"Phew..."
Su Chen let out a long breath. The hot air stead, forming a clearly visible white mist that swirled as it fell, unexpectedly condensing into ice crystals before finally lting into water droplets and vanishing.
He took another deep breath. The surrounding air currents faintly whistled as slightly cold air rushed into his lungs, quickly transforming into a warm current that surged through his limbs and bones.
Su Chen opened his eyes, the dazzling light within them gradually fading.
He carefully sensed his current body. The feeling of being completely filled with energy was indescribable.
He could not help but look at the System Panel. The descriptions materialized into text, allowing him to easily understand his new profession abilities.
"Stamina increased directly by two hundred percent, aning it has tripled," Su Chen muttered, his eyelids twitching slightly. His stamina bar had extended by a massive chunk. No wonder he felt stuffed; it was truly ferocious.
Setting everything else aside, Su Chen made a rough estimate. Paired with his other abilities, the number of tis he could apply Holy Hand would easily exceed ten. Under the enhancent of Weapon Lord, his combat endurance could reach nearly ten minutes. It was simple and brutal.
"Recovery rate increased by three hundred percent. When standing on the ground, it becos five hundred percent," Su Chen mumbled, stretching out his hands and clenching his fists.
Under normal circumstances, his stamina recovery rate was not extrely high. For the body, this was not an isolated stat; it was influenced by many internal factors.
For example, whether his nutrients were sufficient or if his body was in a state of exhaustion.
However, the fivefold increase while standing on the ground was sothing he could feel with extre clarity.
"Furthermore, this recovery seems to co out of nowhere... no..."
Su Chen sensed it carefully. "More accurately, it cos from the natural energy of the outside world."
He recalled the ability description of the Harvest Bringer and took another deep breath. The sensation grew even clearer. The air currents were not just air; they genuinely contained a special energy that was hard to describe.
The mont it entered his body, it dispersed, bringing an incredibly comfortable feeling.
"Soday, I might even evolve photosynthesis..."
While Su Chen was experiencing these changes, he suddenly noticed an anomaly in his body.
"Why do I feel..." He touched his chest and slowly moved his hand down, finally resting over his stomach. There was a tingling numbness there.
If he had not been paying close attention, it would have been very hard to notice.
During the recent transformation, he had been in a state of intense pain. Right after the employnt ended, he had not imdiately adapted to his current body.
Only now did he notice that tingling sensation.
'My stomach?' His eyes flickered slightly. He sank his ntal energy into his body and quickly discovered that his Gluttony stomach was faintly undergoing so kind of transformation.
This change originated from the Four Seasons ridian Wheels. The overflowing energy was quietly strengthening his Gluttony stomach.
'Is this increasing the capacity of the Gluttony stomach?'
The Gluttony stomach's ability to store extra nutrients relied on his body. Now that his body had undergone significant strengthening, the Gluttony stomach was similarly stimulated.
"Interesting. I suppose this counts as a synergy between professions."
This change was not as violent as Class Fusion. It felt more like a mutual supplentation, gentle and slow.
"It will probably take so ti before the strengthening is completely finished."
He took another mont to adapt. The massive increase in stamina brought quite a few benefits. After all, a real body was not a ga, and stamina was not just a visible number. Fundantally, it was the capacity of his cells.
This multiplied enhancent subsequently affected other aspects of his physiology. His injury recovery speed, physical resilience, and similar traits had all improved to varying degrees.
Of course, these were just minor details. Su Chen's attention quickly fell upon the true highlight of his new abilities—ridian Wheel liberation.
With a thought, he attempted to activate this ability. In an instant, the Four Seasons ridian Wheels resting in his lower abdon trembled violently. A four-colored halo rippled outward layer by layer, sweeping across Su Chen's entire body like water.
Chaos-colored symbols suddenly surfaced beneath his skin, weaving together like flowing stardust and resembling shattered ancient script.
Su Chen could clearly sense that his body felt as heavy as a massive boulder. It was not a physical mass, but a conceptual weight.
"In this state, all of my consumption is reduced by eighty percent." Su Chen tried activating his Weapon Lord ability again, fusing the mystical artifact into himself and enhancing it with Holy Hand.
Sure enough, the energy consumption dropped to an outrageous degree. If using the Weapon Lord's abilities before his employnt felt like a bursting dam, it was now rely a trickling stream.
Coupled with his naturally enhanced stamina, his duration in this state no longer depended on the consumption of the Weapon Lord ability, but rather on how long the Four Seasons ridian Wheels could remain liberated.
"I could even say that for the duration, Holy Hand can be used almost limitlessly."
He quietly observed the sensation... One minute, two minutes, five minutes, fifteen minutes. When it approached the twenty-minute mark, he faintly noticed the Four Seasons ridian Wheels beginning to tremble, and his body grew hot.
He barely managed to drag it out to twenty-five minutes before the chaos-colored symbols roaming his body abruptly receded. The Four Seasons ridian Wheels closed and grew dim.
Su Chen was suddenly struck by an imnse sense of emptiness. He hurriedly chugged several mouthfuls of Nutrient Potion. As the liquid entered his stomach, the nutrients were rapidly broken down by his cells and delivered to every part of his body.
