Invincible War God Shi Fen

Shi Fen clenched his fist again.

This time, Shi Fen got into position and used a powerful, forceful boxing style. He summoned the strength of his whole body and applied the force technique he had worked out himself. The force rose from the ground, passing through his feet, calves, thighs, waist, shoulders, and arms before finally reaching his fist.

Shi Fen brought all his strength to bear and swung his fist hard into the punching target.

Bang! A thunderous crash exploded through the underground Forging Room.

"65,128 kg."

Shi Fen's full-power strike had the strength of a Beginner War God!

The number on the display confirmed his guess.

After doing some quick calculations, Shi Fen muttered in disappointment, "I've studied boxing for so many years, and I can only bring out a little over 20 percent more strength. Sigh, that's pretty pathetic."

"I'll test the power of my Spiritual Force next." Shi Fen used his Spiritual Force to sweep up a chisel from the table beside him, turn it around so its blunt end faced forward, and send it hurtling into the punching target with all his might.

A sound loud enough to make an ordinary person's eardrums burst rang out, and a number appeared on the Punch Force Tester's screen.

"199,235 kg."

"Just short of 200 tons." The figure seemed perfectly normal to Shi Fen, and he wasn't surprised.

Shi Fen's Martial Artist strength was at the advanced War General level, while his Spiritual Master strength was two levels higher. Naturally, that meant his Spiritual Master strength was at the mid-level War God tier. A mid-level War God's strength ranged from 128,000 kg to 256,000 kg. His Martial Artist strength was a little short of Beginner War God, while his Spiritual Master strength was a little short of High-level War God. It made sense.

Shi Fen used his Spiritual Force to control several chisels and send them crashing into the punching target all at once.

He wanted to test the limit of his control. He hadn't had the chance before, but now he had access to top-of-the-line equipment, so he could try without holding back.

Before taking Dragon Blood, Shi Fen had tested himself in his Inner World. At most, he could control seven throwing knives and send them all out at full power.

Back then, his Mental Power Amplitude had been seven.

Now, his Mental Power Amplitude was...

After subjecting the punching target to a merciless beating, Shi Fen was stunned by the test results. He could actually control fifteen weapons simultaneously with his Spiritual Force while maintaining maximum power!

A mid-level War God Spiritual Master with a Mental Power Amplitude of fifteen.

It was simply a miracle.

After Luo Feng accepted the Death Mission and learned the 312 Basic Techniques of the Controller, his Mental Power Amplitude had reached sixteen as a ninth-rank apprentice. Shi Fen was only an eighth-rank apprentice, yet his amplitude was already close to Luo Feng's.

Shi Fen was curious whether his Brain Domain Width was as high as Luo Feng's.

Compared with his powerful Spiritual Force, Shi Fen's Martial Artist strength was pitifully weak.

It wasn't that Shi Fen was useless. The ancient martial arts he'd practiced before only taught him the outward forms. He had barely begun to grasp the true meaning behind them.

Martial arts had transformed from methods of strengthening the body into techniques for killing. Without clear instruction from manuals, learning them was like walking down a pitch-black tunnel with no end in sight. After feeling his way to the end, he would still have to carve out the path himself. It was an extremely difficult process.

Ever since he had unlocked the inheritance, Shi Fen had devoted all his energy to forging. He was diligent about training his body, but he had no extra time to practice martial arts.

Shi Fen wasn't worried that his martial arts skills wouldn't improve. With all the boxes of manuals Hong had given him, he only needed to put in a little effort. With his "genius talent," he refused to believe he couldn't become a martial arts grandmaster.

He decided to get started.

Shi Fen chose a Taiji Fist manual from the collection and studied it carefully on the sofa in the lounge. Once he felt he understood it, he immediately began practicing the moves over and over in the living room of the Cultivation Room.

The part of Taiji Fist Shi Fen focused on was the extremely yielding, soft "yin fist." It was the technique people often described as "using four ounces to deflect a thousand pounds." This style demanded precise control over the body's strength, making it especially suitable for him right now.

He wasn't practicing his boxing skills to hone his martial arts.

Shi Fen wanted to master his newfound strength and refine the residual medicinal effects still inside his body. If he took the Jade Marrow and Millennium Willow Heart right away, there was a good chance some of their effects would go to waste.

