One punch calms the storm, no gods in the world

Chapter 66: Arhat (4100 words)
When Suti attended the auction in Xihui Province
Minh Yuan City, Nanjiang Province.

In a villa.

In the dark villa, Li Zong sat alone quietly.

Since the death of his eldest son Li Mingsheng, he seemed to have aged a lot and became more taciturn. He stayed alone in the villa all day long. Even his only son Li Minggui could not guess what he was thinking.

Just as Li Zonggu was sitting in the hall, a bolt of lightning suddenly struck, illuminating the dark house with a bright light.

The empty hall where only Li Zong was present a second ago suddenly had three more people.

They look different, but all of them have slender hands and sharp eyes.

Li Zong seemed not surprised by this situation and his face was very calm.

"Silver Ring Sect's Sect Master Chang Wuji, Deputy Sect Master Qin Huan, and Great Elder Liu Tianhao, I have been waiting for you here for a long time."

Li Zong slowly stood up, glanced at the three people one by one, and finally clasped his hands together and said.

Seeing that Li Zong looked as if he had known they were coming, Chang Wuji also showed an amused look on his face.

"It seems that President Li is not only well-informed, but also very thoughtful. You knew that we, the Silver Ring Sect, were coming, so you must also know why we are here, right?"

Li Zong put down his arms and said in a deep voice.

"The Blood Demon Sect is very powerful and has sent me many invitations to surrender. I have been considering whether there is anyone in Nanjiang Province who can fight against the Blood Demon Sect. It can only be the former Nansheng Sect."

After saying this, he looked at Chang Wuji with fiery eyes.

"I am willing to submit to the Silver Ring Sect and help you to subdue the old members of the Southern Saint Sect and reorganize the Southern Saint Sect. I have only one request."

"I want that dragon gate up and down, no chickens! No dogs! Stay!"

Li Zong's eyes were filled with murderous intent, and he spoke word by word through gritted teeth.

Chang Wuji looked at Li Zong and nodded heavily.

"It's easy to talk to a smart person. We, Yinhuan Sect, will definitely fulfill President Li's request. From now on, President Li will be the elder of our sect and will restore the great cause of Nansheng Sect."

"I, Li, am willing to serve you!"

Underground auction scene.

A white jade ring with traces of blood-colored lines was brought to the auction table.

"This antique is a treasure from hundreds of countries. It is a personal ornament worn by the Zhou royal family. Although it is a bit ominous due to the ground veins, it is definitely a top-quality item worthy of collection."

As for the cursed antique, of course the auction house would not explicitly say that this thing was harmful to people, but would just describe it as ominous and unlucky. Now that Su Ti had received the true teachings of Xu Shouyang, he already knew everything.

"The reserve price is 500,000, and each bid must not be less than 10,000. Please bid in an orderly manner."

As the auctioneer finished his introduction, many sellers below immediately began to raise their electronic cards, and the price rose rapidly, breaking through one million in a few seconds.

Suti held up sign 105, and someone in the distance immediately held up sign 108.

Then the figure with twin ponytails not far away immediately raised the sign 112.

There were not many people raising their hands to bid. Among the two hundred buyers, there were only five, including Suti.

Because cursed antiques are so rare, many wealthy collectors avoid them, thinking that they are unlucky and would not even accept them even if they are given to them for free.

Only a small number of eccentric collectors would collect such items.

But logically speaking, since they are so niche, the price of cursed antiques should be lower than that of normal antiques. However, the opposite is true. Their value is much higher than that of normal antiques, and they are often out of stock.

As for the reason, Suti has now learned a little after searching on the dark web for so long. It seems that some mysterious people are secretly collecting this kind of thing and competing with each other, so the price is driven up very high.

Seeing the price rising slowly, Suti directly increased it from 1.2 million to 2 million, with the purpose of scaring people away.

As expected, as soon as he announced the price, two of the five people holding up placards withdrew.

The remaining one also chose to withdraw after raising the price to 2.5 million after several rounds of bidding.

Only the girl with twin ponytails who had been seen in the buffet restaurant and threatened Suti was still bidding with Suti.

Suti recognized her at the first sight, of course, because of her iconic twin ponytails.

The two men kept raising their signs, and the atmosphere was full of tension. The price soon reached three million.

Although the girl with twin ponytails was wearing a mask, her eyes were glaring at Suti fiercely.

