Chapter 743 - 713: Blood Qi Limit (Part 2)

In the hour and a half that followed, Zuo Wenya broke through twice, and Chen Yushi broke through once. Both of them reached the Peak of Marrow Tempering Realm.

Of course, they had reported their breakthroughs to the General Staff Department, and the timing was almost exactly every half hour.

So, after a while, Tang Xingbang was hardly surprised by it anymore. He even began to wonder, ’Could the reason Zuo Wenya’s trio arrived at the battlefield so quickly, their combat power drastically increased, be related to these half-hour rests?’

’Perhaps this is one of the costs of such a dramatic increase in power?’

Of course, no matter what Tang Xingbang speculated, he wouldn’t dare ask about such matters.

In that hour and a half, the tide of battle had shifted dramatically.

At least, it had in Zone C.

First, there was the number of Mutated Zombies.

In that hour and a half, Lin Xinghai had killed over 600 Mutated Zombies, and that was only because their numbers had started to dwindle toward the end.

Otherwise, he could have killed seven or eight hundred of them all by himself.

As for the Fourth Level Mutated Zombies, the group had managed to kill a total of 30 in that same hour and a half by working together.

By now, the number of Fourth Level Mutated Zombies in Zone C had been reduced to just one-third of the original total. Meanwhile, half of the first, second, and Third Level Mutated Zombies had also been eliminated.

Of course, achieving this was the result of the combined efforts of all the military squads, but it was undeniable that Lin Xinghai’s three-person team deserved the most credit.

The clean-up squads, in particular, felt this most clearly. At first, every fight had been a bitter struggle where they had to risk their lives.

But as Lin Xinghai and the others relentlessly hunted the Mutated Zombies, the pressure on them rapidly decreased. Without the threat from these elite enemies, they could easily kill the remaining Abyssal Creatures with their firearms.

Eventually, the squads began coordinating and quickly turned the tables, suppressing the Abyssal Creatures.

Even when a Mutated Zombie led a surprise attack, the squads had enough manpower to simply hold on for a moment until another team arrived to help. They no longer needed to call Lin Xinghai’s group for rescue.

That’s right. For the last twenty minutes, Lin Xinghai’s group hadn’t received a single rescue call.

Of course, they hadn’t been idle. They were constantly on the move, still rapidly killing one Mutated Zombie after another.

For the three of them, however, increasing their own strength was even more important.

Lin Xinghai, in particular, was ecstatic.

He had been absorbing Blood Bags non-stop for the entire hour and a half, increasing his Blood Qi Power by another 3,600 points.

He had stored all 3,600 of those points in his heart, yet it still didn’t feel full.

Including what he had before, the Blood Qi Power stored in his heart had reached a staggering 5,950 points.

He had to admit, even he was a little rattled by such a terrifying rate of improvement.

After all, someone in the Body Shaping Realm Early Stage only had about 5,000 points of Blood Qi Power in their entire body.

Yet the Blood Qi Power stored in his heart alone had already surpassed that.

’And it hasn’t even reached its limit yet! When it does, it’ll probably be even more terrifying.’

’And more importantly, my transformed organs include not just my heart, but also my stomach. This is double the fun!’

Lin Xinghai was completely immersed in his Cultivation. With his aura completely unrestrained, others could clearly feel it climbing higher with each passing second.

The aura he now emitted didn’t seem like it belonged to someone in the Marrow Tempering Realm at all. The sheer density of his Blood Qi Power surpassed even someone at the Peak of the Body Shaping Realm.

Zuo Wenya and Chen Yushi, who were right beside him, weren’t blind. At first, they had been too busy enjoying their own rapid power-ups to think much about Lin Xinghai’s improvement, though it had surprised them.

But once both of their Cultivation levels had broken through to the Peak of Marrow Tempering Realm, they noticed Lin Xinghai was still endlessly absorbing Blood Bags.

His absorption speed was double theirs, and they were Divine Demon Realm cultivators, but even so his growth hadn’t ended.

That was a little terrifying.

The two exchanged glances repeatedly. Finally, after Chen Yushi’s constant prodding, Zuo Wenya hesitated for a moment before he couldn’t resist asking, "Ahem! Ah Xing, what’s your total Blood Qi Power right now? Of course, that’s personal, so if you don’t feel comfortable answering, you don’t have to."

Hearing Zuo Wenya’s question, Lin Xinghai, who had been lost in his own elation, finally snapped out of it.

He had nothing to hide about the matter. After a glance at his system panel, he said plainly, "My current total Blood Qi Power is 17,283 points."

Although Zuo Wenya and Chen Yushi had their suspicions and knew Lin Xinghai’s Blood Qi Power would be high, neither of them had imagined it would be *this* high.

A total Blood Qi Power approaching 20,000 points—that was a figure even someone at the Peak of the Body Shaping Realm would have to look up to.

And Lin Xinghai was still only in the Marrow Tempering Realm.

The thought was suffocating.

"According to the Seed Plan Execution Department’s projections, the total increase in Blood Qi Power during the Marrow Tempering Realm should only be five or six thousand points!" Chen Yushi was the one who spoke up this time. "How did you increase yours by so much? And it looks like you still haven’t reached your limit."

Since Lin Xinghai was willing to talk, he didn’t hold back anymore.

"The Seed Plan Execution Department’s projections aren’t wrong. For an average person, once their internal organs are fully tempered, each organ can increase their Blood Qi Power by about 500 points. With 11 organs, that’s a total increase of 5,500 points."

"However, the amount of Blood Qi Power each person’s organs add isn’t fixed. Generally speaking, the stronger your prior physical constitution, the greater the increase in Blood Qi Power."

"As for me, I pushed my body to its absolute limits back when I was one of the Optimized and in the Blood Qi Realm. My physical constitution was 50% stronger than others at the same level, so the Blood Qi Power I gained from each organ was also 50% higher, reaching 750 points," Lin Xinghai explained.

"Then, by your logic, 11 organs should give you a total increase of 8,250 points. Even adding your previous Blood Qi Power, there’s no way it would reach over 17,000!" Chen Yushi quickly pointed out the discrepancy.

"That’s because the transformed organs can also store more Blood Qi Power. Right now, the total amount of Blood Qi Power my heart contains is already 5,950 points, and it still hasn’t reached its limit," Lin Xinghai said.