[Running is upgraded to Lv9 (290/8000)]
[Hidden Dragon Power is upgraded to Lv8 (364/11000)]
[Mount is upgraded to Lv6 (657/3000)]
Three more skills have been improved.
Even Xue Jing, who had become accustomed to the massive skill level upgrades he had experienced in the past few days at the border, couldn't help but brighten his eyes.
Although it is hard work, the feeling of getting corresponding results after working hard is really great.
[Running], one of the earliest skills he activated, finally caught up with the other skills and reached Lv9, just one step away from the limit of Lv10.
So far, he already has two Lv10 skills, [Fitness] and [Charm].
Four Lv9 skills, [Health], [Run], [Aim], [Fight], and [Military Attack Lv8] which is about to be upgraded but only needs about 2,000 experience points.
"My Hidden Dragon Strength has also been upgraded to a higher level... Let's see what changes there are tomorrow. I'm too tired now, so I need to rest first."
Xue Jing glanced at the giant dragon corpse next to him, and without caring about the surrounding environment, he lay down on the ground.
The level 9 health regimen made him completely free from insomnia. Even if he used the sky as a blanket and the ground as a bed, he would fall into a deep sleep immediately after closing his eyes for a few seconds, with extremely long and steady breathing.
Even if the guard dragon is dead, its corpse still contains extraordinary dragon power, which makes all wild creatures stay away in panic. There is not even a bug within a radius of several kilometers, so there is no need to worry about being disturbed in sleep.
The person in the mirror of the bracelet looked at Xue Jing who was sleeping like a baby and sighed:
“… good boy.”
No words were spoken that night.
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The next morning.
On the quiet grassland plain, a figure rushed past at an incredible speed. The wind pressure pushed the weeds along the way to both sides, forming a "passageway".
A rabbit that was lying on the ground and chewing grass carefully had no time to react before a figure passed by it. It was swept several meters into the air, somersaulted several times, and fell to the ground, unconscious.
Xue Jing rushed towards the place where he had agreed to meet Renia, feeling an unprecedented lightness when his legs stepped on the ground, with a look of delight in his eyes.
The wind no longer seemed to be an obstacle to him, but a help to him.
While running, his body automatically adjusted its posture slightly, following the airflow it came into contact with, and instinctively reduced the air resistance to the limit.
"190? No, it should be around 200."
Xue Jing used the backward speed of the objects in his field of vision as a reference and roughly estimated his current speed.
It can be basically confirmed that it has reached the level of 200 kilometers.
This is comparable to high-speed rail and can be called superhuman speed!
In other words, the speed is about 50 to 60 meters per second.
"If I exert my full strength, I should be able to increase it by about one-fifth."
Xue Jing thought to himself.
When it comes to running speed, the marginal returns are extremely severe due to air resistance.
In the past, for the top track and field athletes on Earth, once their 100-meter dash speed was within 10 seconds, every increase of 0.01 seconds would be an extremely exaggerated improvement.
Once the time reaches the ten-second mark, even if one's physical fitness were doubled on the spot, it is hard to say whether the performance could be improved by 1 second.
Xue Jing's current speed is extremely incredible.
This is not just a matter of physical fitness, but involves the 'mental interference self-reality theory'.
The powerful mental will silently operated when he had the strong thought of "wanting to go faster", interfering with his self-reality. Coupled with the speed bonus of Lv9 running, he reached his current running speed.
"Cool!"
Amidst the cheerful shouts, Xue Jing's figure quickly passed across the plain.
Half an hour later.
The charred earth was in a mess, full of potholes and covered with cooled black magma mud.
After Xue Jing hurried to the agreed location, he braked suddenly and slid forward for more than ten meters without stopping. His toes scratched a long groove on the ground and stirred up countless mud.
It was still early, so Renia had not arrived yet.
“They didn’t deal with the body.”
Xue Jing looked at the body of the Flame-Crying Dragon he had killed, which had not changed at all compared to two days ago.
"There are no other creatures that can threaten dragons in this border area. It is normal that they don't know how to deal with the corpses of high-level dragons. In addition, the country of Renia seems to believe in dragons, so they dare not offend for the time being."
The person in the mirror spoke.
"In fact, we can just give the dragon's flesh and core organs to the so-called 'Daruka' to eat. Dragon meat and dragon core are great supplements for the creatures in the border area. They can make them stronger quickly, and even cause blood mutations if they are lucky."
Xue Jing smiled and said, "I killed all the powerful dragon species in this border area, and I didn't care about their bodies... For the natives here, isn't it full of opportunities?"
The person in the mirror nodded and said, "Indeed... It depends on whether there are brave enough to take these opportunities."
"If not, when the remaining power of these dragon corpses dissipates, wild creatures will come to devour them... a group of powerful monsters should be born."
While chatting, Xue Jing jumped several meters high, landed on the head of the Flame-Crying Dragon's corpse, and sat down.
First, I opened the panel and took a look at the divine skill bar.
After a whole night of recovery, the color of [Shadow Flame] has recovered a lot. Although it is still a little dim, it will not be long before the blue bar will be full.
Then he closed his eyes and looked inward at his current physical condition.
Yesterday's life-and-death battle with the last guard dragon was too intense, causing a lot of vitality to be consumed. It took an entire night and was not fully recovered, and the flame of life is still a little sluggish.
However, after Lv9, the speed of [Health Preservation]'s vitality recovery has also increased a lot. At this rate, it should be able to recover to full condition before tomorrow.
After confirming his own condition, Xue Jing calmed down and started the consciousness simulation for the first time in a long time.
In the space of consciousness, a pixel storm swept across, quickly condensing into a huge wasteland.
