Chapter 357: Chapter 357

Time quietly slipped away, and it was now early July.

As the rebellion of Demon Nests intensified nationwide, and in light of the recent demonic shadow incident on Lishan Mountain.

The demon forces within the city also showed signs of resurgence.

During this period, Yong’an City reinstated a Level Two state of readiness, to be prepared for any eventuality.

Meng Chuan finished watching the recent news, closed his phone, and felt somewhat conflicted.

In his heart, he knew that the skies over Yong’an were likely to become chaotic once more...

Followers of the Demon Path establish close ties with the Celestial Demons through faith and Demon Skills.

Should one side rise, the other naturally would not remain idle.

When the sky falls, there are tall people to bear it, he came to his senses.

Meng Chuan got up to go to the United University’s pill room and cleared out the inventory of the newly arrived [Qi Armor Spirit Pill].

Five hundred credits per pill, he only consumed the freshest!

"Thanks, Uncle Liu, no need to save next month’s new pills for me."

The administrator of the pill room was an elderly man at the first Limit.

Upon hearing this, he chuckled:

"Xiaomeng, you are the sole chief of our campus, you can come any time!"

Meng Chuan shook his head, smiled bitterly, clasped his hands in farewell.

Now he’s impoverished, even as the chief he has to spend money to buy, cannot just snatch...

[Respected "Infinite Fist", your United University authority card has transmitted a transaction reminder, current remaining credits: 3100 points.]

Meng Chuan closed his phone, looking at the small jar of pills in his hand, his feelings were mixed.

Qi Armor Spirit Pills, spent nearly ten thousand credits, which is over a hundred million...

"Not a loss... 15% off, blood profit..."

He was, after all, from a humble background, reluctant to spend so much, could only comfort himself thus.

"Credits aren’t much, need to earn more money..."

Accustomed to the enhancement speed under the effects of Qi Armor Spirit Pill, Meng Chuan could not bear to give up.

Earning money could not be rushed, he headed to the pill room just for the freshly made pills, now going back to continue fist training.

Huaqing Pool, inside the villa courtyard.

Meng Chuan practiced three fire attribute fist skills, the fist paths were sometimes sweeping wide, sometimes intricately burning like starlight blazing.

With control of the Chest Acupoint, circulating the body’s Qi Blood and Fire True Qi, weaving into a deep crimson flame flow.

Entering the right state, just as he immersed himself in the world of fist skills, panel prompts flashed continuously.

[Boiling Fist Small Frame] took the lead in breaking limit, fist blasts produced streams of blazing flame.

[Scorched Tail Twelve Styles] followed through, fist shadows transforming into a sky full of fiery rain.

Meng Chuan did not stall, transitioning from fist paths to palm skills.

Time passed, accompanied by a long skyward roar, the last [Red Sand Palm] swiftly swung.

Where the palm wind passed, the air twisted as if boiling, a scorching momentum covered the sky.

Meng Chuan withdrew his fists and stood firm, a sense of elation and insight simultaneously arrived:

"Fire is not violent, but a symbol of endless life. Its strength lies on the surface, its length in essence, only by combining hardness with softness can one grasp the true essence of Fire!"

[Boiling Fist Small Frame: Perfection (100%)→Limit Broken]

[Acquired Limit Breaking Trait: Boiling Blood (Low Level)]

[Scorched Tail Twelve Styles:...]

[Limit Breaking Trait: Burn Mark (Low Level)]

[Limit Breaking Trait: Scorching Sand (Low Level)]

He proceeded to examine the effects of the three Limit Breaking Traits.

After a moment of understanding their respective effects.

All three had only one function, Meng Chuan was not disappointed, just resigned...

First checking [Boiling Blood], it’s not some Celestial Demon Disintegration technique, explosive cultivation technique...

Rather, when executing fire fist skills, his fist flames were "transformed".

Could briefly infiltrate the opponent’s surface, causing the blood in the punched area to slightly boil.

The destructive power is mediocre, but it can disrupt the opponent’s Qi Blood circulation, quite effective against Martial Arts Family like those from Celestial Master Mansion who rely more on inner breath.

The effect of [Burn Mark] was quite convoluted:

"The fist shadow fiery rain hitting the target spot leaves charred black pattern on the skin. These patterns can briefly (within 10 seconds) reflect fluctuations of Fire Qi, when using follow-up fire attribute attacks on the same spot, power increases by 5%."

Can’t repeatedly stack, another "useless" effect, better than nothing.

Meng Chuan realized that trying to draw an SSR from these modern fist skills was truly improbable.

Exactly like those niche drawing card games played in his previous life!

Yet he was not disheartened, enough ants can bite an elephant to death.

If he could get dozens of traits like these, one punch would be multiple times the gain!

Regarding the last Scorching Sand trait, Meng Chuan found it interesting, with some potential.

[Trait: Scorching Sand (Low Level)]

Effect 1: Fire Poison, after honing both palms, when running the Heart Fire Qi, the palm wind carried a certain amount of red sand-like fire poison. Contact with the eyes could cause temporary stinging and tears, sensitive noses might provoke sneezing.

Meng Chuan saw this effect, inexplicably thinking.

When he participated in the police department task earlier, Officer Chen Lan gave him lime...

"[Red Sand Palm] evolved from the Shaolin Iron Palm hard skill.

After refining the iron sand to this stage, it’s optimized for fire refining hands, never expected to refine fire poison now..."

Meng Chuan focused his mind, a palm wind swept past the wooden post.

Fire poison, like a wisp of light red smoke, clings to the surface, leaving a faint scorched mark.

