Inside the cultivation room,
merely fifteen minutes later, the cross-legged youth suddenly frowned and slowly opened his eyes.
Secret Art: Blood Ignition Sacred Art L1 (Second Layer)
Point proficiency?
Li Qingshan stared at the panel, his pupils contracting slightly.
The Blood Ignition Sacred Art cultivated extremely quickly and did not affect martial skill cultivation, making it by far the fastest-leveling skill he possessed.
Even if he spent points on proficiency, it wouldn't take long.
Yet... it was too painful!
Those past fifteen minutes inside the Martial Dao Space had been hours!
Within those hours, aside from necessary rests, he had self-detonated a full two thousand times!
Merely... forget it, I had better cultivate the Qi Guiding Art first. My daily limit-breaking cultivation cannot stop either!
Li Qingshan's expression turned solemn as he got up, fetched some Golden Source Fluid, and began his Qi Guiding Art cultivation.
The sun slanted westward. Empty bottle after empty bottle landed on the ground while the youth sat motionless.
Late at night, after ten hours of cultivation and twenty sessions of the Qi Guiding Art,
Li Qingshan sighed helplessly, closed his eyes once more, and entered the Martial Dao Space.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Early the next morning,
Li Qingshan opened his eyes with a blank expression.
Secret Art: Blood Ignition Sacred Art L1 (Third Layer)
A moment later,
his gaze finally withdrew from the panel, recovering a trace of vitality.
Li Qingshan turned, walked out of the cultivation room, and stood before the virtual pod.
"The silver promotion match involves a tier-three low-level alien beast, so the gold promotion match should be a tier-three middle-level one."
"Eight times combat power, one minute of survival time—that's enough."
He pressed the activation button, and the pod lid slid open.
Li Qingshan took a deep breath and lay inside.
Light and shadow shifted. Smooth walls surrounded him on all sides as screens lit up before his eyes.
User: Li Qingshan Rank: Silver (1/1000) Ranking Points: 138
Without hesitation, Li Qingshan tapped the matchmaking button, and his body instantly appeared on the combat platform.
Opposite him, an older-looking youth appeared, carrying a heavy saber.
Matchmaking successful Opponent: Xiao Ming Rank: Silver (3/1000) Profile: Age 24, sixth-year student at Azure Sky Academy
The corners of Xiao Ming's mouth split into a grin as he offered a greeting.
"Junior brother, what a coincidence!"
"It certainly is."
Li Qingshan nodded, his right hand gripping the saber hilt.
"Senior brother, time is limited, let's begin straight away!"
"Junior brother, I have a somewhat presumptuous request," Xiao Ming said with a bright, embarrassed smile.
"Junior brother, can we have a head-on clash this time?"
"No problem."
The completely unhesitating reply left Xiao Ming momentarily stunned.
The next second,
bang! Bang! Bang!
Blood holes exploded all over Li Qingshan's body, and the condensed rainbow light turned dazzlingly brilliant.
"Holy shit!"
Xiao Ming stared in utter shock, just as he wanted to circulate his secret art.
Boom!
Purple lightning struck down instantly, shattering the corpse into pieces.
Li Qingshan stepped forward, planted his foot on the bloodstains, and lowered his head to look at the wreckage scattered across the ground.
"Senior brother, it seems you aren't hard enough."
Ranking points +1. Continue matchmaking?
The light screen popped up. Li Qingshan was in no rush, simply standing in place and waiting quietly.
One minute later,
inside each blood hole, the condensed rainbow light expanded out of control.
Bang!
Around the platform, inside the observation room behind the void.
"One minute! It really is the third layer of the Blood Ignition Sacred Art!"
Xiao Ming's eyes widened in disbelief.
When Li Qingshan had gone all-out just now, his speed and strength had already exceeded the limits of Xiao Ming's reaction, making it impossible to judge.
Now, he could finally be certain!