Feeling the other party's gaze, Suti looked back coldly.

From his Hunyuan realm sense, the other party's aura was not strong, only about the fifth level of internal training.

Although he didn't know why he felt threatened, when it came to cursed antiques, he would fight for it even if it was an extraordinary warrior.

"Three million and three hundred thousand!"

After Suti revealed this price, Viya wanted to reveal 3.4 million, but was stopped by the people around her.

The man was also very young, a boy who was probably a high school student, and he shook his head at her.

"Sister Wei Ya, it's almost done."

"But!"

Wei Ya was obviously unwilling to give in, and the boy continued.

"This price is already beyond the value of this cursed antique. Our money belongs to the adults, so we can't spend too much here. You know, collecting cursed antiques for the adults is a long-term task, and we can't spend too much money at once."

The boy paused and continued.

"Besides, our mission this time is to cooperate with the Lord to seize the cursed antique of the Wu Dynasty. Compared to that thing, these are just appetizers. Just give them to him."

After being persuaded by the young man, Wei Ya finally calmed down. Seeing Su Ti buy this cursed antique from hundreds of countries at a price of 3.3 million, there was a strong murderous light flashing in her eyes, and she snorted in her heart as she looked at Su Ti.

"No one has ever been able to take my things away. Tomorrow will be the day you die!"

The auction ended the next night, and Suti once again obtained two cursed antiques.

The price was that his wallet shrank to only 30 million.

But it's all worth it.

After absorbing these two cursed antiques, plus the energy provided by the blood-red beads during this period, Su Ti's energy has reached a full 490%, and it is time to upgrade his martial arts again.

In the hotel room, looking at the last external skill on the martial arts column, Su Ti chose to upgrade without hesitation.

The steel bar has achieved little success.
Steel bars are successful.
Steel bar skills are perfect!
As the last external skill, Steel Bar Skill, was raised to perfection, Su Ti's external training level finally reached the tenth level!
Countless heat currents exploded in his body, pouring into Suti's muscles. Tearing, stretching, severe pain, numbness and itching!
All kinds of feelings flooded into Suti's mind along with his nerves.

He gritted his teeth and persisted, his muscles moving under his skin like countless live loaches! Crazy rampage!
At this moment, the red martial arts modifier, which had never responded to him since he traveled through time, gave him an active prompt for the first time.

A red light screen appeared in front of him, and lines of light red words kept flashing in his eyes.

[Tip: Some of your skills have pushed your defense to the physiological limit. In order to continue to break through, please integrate other skills.]

[Hint: It has been detected that the skills can be integrated, including Copper Skin Skill, Iron Bone Skill, Steel Bar Skill, and Hard and Soft Shaka Skill. The new skills born after integration can break through the limits of the original skills. Do you want to start integration? Yes/No]

"Yes!"

Although he was surprised by the active prompts from the modifier and was in severe pain, Suti squeezed out the words from between his teeth without hesitation when he saw these prompts.

As this was said, the four external skills were instantly shattered and merged into one, becoming indistinguishable from each other.

The physical strengthening of the Steel Bar Skill, the bone strengthening of the Iron Bone Skill, the skin strengthening of the Copper Skin Skill, and the nerve strengthening of the Hard and Soft Shaka Skill were integrated into one, turning into a new external skill that appeared in Suti's modifier.

However, Suti didn't know about all this. The moment he integrated these four external skills, he seemed to have entered into some kind of mysterious perception and temporarily lost consciousness. Only the light screen prompted by the modifier kept flashing in the void.

[Tip: Since this type of martial arts is highly compatible, this fusion will consume a small amount of energy]

[Hint: Fusion completed, consuming 50% energy]

Suti suddenly opened his eyes!

I don't know how much time has passed by now.

When he looked at the modifier prompt again, he realized what had happened.

At this time, the original Copper Skin Skill, Iron Bone Skill, Steel Bar Skill, and Hard and Soft Shaka Skill in his modifier had all disappeared.

A new martial art appeared on his martial arts panel, shining brightly.

Arhat Golden Body Secret (Great Accomplishment) [External Training Twelve Levels] [Indestructible]

Su Ti was somewhat shocked. He had originally intended to upgrade these external martial arts to the maximum level before actively integrating them. Unexpectedly, after they were fully developed, the modifier actively prompted him to integrate these four martial arts. He was originally at the tenth level of external training, but now, due to the integration of the four martial arts, he was pushed to the unprecedented twelfth level of external training! There was also an additional entry [Not bad]!
At this time, Su Ti's body also underwent earth-shaking changes with this martial art named "Arhat Golden Body Art" by the modifier!

