Parkour Event Second Round (Please Follow!)

After entering the training room for the second time, Jiang Liu didn't hesitate at all. He immediately crouched down, covering his head, while the spiritual energy in his body surged wildly, causing a faint layer of water-like color to appear on his skin.

One hammer!

It landed on his arm, and Jiang Liu's face twitched.

Another hammer.

It landed on his thigh, and Jiang Liu couldn't help but groan.

The third hammer.

Jiang Liu cursed the system.

The fourth, fifth, and sixth hammers.

After gritting his teeth and enduring over ten hammer strikes, Jiang Liu still retreated from the training room.

It was truly bone-piercing pain!

He had thought the increased training speed in the paid training room was to save time, allowing him to master a technique faster.

Now, it seemed, heh.

This paid training room wasn't for saving time; it was to make you endure fewer hammer strikes and less pain.

With a 50% increase in training speed, the thousand hammers required for the Thousand Hammer Golden Body would only take seven hundred and fifty strikes to complete. Great!

5 spirit stones per hour. This wasn't the value of time; it was compensation for emotional distress.

And you're the one paying!

Jiang Liu took more than ten minutes to recover before the pervasive pain that had soaked his entire body finally receded. His face was pale, and he trembled as he entered the training room again.

The third time, he endured thirty hammers.

The fourth time, he endured sixty hammers.

The fifth time, he endured one hundred hammers.

Sixth, seventh, eighth time...

By the end, Jiang Liu was completely numb, his mind blank, as if all the nerves in his body had lost sensation.

Enter the training room, get beaten, exit, re-enter, get beaten again, an infinite loop.

It was exactly the same as fighting and training in the Story instances; it all came down to willpower.

Fortunately, his willpower had been greatly honed by the Lingyun Sect Senior Disciple, allowing him to barely endure the cultivation of the Thousand Hammer Golden Body.

[Ding! Thousand Hammer Golden Body cultivation complete.]

"All done?"

Jiang Liu's expression was numb. He heard the prompt in his mind but showed no reaction, still mechanically moving to enter the training room.

After trying to enter twice and failing, his dull, lifeless eyes finally regained a sliver of light, and his eyes gradually welled up with tears.

"I miss mom,"

Jiang Liu muttered to himself. He remembered his mother holding him when he was young, and then he recalled his parents' funeral when he was a teenager.

A thought arose, then was suppressed.

"Phew, that was tough."

Jiang Liu exhaled a long breath and shifted his gaze to his skill panel. The icon for the Thousand Hammer Golden Body was now brightly lit.

[Thousand Hammer Golden Body]: Forged by a thousand hammers, the body becomes like hardened gold, greatly increasing physical toughness. Grants immunity to damage below Qi Cultivation Layer 5 and reduces damage from Qi Cultivation Layer 6 to Qi Cultivation Layer 9.

Immunity to damage below Qi Cultivation Layer 5!

With this passive physical technique, he truly no longer had to fear sneak attacks!

Could a handgun bullet break his Thousand Hammer Golden Body?

It was worth a try.

"Not bad, not bad. This suffering wasn't in vain."

Seeing the effects of the Thousand Hammer Golden Body, Jiang Liu couldn't help but break into a smile, as if he had completely forgotten the pain he had endured.

The pain didn't matter; the reward was what was important.

Effort was directly proportional to reward, and he could accept any amount of pain.

This Thousand Hammer Golden Body was quite satisfactory. It was probably his strongest skill, even more impactful than the Heart Piercer.

"What time is it now?"

Jiang Liu glanced at the countdown for the parkour event. The second round would start in just over two hours.

This meant he had spent the entire day being hammered in the training room.

To cultivate a physical technique in one day was truly worthy of the Cultivation Era, which had simplified all aspects of Cultivation.

In a real Cultivation world, with something like the Thousand Hammer Golden Body, a few hammer strikes would shatter the bones, and it would take months to even begin to cultivate it.

With just over two hours left until the second round of the event, Jiang Liu was too lazy to switch out of the Cultivation Era. He casually collected his daily spirit stones, threw them into the Foundation Establishment Furnace, and then plunged headfirst into Story instances 1-10.

After playing with the Lingyun Sect Senior Disciple for over two hours and killing him a few times, I bought the advanced movement speed buff before the event started. I waited a few minutes, and an electronic voice sounded in my mind.

[Parkour King Round 2 has begun. Do you wish to enter?]

[Yes]

Entering the event's illusion, a brand new scene appeared within my field of vision.

Jiang Liu opened his eyes and saw a mountain soaring into the clouds, steep and perilous, at a 60-degree angle.

No need to guess, this mountain was the racetrack.

"Where are my wings? My huge wings?"

As Jiang Liu observed the mountain for a few moments, a familiar voice sounded in his ear. He turned and saw Li Dongze frantically scratching his back, unable to reach his wings no matter how hard he tried.

Where are my wings?

Jiang Liu was stunned and also touched his back, finding no wings there either.

[Flight is prohibited in this round.]

Huh?

They banned my wings?

A pay-to-win game trying to balance things?

Can you at least respect us God-Tier Players!

"I told you so,"

Jiang Liu patted Li Dongze's shoulder. "The first round was just to filter out the riff-raff. The second round was bound to increase the difficulty."

"So what if he increases the difficulty, but why ban my wings!"

Li Dongze looked like he was about to cry. "I practiced flying for a whole day, and he just bans it. Is he playing with me?"

"I'm reporting him! I'm reporting him to the Supervisory Bureau!"

Uh.

Jiang Liu felt a little guilty. He was the one who instigated Li Dongze to practice flying, and Li Dongze had listened, practicing for a whole day.

And now he was banned from flying.

"Forget it, forget it. No need to argue with the developers."

Jiang Liu comforted him. "Banning flight is normal. It's a parkour event, after all, with a mountain racetrack. If you could fly, you'd just fly straight to the top, and what would be the point of the competition? Don't you think?"

"That's true,"

Li Dongze mumbled, still very displeased.

I comforted you a couple of sentences, what more do you want? Do you want to quit?

Jiang Liu rolled his eyes and ignored him. His gaze swept around and he spotted Su Weiyang a few meters away. The radiant ball of flame around her was too conspicuous; no one dared to approach within several meters.

She saw him too. They nodded at each other in greeting. They weren't close to begin with, and on top of that, they were competitors, so they didn't talk much.

Jiang Liu looked around again. In the entire Third Middle School, only the three of them had made it to the second round. Three out of ten schools was pretty good.

A steep mountain thousands of meters high stood before them. The players on this racetrack were distributed at the foot of the mountain, looking up at the summit with fiery gazes and excited expressions.

The final round of the Parkour King, rewards of various magic tools, and super high-rate cultivation bubble points!

Everything was at the summit!

[Parkour King Round 2 is preparing. Please get ready, players.]

[Duration: 30 minutes.]

[Countdown. Complete!]

The transparent light screen above their heads slowly dissipated. The moment the countdown ended, ten thousand people began to climb!