Chapter 200: Coincidence (2) After acclimatizing for a while, Lu Sheng sensed that he had already committed to memory all of Light Void Skill's movement steps, and even mastered its mantra . He continued to memorize the entire next two levels before sitting down cross-legged .
'Deep Blue!'
He summoned the Modifier without further ado .
A pale blue frame surfaced . Unsurprisingly, a new row had been added at the end for Light Void Skill .
'Light Void Skill: Uninitiated . '
'Time to begin… Upgrade Light Void Skill to Level Three . ' Lu Sheng pressed unhesitatingly on the button in the Modifier to begin upgrading and focused on the frame for Light Void Skill .
As he concentrated, the square frame suddenly jerked; from Uninitiated, it instantly jumped to Initiated . Only a single unit of Yin Qi had been expended .
'Again . ' Lu Sheng remained focused .
"Swish, swish . " From being Initiated, Light Void Skill jumped to Level One, then Level Two, and finally, to Level Three .
Lu Sheng began to feel a numbing, itchy sensation around his thighs, groin, and waist areas . There was also a mild ache, which disappeared as soon as it surfaced .
The present strength of his fleshly body was just too impressive . To train this Strength Proficiency qinggong in the blink of an eye only caused his body slight stress, and didn't harm a single hair on his head .
'Oh, that's all it took to master this . ' Lu Sheng stood up . The memory of the various uses and experience in movement steps of Light Void Skill flooded into his mind .
He tried charging forward a few steps .
"Pu pu pu!"
In the blink of an eye, Lu Sheng was at the other end of the sanctuary in just three consecutive steps . Just as he was about to hit the wall, he made an abrupt left turn .
Indeed, his entire body swung to the left and shot out another few meters . Then, he retreated swiftly, zigzagging across the sanctuary and swerving in different directions in mere fractions of a second .
'I'm truly much nimbler now than before . In the past, in order to change directions, I had to decelerate first before turning . Now, I can turn as and when I want to without decreasing my speed, and do the same even for advancing and retreating . This Light Void Skill is pretty impressive . '
Lu Sheng was rather satisfied .
'Next up is the true heavyweight . ' He took up the second qinggong manual—the Cloud Bow Skill .
The Cloud Bow Skill was a qinggong especially suited for speeding in a straight line, as well as amplifying explosive power . Likewise, it did not involve inner Qi, and was merely an outer force skill .
Lu Sheng only had to practice it once and memorize its mantra and movement skills before it appeared on the Modifier's selection .
Subsequently, he took up the third book, 'Pegasus Steps', 'One Breath Lightweight Skill', 'Three-in-One Arrow Firing Skill', 'Chaos Wind Art' . . . etc . As time passed, he committed to memory each and every one of these qinggong, then added them into the Modifier frame .
After he had memorized all of the qinggong techniques, he refocused his attention to Light Void Skill . Concentrating on the 'Extrapolate' button behind the qinggong technique, he exhaled lightly and calmed his gaze .
'Extrapolate Light Void Skill to Level Four . ' His voice had just commanded as he pressed onto the Extrapolate button before his body immediately felt a mild tremor .
The numbing sensation resurfaced in his legs . An extremely light and nimble sensation spread outwards from his legs .
He didn't move a single inch . The fourth level of Light Void Skill played in his mind—it was a movement technique that encompassed the Cloud Bow Art, with even greater explosive speed than the Level Three . The skill within the frame also changed .
'Light Void Skill: Level Four . Special Effect(s): Level One Explosive Power; Level Three Nimbleness . '
'Again! Extrapolate Light Void Skill to Level Five!' Lu Sheng looked at the Modifier before him and continued to press onto the button .
The Modifier frame trembled slightly and blurred before once again coming back into focus .
'Light Void Skill: Level Five . Special Effect(s): Level Two Explosive Power; Level Three Nimbleness . '
Lu Sheng's gaze was steadfast as he continued to press for the next level .
'Extrapolate Light Void Skill to Level Six . '
The frame blurred and then grew clear again .
'Light Void Skill: Level Six . Special Effect(s): Level Three Explosive Power; Level Three Nimbleness; Level One Tremor . '
Seeing that a new special effect had surfaced, Lu Sheng focused his senses on it . To his surprise, he found that this tremor effect was basically the result of absorbing the Anti-Tremor technique that he cultivated from the hard body skill, Extreme Yang Dao .
'Light Void Skill: Level Seven . Special Effect(s): Level Four Explosive Power; Level Four Nimbleness; Level Two Tremor . '
He continued to upgrade one level after another .
The amount of Yin Qi that was expended also began to climb . When he reached Level Nine, each upgrade eventually cost him two full units of Yin Qi .
***
'Upgrade Light Void Skill to Level Ten!' Lu Sheng looked at the frame calmly, with a hint of anticipation in his eyes .
Both his legs were already swollen . Muscles as hard as steel gradually lumped together . Massive volumes of Yin Yang Jade Crane Aquarius Qi gushed to his legs, accelerating the healing of his muscles and bones .
The Modifier screen blurred again . This time, it took a whole three breaths' time before it came into clarity again . By the time it did so, Light Void Skill looked completely different .
'Light Void Skill: Level Ten . Special Effect(s): Level One Force Step, Level Seven Nimbleness . '
'Force Step . . . to think that it popped out!' Lu Sheng was shaken . This special effect was a powerful special skill in a mobile app wuxia game he used to play in his previous life . It could rip apart the earth and form ripple-like shock waves . It was an area-of-effect attack that inflicted immense heavy damage .
The shock wave produced by Force Step was somewhat akin to the how Officiator Bai Jiang had caused the earth to rise in a wave .
