In the following days, Su Chen’s life fell into a routine. Every day was a cycle of training, exhaustion, getting beaten, and recovering. The requirents for his profession were steadily progressing.
Every few days, he would make a trip to the Translation Departnt to assist in deciphering the Holy Word Stone.
A month passed in the blink of an eye. Su Chen once again trained to the point of exhaustion and waited for the Gravity Chamber to open.
This ti, however, the person who ca was not Bu Siqi, but...
"Old Bai?" Su Chen was surprised to see the slender figure standing at the door. "Where’s Senior Brother Bu?"
"He took on a last-minute secret mission and didn’t have ti to inform you, so he had fill in for him." Bai Fengxi’s gaze swept over Su Chen’s bare upper body.
"You’ve advanced to Tier Three?" Su Chen asked, surprised.
Bai Fengxi’s pretty face darkened slightly. "I advanced a month and a half ago."
"Er..." Su Chen really hadn’t known about that.
She walked straight up to him, looking him up and down. Su Chen’s brow twitched as he heard her say, "Your senior brother’s instructions were simple. Just beat you up, right?"
At a look from Su Chen, the head of the ergency dical team standing outside the Gravity Chamber ca in and explained, "You need to attack with the strength of a normal Tier Three, preferably just barely reaching that level."
"When you attack, don’t aim for the head, the heart, or..." The team leader looked awkward. "Basically, don’t hit any vulnerable spots."
"Keep the coverage area of your attacks to a minimum, and don’t strike the sa area twice."
After a month of cooperation, the team leader had long since understood Su Chen’s needs and had continuously optimized the process. This allowed the number of blows Su Chen could take after exhaustion to reach nearly thirty, all without changing his recovery ti.
"I understand." Bai Fengxi circled Su Chen, as if looking for a place to strike.
’Old Bu isn’t very reliable after all...’ Su Chen felt an inexplicable sense of insecurity.
WHOOSH! A frigid wind howled!
A crystalline ice armor ford around Bai Fengxi’s right arm amidst the cold wind, the layer of ice spreading from her shoulder to her fingertips at a visible speed.
Her entire arm transford into a sharp-edged ice-crystal hamr. Once it was fully charged, her fist, wrapped in bone-chilling cold, ca crashing down like a falling star.
The mont it smashed into Su Chen’s chest, a ring of ice mist exploded outward. Spiderweb-like cracks spread rapidly from the point of impact, and ice shards flew everywhere.
’Good, Bu Siqi might be unreliable, but Old Bai is pretty dependable. She’s strictly following the dical team leader’s instructions.’
But since it was her first ti hitting Su Chen, she wasn’t very practiced and only managed twenty-eight strikes.
"Only twenty-eight tis? Your senior brother can manage a full thirty, can’t he?" Bai Fengxi said, looking regretfully at Su Chen, who was covered in ice fragnts.
Su Chen’s mouth twitched. He was silent for a mont before saying, "Practice makes perfect. You’ll catch up."
The two hadn’t seen each other in a long ti, so Su Chen asked about how Bai Fengxi had been doing recently.
Bai Fengxi put on a fake smile, a faint chilly wind escaping her lips. "Our dear Core Seed is quite the busy man. Things have been so lively in the Judicial Court lately, and your old friend isn’t exactly an unknown. How could you not know?"
She put heavy emphasis on the words "old friend." Su Chen grinned sheepishly. "Are you talking about the Core Seed selection tournant?"
To fill the vacant Core Seed positions, Chong Jingtian had organized a selection tournant. It was a grand event, the likes of which the Judicial Court, and even Ying Feng, hadn’t seen in years. It had attracted widespread attention and had been going on for nearly a month.
Su Chen had heard bits and pieces about it but hadn’t paid much attention, mainly because he was busy completing the requirents for two professions and was in a miserable state all day long.
He didn’t even have the energy to eat breakfast, which ant he missed No. Zero’s information summaries.
Bai Fengxi gave him a rough, expressionless summary.
Only then did Su Chen learn that the selection tournant was nearing its end and had already reached the quarterfinals, with several popular contenders.
There was Feng Ze, an old acquaintance. He was the first Inner Court Seed to successfully challenge for a spot, only to be taken down later by ng Qi.
Then there was Liang Jingcheng, the first Core Seed to be challenged and defeated. Now that he had another chance to reclaim his position, he was giving it his all.
