"Truth and falsehood, falsehood and truth." Zhang Rongfang put these aside. "Forget it, let's test my current physical condition again and see how long I can withstand the Critical State."
With just one Attribute Points added, his maximum lifespan increased from 42 to 45 after breaking through to the Golden Core. "The Guanxu Skill truly is the most cost-effective way to increase lifespan. If you simply use Attribute Points to increase lifespan, you can only add one point at a time, which would result in a significant loss of lifespan."
I calmed down.
Zhang Rongfang raised his hand, his fingertips facing each other in front of him, forming a triangular gap.
Then take a deep breath.
Close your eyes.
In an instant, he suddenly opened his eyes.
"Critical State!"
As the sound waves vibrated throughout his body, rapid and wondrous changes occurred within Zhang Rongfang's body.
A large amount of qi and blood is compressed and divided into two parts.
A portion is concentrated in the upper body, used for the explosive power of the Heavy Mountain Breaking Limit Skill in the torso.
Part of the muscle power is concentrated in the legs for the Shrink Step.
Bang!
The ground was stomped into a crater.
Zhang Rongfang's muscles swelled, and he moved with incredible speed, almost like a phantom, rushing several meters before striking the wooden stake with a palm.
With a snap, the wooden stake broke off, flew out, and embedded itself in the wall behind it.
This wooden stake, which had undergone numerous tests, finally met its end and was completely finished.
However, Zhang Rongfang was in Critical State, did not change at all; his body still swelled up a little.
His height also increased from just 1.9 meters to about 1.95 meters.
His skin was flushed with blood as he stood still, continuously casting out the Flame Emperor Talisman.
As the blood and qi circulated rapidly, Zhang Rongfang's skin began to slowly become covered with blood vessels.
His face was contorted with bulging veins, making him look extremely ferocious.
Body temperature was also rising rapidly over time, quickly soaring to over 40 degrees Celsius.
This body temperature, which would be considered a fever for an average person, appeared perfectly normal on him.
In fact, even for ordinary athletes, their body temperature can reach 40 degrees Celsius during strenuous exercise.
Just then, Zhang Rongfang felt that the Golden Core in his dantian was also like a heart, sharing some of the stimulation of qi and blood.
In the human body, the heart is the driving force of all qi and blood, just like the engine of a car.
A strong heart leads to strong blood and qi circulation.
Therefore, a person's explosive power and endurance depend on their heart.
But few people realize that the heart is actually made up of muscle.
The term "myocardium" refers to this.
All martial arts techniques primarily aim to increase the workload on the heart muscle.
This is achieved by squeezing the heart muscle to unleash stronger blood and energy, thus supporting the body's kinetic energy.
But Civilian Skill is different.
The Civilian Skill emphasizes stillness as the primary method and movement as a secondary method, with the primary goal of nourishing and repairing the myocardium.
"Therefore, muscles are the most important component of the human body. In fact, exercising muscles involves not only exercising the external limbs, but also the internal visceral muscles."
Zhang Rongfang.
He vaguely sensed that this so-called Golden Core seemed to be a real thing.
It is an extra second heart that has grown.
Just as in modern science, some people refer to the human calf as the body's second blood pump.
Due to the planet's gravity, a large amount of Human Blood will fall and accumulate in the lower body.
The calf is a key area where blood tends to accumulate.
You can tell if a person's blood and qi are sluggish by pinching their calves.
People with good blood circulation have soft, warm, and elastic calves. In contrast, those with Walker blood circulation often have stiff, tight calves that are even painful to the touch.
Zhang Rongfang felt that this Golden Core was taking on an additional portion of the heart's function, continuously promoting the flow of qi and blood in his body and accelerating circulation.
After a short while, he slowly stopped moving and stood still.
Time passed second by second, and in the blink of an eye, twenty seconds had passed.
But Zhang Rongfang still did not feel any sharp pain in his heart.
Clearly, the breakthrough to the Golden Core significantly enhanced his body's resilience.
He continued to wait and see where his limits lay.
Twenty seconds passed in the blink of an eye, and he was still fine.
But Zhang Rongfang vaguely felt a heavy burden beginning to weigh on his chest.
Another fifteen seconds passed. He vaguely felt his breathing quicken and the heavy feeling in his chest intensify.
Hiss. Finally, a few seconds later, he completely released his qi and blood circulation.
To break free from the Critical State.
I glanced at the clock hanging on the wall.
"It absolutely cannot exceed one minute. From twenty seconds to one minute, this speed of progress is truly impressive!"
Zhang Rongfang sighed inwardly.
The effects of the Nine Revolutions Golden Pill are indeed extraordinary.
He stood there, slowly inhaling and exhaling, waiting for his body to recover.
About ten minutes later, I felt my body lighten again.
He then moved on to the next item.
"Let's try stacking again."
With his blood and qi surging again, Zhang Rongfang instantly entered a state of Heavy Mountain.
Then, a second later, he forced his heart to work again, and the second explosion occurred.
This is the Double Heavy Mountain.
"It can still hold up!" Zhang Rongfang was overjoyed.
Without hesitation, Heavy Mountain used it for the third time.
Puff!!
In an instant, he felt his body lighten, and all the blood and qi in his body flowed wildly. The three superimposed Heavy Mountain had compressed all the muscles in his body into an extremely tense state.
They're just waiting for the moment when everything explodes.
Zhang Rongfang looked at the wooden stake, then aimed at the intact wooden stake on the other side.
"Go!"
Whoosh! He suddenly struck out, his palm slicing horizontally like a blade.
