Chapter 102: The golden needle and iron finger can pierce stone like rot!
Just as Chen Jue climbed seven meters along the cliff, his upward momentum stagnated and his body began to fall under the influence of gravity. Suddenly, his hands turned dark blue and his ten fingers grabbed and firmly grasped a crack in the rock wall that was only one or two centimeters in diameter. With the grip of his fingertips, he hung his body on the cliff, as if he was floating in the air.
You know, more skilled rock climbers can do pull-ups with the help of a one or two centimeter bulge.
However, it takes long-term training to develop such powerful finger strength, and you have to prepare in advance to be able to burst out strength and make large-scale movements on such a small fulcrum.
But Chen Jue is now in a very intense exercise process. Time is fleeting. Being able to grasp the gap in the stone wall in an instant is a great test of his vision and personal reaction ability.
After he found a position where he could exert force, he used the ten fingers trained in the Golden Needle Finger Technique, closed his pores, released his vital energy, and added a strength attribute of 2.87 to hang his 180-pound body on the cliff.
The difficulty of this is more than ten times that of outdoor free climbing with intermittent pace!
Moreover, when outdoor rock climbing experts tackle cliffs with a vertical slope of nearly 90 degrees like the one Chen Jue faced, many of them would prepare safety ropes in advance before climbing to avoid accidents along the way.
Chen Jue, however, had no protective measures at all. He relied entirely on the skills he had gained through his own practice and his physical fitness to climb up the ladder!
Of course, ordinary people can't even hang themselves on a 1-2 cm bulge. If you lack exercise, it's hard for you to even hang yourself on a ladder on a fitness equipment in the park, let alone compare with Chen Jue.
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Using the strength of his ten fingers to hang himself in the air, Chen Jue raised his head and glanced upwards, and found another protruding rock three meters high.
Then he pulled his arms down suddenly, and with the powerful strength of his arms and fingertips, he flew up more than three meters along the rock wall again. He stretched out one hand and grabbed the protrusion of rock firmly in the air.
The scene was extremely shocking, many times more powerful than those monkeys that climbed and jumped in the mountains and forests all year round!
By repeatedly exerting force in this way and looking for rock protrusions and crevices in the cliffs to grab and stand on, it took Chen Jue about three minutes to climb to the place where the first rock cabbage grew.
At this time, the height of the cliff he was on was probably about , and he could clearly feel the whistling mountain wind blowing on his body.
He stabilized his body with the strength of one finger, stepped his feet into a sunken pit in the rock wall, stretched out his other free hand to dig away the soil and moss attached to the rock wall, and pulled up the first rock cabbage he saw by its roots.
I took a closer look and found that the roots of this rock cabbage were thick, as long and thick as my middle finger, and the flowers were pink, exactly the same as what was written in the information. I brought it to my nose and smelled it, and it had a fresh fragrance of herbs and soil.
"The first trophy!" Chen Jue smiled slightly, played with the rock cabbage for a few times and threw it down.
Anyway, it's not a particularly precious medicinal herb. It's only about a hundred meters high. When you throw it down, it will fall right into the haystack where the backpack is placed. The haystack will cushion it and it won't get broken into pieces.
The medicinal value of this rock cabbage is average and it is not a precious commodity. After picking the first one, Chen Jue lost interest in the taller ones behind it.
Looking down at the distance between his feet and the ground, Chen Jue frowned slightly .
When I was climbing up just now, it was just a moment of showing off my strength, relying entirely on the burst of physical fitness. When I wanted to retreat, it became more difficult.
"How about climbing to the top and seeing if we can flip down from the other side of the mountain and then come back?" Chen Jue thought for a moment and looked at the panel again.
He discovered that while climbing the cliff just now, his proficiency in the Wudang Golden Needle Finger Technique had increased dramatically, and now he was only a dozen points away from upgrading.
Without saying anything, I adjusted it by 0.02 free attribute points and it broke through directly!
