Chapter 305: The Pros and Cons of Datafication
Bang!
Guy leaped into the air and unleashed a Bushin Prison Lock Fist, his punch slamming heavily into Qin Ming's chest.
Yet despite taking the hit head-on, Qin Ming didn't budge an inch. Instead, he took the opportunity to counter with a powerful punch of his own, striking Guy square in the chest and sending him sliding across the floor.
Guy skidded back several meters before planting his foot down and forcibly steadying himself. Clutching his chest, he let out a violent cough.
Looking up at Qin Ming, his face was filled with shock.
How can someone this massive execute such fluid techniques?
By all logic, big guys should be slow to react!
Compared to Guy's astonishment, Qin Ming remained calm.
Patting his chest, he straightened his posture and looked at his opponent. Suddenly, his eyes gleamed with a blood-red light.
"The test is over, kid. Time to get serious."
The moment he finished speaking, Qin Ming let out a thunderous roar.
Rotating his arms into a tiger claw stance and positioning them at his waist, a surge of crimson energy began gathering in his palms, compressing into a sphere.
Imitation—Tyrant's Roaring Fist!
Boom!
With a fierce gust of wind, Qin Ming activated his blood energy, releasing a massive two-meter-wide energy sphere with a single palm strike.
Seeing this, Guy's expression shifted dramatically.
His mind reeled—how could someone with no discernible energy fluctuations unleash a ranged attack like this?
Panicked, he pushed off the ground with both legs, launching himself into the air.
With a deafening explosion, the blood sphere slammed into the wall, instantly shattering it into countless fragments.
Guy, now crouched on the remnants of the wall, tensed his legs and shot toward Qin Ming like a missile.
Raising his leg—Bushinryu! Kamaitachi!
Same technique, same flying kick.
But this time, it successfully landed, striking Qin Ming square in the chest.
Hearing the solid thud, Guy's face lit up with joy.
However, before his smile could fully form, he saw Qin Ming, who had tanked the hit with his chest, suddenly grab hold of his ankle with both hands and hurl him to the side.
Boom!
With a thunderous crash, Guy, now flailing like a meteor hammer, was swung straight into a nearby wardrobe, splintering it into countless wooden shards.
Before the sound had even faded, Qin Ming, still gripping Guy's ankle, swung him again—this time into other pieces of furniture.
Table? Smashed!
Chairs? Smashed!
TV? Smashed!
Counter? Smashed!
Completely ignoring Guy's frantic kicks with his other leg, Qin Ming continued his wild rampage, turning the entire hall into a disaster zone.
Finally, with a final powerful swing, he sent Guy spinning through the air, crashing headfirst into the adjacent wall and smashing straight into the next room.
As bricks scattered everywhere, Guy tumbled onto the ground, his Bushinryu outfit now tattered, his face covered in bruises.
Hearing footsteps approaching behind him, he quickly planted his hands on the floor and executed a kip-up to get back on his feet.
But just as he looked up, a massive blood-red blade was already descending upon him!
Imitation—Sonic Hand Blade! Multi-Slash!
A series of buzzing sounds filled the air as countless crimson Sonic Hand Blades stormed into the room.
Walls, furniture, decorations—everything was shredded into pieces in an instant!
Faced with this barrage of attacks, Guy dodged left and right in a panic, relying on his superior techniques to evade most of the onslaught.
For the few he couldn't dodge, he crossed his arms and gathered energy to forcibly block them.
Between adventurers and storyline characters, each had their own strengths and weaknesses.
Adventurers' advantage lay in their fully datafied bodies, granting them incredible survivability.
As long as they weren't outright killed, even if they were gravely injured, they still retained the ability to fight or escape.
A fatal wound—such as a pierced heart—would instantly kill any normal storyline character.
But an adventurer could continue fleeing as if nothing had happened, only collapsing once their life force was completely drained.
From this perspective, adventurers seemed to have a significant advantage.
However, the datafication of their bodies also came at a price. The biggest drawback was that they could only learn skills through skill books, unlike storyline characters who could develop abilities on their own.
Even if a prodigy managed to learn something independently, the ability would ultimately be converted into a skill and appear in their skill bar.
Adventurers' techniques were rigid, while storyline characters' techniques were adaptable—one was like a fixed program installed on a computer, while the other was like a programmer writing their own code.
In terms of learning speed, the former naturally excelled.
But when it came to enhancing combat effectiveness, the latter far surpassed them!
Both had their pros and cons. Normally, adventurers had to rely on their datafied bodies and a variety of strange and unique items to stand a chance against storyline characters.
But Qin Ming was different.
The newly acquired S-rank skill, Flesh Fusion, essentially stored a source of energy within him, allowing him to wield energy freely.
With this energy, Qin Ming was no longer bound by skill restrictions. He could release his blood at will to enhance his techniques—or even create new ones.
In a sense, under this mode, he had broken through the limitations of Nightmare Space and transformed into a unique kind of storyline character!
Storyline characters had a wide array of skills? He had even more!
Their techniques evolved quickly? His evolved even faster!
As long as his blood wasn't fully depleted, his moves were endless!
After launching twelve consecutive Sonic Hand Blades and seeing that even this wasn't enough to take Guy down, Qin Ming roared in frustration and slammed his fist into the ground.
As blood spread across the floor, pillars of blood suddenly erupted upward.
Imitation—Energy Fountain!
Roaring furiously, Qin Ming hammered the ground four more times, sending four consecutive blood pillars toward his enemy.
Yet seeing that he still couldn't land a hit, he suddenly brought both hands to his chest, gathering an immense amount of blood.
As his bloodline ability activated, white flames ignited atop the blood sphere, making the already eerie attack even more terrifying.
Imitation—Orochi Nagi!
The blood sphere exploded, transforming into flames that engulfed him entirely!
Now clad in flames, Qin Ming became a living fireball, hurtling forward at his opponent.
Guy, who had been constantly dodging, now wore a grim expression.
This time, instead of evading, he pressed his hands together, channeling all of his inner energy.
In the next second, he took a stance for Iron Mountain Lean, slamming his shoulder directly into the incoming fireball.
Bushinryu! Mountain-Crushing Impact!
Boom!
A powerful shockwave spread outward, causing the already battered walls to collapse completely.
Having exchanged blows, Guy pushed off the ground and staggered two steps back.
Meanwhile, Qin Ming skidded back more than three meters before barely managing to steady himself.
The abilities he mimicked using his blood were, in the end, imitations.
They lacked both the fixed power of adventurer skills granted by Nightmare Space and the deadly force of genuine techniques wielded by storyline characters.
When clashing against adventurers, this wasn't an issue—at long range, his attacks didn't expose their weaknesses.
Not to mention, most adventurers had lower base stats than him.
But now that he was engaging in close-quarters combat with a storyline character, the flaws of his imitation skills were completely exposed.
In a direct clash, he simply couldn't win!
Seeing that Qin Ming had lost the exchange and momentarily lost his balance, a sharp gleam flashed in Guy's eyes.
Seizing the opportunity, he let out a low growl as his body glowed brightly—activating his ultimate move without hesitation.
Bushinryu Secret Technique! Martial God Eightfold Fist!
(End of Chapter)