Chapter 106 - 79: Star Gate
’But...’
A sharp glint flashed in Lin Yi’s eyes.
’I can’t perform bone Refinement.’
’That doesn’t mean I can’t work on my Cultivation in other ways!’
’Now that I have a ceaseless supply of Qi and Blood, I can absolutely continue training for the Tenth Layer of Power Storage and try to comprehend the Overlapping Waves Intent!’
With his mind made up,
Lin Yi unhesitatingly disassembled the Owl Dragon Long Spear into three sections, sliding them into the sheath on his back with a reverse grip.
His hands were instantly freed.
"ROAR!"
Almost at the exact moment he put away his long spear,
a particularly tall Pigman with jutting tusks leaped onto the crenelations at the edge of his section of the city wall!
Its blood-red eyes instantly locked onto the seemingly unarmed Lin Yi. Swinging a massive stone axe the size of a door panel, its thick arm tore through the air, bringing the weapon down on his head!
It was determined to cleave this human in two!
"Perfect timing!"
Far from being alarmed, Lin Yi was thrilled. The fighting spirit in his eyes burned fiercely!
With a low shout, the surging Qi and Blood within him was instantly mobilized!
He focused his mind. The Qi and Blood, moving as if an extension of his will, surged along the meridians of his right arm. Like a raging tide, wave rose upon wave, madly stacking, compressing, and accumulating!
First Layer! Second Layer! Third Layer! ... Ninth Layer!
A torrential power churned within his right arm. His muscles swelled, and the veins beneath his skin bulged like writhing drakes!
"Die!"
Lin Yi’s gaze was as sharp as a blade.
At the absolute limit—the very instant the ninth layer of power was full and he forcibly stacked the Tenth Layer of Qi and Blood, threatening to collapse from his lack of control and unleash a backlash—
he moved!
Power exploded from his feet, shattering the brickwork beneath them!
He shot forward like an arrow loosed from its string, fearlessly charging to meet the descending great axe!
The peak power of nine stacked layers of Qi and Blood erupted in an instant!
BOOM!
The sound was a dull, heart-stopping thud!
Though he’d moved second, Lin Yi’s fist arrived first. From an unbelievable angle and at an incredible speed, it slammed precisely into the center of the Pigman’s thick chest!
Nine times the normal force tore through its body like a battering ram!
The massive Pigman warrior’s body froze. The great axe it held high dropped limply, and the savage light in its eyes was instantly replaced by utter pain and bewilderment.
The next moment,
it was violently flung backward as if by an invisible, colossal force, shooting away from the city wall like a cannonball!
And then!
"BANG!!!"
An even more shocking explosion ripped through the air!
In mid-flight, the powerful Pigman warrior exploded like an overstuffed bag of flesh and blood!
A mist of blood filled the sky, mixed with shattered organs and bone fragments, raining down in a horrifying shower of gore!
"Urk!"
At almost the same instant the Pigman exploded,
an excruciating pain shot through Lin Yi’s right arm!
His arm couldn’t fully withstand the strain of forcibly channeling and unleashing a terrifying power nearly ten times his own strength!
His flesh tore open, and horrifying, web-like cracks spread across his entire right arm, deep enough to expose bone!
Blood gushed out, instantly staining half his arm red!
Fortunately, Lin Yi was wearing a high-quality, standard-issue "Tank-300" model Tier One Martial Arts Uniform.
The tough, black combat suit perfectly concealed the hideous wound on his arm. In the dim, chaotic environment of the battlefield, no one noticed a thing.
As for the blood dripping from between his fingers and mixing with the filth covering the ground?
On this city wall, a veritable Purgatory, every inch of ground was soaked through. Who would bother trying to tell whose blood was whose?
’Heal!’
Lin Yi mentally commanded.
The Water Spiritual Essence in his kidneys was instantly activated.
A cool stream of energy, rich with powerful life force, surged forth. It circulated through his meridians in an instant, concentrating on his injured right arm.
An injury severe enough to instantly incapacitate a normal person began to mend at a rate visible to the naked eye, nourished by this magical energy. Muscle, blood vessels, and skin knitted back together!
The excruciating pain receded like the tide.
In just a few breaths, his arm was good as new, leaving only a faint, tingling numbness beneath the skin!
