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Side effects of the entry in Chapter 13
Lu Yuan stood still.
Slowly raise your right hand, spreading your five fingers.
The Qilin tattoo looked extremely ferocious in the sunlight.
Qi and blood condense and compress at the dantian.
[Fighting Spirit] Activated!
[Qilin Bloodline] activated!
...
A power not belonging to the Body Tempering Realm exploded from the depths of the dantian.
It emitted the blood and qi fluctuations of the early stage of the Blood Coagulation Realm.
Although it only lasted for a single breath, within that breath, his right arm was filled with unprecedented power.
The Qilin tattoo seemed to come alive, surging beneath the skin.
For a moment, the onlookers seemed to see the phantom of a Qilin.
Blood Butcher rushed over.
A full-force strike from the peak of body tempering.
The force of the punches kicked up dust on the ring.
Lu Yuan struck out with his palm.
Fist and palm meet.
"boom!"
The shockwave exploded.
The railings at the edge of the arena were shattered by the immense force of the impact, sending debris flying everywhere.
Blood Butcher felt as if he had punched a mountain.
It looked not like a human hand, but like a small mountain.
His fists, wrists, and forearms were as fragile as paper in the face of this force.
He was sent flying by a single palm strike, tumbling three times in the air.
Finally, it slammed heavily onto the stone slab ground outside the arena.
"Bang!"
Dust flew everywhere.
The entire room fell silent.
Blood Butcher lay on the ground, his right arm bent at an unnatural angle.
The backlash from the Blood Burning Secret Technique, combined with the impact of this palm strike, caused him to faint instantly.
On the arena, Lu Yuan withdrew his right palm.
The Qilin tattoo gradually faded in the sunlight, sinking back into the skin.
He moved his right shoulder, and the dull pain was still there.
Immediately, the feeling of weakness brought on by the [Fighting Spirit] quickly swept over his entire body.
But he remained unfazed.
Lu Yuan glanced down at Blood Butcher below the arena.
"I told you you couldn't withstand one of my blows."
"Still don't believe it."
Then he turned around gracefully and walked off the stage.
A deafening cheer erupted from the crowd.
"Lu Yuan! Lu Yuan! Lu Yuan!"
Countless people were shouting the same name, their voices reaching the heavens.
The Blood Wolf Gang members sheepishly carried the unconscious Blood Butcher away amidst boos from the crowd.
"You...you won?...Yuan'er, you won already?"
From the direction of the Zhao family, Zhao Li watched Lu Yuan's retreating figure. The anger in his eyes had long since faded, replaced by a complex emotion.
Qilin bloodline.
He thought that the gap between himself and Lu Yuan was not large, and even if there was a gap, he could make up for it through hard work.
But now he suddenly realizes... some gaps cannot be bridged by hard work.
His clenched fist slowly loosened, then slowly clenched again.
No, that's not right.
Bloodline is just the beginning.
Zhao Li's bloodline of the Blood Tiger is no ordinary thing either.
What Lu Yuan can do, he can do too.
Zhao Tianxiong stood up expressionlessly.
He didn't look at the arena, nor at Lu Yuan, but simply said, "Let's go."
Qin Lie stood with his hands behind his back, watching the dark gray figure walk off the stage, and nodded slightly.
At that moment, the surprise Lu Yuan gave him far outweighed the offense Xue Tu had committed on stage.
"This young man is not bad."
Qin Zhao stood beside him, the redness at the base of her ears still lingering.
She didn't reply.
"Zhao'er," Qin Lie suddenly spoke.
"……Um?"
"Your gold-threaded soft armor fits him quite well."
Qin Zhao's face flushed red.
"Father! That's...that's to repay his life-saving grace!"
Qin Lie didn't turn around, but the smile on his lips deepened.
The Lu family courtyard.
Lu Yuan turned around and closed the courtyard gate, then bolted it shut.