Wasting anything was absolutely unacceptable!

It wasn't until the third day, when Shi Fen felt his strength had stopped rising rapidly, that he prepared to take the Jade Marrow and Millennium Willow Heart to continue improving his strength.

Jade Marrow was a milky-white liquid, with only one drop in each dose.

The Jade Marrow Hong had given him was one dose.

Jade Marrow was a special cultivation treasure, with effects somewhat similar to Dragon Blood. It could improve the body to a certain extent and cleanse and regenerate it. Unlike Dragon Blood, its effects were extremely gentle. Though weaker than Dragon Blood, it could be used alongside other treasures, and it worked best with Spirits of Vegetation.

The drop of Jade Marrow was stored in a specially made syringe. The syringe was tiny, and its unique design allowed the single drop to be squeezed out perfectly, without wasting even a fraction.

Shi Fen used his Spiritual Force to suspend the miniature syringe and the Millennium Willow Heart in the air before him.

He casually took control of a small flat-faced hammer and grabbed its handle. The hammer flashed through the air like lightning and struck the very top of the Millennium Willow Heart with perfect accuracy. With a clear clang, his precise blow cracked open the top layer of the green, egg-shaped crystal's tough shell.

The vital green liquid inside—the essence of the Millennium Willow Heart—gently rippled. Not a drop had spilled from the blow. Shi Fen's control, honed by years of forging, was no boast. He had earned it through hard work.

Even with his strength surging, Shi Fen's control remained steady.

His Spiritual Force swept the green essence out of the "eggshell," gathering it into a floating ball. At the same time, he pushed the syringe of Jade Marrow forward and injected it into the liquid.

Once the two were mixed, the green liquid floating in the air gave off an even more powerful vitality.

"Hahaha. Here we go!"

Shi Fen gently opened his mouth. Controlled by his Spiritual Force, the essence of the two treasures flew straight inside.

As he swallowed the small mouthful, it entered his body at once. A cool, refreshing sensation spread through him. It wasn't as pleasant as the time his life had been transformed, but it was still wonderful.

Shi Fen stretched out in contentment.

"Compared to this stuff, Dragon Blood is garbage. Now this is a real treasure. Dragon Blood is such a pain to use." Thinking about the difference between the two, Shi Fen felt helpless. He still remembered what taking Dragon Blood had been like.

Dragon Blood had nearly tortured him to death. If he hadn't been after the changes to his Sea of Consciousness, Shi Fen would definitely have hidden away from it.

Shi Fen sat comfortably in the bathroom. Jade Marrow would "cleanse and regenerate" him, so there would definitely be filth.

This time, Shi Fen had learned his lesson.

Shi Fen quietly felt the changes in his body. He could clearly sense his strength rising rapidly. He didn't have to endure the agony of last time, so he casually whistled.

His body had completely absorbed the essence within him, and the medicinal effects began to take full effect.

Shi Fen stopped whistling. If he kept it up, he'd end up swallowing the filth.

"This effect is incredible." Shi Fen could see the muscles and bones throughout his body trembling at a high frequency and low amplitude, as if they were being cleaned by ultrasound. Under this miraculous cleansing, threads of black matter seeped from his pores.

The ultrasonic-like cleansing felt incredibly comfortable, like drinking a cold soda on a sweltering summer day. It left him feeling refreshed.

Cool to the bone!

The pleasant sensation soon disappeared.

As the vibrations grew faster and more intense, the muscles, bones, tendons, cartilage, blood vessels, and everything else in his body began to shift out of place. Shi Fen felt as if he'd fallen into a spin dryer, his whole body about to be shaken apart.

"Gah." Shi Fen sucked in a painful breath. He'd never expected that what had started as a pleasant experience would end up torturing him after all.

Shi Fen was like a human tamping machine, sitting in the bathroom and shaking nonstop. The vibrations were so intense that he looked just like a twitching "robot dummy."

"I refuse to believe it. I endured that insane transformation from Dragon Blood, so why should I be afraid of you? It's just Jade Marrow and a Millennium Willow Heart." Shi Fen wanted to grit his teeth and bear it, but his teeth kept clattering together, making him miserable. All he could do was leave his mouth half open and endure.

Shi Fen's suffering wasn't for nothing.