Only after a mont did he recover. Even the extra nutrients stored within his Gluttony stomach had been completely drained.
"But... twenty-five minutes. Compared to before, it has increased by a massive eight tis." Su Chen clicked his tongue in amazent. "Most importantly, I can use the Blood Burner system again."
Because the burden of the Weapon Lord was too imnse, he had been almost entirely incapable of stacking the Blood Burner's combat power before a fight. Now, with the Four Seasons ridian Wheels, it was completely different.
He felt the Four Seasons ridian Wheels resting silently in his lower abdon. For a short ti, he would be unable to stimulate them into liberation again. They trembled slightly, seemingly absorbing ambient natural energy to recover.
"In other words, this ability technically has a cooldown and acts as a burst technique. That works out perfectly. The Hundred-Forged Smith can still continue to play its role."
"How monstrous..." Su Chen's eyes shone with faint anticipation. This was only the fourth profession in the Eternal Physique sequence; it had not even been truly cast into a Holy Class yet.
'If it was cast into a Holy Class, just how monstrous would it beco? Endless stamina?'
'Reaping the rewards without sowing the effort feels incredible!'
Su Chen poured a few more mouthfuls of Nutrient Potion down his throat, sighing softly as he waited for his body to gradually return to normal.
Such a powerful ability did not just co from two Special Professions, but from Class Fusion. Furthermore, he had successfully completed his employnt without wasting any ti, energy, or resources.
"It seems I really need to find a way to get so Mist Embers to feed to the Great Exalted. However, I probably can't count on Black Buddha. He values Mist Embers far too much. If I want to trick him out of so, I'd definitely have to explain everything, and he can sense whether the Mist Embers have been purified or not."
Su Chen pondered to himself. It seed he could only set his sights on the Sect's Starfire. He had no idea what level they were at, but a weak-level Black Buddha was already hard enough to fight.
Mist Embers capable of entangling the Sect's Starfire and tornting the Ancient King to the brink of death definitely wouldn't be low level.
Employing the Revolving Saint profession had drastically increased his combat endurance, but his absolute peak burst power had not seen a substantial breakthrough. He could defeat weak-level Mist Embers, but anything higher would likely be troubleso.
"I'll just keep that in mind for now." Su Chen suppressed his thoughts and opened his System Panel with a glance.
Currently, his only remaining unemployed profession was the Stigmata Healer, the third Special Profession in the Undying Bird sequence.
Getting into the top one hundred of the Holy List would be a breeze for him.
However, he glanced at his forty-two percent Professional Developnt progress.
"Counting the days, there isn't much ti left."
Su Chen thought for a mont. "I'll push it to fifty percent first. Then, once I break into the top one hundred on the Holy List, I'll use the Fortune Bronze Core to fulfill the employnt requirents for the Stigmata Healer profession."
"After that, I suppose I'll need to prepare for my 6th-tier main profession."
Su Chen calculated his next moves, setting down his plan step by step. He chugged a mouthful of Crimson Sun Potion and gradually entered a state of training.
The location for this iteration of the Peak Star Tournant had suddenly changed from the Royal Court to the Bronze Sect. Once the news spread, it caused quite a stir within the Sect.
The middle and lower echelons appeared rather bewildered.
"Wasn't it the Royal Court's turn to host? Why did they skip the Royal Court and co to our Sect?"
"Who knows? But this is a good thing. It saves us a trip to the Royal Court, which always wastes a lot of ti."
"The last ti the Peak Star Tournant was held in our Sect was forty years ago. I wasn't even born yet, but rumor has it that the grand occasion was unprecedented."
The middle and upper managent who knew the inside story breathed a sigh of relief, especially the Qin Yun Faction.
Lately, because of Fan Zhao's incident, they had been keeping their heads down and acting cautiously. For them, this could be considered good news.
At the very least, it was foreseeable that Qin Yun would not face too much pressure moving forward.
About ten days later, on the Bronze Core, in the vast residential estate belonging to Qin Yun, fully equipped with all kinds of facilities.
Qin Guang was pacing back and forth in front of a tal door, a sowhat anxious expression on his face.
Buzz— At a certain mont, accompanied by a vibrating hum, the tal doors before him slowly slid open to the sides.
Qin Tianlin stepped out, the flush of vital blood still lingering on his face. His footsteps appeared faintly unsteady, as if he could not quite control his own body.
However, after only a couple of steps, his gait stabilized.
By the ti he arrived in front of the ecstatic Qin Guang, his complexion had returned to normal.
"Lin'er!" Qin Guang bead with excitent. "Was the employnt successful?"
Qin Tianlin glanced at his father, his face devoid of any particular respect, and nodded. "Yes."
"That's good, that's good." Qin Guang let out a sigh of relief. All his hopes for wealth and glory were pinned entirely on Qin Tianlin.
Imdiately after, he asked, "Are you confident you can defeat that Xiang Zhou?"
