Weak.

Powerless.

Fragile.

So weak, unable to withstand a single blow.

Although Li Aozi had long known that his stats at this point in time were completely overpowered.

But when he easily defeated the young generation of geniuses from the Alliance, he felt no excitement.

Strictly speaking, he didn't even move from his spot.

They crashed into him themselves, triggering the counter mechanism of his armor, killing themselves.

The account "True General" is purely from the Dragon Faction martial artist, emphasizing the path of using martial arts to cultivate, transforming blood into essence, with a flowing Qi stream, nearly surpassing fate.

In terms of Earth, this is a cultivator; the Dragon Faction sacrifices a lot of physical combat skills to exchange for the nearly all-encompassing spellcasting status in the later stages.

In the early and mid-stages, Dragon Faction martial artists are attributes that are not striking, combined with a low skill ceiling, with only a perfect block being decent. However, from the three professional brothers under Li Aozi's command adding the half-professional Caramel Snail, none of whom are from the Dragon Faction, it is evident the importance of attributes.

However, unlike the frail condition of the late-stage "Meteor Fall Master," the Dragon School, no matter what, follows the "Destroyer" pathway.

This means that the body of the "True General" does not need flashy arcane energy, only relying on the high attributes provided by the occupation itself, extremely high health point conversion ratio, and the resistance provided by Qi Energy.

Unlike the time he played with the Blood Demon Style fake tank in the team taking damage, relying entirely on bloodsucking to sustain toughness, the late-stage Pure Dragon Faction martial artist is a straightforward front line.

This has been officially recognized.

After transferring to the "Qi Training Master," Li Aozi has confirmed the final transfer pathway; this road has already been paved, no longer requiring any effort. His internal Qi Energy has been entirely converted into the substance known as "True Yuan."

With the "Qi Training Master" talent—"Fundamental Foundation Infant," he doesn't even need to operate the cultivation technique himself. The consciousness avatar called "Nascent Soul" becomes the best proxy script, even if he is on Dragon Island drinking tea, reading books, and cultivating Spirit Dolls, the attributes automatically increase while the game is idle.

Yes, essentially, the route of "Qi Training Master" is similar to the "Conqueror" series in the "Sovereign," emphasizing infinite stat growth.

Theoretically, after entering the Starry Abyss, because the potential is unlocked, each occupation is effectively infinite stat growth.

However, other occupations are passive growth.

Only the "Qi Training Master" and "Conqueror" are the only monsters in the Quan Starry Abyss that can actively and quickly stack stats.

The "Conqueror" uses the fearsome growth brought by arcane energy, continuously stacking stats, and can further explode during combat, ultimately crushing opponents with absolute numbers.

No skills are involved, just stats. If elementary school kids could play the game, the "Conqueror" would obviously become the most successful children's killer.

The "Qi Training Master," however, still requires some thinking, because of the unique nature of True Yuan; it cannot provide the stable melee amplification like True Qi.

Specializes in skill output methods, requiring coordination with various cultivation techniques, talismans, sword arrays, and magical treasures, and even summoning demon creatures called "monsters" to fight for oneself, all need careful consideration.

The difficulty lies in maximizing the functionality of skills in hand according to changes in the battle situation, and pre-arranging skill combinations for different hypothetical enemies…

But, Li Aozi doesn't need to consider these.

On one hand, the proficiency of the True General account is too high, reaching level 280.

This is the hierarchy cap, not the stat cap.

Just looking at the stats, it already exceeds the level 300 "Meteor Fall Master" of the "previous life."

Reaching this point is because he single-handedly consumed the entire reward from "Thousand-Mile Rock Mountain Thousand-Mile Tower."

On the other hand...

Snap!

The head of the Temporal Angel was casually pulled out by him, as if discarding an unwanted toy.

"It's been a while since anyone dared to challenge me in lineage."

Li Aozi said calmly, turning to look at Asher.

The latter raised his head, and in the opponent's slit-like pupils, he saw himself lying prone, unable to get up.

He was utterly defeated.

Nothing he did even left a white mark on the blacksmith's armor.

Li Aozi stepped forward, the sword in his hand glistening with Ether's silver light.

"My life is over..."

Asher closed his eyes, using his last strength, struggling to kneel up straight:

"No Samurai of the Nether Clan dies with their back to the enemy—cut off my head, you have won."

Just as Li Aozi was raising his blade, preparing to deal the final blow to Aishil Corpse Pact, he suddenly had a second thought:

[No, that's not right.]

Why were the five clans attending this banquet?

—Dragon Race.

If all five people died, wouldn't the intention be too obvious? At this critical juncture, several opponents above the Dragon Race are assassinated in succession.

Putting it in the Starry Abyss might be coincidental, but with Earthlings' mindset, saying there's no Dragon Race and Secret collusion behind it, even a three-year-old on Earth wouldn't believe it.

