Martial Artist: Stronger by Coasting Along-Chapter 498 - 144: Black Wind Demon Lotus, Nurturing the Spiritual Root

Chapter 498: Chapter 144: Black Wind Demon Lotus, Nurturing the Spiritual Root

In this resource-scarce post-apocalyptic world.

No one can remain indifferent in the face of cultivation resources that can enhance their strength.

The reason why Zhang Lingfeng can maintain a calm mindset is largely due to the boost from his Coasting Along Value. If he lost this advantage, even if Yuan Gang drove him away, he would not leave.

So, in the time that followed.

Yuan Gang quickly meditated beside the Black Wind Demon Lotus, entering a focused cultivation state.

Although Zhang Lingfeng was also sitting nearby, he dared not enter the cultivation state. Once one becomes too focused on cultivation, it’s easy to ignore the surroundings.

Even strong individuals experience this.

In a state of focused cultivation, although the body can automatically defend and be wary, it is far less effective than active defense and vigilance.

In the dangerous underground dark river, for safety, Zhang Lingfeng had to act as a guardian for Yuan Gang, carefully monitoring every movement around.

Taking this opportunity, he reviewed his panel information.

Name: Zhang Lingfeng

Coasting Along Value: 1277

Profession: Martial Arts Grandmaster, Level 17 Mental Telekinesis Master

Seven Element Spear Intent: Third Layer (30000/30000)

Bloodline Power: Leopard God Bloodline (50000/50000)

Spiritual Demon Realm: Dark Night (50000/50000)

Sea of Consciousness: (17.9/100)

Spiritual Power: (17.8/100)

Dantian: (100/100)

Sea of Qi: (100/100)

Physical Fitness: 4211.1

Combat Power: 49881.5

To slay the Demon God Giant Axe, Zhang Lingfeng used up nearly one hundred thousand points of Coasting Along Value to enhance his spear skills, Leopard God Bloodline, and Spiritual Demon Realm.

Now, his spear skills are perfected. 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢

The Leopard God Bloodline is perfected.

The Spiritual Demon Realm has also reached perfection.

He tried to induce a transformation, but it was unsuccessful.

It seems the Third Layer of Spear Intent is the ultimate limit of spear skills.

The Demon God-level bloodline is also the bloodline’s limit.

Even the Spiritual Demon Realm is the same.

It seems the way to enhance skills is to blaze a new trail, changing the mode of the Spiritual Demon Realm, no longer through numerical change, but through a growth of the power connected to it.

50000/50000, this data signifies that the Dark Night in his Spiritual Demon Realm has already reached the limit. Zhang Lingfeng can only strengthen the Spiritual Demon Realm by finding a second type of connecting power.

As for the Leopard God Bloodline, Zhang Lingfeng deliberately added more Coasting Along Value, but the value remained 50000/50000, and the bloodline did not evolve.

Yet the Leopard God silhouette in the Dantian can achieve materialization, allowing him to tear apart a group of Great Demon Gods, or even scare off the Demon God Giant Axe with just the power of the Dantian Sea of Qi.

Now that all three forces have reached perfection, his combat power almost broke through 50000.0.

Zhang Lingfeng realized that his power seemed to have reached the limits of a Martial Artist, and to continue improving, he would need to nurture a Spiritual Root.

Only with the help of a Spiritual Root could he transform the Dantian Sea of Qi, forming a powerful Dao Field, enhancing the harmony index between himself and the heavens and earth, and even finding his own Origin Power.

Unbeknownst to himself, he has already completed one of the cultivation systems established by the Seven Great Star Systems Alliance, the path of the Dharma Martial Artist.

The path ahead will take him, like the King of North of the River and Ao Dagang, towards another cultivation system, to find his own Origin Power, truly harmonizing with the heavens and earth, thereby mastering extraordinary Divine Techniques, capable of killing from a thousand miles away or battling across the starry sea.

At this moment, he is still filled with confusion about the so-called Heaven and Earth Harmony Index and Origin Power.

Watching Yuan Gang enter the cultivation state.

He gazes at the combat power value nearing 50000.0 and physical fitness breaking through 4000.0, wondering if this is the limit of a Dharma Martial Artist.

As someone whose Dantian Sea of Qi is 100% perfected and who has refined his skills to the ultimate, Zhang Lingfeng is confident that he is not far from reaching the limit of the Dharma Martial Artist system, even if he hasn’t achieved it yet.

He wonders whether such a foundational power of a Dharma Martial Artist will be helpful in his future as a Spirit Root Cultivator, entering the second cultivation system.

Will it be only his Spirit Root Level that surpasses others?

Thinking that the key to entering the second cultivation system is nurturing a Spiritual Root from the Dantian Sea of Qi, Zhang Lingfeng can’t help but introspect his Dantian Sea of Qi.

The 100% perfected Dantian Sea of Qi, with the Dantian like a vast starry universe and the Sea of Qi containing the five continents and oceans, with power surging endlessly, is truly magnificent.

Zhang Lingfeng feels a surge of pride.

He eagerly anticipates what kind of Spirit Root Power will emerge under such a fertile ocean and vast starry sky.

Suddenly.

Just as he was lost in thought, a giant Black Wind Demon Lotus bloomed on the surging sea, appearing in his Sea of Qi, with a leopard circling the Black Wind Demon Lotus and then leaping up to sleep on its leaves.

Zhang Lingfeng was stunned.

How did the Black Wind Demon Lotus appear in his Dantian Sea of Qi?

Could this be the effect of the Black Wind Demon Lotus, allowing one to seamlessly increase the harmony index with the heavens and earth just by sitting next to it, without even cultivating?

Thus nurturing his own Spiritual Root?

Zhang Lingfeng was startled by this thought.

Is there such good fortune in the world?

Under the influence of the Coasting Along Fate, Zhang Lingfeng quietly observed the changes, closely sensing the changes the Black Wind Demon Lotus brought to his Dantian Sea of Qi.

Instantaneously.

The roots and energy flow within the Black Wind Demon Lotus all appeared in Zhang Lingfeng’s perception, as if the Black Wind Demon Lotus had been planted in his Dantian Sea of Qi.

Beside him, Yuan Gang, who had been focusing on his cultivation, opened his eyes in confusion, looking at the Black Wind Demon Lotus in front of him, and couldn’t help but say, "Strange, why is the natural harmony power weakening rapidly?"

Zhang Lingfeng hesitated.

Could the Black Wind Demon Lotus appearing in his Sea of Qi not be an illusion?

But there’s still a Black Wind Demon Lotus growing right in front of him!

Yuan Gang, puzzled, continued cultivating, then opened his eyes again and said to Zhang Lingfeng, "Something’s not right. Sitting next to the Black Wind Demon Lotus seems to have lost its effect. We need to leave."

"Ah, this... okay!"

Zhang Lingfeng felt unaffected, even better, but this place was indeed dangerous, and he couldn’t stay here indefinitely.

Yuan Gang, looking frustrated, reached out to uproot the Black Wind Demon Lotus, only to find it deeply rooted underground, with crisscross roots, each of which was tough and unyielding, making it difficult to pull out.

So he exerted all his strength.

With a mighty pull.

The Black Wind Demon Lotus was finally uprooted, but the roots crisscrossing for unknown meters retracted with blood streaks.

At the same time, a scream, laced with anger, seeped through from the underground.