Swallowed Star: Achieving Hunyuan Through Card Draws
Chapter 23

Seventh-Class Bloodline!

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[Name: Li Jing] [Bloodline: Earth Humans (seventh-class)] [Strength: Intermediate War God Level martial artist/Apprentice Level 8 (punching force: 172,000 kilograms, speed: 540 meters per second, neural reaction: High-level War God)] [Willpower: High-level War God] [Special talents: Junior Blade Technique Talent, Junior Movement Technique Talent] [Movement technique: Artistic Conception Level Minor Success] [Blade technique: Artistic Conception Level Major Success] [Force amplification level: Nine-Layered Thunder Blade, third layer, 2.8 times force] [Items: Series 6 combat suit, Blood Shadow No. 3 Series 6 War Blade, Series 6 hexagonal shield...]

After more than 3,000 draws from the card pool, Li Jing's attribute panel had undergone an earth-shaking transformation.

First and foremost was the change in his strength.

He had gone from Intermediate War General straight past Advanced War General and Beginner War God to the level of an Intermediate War God.

His punching force had not merely reached the Intermediate War God threshold of 128,000 kilograms, either. It was 172,000 kilograms, making him no weakling even among Intermediate War Gods.

His speed had risen in step with his punching force. At 540 meters per second, he had already surpassed the speed of sound. Running at full tilt, he could even leave a terrifying sonic boom cloud in his wake.

Neural reaction had always been Li Jing's strong suit, consistently remaining one minor level above his physical abilities.

With the help of the many cultivation technique manual experience cards Li Jing had drawn, his Nine-Layered Thunder Blade had directly reached the third layer, amplifying his force by 2.8 times.

That meant Li Jing could unleash 481,600 kilograms of force when he went all out, exceeding even the threshold for a High-level War God.

In terms of attack power alone, Li Jing could already be considered a High-level War God in combat.

Of course, he was still lacking compared with a genuine High-level War God.

After all, which of those who had become High-level War Gods on Earth was not a genius among martial artists?

Their force amplification levels would not be weak either. At the very least, they would not be lower than Li Jing's current 2.8 times, with most falling between three and five times.

Besides the Nine-Layered Thunder Blade reaching the third layer, Li Jing's blade and movement technique realms had also advanced by leaps and bounds under the influx of numerous experience cards.

They had advanced from Perfect Level to Artistic Conception Level Major Success and from Perfect Level to Artistic Conception Level Minor Success, respectively.

On Earth, even among High-level War Gods, not every one of them had necessarily mastered Artistic Conception Level martial arts and movement techniques.

Artistic Conception was standard equipment only for Planetary Level experts on Earth!

That was because Earthlings generally had relatively high comprehension.

Out in the universe, it was perfectly normal for some ordinary Star Level experts to have failed to master Artistic Conception.

After all, once Artistic Conception had been honed to its utmost, the next step was a domain!

Though domains were standard for Domain Lord Level experts, even many Universe Level experts had not mastered one.

In the Genius Battle, it might seem that any random Star Level genius could possess a domain, and only those who had crossed the threshold of a Lower Law had a chance of fighting their way into the top thousand of the Ganwu Universe Country.

But those were Star Level geniuses selected from across an entire High-level Universe Country.

Pick any one of them, and they would utterly crush an ordinary Star Level expert.

Aside from the changes in his physical abilities, force amplification level, blade technique, movement technique, and other aspects of his strength,

Li Jing's aptitude and comprehension had also improved considerably.

His bloodline, which was tied to aptitude, had climbed another step, reaching the Seventh-Class Bloodline of Cosmic Humans.

It might have risen only one class, but that was already astounding!

According to the universe's classification of human bloodlines, those with first-class bloodlines, such as the Manka Star People, reached Domain Lord Level upon adulthood.

Those with second-class bloodlines reached Universe Level upon adulthood.

Those with third- or fourth-class bloodlines reached Star Level upon adulthood.

Those with fifth- or sixth-class bloodlines reached Planetary Level upon adulthood.

Those with seventh- or eighth-class bloodlines reached Apprentice Level upon adulthood.

Ninth- and tenth-class bloodlines were beneath notice; they could not even reach Apprentice Level upon adulthood.

Earthlings' original bloodline was merely the ninth-class, beneath notice.

Yet Li Jing had forcibly raised his bloodline to the seventh class using the various Aptitude Cards obtained from his draws.

If Li Jing had possessed a Seventh-Class Bloodline from the start, even if he had spent every day just eating and drinking and doing nothing else,

he would naturally have become a martial artist upon reaching adulthood, starting at Intermediate War General.

With just a little cultivation, he could easily have advanced to War God Level.

The threshold for Planetary Level would also have been low enough for him to cross with some effort.

But for an ordinary Earthling with a ninth-class bloodline, only one person in over a hundred million on average could reach Planetary Level!

However, Li Jing had also discovered that, now his bloodline had risen to the seventh class, the improvement provided by Aptitude Cards drawn from the Apprentice Level card pool had become minuscule.

If he wanted to use Aptitude Cards from the Apprentice Level card pool to raise his bloodline to the sixth class, which reached Planetary Level upon adulthood, he would need an astronomical number of them!

The amount of Huaxia Currency needed to draw that many Aptitude Cards would probably run into the tens of trillions, enough to drain all the cash in circulation.

That was clearly unrealistic!

Even if he could use certain means to control the excessive issuance of currency, leaving aside whether he could exploit a loophole in the system's draws,

wouldn't it be simpler and easier to use that time to break through to Planetary Level and draw Aptitude Cards from the Planetary Level card pool instead?

Even if the currency required for draws might change to cosmic currency after he advanced to Planetary Level,

as long as he obtained some initial funds, he could repeat what he had done at Apprentice Level and quickly start a snowball rolling.

Shaking his head and setting thoughts of the Planetary Level card pool aside for now, Li Jing began to carefully feel out his own comprehension.

Much more of the fog shrouding his mind had been swept away. Li Jing now felt his mind was clear, as though the entire world had become countless times clearer.

Many things he had been unable to understand in his past cultivation now seemed as simple as the math problem 1 + 1.

However, there was no particularly clear quantitative measure for comprehension, so Li Jing did not know exactly what level his had reached. In any case, it was far greater than before.

Lastly, there was his newly acquired Junior Movement Technique Talent.

Like the Junior Blade Technique Talent he had obtained before, the Junior Movement Technique Talent was not high in level, but it could continue to be useful even in the very late stages.

In terms of value, it was the single most valuable item among these more than 3,000 draws, and like comprehension, it was extremely difficult to replace.

Improvements to physical abilities could be obtained through resources already found on Earth, such as Dragon Blood and Spirits of Nature.

With Li Jing's talent, he could also make breakthroughs in the Nine-Layered Thunder Blade and his blade and movement technique realms through diligent cultivation on his own.

Even for his bloodline class, once he reached the universe, if he did not mind replacing his Earthling bloodline,

ordinary sixth- or seventh-class Bloodline Potions were not all that hard to find on the black market.

What was truly kept under tight control were the high-class Bloodline Potions.

Only comprehension and the Junior Movement Technique Talent were extremely difficult to replace.

The price of obtaining them through other means was beyond ordinary people's imagination.

Only true experts could afford it to nurture their descendants.

After obtaining the Junior Movement Technique Talent, Li Jing felt completely at ease when using his movement technique, as natural as a fish living in water.

After examining the gains from his draws that directly affected him, Li Jing opened all the remaining cards at once.

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