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  Supersonic Shift Arcana and Angelization Arcana

  “The Supersonic Shift Arcana gives Christopher that terrifying speed!”

  “At Level-One, his speed could reach Mach One; at Level-Two, Mach Four. He is now a Level-Five arcanist capable of a speed of Mach Ten,” Zhou Ji said.

  “Mach 10? How fast is that?”

  Ling Jiu looked at that Caucasian guy with blond hair and blue eyes. “How could his body cope at that speed?”

  As an object moved, it would encounter air resistance. The faster it moved, the higher the air resistance was.

  Once an object traveled faster than the speed of sound, the air resistance would be enormous. When compounded with shock waves and other phenomena, a person’s body could get ripped apart, or even disintegrate.

  Taking a supersonic fighter jet as an example, before the fourth-generation fighter jets came into being, the third-generation fighter jets could not perform sustainable supersonic flight. If a third-generation jet traveled at supersonic speed over one or two minutes, it would probably disintegrate.

  That would happen to a fighter jet made of alloy materials, let alone a body of flesh and blood.

  Apparently, without a tough-enough body, nothing could sustain supersonic flight. Yet, Christopher could move at Mach 10.

  How strong his body had to be to do that?

  “This is his other arcana!” Zhou Ji said.

  “Angelization Arcana?” Ling Jiu raised an eyebrow.

  “Do you believe there are angels in this world, Ling Jiu?” Zhou Ji asked back instead of answering his question.

  He was stunned by Zhou Ji’s question and he did not know how to answer. In principle, he was an atheist, not believing in any form of gods.

  The question here was: what else was impossible when even Transmigration was already a reality?

  “No one really knows for sure if angels exist. But after activating Angelization, Christopher does look like an angel,” Zhou Ji said in slow pace. “Standing at five meters tall with a pair of golden wings and a holy aura, he does really look like a legendary angel. People call this morphing ability of Christopher’s Angelization Arcana. Many Christian Westerners even see Christopher as an angel incarnation. He has many followers there.”

  Ling Jiu had no word for it. “Is the Angelization Arcana powerful?”

  “The Angelization Arcana has a single function, which is physical enhancement. But that is enough to make him sustain the supersonic speed. That’s the incredible part of him,” Zhou Ji said. “There is a saying that goes, ‘nothing beats speed when it comes to martial arts.’ When a person’s speed reaches a certain threshold, that person would become incredibly powerful. So you can imagine how powerful Christopher is.”

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  “He is incredible!”

  Ling Jiu licked to moisten his dry lips. His heart fluttered; Supersonic Shift was really a damn good arcana.

  He could not imagine how good it would be if he could replicate this arcana and use it in combination with his Tungsten Form.

  Just then, the large alloy door leading to the Twelve Underground Chambers opened. Everyone looked over.

  A hunky African stood at the doorway, looking at them. “Twelve midnight. The Twelve Underground Chambers is open!”

  “First, second, and third place winners go to Level One.”

  “Fourth, fifth, and sixth place winners go to Level Two.”

  “Seventh, eighth, and ninth place winners go to Level Three.”

  “You all may stay in the cultivation chambers for the next three days. Your rewards of Vitality-enhancement fluid and Gene Arcana-enhancement fluid have been placed in your respective chambers. You all may consume them directly. All right, get in now!”

  “Yes, sir!”

  Passing the large alloy door, Ling Jiu came to Level 3. With him were a Caucasian girl and a guy with brown hair.

  The three nodded at each other, then entered their respective cultivation chambers.

  The chamber was about 20 meter square with a thick alloy wall on three sides and an opening on one side. There was no wall at the opening, not even a glass window.

  Amazed by what he saw, Ling Jiu could not help but walk to the side with no wall and looked down.

  He broke out in a cold sweat at seeing a large fissure below.

  The fissure was winding, several hundred-meter-wide and over ten-kilometer-long. It was immensely deep as he could not see clearly the bottom.

  There was a faint blue light shining out of the fissure, making it look like the mouth of a giant monster about to swallow him.

  “So this is the dimensional fissure?”

  Ling Jiu was wide-eyed. The dimensional fissure apparently laid beneath the earth. When it appeared, the earth had cracked open.

  It was the earth’s crack on the surface, and the dimensional fissure was at the bottom.

  “Where does this fissure lead me to if I were to fall into it? An alien planet, or extraterrestrial region? Probably not. More like the fissure will rip me apart into million pieces.”

