If I let you practice martial arts, you'll compress your vital energy ten thousand times?

Seventh Security Zone, Military Region Headquarters Building.

Three hundred meters underground, the core strategic defense zone.

As the special alloy explosion-proof doors, each half a meter thick, slowly opened, a pure energy aura so rich it was almost impossible to dissolve rushed out.

Lin Yuan followed a high-ranking military officer into the heavily guarded secret room.

In the center of the secret chamber is a white jade pool with a diameter of about ten meters.

The pool contained no ordinary water, but a viscous, mysterious liquid radiating a ghostly blue glow. This was the ultimate treasure—liquid energy—extracted from underground spiritual veins by the military at great expense of manpower and resources!

"Lin Yuan, this is the military's highest-level energy pool."

The senior officer looked at Lin Yuan and warned him sternly:

"The energy purity here is more than a thousand times that of the outside world!"

"Although you've received the top reward, with your Qi and Blood Realm physique, you absolutely mustn't be greedy. Stop absorbing immediately if you feel any swelling or pain in your meridians, or you risk exploding and dying!"

"You only have one hour. Let's begin."

After the officer finished speaking, he turned and left the secret room, and the heavy alloy door slammed shut again.

Inside the secret room, only Lin Yuan remained.

He stood alone by the white jade pool, gazing at the pool of liquid energy radiating an alluring glow. Beneath the mask... no, on his handsome face, which was now without a mask, a wildly fervent smile slowly crept onto his lips.

"Died from an explosion?"

Lin Yuan took off his ordinary sports jacket and casually tossed it aside.

"I'm afraid this pool of water isn't even enough to fill a tooth gap."

Pfft!

Lin Yuan leaped into the viscous energy pool.

As soon as he entered the water, that enormous and pure energy, like a shark smelling blood, frantically burrowed into his body through his pores.

If it were an ordinary student, or even a genius at the Bone Forging Realm, they would immediately writhe in pain upon being subjected to such a violent infusion of energy.

But Lin Yuan is different.

He closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

"Extreme Engine, full power activated."

boom!

With a low shout from Lin Yuan, the physical compression engine that had been dormant for over 100,000 times within his body, like a giant interstellar beast awakening, opened its abyss-like maw!

but.

In order not to arouse the suspicion of military monitoring, Lin Yuan did not violently create an energy vortex in the pool.

He demonstrated "micro-manipulation" with an extremely high level of control over his physical body!

Lin Yuan evenly distributed the enormous suction power across the tens of millions of pores all over his body.

There was no howling wind, no splashing water.

The surface of the entire energy pool was as calm as a mirror. But beneath the surface, the high-purity liquid energy was being forcibly drawn into Lin Yuan's body at a terrifying speed that was imperceptible to the naked eye!

With a massive amount of liquid energy entering the stomach.

The deep blue system panel on Lin Yuan's retina began to pulsate wildly at a dazzling speed!

[A massive amount of top-quality, high-purity energy has been detected!]

[Removing impurities... Forced physical compression in progress...]

[Current compression count: 155,000!]

[Current compression count: 172,000!]

[Current compression count: 189,000!]

Cool!

The unprecedented feeling of exhilaration made Lin Yuan's bones hum with comfort.

The liquid energy that the military has refined over decades contains is several times larger than the total wealth of the three grandmasters of the Dark Spirit Society!

The water level in the pool is dropping inch by inch at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Time passed by, second by second.

When the time reached the fifty-ninth minute.

The once full white jade pool was now completely empty. The last drop of the dark blue liquid energy was mercilessly squeezed out by Lin Yuan's pores.

It was at that very moment.

Suddenly, a blinding dark golden light burst forth from the system panel in Lin Yuan's mind!

[Current compression count: 200,000!]

[Ding! Congratulations, host, your Qi and Blood physical compression has surpassed 200,000 times!]

[Second-tier Eight-Part Asura Body unlocked!]

boom--!!!

An unprecedented, terrifying physical mass, seemingly capable of crushing eternity, suddenly condensed within Lin Yuan's body!

