Becoming a Saint by Touching Corpses-Chapter 561 - 538: Sorting Things Out

Compared to Startling Tide and Body into Sword, Heaven-splitting Claw consumes the least energy and is more flexible and easy to control.

In close combat, it has significant utility.

It’s just unknown, what would be the reaction of the Wolf Clan when encountering this move?

Then, Lou Yi continuously clicked on other prompts.

These prompts all came from the demon clan experts he killed previously.

Lou Yi generally chooses talents if available, otherwise opts for Yin Affinity, and if neither is available, he selects energy.

For example, the ’Swift Flight’ talent from the Eagle Demon can increase speed to some extent and is absorbed and enhanced by the ’Ride the Wind’ talent.

The ’Stone Armor’ talent from the Rock Monster can strengthen physical defense, absorbed and enhanced by the Petrification talent.

Strength-based talents are relatively rare.

Lou Yi only acquired one, named ’Brutal Strength,’ from a Barbaric Bull Demon, absorbed and enhanced by the Monster Power talent.

In the end, Lou Yi’s Petrification talent was strengthened a total of seven times, the Ride the Wind talent twice, and the Monster Power talent once, obtaining more than four thousand points of energy. The harvest is undeniably rich.

’Boom!’

He casually threw a punch, causing the front void to become entirely chaotic.

The original gases transformed into visible white streams, forcibly expelled and scattered, finally forming an almost vacuum area.

’After breaking through to mid-stage Martial Saint, the strength and qi-blood of my physical body are far more powerful than the early-stage Martial Saint.’

’At early-stage Martial Saint, the basic strength can reach a maximum of one million five hundred thousand jin.

After breaking through to mid-stage Martial Saint, with the absorption of various strength talents over the four years.

The basic strength has made a massive leap, reaching four million six hundred seventy thousand jin, an increase of nearly three times.’

’This time, having absorbed another strength-based talent, the strength has thoroughly exceeded five million jin.

Combined with the speed of my punches, the kinetic energy is immense and difficult to estimate.’

’As for speed...’

Lou Yi’s body surface revealed a translucent red energy aura, and his figure disappeared on the spot.

Like transforming into a red lightning bolt, he dashed back and forth in the valley, circling around in just a moment.

’Bang!’

Returning to the original spot, the sharp breaking sound of the air entered his ears.

"At early-stage Martial Saint, the basic speed exceeds three times the speed of sound, already surpassing the level of many mid-tier Demon Generals.

Now it has reached five times the speed of sound, 99% of late-stage Foundation Establishment and high-tier Demon Generals are left in the dust."

"Correspondingly, the speed of Body into Sword naturally also improves, seven or eight times the speed of sound shouldn’t be a problem."

"Speed is much harder to improve compared to strength, and speed-related talents are equally rare."

"As for defensive capabilities..."

Lou Yi took out a blue goat horn, about one foot long, crystal clear and exquisite like a piece of art.

It originated from a Blue Sheep Demon, whose twin horns were collected by Lou Yi after its death.

Its hardness definitely surpasses most upper-grade spiritual artifacts, perhaps even comparable to top-grade spiritual artifacts.

"Petrification."

Reciting the talent, a faint oily gloss instantly covered Lou Yi’s body.

’Clang!’

The blue goat horn struck heavily against the skin of his right arm, producing a metallic clashing sound and sparking.

The surface of the skin didn’t even show a single white mark.

"Glazed Armor."

Retracting the Petrification talent, activating the companion martial skill.

A semi-transparent crimson armor surfaced on Lou Yi’s body, embodying extraordinary dao charm, seemingly containing profound truths of the universe.

When the blue goat horn pushed against the Glazed Armor, most of its power was dissipated by the armor’s flow, and the remaining naturally made no progress.

Finally, Lou Yi removed all the defenses.

Finding that although the blue goat horn could pierce through flesh.

But upon reaching the subcutaneous connective tissues, the speed drastically reduced, experiencing immense resistance, making each move difficult.

In other words, currently, Lou Yi, even without using the Petrification talent or Glazed Armor.

The sheer defense has reached an extremely terrifying level, making it difficult for general high-tier Demon Generals to cause effective damage.

Defensive capability is currently Lou Yi’s strongest attribute.

Just the Petrification talent alone reaches the E-level endorsed by the attribute panel, when coupled with the Glazed Armor...