Then he leaned against the door and let out a long breath.
A dull ache surged up in his right shoulder, but his pain immunity suppressed most of it.
However, the side effects of the "All-Out Attack" left him feeling weak all over.
He glanced down at his right arm...
The Qilin tattoo has completely disappeared, and the skin is smooth with no trace of it.
That tattoo is fake.
Three days ago, after receiving the challenge, he prepared a special medicinal solution overnight.
The black-scaled grass, the red-sunflower, and several other herbs that promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis are mixed and ground in a certain proportion, and then soaked in strong liquor for three hours.
Apply it to the skin and let it dry before applying another layer.
Repeat three times.
The medicinal liquid seeps into the skin's surface and is not usually visible.
But once the blood and qi circulate rapidly, body temperature rises, and sweat soaks through the skin...
The medicinal liquid will then be activated, causing bluish-black lines to appear under the skin.
He drew a qilin (a mythical creature) for himself.
Dragon head, deer antlers, lion eyes, tiger back, bear waist, snake scales, horse hooves, ox tail.
Each scale was drawn stroke by stroke, based on the illustrations in ancient books.
The injury to my right shoulder is real, the redness and swelling are real, and the bruising is real.
Because these things were real, everyone believed it when the Qilin tattoo appeared.
Because no one would have imagined... that a sixteen-year-old boy would draw a qilin on his arm.
Lu Yuan grinned.
We've won so badly this time!
With a thought, the semi-transparent panel appeared in my mind.
[Host: Lu Yuan]
[Martial arts realm: middle stage of body tempering]
[Martial Arts Techniques: Rock-Shattering Palm (Minor Mastery), Azure Wind Step (Major Mastery)]
[Entry:]
White: [Aloof and unconventional] [Unwavering will] [Unorthodox] [Stopping a horse with one hand] [Composure in the face of adversity] [Pain immunity] [A powerful strike]
Green: [Qilin Bloodline] [Unfathomable] [Innate Divine Strength (Evolution Level: 95%)] [Exceptional Comprehension] [Martial Arts Fanatic]
Blue: [Kirin Arm]
As Lu Yuan looked at the row of flashing entries on the panel, the smile on his lips grew wider and wider.
There is 1 blue entry, 4 green entries, and 7 white entries.
Among them, [Pain Immunity], [Innate Divine Strength], and [Qilin Bloodline] still have room for further evolution.
He tried moving his right arm.
Under the effect of the "Kirin Arm" attribute recovery function
Lu Yuan discovered that the previous feeling of obstruction had completely disappeared.
As his blood circulated, the shape of a Qilin (a mythical creature) faintly appeared under the skin of his right arm.
The qilin there was different from the one he had painted.
It appears even more sacred and solemn.
"Your right shoulder injury is healed already?" Lu Yuan asked excitedly.
"Looks like it's time to break through to the late stage of Body Tempering!"
He sat cross-legged on the futon and swallowed the Bone Tempering Pill.
Close your eyes, mobilize the Qi and blood in your Dantian, and let it flow along the meridians into your limbs.
But after he circulated his Qi and blood through one cycle, an even stronger sense of powerlessness surged over him.
It felt as if my whole being had been hollowed out.
"Is this... the side effect of [Fighting Spirit]?"
He tried to mobilize his qi and blood, but found that once his qi and blood were mobilized, that intense feeling of powerlessness would return.
This sense of powerlessness couldn't be masked even by the term "pain immunity."
Lu Yuan brought up the panel again.
[Fighting Spirit]: On cooldown. Negative effect: Your body is in a state of extreme weakness, unable to mobilize Qi and blood for three days. Remaining time: 3 days.
Now Lu Yuan completely understood why the [Fighting Spirit] skill had such a powerful effect, yet it was only a blue skill.
The negative effects are just too extreme.
"Unable to mobilize qi and blood?"
"Does that mean I have to live like an ordinary person for three days?"