A world turned upside down!

Ning Xiaohe was the first to react.

She had once been the finest physician in the Imperial Capital, with an unparalleled understanding of human muscles and bones. Amid the agonizing pain, she miraculously recovered a shred of reason. Abandoning her old habit of carefully guiding her internal energy, she forcibly twisted her spine and limbs according to the Hundred Refinements Guidance Technique, using a method that bordered on self-mutilation.

Crack!

The unmistakable sound of bones shifting out of place rang through the pod. Ning Xiaohe contorted herself within the liquid, looking like a spider with broken legs.

Yet that grotesquely twisted posture actually formed something like a sealed vessel, instantly trapping the rampaging emerald energy between her bones and muscles!

Green light flickered wildly beneath her skin. With every flash, her muscles grew a little firmer.

"Very good." A glimmer of approval crossed Luo Wen's eyes. "Lu Chi, what are you waiting for? Can't even measure up to a woman? Where's that ruthlessness you show with a blade?"

Luo Wen's words stabbed like a poisoned needle into Lu Chi's already crumbling pride.

"Aaaaaaah!"

Lu Chi screamed wildly in his mind. Images of ambushing the Violent Bear in the snow of Cangwu Valley and being scorned by that pink-skinned woman in the Virtual Universe Company's

hall flashed through his mind in turn.

"I—won't go down here!"

His eyes bloodshot, Lu Chi abandoned all defense and violently curled up inside the pod. His back bent like a fully drawn bow, and the muscles in his limbs contracted along the paths laid out by the guidance technique, with enough force to nearly tear him apart!

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Three muffled, drumlike explosions sounded in succession inside his body as three major joints were forcibly opened. Finding an outlet, the raging life energy surged