian.

Cracks split open all over his body, spurting blood.

The crowd in the conference room, who were watching his every move: "???"

’The battle hasn’t even started, and you’re already spurting blood? What the hell is that?!’

’If you weren’t happy with the price, we could have kept negotiating.’

’There was no need to resort to self-inflicted injuries!’

After a long while, He Xiaotian finally recovered.

Leaning on his twin hammers, he stood up from the ground.

He found that he had broken the three-meter mark in height.

Luckily, his height had shot up because he was crazily stacking buffs.

Otherwise, he’d have to rely on his Bone Shrinking Skill just to get by in the future.

["Golden Armor Divine Skill - Giant Stone Chapter" - ∞ (Transcendent: Inner Strength +100, Strength +30, Hardness +25, Special Attributes - Solid Rock Body Protection +10, Adamant Stone Energy Seal +10, Meteorite Strike +8)]

In total, he had spent sixty thousand Experience Points, and the attributes of the Golden Armor Divine Skill had practically doubled.

His Inner Strength increased by 60 years, his Strength went up by 15 points, and his Hardness also increased by 15 points.

The three special attributes had increased by more than threefold.

’Totally worth it!’

"X, are you alright?"

Roger’s voice came through the portable monitor on his arm.

"I’m fine. Just a negative side effect of a power-up, don’t be scared. You paid me, so I’ll get the job done for you."

As soon as he finished speaking, the entire group rolled their eyes in unison.

’What the hell kind of negative side effect from a power-up is that?’

’How many uniquely gifted individuals did the Cleaners have?’

’How come none of them spurted blood when their strength increased?!’

’Besides, looking at the horrifying state you’re in, we’ll be shouting for joy if you don’t just suddenly drop dead on the spot.’

"Have you found a building that’s a hundred meters tall?"

"Past the Abyssal Voyager, about five hundred meters away, there’s a skyscraper that’s 132 meters tall. But I’m still very curious—what exactly is your plan?" Roger asked, his voice calm as he forced a composed expression.

"Plan? Two words—Smash it!"

PFFT!

Some people who were drinking water sprayed it all over their colleagues’ faces when they heard He Xiaotian’s words.

The corner of Roger’s visible mouth twitched almost imperceptibly.

’’Smash it?’’

’Why didn’t you just say ’brute-force it’ instead!’

Before they could even snap out of it, He Xiaotian’s voice came from the big screen again.

"Of course, if you think that doesn’t sound good, you can also say ’brute-force it’."

"I..." Roger slammed the table and shot up, about to give He Xiaotian a piece of his mind. But the moment he remembered that everything on Huayang Road depended on this guy, he sullenly sat back down.

Then, putting on an expression as if nothing had happened, he picked up his water glass and took a sip to hide his embarrassment.

"Hey, big dummy!"

PFFT! COUGH COUGH COUGH...

Roger was completely stunned by He Xiaotian’s move!

A height of three meters was definitely top-tier in the modern world, maybe even number one.

But to run up to an Abyssal Voyager that was over ten meters tall, carrying a hammer, and call it a ’big dummy’—what kind of move was that?

The octopus, which had been climbing the building and using its tentacles to smash through the glass to get at the people inside, turned its head.

A pair of eyes as large as searchlights fixed on He Xiaotian.

"Come and get me!"

The Abyssal Voyager glanced at the tiny thing below, then, having lost interest, it continued its high-altitude people-snatching operation.

"..."

BOOM!

He Xiaotian swung the chain in his hand, mustered all his strength, and hurled one of his iron hammers.

His 78 points in Strength provided him with thirty tons of force.

The massive, spike-covered hammerhead squarely struck the Abyssal Voyager’s head.

BANG!

BOOM!

The first sound was the intimate contact between the hammer and the Voyager; the second was the tragic scene of the unfortunate octopus falling off the building.

"!!!"

Roger and the others were instantly dumbfounded. To borrow a popular internet saying, their jaws collectively hit the floor.

’Are you kidding me?’

’Sent it flying with a single hammer blow?’

’Don’t tell me ’Smash it’ and ’brute-force it’ wasn’t just talk!!’

’Was He Xiaotian really planning to take it on head-on?’