Lin Yuan suddenly opened his tightly closed eyes, a chilling dark golden light flashing in his dark pupils.

"Eightfold Asura Body..."

Lin Yuan carefully sensed the newly unlocked battle body information in his mind.

[Eightfold Asura Body] Activation Requirements: You must first activate the first-tier Dark Gold Battle Body as a prerequisite in order to withstand the terrifying gravity field of the second-tier Asura Body!

Once the second stage is activated, six dark gold arms, resembling divine weapons, will burst forth from his back!

With all eight arms outstretched, it represents the most extreme and unreasonable pure physical killing in the world!

"very good."

Lin Yuan clenched his fist.

Although he hadn't activated his battle form, he could clearly feel that the physical density and basic strength of his normal physical body had undergone a qualitative change.

"With my current normal physical condition..."

"Even with pure physical brute force, one can simply crush a Grandmaster at the peak to death."

As for how strong one becomes after activating the first-tier battle body or even the second-tier Asura body.

Lin Yuan himself did not have a precise standard of measurement.

He now desperately wants a super sandbag so he can properly test the limits of his body.

Drop drop!

Just then, the alarm light above the secret room suddenly flashed, signaling that an hour had passed.

crunch--

The heavy alloy explosion-proof door slowly opened.

The senior officer, accompanied by two military formation experts in white coats, strode in.

"Lin Yuan, time's up. How's your absorption going...?"

The officer's words were cut short, like a rooster being choked.

His eyes were fixed on the completely dried-up white jade pool, not a single drop of liquid left. He was struck dumb, his mind went completely blank!

"This...how is this possible?!"

The two array experts were also horrified. They scrambled to the edge of the pool and frantically searched and examined the array patterns on the bottom and around the pool.

Lin Yuan had already put on his sports jacket.

He wiped non-existent water stains from his hair, feigning an innocent and confused expression.

"Sir, what's going on with this pool?"

Lin Yuan blinked, his tone extremely sincere: "I had only been soaking in the pool for less than ten minutes, and I had just started to feel warm when the water suddenly evaporated out of nowhere."

"Vaporized?!" The officer trembled with rage.

This is a core strategic resource that the military has accumulated over decades! How could it just vanish into thin air!

What if this student sucked it dry?

Absolutely impossible! Let alone the Qi and Blood Realm, even if ten Grandmasters at their peak jumped in and drained this pool of water, they would have exploded into a puddle of mud long ago! Look at this kid, jumping around like a baby, he didn't even burp.

"Professor Li, what exactly happened? Has the core of the formation been violently destroyed?!" the officer roared at the formation expert.

Two senior experts, sweating profusely, spent half a day testing with various high-tech instruments.

In the end, the two looked at each other and came to a conclusion that they themselves found absurd, but which was the only one that matched the traces at the scene.

"Sir... the surrounding spirit-locking formation is intact, with no signs of being forcibly destroyed."

"Where did that energy go?!"

The old expert wiped away his cold sweat and nervously speculated:

"The foundation of this energy pool was built decades ago. We suspect... that the supporting nodes of the underground spiritual vein have undergone natural aging."

"This caused a hidden leak during the operation of the formation. The liquid energy in the pool evaporated naturally along the aging cracks and flowed back into the depths of the earth..."

Upon hearing this conclusion, the senior officer nearly fainted on the spot.

Natural evaporation?! Flowing back underground?!

This was a major, catastrophic incident! But he had no reason to blame a student who came to receive an award.

After all, in their minds, this good-for-nothing student named Lin Yuan was even a victim of this "shoddy construction accident," having wasted his reward opportunity.

"You...you should go back first!"

The officer clutched his chest and waved irritably at Lin Yuan.

"The military will investigate this matter thoroughly. A car will take you home; leave immediately!"

"Thank you, sir."

Lin Yuan suppressed a smile, slung his faded, tattered backpack over his shoulder, and swaggered out of the underground defense zone amidst the dismayed gazes of the military leaders.

They've taken the fattest sheep from the military.

It's time to go back to the slums and see that girl.

Lin Xiaoya.