Holy Fist

Chapter 107: 085 Three Hard Skills, Strong Enhancement (6.4k)

“Enhancement 1: Mind’s Eye (Enhance your senses so that even if your vision is obstructed in certain environments, you can still perceive the surrounding environment using your sense of smell, hearing, and touch. For example, through the touch of the wind, you can vaguely know the enemy’s form and exact location in your mind)”

“Enhancement 2: Self-Healing Ability (When you are injured, the metabolic rate of your cells will rapidly increase, gradually developing a weak ability to heal themselves. And as time goes by, the self-healing ability will become stronger and stronger)”

“Enhancement 3: Copper Wall and Iron Wall (When you practice Hard Skill and push it to the limits where it can’t be improved any further, there is a certain probability of breaking through the boundaries. Thus, you step into a higher level beyond the limit of Hard Skill)”

“Enhancement 4: Strength is King (Immediately gain eight points of strength)”

“Enhancement 5: Starving Physique (Continuously eating, there is a chance to slowly and weakly improve your physique, persistently getting stronger)”

“All good stuff…”

Bai Xiao glanced over them and felt a surge of desire in his heart.

Indeed, breaking through from Fighter to Martial Artist, the profession enhancement brought by the new transcendent profession was clearly a notch higher than Fighter’s in terms of overall level. Some of these profession enhancements were combat-oriented, like Mind’s Eye. Some leaned towards survival, like Self-Healing Ability. There were also breakthroughs from limits, such as Copper Wall and Iron Wall. Slow but persistent, like the Starving Physique.

Immediate enhancements, like Strength is King.

To tell the truth, if Bai Xiao had to make a choice now, he really couldn’t make up his mind. Each enhancement was tempting, each could strengthen his foundation. However, fortunately, it was still early, and it wouldn’t be too late to ponder and sift through them gradually in the process of improving his Martial Artist profession.

In the vehicle, Bai Xiao came back to his senses.

He lifted his head and glanced at Chen Liao, who was meditating with his eyes closed in the rearview mirror.

Bai Xiao also remembered the sixteen Potential Points he had stored.

To have a treasure mountain but not be able to use it, how frustrating?

Although he could use these Potential Points on common Combat Skills, that would be too wasteful, Bai Xiao wasn’t extravagant to that degree. With Combat Skills that could reach the transcendent level, those would surely be enhanced first.

Common Combat Skills, through persistent training, could always be broken through.

“Uncle Master.”

Bai Xiao pondered for a while and suddenly spoke up in the quiet car.

“Hmm?” Chen Liao opened his eyes.

“Do you know when the Hard Skill you mentioned will be approved?”

Bai Xiao asked.

“Are you in a hurry for it?” Chen Liao glanced at Bai Xiao through the rearview mirror.

“If you’re in a hurry, tomorrow will do. Anyway, it’s not any secret or unique technique, just some Hard Skills that are more common and prevalent in the Martial Arts Circle. My Fierce Bird Sect isn’t focused on developing Hard Skills, so we don’t possess any particularly powerful Hard Skills, and we use them more as a supplementary practice…”

“More common and prevalent, you say? Then they shouldn’t be too important, right?”

Bai Xiao, hearing this, asked without much thought.

“You could say that, they definitely can’t compare with the core Fist Skills of my Fierce Bird Sect.”

“To inherit core Fist Skills, you must fully join the Fierce Bird Sect and go through a series of rituals like being formally apprenticed, before one can be taught…”

Chen Liao explained.

Bai Xiao nodded earnestly, “Then, Uncle Master, could you apply for several Hard Skills for me to choose and try out? I might find the one that suits me the best. I’m actually quite interested in practicing Hard Skills…”

In fact, he wasn’t planning to carefully select, but intended to practice them all! The battle at the biotech company park had given Bai Xiao a taste of having a robust physique, an iron skin that could even block bullets!

As long as his body was strong enough, he could storm into the battlefield as if entering a land with no one else.

And the concept of biting off more than one can chew basically didn’t apply to him. With Potential Points, he could simply power through, maxing out was just a matter of a moment, without wasting time or distracting him.

In the backseat of the minivan, Chen Liao pondered for a moment and finally said.

“Okay, I’ll help you apply for them tomorrow; there shouldn’t be a problem…”

From the driver’s seat, Bai Xiao immediately spoke up, thanking Chen Liao.

The car headed towards the urban area, driving along a main thoroughfare.

…

Nanjiang Province, Heng Guang City.

A secret underground facility, the location of which is unknown.

Down the straight rectangular corridor, rows of incandescent lights are hung at intervals, illuminating the corridor brightly. The pure white ceramic tiles and floors reflect the light, subtly giving a sense of disquiet.

It looks very much like a scene from some crisis out-of-control movie.

Tap tap tap…

At the entrance to the corridor, a disordered sequence of footsteps approached from afar.

There were three people in total, with a red-suited man wearing sunglasses at the front. He was tall, robust, with a well-built figure. The tight suit revealed his obvious inverted-triangle shape. Below his sunglasses, his rugged features exuded an aggressive air, his contours sharp and fierce.

It seemed he carried an aura of cool authority.

On either side of the man…

One assistant, one subordinate, had just begun reporting…

“Director Chu, we have lost contact with Station Four in Huaisui City. If we consider the worst-case scenario, the Flying Bird Group and the Mad Python Team may have been completely wiped out or captured by the enemy by now…”

The subordinate, dressed in what resembled a combat uniform, spoke with a heavy heart.

“Director, according to the headquarters, Mo Yun Group officially notified us ten minutes ago. They said that our Evolution Land has breached the unwritten rules by deploying Biological Armor to attack a company that Mo Yun Group cooperates with. This is a provocation; they demand an explanation…”