Lou Yi confidently believes that even a Dao Foundation Perfection cultivator would struggle to break his defense.

As for those who establish the Spirit Stage mightier, due to the limited samples, it’s hard to judge.

Lou Yi glanced at the attribute panel:

[Name: Lou Yi]

[Age: 27/352]

[Realm: Mid-stage Martial Saint (3/600), Three-star Body Cultivator (294/600), Qi Cultivation eighth layer (188/600)]

[Cultivation Technique: Yellow Extreme Breathing Technique (third stage, proficient 0/1000+Five-color Lingzhi)...Mysterious Essence Yin-Yang Intercourse Secret Record (proficient)]

[Skills: Startling Tide (Perfection), Lou’s Axe Technique (Perfection), Heaven-splitting Claw (Perfection)...Companion Martial Skill·Body into Sword, Companion Martial Skill·Glazed Armor, Companion Martial Skill·Rising Dragon, Secret Skill: Dragon Piercing Technique - Fragment (one)]

[Magic: Corpse Control Technique (Perfection), Yin Qi Arrow (Perfection), Array Basic Resolution (Perfection)...]

[Talent: Petrification (Perfection), Ride the Wind (Minor Achievement 0/5000+1 Wind Fruit), Disguise (Minor Achievement 0/10000+1 Black Taisui), Tenacity (Advanced Proficiency 0/1000+1 Spirit-devouring Vine), Monster Power (Proficient 0/500+1 Blood Bodhi), Venom (Advanced Proficiency 0/300+1 Devour Soul Flower)...Divination (Beginner 0/500+1 Millennium Tortoise Shell), Clone (Beginner 0/600+1 Blood Jade Lotus)]

[Detection: Yes/No]

[Deduction: Yes/No]

[Energy: 2965]

After advancing to mid-stage Martial Saint, it requires ten days to improve proficiency by one point, needing more than ten years to transition to late-stage Martial Saint.

In body cultivation aspect, due to the continuous enhancement of the Petrification talent, its cultivation speed has somewhat increased, improving proficiency by one point every five days.

Looking at it this way, around four years should suffice to upgrade to four-star Body Cultivator, reaching the same status as Martial Saint.

The speed in Qi Cultivation is fastest, one point per day, approximately one year to ascend to the ninth layer of Qi Cultivation.

However, at present, his overall strength is primarily focused on martial arts.

To enhance martial arts strength, swiftly breaking through to late-stage Martial Saint, prioritizing the search for the crucial item, Five-color Lingzhi, is essential.

Though he used Divination talent dozens of times, the result yielded some information of uncertain usefulness: in the south.

Lou Yi realizes either the timing for acquiring the treasure is not yet ripe, or it is hidden within ancient ruins, or held by a divine skill user who can obscure heavenly secrets.

The second method is obtaining the ancient martial arts heritage.

His current path is forcibly deduced by the attribute panel, not a standard route.

Upon cultivating the Martial Saint realm to perfection, the subsequent path may not be continued.

If the ancient martial arts heritage can be acquired, there would be no concern for future path issues.

Over the past four years, Lou Yi has partnered with the Holy Daughter Jia Hong from the Yellow Springs Sect, visited the Yin Fiend Realm twice, both times ending in failure.

But he feels he’s getting closer to genuinely contacting ancient martial artists, perhaps success is near in the next try.

The third opportunity to bolster strength, Lou Yi believes lies within Qian Yuan’s realm.

If the mystery of the Grandmaster is unraveled, it should offer a significant boost in strength.

The fourth is finding the key item needed for important talents.

The most crucial key item currently is actually the Millennium Tortoise Shell required by the Divination talent.

It is said that technology is the primary productive force.

Once the Divination talent is upgraded, the efficiency in deducing the required items for other talent advancements would enhance significantly.

However, the Divination talent can deduce items needed for any other talent, but cannot deduce anything related to itself, as the saying goes, a doctor cannot treat oneself, nor can divination apply to oneself.

Currently, something promising is the Disguise talent needing the Black Taisui...

Lou Yi is contemplating the future path.

On the other side, Bi Yaoyao approached his clone, eyes brimming with tears: "Lou Blockhead, my father, my father is leaving me..."

"What?!" Lou Yi exclaimed in shock.

Elder Bi was in seclusion, how did something suddenly happen?

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