Xiao Ming also cultivated the third layer of the Blood Ignition Sacred Art; it was his signature trick, honed over two years of study.
It was precisely by relying on this skill that he had managed to enter the tail end of the silver tier with his Rainbow Transformation Realm cultivation.
Yet...
"Clearly, the last time, he couldn't do it at all. Could he have been concealing his clumsiness?"
Xiao Ming muttered to himself, then violently shook his head.
"That shouldn't be right. With Li Qingshan's tier-three low-level combat strength, coupled with the third layer of the Blood Ignition Sacred Art, he could completely charge into the gold tier. There's no reason for him to conceal his clumsiness."
While he spoke, Li Qingshan's next opponent had already appeared on the combat platform.
The same power burst, the same instant kill!
Xiao Ming's expression grew even more perplexed.
"It's only been four days. It makes no sense for him to have concealed it back then and stopped concealing it now..."
"Could it be that he just learned the Blood Ignition Sacred Art within these past four days?"
The thought had barely flashed through his mind when Xiao Ming firmly shook his head.
"Impossible. Absolutely impossible!"
Right at that moment,
"Oh? Senior Brother Xiao, why are you here too?"
A soft exclamation rang out as Zhuang Yitong quietly appeared.
Not only her, but Tian Wenyu and most of the people previously defeated by Li Qingshan also materialized one by one.
"What brings you all here?" Xiao Ming turned around in confusion.
Someone blunt and quick-tempered spoke directly:
"We're here to watch Li Qingshan fight the suicide truck!"
Zhuang Yitong glared at the speaker and said awkwardly,
"Um, senior brother, he wasn't talking about you."
Xiao Ming didn't mind at all. He raised a hand, pointed at the combat platform, and smiled meaningfully.
"Look, right there. See for yourselves!"
On the platform, the opponent was already dead, leaving only Li Qingshan standing in place.
Just as everyone was feeling puzzled,
bang!
The saber-wielding youth exploded into dust.
"Holy shit! How did Li Qingshan become a suicide truck too?"
Cries of alarm rang out, leaving everyone dumbfounded.
Xiao Ming stared at the youth who had reappeared on the platform, his gaze complicated.
Regardless of whether he had been concealing his clumsiness before, Li Qingshan was definitely going to charge into the gold tier today.
More importantly, Li Qingshan was only nineteen years old!
Limit Realm Completion, five turns of limit-breaking, movement techniques, martial skills, secret arts...
Xiao Ming shook his head and let out a long sigh.
"He truly is a monster!"
On the combat platform,
Li Qingshan wasted no words in any of his matches, directly unleashing his power.
Every single opponent was instantly killed!
Ranking points +5. Continue matchmaking? Ranking points +8. Continue matchmaking? Ranking points +15. Continue matchmaking?
As the win streak accumulated, the ranking points increased more and more.
Half an hour later,
Li Qingshan returned from yet another self-detonation and looked at the light screen before him.
User: Li Qingshan Rank: Silver (1000/1000) Ranking points detected as full. Participate in the promotion challenge?
He tapped the confirmation button with his finger, and his figure vanished from the combat platform.
Inside the observation room, everyone snapped back to their senses, lingering fear gripping their hearts.
"Too ruthless. To self-detonate dozens of times in a row—does he not feel pain?"
In the Federation Virtual Space, there was never any such thing as reducing pain perception.
Even though the physical body wouldn't be affected, that sensation of self-detonation was entirely real!
"Tsk tsk tsk, this junior brother really is a ruthless person!"
"Duh. If he weren't ruthless, could he have reached this stage at nineteen?"
"Let's disperse. After his last promotion, Li Qingshan didn't linger long; he's probably already logged off by now."
On the combat platform, the figure failed to appear for a long time, and the observing crowd also logged off and left one after another.
Above the Midday Sun Giant Star, the sunlight remained scorching, seemingly unchanging for all eternity.
The youth walked with hurried steps, knocked on a door, and entered an office.
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