It seems that because of the suspected appearance of dragon creatures in the new border area, Xu Ren sent this information over right away.
[Dragon, the king of the sky-dwelling species, the 'chosen one' who is deeply loved by the sky... ]
Xue Jing read through the document carefully, spending more than half an hour to make sure he remembered it all before closing it.
“A free creature that gallops across the sky, spews thunder, and is deeply loved by the sky… Interesting.”
Xue Jing thought for a while and continued to look up other information.
After he finished reading it all, he digested it and stretched.
"We'll think about the border later. We have other things to do now."
Xue Jing felt his current mental state.
Although still a little sluggish, he has recovered a lot and can continue with the consciousness simulation.
He had an idea and wanted to see if it would work...
Xue Jing took a deep breath, calmed himself down, and used his imagination.
Countless small pixel blocks swept across the sky and earth, transforming into a grassland scene on the back hill of the North City District.
Then, with a thought, he appeared in the scene.
After confirming that the physical data was correct, Xue Jing looked forward.
The pixel blocks condensed and rotated, and a young-looking boy, about seventeen or eighteen years old, appeared before his eyes.
It was Ning Yuantai.
“Plop—”
After a loud heartbeat, Ning Yuantai's skin began to turn red, and red air currents began to appear around his body, surrounding him.
Xue Jing walked around Ning Yuantai who was in an angry state, observed him carefully for a while, and nodded with satisfaction.
"It's worth it that I deliberately collected data. The restoration is perfect."
"Red Lotus Volcano Flow, let me see it again."
Xue Jing's mind moved, and Ning Yuantai immediately took action.
His whole body shook, and he started with a straight fist. After preparing for a moment, he punched towards Xue Jing's chest.
The boiling energy in his body was like volcanic magma, and the extreme explosive force it brought made the fist create circles of red air waves. At a glance, it was extremely powerful.
Xue Jing had no intention of defending himself. Instead, he closed his eyes, emptied his body, and focused his mind.
"boom!"
The punch hit Xue Jing right in the heart, making a deafening sound. Xue Jing, who didn't even use basic defensive strength, had his sternum shattered immediately with a snap, and the whole person flew out diagonally like a golf ball that was hit away.
The powerful mental control brought by [Visualization·Truth] allowed him to eliminate the interference of pain, calm down, and concentrate on experiencing all the secrets of this punch.
"The alienated internal structure of the human body allows it to use a strange method of energy that ordinary people cannot do, combined with extremely high body temperature, to generate explosive power like boiling volcanic magma."
Xue Jing thought to himself.
"The new martial arts are indeed amazing... The advanced practice of the old martial arts is to interfere with one's own reality with the spiritual realm, and to use the essence of the human body to exert the power of powerful things as much as possible."
"And the new martial arts don't care about the state of mind at all. They directly transform the body into something powerful on the material level."
"Red Lotus Volcanic Flow... allows the body to possess the power of a natural disaster such as a volcanic eruption. If this forbidden skill can eventually achieve the level of transformation of the body to rival a volcanic eruption, then it can indeed be said to be far superior to the old martial arts..."
"Bang!"
Xue Jing fell heavily to the ground nearly a hundred meters away.
He opened his eyes and said to himself:
"I'm a little tempted and want to learn a new martial art."
"But I don't want to take doping."
He climbed up, with a deep fist mark on his chest, which was recovering as the small pixel blocks condensed.
As he got up, he smiled and said:
"but… "
"Who said that you can't practice new martial arts without taking banned drugs?"
Xue Jing opened the panel and took a look at [Twins] in the divine skill column.
After reaching Lv4, he did not immediately choose to add a new active effect, but put it on hold due to indecisiveness.
[Currently available options: reaction speed, calculation ability, concentration, memory, body temperature, flexibility, perception, instinctive intuition...]
Xue Jing turned his attention to the [Body Temperature] option.
"If you want to use the explosive power of the Red Lotus Volcanic Flow, you need to transform into a volcanic body... The most critical part is the extremely high body temperature."
"Boiling temperature can bring about boiling power, and this condition is almost impossible for a natural human body that has not been alienated."
The human body temperature is directly linked to health. Even a powerful martial artist cannot withstand the terrible consequences of excessively high body temperature.
With a body temperature of over 100 degrees Celsius, the volcanic anomaly will melt your brain.
Therefore, only through alienation, obtaining a special high-temperature resistant body that does not belong to humans, can one withstand such harsh temperatures.
"But... I'm different."
Xue Jing turned his gaze and looked at the activated [Physical Defense] in the twin active effect column.
"The double physical defense brought by twins is conceptual. Any damage can be tolerated twice as much in an absolute sense."
"Naturally, the temperature too."
He exerted all his strength, using the Shaking Star Fire method related to blood training, to stimulate the blood to circulate at a high speed throughout his body.
Temperature refers to the intensity of molecular movement.
The blood moving at high speed gradually heats up, driving up the body temperature.
Gradually, Xue Jing felt his body getting hot, his skin turned red, and his body temperature rose from the normal 30 degrees to over 40 degrees.
"Not enough, keep going!"
The blood continued to circulate, and at the same time, Xue Jing began to mobilize the rest of his strength, trying to make his body exercise as vigorously as possible to raise his body temperature.
