CHAPTER 388: CHAPTER 170: ULTIMATE SKILL RELEASED, GREAT GRANDMASTER EMERGES!_3

After resting for a moment, once his strength had recovered, Zhang Beixing stood atop the mountain peak. He inhaled deeply, nurturing the breath within him and circulating the Natural Breathing Technique, then stepped out and executed his Ultimate Skill!

The ferocity of ’Abrupt Rain’!

The weightiness of ’Mountain Splitter’!

The enigmatic ’Cloud Step’ movement technique!

Combined with the harmonizing effect of the breathing technique, this Ultimate Skill appeared both exquisitely beautiful and magnificently grand, each punch and every move imbued with the aura of nature. Viewed from afar, it was like a landscape painting; seen up close, he resembled an immortal amidst the mountains!

BOOM!

HUFF!

BANG!

The roaring of the violent wind, accompanied by the rumbling of his Qi and Blood, echoed continuously.

In a trance, Zhang Beixing felt as if he had merged with nature itself. As he breathed, he seemed to resonate with the grass and trees. When he struck with his fists, the force felt heavier than mountains, more formidable than thunderbolts!

Everything felt so smooth and natural. He was a part of this world, in perfect harmony!

More than ten minutes later, as Zhang Beixing finished his forms and exhaled a breath of turbid air, HUFF.

The relentless howling wind came to a stop.

However, the rumbling within his body did not cease!

Viscous, scorching blood coursed rapidly through his veins, driving his metabolism.

White mist rose, enveloping him, making his figure appear indistinct.

The most significant change, however, was to Zhang Beixing’s Vital Energy!

He had felt something was off about his Vital Energy before. He could actually control tree leaves remotely with his mind, which was rather preposterous. Although his Vital Energy had already undergone a mutation when he was a Pseudo Grandmaster, it hadn’t been this outrageous!

Just now, he had been fully engrossed in developing the Ultimate Skill and hadn’t paid much attention to it.

Now that the Martial Arts development was complete, Zhang Beixing turned his attention back to his Vital Energy. He discovered that after breaking through to Great Grandmaster, his Vital Energy had transformed from ’external emission’ to ’separation from the body’!

It was no longer like at the Grandmaster level, where it merely clung to the surface of his body and was released with his punches and kicks. Now, it could completely separate from his body and remain under his temporary control!

If he threw a punch, the Vital Energy would take the form of a fist, striking directly for the Yellow Dragon and capable of leaving a faint fist imprint. If he used a palm strike, the Vital Energy would surge like a tidal wave, briefly changing with the movement of his palm.

In short, his Vital Energy could change according to his techniques. For example, when he shattered leaves from a distance, it was merely him making a grasping motion in the air, and his Vital Energy would actually crush the leaves remotely.

This Vital Energy clearly transformed according to Zhang Beixing’s movements!

However, the Vital Energy could not separate too far from his body. Zhang Beixing roughly estimated that he could currently project it about a meter away at most. Its power was quite ordinary; crushing a leaf or leaving a faint fist imprint was already considered good.

"Nevertheless, this is acceptable. It’s a very powerful tool and, more importantly, a starting point and proof for stepping into the Transcendent realm!"

"It’s all thanks to the foundation laid by the Tri-Resonance back then, which caused mutations in both my Hidden Force and my externally projected Vital Energy. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have been able to comprehend and create such an Ultimate Skill!"

At the same time, the System’s voice also rang beside Zhang Beixing’s ear:

[Detected that the host has completed the suggestion: Create an Ultimate Skill above Grandmaster]

[Suggested reward has been distributed, the host currently holds the following Ability Points: 44.6→54.6]

[Detected that the host has completed the first-stage task]

[Task has been reset (Create an Ultimate Skill above Grandmaster) and is now renamed (Perfecting an Ultimate Skill, Aspiring Transcendence)]

[Suggested difficulty: ’S+’→’?’]

[Task reward: 10→? Ability Points]

[Task requirements remain unchanged]

Hearing this voice, which he hadn’t heard in a long time, Zhang Beixing raised an eyebrow.

The System is unusually talkative today. And another thing... A phased task? Does this mean the task can be continued, and I’ll receive rewards as I keep perfecting and upgrading my Ultimate Skill? That’s pretty good!

As my strength grows, this Ultimate Skill will definitely evolve to fulfill its core concept. In that case, continuously receiving Ability Point rewards is quite reasonable. It wasn’t a waste of the nearly two months I’d spent. I had traveled far and wide, challenging martial arts dojos all over the country, all to complete this task.

"System, open my Personal Panel!" Zhang Beixing commanded.

As soon as he finished speaking, a transparent blue panel visible only to him appeared in front of him.

[Owner: Zhang Beixing]

[Status: Severely fatigued, severely mentally exhausted, exhilarated, ceaseless Vital Energy, Natural Martial Arts (Pseudo), Blood Like Mercury Slurry]

[Power: 101]

[Constitution: 101]

[Spirit: 110]

[Ability Points: 54.6]

[Skills: Yue Family’s Continuous Fist (Complete) +30, Northern Sect’s Eight Pieces of Brocade (Complete) +30, Yue Family Spear (Complete) +30, Xingyi Fist (Integration) +0, Bajiquan (Integration) +0, Tai Chi (Integration) +0.....]

The biggest change for Zhang Beixing during this period of seclusion was in his Skill Bar.

A dense array of Skills was listed there.

There were over a hundred types in total.

This was the harvest Zhang Beixing had reaped during this period.

If this had been half a year ago, Zhang Beixing would have been ecstatic to gain so many Skills.

Back then, he had been weak. Forget Martial Arts Training; even regular physical exercise provided him with significant improvement.

With so many Skills, if he had managed them properly to turn them into System suggestions, he could have farmed Ability Points like crazy, training for seven or eight days straight without repetition or boredom.

But now, unfortunately, Zhang Beixing had grown much stronger. As a result, looking at these Skills, his heart remained utterly unmoved.