His gaze shifted slightly, and the status bar on his personal panel popped up.
[Skill: Giant Axe Hand Blade Entry (1/200)]+
Behind him, a dark red symbol flickered, suddenly emitting a brilliant light.
Bai Xiao immediately stood up, positioning his body according to the training posture described in the Secret Martial Arts. His feet spread apart, center of gravity sinking, exuding a stable momentum and posture. Bai Xiao raised his strong arms heavily forward, fingers clenched together like a Fierce Battle Axe, his practice causing the veins on the backs of his hands to bulge violently.
Suddenly, the status bar of the Giant Axe Hand Blade began to flash rapidly.
At this moment, as if a mysterious force had poured into it, the personal panel became slightly blurred, covered by a layer of mist.
The black numbers jumped.
A transformation that would normally take a long time occurred within seconds.
With a whoosh, the light faded.
[Your Profession ’Secret Martial Arts Expert’, experience +30!]
[Your Skill ’Giant Axe Hand Blade’, experience +200!]
[Skill ’Giant Axe Hand Blade Entry’ leveled up to ’Giant Axe Level One’!]
[Skill: Giant Axe Hand Blade Level One (1/400)]+
In a flash, Bai Xiao suddenly felt his hands heating up sharply, tingling and painful, even emitting light white steam from the surface.
In the short half-minute that followed.
He felt as though his palms were red-hot iron billets just pulled from a smithy’s fire, laid upon the anvil. A group of blacksmiths surrounded it, swinging their hammers with all their might, clinking and sparking, resounding with a metal clang.
As if forging a pair of battle axes that could dominate the battlefield.
Heavy, massive, ferocious, and fierce.
However, this forging didn’t last long. It merely formed a rough axe billet, then everything abruptly stopped, and the enhancement ended.
Bai Xiao, unfazed, lowered his head to glance at his hands.
He slowly raised his right arm, immediately emitting a condensed and heavy momentum. With a light swing, a faint cracking sound echoed through the air.
A translucent stream of air slammed into the carpet, creating an indentation.
"Not bad, it even has the effect of condensing momentum,"
Bai Xiao made his evaluation.
He withdrew his gaze, unhesitatingly looking back at the personal panel.
"Dark Red, directly level up the Giant Axe Hand Blade to Perfection Limit!"
"Let’s see if it can bring me any surprises!"
Suddenly, as Bai Xiao’s thoughts moved, the potential points in the Dark Red Modifier began to rapidly decrease. Streams of mysterious energy flowed into the cultivation technique like water, slightly distorting its contours, a fog settled over it.
Bai Xiao’s hands felt as if they were on fire, becoming intensely hot and red, his veins visibly bulging out as if they would burst open and bleed the next second. Each tendon twisted and writhed like little snakes, exceptionally creepy.
"Crack, crack, crack, crack..."
He slowly clenched his fists, the sound from his joints resembling the blacksmith’s hammer harshly smashing down on the axe billet, sparking intensely in an instant.
The air between his fingers exploded.
Bai Xiao transformed his fist into a palm, slashing fiercely backward.
Half the room shook, the walls trembled.
In the air, a visibly giant axe hand shadow, ruthlessly rolled and pushed forward, dominantly expelling the surrounding air from the cavity.
This continued for about three or four seconds before it quietly collapsed.
"The Giant Axe Hand Blade is more suitable for me than the Ten Fists Sword, and it also matches my combat style. It complements the Cross Training Secret Martial very well..."
Bai Xiao nodded slightly, satisfied with his evaluation.
Ahead in his line of sight.
[’Secret Martial Arts Expert’, experience +180!]
[’Giant Axe Hand Blade’, experience +1200!]
[Skill ’Giant Axe Level One’ upgraded to ’Giant Axe Level Three’!]
[Skill: Giant Axe Hand Blade Level Three (∞/∞)]
Simply reached Perfection, effortless.
It cost Bai Xiao twenty-eight Potential Points, neither too many nor too few.
He took a deep breath, looked down at his visibly thicker and heavier palms, and the powerful and mysterious aura lingering around his hands.
"The muscle strength of my hands is obviously higher than other parts. After all, I have three offensive Secret Martial skills focusing on the palms."
In battle, the fists are most prone to injury.
Therefore, Bai Xiao preferred to train his hands as if they were refined iron.
Soon after, he quickly absorbed a flood of training information into his mind. It felt as if he had secretly practiced the Giant Axe Hand Blade in some unknown corner, rehearsing tens of millions of times over several years.
After some time, Bai Xiao completely digested all the information.
He then quickly left the room and went to the buffet restaurant at Hanhai Hotel, leisurely enjoying a meal. As he was finishing his meal, the awaited phone call finally rang. He immediately got up, moved to the side to wash his hands, then hurried to the hotel entrance to retrieve a case.
Inside the safe, there was the Hunqi pill for practicing the Qi-Blood Shield from the Cross Training Method. This was provided by the Wuyuan Company, a privilege of Bai Xiao’s consultant position at his company, allowing him to borrow a portion of the medicine in advance, though it needed to be returned later.
Five minutes later, in a bedroom of the hotel.
Bai Xiao sat cross-legged, entering the Pure Heart State once again. He was focused and free of distraction, concentrating on the Qi-Blood Shield Secret Martial.
This technique is not your ordinary Hard Skill, it starkly stirs the Qi-Blood. That is, it allows the cultivator’s abundant Qi-Blood within the body to gradually unleash, forming a condensed Qi shield on the surface of the body prematurely.