Chapter 312: A Fierce Tiger In the Heart (I)

Chapter 312: A Fierce Tiger In the Heart (I)

Blood frothed and churned inside Li Hao’s body. Given his domineering organs, the young man felt no pain or searing sensations from the blood’s activity. His five visceral organs were too strong and five blood pearls only amounted to a Solar’s level of energy. He could withstand this degree of discomfort.

Since there wasn’t much pressure being brought to bear, he swiftly swallowed a sixth, seventh, and eighth blood pearl until pressure mounted to significant levels.

Blood boiled within his veins and he could feel metamorphosis beginning within his body. It was as if a vast river rushed toward his organs. Li Hao could sense the existence of his supernatural locks. One, two, three... nove(l)bi(n.)com

Five locks appeared over his visceral organs—that was just the beginning. Four more appeared over his four limbs, making for nine that’d materialized in the blink of an eye. They were all incredibly thick and sturdy.

According to Wang Ming’s explanations, the number of supernatural locks one sensed represented one’s supernatural potential. But that was meaningless to Li Hao. Immense blood qi surged into the supernatural locks to make them even stronger. He believed only his teacher. The supernatural locks represented the depth of one’s foundations. The stronger they were, the more foundation they secured.

If there came a day in which he broke through his locks with martial dao, it would be an unfathomable ascension to the other side. Therefore, despite the locks visibly growing stronger, Li Hao had no intention of stopping his intake of energy. Absorb it all! The stronger the better!

The stronger they were, the less likely that melding auras, summoning spirits, and spirits emerging from the organs would shatter his locks. He would not be forced into the crossover. In his current condition, Li Hao didn’t have the slightest desire for the supernatural.

Hence, the stronger his locks were, the more confident he was. It didn’t affect his strength at all.

Seeing that his supernatural locks were smoothly absorbing the blood qi, Li Hao popped the remaining two blood pearls into his mouth. When all ten sat in his stomach, the power of a Nova scarlet shadow erupted within.

Crack crack crack sounded from his bones! They were unable to endure the strain and a searing pain began spreading through his body.

A mysterious power stone rolled out of Li Hao’s mouth as he opened it. It was a thunder attributed mysterious power; he wasn’t using it to replenish the little sword this time. The thunder element tempered the bones, of that he was aware of, he just rarely came into possession of a thunder stone.

This was no time to consider how precious mysterious power stones were. He devoured the thunder energy inside and used sword energy to extract thunder elemental power. It was much more pure than mysterious power. The thunder energy burrowed into his bones the second it became one with him.

Rumble!!

Thunder roared inside him as Li Hao’s bones were tinged with purple. This was the effect of thunder and lightning tempering the bones! His bones continued to crack and pop.

The young man shot to his feet and ran through a boxing routine from the tiger style of the Five Styles. It was easy to punch with sound, but incredibly difficult to punch silently. In order to avoid drawing attention from creating too much of a disturbance, Li Hao began practicing soundless punches. His teacher was much better than him in this regard. When his teacher swung, he did so without the slightest sound like he was going through a fitness routine for the elderly.

No matter how Li Hao restrained himself, he still created a bit of sound. Thankfully, it wasn’t too apparent. Not to mention no one dared to make trouble for him since he was in Hao Lianchuan’s office.

His fists darted forward like thunder and lightning!

So fast! But speed didn’t mean silence. It was a contradictory notion that Li Hao wouldn’t be able to attain unless he swiftly retracted his fist’s force as soon as he punched out, condensing it on itself.

A very soft bam could be heard inside the room. Li Hao ignored it and continued practicing, facilitating the digestion of his new gains. He didn’t care if the secret Nova powerhouse beneath him could hear; what he was demonstrating wasn’t too strong. A Sunderer could indeed deploy this kind of attack. He also didn’t particularly care about where he trained, so he didn’t mind if others could see him.

Perhaps... he’s stronger than what we think.

......

Time passed bit by bit. Li Hao steadily punched again and again. A Nova’s energy would not be consumed so quickly. Not to mention, he was also taking in energy from mysterious power stones at the same time. Instead of the five elements, he was focusing on thunder and wind. Thunder tempered the bones and wind made the body lighter.

If he couldn’t raise his speed concurrently with his strength, all he would amount to was target practice for others. He’d been more concerned with physical strength before not because he didn’t care for speed, but because he didn’t have much wind energy. He possessed some wind attributed mysterious power stones now. Li Hao drew directly from them, not minding the consumption.

He only had twelve stones left now, including the one that Yu Xiao had given him. It wasn’t much and the little sword continued to be depleted of energy.

After some more training, he exhausted the thunder and wind stones. He only had seven left, five of which were the five elements. Of the other two, one was pitch black and the other icy cool. He didn’t dare brashly draw from them because they might be of the dark and ice attributes. There was a lot of energy contained within the stones; he would start with mysterious power first and draw from the stones only after he knew their effects.

He would feed the five elements to the little sword. Sword energy was the true heart of what he was.

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Hao Lianchuan was busy all morning. His schedule didn’t clear up until noon, which was when he prepared to return to his office to rest. However, he frowned slightly when he approached the door—there were some noises coming from inside.

Li Hao?

Most likely!

The guy was done for the day. He could’ve gone home after the meeting or taken a walk around White Moon. And yet, Li Hao hadn’t. He was a workaholic and didn’t leave the office until the day was over!

But headquarters was small, so there was no place for the young man. He didn’t have duties he needed to take care of either.

Is he training in my office then? Hao Lianchuan pushed the door open. The light immediately faded from Li Hao’s eyes and he listlessly punched outward. All the same, Hao Lianchuan was a Solar, so he sensed something quite piercing when he stood near Li Hao.

The deputy director glanced at the young man; Li Hao was still going through a boxing routine.

“Director, I needed to borrow your office because I don’t have any place to go. You don’t mind, do you?”

Hao Lianchuan nodded indifferently and put down his briefcase. He sat down on the sofa to the side and poured a cup of tea, watching Li Hao as the young man continued to practice. The latter’s bones reverberated faintly, sounding like the bones and meridians resonating with each other, as customary of the Slayer level.

The deputy director set that out of his mind, focusing on the traces left in the office air. They were very faint, but delivered a piercing pain whenever he drew near them. He didn’t interrupt Li Hao, just continued watching silently.

The young man practiced as if no one was around him; there was still a third left of the scarlet shadow to digest. He’d made his way through only two thirds of it in the morning, but he was digesting at a faster rate as the energy decreased. His organs were much stronger than before, but that was only part of it. More importantly was that his bones felt much more formidable than before.

Blood roared through his veins and he almost had an impulse to punch Hao Lianchuan. Would he be able to fight a Solar without using his aura?