  Ling Jiu observed the fissure for a while before getting himself ready for practicing self-cultivation.

  He first came in front of a rack and took up two test tubes.

  One tube contained greenish fluid while the other silverish fluid.

  “This greenish fluid must be the intermediate vitality-enhancement fluid, and the silverish one the intermediate vitality-enhancement fluid. Which one should I take first?”

  He hesitated for a while before picking the greenish one and threw the content down his throat.

  It tasted sourly sweet, much like plum soup. But the pleasant feeling did not last long. He was then hit by dry and hot, and tingling sensation.

  He felt a stream of warm energy rise from his abdomen and spread to the rest of his organs and body—chest, arms, back, legs, neck, and head.

  It felt as if he had gulped down an entire bottle of liquor. The burning sensation was mixed with unbearable itchiness.

  Gradually, the itchiness was getting worse. He felt as if there were a million ants crawling all over his body. All he could do was to refrain from scratching and bear with it.

  It was hot.

  He felt his body boiling, as if he had a 45ºC hype fever.

  It was itchy.

  It was unbelievably itchy, so much so that it almost killed him.

  “Who the hell invented this thing? This is so freaking weird!” Ling Jiu cursed quietly.

  Unknowing to him, however, amid these dry and hot and itchy sensations, his body was transforming, or in another word, enhanced.

  His skin and flesh, his tendons and bones, and his organs were rapidly toughening.

  His muscles became stronger; his fascia was more powerful and flexible; his bones became tougher.

  Everything happened so quickly at a thousand times faster than on normal days.

  But as intense and rapid as the sensation was, it faded just as quick and completely disappeared after ten minutes.

  “That’s it?”

  Ling Jiu took a couple of heavy breaths, then found that he had sweated like a pig with a layer of black stuff on his skin. He stank to high heaven.

  “That’s disgusting!”

  Ling Jiu frowned, thinking of cleaning himself up. But he found that there was not even a bathroom in the cultivation chamber so he had no choice but to bear with it.

  “Never mind. Practicing self-cultivation is more important.”

  After giving himself a pep talk, Ling Jiu picked up another test tube—the one that contained the Gene Arcana-enhancement fluid—and drank the entire content.

  Chapter 88: Level-5 Breakthrough, Liberating Combat Strength

  Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

  There was a burst of Gene Arcana spreading rapidly throughout his body.

  Ling Jiu felt as if his body was going to explode so he quickly performed Sea of Hundred Rivers to regulate his billowing Gene Arcana.

  He had lost track of time. By the time he kept them under control, he felt his internal strength had become much vigorous.

  “If the intermediate Gene Arcana-enhancement fluid can produce such result, just how much greater the result of advanced Gene Arcana-enhancement fluid can be?”

  Ling Jiu was unsatisfied. “Had I been able to get my hands on the advanced Gene Arcana-enhancement fluid, I would have achieved a Level-Five breakthrough.”

  “Forget it. I’d better make the best of the remaining time by practicing more!”

  Ling Jiu shook the thought out from his mind, performed Sea of Hundred Rivers again to inhale the Gene Arcana in his surroundings.

  As soon as he did that, he felt a rich Gene Arcana gathering from all directions and storming into his body.

  “This…… this Gene Arcana is incredibly concentrated!” Ling Jiu opened his eyes in amazement. “The concentration level is at least ten times that of the outside world. Damn! This place is heaven for practicing self-cultivation!”

  Ling Jiu was shivering in excitement. He frenziedly captured the Gene Arcana in the surroundings to boost his internal strength.

  Time had passed unknowingly. He felt the Gene Arcana in his body running wildly throughout his body, as if it had broken free from shackles.

  They moved up to his brain and down to his feet. Every part of his body contained a rich amount of Gene Arcana, circulating throughout his body in an endless cycle.

  At this moment, Ling Jiu felt a quality of lightness in him, as if he were a weightless feather that could flew into the sky with just the tap of his foot.

  “My body feels so light……”

  Ling Jiu mumbled. With just a slight support from the flowing osmium soil, he was able to float into the air, just like what Jin Chao, the general manager of Vulcan, did last time.

  “Is this Royal Hover?”

  Ling Jiu tried again and found that he could float into the air effortlessly by harnessing the osmium soil. However, it was hard for him to move in the air.

  That was because he had only a vertical without lateral movement ability.