'So . . . it seems like beyond a certain level, the might of pure outer force skills is starting to resemble the secret arts of demons, eh?' Lu Sheng's eyes narrowed .
Suddenly, he pulled up his trousers, revealing black patches on the skin of his legs . They were muscles between his legs—black muscles which looked like armor plates . Between them were red blood vessels, spread across his thighs and calves like a web . Once could even hear the intense gushing of potent blood in them .
Presently, his legs no longer looked human . The mutation caused by the evolution of his muscles, ligaments and blood vessels had attained a state unrecognizable by human standards .
'I've expended over ten units of Yin Qi . I can continue . ' Lu Sheng looked at Light Void Skill's box . Presently, Light Void Skill had incorporated elements of hard body skills, outer force skills, other qinggong skills, and even some parts of inner force skills into itself . Subtly, it felt as if inner Qi was being injected to him from the outside; it was no longer an ordinary qinggong technique .
"Extrapolate Light Void Skill to Level Eleven," Lu Sheng said calmly .
"Szzzz . . . . "
The box blurred before coming into clarity again .
'Light Void Skill: Level Eleven . Special Effect(s): Level Two Force Step, Level Eight Nimbleness . ' This time, two units of Yin Qi were expended .
At Level Twenty, another radical mutation had occurred in Light Void Skill . It was no longer apt to call it Light Void Skill, which was a name that failed to include all its effects .
'Light Void Skill: Level Twenty . Special Effect(s): Level One Unknown . ' All its special effects had vanished, leaving behind this line of red words sitting silently in the Modifier .
Finally, Lu Sheng halted the extrapolation .
He glanced at his legs . Not many changes had occurred to his muscles and bones compared to before . The only difference was that something was growing rapidly on his knees and the middle of his feet .
Lu Sheng sensed the rapidly depleting Yin Yang Jade Crane Aquarius Qi within him . Massive volumes of it were being channeled to ameliorate the side-effects of the body's drastic transformation .
As time ticked by, the changes in his legs became even more obvious and Lu Sheng finally saw what was happened to his legs .
Now, even without wearing trousers, his legs were as if covered in a layer of black metal armor, hard and bright . The biggest transformation, however, occurred to his originally normal feet .
Razor sharp nails extended out of his toes; they now could move as nimbly as his hands . His feet became slender and long, and a crystalline structure grew out of the middle of his feet, as if a piece of crystal had been embossed into armor .
A circle of sharp-bladed spikes grew out of his calves like armor plates . Looking savage and pitch-black, they covered his entire legs . Gazing at them from top-down, one could see countless holes in the gaps between these armor plates .
"Swish . "
Lu Sheng rose to his feet . The lower half of his body looked as if it was cloaked in a set of dense, savage black armor .
"This special effect . . . " He glanced again at that unknown effect in the row of Light Void Skill . His instincts told him that he must not activate this skill right here .
"For it to be even more powerful that the area-of-effect Force Step, the might of this special effect must be the ultimate combination of qinggong and damage . I've got to find an empty space to try it out . "
His supply of Yin Qi had almost been completely expended; he was left with only a few units . Lu Sheng was unbothered, though . He had experienced the effect of Light Void Skill—its lightness, nimbleness, as well as its incredulous explosive power .
"About there . . . " He tugged at his trousers and covered his legs with his robes . Yin Extreme Mode activated swiftly and the black armor plates which had grown out of his legs quickly adhered to his skin, from which a layer of skin-colored membrane grew and covered both his legs .
Very quickly, Yin Extreme Mode's powerful cloaking effect was amply demonstrated .
Lu Sheng's armor-covered legs swiftly recovered their human form . The only undisguisable features were the sharp toenails on his feet as well as the nimbleness of his feet .
He stood up, walked to the door of the sanctuary and lifted the bar . In a fit of rumbles, the stone door slowly shifted away .
"I'm making a trip out," Lu Sheng instructed .
"Yes, sir! Your subordinate will prepare the carriage!" a guard swiftly replied .
"No need . I just want to go on a stroll by myself . No need to follow me," Lu Sheng said plainly .
***
Northern Lands, Sprit Swallow Peak .
In the flurry of snow, the entire mountain wilderness was cloaked in silver . It was a scenery of bright white .
Lu Sheng walked slowly in the frozen snow . The footprints he had left behind were immediately covered up by the heavy snow .
"AHH!"
A white shadow streaked across the sky and made a loud call .
Lu Sheng lifted his head and gazed at the white bird flying past with narrow eyes . He was about to remove his disguise and test the power of Light Void Skill .
Without warning, a looming shadow closed in on him at top speed, covering him within in the blink of an eye .
The size of a small mountain, the wolf's body blended perfectly into the snow, each indistinguishable from the other . Still, however, Lu Sheng's powerful eyesight made out his form .
The white wolf's speed was extremely fast . In just the blink of an eye, it leapt over and across Lu Sheng into the distance like a swathe of white cloud .
It had merely been passing by . Several dozen meters long, it looked like a prehistoric beast as it pounced into the distance, carrying immense pressure .
In the blink of an eye, the wolf had completely vanished into the snow .
Lu Sheng watched the wolf leave and fell into a moment of silent thought .
Suddenly, he lifted his leg .
"KA BOOM!!!"
Rings of cracks ripped across the ground, sending heaps of snow exploding and rising into the air .
With Lu Sheng at its epicenter, spider web-like cracks appeared swiftly in a radius of a dozen meters or so . Immense anti-tremor force propelled him into the air, sending him in hot pursuit of the giant white wolf .
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