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The boiling blood gradually subsided, and his body was self-regulating at an extremely fast pace, dissipating the intense heat generated by the high-intensity exercise.
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His brain was overheating, with a sticky sensation as if it were melting. Xue Jing suppressed this discomfort, steadied his spirit, and clenched his fists.

"Continuous Serious Punch," the rapid-fire version of the "Serious Punch," was his strongest pure physical attack to date.

He could quickly exhaust his physical strength, energy, spirit, and momentum, consuming the blue and yellow bars in an extremely short time.

Actually, he could keep going, but doing so would start to consume his blood bar... which meant his life force.

This was an extremely dangerous move, even for someone with monstrous vitality like him. If he kept punching without stopping, it wouldn't take long to kill himself.

The core of the technique was a spirit of moving forward regardless of all else, forsaking everything, including, naturally, one's life within the scope of this "forsaking."

If he had to define this move, Xue Jing would call it—Sacrifice Skill.

"If it weren't for 'Health Cultivation' and 'True Martial' sustaining me, along with practicing Yellow Grannie Skill and Nirvana Technique, I reckon I'd be dried up by now," Xue Jing muttered to himself, feeling how the emptiness of energy and strength inside was rapidly self-recovering.

This technique was probably something that only someone as unique as him could use as a regular trump card. For anyone else, it would be a once-in-a-lifetime move.

The terrifying cost it incurred naturally resulted in equally terrifying destructive power. Xue Jing wasn't sure what the A+ rating that Xuanling had given him represented, but seeing "No further testing required, choose any starting point within the first ten thousand floors" was enough.

That was the purpose of his visit to the Extreme Martial Ascension Palace: to quickly ascend to the higher floors and capture the student who had skipped class.

"How did you manage to use such a technique and still seem virtually unharmed afterward?" A female voice tinged with curiosity came from beside him, and Xue Jing was slightly startled.

This was the voice of the super AI, Xuanling, from the Extreme Martial Ascension Palace.

"How did you suddenly become so humanlike?" Xue Jing asked in confusion.

"What do you mean suddenly become humanlike? Don't you know how to speak?" Xuanling said, somewhat discontented.

"I am just surprised at your performance. I've allocated more computing power to your area; it's normal for my speaking manner to become more fluid," Xuanling explained.

Xue Jing nodded, "I see."

Initially, the AI-like questionnaire speaking mode of Xuanling was due to only the most basic computing power allocated to him, not enough to form a specific "personality."

After all, the Extreme Martial Ascension Palace hosted an unknown number of Sky Climbers, and Xuanling had to attend to them all.

Although it was a super AI constructed based on the "Super Network," theoretically capable of infinite computing power, in order to manifest in reality, it was inevitably limited by the configuration of the machines in the real world. Thus, in practice, its computing power, though immense, wasn't infinite, and it could only provide a basic Q&A module to most Sky Climbers.

"You still haven't answered my question," Xuanling said.

"Why are you seemingly unharmed after using such a technique?"

Xue Jing pinched his chin and replied, "I was born with Divine Power."

"Hmph, if you don't want to say, that's fine. It's not like I'm particularly curious," muttered Xuanling.

This thing is actually quite cute... Xue Jing smiled to himself.

"Xue, that was awesome!" Ning Yuantai approached, expressing admiration with an excited face.

"Though I had anticipated you might directly achieve an A rating, earning the privilege to choose any starting floor levels, it's still unexpected that you pulled off... an A+!"

"This must be a record unmatched by predecessors, and likely unequaled by future contenders to receive an A+ rating in Project One without having achieved Breakthrough," Ning Yuantai exclaimed.

Xue Jing rotated his still somewhat sore wrist and casually said,

"Is that score impressive?"

Ning Yuantai nodded vigorously, "Impressive, extremely impressive."

"Xuanling's Test Project One measures a Martial Artist's attack output capability. Even though personal physiques and Martial Arts training differ among individuals, and even those at the same level have diverse attack power, there are still general ranges."

"Those who receive a B rating are usually Great Perfection masters on the verge of a Breakthrough. Those with an A rating are Grandmaster Level individuals who have already had a Breakthrough. This result has already reached an 'outside the standard' level for the entrance test, allowing one to forgo further testing and directly obtain the highest starting floor privilege. An A+ rating is commonly assigned to those on the verge of a second Breakthrough, or who have already achieved it!"

"Proceeding to an S rating is the territory of Titled Strongmen..."

Xue Jing nodded, "Understood."

So it seemed that in the realm of pure martial arts, his maximum output capability was barely scraping the second Breakthrough territory...

But in the end, it was just output... If he actually faced an opponent of this level, even if his output matched up, he would still be crushed in other aspects by the adversary.

And such high-caliber fighters undoubtedly possessed unique explosive offensive moves. If they unleashed moves like Serious Punch, they could burst out even stronger and more ferocious power.

Defeating a second Breakthrough level fighter in the pure martial arts domain by leapfrogging two major realms was still impossible for now.

"Now it's time to find Zhao Longtu..."

"Which floor was he on again?"

Xue Jing was about to ask Ning Yuantai, but Xuanling's voice suddenly came from beside him:

"Are you looking for someone? Why not just ask me?"

Xue Jing raised an eyebrow, "Oh? Can you do that?"

"Of course, why else would I allocate so much computing power to you?"