"Better to die standing than live on your knees.
"Sons of the Quan Family should be just so."
Quan Yi's voice of praise echoed through the room.
In that final desperate struggle, Quan Ming had not simply used his body to resist; his mind had remained exceptionally clear.
Only by completely neutralizing the kinetic force and knocking the Metal Ball down would his resistance count as successful.
So his will was hard as iron, yet his posture was extraordinarily soft.
He treated his own body like highly elastic rubber. The instant he made contact, his feet lifted slightly off the ground, converting the vast majority of the impact into propulsive force that sent him flying backward.
The Metal Ball was not sent flying by this. Instead, it pressed tightly against his supple body and sank into it, carrying Quan Ming along as they flew backward together.
Throughout this process, he executed fine control of force to near perfection.
However, the force of the impact had clearly exceeded the limits of what his body could bear. By the time the Metal Ball's momentum had been completely erased, before the two of them fell to the ground together, he had already lost consciousness.
Even so, the recorded number changed from ten to eleven at that moment, and Quan Yi's voice also entered the room then.
Of course, the unconscious Quan Ming naturally could not hear it.
However, Quan Yi's voice had not yet stopped.
"Tester Quan Ming has now completed the Hidden Challenge: Limit Break. The Soul Ring Condensation Tower will soon issue the corresponding reward.
"Challenge category: skill.
"Corresponding reward: reduce the Soul Power consumption of the First Soul Skill by fifty percent."
An emerald-green radiance of life shone out from within the walls, falling upon Quan Ming, who lay unconscious