Chapter 293: Chapter 181: Dragon Thunder Tempering, Native Skin Membrane Rivals Alien Implant, Xue Jing to Take an Apprentice? (4K)
Chapter 293: Chapter 181: Dragon Thunder Tempering, Native Skin Membrane Rivals Alien Implant, Xue Jing to Take an Apprentice? (4K)
Yesterday Li Qi mentioned, "The dojo of the Hidden Dragon School is now too small; it's packed with disciples and we need to move to a larger dojo."
He had found a good place, but there were still some troubles to resolve.
Li Qi put down his writing brush and wheeled himself over to Xue Jing. Just as he was about to reply, his expression suddenly changed, and he reached out to grab Xue Jing's palm, examining it closely before exclaiming in surprise,
"Hmm? This protective membrane on your body..."
The perfect and slender palm, without a single callus or dead skin from martial arts practice, was even more beautiful and delicate than the hands of women who had been pampered from a young age; it was incredibly smooth.
But this wasn't the focus of Li Qi's surprise.
What attracted him was the crystal-clear texture of Xue Jing's skin, which seemed to glow, possessing a beauty unlike that of humans.
"Have you just finished practicing the Skin Training Volume of the Armor Shaking Skill?" Read new adventures at mvl
Li Qi asked.
Xue Jing nodded and asked with confusion, "Is there a problem, Master?"
Li Qi extended a finger and pressed it against the back of Xue Jing's hand.
The seasoned Power, condensed through his fingertip into a needle shape, penetrated the protective membrane on Xue Jing's hand.
Although he was now a half-crippled body, he was once an Immortal of the Ordinary World who had leapt through the Dragon Gate, and the foundations of a Grandmaster were still with him. The Power he could use now might not be very strong, but the precision in his operation was still top-notch.
At this moment, his Power was condensed into a needle shape, extremely sharp. Even a piece of raw iron would be punctured by him to create a small hole.
However, this needle-shaped Power, when applied to the back of Xue Jing's hand, was met with resistance.
The pale and crystal-clear protective membrane on the back of the hand was extremely tough; it was merely indented by the puncture and showed no signs of being pierced through.
"No seams; even the pores are closed to the extreme."
Li Qi couldn't help but be amazed.
"...Flawless and leak-proof; this is the nature of 'Skin Bursting Like Glazed Glass.'
"Strange, have you practiced any new cultivation techniques?"
Xue Jing shook his head and said, "No, the only body skills I have practiced related to martial arts are from the Hidden Dragon School."
He had only recently started augmenting his practice with Dragon Thunder, but explaining this would be somewhat complicated, and Xue Jing had no intention of revealing it yet.
Li Qi stroked his chin,
"Hmm... could it really just be exceptional talent?"
"Is something amiss, Master?" Xue Jing asked.
Li Qi nodded, "Something does seem off... but it should be a good thing."
"You should know that there is an 'Alien Implant' called 'Protective Membrane,' right?"
Xue Jing nodded to show he was aware.
He had already encountered it many times, starting from the first containment mission he undertook where he met a man named Zhu Yingkun, to the subsequent encounters with Mountain Demons, members of the Titan God Brigade on the cruise ship... and so on, all of whom had implanted protective membranes.
This type of membrane, which could greatly resist the Power of martial artists, had caused him no small amount of trouble.
"The Protective Membrane was originally created to achieve the effect of 'Skin Bursting Like Glazed Glass.'"
Li Qi said,
"Oh?" Xue Jing raised an eyebrow.
"The membrane is like indestructible glazed glass, flawless and without leaks. Once this Treasured Body is achieved, there will be no vulnerable spots on the entire body, able to lock up all spirit essence and blood, isolating the inside from the outside."
"To put it in scientific terms, such a membrane, at the microscopic level, has an atomic structure that is incredibly stable and unmatched in compactness.
"And the purpose of creating the Protective Membrane was precisely to achieve this 'absolute stability, absolute compactness' effect of 'Lustrous Glass Skin'... At that point, even the strongest external impact, when encountering such an atomic structure with no gaps and extreme stability, will not be able to disturb it in the least, as any attack is completely isolated on the outside."
"Your current membrane sort of has this effect."
Li Qi said as if it was incredible,
"I used Power to form a needle shape, but for a moment I couldn't find any gaps in your membrane to penetrate..."
"How strange, when I achieved the 'Eternal Fairy Body' after leaping through the Dragon Gate, although my membrane was countless times sturdier than yours, it did not have this anomaly of no gaps... Were it not for your body being harmoniously coordinated as one, showing no signs of mutation, I would have thought you secretly practiced some New Martial Arts Forbidden Skills..."
Hearing this, Xue Jing was struck with a thought.
Could it be the effect of tempering his body with Dragon Thunder and gravity training?
Under the pressure of ten-fold gravity, the structure of his body cells changed, and with the electrotherapy of Dragon Thunder, it stimulated the electromagnetic forces between the atoms constituting the cells to some extent, making the atomic structure of the membrane more compact and stable?
Under various accidental situations, his membrane was transforming towards the legendary 'Skin Bursting Like Glazed Glass'...
It couldn't really be that, could it...
Li Qi grabbed Xue Jing's arm again and tested his membrane with his Power for a while, then nodded and said,
"The protective effect of your current membrane is roughly equivalent to a B5-level protective membrane."
"For martial artists below profession level seven, unless they are Soft Power experts like your senior sister Meng, their Power, when striking your membrane, will at least be deflected by seventy percent."
Xue Jing inquired, "Master, how exactly are the levels of the protective membrane calculated?"
Li Qi laughed, "It's calculated based on a combination of factors such as the stability of the structure and its strength... It starts from the lowest [D1] to [D10], and going up are [C1] to [C10]... Reaching [B1] is military-grade, and the highest grade protective membrane on the market is [A10]."
"The level of [A10] is already extremely exaggerated in strength; even masters capable of breakthroughs can't penetrate it with their full force, but this is only the highest available on the market. It is rumored that there are even higher levels of protective membranes, but those are just urban legends; I've never seen them."