A ferocious surge of life energy charged through his body like a herd of wild bulls. One after another, the bulls rammed into cells throughout his body, and his cells began to evolve across the board.

In an instant.

After receiving a massive boost, countless cells in Shi Fen's body began to evolve by leaps and bounds. His life genes rapidly reorganized and evolved, while broken gene fragments were treated as waste and expelled from his body by his cells.

Not a bit of the energy produced by combining the Millennium Willow Heart and Jade Marrow was wasted. It quickly merged into every part of his body.

Under the surge of life energy, his Gene Level rose by around 0.03, pushing his life gene level above 1. The combined energy rapidly increased his cellular activity and physical fitness.

His progress accelerated, and so did his pain...

Shi Fen's mouth hung open as he let out unconscious, pained "cough, cough, coughs."

The evolution of his brain was many times easier than that of his body.

A massive amount of life energy entered his brain and immediately turned into golden mist. For the first time, liquid appeared in the sea of golden mist. The mist turned into countless crystal-clear golden droplets, which gathered at the center of his Sea of Consciousness to form a small golden lake.

The nine golden spheres once again turned into bandits in Shi Fen's Sea of Consciousness. This time, they had no interest in the golden mist. They dove into the golden lake and greedily gulped down the golden liquid.

As the golden spheres consumed the liquid formed from the golden mist, they grew even more lustrous. They were developing in the direction of becoming Golden Crystal Spheres.

The Black Mirror helplessly realized that the golden spheres were wreaking havoc in Shi Fen's Sea of Consciousness again, damaging the foundation of his Spiritual Force. Once more, it had no choice but to enter his brain and release a massive amount of cosmic energy to help transform the liquid Spiritual Force.

Golden mist mixed with traces of golden liquid poured back into Shi Fen's body in vast quantities. His body and mind underwent a dual evolution. With the help of the golden mist and liquid, his body improved as if blessed by the heavens, and his physical speed surged.

At this point, his rise in strength no longer followed the usual pattern for Spiritual Masters. Shi Fen's Martial Artist strength was gradually catching up with his Spiritual Master strength.

Shi Fen's physical strength rose from the mid-range of advanced War General (punching strength of around 53,000 kg)... to the threshold of Beginner War God (punching strength of around 64,000 kg)... to the peak of Beginner War God (punching strength nearing 128,000 kg)... to the threshold of mid-level War God (punching strength of 128,000 kg)... to the peak of mid-level War God (punching strength nearing 256,000 kg)...

His strength rose rapidly, step by step, until he crossed the threshold of High-level War God!

As Shi Fen crossed into the High-level War God tier, the Black Mirror suddenly released an enormous amount of cosmic energy. The vast energy completely covered most of Shi Fen's Sea of Consciousness.

The endless golden mist instantly transformed into golden liquid.

The vast Sea of Consciousness...

Mist billowed and swirled, and the sea stretched without end.

In an instant, a sea of golden liquid appeared in his Sea of Consciousness. Vast quantities of golden mist hung around it, lending the golden sea an air of mystery.

Rumble...

The nine lustrous Golden Crystal Spheres greedily sucked up the surging golden liquid. With the golden sea's appearance, they increased their absorption, forming nine enormous whirlpools in the liquid. The whirlpools churned the golden sea into raging waves, as if it were roaring beneath a violent storm.

After the Black Mirror released a massive amount of energy and created the golden sea, its energy output dipped slightly. But it didn't stop. It continued to release vast quantities of cosmic energy to replenish the golden sea.

At that moment, the Spiritual Force contained in the golden sea was truly astonishing.

Shi Fen's Spiritual Master strength had now unquestionably reached the Invincible War God level!

When the nine Golden Crystal Spheres became completely transparent and flawless, they stopped absorbing the liquid, and the Black Mirror immediately stopped releasing energy. The area of the golden sea stabilized. In Shi Fen's Sea of Consciousness, it took up most of the available space.

The nine Golden Crystal Spheres turned into well-behaved little ones once again, circling the center of the golden sea obediently.

The level of strength Shi Fen had reached in this breakthrough was now set.

His Martial Artist strength was at the High-level War God tier, and he had reached its middle range. His strength didn't merely sit at the threshold of the High-level War God level.

His Spiritual Master strength was without question at the Invincible War God level!