East Meet West

249- High Level Demi-Human stage

BOOM

As soon as the three drops of ‘Stalactite milk’ entered his stomach, as if grenades exploded in his stomach, a huge amount of energy gushed out and spread throughout his body.

Orochi tried his best to guide this energy towards his dantian, but still, some part of it was not under his control and was nourishing his whole body making it stronger.

‘ding’

‘+5 Strength’

‘+4 Agility’

‘+6 Defense’

‘+6 Resistance’

‘+5 Stamina’

‘+1 Sense’

As energy rushed towards the dantian, the dantian absorbed this huge amount of energy like a greedy sponge and it looked as if it will never stop.

Buzz

Buzzing sounds started to emit out of his dantian, as it was absorbing all the energy as best as it could.

Slowly, the dantian started to expand, but of course unless one observed it carefully, it was impossible to determine that the dantian was growing.

Like this, Orochi focused on guiding the energy towards the dantian, and time passed at a moderate speed.

After some 20 minutes, Orochi’s felt that the dantian reached its limit and the energy stream was also almost exhausted.

Seeing this, Orochi understood that he would soon break through to the High level Demi-Human stage.

CRACK

And just like he guessed, a few seconds later cracks started to appear on the silver dantian, and from the cracks, some golden light escaped.

Seeing this, Orochi was ecstatic as it was a sign that he was very close to a breakthrough.

CRACK

CRACK

CRACK

Cracks continued to form on Orochi’s dantian and more & more golden light leaked out of it.

Soon, the whole dantian was covered with dense cracks, and finally...

BOOM

As if a star exploded, a huge explosion sound echoed in his body and a huge amount of silver stream of energy spread to every corner of his body and was absorbed by all the parts of his body.

Some, part of the Silver stream of energy was absorbed by the ‘7 Chakras’ and some of it was absorbed by the ‘1000 Petalled lotus’ situated in his sea of consciousness.

‘ding’

‘Congratulations to the host for reaching the High level Demi-Human stage.’

‘ding’

‘+300 Strength’

‘+300 Agility’

‘+450 Defense’

‘+650 Resistance’

‘+550 Stamina’

‘+130 Sense’

‘+140 Intelligence’

Seeing this, Orochi felt refreshed and happy. He could feel the growth brought by this small realm upgrade.

Not to mention, when he observed the new appearance and characteristics of his golden dantian, he felt happy.

The size of his dantian doubled after it transformed into golden color.

And when he looked at the details of his golden dantian shown by the system, he had a profound understanding of it.

‘ding’

‘The current dantian’s grade is Golden.’

‘Current conversion ratio of World’s spiritual qi to Host’s spiritual qi is 3:1.’

‘It can store about 27221 units of spiritual qi.’

Seeing this, Orochi took a deep breath, and stopped his cultivation, and stretched his body.

Because he felt that his body has once again started to feel ‘full’, so he cannot continue to take make another breakthrough, not to mention there is still this ‘Dantian potential’ thing that has to be taken care of before he can step into the Transformation realm, and reach its first sub realm- the Human stage.

Orochi thought for a moment,

‘I guess, there is still some time for the arrival of Alex Xavier’s group because even if they start early in the morning, it should take them 4-5 hours to reach this place. And the time I cultivated for is less than an hour, so... let me make up for my fighting technique deficiency.’

Since, he lacked fighting techniques suitable for his cultivation level, as he was still using the fighting techniques suitable for the Evolver stage, he decided to make up for that deficiency.

So, with that in mind, he quickly browsed through the fighting techniques and martial arts he bought in the Golden Cloud chamber of commerce.

He bought 4 fighting techniques and recorded another 12 fighting techniques with one of his abilities- The Recording eye.

Most of these techniques were of Normal grade, and only 3 fighting techniques were of Red Grade.

And since, he cannot learn Red Grade fighting techniques and martial arts, he had to eliminate them from his list, at least for now.

But as his cultivation has also reached the High level Demi-Human stage, learning Normal grade level 9 and level 10 fighting techniques and martial arts, are not useful against Human stage enemies. So, he will eliminate them for now and learn them in his free time.

So, his remaining options are the two Normal grade level 11 fighting techniques that he bought from the Golden cloud chamber of commerce.

One of them is called the ‘Mountain Cleaving- 3 Machete Chops’ and the other one is called ‘Drunken Style’ martial art.

‘Mountain Cleaving- 3 Machete Chops’ is a fighting technique that requires a machete to execute this technique. According to this machete technique, there are 3 moves that can be stacked continuously to increase the power of each attack.

Such that, the first machete attack has a power of 400 kilograms behind it, the second machete attack has a power of 800 kilograms behind it, and the third machete attack has a power of 1200 kilograms behind it.

But of course, to execute such a strong attack, one requires to have a high level of proficiency in that technique.

Or in other words, one’s proficiency has to reach the peak of the Advanced stage or Success stage.

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Quick recap:

Martial arts and Fighting techniques: Proficiency stages

Entry stage 1-5% (barely able to execute)

Starting stage 6-20%

Initial stage 21-49%

Advanced stage 50-89%

Success stage 90-99%

Perfection 100%

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And like previously mentioned, Normal Grade level 11 and Level 12, fighting techniques and martial arts are those which are created by top-level powerhouses in the world, such that they can equal almost all Red Grade Level 1 and level 2, fighting technique and martial arts.

It must be known that; the maximum strength of a peak Evolver stage is only 100 kilograms.

And the strength of Low level Demi-Human stage, Mid level Demi-Human stage, High level Demi-Human stage, and peak level Demi-Human stage can only reach 200, 300, 400, and 500 kilograms respectively.

And it is said that even a basic Human stage cultivator’s strength reaches up to 1 ton or 1000 kilograms.

Hence, when the 3rd strike of ‘Mountain cleaving- 3 machete chops’ is executed, it can easily overpower a Human stage Level 1 and Level 2 cultivator’s strength.

As for the other Normal grade level 11 fighting technique- ‘Drunken style’ martial art, is just as its name implies, it is a kind of fighting style that imitates the moves of a drunk fighter.

It has the most unusual and irregular moves that make it difficult for the enemy to defend against. And the most common moves like hitting, grappling, locking, dodging, feinting, etc. are mostly used in this style.

And yes, this fighting style is very similar to the ‘Drunken style boxing’ or ‘Drunken style fist’ shown in the movies that were available on ‘Earth’ in Orochi’s past life.

But of course, in this world’s style, the ‘Drunken style’ martial art is more fierce, more sophisticated, and lethal when compared to those shown in the movies.