Chapter 616 Vitality Four (Lao Gun wishes everyone a prosperous Year of the Dragon, good health, and all the best)

The sky gradually darkened.

Soon, a bonfire was lit, and then portable tents were set up.

Li Cheng Yi then dragged the lynx down, threw it beside the man's fire, and pointed at the fire.

"You want me to roast it?" the man asked, unable to hide his shock.

Li Cheng Yi nodded.

He was still in the middle of a body-strengthening transformation and needed a lot of food, but he didn't want to eat raw meat. The man's arrival was convenient, saving him the effort of processing it.

The man asked several more times, and each time Li Cheng Yi gave him a definite answer.

Although he couldn't understand the language, he could understand the other person's body language.

Soon, a skinned and skewered lynx was placed over the fire to roast.

The man even sprinkled some salt he had brought with him.

Several hours later.

“…” The smile on the man's face instantly froze.

Legend had it that the founder of the Tai Su Qing lineage had only been an ordinary, above-average martial artist.

“You just spoke??!!”

“Tai Huang Long Ying Quan (Supreme Emperor Dragon Shadow Fist)?” Li Cheng Yi asked, surprised. With such an arrogant name, it turned out to be just ordinary.

He had infected himself with a virus, and his body had undergone tremendous mystical strengthening, making his strength extremely terrifying ever since.

"Your fist technique is extremely simple in my eyes. It's not difficult to strengthen it. You can try the effect first." Li Cheng Yi had cultivated countless martial arts manuals in his mind. Removing the extraordinary parts, purely from the perspective of muscle power, even the Dragon Beard Strength from before was stronger than this so-called Tai Huang Long Ying Quan.

And so, a man and a squirrel began their time practicing fist techniques together.

After eating, the man got up to practice his fist techniques to digest, and Li Cheng Yi also got up, imitating the other person's fist techniques and starting to practice.

In these three days, Li Cheng Yi heard a lot of strange information about this world from the man.

This world had guns and bombs, but free fighting was even more popular.

"Okay, then, what conditions do I need to meet?" the man asked rationally.

The scene stunned him.

“Take me away from here. Aren’t you going to participate in the International Fighting League?” Li Cheng Yi said.

During an archeological excavation of some ruins, this ordinary martial artist accidentally obtained a strange virus from a huge cavern buried beneath a mysterious glacier.

“Because… the core of the Celestial Plan is to use the special abilities of the perfect Celestial Being to completely spread the Celestial Virus under the glacier and infect all of humanity."

“No… it’s not a question of whether there’s a problem… it’s that you’re a freaking squirrel!!” The man was dumbfounded, clearly not able to process it.

“Then what? Why can’t squirrels talk?” Li Cheng Yi said calmly, flipping forward, rolling off the branch, and landing steadily.

"Yes. Is there a problem?" Li Cheng Yi said indifferently.

"What does it have to do with you?" Li Cheng Yi asked, puzzled.

Li Cheng Yi listened quietly to the other party's story.

He raised his head, staring blankly at Li Cheng Yi.

The man, Kui, crawled out of the tent, stretched his body, and looked at Li Cheng Yi, who had already come out of the tree hole.

“The survival rate of this virus is only five percent. That is to say, once the plan succeeds, the moment the perfect Celestial Being is formed is the moment the virus spreads wantonly from its body. This terrifying virus, which can be transmitted through the air and survive at room temperature for more than six months, could destroy more than half of humanity’s nations.”

Not long after, a silent feast began. Li Cheng Yi ate three portions of the large lynx, and the man ate the rest.

The fighters were extremely agile. Some strong fighters could even withstand small-caliber firearms, and even stronger ones could single-handedly defeat small tactical units.

He vaguely remembered that the voice came from Xiao Hui.

And the strongest of them all was a top-notch fist technique lineage called Tai Su Qing.

The sun rose and set, the forest lit up and darkened, darkened and lit up.

"Do you want me to help you?" It wasn't for idle chat that Li Cheng Yi had spent three days learning the other person's language.

“The Tai Huang Long Ying Quan I practice can only unleash extremely fast speed when exerting force. In terms of the precision, strength, and micro-control of force, it is far inferior to Tai Su Qing. So, out of frustration, I came to the forest, hoping to break through my original limits.”

"For those strangers, you are willing to take action and fight against opponents you have no confidence in." Li Cheng Yi asked, "What are you fighting for?"

Li Cheng Yi picked up the chili powder and Sichuan peppercorn powder and sprinkled them on the meat himself.

It contained the entire world's power system.

"Help me? How can you help?" Kui asked in surprise.

"Good morning, Xiao Hui." He greeted the other person in a good mood.

"Good morning, Kui," Li Cheng Yi responded in kind.

The man, Kui, sat down next to Li Cheng Yi.

"You were just telling me a few days ago that one of the famous fist technique master's disciples is a black bear. If a black bear can practice fist techniques and talk, why can't a squirrel?"

"I'm not going to play! News has spread that Tai Su Qing has established a consortium, trying to use the opportunity of hosting the league to collect the genes of all the top fighters and cultivate the strongest so-called Perfect Celestial Being. I must stop him!" Kui said in a deep voice.