After stopping, he observed the fire poison gradually emitting blue smoke at the point of erosion.

With a sizzling burning sound, the wooden stake was eroded into a honeycomb-like hollow.

"Its power isn’t as weak as described; it’s more than just eye-stinging and tear-inducing.

If one lacks True Qi or Hard Skills as protection, it could melt both skin and flesh..."

The effectiveness on the panel likely refers to this thrice-advanced Fist Skill’s original power.

However, when wielded by a Martial Artist, its power is naturally quite different.

For a Martial Artist, it might be equivalent to the effect of lime.

Meng Chuan realized that [Fire Poison] would become even more potent as his strength increased.

It’s considered a growth-oriented "attack effect," which he was quite satisfied with.

Some powerful True Skill Fist Skills, when cultivated to profound levels, are like immortals casting spells as described in legends, riding clouds and driving thunder.

These abilities are not inherent in the cultivation technique itself.

Rather, they are latent energies manifested through human mutations inspired by the technique.

His fire poison works the same way, the more formidable the body, the higher its power climbs.

After another glance at the three, the exciting moment arrived.

Without further thought, Meng Chuan’s Heart Spirit entered the panel.

Dragged the boiling blood and scorching sand to fill the Five Elements Wheel.

After dozens of breaths, a crisp sound resonated in his mind:

[Five Elements Qiankun Technique: First Limit Breaking (80%) → Second Limit Breaking (0%) awaiting Third Limit Breaking]

[Third Limit Breaking’s core trait: Five Qi Chaoyuan (Third Order Core)]

"It seems there’s no bottleneck for subsequent limit breaking; once enough Five Elements traits accumulate, advancement follows naturally."

After filling in two traits, this core technique successfully reached the [Second Limit Breaking] state.

Upon reviewing the advanced Five Qi Chaoyuan’s effect, joy was evident in his expression.

The first effect is the conversion efficiency of the spirit of the Five Elements.

Enhanced from "slight" to a "certain degree" of improvement.

Meng Chuan took a breath of heart fire’s Qi, and his fist was instantly enveloped in red flame.

He immediately felt that [Qi] circulated around his heart faster and more efficiently.

The spiritual breath that originally required about a breath to convert, now completed instantly.

Meng Chuan speculated that as he reached higher levels of limit breaking, the conversion efficiency would further increase.

He could complete the entire Qi Eating Skill process with a turn of his Heart Spirit.

Moving on, second was the effect of the mutual generation of Five Elements.

"Any Five Elements Fist, foundational technique won’t conflict within your body (low-level → intermediate) True Skill and below)."

Meng Chuan hadn’t started practicing True Skill Fist Skill yet, so he hadn’t experienced this conflict.

However, this was a good preemptive resolution, not bad.

At the same time, minor enhancements in the third and fourth effects transformed into "some" improvement.

Both strengthening his combat ability.

Making the power of the Five Elements Fist greater, and the recovery rate of Five Elements True Qi faster.

How much these two specifically improved still needed practical combat testing.

Most importantly, Meng Chuan looked towards [Chaoyuan Insight] effect:

"Increases (slight → some) general Fist Skill comprehension, increases (some → considerable) Five Elements Fist Skill comprehension."

This was his greatest gain after the second limit breaking, without any doubt.

"Considerable" is the strongest "quantitative adjective" he’s currently obtained.

Practicing a few moves of Qi Jiguang’s Long Fist casually, he could sense how significantly his comprehension changed.

Additionally, in the future, the efficiency of cultivating Five Elements traits further improved, forming a virtuous cycle.

He paused and continued reading, planning to enter the imagery world another day, to let Commander Qi see how much he resembled the past.

Comprehension became increasingly important as martial arts advanced, Meng Chuan deeply understood this during practice.

As for the sixth effect, [Chaoyuan Beginning]:

"Form and Intent Five Elements traits fall under Five Qi Chaoyuan, can increase the proficiency of the Five Elements Qiankun Technique."

Apart from this unchanged point, subsequent core traits could still undergo a third limit breaking through [Five Elements Traits].

The remaining five effects showed significant improvement from descriptive adjectives and Meng Chuan’s own realization.

It’s truly mighty after feeding ten low-level traits, elevating it to a second-order core.

In a moment’s thought, the spring in his awareness surged with vitality.

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In an instant, Meng Chuan’s entire upper body, including the head, nose, and mouth, was draped in multicolor morning clouds.

With the Qiankun Technique entering the second limit breaking, his head’s weak points could now be shielded by True Qi, temporarily negating the need for Iron Head Skill training...

After all, relying on Hard Skills to alter the entire skull’s defense,

there are too many parts like Iron Head, Iron Face, Iron Nose, etc., how long would it take to train them all...

With True Qi and the [Grim] battle armor protection in combat, it suffices for now.

After another experience, Meng Chuan pondered:

"After the Five Elements Qiankun Technique’s ascension, the amount of True Qi greatly increased.

Before this, I couldn’t achieve such partial coverage ."

In this state, with just a casual swing of his hand, only the wind from his fist could set off a violent gust, churning the Star Soup Pool ten meters away into turbulent waves.

Staring at his palm, the True Qi of the five attributes seamlessly alternated—

Golden light sharp as a knife, red flames blazing, green waves bubbling, yellow earth thick and solid, green wood brimming with life.

Each element mutually generates and overcomes the other, yet coexists harmoniously.

"After the second limit breaking, the power of the Five Elements True Qi also increased substantially.

But like demonic energy, it still can’t temporarily detach from the body. I wonder if this can be achieved after the third limit breaking..."