Chapter 58: Chapter 55: Armor Shaking Skill, Skill Sublimation!?

In the training room, Meng Qingjiao and Chen Fuguang had already left, leaving only Xue Jing and Li Qi.

Li Qi wheeled around the training room twice and said pensively, “I originally thought that even with your exceptional talent, it would still take at least another month before your body was ready to start training in the Armor Shaking Skill.”

“But now it seems that your growth rate has once again exceeded my expectations.”

“It’s time to teach you the Armor Shaking Skill.”

Upon hearing this, Xue Jing’s spirits lifted.

“Please teach me, Master!”

Li Qi chuckled, “What’s the rush? The Armor Shaking Skill is not like the Coiling Dragon Art; it can’t be learned overnight. It requires a lot of supplementary materials—it’s not about simply practicing a few movements.”

“Wait here for a while. I’ll make the arrangements.”

Xue Jing nodded his head.

After Li Qi left, Xue Jing took out his phone and glanced at it, discovering a message from his older sister Xue Wan.

[Xue Wan: [Image]]

Xue Jing looked at it. It was a photo, presumably taken by Xue Wan herself, seemingly shot inside a large sports venue. The main perspective was from the spectator seats, filled with a sea of people who were all watching the center of the venue—the large fighting stage.

Due to the distance of the shooting angle, only two people could be clearly seen on the stage, but there were four big screens set up above the venue showing a close-up view of the stage.

Two incredibly young men on the stage were entwined in combat, with the ground around them cracking and becoming pitted in various places. It was hard to believe that the scene of devastation was the result of a fight between two humans.

[Xue Wan: Live from the U19 fighting competition~ The two on the stage are your age. How do these Martial Arts Practitioners even train to be like this? It’s simply inhuman.]

Xue Jing smiled and typed a reply.

[Xue Jing: Just like that, I suppose. I think it’s mediocre. Let them throw a punch at me, and I definitely won’t utter a sound.]

[Xue Wan: Heh, if you’re trying to amuse me with that old joke, I must say, you’ve failed miserably.]

[Xue Jing: Heh, so not funny, huh?]

After chatting for a bit, Xue Wan sent him another picture.

The photo featured an odd middle-aged woman who seemed to be sitting in the seat next to Xue Wan. She watched the match on the stage with a calm demeanor, seemingly indifferent to the intense battle ensuing, a stark contrast to the excited audience around her.

The middle-aged woman looked quite ordinary. What was strange was her hair—inky green, seemingly styled into dreadlocks that fell like vines from her head, adorned with flowers of different colors.

[Xue Wan: This is my university’s horticulture professor, quite fashionable, right?]

Xue Jing’s fingers paused; he looked carefully at the photo.

For some reason, he felt there was something odd about the middle-aged woman in the picture.

As he was about to reply, Xue Wan sent another message.

[Xue Wan: Got caught taking a sneak pic… Let’s end the chat here, the professor is going to scold me.]

Xue Jing sent back an emoticon of a nodding head and put away his phone.

After a while, at the entrance of the training room, Li Qi wheeled back in.

In his hand, he held a peculiar item that looked like a white thermos connected to a… oxygen mask?

Xue Jing asked in confusion, “Master, what is this?”

Li Qi held up the object and explained, “This is a Nebulizer Inhaler.”

“It turns the medicinal liquid into particles smaller than 1 micron… Just put it on, and you’ll see.”

He handed the nebulizer inhaler to Xue Jing.

After receiving it, the latter examined it for a moment, placed the oxygen mask over his face, secured it with the elastic band behind his head, and fixed the entire nebulizer inhaler onto his head.

It looked quite strange.

“We martial artists, each school has its own ‘Blood Cleansing Secret Method,'” Li Qi said leisurely.

“With the advancement of technology, practicing martial arts has become more convenient. The Blood Cleansing Secret Method of the Old Era has also evolved, much like this nebulizer inhaler…”

“I’ve adjusted our Hidden Dragon School’s secret medicine into a liquid and loaded it into the device. This converts the liquid medicine into tiny particles that can pass through the alveoli. Then, using the corresponding breathing skills, the medicinal power enters the bloodstream through the alveoli, gradually soaking and cleansing the fresh blood, and even permeating the brain, internal organs, and marrow, throughout the body.”

“This method of drug absorption is far more efficient than ‘eating,’ without wasting any medicinal power,” Li Qi exclaimed with admiration.

“This is one of the scientific martial arts training methods developed by the big companies over in Inner Ring City, smashing all the old methods of the Old Era to pieces. Even the most stubborn Martial Artist can’t help but hold his nose and use these ‘exotic tricks and ingenuities.’

Xue Jing, upon hearing this, curiously eyed the nebulizer inhaler in front of him, and gave it a shake, hearing the sound of the liquid inside moving.

“Armor Shaking Skill is a form of Dynamic Posture, consisting of five sets of movements, each corresponding to skin, flesh, tendons, bones, and blood, and also to the five major ‘killing moves’ of our Hidden Dragon School.”

“Today, I will teach you the first set of movements, which is for ‘Skin Training’!”

After saying that, Li Qi reached out and grabbed Xue Jing’s wrist, giving it a sudden jerk like swinging dough!

Strong and exquisite Power surged through the palm of his hand into Xue Jing’s body, causing him to involuntarily start performing various movements.

Midway through the first movement, Xue Jing began to feel his entire skin tingle, as if he had been electrocuted, with hair standing on end, mingled with some prickling pain that was hard to bear.

At the end of the movement, his whole body trembled violently, much like a True Dragon Shaking Armor, stretching out its dragon body with scales shivering, and despite the intense pain and numbness of the skin, there was a sense of exhilaration as if he wanted to scream out loud.

Immediately following was the second movement, where the tingling and intense pain became even more unbearable, culminating in another round of trembling at the end of the movement.

Then came the third, the fourth…

Each movement was far more difficult than the previous one. When he had completed all twenty-seven movements, Xue Jing involuntarily collapsed to the ground, convulsing all over, almost bursting into tears from the pain.

This was… Armor Shaking Skill!

Far more difficult than Coiling Dragon Art, even with Xue Jing’s current physical condition, just practicing the first set of movements once was nearly unbearable.

His entire skin felt numb and hot, as if being electrocuted while numerous needles were simultaneously pricking all over his pores, the pain was so intense it felt like he could fly.

But at the same time, there was also a subtle feeling of comfort welling up from his skin, as if the bark of a tree, dry for many years, suddenly burst with vitality, quite exhilarating.

Xue Jing opened his panel, intending to see the practice results of Armor Shaking Skill but saw a prompt pop up on the panel.

[Detected “Fitness” Sublimation condition…]

[Conditions not met, Sublimation failed]

[Fitness Lv6]

[Sublimation Conditions:

First, ?????

Second, Level reaching Lv10

Third, Required Divinity: 1000]

Xue Jing was startled and sat up quickly, disregarding the intense pain throughout his body.

Skill Sublimation!?

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