Chapter 201: Farewell to the Old and Welcome to the New, the Golden Body in the Mortal World
The night of New Year's Eve seemed longer than usual. Chen Jue looked at the fireworks in the sky and knew the path he should take and the direction he should go. He was no longer confused and hesitant as before.
I returned to my room, turned on all the lights in the house, and turned on the TV to the joyous New Year's Eve Gala.
Although he was the only one in the family, Chen Jue did not feel lonely at the moment.
After opening the last batch of bottles and cans at home, Chen Jue began to watch TV while taking big gulps of nutritional supplements. After spending several hours eating until his body rolled like a balloon, Chen Jue called up the attribute panel and opened the [Skill Fusion] page of the colorful vortex.
He dragged and threw all the perfected [Boy's Kung Fu], [Golden Bell Cover], [Iron Shirt], [Shaolin Bronze Man Kung Fu], [Twelve Styles of Yi Jin Jing], and [Golden Toad Kung Fu] in.
"bite!"
"This fusion will consume 1.20 free attribute points. Do you confirm the fusion?"
Chen Jue glanced at the panel and clicked the confirmation button. This fusion order was the result of his long-term thinking.
From the Boy's Kung Fu to the last one, the Golden Toad Kung Fu, among the many skills besides boxing and standing meditation, they are the ones that can effectively strengthen the body inside and harden the outside.
If Chen Jue wants to explore outer space, land on the moon, and go to the mysterious planet behind the wormhole tunnel, he must keep his body in peak condition.
Just as the free attribute points were enough, Chen Jue clicked the confirmation button.
The colorful vortex was spinning at high speed, and the six skill blocks entered it and were shattered like a blender. Finally, a brand new skill block .
"bite!"
"Fusion successful, gaining physical enhancement skills."
"This skill is of a high level, please name it yourself."
Chen Jue glanced at the prompts on the panel, then looked at the new skill that combined the strengths of Buddhism, Taoism, and Martial Arts. Thinking of his mundane experiences during this period, he thought for a moment and named it, "Let's call it the Red Dust Golden Body Skill!"
"bite!"
"Naming successful, gaining a new skill [Red Dust Golden Body Skill]."
[Red Dust Golden Body Skill Lv7 (1/50000)]: Physical strengthening skill, cultivating both the inside and the outside, transcending the ordinary and becoming a saint, creating a flawless golden body.
As soon as he finished his mission, Chen Jue felt a huge siphon effect in his body. Through [inner vision], Chen Jue found that at this moment, all the cells in his body began to desperately absorb the nutrients and energy stored in the body.
An unfamiliar muscle memory and technique content spread throughout his body and brain. Chen Jue activated the 7th level [Red Dust Golden Body Technique] to cope with the enhancement brought by the fusion of these skills.
The reason for this name is that all gods, immortals, and saints who are enshrined in temples will be made into golden bodies by people in later generations and worshiped forever.
However, Chen Jue is not like those deceased ancestors. He does not need to be deified by later generations, nor does he need to earn those golden decorations from the incense offerings from later generations. His Taoism, his martial arts, and his practice all come from the sedimentation of the mortal world, so he took the idea of this golden body in the mortal world.
When the siphon effect subsided, Chen Jue's swollen body seemed to have lost its swelling, and his entire body exuded a golden color, as if he had cast a real golden body.
This is the result of the metamorphosis of cells throughout the body. It is a special luster that is emitted only when the stratum corneum on the surface of the skin becomes thick enough. Of course, this is also related to Chen Jue's race.
If a white person or a black person practices this technique, the color will probably be platinum or dark gold.
"What an amazing new skill!"
“So many attributes have been improved in one go just after the fusion!” Chen Jue felt the power of his body and glanced at the panel to see the three attributes of strength, stamina and agility increased dramatically. There was a big +0.5 after each attribute.
In addition, this [Red Dust Golden Body Skill] is the only skill on Chen Jue's panel that has reached level 7, and level 7 is not yet complete. The upper limit has exceeded the Tai Chi stance, which is known as the mother of all punches.
