Chapter 8: The Dream Chaser
Time passed quickly and fully day by day, and the No. X virus inoculated for Shi Xiaoling had reached level eight, and Shi Xiaoling still did not feel any discomfort.
However, the number of many students shortlisted at the same time as him is decreasing day by day, and after continuous elimination and withdrawal, the original 10,000 students are now only the last 50 people.
At this time, it was the tenth month that this group of students had been stationed in the secret training base, and Shi Xiaoling was still a little complacent about the fact that he had never been eliminated, after all, he had always been ranked last.
Shi Xiaoling actually didn't know why he was retained, from his observations, there were many students whose athletic talent was far better than him, although the ancient martial arts skills they mastered were far less abundant than his, but because everyone's true yuan level was not much different, so once they sparred, Shi Xiaoling would often fall behind because his athletic talent was not outstanding enough.
But the strange thing is that these students with more outstanding athletic talents have been eliminated one after another, and Shi Xiaoling asked Tang Zhishu about this.
Tang Zhishu told him that it was because there were many students with excellent athletic talent who did not adapt well to the virus, and in addition, Chief Instructor Cai of the training base valued his talent in the field of ancient martial arts very much, and did not care about his current confrontation ability in daily training.
Because once you are vaccinated with the tenth level of the Ultimate X virus, no matter who you are, the body's ability to accumulate energy will be greatly strengthened and stimulated, and the level of athletic talent will not be so important, but the body's adaptability to the ultimate virus is the most important.
Although Shi Xiaoling's conditions are average in all aspects, Chief Instructor Cai believes that his talent and cultivation in ancient martial arts may be able to help him escape the catastrophe at a critical time.
Of course, all this is just an assumption, who can become the winner of the most difficult among these fifty people, and has to go through several difficult tests, Shi Xiaoling is only one of the candidates who are considered to have the possibility of this, and the rest of the candidates also have their own outstanding points.
Shi Xiaoling's mentality was very good, he didn't think much about whether he could win the last day and become the person who traveled through time and space, but he was still immersed in his martial arts cultivation.
Although he had been inoculated with the eighth-level virus, the true essence that he could accumulate in his body was still very limited, far from enough to cultivate so many ancient martial arts that he had learned. Fortunately, he came up with a unique way to use his mind and spiritual power instead of the true yuan to run the ancient martial arts.
Shi Xiaoling had discussed related topics with Tang Zhishu, and Tang Zhishu, an expert in physiology and medicine, believed that Shi Xiaoling's method may not be theoretically unrealizable. The amount of spiritual power seems to be formless and substantial, but it may also be the existence of another unknown form of energy, but it is different from the ordinary tangible and qualitative form of material energy.
After receiving Tang Zhishu's encouragement, Shi Xiaoling became more confident in his own methods, and he even imagined that one day, when his spiritual mind was strong enough to achieve true energy and materialization, he could even convert and merge with the warm true yuan energy in his body.
With persistent belief and extraordinary imagination, Shi Xiaoling simply practiced a set of ancient martial arts cultivation techniques from beginning to end, but he was not able to exert his true power for the time being, and the rest was to continuously strengthen his true element.
Shi Xiaoling learned from Tang Zhishu that in order to make his true yuan extremely strengthened and improved, it was only possible to be inoculated with the most powerful Grade 10 X Ultimate Virus.
However, the virus has been in the testing stage for many years, and it is impossible to predict whether the body of the vaccinated person will be able to withstand it. In other words, there are considerable risks and uncertainties, and it is still uncertain what kind of side effects will occur on the body of the vaccinated person.
And only the last winner of all the finalists will be eligible to be inoculated with the most powerful Ultimate X virus an hour before boarding the time shuttle.
This tenth-level X Ultimate Virus is the highest scientific research achievement of the Star Continent, and it is developed using a lot of rare resources, and it is extremely difficult to make, with the current level of science and technology in the Star Continent, it can only be made into one dose a year at most.
Once the human body is inoculated with this ultimate virus, its body's ability to accumulate energy will be stimulated and strengthened like never before, and at that time, this virus will greatly stimulate the accumulation of energy in his body, and produce explosive growth or mutation in a short period of time, which may completely exceed the limit of the human body's tolerance.
In the last eight years, six of the last winners have died of the massive attack of this ultimate virus just before boarding the time shuttle.
Tang Zhishu was a little hesitant and apprehensive before telling Shi Xiaoling these words, she was very worried about whether Shi Xiaoling's body, who was born with mediocre qualities, could withstand the onset of the ultimate powerful virus.
But firstly, it is difficult to say whether Shi Xiaoling can win the most, and secondly, with the increasing understanding of Shi Xiaoling, Tang Zhishu knows that Shi Xiaoling is extremely eager to fulfill his dream of ancient martial arts, and only by inoculating the most powerful ultimate virus, Shi Xiaoling can greatly enhance his true yuan and become a true ancient martial arts master.
Although he was deeply worried about this, Tang Zhishu still informed Shi Xiaoling of these situations, hoping that he would be fully mentally prepared for this.
At this point, Shi Xiaoling realized that the eighth-level virus he had been vaccinated in the previous ten months was just a foreshadowing, and only by persevering until the last moment and standing out among all the finalists could he be vaccinated with the most powerful and ultimate virus that could really stimulate and strengthen his true element.
