CHAPTER 176: CHAPTER 177: FIRST STAGE OF TRANSFORMATION

"What’s going on?!

Quisangsi’s pupils suddenly contracted, and his high-precision electronic eye barely caught a fleeting shadow, completely unable to capture Lu Ren’s figure. Only a crater like a bomb blast was left on the spot, with rubble flying.

This bizarre sense of horror made Quisangsi violently retreat.

What Lu Ren achieved was entirely due to his almost perfect control over his body, allowing him to break the sound barrier instantly with his powerful physique, and astonishingly, his strange posture produced no sound when breaking the barrier.

This superior perception of airflows enabled Lu Ren to make extremely agile changes, even flowing with the stream without disturbing anyone.

What a terrifying sense of perception!

Quisangsi roared inwardly, feeling that he was facing something that was not human!

In facing Quisangsi’s attack, Lu Ren had already made predictions in advance and twisted his body in an instant, stomping a pit with his foot, keeping his waist lowered. His strong physique easily broke the wind resistance, and his high-level perceptual skill allowed him to glide smoothly with the airflow from the side.

"Your strike is too slow."

Lu Ren’s voice softly echoed in Quisangsi’s ear, instantly sending chills through him. When did he appear by his side?!

He twisted his body, vigorously slashing with the longsword in his hand, but still hit nothing but air.

Clang!!

Lu Ren bypassed Quisangsi, charging straight at the bald man. The right arm gripping the sword hilt bulged intensely, directly exploding an armor plate welded to his arm. As his spirit and will continuously soared and condensed, the magnetic field around him was released when the longsword was drawn in an instant, with currents as thick as a baby’s arm erupting.

Even the ground showed scorch marks from the impact.

The immense pressure accumulated by the sword scabbard was released at this moment, and the high-frequency vibration sword emitted threads of electric light nearly affecting the free electrons in the air.

Amidst the magnetic outbreak, even around Lu Ren, indigo arcs of electricity occasionally flickered and leapt.

The large-framed bald man only managed to slightly shift his body, but before his eyes was the violent flash of Sword Qi!

"Ah!!"

The bald man only managed to let out a cut-off roar before falling silent, being directly split in two by Lu Ren’s mid-air slash. The cutting revealed circuit boards and machinery sparking inside.

His terrifying sword-drawing speed directly ripped through the air, surpassing the speed of sound. The air was violently churned by the superimposed energy stored in the high-frequency vibration sword.

This Sword Qi, unleashed by Lu Ren with all his might under normal conditions, shot out arcs of electricity like a dense rain, cutting vertically through the bald man’s massive body, then continued forward. Instead of losing momentum, it became empowered by the magnetically manifested field under Lu Ren’s explosive control, augmenting this powerful air-cleaving Sword Qi.

After cutting the bald man in two, the Sword Qi didn’t stop. It directly sliced through the trees behind, creating a deep trench in the ground and only gradually dissipated after about thirty meters.

Tree branches shattered, and rubble flew.

The intense gale still persisted at this moment.

"Ding, you have split Janukis in half with one sword stroke, increasing your Basic Swordsmanship skill level."

Pff.

The system notification wasn’t even enough to be malicious and was still clamoring here.

Sanquis, who had retreated a considerable distance, had a cold expression as he turned to look at Lu Ren, who was nearly thirty meters away, and at the massive tree, felled by the Sword Qi that plowed the ground beside him.

The samurai sword in his hand trembled slightly, with a faint ghostly light shimmering on the slender blade.

Is this Bright Awakening...

Lu Ren straightened up, glanced at the longsword in hand, and felt that this was not his full power. The First Stage of Transformation within the Ten Lands Great Accomplishment Golden Body Bodhisattva Path didn’t merely cause passive changes in his body and bones, but rather, it allowed a revolutionary transformation in his body.

He really wanted to try it out.

Looking at the samurai sword in Quisangsi’s hand.

"Your sword is pretty good."

Quisangsi stared at the high-frequency vibration sword in Lu Ren’s hand, the blade also emitting a faint ghostly light, which involuntarily sent a chill through him.

"Your sword is also impressive. I didn’t expect Donghua to develop such technology. It seems you’ve gained quite a bit in this Exotic Realm."

It’s not just that Lu Ren contributed a dagger.

The Military Department, or possibly members of the Security Bureau, or even other civilian experts who entered the Exotic Realm, acquired various technologies and objects of significant importance, including some cultivation techniques. Many matters were handled officially with great effort in exchange for equality.

At least the Dragon Mechanism power armor Lu Ren wore, though evolved through 46 generations in Huaxia, contained technology far ahead of today’s age.

Even if he browsed online, most were theoretical from laboratories, nowhere used so proficiently on individual equipment.