Moreover, this new technique includes the internal strengthening of refining the internal organs and improving the marrow, as well as the external strengthening of enhancing the bones, energy, and skin defenses. The only part missing is the refining of the spirit. It is equivalent to a hard skill with no obvious shortcomings.
The only thing that was a bit unexpected was that after the skill reached level 7, it would require a proficiency of up to 50,000 to upgrade.
"As long as I can continue to improve, I will eventually reach the end if I keep practicing." Chen Jue thought so and ran to the kitchen to get a sharp kitchen knife, intending to try out the power of this new horizontal training hard skill.
As he exercised his internal energy, his whole body turned golden . He used 50% of his strength to chop his left arm with a kitchen knife. With a "clang" sound, sparks flew, and the kitchen knife broke into several pieces. The flying fragments hit the kitchen wall and floor tiles, creating several cracks. However, there was not even a mark left on Chen Jue's arm.
Seeing this level of physical defense, Chen Jue finally nodded with satisfaction. He cleaned up the messy kitchen and ran to the living room to practice martial arts and watch TV.
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For the next seven days, Chen Jue spent his time visiting relatives and friends, as a farewell to his family and friends before leaving. When he returned home, he practiced the [Red Dust Golden Body Technique] behind closed doors to improve his proficiency.
When the New Year atmosphere in Chen Village gradually faded, the free attribute points accumulated to 0.68. Knowing that the Spring Festival holiday was over, Chen Jue picked up the phone and contacted Liu Chengdong.
If Chen Jue wants to go to that unknown planet and continue practicing with the help of the innate Qi in the life ore, he still has to rely on the resources of the research base.
He can't reach the moon by himself for the time being.
When Liu Chengdong learned over the phone that Chen Jue was the top candidate, he actually went back and thought it over. He also became extremely excited after agreeing to join the home plan.
In less than an hour, personnel and vehicles were arranged to rush to Chencun.
Chen Jue packed a simple bag, which contained a few clean sportswear for replacement, and also kept his mother's old-fashioned cassette as a keepsake.
He locked the doors and windows inside and outside the old house, stood outside the house, and carefully looked at the home with mottled exterior walls, which had accompanied him day and night for 27 years.
Chen determined to have a different kind of nostalgia, and finally smiled: "I will come back!" Carrying his backpack, he got into the car without looking back, and went straight to the airport with the staff arranged by Liu Chengdong.
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Once again, they arrived at the base in a grand manner on the Fat Kun transport plane. Liu Chengdong and Zhong Yuande both came out enthusiastically to greet Chen Jue in person.
Chen Jue said "Happy New Year" to the two of them, then carried his bag and came to the white room he had been to before, and sat in front of Zhong Yuande again.
"Young man, have you thought it through?" Zhong Yuande looked at Chen Jue. He felt that he, an old man in his sixties, did not seem to have as much experience as the young man in front of him.
Especially Chen Jue's eyes, which were full of stars and seemed to be able to see through everything in the world, made Zhong Yuande feel awe at first sight.
That was because Chen Jue was blessed by the [Holy Heart]. His eyes were like the mind, and they were the eyes of a true saint. He could see through the world and people's hearts at a glance. Naturally, this was not something that an ordinary person like Zhong Yuande could resist.
"Mr. Zhong, I've thought it through." Chen Jue nodded with a smile.
"Okay, young man! Thank you for joining us! From today on, you are a member of our base. If you have any needs, just tell us. I, an old man, will do my best to satisfy you if I can."
"I just hope that you can return safely to that planet later." Zhong Yuande held Chen Jue's hand and took out the book he had compiled before. He opened the blank page of the home plan and asked Chen Jue to sign his name on it.
From the moment Chen Jue signed, the Home Plan was no longer a plan, but officially entered the launch phase.
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After leaving the white office, Chen Jue walked side by side with Mr. Zhong and Liu Chengdong, chatting as they walked.
Liu Chengdong told him that after he hesitated and did not agree to join the plan last time, the base had actually already started a preliminary personnel selection plan, selecting a number of talents from the candidates below the special candidates for training.
After all, it takes more than one person to develop a strange planet. You need to send people there continuously, deliver supplies, and build a landing base on the alien planet.
However, the first person to land has the most difficult task, and he must find a super master like Chen Jue to rely on.