After a while, he felt his whole body was terribly hot, his head was dizzy, and his vision was blurred, as if covered by a layer of fog.
At this time, his body temperature had reached over fifty degrees.
“… This is the limit.”
"Over fifty degrees... barely bearable."
Xue Jing shook his head, and when he opened his mouth to exhale, he felt like his lips were burning.
“It should be possible.”
"Using twins to obtain double the body temperature, using double the physical defense to withstand, simulating the high temperature of the alienated physical body of the Red Lotus Volcano Flow..."
Xue Jing's mind moved, and he activated the twin defenses. Then, he used his consciousness to deduce and simulate the double body temperature state.
"call-"
Xue Jing's skin was covered with a faint red color.
The temperature had reached the boiling point of the liquid, and white steam kept coming out of his whole body, as if he was covered in clouds and mist, like a god or an immortal.
He opened his mouth and white steam kept coming out, making a hissing sound, just like a steampunk mecha.
His entire body was burning hot, but he managed to hold on thanks to the absolute double endurance of his twin defenses.
All the fluids in the body are boiling, literally boiling.
Just like freshly boiled water, it kept making gurgling sounds.
The small blocks of pixels in front of him spun and condensed, turning into a mirror.
Xue Jing looked at himself in the glasses.
His medium-long black hair fluttered in the wind, his body was wrapped in steam, and his skin with a faint red glow made him look like a non-human, but with his overly handsome appearance, he had a strange and evil charm.
"What is this? Luffy's Gear 2?"
He spoke.
The voice was deeper and hoarser than usual.
"Next, it's that inhuman way of using strength..."
Xue Jing asked Ning Yuantai to come in front of him.
Now neither of them looked like humans anymore.
One was completely red, surrounded by red air waves, and the other was light red, surrounded by white steam.
Ning Yuantai continued to throw a punch, and Xue Jing stretched out his hand to block. At the moment when his fist and palm made contact, he carefully felt the way Ning Yuantai used his energy.
"Come again!"
Just like that, punch after punch, Xue Jing soon memorized all of the volcanic alien's ways of using its strength.
He frowned.
"It's not going to be easy... His body structure is completely different from that of a normal human. Without this alienated body, it would be very awkward to perform this kind of exercise that simulates the movement inside a volcano."
Xue Jing exhaled a puff of white steam, gathered his strength, and tried to imitate.
Under his forceful control, the flesh, blood and bones twisted and moved forcefully, ignoring the risk of injury.
Fibers were broken, blood was boiling and evaporating, bones were making strange and mournful sounds, Xue Jing's eyes fixed, and evaporated blood mist overflowed from the corners of his mouth and nostrils.
"ha!"
With a loud shout, blood mist evaporated from his pores, turning into a red air wave. He punched out, shattering the air, and swung towards Ning Yuantai in front of him.
"puff-"
There was no obstruction at all. The punch, full of boiling power, was like hitting a piece of tofu. Without feeling any obstruction, Ning Yuantai's entire upper body exploded directly, turning into a bloody rain and scattering everywhere.
After blasting Ning Yuantai to pieces, there was no sign of the fist stopping. It carried the air along the way, turning into a red air wave, and blasted a more than ten-meter-long gully in the grass. The extremely high temperature even caused the green weeds to turn black and carbonized.
However, Xue Jing's whole body went limp and he half-knelt on the ground.
A quick look inside revealed that his body was riddled with holes and his injuries were extremely severe, almost as severe as if he had been struck by a tornado of lightning at its maximum strength.
"We have simulated a volcanic anomaly by force... But the consequences are so severe that we cannot use it in reality at present. We must make improvements."
Xue Jing's mind moved, and his body injuries recovered. The light red luster on his skin dissipated, and the white steam stopped rising.
He looked in amazement at Ning Yuantai, who had only half of his body left on the grass, and the long carbonized groove.
"This simulated Red Lotus Volcano Flow has an incredible amount of power. This punch is even more powerful than the Thunderstorm Extreme..."
Xue Jing pinched his chin.
"Well, since it is derived from the Red Lotus Volcano Flow, let's call it 'Red Lotus Mode'!"
"If I can perform the Hidden Dragon Killer Move in the Red Lotus Mode, I can't even imagine how powerful it would be."
"But it's still difficult for now. We should first solve the problem of how to perform the Red Lotus Mode stably... Otherwise, if we force it, we'll be dead with one punch."
After thinking about it, Xue Jing suddenly felt dizzy.
This is a sign of spiritual dryness.
"Consciousness simulation is a great thing... but overusing it is not good either. I'm really going to pass out this time."
Xue Jing rubbed his temple.
He could feel that this time there really was not a drop left.
Although the recovery speed of [Health Preservation] is amazing, the spirit cannot withstand such torture.
He could vaguely feel that he really couldn't use consciousness simulation today, otherwise his spirit would be seriously injured.
The scene turned into countless small pixel blocks and dissipated, and Xue Jing exited the consciousness space.
He opened his eyes wearily.
"Hey, Junior Brother... You, you're awake."
In front of him was his senior sister Takeyama Ying, who had her hands behind her back and looked guilty.