paranoianovel Chapter 16 Power
Chapter 16 Power
For Yu Jiangfeng, he had only known Zhang Ruanruan for less than a week.
During this time, the other party helped me kill hundreds of monsters, and would cover for me no matter what I did... What else could this be but a mother?
Thinking about this, he felt even more that Zhang Ruanruan deserved the title.
then---
"Thank you, Aunt Zhang." He repeated what he had just said.
"Get lost." Finally realizing she hadn't misheard, Zhang Ruanruan blushed to the roots of her ears. She forcefully shook off Jiang Feng and snapped, "Don't call me that! Get lost!"
Jiang Feng stopped wasting words and ran straight towards the mutated king.
Zhang Ruanruan was left behind, wearing a mask of pain.
She even felt that her protection had not worked in the previous battles and that she was now in a state of mental instability.
Otherwise... how could things have turned out this way?
What did I just hear?
For Zhang Ruanruan, she had only known Jiang Feng for less than a week.
As a colleague, she would take the other person to do some simple cleaning tasks. The monsters here were generally at the first or second level of Body Tempering, which was not worth her serious attention and would not give her any practical experience. That's why she didn't hesitate to give the other person these opportunities.
But now the other person is actually calling her...Mom?
Isn't this ridiculous?!
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Jiang Feng never expected that his genuine feelings would make Zhang Ruanruan think so much.
All he knew was that the big one was coming.
Upon arriving before the king-type beast, he didn't hesitate and immediately mobilized all the remaining energy in his body to unleash a powerful punch imbued with twin flames.
The burning power caused the already weakened monster to convulse, but it was, after all, a king-level mutated monster, and Jiang Feng's attack was not as terrifying as Zhang Ruanruan's.
"I wonder if the system will determine that I killed this monster with my own strength..."
Looking at the weakened royal seed in the flames, Jiang Feng felt slightly uneasy.
Even without opening the panel, he remembered that the effects of the extraordinary evil clearly stated that if he could kill a monster whose strength far exceeded his own, he would receive an additional fixed bonus!
He was merely a martial artist at the second level of Body Tempering, while this King-level creature was close to the Blood Qi Realm. In a rounding motion, it was equivalent to crossing an entire major realm!
If this works, how many more levels will it bring me?
"Stay calm, let's see if this works."
Shaking his head, Jiang Feng focused his attention on what was in front of him.
"hiss!"
The space around the monster began to fluctuate slightly... No, that wasn't fluctuation, but rather the last remaining corrupting power within this king-type being erupting, causing space to distort!
It had just received the [power] bestowed by the priest, but before even a day had passed, it encountered the [blessing] that could restrain its power. What a cruel twist of fate!
Seeing this, Jiang Feng gritted his teeth. After only a moment of thought, the martial artist's blood in his body began to burn wildly. Terrifying steam rose from his body. In the blink of an eye, the circulation route of the Flame Collapse Fist swung back and forth in his body several times!
He's willing to damage his body's meridians to increase the power of the Flame Collapse Fist!
"If you're out of work, then just go and die, you bastard!"
He roared and threw a punch downwards with all his might!
"Boom!"
The extreme force instantly corrected the distorted space. After taking full damage from this attack, the mutated king could no longer hold on and turned into ashes floating in the air along with the flames.
[Slay the King-level Aberration]
[Trigger additional fixed bonus]
[Base Strength permanently increased by 10%!]
Jiang Feng's eyes suddenly lit up!
It wasn't just because the system awarded him the kill, but also because of the extra bonus, which was a full 10%!
A full 10 times!
It might not be obvious in the early stages, but in the later stages, this 10% percentage bonus will be an extremely terrifying number!
"Cool!"
He opened the panel.
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[Jiang Feng]
[Realm: Body Tempering Realm (Second Heaven)]
[Base Strength: 29.9 (20+9.9)]
[Base Health: 977/1200]
[Extraordinary Evil: Floor 99]
[Blessed with: Primal Chains (Initial 15%)]
[Martial skill acquired: Flame Collapse Fist (Slightly proficient, 1%)]
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Not only did it gain 10 layers of extraordinary evil, but its mastery of Flame Collapse Fist also reached the next level.
For Jiang Feng, one advantage of quantifying attributes is that he can see the results of his efforts... After all, what people fear most is putting in effort but not seeing results, which makes it easy to give up halfway.
"Why does it feel like my Flame Collapse Fist technique is progressing much faster? Or is it just my imagination?"
He had noticed this while grinding monsters tonight.
Despite it being a Xuan-level martial art, he found himself becoming more and more adept at using it while killing monsters. The initial awkwardness lasted for less than an hour before completely disappearing.
When did it become so easy for martial artists with only mortal bone aptitude to learn Xuan-level martial arts?
Even the dumbest person can learn calculus.
Jiang Feng had some doubts, but he had no way of confirming them.
He asked Zhang Ruanruan, but she dismissed him with an impatient "You even need to practice Xuan-rank martial arts?"
The only connection to this is his second Hextech [Twin Flames], but is this silver Hextech really that mysterious, and can it enhance his comprehension of martial arts of the same attribute?
Hard to say.
"Forget it, I'll ask Luo Feng next time I run into him," Jiang Feng thought to himself.
He remembered that Luo Feng, like himself, had learned this fire-attribute martial art.
As for the minor damage to the meridians, it can be recovered with just two days of rest. Zhang Ruanruan also said before that there would be no more aberrations in this area in the next few days, so he was not too worried that the efficiency of stacking passives would be reduced.
"Let's leave once this is resolved." When Zhang Ruanruan faced Jiang Feng again, a hint of lingering unease remained on her fair face.
"Okay." Jiang Feng looked back at the dark depths again, unwilling to linger there.
"Rustling sound".
The remaining ashes scattered on the ground were stirred by the cold wind that passed through the area, making a soft, rustling sound.
Neither of them noticed that in the air where the king-level creature had turned to dust, a grayish-white mist, almost invisible to the naked eye, silently entered Jiang Feng's body the moment he turned around, carried by the wind in the tunnel.
What he didn't know was that this was a power far rarer than even branched martial bones; in the secret scriptures of those ancient sects, this power was called... [Authority].
----The Defiant
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After safely returning to the law enforcement booth, Zhang Ruanruan told Liu Sujun and Chu Gonghua everything that had happened that day.
Liu Sujun remained silent for a long time before slowly speaking, "This is probably the work of the Voodoo Sect. They arrived in Lan City just last night."
"They've already arrived?" Jiang Feng was startled.
"Yes, the intelligence was wrong." Chu Gonghua's face turned somewhat grim as he said this. "They arrived three days earlier than the higher-ups said. Su Jun and I originally planned to wait until you went back and rested for a day before talking to them, but we didn't expect you to run into them directly."
"This also means... your undercover mission is about to begin."