Qin Tianlin frowned slightly and pondered. "Xiang Zhou's Professional Developnt progress is bordering on one hundred percent. His Holy Class belongs to the Profound Sword Spirit sequence, excelling in lee combat with sword-type cold weapons, making him agile and nimble. He supplents this with the Armor Defending God sequence to cover his defensive capabilities, along with the Eternal Physique sequence to boost his endurance. Overall, his build is extrely balanced and steady."
He was quite familiar with Xiang Zhou's information. The training projection was right there in the system. As long as one fought it long enough, they could naturally discern the general direction of his profession. Paired with a professional analyst, they could accurately guess his exact Holy Class.
Although Xiang Zhou possessed three Holy Class sequences, he wouldn't necessarily cast them all into Holy Classes. So were simply ant to patch up his own flaws. In case a sudden opportunity arose to cast a Holy Class in the future, one would naturally choose from within the Holy Class sequences.
"On the other hand, my Holy Class, the Indestructible Vajra, is heavy and steady. I should have supplented it with an agility-boosting Holy Class to cover its weakness, but instead, I paired it with Dawn's Heaven Punishnt to further enhance its lethality. It's the most fierce and domineering path."
"Now that I have successfully employed the Heaven Punishing Vajra, the fourth profession in the Indestructible Vajra sequence, he is no longer my match."
"Not bad." A voice drifted over from a distance. Qin Guang and Qin Tianlin's expressions shifted simultaneously. Looking toward the end of the corridor, they saw Qin Yun slowly approaching with a gentle expression. Behind him followed a butler with greying hair, gaunt cheeks, and unusually high cheekbones.
"You are seven years younger than Xiang Zhou, yet you can defeat him and seize the title of Sixth Tier Champion. You truly are the prodigy of our Qin Family."
Under Qin Yun's praise, a look of exhilaration surfaced on Qin Tianlin's face.
Qin Yun continued, "The challenge room has already been prepared."
Standing to the side, Qin Zheng hesitated slightly before whispering, "Should we go to the Challenge Center instead?"
"The Challenge Center?" Qin Tianlin's eyes lit up. That place had the most people; any commotion he made would instantly spread to everyone in the Sect.
He was soone who enjoyed a high profile. Otherwise, he would not have constantly sought validation beneath the Ancient King Monunt.
Qin Yun, however, furrowed his brows and shot a cold glare at Qin Zheng. "Being so deliberate is beneath our status."
Hearing this, Qin Tianlin imdiately restrained his expression. Qin Guang's heart skipped a beat, but he still gritted his teeth and said, "Father, it's not that I want to be high-profile on purpose, but many people in the Sect are waiting to see what happens. To tell you the truth, lately there have even been rumors spreading around the Sect..."
At this point, Qin Zheng revealed a hesitant look, seemingly unsure if he should continue.
Qin Yun narrowed his eyes. "What kind of rumors?"
"Things like... asking the Venerable to go to his death, and the like," Qin Zheng said in a secretive manner.
Qin Yun's eyes turned icy. Asking the Venerable to go to his death... The one they were asking to die definitely wasn't Chu Linyuan.
"Hmph." Qin Yun sneered coldly. He knew that Qin Zheng represented more than just himself. Ever since he returned, many people had been waiting for him to make a move.
But he had remained perfectly steady from beginning to end, not making any external response, which had already caused many people to grow anxious. "Forget it, let's go," Qin Yun said with a wave of his hand.
Qin Guang's expression lit up with joy, while Qin Tianlin raised an eyebrow. Taking their leave from Qin Yun, they followed Qin Zheng toward the Challenge Center.
Watching the two leave, Qin Yun's gaze deepened. "The Peak Star Tournant... The other factions are quite rational, but how will they try to force my hand?"
Inside the Training Room, Su Chen's brows were tightly locked. Thunder Light coiled around his body like silver snakes. Amidst crackling explosions, the lightning climbed all over the four walls. His berserk ntal energy surged through the gaps in the lightning like an invisible vortex, hissing wildly.
Muffled crackles echoed from deep within his body. After a long while, the blazing Thunder Light suddenly exploded outwards, accompanied by violent ntal energy, before abruptly withdrawing.
[Thunder Brilliance Fla Lord developnt reached 50%. Acquired a profession ability similar to Thunder Brilliance Fla Binding. Fusing...]
[Acquired Profession Ability - Calamity Fire Thunder Body: Stimulates the Crimson Thunder Core to drastically increase physical defense and elental resistance.]
[Crimson Thunder Sovereign developnt reached 50%. Acquired a profession ability with similar compatibility to Word Spirit. Fusing...]
[Acquired Profession Ability - Sovereign's Might: Consus ntal energy to manifest what is in your mind.]
Both of his professions had simultaneously developed to fifty percent, awakening new abilities and undergoing fusion and enhancent with his previous ones.
Su Chen scanned the System Panel. With a shift in his thoughts, the Crimson Thunder Core in his chest suddenly buzzed, its subtle vibrations spreading through his bones and blood.
Dark red patterns road beneath his skin, emitting a crimson glow reminiscent of magma. His muscle fibers tightened, and Thunder Light danced across the surface of his body. Amidst the crackling noises, a scorching mist began to steam off him.
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