At this moment, his body proportions were like the most perfect sculpture.

Every bone and every muscle is distributed just right.

He is 1.85 meters tall, with muscles like dense steel noose, full of amazing elasticity, and as tight and thick as highly compressed solid car tires.

The bones are as hard as metal and stone, yet have amazing toughness like bamboo. A whole bone can even be bent more than 45 degrees, which is inhuman.

In addition, his sensory nerves are extremely sensitive. He can feel even slightly larger dust particles touching his body, and can control his muscles and bones to instinctively release force and enter a defensive mode.

What surprised Suti most was the skin.

His skin is now so delicate that not a single pore can be seen. It is as white as a newborn baby's and has a warm ivory-like luster.

But once he was attacked, his skin instantly changed from the smooth color of ivory jade to a bright gold with a metallic luster, depending on the point of impact, and it felt like an upgraded version of bronze.

This was not the end. As he punched himself with all his strength, the skin and muscles on his chest instantly sank half a centimeter. More than half of the force was buffered and lost in this half centimeter of sinking by the skin and muscle layers.

The remaining force was spread throughout his body through his skin and muscles like water waves and ripples, and was borne by his entire body.

The end result was that Suti punched himself with all his strength, but he felt nothing at all.

In order to test the limit of this defense, Suti began to attack himself one after another.

Fist, palm, fingers, claws.

The rigidity of the fist was softened, the impact of the palm was eliminated, the fingers were dispersed when they tried to break through the surface, and the claws that grabbed it were directly slipped away by the water-like membrane, and no force was used at all!
He tried all kinds of attack methods, but in the end, this body automatically defended against them in various ways.

Looking at his current body, Suti fell silent.

He didn't know how strong his body's defense was now. Anyway, he couldn't break his defense. No matter how he attacked himself, this body was like a most ingenious machine, dissolving his strength in the best way.

He even had the urge to find a gun to test his defensive abilities.

"Have I now attained the status of Arhat?"

Looking at his perfected "Arhat Golden Body Technique", Suti said with some uncertainty.

Logically speaking, one who has practiced internal training to the tenth level has already attained the status of Arhat.

He is now at the twelfth level of internal training, which should be a little higher than the Arhat level.

As for the entry "Not bad", Suti now roughly understood what it meant.

His body is now full of vigorous vitality.

This kind of vitality is like human potential, which is discovered as the external training reaches the tenth level.

With this vigorous vitality filling his body, Suti could vaguely feel that from now on, he should truly remain young forever, just like the legendary person who has attained the Arhat status and will only age rapidly one month before death.

In addition, this vitality has another effect, which is to increase one's recovery ability by dozens of times.

Any injury, whether external or internal, will recover dozens of times faster than a normal person.

But this recovery is not without cost.
"Life force is actually the speed at which my body's cells divide."

Su Ti felt the vitality surging in his body, and enlightenment continued to appear in his eyes.

"Those who have attained the Arhat status have indestructible bodies and eternal youth. This is because after practicing the tenth level, they have touched upon an ancient talent of mankind that has been degraded. This talent can use its own will to speed up the division of cells in various parts of the body and continuously metabolize aging cells, so they are always in their prime."

This information was not told to Su Ti by the modifier, nor was it his technique.

Instead, it comes from the human body itself, the information hidden in genes and blood, which was awakened at this time and made Suti understand instinctively.

In the esoteric country, those who have obtained great supernatural powers often have their innate wisdom awakened. This innate wisdom refers to the hidden information inherited in the human body.

"By adjusting the iteration of cells and constantly replacing aging cells, the Arhat can stay young forever. It can also speed up the recovery of wounds by dozens of times by accelerating cell division."

"But this 'supernatural power' also has a price. The number of times human cells can divide is limited, and this limit is the upper limit of human lifespan."

"Frequently iterating your cells will eventually lead to a significant loss of lifespan, so don't take it lightly."

Controlling cell succession is an ability that evolved during the human evolution process in order to survive.

But it was eventually degraded, proving that this ability was no longer suitable.

After this dormant ability was awakened by Gu Wu, it was meaningless. This was a magical power that surpassed the limits of modern humans.

(End of this chapter)