Free Web NovelChapter 569: Chapter 380: Black Dragon State 2
Wang Ye reached out and placed his dragon-clawed hand on the rock.
His forearm suddenly exerted force and contracted,
Boom!!!!
In an instant, the rock was crushed to powder by him.
Wang Ye’s eyes showed indescribable shock. It was important to know that previously, this rock required almost his entire arm’s muscle integration to smash it, yet now, he had crushed it easily with just grip strength and finger strength.
This means the Black Dragon State significantly boosts his finger strength,
though it does make sense.
After all, Black Dragon Eighteen Hands itself is a grapple technique that specifically trains finger strength.
So the Black Dragon State should naturally amplify finger strength,
while the enhancements in attack and agility are merely by-products.
The attack enhancement allows him to kill with one blow, while the agility enhancement allows him to approach his opponent faster for an attack—these are core characteristics of Black Dragon Eighteen Hands.
However, the reduced defense power made Wang Ye feel slightly annoyed,
For example now,
he maintains the Black Dragon State while standing tens of thousands of meters underground.
The surrounding high pressure and high temperature pressed him hard.
If not for his diamond-like strong bones,
he would have collapsed with broken bones by now.
"But a notable advantage is the quick transition speed of the state," Wang Ye thought, stopping the hormone secretion from the Black Dragon Gland,
In no time, the scales on his body surface retracted inside, and his muscle composition returned to an endurance and explosive muscle balance of fifty-fifty.
The carbon acetylene’s keratin layer resurfaced, and the surrounding pressure became significantly lighter.
He estimated the time needed to switch between the two states could be compressed to under 0.1 seconds, which shouldn’t cause much negative impact during battle,
But facing missiles head-on, such a switching speed would be slightly slow.
Wang Ye switched back to the Black Dragon State, continuing to train the Black Dragon Eighteen Hands. In this state, the upgrade speed of Black Dragon Eighteen Hands is faster because the body structure meets the qualities required by Black Dragon Eighteen Hands more.
Training efficiency is at least twice that of the normal state.
Wang Ye took a deep breath and swiftly began performing Black Dragon Eighteen Hands. After transforming into Black Dragon State, his motion speed became many times faster than before, and the eighteen moves should ordinarily take several minutes.
But each set of moves took only about five seconds, meaning his movements reached the utmost limit; his hands and feet became black afterimages, creating loud sonic booms and breaking sound waves.
At this training speed, the skill level of Black Dragon Eighteen Hands rose very quickly.
The panel in front of him almost jumped about three percent skill level increase per second.
Just about a minute passed.
The panel welcomed another change.
[You trained in Black Dragon Eighteen Hands, gaining insight; skill level increased by 5.21%.]
[Your Black Dragon Eighteen Hands’ skill level is maxed, upgraded to "Black Dragon’s Grasp."]
[Black Dragon’s Grasp lv1 (0.0%)]
Boom!!!
The moment the system changed, a terrifying aura emerged from Wang Ye’s scales.
The high-energy substances beneath the scales continued to foster the scales’ growth into tougher and savage forms.
The dragon head reliefs on his shoulders gradually transformed from embryonic dragon heads to extremely savage black dragon heads, each eye embedded with dark red crystals, serving as mediators for absorbing external energy,
Since the scales hinder the body from absorbing sunlight, Black Dragon scale armor must evolve to gather sunlight in order to maintain normal bodily activities, which is nature’s selection.
If Wang Ye removes these crimson crystals from his scale armor and researches with experimental instruments, he would find these crystals are far more sophisticated than the most advanced solar panels today.
It can gather large areas of light and thermal energy around,
and amplify this energy with the functionality of a focused force field, channeling energy into the body.
The most eye-catching is the sudden emergence of vast bone wings on Wang Ye’s back, with twelve bony structures folding to match the spine’s curve, expanding beyond ten meters, resembling sky-enveloping clouds—the wing membranes consist of a semi-transparent graphene film, and energy circulating generates crimson lines, similar to the body’s intricate venous blood vessels.
This pair of bone wings is very reminiscent of the Demon Wings Wang Ye originally used Bone Shrinking Skill to grow, but Wang Ye’s Bone Shrinking Skill power was relatively low then, so Demon Wings were only usable as gliding wings, unable to use back muscle contractions to fly.
But now, the bone wings grown under Black Dragon State are connected to his back muscles, meaning his back muscles can drive the wings for flapping, thus providing sufficient updraft, and underneath the wings, there seems to be a sort of forked jet port,
Wang Ye slightly controlled the jet port and found they could spray out high-temperature streams, resembling Mach rings tail flames ejected by fighter jets, providing effective propulsion for rapid forward or upward movement.
Wang Ye’s face armor mimicked dragon skulls, with two subtle protrusions on the forehead now fully grown into dragon horns, flipping backwards.
But what concerned Wang Ye most was the change in attributes; he noticed that while his appearance changed, his grip strength seemed to jump to a higher tier, and agility had significantly increased.
Only the subterranean location was too cramped; he couldn’t accurately test his changes.
Wang Ye calculated the time—it was daytime now,
If he went out to test now, his ghostly appearance would easily be seen.
He planned to wait until nighttime to test.
The priority now was to maximize the skill level of the newly acquired Black Dragon’s Grasp.
Wang Ye continued resuming his stance posture to train Black Dragon’s Grasp.
Post-system upgrade, the moves were no longer mere martial arts techniques.
They resembled more of a body tempering mental method or external training.
But the essential attack techniques were still present, refined rigorously by the system—the originally messy and rather junk-filled Black Dragon Eighteen Hands were forcibly refined to three moves.
The first move Dragon Jaw Shattering Throat, the second move Reversed Scale and Broken Spine, the third move Mystical Claw Breaks Yin—in essence, continuing Black Dragon Eighteen Hands’ technique of targeting vital points, yet the moves became more precise, the force became more advanced, no longer mere moves but paired with a special Dragon Roar Breathing Technique, releasing subsonic level low growls to affect the enemy’s brain or impact electronic devices during attacks.
Wang Ye repeatedly performed these three moves with mechanical precision, every fingertip became his weapon, continuously executing harsh stabs.
Until five hours later.
Night descended.
The Black Dragon’s Grasp on the panel had reached level three.
Wang Ye gauged the time—it was around eleven o’clock at night.
Maintaining Black Dragon State, he suddenly flapped his bone wings, and the jet ports beneath the wings sprayed high-pressure flames; in an instant, his speed broke the sound barrier, flying upwards at nearly Mach 2.
During the flight, Wang Ye couldn’t help but be secretly surprised—knowing he was very close to the earth’s core, with exaggerated pressure and gravity; usually, his full Primordial Qi power could only ascend at sonic speeds, but now relying solely on the wings’ power, he approached twice the speed of sound.
After several minutes, Wang Ye returned to the earth’s surface,
Using the wings behind him, he hovered in mid-air,
his entirely black form seemed to blend into the night, but the crimson eyes on his face armor,
still made him conspicuous and very eerie.
"Well... let’s test the maximum speed of this state."
Wang Ye’s eyes flashed with a hint of dark red light.
