novelraw Chapter 346 - 266: New Ability—Suffocation Barrier
Chapter 346 - 266: New Ability—Suffocation Barrier
The Advanced Study Summons caused a worldwide sensation.
It further fueled the martial arts craze.
Su Xin traveled around the world to relax and then returned to the small world to continue his cultivation. Meanwhile, he utilized the All Things Control Attribute to appropriately transform the small world to ensure it was sufficient for twenty thousand people’s training and living.
The environment of the Dragon Spring Holy Land is on mountain peaks, so the small world modeled after it was also equivalent to being on several continuous mountain tops.
Although there were no planted crops or animals in the mountains, there were fruit trees and streams, barely enough for sustenance.
Su Xin directly replaced all the trees with fruit trees and went out to the grasslands to capture a large number of fast-reproducing animals like rabbits.
It should be enough for twenty thousand people’s food and drink.
After all, these fruit trees could continuously refresh, and various wild fruits could be considered inexhaustible. If things went bad, they could chew on the bark.
As for the taste, that’s not within his consideration. After enjoying endless Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi and a superb environment undisturbed by the outside world, one must endure some hardships, right...
Additionally, he adjusted the overall terrain to transform it into a plain, integrating the living and training areas.
Afterwards.
Su Xin once again immersed himself in cultivation.
...
A month later.
On a vast plain, members of the High Martial Alliance had long enclosed a large area of open space. On the appointed day, early in the morning, they transported the selected candidates to this location using large vehicles.
Twenty thousand Body Refining Realm martial artists could form an invincible army in ancient times. Even if they were all ordinary people, such a vast number would pose a tremendous threat to any ancient nation.
From a distance, the twenty thousand people appeared like a densely packed ant colony, teeming with heads, the noise like a boiling pot. Anyone with trypophobia would feel their scalp tingling.
Just gathering these people required more than a hundred military transport vehicles to shuttle back and forth continuously for over three hours. Some were hungry or thirsty but had to endure; yet none complained, instead they looked forward eagerly.
By noon.
A stream of light shot forth, coalescing into Su Xin’s figure in midair near the formation.
"Everyone!"
A majestic and resonant voice, like muffled thunder, rang out above the crowd, instantly suppressing the noise from over twenty thousand people below.
The crowd noticed the figure in the air and turned around to look at Su Xin, quieting the scene.
"Before entering the sacred training grounds, there are some important matters I must remind everyone."
"First, once inside, you must stay for a full year before you can exit."
"Second, in the sacred grounds, there’s no entertainment, no technology products, and no abundant food. You can only pick wild fruits, hunt, and there’s no night, only eternal daylight."
"Third, due to the large number of participants, I will arrange for some High Martial Alliance administrators to assist in managing. They hold power over life and death; if anyone causes trouble, being killed serves them right, and complaints can only be made after a year upon exiting the sacred grounds."
"By ’no troublemaking,’ I mean no wanton chaos, while normal martial contests or even life-and-death duels are allowed."
"Alright, prepare to enter."
Upon finishing, Su Xin, with a thought, released an immense telekinetic force, gently grasping all twenty thousand people below.
The next moment.
Their vision shifted.
Everyone appeared in the small world.
This was a plaza that Su Xin had specially created, located in the central area of the entire small world.
Su Xin briefly told everyone the directions of each area and introduced the twenty administrators from the High Martial Alliance.
It seemed rather absurd for twenty people to manage twenty thousand, almost impossible, but in reality, these people lived and trained individually, most matters required no worry, and few directives from managers were needed.
They only needed to punish those who deliberately caused trouble, without requiring strict legal terms, relying entirely on intuition to handle matters.
As for whether it was reasonable or not, it was up to them to adapt.
...
After arranging everything, Su Xin returned to his exclusive palace and entered Stealth State for training.
Until about a week later.
A new system task was triggered.
But after spending several days completing the task, the awakened ability was frankly trash:
[Bursting Fury Speech LV1: Every tenth sentence spoken will cause a Qi explosion.]
Even with plenty of ability slots and causality points, seeing this ability made him choose to forget it immediately after testing.
After some time.
Su Xin completed another system task, but this time the awakened ability brought a small surprise.
[Suffocation Barrier LV1: After holding breath for one second, a barrier appears on the body’s surface. The defense power grows infinitely stronger with increased suffocation time.]
To test its actual effectiveness, Su Xin specially used Instant Teleportation to the surface of the sun.
His physical body now could easily and freely walk on the sun’s surface, even delving deeper continuously. After several hours of progression deep within, feeling unknown depths, his skin finally began to feel slightly heated.
Su Xin neither used True Qi nor Telekinesis Armor, nor did he employ World Domain.
He simply delved deeper this way.
Until he entered the sun’s core region, swimming in the liquid outer core area akin to magma, his skin only experienced notable heat without any burn marks, even his hair remained uncurled.