And finally, there was Old Bai herself. Her sudden ergence had shocked many people. It was only now that he learned that her Tier Two and Tier Three were both Top-tier Professions.
Not only that, but she had also taken on several special professions, following the exact sa path as Yuan Poshan. Her strength was nothing to scoff at.
After hearing all this, Su Chen’s first reaction was to say, "You’re not even blushing while praising yourself?"
"I’m just stating the facts," Bai Fengxi said with a smile.
Su Chen was speechless. ’Don’t be fooled by Old Bai’s cool and aloof act now. Back when she was a refugee fighting for food, she shoveled it down faster than a dog.’
Bai Fengxi was now the one beating up Su Chen, but other than that, nothing else changed. Ti continued to pass.
Another half a month passed. In the Gravity Chamber, Su Chen retracted his surging Spiritual Power, and his surroundings gradually cald.
[D-level Brahma Sound Void ditation thod has reached Master Level. Ability Gained--Ningxin: Slightly increases Spiritual Power and enhances Spiritual Resilience.]
[Cyan Thunder Master: 23%]
[Secret Technique Master: 29%]
[D-level Lying Tiger Body Refining Technique--Mastery: 55%]
His profession developnt was progressing slowly. Today was the day he was supposed to change his ditation Technique. He was already prepared, so there was no rush.
There was one more thing. Su Chen’s gaze unfocused as his status panel opened.
[Armored Bone Warrior--Advance]
"Finally. After getting beaten up for days on end, I can finally advance my profession," Su Chen remarked with a sigh of emotion.
The Forged Ore Vein Core had been delivered a month ago. The order ca directly from Jiang Shu Mo and was delivered by the Internal Affairs Departnt without a hitch.
With a thought, the word "Advance" shattered. Su Chen felt his heart lurch as a mass of dark gold liquid suddenly appeared before his chest, flowing irregularly. It was the Forged Ore Vein Core.
The dark gold liquid seed to possess a life of its own, pulsing and swirling before his chest before beginning to seep into the surface of his skin.
The skin it touched instantly took on a tallic sheen. The liquid spread along the texture of his muscles, leaving intricate geotric patterns in its wake.
As its coverage area expanded, Su Chen’s subcutaneous tissue began to hum faintly, glowing with a dark gold luster as the liquid saturated it.
"HISS—"
Su Chen sucked in a sharp breath. It felt like countless ants were gnawing at his skin, and the sensation—a mixture of intense, bone-deep itching and excruciating pain—was unbearable.
[Advancent to Armored Bone Warrior successful. Professional Ability Gained--Living Armor: You can fuse with Defense Armor no higher than your own profession tier and can repair damage to it.]
"Fuse with armor?" Su Chen read the description carefully. The ability was both unexpected and yet made perfect sense.
"I just wonder what form it takes." With a thought, Su Chen retrieved the Purple Gold Scale Armor from his Storage Space. The scale-like Armor covered his upper body in the blink of an eye.
Then, he tried to activate his [Living Armor] ability. Ripples like water spread across the Scale Armor on his body, its edges beginning to rge with his skin.
The gaps between the plates gradually closed, and the hard material took on a strange, translucent state.
As the fusion deepened, the sharp edges of the Scale Armor rounded out, and its tallic luster transford into an aura like that of living tissue, until it had completely rged with his skin.
Su Chen felt a cool sensation but no discomfort. His skin showed no abnormalities, though a faint tallic sheen was visible under specific lighting angles.
"This way, I don’t even need to take the Scale Armor off. And not only that..." Su Chen’s eyes glead as he experienced the new sensation. "After the fusion, my entire skin has been enhanced, even my eyes. It’s not like before, where it could only defend certain areas."
"Then what about this?"
With a thought, countless fine arcs of electricity suddenly erupted across the surface of his skin, the cyan bolts moving like living things along his muscle fibers.
They flowed from his fingertips to his shoulder blades, then shot down his spine to his ankles. Though there was no visible change, Su Chen’s eyes lit up. "It actually works..."
His [Secret Artifact User] ability could still be used. The Thunder Undying Armor ability could be applied to the Scale Armor that had fused with his skin.
Su Chen let out a breath that crackled with fine arcs of lightning. "This way, my defense is now my physical strength plus my armor plus my ability. A three-in-one, gapless, enhanced version."
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