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  Apparently, with Earth Manipulation, he could only perform Rover Hover but not fly free like a bird.

  “Let’s try Gravity!”

  Ling Jiu retrieved the osmium soil. With Gravity force as the support, he floated again. He adjusted the force behind him so now it turned horizontal and forward. He could move horizontally.

  “I am flying!” Ling Jiu was excited.

  When he first gained the Gravity Arcana, he already knew he could use it to fly. But he was too busy in his cultivation and had no time trying it out.

  He did not expect he could succeed on his first try. It was surprisingly easy.

  “But flying seems like an art. I could only fly at low speed. Wanting to use flying as a combat skill is impossible right now. It takes time.”

  Combat?

  He certainly knew no way he could use flying in combat right now. With his current speed of flying and dodging, he looked like a big bull’s-eye in the air.

  That said, Ling Jiu’s flying skill had in fact surpassed that of many Level-5 or even Level-6 arcanists.

  Only Level-7 arcanists could perform an actual flight. But he had done it in Level-5.

  “How much time left?”

  He checked his mobile phone. It was 20:00 hours on Wednesday, four hours to go before the clock hit 00:00.

  “Four more hours to go. I have got to make the best of it.”

  Four hours quickly passed and an ear-piercing sound of the bell rang throughout the cultivation chambers. “Self-cultivation practice session has ended. All trainees are required to leave the chambers immediately.”

  “D*mn it! This loud announcement in the middle of the night terrified the hell out of me!”

  Ling Jiu dug into his ringing ears and quickly left the cultivation chamber. ……

  Early next morning, Ling Jiu departed alone. Except for Shi Gang, Ai Yuhe and Yang Ling-er did not intend to form a team. This was in line with Ling Jiu’s thinking because he did not want to form a team either.

  After renting some tools, Ling Jiu drove his maglev airship and flew toward the wilderness as quickly as the airship could go.

  This time, he did not hunt any Direbeasts along the way. Instead, he headed straight into the deeper part of the wilderness, arriving at the danger zone where powerful Direbeasts lay.

  After becoming a Level-5 arcanist, Ling Jiu was more confident of his ability. He made Class-6 Direbeasts as his target and would go it alone.

  As soon as he switched on the radar, he instantly saw the signals. There were thirty-over Class-6 Direbeasts within 10 kilometers radius. What did that mean for him?

  It only took one or two Class-6 Direbeasts to break defense and unleash total destruction to a city of 5 million population like Lantian Base City.

  Thinking back, a Bloodgorger Bat nearly brought down the defense of Lantian Base City last time. The destruction of these 30 or so Class-6 Direbeasts could bring would be unimaginable.

  “I have two missions this time. One, find Compound-Eyed Wombats, harvest their eyes for making the Second Awakening potion. Two, hunt as many Class-Six Direbeasts as possible. Today’s target: hunt eighty of them!”

  Ling Jiu licked his lips. Since he was going solo this time, he wanted to liberate his combat strength to the max.

  Next, he teleported himself to appear in front of a Class-6 Direbeast.

  Before he got close, he could already hear a snoring noise that sounded like the rumble of thunder. And before the Direbeast knew it, he had come in front of it.

  Ling Jiu’s eyes brightened up when he saw this Direbeast. He knew he had got lucky this time because it was a Compound-Eyed Wombat he had been looking for.

  “Eightfold Rolling Thunder!”

  He performed a Tungsten Form and smashed the Direbeast’s head with a punch. His combat strength had gained a tremendous breakthrough after he became a Level-5 arcanist.

  The attack range of his Earth Manipulation Arcana had increased to 200 meters.

  His Teleportation Arcana had increased in range to 200 meters.

  The force of his Gravity Arcana had risen to ten times the normal gravity.

  When he was in Tungsten Form, his strength was 200 times higher than normal.

  What about Shadowform? Leave this to another time.

  Bang!

  The Tungsten Formed punch, carrying energy powerful enough to destroy everything, hit the Compound-Eyed Wombat on the head.

  Blood and brain splattered at the sound of the cracking of the skull.

  The Compound-Eyed Wombat’s snoring stopped. While in its sleep and before it could perform its replicated arcana, Ling Jiu had crushed its skull.

  Poor guy.

  This showed how terrific, brutal, overwhelmingly powerful the combination of Teleportation and Tungsten Form was.

  “What about Mach-10 speed?”

  “My Teleportation is the quickest and most elusive in terms of speed!”