Chapter 19 Bottleneck
That night, in the exclusive villa community of Extreme Martial Arts School in the main urban area.

Li Dong helplessly closed the communication watch and sighed: "It's true that being famous brings a lot of troubles. The key is that I don't have the right to directly reject others. Fortunately, I still have Lao Zhou to support me, so I don't have to worry too much. It's just that the second time I practiced 'Gene Energy', the steps I made were negligible!"

In fact, Li Dong's progress was not low. Without any guiding techniques, he actually increased his punching power by nearly 100 kilograms by practicing "genetic energy" today. If this were to be made public, it would definitely make the junior warriors of the same level envious.

However, for Li Dong, who can increase his punching power by 3,500 kilograms after fighting for a day, it is indeed nothing. However, he will not give up his plan. He still has to be extremely exhausted and reach the limit before practicing "genetic energy".

Everything is accumulated. Even if you fight with a master of the same level with all your strength, you can actually only increase your punching power by about 100 kilograms. Only by accumulating '100 kilograms' one by one can you make great progress.

"However, judging from today's situation, the one we will fight tomorrow will at least be a high-level warrior close to a junior general. I'm afraid tomorrow's progress may not be as great as today's. However, every junior general and high-level peak warrior who has stayed for a long time has his own unique skills. When combined, the benefits may not be small!"

"Now that I'm famous, I'll try to fight with masters of the same level as much as possible. My punching power is close to 13,000 kilograms now, and I should be able to reach the level of an intermediate general the day after tomorrow. In this way, the day after tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, I can even make an intermediate general my opponent!"

Li Dong's eyes were bright. His talent of 'becoming stronger through fighting' was indeed a talent that became more terrifying as it accumulated. When it first awakened, the improvement it brought him was ridiculously weak.

After all, he awakened at the age of eight, so what opponents could he have? They were just children of the same age. At most, he could fight against teenagers who had not yet developed.

For such an opponent, having a strength of thirty to fifty kilograms is considered good. After a whole day of fighting, both of them will be hospitalized, and their punching power will only increase by less than one kilogram.

It can be said that the reason why Comrade Lao Li has worked so hard for so many years and has only accumulated more than 10 million yuan in wealth is largely related to Li Dong.

The cost of hospital treatment these days is even more staggering. Work-related injuries are not a big deal, but injuries like these caused by children playing around have to be paid for by the parents.

If Li Dong was not a second-generation martial artist, it would be difficult for him to accumulate enough talent to get started.

This is also the reason why Li Dong only reached the physical fitness of a "quasi-warrior" after he turned seventeen.

However, in just over a month, Li Dong has risen rapidly, and his punching power has reached nearly 12,700 kilograms. Excluding the 5,300 kilograms increase from the first practice of "genetic energy", there is an increase of nearly 6,400 kilograms, which is undoubtedly a terrifying number.

In fact, I only gained about 2,900 kilograms in the previous month, but today I gained almost 3,500 kilograms in one day!

The stronger you are, the more terrifying the increase in your 'Stronger in Combat' talent will be!
This is still the case because Li Dong is unable to learn many things now and is stuck at some hurdles. Once he passes the 'Warrior Combat Assessment', he can learn more and Li Dong's progress will be even greater.

At least a set of "Nine-Layer Thunder Blade" might be enough for him to continuously fight against higher-level opponents. At least dealing with masters of the same level would be much easier, and the efficiency of taking advantage of them would naturally be greatly improved.

The next morning, Li Dong was treated like a star. There was no empty space in the martial arts hall on the fourth floor except for the huge arena.

There was a look of anticipation on everyone's face in the crowd. When Li Dong walked onto the stage from the special passage backstage, the crowd burst into thunderous cheers.

Some people even shed tears of excitement.

This kind of situation also forced the Extreme Martial Arts School to send more manpower, and even dispatched a large number of intermediate and even senior generals to maintain order.

"Follow the order, otherwise you will be disqualified!"

Li Dong shouted loudly, then signaled to the staff to call the first person to come on stage.

The area around the ring had already been occupied by those who were ahead in the queue, and they all knew Li Dong's rules. If they delayed for a few seconds, it would most likely be the next person's turn.

Therefore, no one dares to be careless. Even if they are injured, they must stand on the ring as soon as possible.

The first one to come on stage was still a junior general, and naturally he was also a junior general whose strength had stagnated for a long time and who had made no progress.

"It's a pity that I'm not particularly good at anything, so I'm just mediocre. But my physical fitness is pretty good, and I should weigh more than 13,000 kilograms!"

Li Dong now has rich combat experience. He can judge all the information about his opponent in just a moment of fighting. It is naturally much easier to deal with this junior warrior who has no special strength.

In the end, it only took about eight minutes to push the man to his limit and he fell to the ground exhausted.