Xue Jing himself then appeared on the wasteland.
He looked inward to check his body data and found that it was exactly the same as in reality. Then he took a deep breath and began to circulate his strength.
In the sound of the dragon's roar, the lifelike, almost real power of a real dragon is born in the body.
At this time, Xue Jing's Hidden Dragon Strength had reached Lv8. Combined with the talent beyond the human species brought by Lv9 level fighting, his control over strength was no longer the same as before.
"Well, let's give it a try..."
Xue Jing's mind moved, and the power in his body suddenly changed.
The original force structure that was a balance of hardness and softness, yin and yang, began to change, and all the soft force was drawn away from the real dragon at an extremely fast speed.
Not long after, the Jinli True Dragon's eyes became dull and his whole body was motionless.
At this moment, there is no trace of "softness" in his body, but he is a "real dragon of extreme strength" made purely of strength!
Compared with the previous difficult extraction process, the process of forming the rigid true dragon at this moment was quite smooth and hardly took Xue Jing much effort.
"Very good." Xue Jing cheered up.
He has already achieved the most crucial step in the Ruyi power of the Vajra Ruyi Hand, condensing the real 'pure hardness' without any soft power!
The next step is to crush it into powder, integrate it, and then perform the "Ruyi Shaping" that can be kneaded into any shape at will.
Xue Jing thought about it, and relying on the confidence that he would not suffer any real harm in the consciousness simulation, he exerted his strength without hesitation.
"Crackle—"
The hardness of the dragon increased to the extreme. It was as hard as glass. Under Xue Jing's vibration, it was directly shattered into pieces and turned into countless powdery forces.
“Puff, puff, puff—”
Countless blood holes immediately appeared all over Xue Jing's body, and crystal clear sticky blood spurted out everywhere, even spraying dozens of meters away.
Countless runaway forces were running rampant throughout his body. In just a moment, two-thirds of his blood was sprayed out, his flesh was torn apart, and he was seriously injured and dying.
Xue Jing endured inhuman pain, but his expression remained indifferent. With a thought, countless small pixels condensed on his body, filling his broken flesh and repairing his injuries.
"The strength after the crushing is uncontrollable... Come again."
He did not feel any frustration, but just summed up his experience and started experimenting again immediately.
“Crackle—Puff—Puff—”
Xue Jing's strength ran wild again, and he was covered in blood, but he recovered from his injuries with just a thought and continued.
…
I don’t know how many times he was on the verge of death, but every time, Xue Jing tried to control the extreme force that was crushed.
Every time, he makes a little progress.
The injuries on his body became smaller and smaller each time, from almost completely bursting at the beginning, to just slight tears, and then to no wounds on the surface of the body.
Countless opportunities to make mistakes and his unyielding willpower allowed him to observe his own shortcomings in the most extreme and comprehensive way, and his speed of progress was unimaginable.
An hour later.
"Crackle—"
The extremely strong dragon was shattered, and countless powdery forces scattered everywhere.
The so-called strength is itself an illusory thing, it is just the 'kinetic energy' generated by the movement of the body itself.
At this moment, Xue Jing responded in an almost perfect way, controlling his internal body and offsetting the runaway strength, just like a tamer patiently taming a wild beast, gradually calming it down.
The runaway strong force gradually became obedient and submissive under his control.
Until a certain moment, Xue Jing suddenly had an inspiration and all the powdery energy was under his control.
The powder power gathered and began to combine and shape, transforming into a 'real dragon' again.
And this real dragon was no longer as motionless as before, but was extremely agile, with bright eyes. It jumped up and down in Xue Jing's body without any hindrance. It was extremely flexible, even more agile than the previous real dragon that was both hard and soft.
“Ouch—”
The pure and strong real dragon let out a powerful dragon roar that made Xue Jing's body tremble, as if it was venting its joy of being reborn.
"It's done!"
Xue Jing opened his eyes with joy in his eyes.
As soon as he had a thought, countless small pixels began to rotate in front of him, forming the shape of a Flame Dragon.
As soon as it appeared, it immediately turned its gaze towards Xue Jing, its pupils filled with anger, and it roared like a dragon.
"roar!!"
The roar that shook the void brought with it a strong airflow impact, causing Xue Jing's hair to be blown back, forming a slicked-back hairstyle. However, his expression did not change at all, and his body stood firmly in place like a javelin, without any wavering.
The Yanti Dragon lowered its head and leaned forward, opened its mouth wide, and bit towards Xue Jing.
Xue Jing clenched his right hand into a fist, placed it behind his right waist, and made a straight fist starting posture.
The extremely strong true dragon split into two. Following Xue Jing's thoughts, one entered the blood and ignited thousands of sparks, and the other entered the muscles, stirring up wind, clouds and thunder.
The Sweeping Thunder and Shaking Star Fire, the two most deadly moves in the Hidden Dragon Flow with the most opposite power distribution, are now combined together at this moment.
"Bang-"
The fist and the dragon head collided with each other, and the two stopped strangely as if time had stood still.
After a few seconds, Xue Jing retracted his fist.
The head of the Flame Dragon suddenly began to shake at a high speed, and then its skin swelled up everywhere, like boiling water.
"boom!!"
The dragon head exploded, blood and flesh splattered everywhere.
In reality, Xue Jing suddenly opened his eyes.
[You have gained enlightenment in the consciousness simulation, Hidden Dragon Power experience points +2062]
[Specialization conditions have been met, Hidden Dragon Power specializes into Hidden Dragon Ruyi Power]
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Chapter 163: The Killing Move, Thunder Flame Boiling Cauldron, Extreme Martial King, Seventh Metropolitan Circle (4K)