Golden Bell Shield Third Layer, Special Effect: Counter Shock

Second layer cultivation successful!

Lu Lin's eyes lit up. Just as he was about to tell Liu Weiran to stop and rest, she threw a punch at him.

Lu Lin had no choice but to take it head-on.

[1/100]

"Lu Lin, zoning out during a fight isn't what a proper training partner should do."

This punch landed squarely on Lu Lin's chest.

Even though Liu Weiran had pulled her strength, a dull thud still rang out.

But Lu Lin didn't even sway as he took the hit, and he felt no discomfort at all.

"Keep going!"

Seeing the new progress bar appear, Lu Lin knew he'd have to take another hundred punches before he could level up again.

"Oh? You're fine? Then watch out."

Liu Weiran didn't know Lu Lin's Golden Bell Shield had reached the second layer. Seeing him completely unfazed, she gritted her teeth in secret and put a lot more force into her strikes.

After about five minutes of continuous fighting, Liu Weiran was drenched in sweat, her hair plastered to her forehead and cheeks, her little face flushed red, giving her a unique kind of charm.

"Stop, I can't go on. I'm out of strength."

Liu Weiran threw her last punch, then collapsed onto the ring floor, completely spent.

She couldn't help grumbling inwardly. In their sparring sessions, Lu Lin had never endured such a long beating before. Had he taken some kind of pill today? After five minutes of training, she was completely exhausted, yet Lu Lin was perfectly fine.

"That's all you've got?"

Lu Lin smiled, ignoring the glare Liu Weiran shot him. He stepped off the ring, pulled out an Energy Bar, and tossed it to her. "Recover your stamina first."

With that, he stopped paying attention to Liu Weiran and opened his panel to check his stats.

[Owner: Lu Lin]

[Level: Advanced Martial Disciple]

[Technique: Golden Bell Shield (Simplified) Layer 2, Mad Ox Strength Fist (Insufficient Points) Layer 2]

[Points: 0]

Golden Bell Shield had indeed reached the second layer. Back at the first layer, Lu Lin couldn't perfectly defend against all of Liu Weiran's attacks. But now at the second layer, with Liu Weiran only at Advanced Martial Disciple level, she posed no threat to him at all.

Reaching the second layer so easily was something Lu Lin could never have imagined before.

Closing the panel, Lu Lin glanced at Liu Weiran, who was still recovering her stamina. He wondered if she had any strength left. The five minutes of continuous fighting had drained her completely, and the third layer's progress had already reached [81/100]. With a little more effort, he might reach the third layer of Golden Bell Shield today.

After the Golden Bell Shield upgrade, Lu Lin also felt a slight increase in his strength.

He didn't know exactly how much, but Liu's Martial Arts School had a dedicated strength testing machine. He could check it after work.

"Ready yet? Did you skip breakfast today? Your punches have no power at all."

After waiting about ten minutes, Lu Lin stepped onto the ring and called out to Liu Weiran.

"Skip breakfast?!"

Liu Weiran's eyes went wide. She immediately jumped up from the floor. After resting for ten minutes and eating an Energy Bar, she felt she was good to go again.

"Come on, Lu Lin, let's keep going. I refuse to believe I can't handle you today."

With that, Liu Weiran threw a punch at Lu Lin.

Mad Ox Strength Fist was an aggressive, offense-oriented boxing style. In martial arts schools, it was usually practiced by boys, while girls tended to choose the more flexible and agile Spirit Snake Fist.

Liu Weiran was lucky to have a well-off family that could afford to prepare large amounts of Monster Beast meat for her, giving her enough stamina and strength to train in this style.

In their previous sparring sessions, her and Lu Lin's roles were completely reversed. Lu Lin was always the one who couldn't stand his ground against her punches and had to call for a stop multiple times. But today, after just taking the Martial Arts Examination, Lu Lin had become this strong. Could it be that he had turned his anger from failing the exam into combat power, and now felt no pain at all?

"Thud, thud, thud."

Their figures kept shifting positions on the ring. Lu Lin was simulating a real combat scenario for her.

In a real fight, no one would stand still like a wooden dummy waiting for you to punch them.

[83/100]

[91/100]

[97/100]

[98/100]

[99/100]

The Energy Bar Liu Weiran had eaten really paid off. She quickly helped Lu Lin's Golden Bell Shield progress soar.

[100/100]

[Detected that owner meets the medicinal bath conditions. Golden Bell Shield Layer 3 cultivation successful.]

[Congratulations, owner. You have obtained the Golden Bell Shield special effect: Counter Shock.]

Lu Lin hadn't expected that reaching the third layer of Golden Bell Shield would grant a Counter Shock special effect. He just didn't know how effective it would be.

"Ah—!"

At that moment, Liu Weiran, who had thrown a punch, cried out in pain and stumbled, falling directly onto the arena floor.

"What's wrong?"

Lu Lin hurried over to check, thinking Liu Weiran had twisted her ankle—martial artists were prone to injury during training and combat.

"It hurts."

Liu Weiran sat on the ground, tears nearly spilling from her eyes. She raised her left hand to look at it. After thousands of temperings and countless medicinal baths, her left palm had turned a bruised purple—the result of capillaries bursting under a heavy impact.

"How did this happen?" Lu Lin asked, full of curiosity.

He knew Liu Weiran's strength. Although she hadn't seriously trained in Golden Bell Shield, her body had been tempered by long-term medicinal baths. Even striking a steel plate shouldn't have caused such a result.

"Don't move—it hurts—" The moment Lu Lin touched Liu Weiran's hand, she let out a sharp scream.

It had only been painful before, but now Liu Weiran felt her left hand had become incredibly fragile. Just Lu Lin's touch felt like a needle prick—an unbearable agony.

"Oh, okay, okay."

Lu Lin let go of Liu Weiran's hand, at a loss.

"Okay what? Take me to the doctor, now."

"Alright, alright."

Lu Lin agreed repeatedly. Fortunately, Liu's Martial Arts School had a resident doctor on hand. Seeing Liu Weiran's hand so badly injured, the doctor assumed it had been crushed by training equipment.

After emergency treatment, Liu Weiran shot Lu Lin a vicious glare before leaving the school.

Her hand would need further care, but with modern medical technology, she would recover fully in no time.

After she left, the doctor and the school's Vice Hall Master, Li Jiangtao, found Lu Lin together, wanting to understand exactly how Lu Lin had injured Liu Weiran.

When Li Jiangtao, already a Low-level Martial Master, threw a punch at Lu Lin and felt the Counter Shock force, a look of surprise crossed his face.

Counter Shock?

Training in Golden Bell Shield did indeed have such a special effect.

Though Golden Bell Shield was only a basic martial art, few people could cultivate it to such a high level at this age.

Most importantly, this Counter Shock force even had a slight effect on him, a low-level Martial General. If it were at the Martial Artist grade, it would be almost overpowering.

Anyone who punched Lu Lin would be injured by the Counter Shock force. Lu Lin could be called a porcupine among martial artists.

Martial cultivation, from low to high, consisted of five grades: Martial Trainee, Martial Artist, Martial Master, Martial King, and Martial God. Each grade was further divided into three stages: Low-level, Mid-level, and High-level.

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