However, Li Dong frowned slightly, because this man had extraordinary physical fitness, but the improvement in his punching power was not even 100 kilograms. It seemed that the intensity of the battle also affected his improved strength.

But overall, it wasn't too bad, after all, it took a lot less time to solve. In less than five seconds, the next opponent came on stage.

As opponents came on stage one by one, Li Dong's strength continued to increase. Perhaps it was because of his great improvement in strength, even some obviously very strong junior warriors today could not consume too much of Li Dong's physical strength. Li Dong's speed in defeating opponents increased greatly, and his physical strength could last longer.

At about eleven o'clock, after fighting for three hours, Li Dong was exhausted and announced that the battle would continue at one o'clock in the afternoon!

"In one morning, for three hours, I fought about twenty opponents. The strongest one among them was very close to being a mid-level general. It was a pity that he used a war stick. Although his stick skills were good, they were not of much help to my main fighting power!"

Li Dong practiced with the knife to the limit again, and was almost at the point of losing consciousness. He finally made it to the rest area with great difficulty, recovered a little, and began to summarize the gains from the morning's battle.

Twenty opponents gave him a considerable boost in punching power, exceeding 1,800 kilograms. However, this also shows that Li Dong's strength has indeed improved significantly. The intensity of the battle between opponents of the same level has decreased sharply, which is the reason for this result.

Of course, the efficiency of the wheels has been slightly improved, which is an unexpected surprise.

Unfortunately, the opponents that Li Dong most hoped to see who could master "World Destruction" and "Nine-Layer Thunder Blade" were very few. These two secret books were indeed the most top-level and difficult ones.

"World Destruction" and "Nine-Layered Thunder Blade" are the most valuable secret books on Earth, of course, only before the emergence of the cosmic civilization heritage.

These two secret books, one has the most powerful means of exerting force, and the other hides the secrets of the field. Naturally, Li Dong wants to learn the one he wants to learn the most.

Unfortunately, there are very few opponents at the junior general level who have such comprehension. Li Dong’s idea of ​​learning the two secrets in advance to pave the way for the future was shattered.

"It seems that at the junior warrior level, I can only improve my physical fitness. I don't need to have too high expectations for other aspects. I will talk about it when my strength reaches a certain level in the future!"

Li Dong quickly adjusted his mentality, his eyes filled with fighting spirit. Next, he had to find a way to quickly exhaust his opponent's physical strength to end the fight and improve his own strength as soon as possible.

In the afternoon, after fighting against his seventh opponent, Li Dong's punching power finally broke through the 16,000 kilogram mark, which means that his strength has finally reached the intermediate general level!
However, Li Dong did not immediately let the intermediate generals join the ranking, but continued to deal with the tenth opponent before loudly announcing the news!

There were also many intermediate generals and masters who came here with the mentality of trying their luck or watching the fun. When Li Dong made the announcement, these intermediate generals naturally went to register and queue up immediately.

Admittedly, given the current situation, it will probably take at least five days for them to get their turn, but it's better to have hope than no hope.

Most of the mid-level general-level masters already have a considerable net worth, so they don't need to rush to the wilderness area to adventure immediately.

It's just a few days of waiting, they can still afford to wait.

At the same time, Zhou Fangcheng, who was watching the surveillance video, had his eyes bright and a look of shock on his face: "Could it be that Li Dong has reached the intermediate general level?"

"But how is this possible? It's only been two days!"

Even for the strongest genius, how could it be possible to go from a beginner to a mid-level general in just two days? That’s an increase of 6,800 kilograms.

If cultivation is so easy, then would humans only have so few base cities? They would have built more base cities long ago.

Zhou Fangcheng would not have been trapped in the high-level combat for so long.

However, Li Dong's rapid improvement is naturally a good thing, which means that Zhou Fangcheng also has a chance!

On the other hand, Li Dong sighed inwardly: "As expected, my strength has been raised to that of an intermediate general. When fighting with these junior generals, their strength can only be improved by 0.02% at most. The strongest can only improve by 30 kilograms, and the average ones can only improve by 10 kilograms!"

For those who are one level lower than Li Dong, Li Dong has roughly figured out the rules. Generally, their strength is one thousandth of their opponent's, and at most two thousandths. Only at the same level can the minimum be five thousandths, and at most one percent!

This is also the reason why Li Dong had to announce that the intermediate generals would be added to the ranking list, because these junior generals could no longer bring him much improvement.

Of course, quantitative change can also lead to qualitative change. As long as Li Dong hone his own combat effectiveness to a more amazing level and deal with his opponents more efficiently, even if the improvement is only one thousandth, it will be enough to quickly strengthen himself.

It’s just that Li Dong has almost reached a bottleneck now. Without any top-notch secrets to learn, he can’t easily deplete his opponent’s physical strength with just this most basic swordsmanship!
(End of this chapter)