[Since I have already used the Earthlings' way, why not go even more Earth for a bit...]

Li Aozi lowered the raised blade and casually took out an expensive High-Level Healing Potion from his pocket, tossing it in front of the valiantly waiting-to-die Asher.

[All the geniuses attending the meeting died, but the number one ranked Yadun Ming Clan genius remains unharmed... If this gets out, what would others think?]

Li Aozi conveniently opened the photo mode, switched angles, crouched and snapped a few photos, making it seem like he and Asher were very familiar and had long been in contact.

He squatted down, patting Aishil Corpse Pact on the shoulder, saying earnestly:

"Take care."

Feeling the demigod's aura approaching, he left satisfied.

Having waited for half a day, Asher, who hadn't met the expected death, opened his eyes in confusion, looking at the healing potion on the ground in front of him, glanced around, but saw no trace of Li Aozi.

"He actually didn't kill me, and left healing medicine behind!"

Asher gritted his teeth:

"What is this supposed to mean? Not even bothering to kill me, completely disregarding me!"

"Humiliation! What an utter humiliation!"

"That secret blacksmith, I've remembered this grudge, one day, I will flatten the Secret Council!"

............…

Sword light flickered, fleeting a thousand miles.

Li Aozi returned to the tea room and drank all the tea on the table.

"Hmm, not bad, the water temperature is just right."

In ancient times, Earth's Martial Saint beheaded with warmed wine, although tea's specific heat capacity is higher than that of wine, Li Aozi felt he wasn't too far off.

"My bravery could rival that of Lord Guan."

Turning back, Li Aozi stopped playing around and solemnly regarded the major role in this outing's activities:

[Hunting King, Mimetic Bloodline]

It wasn't until he used it for a while that Li Aozi realized how powerful this evolved arcane energy was.

This damn thing isn't even camouflage, it's deconstruction followed by a replay.

The [Hunting King] completely deconstructed the Earthlings' lineage and composition of Ether Blood, and based on his personality, matched him to the most suitable [Blacksmith] occupation.

Traditional secret citizens need to constantly replace their spines to complete Ether Blood reforging, inevitably mixing other demon creatures' bloodline skills into the system.

But he...

Li Aozi discovered that his lineage seemed even purer than the Earthlings'.

His [Blacksmith] was the pure legacy route of the [Vivid Demon Iron Monarch] Karachia.

Reforge once: Merged the previous four abilities into [Smithing], capable of freely manipulating metal, performing smithing inside the body.

Reforge twice: Unlocked new skill [Fire Quenching], capable of cooling the armor on himself with his own blood at any time, granting it greater hardness.

Reforge thrice: Unlocked authority [Magic Armor], the armor on him becomes animated, actively devouring incoming damage, or morphing to dodge attacks.

Reforge four times: [Blood Gold], it's not a particularly special ability, simply the ability to regenerate flesh and soul by devouring metal.

Reforge five times: [Steel Tempering], this ability is straightforward, allowing any part of the body to gain a "steel tempering" effect, which can be understood as sacrificing a bit of tenacity to gain very strong hardness.

——Oh right, "any part" includes the molecular level.

Reforge six times: which is also his current level within the secret, the secret granted him a transcendental ability that defies description.

[Hammer of Hephaestus]

An intangible hammer.

In strict terms, it's an authority, representing that he can directly take the supreme Hammer of the Fire God from the Secret Council to punish enemies or forge divine weapons.

He had just used it to kill a Moonfolk by temporarily crafting a weapon with it.

It doesn't sound like much,

but this hammer is a social institution.

To put it more plainly,

this is an organ that Gaia actively detached and gifted to him!

And in Gaia's tier, anything the Hammer of the Fire God creates, even a nail, has a divine artifact's characteristics.

[With this, I might as well be the Greek god of fire and metallurgy...]

Li Aozi felt somewhat complicated.

In retrospect, it's quite odd.

In the Starry Abyss, as a mediocre talent and cannon fodder, Leoz could barely claim the title of one of the strongest combatants as a [Blacksmith] within the Secret Council.

Yet the Starry Abyss stubbornly refuses to recognize Leoz's status, while Earth's Gaia truly let him go...

Setting aside the fact that both sides have been battling for billions of seasons, Gaia does seem quite kind to him.

It's quite the ironic joke.

[If I were truly an Earthling, I'd probably have already submitted to the secret.]

Yet history has no 'if'.

The power of [Blacksmith] suits him perfectly; this occupation of a secret councilor originally would have robbed him of passion, handing it over for other secret citizens to enjoy.

A world without passion wouldn't seem too strange to Li Aozi, especially since he had once merged with Leoz.

Old relic Leoz lacked emotions altogether, missing a little passion was no big deal.

However, the [Hunting King] even waived this cost.

And that...might be a bit overkill?

[You, truly that worthless [Bloodline]?]

Li Aozi had no choice but to give serious consideration to this evolved arcane energy.

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