【Wudang Golden Needle Finger Technique (Perfect)】!
An unfamiliar muscle memory came over him, and Chen Jue felt his ten fingers swell slightly. His nails began to thicken, his phalanges grew larger, and the skin on his fingers also began to thicken. Although he lacked the slender beauty before the breakthrough, his ten fingers now looked more powerful, as hard and rough as thin round steel bars!
Because it was just a finger skill, the siphon effect when breaking through to perfection was not particularly strong. It just accelerated the consumption of the compressed biscuits and functional drinks in Chen Jue's stomach, reducing his feeling of being 80% or 90% full to 30% full.
In addition, the attributes of physique and strength increased by 0.02 each. I think it is because there are too few areas that are strengthened, only the range of ten fingers, and not involving the whole body, so the attributes only increased this much.
As for this newly perfected Wudang Golden Needle Finger Technique, it also awakened a new state: [Golden Needle Iron Finger]
[Golden Needle and Iron Fingers]: Golden needle and silver pen, iron fan with name left on it, can penetrate stone like rotten stone, fingers can penetrate three inches!
Bonus effect: This state can greatly enhance the finger's gripping power, protection, penetration, and recovery ability, and can also increase the speed of practicing finger skills.
After taking a look at this new state and feeling the strength of his fingers, Chen Jue made up his mind and stretched out a hand to reach for a smooth rock wall on the right side below him.
With a "bang" sound, smoke and dust rose, and where the five fingers fell, a hole as deep as half a finger was left on the rock wall!
The five fingers exerted force, and the hidden force and the obvious force burst out at the same time. The five fingers, which were glowing dark blue, were as if they were not poking rocks, but penetrating tofu.
"Drilling through stone is like digging rot, so this is what it means!" Chen Jue was delighted when he saw this. Since he could dig the hole manually, he would not have to worry about not being able to find a foothold.
Using the newly dug finger hole as a foothold, Chen Jue began to climb down slowly.
When he was about ten meters high, he suddenly had an idea and stopped digging holes in the cliff. Instead, he pressed his ten fingers tightly against the rock wall, as if he was holding onto a magnetic wall, and began to fall at a speed that was neither fast nor slow.
Where the ten fingers touched the rock wall, the high-speed friction of falling caused a burst of sparks and bursts of green smoke similar to that produced when stones hit each other!
When Chen Jue landed steadily, he felt his ten fingers were extremely hot. He retracted his fingers and smelled them, and a burnt smell lingered around his fingertips.
After a closer look, I found that the skin and nails of my fingers were not damaged. I shook them twice and blew on them twice to dissipate the heat, and my fingers were back to normal.
"Iron Fingers... So, the hardness of my fingers can be compared to that of steel?"
"Even the skin is so tough?"
Chen Jue moved his fingers deftly, then stretched out his hand and pressed hard on the stone wall. He pulled with all his strength, and the three hard skills and one finger skill overlapped and exploded at once. A burst of sparks splashed in his sight, and Chen Jue himself was almost stunned by what he saw.
You should know that if the hardness of ordinary people's nails is measured by Mohs hardness, it should be in the range of 2 to 3. Bones are the hardest part of the human body with a Mohs hardness of 4 to 5, so the skin should be around 1.5 on the Mohs hardness.
Logically speaking, the Mohs hardness of 1.5 is lower than the gypsum that people think will break at the slightest touch, and it is simply unable to withstand the intense friction between the ground and the rock. When gypsum rubs against the rock, the first thing to break is definitely the gypsum.
If ordinary people rub their fingers against rocks, they will probably bleed after just a few frictions, and a large area of skin will be worn off, causing direct injuries.
However, Chen Jue's success in training, coupled with the newly emerged [Golden Needle Iron Fingers] status bonus, made his ten fingers as strong as iron. He fell more than ten meters without leaving any scars or marks on his fingers.
It was enough to see how hard and abnormal his ten fingers were now! It was as if his fingers had their own electric drills!