Moreover, after further exploration in recent months, the amount of data brought back from strange planets has begun to increase, and a vague alien animal has been discovered in the images and photos taken.
It is a flying animal. Chen Jue looked at the photos that Liu Chengdong took out and felt that these alien animals were not much different from the creatures on Earth, except that they were a little bigger, and their bodies and appearances were more beautiful. This showed that these alien animals had evolved more perfectly under the stimulation of the innate Qi.
Recalling the roar of the beast in the future hallucination memory predicted by the [Sky Eye] before, Chen Jue felt that there should be many large beasts. It’s just that the activity track of the exploration robots sent in the early stage was too small, and they have not captured those large beasts yet.
"This looks a bit like a mythical species from the Classic of Mountains and Seas!" Chen Jue commented while holding the blurry photo. Liu Chengdong nodded, "Indeed, we have tentatively named this alien bird Feiyi. We will have to rely on you, the first group of people who have landed, to provide more details later."
"Let's go! I'll take you to the training base first. There are many good things there. I think you, a martial artist like you, will definitely be interested."
As they spoke, Liu Chengdong and Zhong Lao took Chen Jue onto a base shuttle bus. The bus drove several kilometers away and arrived at a fully enclosed cubic building.
After passing through layers of security checks, Chen Jue entered a testing ground similar to a basketball court.
Staff members at the venue were busy conducting various tests on a row of black combat uniforms worn over dummies, ranging from shooting, flamethrowing, venom corrosiveness, high-intensity impact, etc.
In addition, Chen Jue discovered through his keen eyesight that those black combat uniforms seemed to have a layer of metal texture with dark patterns, and there were similar high-tech electronic watches on the wrists.
"This is the latest home survival combat suit developed by our base. It is designed to deal with emergencies on unfamiliar planets. The inner layer is woven with the most advanced bulletproof fiber, and the outer layer is a high-strength soft metal wire blend. The wrist watch integrates functions such as body detection, air composition, and gravity level detection. The materials used are all laboratory products. For the time being, we can only rush to make a few sets for preliminary testing." Liu Chengdong introduced.
Chen Jue looked at these black metallic combat uniforms and recalled the silver clothes worn outside the body of the familiar woman in the hallucination memory. He felt that the difference was a bit big.
While he was thinking, Liu Chengdong led Chen Jue to another huge testing ground, where all kinds of weapons were being experimented.
From cold weapons of various shapes such as swords, spears, swords and halberds, to miniature firearms that have been shrunk for shooting.
Liu Chengdong introduced that the base’s current delivery capability is limited, and it can only temporarily select some of these weapons as the initial equipment to be sent to strange planets.
It just so happened that Chen Jue, the special candidate, was available, so he was allowed to go up and make the selection himself.
"Comrade Chen Jue, these are cold weapons made of high-strength alloys. You can choose any style you like. You martial artists basically like to choose a magical weapon to accompany you."
"Although these cold weapons are not expensive, their hardness and sharpness are definitely among the best on Earth. Even Gan Jiang and Mo Ye are no better than them if they were to appear in the world." Liu Chengdong said with a hint of boasting.
Chen Jue picked up an alloy Tang sword and felt its sharpness. It was indeed as Liu Chengdong said, it could cut a hair with a single blow. He pinched the blade with both hands and felt the material of the alloy. It was indeed hard enough. He weighed it and said, "I'm not used to wielding swords and guns. I like to be simple and rough. Can you help me make a pair of alloy hammers weighing 500 kilograms each?"
"What? Comrade Chen Jue, are you sure? A single hammer weighing 500 kilograms? That's something a person can lift from the ground..." When Liu Chengdong heard this, his eyes widened, his mouth opened, his face full of disbelief.
As for Mr. Zhong, who had remained silent the whole time, he laughed cheerfully when he heard the words. Thinking of the fist strength testing machine that had been violently sent for inspection, he always felt that Chen Jue, the special candidate, was indeed a little different and had given them too many surprises.
"Haha! What a foolish dream!"
"A single hammer weighing 500 kilograms?"
"Do you think you are the reincarnation of Li Yuanba, or the possessed Overlord with the ability to lift a thousand pounds?"