At least the power armor’s sensory and auxiliary force device had almost zero delay in providing assistance.

"Want to try it?"

Lu Ren twirled the high-frequency vibration sword in his hand, revealing a slight smile.

The armor on his right arm had already been forcibly ripped open by the previous overpowering slash.

Lu Ren straightforwardly tore off the dangling armor on his right arm, revealing the inner lining of a black special tight combat suit in an enhanced version.

The combat suit embedded numerous high-strength armor plates, even forming dense, snake-like scales, distributed over the entire body.

Moreover, the suit had excellent elasticity and a significant stretch capacity, though stretching would create gaps between the armor plates, but for Lu Ren, this was no significant concern.

Seeing such a violent scene from Lu Ren, Sanquis’s eyes twitched slightly but found it not unexpected.

Decades of mutual conflict and destruction had long made him aware that when the martial artists of Huaxia reach a certain point in their cultivation, their body functions, under rapidly increasing hormones, would cause some changes in their physique.

Activate overload mode.

Buzz!!

With the low hum of electromagnetic noise, the device on Quisangsi’s chest, resembling a power furnace, began to emit a cold blue light from the frontal armor.

This made Lu Ren sense a hint of danger.

He couldn’t help but be curious.

"What kind of energy is this?"

Quisangsi had a slight smile on his face.

"Plasma arc reaction device capable of full load output can let uhm..."

As if sensing that talking scientific terms with such a fist-focused martial artist would be confusing, Quisangsi paused.

"This output per second can let you instantly lift fifty tons."

Lu Ren understood.

"Impressive, it must be exotic technology, right? Use one less one kind of thing?"

Honestly, if Northern America could really mass-produce such new energy reactors, the real world wouldn’t look anything like it does today.

The whole world would experience immense changes due to such an energy revolution.

"So, I’m not a low-level super transformer like Janukis."

"Then, what is your attack method?"

"You will see."

Before the word ’see’ was finished, Quisangsi’s entire alloy equipment emitted threads of electric arcs bursting forth as he dragged lines of electric arcs in a burst.

Boom!

The spot where Quisangsi stood was blasted out into a large pit under terrifying force.

In this instantaneous burst of speed, Quisangsi almost broke the sound barrier.

Lu Ren’s eyes shone brightly, with the Lamp of Freedom lighting up instantly, a nearly visible rounded radiance floated behind his head, coordinated with the Flame Wisdom Land operating simultaneously.

Like a brightly burning oil lamp driving away the darkness, retreating rolling black mist, lighting up a round spiritual light, akin to the virtue of Buddha shining universally.

Ten Lands Mahayana Golden Body Bodhisattva Path, First Stage of Transformation!

His will, at this moment, soared in frequency to the extreme he could attain, with his internal magnetic field rapidly transforming, causing his cells to mutate instantaneously, proliferating!

Countless suddenly mutated and proliferating cells started operating according to the Ten Lands Mahayana Golden Body Bodhisattva Path’s First Stage of Transformation’s predetermined template.

Lu Ren only felt his physical strength beginning to be significantly consumed, and in return, his left arm began to expand rapidly.

Due to intense cellular changes, his hand almost appeared to have come alive, with cells madly dividing and differentiating, resembling alien mutation.

Just like before with Subodhi, his cell fluid boiled and throbbed.

Finally, his arm became entirely disproportionate to his body size, with just one hand transforming into a gigantic hand with a bronzed hue and a slightly dark gloss.

The palm, as large as a millstone, should have been covered in fine lines, but at this point, it was incredibly smooth.

And it was covered with dense scale armor, with hardened calcium scale armor gleaming with a faint dark gold under the daylight.

What the hell?!

Seeing this, Quisangsi almost popped his electronic eye.

Even Lu Ren was almost startled seeing the changes on his hand.

This Ten Lands Great Accomplishment Golden Body Bodhisattva Path is quite improper, inducing such terrifying changes.

Is it really a Bodhisattva?!

With thoughts churning in his mind, Lu Ren already punched toward Quisangsi.

Buzz!

The air, stirred by the giant fist, moved like it was in a viscous fluid, creating ripples spreading outward.

Quisangsi saw that Lu Ren didn’t use his sword but instead greeted him with his hand, and a hint of anger appeared on his face.

This was entirely underrating him!

The longsword was sharp, slashing toward Lu Ren’s palm, the blade easily slicing through the air, the cold light of the blade heavily smashing onto Lu Ren’s raised gigantic palm.

Tss!

The blade directly cut through the gaps between Lu Ren’s fingers, yet in the next moment, it was firmly caught by the muscle, while the flesh around the blade seemed to become alive, avoiding the sharp edge, forming a small crack at the gap.