LRAB Chapter 23 Qi and Blood, Level 7.4!
Chapter 23 Qi and Blood, Level 7.4!
The No. 182 bus swayed through the evening rush hour traffic. Sun Donglai leaned his head against the cold window, watching the street scene rushing by outside, his eyes vacant.
He deliberately didn't wait for Wang Xing today.
He didn't know how to face Wang Xing, the scene on the arena flashing repeatedly in his mind. Wang Xing and Bai Lingxue exchanged WeChat contacts... The two then shook hands, and the moment their fingertips touched, a smile, like the first melting of snow, appeared on Bai Lingxue's lips...
Each scene was like a dull knife, gently cutting into his heart.
"Ah Xing didn't do anything wrong, it was my incompetence that was wrong..."
"When will I be able to catch up with Ah Xing? When will I be able to stand shoulder to shoulder with Bai Lingxue?"
These two questions, like ropes, tightened more and more around his mind.
The bus stopped at Jinsha Station, and Sun Donglai got off the bus in a daze.
He had only taken two steps when he heard someone call his name from behind.
"Brother Sun?"
He turned around and saw Meng Rui standing at the entrance of the modification shop.
"Brother Meng." Sun Donglai forced a smile.
Meng Rui glanced at Sun Donglai, then took a bottle of chilled sports drink from the freezer and tossed it to him: "You don't look too good. Are you too tired from training? The college entrance exam is just around the corner, don't push yourself too hard."
"Thank you, Brother Meng." Sun Donglai took the drink, his dazed mind returning a little.
"How's the mecha modification thing going?"
Meng Rui patted him on the shoulder. "I've noticed you've been glancing this way a lot these past few days. You're really thinking about getting a Xuan Turtle mecha modification plan, aren't you?"
Sun Donglai's face darkened slightly, and he said in a low voice, "The modification cost is too high... I can't afford it for the time being."
Meng Rui laughed and waved his hand: "After you left last time, I thought about it and realized that you don't actually need to pay."
"what?"
Sun Donglai looked up abruptly, his eyes filled with disbelief: "What do you mean?"
Meng Rui's eyes flashed, and he said sincerely, "In the years I've run this shop, I've rarely seen a child as persistent and calm as you. The Xuan Turtle Mech is rare to begin with, and being able to modify it to its fullest potential is a kind of fun and challenge for me. I actually want to try it myself."
"and……"
Meng Rui's gaze suddenly darkened, landing on Sun Donglai's eyes as if searching for something.
"You... probably don't want to just stand on the sidelines and watch Wang Xing and Bai Lingxue fight on the same stage, do you?"
"..."
Sun Donglai deliberately paused for a moment.
"You, what do you know..." His voice trembled. Meng Rui's words were like a needle, piercing his gloomy mood.
Meng Rui smiled, but the affable expression on his face gradually faded: "I've heard about Bai Lingxue and Wang Xing, but I'm different from others. I've never thought there was anything wrong with you..."
"It's not that you're incapable, it's that no one truly understands you, no one truly understands the power of the Xuan Turtle Mech. Come with me, I'll show you..."
"True extraordinary."
Crash—!
The roller shutter door of the modification shop fell down, and Meng Rui led Sun Donglai, who was dazed and had a numb look in his eyes, into the shop.
One by one, the lights in the shop came on, illuminating the cold-glowing mecha parts on the shelves, the neatly hung modification equipment on the tool wall, and the innermost room he had never been to before.
The room was dimly lit, with a dim spotlight shining down from above the worktable in the middle.
That was a modified model of a Xuan Turtle-style mecha.
This is not an ordinary Xuan Turtle mecha model. The shell of this Xuan Turtle mecha is covered with several pale white claw-shaped modification parts, each of which gleams with a cold, chilling light and has edges as sharp as blades... The unidentified claws are embedded in the gaps of the shell, forming a strange yet unusually harmonious beauty with the dark green armor plates.
The entire model abandons the calm and heavy feel of the Xuan Turtle-style mecha, instead exuding an indescribable aura, like a ferocious creature that has been dormant for a long time and is ready to erupt at any moment.
He felt like he had seen this color and texture of a modification part somewhere before.
It looks a bit like... the claws of a Bonebreaker!
"This..." Sun Donglai's throat tightened, and his voice was somewhat hoarse.
The dog with the split bone that tackled him at the alley entrance a few days ago had these kinds of white bone fragments on its paws.
Meng Rui didn't explain. He picked up the remote and pressed play. On the wall opposite the workbench, the projector lit up, and a video about the modified Xuan Turtle-type mecha began to play.
The wild aura and violent power emanating from the video seemed to solidify and rush towards him, making it hard for Sun Donglai to breathe. He froze on the spot, his eyes fixed on the screen.
A glimmer of light ignited in his previously empty and numb eyes.
Breathing became heavy.
"So... my Xuan Turtle Mech can become this powerful!"
He murmured softly, as if reciting some blasphemous poem.
……
Meanwhile, in the Beichen Aoyuan residential community.
Wang Xing stood before the tidal pillar in the training room, his eyes slightly closed, his breathing long and deep.
Tidal Stakes, Third Layer – “Abyss”.
This was the first time he had attempted to push his stance training to this level. In the past, his Qi and blood flowed like a gentle stream, but now he felt as if the Qi and blood in his body had transformed into a vast ocean, rising and falling and surging with the rhythm of his breath.
With each inhalation, qi and blood flow from the limbs and bones to the dantian, like thousands of rivers flowing into the sea; with each exhalation, qi and blood gushed out from the dantian, washing over every corner of the meridians.
The remaining medicinal power of the Abyss Blood Pill was fully awakened, transforming into a warm undercurrent that mingled with the blood and qi.
A tide rises, and the barrier trembles slightly.
Two tides caused the barrier to loosen.
Three tides...
A faint reddish-brown halo gradually appeared on Wang Xing's skin, an outward manifestation of his qi and blood being at their peak. He could feel that the barrier between 7.3 and 7.4 was gradually dissolving under the repeated erosion of qi and blood.
Just like ocean waves eroding rocks, it seems slow, but it is irreversible.
The thirtieth tide.
The blood and qi surged like raging waves crashing against the shore, violently colliding with that barrier as thin as a cicada's wing...
I've held on for more than 25 minutes.
25 minutes and 30 seconds!
"Click."
A crisp sound, audible only to him, echoed within his body.
In an instant, the speed at which the blood and qi surged suddenly accelerated, as if the width of the meridians had been forcibly widened. At this moment, the blood and qi became smooth and solid, with each drop containing a greater amount of energy.
Wang Xing slowly opened his eyes, a glint of light flashing in them.
He raised his right hand, his five fingers slowly closing. The air between his fingers exploded with a soft popping sound.
[Star Abyss Investment Interest:]
Your HP/Qi level has increased from 7.3 to 7.4.