Transformation

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Author: Dali Bao

Translator: MythicWeaver

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Soon, the second engraving was completed.

Su Hao took a look and immediately frowned, "This time, five new nodes were added. It seems that the number of nodes is still not final. The good news is that I found three more stable nodes."

Let's go again!

Su Hao devoted himself entirely to engraving the beast rune. As long as he had enough energy, he would engrave the beast rune, putting all other matters aside for the time being.

He could engrave at least 20 times a day.

Ten days later.

Xiao Guang had received over 200 engraving data points. Through constant comparison and adjustment, the current structure of the beast rune was now highly compatible with Su Hao. Even if he were to engrave the beast rune right now, he could directly advance to grandmaster martial artist.

However, he still felt it wasn't perfect enough. There were still slight adjustments that could be made to achieve complete smoothness.

The pursuit of a perfect beast rune engraving was unimaginable to others.

Typically, it took at least a year of continuous adjustment and then attempts to engrave, with the possibility of failure halfway through. Patience would have already worn thin. If one could find a structure that could barely succeed, they would definitely solidify it immediately to advance to grandmaster martial artist.

Because not everyone had Xiao Guang's ability to collect and analyze data. This long process of enduring time and making attempts would make many with weak wills choose to give up.

More importantly, without Xiao Guang's navigation-like guidance for engraving, most people would fail halfway when facing such a complex pattern.

Su Hao adjusted the structure again. After the engraving was completed, he observed the rune's dynamics, repeatedly confirming that each node had reached a smooth state.

He suddenly frowned, "There's still a slight conflict and repulsion in one node."

Immediately, he instructed Xiao Guang, "Xiao Guang, analyze node 94 and calculate the node's adjustment position."

"Calculation successful. There are six adjustment methods for node 94."

Let's go again!

Su Hao exited the Marble Space and began another engraving attempt.

As he became more proficient, his engraving speed had greatly increased. Soon, he succeeded in engraving.

Su Hao re-entered the Marble Space to observe.

"This won't work here!"

Let's go again!

When Su Hao tried the fourth position.

A smooth sensation permeated his entire body, and Su Hao immediately exclaimed with joy, "It worked!"

He immediately entered the Marble Space and observed his body's state.

The rune between his chest cavity and spine seemed to merge with his body, incredibly coordinated, rising and falling with his breathing and muscle tremors, as if it had been there since birth.

After carefully observing for a moment, Su Hao found that there were indeed no issues and finally breathed a sigh of relief, "This is the structure! It can be solidified."

After exiting the Marble Space, he glanced at the tilted sunset outside the window and sincerely sighed, "Advancing to grandmaster is truly difficult! It's unimaginable how people in this world, without computer assistance, can complete such a complex engraving! It can only be said that every grandmaster martial artist is a favored son of the human race."

"Fortunately, I know programming! Indeed, knowledge changes fate." Su Hao was in an extremely joyful mood at this moment.

However, he still had more important matters to attend to, which was solidifying the engraving.

Su Hao once again entered a meditative state, his mind sinking into his body.

"Solidify, engrave!"

Under Su Hao's conscious control, the blood energy that constituted the rune began to boil, wriggling like worms inside his body, pushing aside the surrounding flesh to form a pattern drawn with blood and flesh.

Ignoring the itchiness from the flesh being pushed aside, Su Hao followed the engraving process step by step, "First push aside the flesh to form the pattern, then quickly gather more blood energy to fill it in. It only needs to be maintained for two days to solidify the rune."

After filling the rune formed by the pushed aside flesh with blood energy,

Su Hao opened his eyes. Now, he just needed to wait for two days.

At this moment, Su Hao finally relaxed, "After ten days of intense work and study, I can finally have a good sleep!"

Su Hao went out and greeted the administrator before leaving straight for his dormitory and falling asleep.

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Two days later, as the rune solidified within his flesh, he began to undergo a transformation.

