Chapter 135 - 115: LV3

Chapter 135: Chapter 115: LV3

What a horrifying thought—that the Card was just a single cell shed from some Life Form.

A single cell’s life frequency was as high as 35. Just how terrifying must its original body be?

No wonder the King’s Game had kept the Card in a constant state of slumber. Otherwise, an ordinary player wouldn’t have been able to control it at all.

Chen Qi now completely dismissed the idea of taking the Card for himself.

It had taken so much effort for him to handle the Source Ore with his abilities, let alone a Card whose Spirituality frequency might be as high as 35.

And that was without even considering whether the King’s Game would allow it.

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Under the game’s mechanics, the Red Heart 7, having devoured enough interference power, began to advance along the skill path Chen Qi had planned.

The first thing it had to do was reclaim the part of its power it had dispersed.

For it, this was naturally effortless.

Then, Chen Qi instantly saw the purple markings on the ten metal giant serpents disappear.

They instantly lost most of their vitality, turning into limp masses of metallic snakes.

Clearly, Red Heart 7 had withdrawn the Puppet Threads from within the metal giant serpents.

If not for the fact that they still possessed some of the Source Ore’s properties, retaining the trait of active metal, they would have long since turned into ten metal statues.

The tides of battle turned abruptly. Once its opponents had become pushovers, the Source Ore’s aura surged. Driven by its own instincts, it began to attack.

The battle that followed was just one gulp after another.

The metal giant serpents originated from the Source Ore to begin with, just like how Red Heart 7 was reclaiming its own power.

The Source Ore was now also reclaiming a part of what once belonged to it.

In the blink of an eye, the ten metal giant serpents vanished. Atop the massive metal ritual platform, only a round, silvery-white metal ball remained.

And at the exact moment the Source Ore finished its devouring, Chen Qi’s skill advancement succeeded.

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Player: Jomoya Chris (Chen Qi)

Life Level: 6

Equipment: Red Heart 7

Skill: Life Manipulation LV3

Spiritual Energy Points: 100

These were Chen Qi’s current game stats. The original Metal Manipulation ability had completely disappeared, while Body Control had evolved into Life Manipulation.

Moreover, the skill didn’t specify a range, which matched Chen Qi’s previous judgment about LV3 skills.

What surprised Chen Qi even more was that his Spiritual Energy Points had increased to 100.

The King’s Game was truly generous!

Too bad he couldn’t use them freely; they could only be supplied to the Card.

But it didn’t matter. Now that Chen Qi had the Source Ore, he didn’t mind as much.

It was safe to say this advancement had completely met all of Chen Qi’s expectations.

The only thing Chen Qi found regrettable was that his Life Level hadn’t increased.

Correspondingly, his physical strength hadn’t changed much either.

He had thought he could use this advancement to break the sound barrier with his physical speed, but it seemed that was completely impossible now.

Not only that, but Chen Qi discovered that his physical body seemed to have reached its limit.

With this advancement, Chen Qi’s Spirituality frequency had increased by another point, reaching 43.2.

But to his surprise, the growth in his Spirituality had no effect whatsoever on his physical body.

Back in the Apprentice Tier, every increase in Spirituality would drive his physical body to become stronger.

’It seems the human body really does have its limits.’

’Thinking I could rely solely on the growth of my Spirituality to strengthen my body was just wishful thinking!’

’Although, in the ancient Transcendent legacies, there were plenty of arts for tempering the physical body. It’s a shame I’ve never obtained one.’

In all his past battles, Chen Qi had never been at a disadvantage physically.

Although at the Transcendent level, the lethality of a punch wasn’t as great.

But a stronger physical body would naturally bring a greater sense of security.

’Otherwise, what if someone launched a sneak attack with a nuke after my Spirituality was depleted?’

’If I can’t physically withstand a nuclear blast, how could I ever stand tall before a middle-power nation?’

’After all, the threshold to be considered a middle-power nation, besides having a population over one hundred million, is possession of nuclear weapons.’

’As for those with populations under 100 million, they’re all small countries. Their industrial capacity naturally can’t support developing nuclear weapons.’

’The number of middle-power nations in the Inner Ring World isn’t small—if not a thousand, then at least around eight hundred.’

’Although they are all on the lower end of the middle-power nations, without even the qualifications to go to the Outer Ring World.’

’But for an individual, they are still uncontestable behemoths.’

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’According to the *Inner World General Knowledge*, excluding the ancient Transcendent legacies of the Outer Ring World, there are currently two main ways for humans to develop their physical bodies.’

’The first is to unearth the Power of one’s own Bloodline, which means searching for special gene groups within the human gene pool.’

’In humanity’s long 300,000-year history of civilization, the powerful have been as numerous as a meteor shower. The potent genes they evolved may be lying dormant within some ordinary person.’

’Once unearthed, an increase in physical strength is secondary; one might even give rise to all sorts of Divine Powers.’

’As for the second method, it’s to open the Genetic Lock.’

’According to ancient legend, the very reason sapient life came into being is that they sealed away their own bestial nature during their evolution.’

’But once those shackles are broken and the bestial nature hidden in the genes is released, the cells will become even more frenzied and terrifying than cancer cells, entering a mode of limitless evolution.’

’Unfortunately, neither of these two methods can be obtained in the backwater of the Inner World where I am.’

’I still have to leave this place and journey to a wider world.’

After indulging in thoughts of the future for a moment, Chen Qi brought his focus back to the here and now.

The Source Ore was currently rolling back and forth nearby, clearly suffering from indigestion after eating its fill.