Puff puff puff!
Three crisp sounds in succession.
The three wooden stakes were completely cut with knife-like marks.
After delivering that blow, Zhang Rongfang finally relaxed.
Whoosh! He exhaled a breath of scalding hot air. When you burst out with force, you need to hold your breath, otherwise you will lose your strength.
"Three times also becomes the Critical State, Triple Heavy Mountain. Each can correspond to different situations."
The primary effect of the Critical State is a dramatic increase in movement speed; strength is secondary, with only a slight increase. It's very useful for both chasing and escaping.
My movements are already fast, and if I use the Critical State, they will be even faster.
The Triple Heavy Mountain can be used for siege warfare, especially against high-defense characters whose movement is inferior to mine.
"Moreover, under the Triple Heavy Mountain state, the power of throwing out the Wish Wheel to attack would be terrifying." Zhang Rongfang thought to himself.
He rested for a while, then went into the inner room and picked up a stone mill for exercise.
This is a stone mill he specially commissioned to be made. It weighs about 250 pounds and he can pick it up with one hand and toss it up and down to play with it.
Chirp chirp.
Suddenly, a clear bird song came from outside the window.
The Xiao Hong Bird fluttered its wings, landed in front of Zhang Rongfang's window, flapped its wings a few times, hopped a few steps toward him, and made a clear chirping sound.
"Understood." Zhang Rongfang put down the stone mill, tapped the bird's head, removed the bamboo tube, and fed it some grains and water.
The Xiao Hong Bird ate half of the food, then chirped twice in satisfaction before flapping its wings and flying away.
Zhang Rongfang took out the Paper Scroll from the bamboo tube and examined it carefully.
This contains the information he wants to Qing Su.
It contains information on the improvement of various aspects of physical fitness of all martial artists of all available ranks before and after practicing martial arts.
The Paper Scroll was covered with rows of tiny, sesame-seed-like characters. Zhang Rongfang took out a magnifying glass and carefully read each line.
He is researching how much Breaking Limits of grade can comprehensively improve a person's character.
This significantly helped with the special abilities listed in his mental Attribute Panel.
Now, the Attribute Panel in his mind can only display rudimentary attribute information about others.
Furthermore, much of the information is inaccurate and insufficiently detailed.
Therefore, in order to improve accuracy, Zhang Rongfang decided to try it himself, collecting data and refining this aspect.
*** Wushan Prefecture.
Flowering Branch River Channel.
The Wujiang River flows ceaselessly, and here it branches off into another channel, leading in other directions.
In this way, the Flowering Branch River will continue to branch out and become more segmented, gradually turning into small rivers and streams that cover the surrounding land.
The sun was just rising.
On the Flower Branch Riverbank, a simple arena, made of four large blue stones and four deep stone paths, is clearly bathed in the pale golden sunlight.
Normally, no one would care about a fighting arena like this.
It was crude and simple, lacking even the basic blocking functions of a ring.
But at this moment, the arena was surrounded by people.
People from Wushan Prefecture, eager to watch the spectacle, gathered in the open space, one after another, peering in this direction.
Among these people were some wealthy young men who were bored and came to watch the battle, accompanied by bodyguards.
Some were ordinary martial artists who were curious about Sweeping Mountain Tiger really was.
Poor martial artists mostly practice harmful External Skill and low-grade martial arts.
They are clearly different from those martial artists who have money to nourish their bodies and blood.
The former are mostly short and not strong enough.
The latter are mostly tall and imposing, with a strong presence and bright, piercing eyes.
At this moment, everyone's attention was focused on the arena.
The people from Wushan Prefecture who came were from the Shangguan Family, the Prefect, Shangguan Qingrong, Ninth Grade Master.
And his son, Shangguan Hao.
The two men were tall, with particularly strong arms, and wore identical close-fitting brown leather vests with silver studs.
Both of them stared at the person standing on the arena with grim expressions.
That person was Sweeping Mountain Tiger Ding Yu.
As high-ranking officials, they certainly wouldn't be foolish enough to actually go and fight to the death.
For the first few days, they used various methods: skilled fighters surrounded and killed them, Crossbow shot them, and muskets fired in unison.
But Ding Yu was extremely cunning.
Upon noticing anything unusual, he would turn around and leap into the Flowering Branch River.
This person is an extremely strong swimmer; once he dives underwater, he disappears from sight.
So several times, it failed to cause any damage.
Instead, they used hidden weapons to retaliate, killing and injuring many people.
"Do you have any other tricks up your sleeve?" Sweeping Mountain Tiger stood on the arena, his face growing increasingly wooden.
"Or is it that only trash like you dares to come from the entire Wushan Prefecture?"
This was completely different from what he had initially thought.
The people from Wushan Prefecture refused to fight him one-on-one.
They immediately launched a coordinated attack, surrounding and killing the target.
In other words, he was prepared in advance; muskets and the like require considerable preparation before firing. Also, there were no obstructions around, making the area easily visible.
Otherwise, "Never mind." After waiting for a long time, no one went up on stage.
Sweeping Mountain Tiger was ultimately disappointed. "Well then, you two can come up together. Since you're both so trash, two of you together might slow your death down a bit."
"Is this really true?!" Shangguan Qingrong asked in a deep voice.
He has the final say here.
As the Prefect, he also had the authority to mobilize the troops of the Thousand Households Office.
It's just that Sweeping Mountain Tiger chose this location too well.
Given his swimming ability, there was no way to stop him from escaping.
That's why the situation has been forced to this point.