Chapter 77 - 68: Master, Someone Wants to Challenge You.

Chapter 77: Chapter 68: Master, Someone Wants to Challenge You.

Besides, Zhao the Third had said this piece of "Immortal Flesh" was originally about half the size of his palm.

Over the past decade or so, he and the wraith he had been feeding had consumed about two-thirds of it together!

If it had been its original, complete size, the modified value it could have provided Lu Yun would have certainly reached an astonishing 300 points!

Of course, Lu Yun knew full well that this nearly one-hundred-percent energy conversion efficiency was a heaven-defying ability unique to the Extreme Blue Martial Arts Modifier.

For any other Martial Artist, even a Grandmaster of Huajin or someone stronger,

absorbing and converting even one-tenth or one-twentieth of the energy from the "Immortal Flesh" would be considered astonishingly efficient.

Even so, that would be enough to cause a quantum leap in their power.

The notion of "creating a Grandmaster of Huajin overnight" might be an exaggeration, but for a genius Martial Artist already stuck at the Peak of Anjin and on the verge of a breakthrough,

using the immense energy of the "Immortal Flesh" to shatter their bottleneck was a very real possibility!

’No wonder the Cultural Relics Department and those ancient families, whose lineages trace back to the Zulong Dynasty, all covet it.’

Lu Yun murmured to himself, his eyes gradually burning with desire.

Now that he had verified the "Immortal Flesh" was harmless, Lu Yun no longer hesitated.

He picked up the rest of the black, fleshy pieces and swallowed them in one gulp!

He still felt no bloating or discomfort in his stomach. The instant the Immortal Flesh entered his body, it was converted by the Extreme Blue Martial Arts Modifier.

[Extreme Blue Martial Arts Modifier]

Name: Lu Yun

Gender: Male

Realm: Grandmaster of Huajin (Late-stage)

Cultivation Technique: Mountain-Breaking Inch Force Fist 2nd Floor (Mastery) [Modifiable], Hard Qi Gong 1st Floor (Mastery) [Modifiable]

Modified Value: 150

points!

In the end, the entire piece of "Immortal Flesh" had given Lu Yun a massive haul: a full 100 points of modified value!

’Modify!’

The Mountain-Breaking Inch Force Fist was the first to react. 60 points of modified value were instantly consumed.

In an instant, a massive torrent of information—filled with countless, exquisitely profound principles, techniques, and methods for channeling force—was forcibly "injected" deep into Lu Yun’s mind,

then rapidly integrated into every nerve, muscle fiber, bone, and joint!

This wasn’t a simple transfer of memory. It was as if Lu Yun himself had painstakingly cultivated this fist art for decades, starting from the mastery of the 2nd Floor, practicing day and night, tempering it through countless trials.

He trained until every variation of the techniques, every conversion of force, and every secret of offense and defense had been ingrained into his muscle memory, becoming pure instinct.

Only a few minutes had passed in reality, but for Lu Yun, it was as if he had experienced a Martial Arts epiphany spanning several decades.

He slowly opened his eyes and clenched his fist, feeling the more condensed and powerful energy within him.

With a mere thought, he casually flicked his right fist toward the surface of the river outside his window.

A bolt of Fist Force shot from his hand, striking the river’s surface ten meters away!

With an explosive sound, a fist-sized vacuum pocket appeared on the surface of the river.

’Ten meters!’

An ordinary Grandmaster of Huajin can project their Qi to harm enemies, but the effective range is usually within three meters.

Beyond that distance, the Qi rapidly dissipates, and its power is greatly diminished.

Previously, with his mastery of the 2nd Floor of the Mountain-Breaking Inch Force Fist, he could extend his effective attack range to five meters, far surpassing other Martial Artists at the same Realm.

Now that the Mountain-Breaking Inch Force Fist had broken through to the 3rd Floor, not only had the fist’s power skyrocketed, but the effective lethal range of his projected Qi had doubled, reaching an astonishing ten meters!

Within ten meters, wherever his Fist Force pointed, he was unstoppable!

’Modify again!’

Having gotten a taste of the benefits, Lu Yun didn’t pause for a second, his mind once again locking onto the Hard Qi Gong.

This time, it consumed 50 points of modified value.

The next moment, Lu Yun felt an invisible, divine hammer repeatedly striking and reforging every bone in his body!

Each "strike" was accompanied by an indescribable, tingling itch, followed by a profound sense of solidity.

His marrow was boiling, his very bones condensing and strengthening!

Lu Yun’s bones, already far tougher than an ordinary person’s, were now evolving to an inhuman level of durability.

He had achieved it—the 2nd Floor of Hard Qi Gong, the Steel Bone Realm!

Moreover, the already tough membrane beneath his skin, strengthened in tandem with his "steel bones," also became denser and more solid.

Now, even if Lu Yun stood perfectly still and let an ordinary person hack at him with a sword, he wouldn’t be harmed in the slightest.

In fact, it could be said that Lu Yun could now ignore bullets from an ordinary pistol. Against strikes from bladed weapons like swords and axes, he possessed a nearly absolute Defense Power!

If he stood still and let an ordinary Anjin Martial Artist furiously slash at him with a knife, the only thing that would break would be the other’s blade.

’Soon...’

’If I can just modify the 2nd Floor of Hard Qi Gong to Mastery, I’ll reach the state where my skin is like refined iron and my sinews and bones are like mystic gold.’

By then, his physical defense would reach an even more incredible level. He would probably be able to withstand rifle bullets from a distance.

Even if he took a shot at close range, the bullet’s power would be greatly diminished, leaving a small scratch at most.

The impetus from the successive breakthroughs of his two main Cultivation Techniques also caused the Late-stage Huajin Realm he had just recently achieved to take a huge leap forward.

Lu Yun now had one foot in the door of the Peak of Huajin, needing only one final catalyst to formally break through that gate.

[Extreme Blue Martial Arts Modifier]

Name: Lu Yun

Gender: Male

Realm: Grandmaster of Huajin (Late-stage)