The Extreme Martial God
Chapter 31

Regeneration from Severed Limbs and Shattered Skulls, Instant Healing from Collapsed Flesh

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Regeneration from Severed Limbs and Shattered Skulls, Instant Healing from Collapsed Flesh

Su Tu had not expected that after this battle, not only would his Combat Proficiency improve greatly, but he would also obtain a type of skill he had never seen before.

Divine Skill!!

It reminded him of what Ka Sha Shi had said while begging for mercy.

"I am the Xie Race's last bloodline. If you kill me, you will bear immense karma, and my race's god will set its eyes upon you!"

He had originally thought the other was merely babbling nonsense before death, but the System Panel's prompt showed that Ka Sha Shi was divinely favored by the Xie Race. A divinely favored one was a believer blessed by a god. In other words, Ka Sha Shi had not been lying—the Xie Race truly had a god!!

He raised his head and looked at the stars beyond the window, a strange excitement stirring in his heart. Beyond that vast, boundless river of stars lay not only technology beyond his understanding, but also Martial Dao that shattered convention. Even the gods of legend might be watching everything from beyond the stars.

All those mysteries set Su Tu's heart racing. He could not wait to see the real world with his own eyes.

However, he knew that what he needed to do now was take every step beneath his feet carefully. Everything he had encountered recently showed that the Ancestral Star had changed. It was not only the Martial Examination that would soon be announced; according to Ka Sha Shi, more races would soon appear on the Ancestral Star.

Those races might be friendly, or they might be even more treacherous than Ka Sha Shi. But Su Tu could not gamble on their attitudes. Truth existed only within the range of artillery fire, and dignity existed only upon the fists of martial artists!

"I have to raise my strength as soon as possible."

When facing Ka Sha Shi today, if the other's physical body had not been underdeveloped and riddled with weaknesses, Su Tu might truly have died there. He did not like that feeling of helplessness.

Moreover, if gods truly existed in this world, then Ka Sha Shi's words had not been a simple threat. They were reality!!

A god might truly set its eyes upon him!!

Yet he felt neither fear nor terror. Instead, his eyes carried a trace of eagerness.

A god?

What was a god worshipped by those disgusting Xie Race bastards worth? When he became strong enough one day, there would be no need for it to come looking for him. He would personally erase its divine name!!

Strength! He needed to increase his strength as quickly as possible!

With that thought, Su Tu summoned the System Panel. He wanted to see just how much this Divine Skill could improve him.

"A Divine Skill... it sounds pretty damn powerful."

With a thought, he brought up the information on the divinely favored skill.

Divine Skills were not located in the same place as ordinary skills. The system had opened an entirely new page, marked with the word "Divine."

It looked far more advanced than the original skill page.

Divine Skill: Eternal Life Flesh and Blood Eternal Life (Low Grade): Unlocked Passive Skill: Your physical body will receive the blessing of Eternal Life, gaining extremely powerful regenerative abilities. Collapsed flesh will heal in an instant, and even severed limbs and shattered skulls can regenerate! My Life Everlasting (Mid Grade): ??? Upgrade Requirements: Reach the Ming Tiao Realm and master a major achievement technique of Tier Three or above. I Am Everlasting Life (High Grade): ???? Upgrade Requirements: Reach the Zhui Ye Realm and completely master a mental visualization!

Looking at the Divine Skill before him, Su Tu raised his brows, surprise appearing in his eyes.

He had known from its name alone that this Divine Skill would be extraordinary.

But when its effects were fully displayed before him, he was still shocked.

Never mind the Mid Grade and High Grade skills that had yet to be unlocked. Just this Low Grade skill, Flesh and Blood Eternal Life...

Collapsed flesh healing in an instant; even severed limbs and shattered skulls could regenerate.

That one sentence alone had already overturned Su Tu's understanding. Wasn't this ability a little too broken? It had practically raised his survivability by an unlimited number of levels.

If ordinary skills allowed Su Tu to better open the door to Martial Dao, then this Divine Skill was simply unreasonable, forcefully shoving him into the ranks of monsters.

Regenerating flesh and blood was one thing—it would allow Su Tu to rapidly recover from injuries during battle. But severed limbs and shattered skulls regenerating too was just absurd.

That meant he had no fatal weaknesses in terms of his physical body!

Imagine it: in a life-and-death battle, his opponent finally found an opening and blasted Su Tu's head apart. But instead of victory, what greeted them was a newly reformed head on Su Tu's shoulders. What kind of scene would that be?!

