He Ao (Lynn) Permission level: Advanced Player Physical attributes: 8221 (397) Skills: Talent Sequence 272: Hyperthymesia (B-rank), Basic Firearms Mastery (Soul Fragment), Talent Sequence 144: Miracle Scholar (B-rank) (Unavailable) Mechanical modifications: None Martial arts: Refining Qi into Spirit (B-rank) (Partially usable) Character skill: Talent Sequence 96: Judge (C-rank)
As martial arts advanced further, it no longer seemed to increase in the same "steady" incremental way as before. Instead, there would be a certain degree of "physical attribute leap."
Before the martial arts advancement, his physical attributes had only been a little over six thousand. After advancing, they had surged past eight thousand in one go, an increase of nearly two thousand—almost equal to the increase an ordinary non-combat B-rank transcendent would receive upon advancing.
However, this "physical attribute leap" in martial arts did not work like Talent Sequences, where secret medicine brought power and fused it with the body. Rather, after advancement, the entire body entered an abnormally "starved" state, rapidly and continuously absorbing "energy" from the surrounding environment and converting it into its own strength.
In fact, because energy in the main world was depleted and scarce, even after breaking through to B-rank in martial arts, He Ao theoretically should not have been able to absorb much energy and should have remained in a state of "hunger." Fortunately, he had a "blood-nourishing jade pendant" capable of supplying energy.
After consuming a little over a tenth of the jade pendant's energy, he had "fed" his body and fully completed his martial arts advancement, gaining nearly two thousand physical attributes.
Of course, after martial arts entered B-rank, its greater "change" was not in physical attributes.
He Ao raised his hand. At his fingertips, a cluster of invisible force slowly gathered, then detached from his finger and floated in the