Shi Xiaoling asked Tang Zhishu: "Why can ancient human beings more than 2,000 years ago rely on their own cultivation to achieve true yuan and greatly improve their physique, but modern people 2,000 years later can't?"
Tang Zhishu has no definite answer to this, she believes that more than 2,000 years is really a long process, with the rapid development of modern technology, the environment of human habitation has also undergone earth-shaking changes.
In the case of the Star Continent, the air pollution, water pollution, and food pollution that have lasted for hundreds of years are enough to weaken the physical fitness of most people, and if you add the impact of thousands of years of war and various natural disasters, the living environment of human beings now must be very different from that of two thousand years ago.
The living environment is different, and people's physical fitness will naturally change accordingly, in this sense, Tang Zhishu does not think that retrieving a secret of immortality from the Bright Moon Continent two thousand years ago can solve all the problems.
Shi Xiaoling was very surprised when he heard this, and asked, "Then why do you need to spend so much manpower and material resources to carry out this 'national longevity improvement plan'?"
Tang Zhishu smiled bitterly and said: "This plan was initiated and planned by the Führer himself, maybe the Führer thinks that as long as he can get this secret of immortality, it is necessary to spend a big price." I just thought that this plan would really help the people, but now it's too late to quit. ”
Shi Xiaoling silently, in a country like the Star Continent, the head of state is like an ancient emperor, and the vast majority of ordinary people who have no power, no power and no money are just a group of grass people who work hard all day long for houses and cars.
Shi Xiaoling sighed softly and said, "I don't know anything about national affairs, I'm just a dream chaser who hopes to change his destiny by practicing ancient martial arts. This is an opportunity for me no matter what, and I will keep going and try to be the last winner. ”
"I really want to become a real master of ancient martial arts, and I really want to bring the legendary ancient secret of longevity back to the Star Continent. Perhaps, when I have obtained this secret of immortality, I should hand it over to you, an expert in physiology and medicine, to study, and hope to contribute to the general public. ”
Tang Zhishu smiled slightly and said, "I'm afraid this kind of thing can't help you and me." I knew that you would stick to the end, and I hope you can really become a superhuman master as you wish, but I hope you can remember that the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility. Now, let's think more about how we can get you through the tests, especially the explosive impact of the ultimate virus. ”
Shi Xiaoling said happily: "With your support, I am more confident." ”
Tang Zhishu's face turned slightly red, and said: "I have carefully studied the causes of death of the six winners who died from the impact of the ultimate virus in the past eight years, and they all seem to have been subjected to an internal impact of extremely high-intensity energy, causing the blood vessels in their bodies to burst instantly, causing them to bleed to death. ”
And this kind of energy shock inside the body seems to be round after round, and those who survive the first round with their excellent physical talent often die under the energy shock of the second or third round. ”
"I can reproduce to you the distribution of the blood vessels in the first few of their organs where their blood vessels burst, and maybe you can find out the approximate trajectory of the terrible burst of energy. I hope you can research a cultivation method that can mitigate similar energy shocks, and channel those rounds of intense energy shocks in time, so that maybe you can escape the catastrophe. ”
Shi Xiaoling was overjoyed, he had originally considered how to reasonably store and channel his meridians once his true yuan was greatly enhanced.
Tang Zhishu's proposal coincides with his thoughts, and with Tang Zhishu's objective analysis and help from the perspective of physiology and medicine, the possibility of him formulating a corresponding response plan has greatly increased.
In the days that followed, Shi Xiaoling devoted all his energy to dealing with the terrible ultimate virus outbreak.
Through the valuable information that Tang Zhishu copied to him, Shi Xiaoling deduced the possible route of the surging energy in his body once the ultimate virus broke out, and tried to find a way to deal with it in the various ancient martial arts he had learned.
For others, because they don't know anything about the outbreak of the ultimate virus, and they haven't learned so many ancient martial arts**, they must be at a loss for what to do.
But Shi Xiaoling's advantage lies precisely in the fact that he has studied ancient martial arts for many years, and is familiar with various different methods of dealing with energy accumulation and gushing, although he has never been able to put it into practice due to the limited true element, but with extraordinary imagination, he has created a stupid way to replace the true element with his mind and spiritual power.
If he couldn't win at all, he would naturally never be able to get a truly powerful enough True Yuan Energy for his use, then maybe the method he created himself would always be useless in the air. But Shi Xiaoling put all his efforts into his dream, and he didn't think that his efforts might just be an empty job.
Because he did not suffer from the mentality of gaining and losing at all, Shi Xiaoling's belief was extremely firm, and he really used his years of research and accumulation of ancient martial arts to make several sets of coping plans.
The so-called response plan is actually just a few sets of evacuation and operation of the real element.
Shi Xiaoling repeatedly practiced these sets of ** to the point of being extremely proficient, even when he was eating and sleeping, he was deliberately strengthening his training to practice, so that once the ultimate virus broke out, he could still subconsciously use these sets of ** to protect himself when he lost consciousness, at least not to be killed by the surging energy impact.
Of course, whether these sets of response plans can come in handy at a critical time, Shi Xiaoling doesn't have much confidence in his heart, but with his current ability, that's all he can do.