Three days passed in the blink of an eye.

"What for?" Kui looked up at the sky. "Actually, it's nothing. I just feel uncomfortable."

"Uncomfortable?" Li Cheng Yi raised his eyebrows.

"Yes. When I heard this news, Tai Su Qing was arrogantly telling everyone in the world outside the TV that most people in the world are trash, and only those who have been screened can obtain the right to live, and this right is controlled by him."

"That's when I packed my things and planned to give him an unforgettable lesson."

Kui spoke calmly, but the determination in his eyes was unwavering.

"How foolish," Li Cheng Yi commented.

"Who's foolish? Me or him?" Kui asked.

"Both are the same."

"You're really interesting," Kui laughed.

"Then it's settled," Li Cheng Yi stood up. "I will teach you fist techniques later, and you will take me out to see the outside world."

"Okay." Kui smiled casually.

Early the next morning, he took his things and luggage and left completely. He would come back in a few days to take Li Cheng Yi away with him.

Li Cheng Yi began to make all the preparations for the second round of strengthening.

The materials were not difficult to find. The strengthening materials for the squirrel could all be found in the forest. The key was whether the physical body could withstand the second strengthening.

The night was deep.

Outside the tree hole, Li Cheng Yi stood alone on a branch, looking down at the two wolves facing each other below, repeatedly thinking about how to solve the problem.

The first strengthening didn't bring too much burden to his body.

This burden also allowed him to obtain new special changes.

Huff.

Suddenly, he jumped down from the branch.

Landing lightly.

In the darkness, under the moonlight, his original watermelon-sized body began to rapidly swell, expand, and grow larger.

The fur stretched, the muscles tore, and the flesh proliferated.

In just a few seconds, he transformed from a gray squirrel into a humanoid squirrel with human hands and feet, and a height of 1.8 meters!

Strong pectoral muscles were squeezed by his arms. Behind Li Cheng Yi's broad shoulders was a large, gray, furry tail.

His original round, bright black eyes had also turned into slender, diamond-shaped eyes.

His entire inverted triangle-shaped body perfectly replicated Kui's body outline.

This was the great benefit brought by the first strengthening of the Eternal Vitality system.

With the help of the powerful divine fire consciousness, he could freely control all the flesh, bones, and fur in his body, thus achieving the point of freely changing his shape and appearance.

The other two wolves were so frightened by his transformation that their fur stood on end, and they whimpered with threatening growls.

"Noisy!"

Li Cheng Yi's thick legs moved slightly, and he disappeared from the spot in a flash, passing between the two wolves.

Pfft!

The two wolves stiffened all over and fell to the ground, instantly motionless.

Blood slowly flowed from their mouths and noses.

Li Cheng Yi didn't even look at them. Instead, he stretched out his hand, and Huang Mao A Shou jumped down from the branch and landed on the back of his hand.

"Are you still Xiao Hui?" A Shou looked at his former friend in disbelief.

"Of course. This is fate's arrangement. I'm leaving, A Shou," Li Cheng Yi replied in the squirrel language.

"Where to?" A Shou asked blankly.

"I don't know. To a place with only humans and no squirrels," Li Cheng Yi said.

"Why can't we live a good life in the forest? Isn't it good here? There are so many pine cones?" A Shou couldn't understand.

"Because," Li Cheng Yi replied softly, looking up at the night sky. "I'm going to find my own pine cones."

He wanted to see the human society outside and find ways to increase the survival rate of the second strengthening.

Now, after the first strengthening, his body strength had reached the level of being able to fight leopards.

As for why he used leopards for comparison, it was naturally because he had personally tested it.

From the strength of a small squirrel, he had directly increased to the level of a leopard. If he did it again, he didn't know how high he could reach.

And the special virus under the glacier that Kui mentioned might be able to give him some special help.

In addition to this, more importantly, there was a special digestion method that he had thought of after racking his brains, from the Yin Codex.

After experiencing the strengthening method of Eternal Vitality, he thought about whether he could reduce and disperse this special biochemical reaction, turning it into a series of combined occurrences.

And after each combination occurred, as long as he could find enough strong and numerous external forces to suppress and consume this force of vast accumulated flesh strengthening, he could greatly reduce the side effects of the second strengthening.

Analyzing with the forbidden knowledge obtained from the forbidden books, the success rate of this method was very high.

Therefore, whether it was to find the so-called Celestial Virus or to digest the biochemical power of the second strengthening, he could no longer stay in the forest.

And he was able to come up with this method entirely thanks to the powerful comprehension of the Snow Lotus's flower language in his Twelve Flower Language.

‘Finally, before leaving, I need to replenish all the required flower qi and then replenish the malice in human society to complete the remaining ultimate evolution.’

Thoughts flashed through Li Cheng Yi's mind.

Releasing A Shou, with a whoosh, his figure suddenly disappeared from the spot.

The restrictions here were so great, perhaps the strength of the ultimate form could bring him more help. In particular, the comprehension bonus of the snow lotus and the tenacious life of the green velvet poppy were both flower languages that were likely to bring great benefits. He didn’t value extraordinary power very much.