The "perception rune" inside his body underwent slight changes, with each node growing tentacle-like organs as if they had consciousness, connecting the rune and flesh together, merging the two.

The "perception rune" connected to his body in a miraculous way, linking the nine palaces within his body with blood energy, forming a complete network with the rune as its hub.

The blood energy throughout his body was also linked together through this network.

This network's role extended far beyond that. Over time, this network would become a massive blood energy storage container, capable of holding a vast amount of blood energy.

What Old Liu told Su Hao about the difference between a bucket of water and a river was no exaggeration.

If the amount of blood energy Su Hao previously stored in the nine palaces could fill a bucket, then the new network he formed could hold a river's worth of blood.

Now, with a network capable of holding a river's worth of blood energy, he only had a bucket's worth.

This made Su Hao feel his whole body was empty and once again experience "weakness" and "thirst."

The rune's characteristic was perception, greatly enhancing perceptive abilities, but Su Hao had not yet noticeably felt this enhancement.

He speculated that it was because it had just begun, and the blood energy had not yet fully transformed. Or perhaps there was too little blood energy, and he needed to fully replenish the dry river within his body to reach the "surging, violent" state that Old Liu mentioned before any noticeable changes would occur.

"Next, quickly transform blood energy!" Su Hao now had a new goal.

Half a month later.

Sitting cross-legged on the ground, Su Hao opened his eyes, feeling the blood energy only half replenished, and couldn't help but be speechless, "In this half month, I've been efficiently transforming blood energy non-stop every day, yet I've only replenished half? My efficiency is already high enough, so how long would it take other martial artists to fully replenish their blood energy? It would probably take more than half a year!"

However, Su Hao overlooked a very important factor.

His rune network was different from others'.

When engraving the rune, he pursued perfection, ensuring every part of the rune was naturally smooth without any blockage.

Such a perfect rune engraving naturally had an enormous capacity for blood energy.

Other people's rune engravings only needed to function properly; the requirements were not high. Therefore, the rune network they constructed was naturally incomplete, unable to hold much blood energy, and the attribute effects would be greatly reduced.

If other grandmasters' average blood energy capacity was compared to a pond, Su Hao's blood energy capacity could be compared to a lake. They were simply not in the same dimension.

This was the impact of high technology on a primitive society.

In other words, he didn't need to worry about how long it took others to transform blood energy. He should be worried about himself.

Su Hao habitually entered the Marble Space.

"Age: Ten years and five months;

Height: 153.5 cm;

Weight: 53 kg;

Physical condition: Healthy;

Level: Initial grandmaster martial artist;

Elite blood energy: 869;

Rune: Perception;

Weapon mastery: Basic Swordsmanship (Mastery); …;

Basic combat skills: Rising Clouds Fist (Ultimate); …;

Basic footwork: Basic Footwork (Mastery); Sliding Shadow Step (Mastery); …;

Variable control: Blood Energy Enhancement Function (Mastery), …"

Apart from the surge in blood energy, there were no other changes.

He checked the log again.

"1532656 year, 7 months, 13 days, 0 hours, 0 minutes, 0 seconds,

'Cosmic Light 2.3' no update tasks;

Physical condition: Healthy, no abnormalities;

'Perception' rune monitoring, normal operation, no abnormalities;

Rising Clouds Martial Artist Academy student annual competition will be held tomorrow, please arrange your schedule;

Rising Clouds Martial Artist Academy will be dismissed in three days, please arrange your schedule;

Paused task: Reading Rising Clouds Library materials, current pause progress: 57;

Martial artist advancement data collection successful, collection progress: Ordinary Martial Artist, Elite Martial Artist, Grandmaster Martial Artist;

...

Statistics: Current account balance is two gold coins and 34 silver coins;

..."

Suddenly seeing an entry, he was taken aback.

"The day after tomorrow is the two-day annual competition, and then there will be a holiday."

Time flies!