「Meanwhile, on the wilderness battlefield.」
The Mosquito Avatar had just finished draining the life essence of the Pigman warrior, leaving behind a shriveled, hideous corpse that crumpled to the ground.
With dead Pigmen piled up like mountains, one more desiccated corpse attracted no attention whatsoever.
The Mosquito Avatar didn’t pause for a second. Its wings vibrating at a high frequency, it shot like lightning toward the next target exuding the enticing aroma of Qi and Blood!
VMMMM!
Another torrent of pure, scorching Qi and Blood crossed the distance, instantly flowing back into Lin Yi’s body.
The Qi and Blood he had just expended unleashing the Ninth Layer Power Storage was replenished in the blink of an eye!
His body was once again in peak condition!
"Good! That felt incredible! Again!"
A sharp glint shot from Lin Yi’s eyes, his will to fight blazing like a fire!
He licked his somewhat chapped lips and charged to meet the next Pigman scrambling over the wall!
This brutal war, upon which the survival of Yang City’s million citizens depended,
for Lin Yi, who now possessed the Mosquito Avatar’s limitless Qi and Blood supply,
had unexpectedly become the perfect proving ground.
It was the perfect stage for him to recklessly and furiously hone his Power Storage technique and comprehend the Overlapping Waves Intent!
"Die!"
"BOOM!"
"Die!"
"BOOM!"
Punch after punch!
Lin Yi was like a tireless fighting machine,
sending the Pigman warriors who charged onto the wall
one after another
flying, blowing them to smithereens!
Every punch was a maximum-power burst of the Ninth Layer Power Storage!
Every cycle of agonizing pain and instantaneous repair was a profound Refinement of his control over that power!
The number of Pigmen who had died by his fists was already beyond count!
Below the wall, the corpses piled up, layer upon layer!
Time flew by in the frenzied battle.
Before he knew it,
a sliver of pale white had appeared on the eastern horizon.
The faint light of dawn struggled to pierce the deep darkness that blanketed the land.
This utterly brutal siege had now lasted the entire night!
During this one night, a trial that was a veritable Hell,
Lin Yi’s mastery of the Power Storage technique progressed at an astonishing rate!
He still hadn’t cultivated the Tenth Layer or comprehended the Overlapping Waves Intent,
but the process of stacking his Qi and Blood had become incredibly fluid and swift!
Before,
it took him at least seven or eight seconds to build up to the Ninth Layer Power Storage, stacking his Qi and Blood wave by wave.
But now,
that process had been compressed to a stunning degree.
With a mere thought, his Qi and Blood obeyed as an extension of his will, instantly completing the nine-layer stack!
The entire process was seamless, completed in the space of a single breath!
The increase in combat power brought by this progress was nothing short of earth-shattering!
On a battlefield where life and death hung in the balance, a tenth of a second could make all the difference!
Being able to compress the Ninth Layer Power Storage into such a short time meant Lin Yi now possessed a terrifying trump card: the ability to instantly unleash power more than nine times his normal limit!
For his practical combat ability, this was a qualitative leap!
However,
not everyone was as unique as Lin Yi.
After an entire sleepless night of high-intensity, bloody combat,
most of the Martial Artists and city guards on the wall had reached their limit.
Their bodies had been pushed to the brink, utterly spent and on the verge of collapse!
Although the logistical support from the Governor’s Mansion was excellent.
Periodically, dedicated personnel would risk their lives shuttling across the walls, delivering precious Blood Replenishing Pills into the hands of every Martial Artist to help them quickly restore their depleted Qi and Blood.
But while a Pill could alleviate physical fatigue, the immense exhaustion of the Spirit—caused by the constant, high-strung tension and the relentless pressure of life and death—was something no Pill could ever restore!
The Martial Artists’ eyes were hollow and numb. Their weapon swings grew heavier and slower, and every breath was a ragged gasp.
The soldiers were even closer to collapse, many of them holding on through sheer force of will alone.
In contrast, the Pigman army below the wall remained a ceaseless black tide, pouring endlessly from the eerie blue Star Gate.
Their assault showed no sign of weakening!
An aura of despair, like a cold, venomous fog, began to creep into the hearts of the exhausted defenders.
If this continued,
the fall of Yang City
seemed to be only a matter of time.