And such a heaven-defying ability was merely the Low Grade effect of Eternal Life!

The remaining skills had not yet been unlocked. Although Divine Skills upgraded differently from ordinary skills, in the end, it still came down to one word: grind!!

Training improved Body Strengthening. Once Body Strengthening rose, his physical body would grow stronger. A stronger body meant faster realm advancement, and faster realm advancement would quickly unlock Divine Skills. It was a complete closed loop.

He had to admit, the system was surprisingly considerate.

But Su Tu quickly pulled himself out of his delight. He took a small knife from the cabinet beside him.

Without the slightest hesitation, he cut a small wound into his fingertip, wanting to test the effects of Flesh and Blood Eternal Life.

Yet before even a drop of blood could flow from the wound, fresh granulation tissue appeared over it. The wound healed almost instantly.

Su Tu also sensed that a trace of the qi within his body had vanished.

"As expected, it isn't that simple."

The terrifying regenerative ability of Flesh and Blood Eternal Life required qi as its cost. The qi consumed to repair minor external wounds was negligible, but regenerating a head would require an extremely terrifying amount of qi.

At the very least, he could not do that at his current realm.

But that did not mean Flesh and Blood Eternal Life was weak. If he had enough qi to sustain it, Flesh and Blood Eternal Life could grant Su Tu nearly inexhaustible vitality. The skill was not weak; Su Tu's realm was simply too low, and he had too little qi.

Once his realm rose in the future, this skill would fully reveal its terrifying power.

And besides...

"Even if I can't regenerate from a shattered skull yet, my body's recovery ability has still risen by a huge margin. Simple external injuries won't affect me at all anymore." Su Tu was quite satisfied with this skill.

He glanced at the time. It was nearly midnight, so he put all his thoughts aside and returned to bed.

No matter what happened, he could not let it interfere with his sleep.

Yet just as Su Tu was about to drift into dreamland, his subconscious kept telling him there was still something he had not done today.

What was it?

It was...

Su Tu could not remember. But in the final moment before his consciousness slipped into sleep, a blank scroll seemed to slowly emerge from the depths of his subconscious.

But by then, Su Tu had already fallen asleep.

Deep within his mind, he lay atop a pitch-black mountain. The Green Snake that wished to undergo Dragon Transformation slowly slithered forward and supported his body. The murderous White Tiger at the foot of the mountain padded to the summit on silent catlike steps and lay prone beside him. Around him, flowers made of black stone bloomed across the jagged Black Mountain.

His breathing was steady and peaceful, as though he were having a wonderful dream. Even the two Bright Moons in the sky swayed faintly. At their very center, a black line vaguely appeared, making them resemble a pair of eyes watching at this moment.

At that moment, the qi within his body seemed to sense something. It wound forward, gazing upon one mountain after another, surging like rushing torrents as it climbed several peaks in succession. Then, ten of the acupoints around Su Tu's body opened one after another, while the qi within him still did not cease, continuing to climb onward.

Beyond the outskirts of the North Sea lay a primeval forest.

The ancient trees here had endured countless years. Even the thinnest among them could not be encircled by four or five adult men joining hands.

This place was known as the Ancient Forest. The older generation had always said that monsters lurked within it, and anyone who entered would never come back out.

Later, four adventure bloggers who refused to believe it came here to explore, hoping to become wildly popular.

But the livestream was cut off, and no one knew what had happened. Of the four bloggers, only one escaped. The others all vanished, while the lucky blogger who made it out went mad, endlessly shouting, "The ghost soldiers are passing through! The ghost soldiers are passing through!!"

From then on, the Ancient Forest became even more desolate. Yet at that moment, a figure sat beneath a tree, holding a lunchbox and eating the wontons inside.

Across from him sat a man with a deathly pale face. Waves of sinister yin energy radiated from his body, and he did not seem like a living person. The man spoke.

"The North Sea is an ancient battlefield where Heaven and Earth once fought. Chi You and the Yellow Emperor battled here; Shang Zhou waged endless campaigns here. The Investiture of the Gods Tribulation, the trials of the heavens—every battlefield of gods and demons, great or small, in Eastern legends is inseparable from this place."

"People once believed these were merely stories written by their ancestors. But who could have imagined that millions of years later, after humanity stepped beyond the stars, they would discover in the boundless river of stars..."

"Every myth and legend may be real!!!"

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