[Abyssal Divine Speed] and [Divine Speed Optimization]

As the publicly acknowledged foremost figure of the White Crow Gang's new generation.

It was only natural that the Young Gang Leader, Yang Zutao, won the Gang Competition with such ease and smoothness.

After all, the participants in the Gang Competition were mainly young people, with the age limit set below twenty-five.

Among people in this age range.

Yang Zutao's raw strength was universally acknowledged as the best.

So when he effortlessly took first place, neither the ordinary spectators around the martial arena nor the Hall Masters and elders seated higher up... found anything surprising about it.

Vaguely.

From his seat, Ling Wuyuan could see that after Yang Zutao's victory, many of the gang's higher-ups were fawningly flattering the Gang Leader seated at the very top.

Faced with the higher-ups' praise, the White Crow Gang's Gang Leader—a somewhat rugged-looking middle-aged man—looked immensely pleased and proud. Though he seemed to be trying to suppress the smile on his face... the corners of his mouth were harder to keep down than an AK-47.

To be honest.

He might usually have seemed quite stern.

But at this moment, he was ultimately just a father deeply proud of his son.

Watching it all.

After slightly shaking his head, Ling Wuyuan continued pondering the matter of the Black Observatory.

How should he put it...

Though these things were wonderful, they did not belong to him in the end.

That so-called glory, that so-called splendor—one day in the future, he would seize them openly and honorably with his own hands...

As for the strength and excellence Yang Zutao had displayed.

Ling Wuyuan had never taken them to heart from the very beginning.

At this moment, even without using his innate ability.

He could easily deal with him.

He had successfully reached the so-called [Bone Forging Realm] as early as a year ago.

Now, he was already extremely close to the [Blood Strengthening Realm].

All that could be said was that cultivating two techniques at once had caused him some trouble, but it had also made his cultivation progress soar like a rocket.

As he was now.

The strength in one arm alone exceeded seventy thousand jin—more than thirty tons with a single hand.

If he had been thrown into the world of his previous life, then so long as he wished it, he could rely on the brute force of both hands to forcibly lift the vast majority of so-called main battle tanks.

If he used Qi and Blood to temporarily enhance his Physical Fitness.

He could even fling a main battle tank one-handed as though throwing a shot put!

Over this past year or so.

Through unceasing cultivation.

Ling Wuyuan had gradually discovered certain abnormalities in his body's innate qualities.

For example: at the same realm, his Physical Fitness growth Upper Limit far exceeded that of ordinary cultivators.

Under normal circumstances.

For an ordinary cultivator in the [Body Tempering Realm], having five or six thousand jin of strength in one arm was already extremely impressive.

After that.

They had to seriously consider advancing.

Otherwise.

The growth of their Physical Fitness would directly fall into a stagnant period.

After all, their Physical Fitness growth Upper Limit was only that high at this realm.

However.

When Ling Wuyuan was in the [Body Tempering Realm], even after his one-arm strength reached ten thousand jin, he had never felt that he had reached his growth Upper Limit. His Physical Fitness was still steadily increasing.

The reason he had entered the [Bone Forging Realm].

Was simply because he felt that his Bones needed some training.

If the Muscles were too strong while the Bones were not hard enough, problems could easily arise.

It was like a shelf laden with too much cargo—it could easily collapse.

By the same reasoning.

The reason he planned to advance to the [Blood Strengthening Realm] after some time was merely because he felt that he could.

In any case, the main purpose of the [Four Body Tempering Realms] was to temper Physical Fitness.

And advancing did not mean that the rate at which his Physical Fitness grew would slow, nor that its Upper Limit would be lowered.

Naturally, there was no need for him to stubbornly delay his advancement.

Furthermore, through his [Internal Vision ability], he could very clearly judge the differences in cultivation between the various realms.

For example: if, during cultivation in the [Body Tempering Realm], eighty percent of the effect worked on Muscles and skin, while twenty percent worked on other areas such as Bones, blood, and internal organs, then during cultivation in the [Bone Forging Realm], roughly sixty percent of the effect worked on Bones, thirty percent on Muscles and skin, and the remaining ten percent on blood and internal organs.

Ling Wuyuan felt that the primary cultivation differences between the [Body Tempering Realm], [Bone Forging Realm], [Blood Strengthening Realm], and [Organ Fortification Realm] lay in their differing overall directions of cultivation.

This was a step-by-step process.

Once cultivators reached the corresponding level of strength, they could smoothly and safely begin cultivating the next stage.

The aim was to strengthen one's body from the outside inward, gradually and in sequence.

Thus allowing cultivators to evolve perfectly to another level.

Ling Wuyuan even felt that when their strength was insufficient, cultivators could still cultivate the techniques of the next stage—for example, directly cultivating a [Bone Forging Realm cultivation technique] upon just entering the [Body Tempering Realm].

They could cultivate that way, but it would very likely damage their foundation, deform their bodies, or drastically shorten their lifespan...

Besides having a Physical Fitness growth Upper Limit far beyond that of ordinary cultivators, after repeated verification, Ling Wuyuan had also discovered that his body possessed many abnormalities.

For example, movement speed, attack speed, reaction speed...

It was as though his body were deliberately developing in those directions.

Even when his arm strength was nearly equal to, or even slightly inferior to, others', his movement speed, attack speed, reaction speed... were often far superior to those of other cultivators.

Regarding this phenomenon.

He felt that the problem likely lay with his innate ability.

That innate ability Ling Wuyuan had named [Abyssal Divine Speed] was continuously and deliberately transforming his body, allowing him to better adapt to and use his innate ability in every respect...

Moreover, this process actually left traces to follow. Through the observational effects brought by [Inner Vision], while cultivating, Ling Wuyuan could observe that some Qi and Blood would naturally be automatically absorbed by certain Muscles, Bones, organs... within his body during cultivation, automatically carrying out a kind of instinctive self-strengthening and self-modification.

All of this directly caused the gap between his strength and that of others to grow ever wider.

If it were described using gaming terminology, then perhaps this situation could be called a [difference in stat bonuses].

For example: for every hundred jin increase in basic arm strength, others might receive a one-percent speed bonus, increasing their movement speed by an additional meter per second. But for Ling Wuyuan, the movement speed bonus was at least two or three percent. Every increase of a hundred jin in arm strength would increase his movement speed by an additional two or three meters per second...

Though the actual situation was certainly not so quantified or fixed, that was the general idea.

As for this condition of his.

Ling Wuyuan chose to regard it as a kind of passive ability and named it—[Divine Speed Optimization].