He unconsciously recalled the Giant Statue Technique in his mind. The Blood Pill at the location of his Dantian started spinning rapidly, like thousands of sharp needles, instantaneously piercing into the muscles throughout his body. Bai Xiao felt pain all over, his Qi-Blood surged, and his entire body swelled as if it had been stimulated and catalyzed, beginning to expand.
In less than a breath or two, his body grew several sizes larger.
His muscles expanded brutally, section by section, his skin turning dark and shiny, his veins like fine snakes winding beneath his marble-like robust arms. Bai Xiao’s originally strong muscles, after employing the Giant Statue Technique, reached an exaggerated extent. His height shot up from 1.88 meters to around 2.5 meters. His head was hitting the ceiling, his skin, black with hints of red, emitted waves of intense body heat, continuously evaporating the moisture in the air.
Streams of steam rose from the surface of his chest and shoulders.
Enshrouding Bai Xiao’s upper body.
However, after a muffled sound, a violent air current burst from his pores and shot out, causing the whole bathroom to churn as if gusts of wind were howling.
The white steam was instantly dispersed.
That iron tower-like body swelled once again. In a short period of time, he grew from a height of 2.5 meters to a black and red giant of 3.2 meters!
Bai Xiao knelt on one knee, the height of the bathroom could no longer accommodate him, so he lowered his posture voluntarily. Bai Xiao was not afraid that he would injure himself by hitting the ceiling, but that the alloy-like toughness of his body would punch through the ceiling.
Whether it was people in the room upstairs seeing a head drilling up from the floor or the people in the room downstairs seeing a pair of feet poking out from the ceiling, it could cause some unnecessary impact or even fright.
"Bigger means stronger, stronger means bigger!"
Bai Xiao lowered his head and looked at his own hands covered with dark blue veins.
"I am stronger than before!"
His booming voice echoed in the bathroom, like the sounding of a huge bell.
Five thick fingers suddenly clenched into a fist, and the air in the palm exploded into white vapor. Bai Xiao, bending his waist, squeezed through the narrow bathroom door with difficulty.
Upon arriving in the room, he could finally stand upright.
However, there was less than ten centimeters between his head and the ceiling; it felt like he could touch it with a slight tiptoe. Bai Xiao took a deep breath and returned to his original size.
"I wonder, with my current strength."
"If I add Qi-Blood transformation, can I shatter Mountain King Chen Xiu’s armor?"
He mulled over this as he walked to the floor-to-ceiling window and drew the curtains.
Below, on the alleyway beside Hualili Hotel, a young man making a phone call was staring blankly at the eighth floor, dumbfounded. He wondered if it was an illusion, but he had seen the shadow of a huge giant moving to and fro. The youth’s mind was shocked, a sense of inexplicable terror in his heart.
"Hello, what happened? Speak, will you?"
His girlfriend’s voice came from the phone.
The young man came to his senses: "Oh, oh, I just had a hallucination. Maybe it was just the lighting, magnifying the shadow of someone moving in the room."
His girlfriend found the young man’s words somewhat incomprehensible.
"Nothing, nothing. I’m about to take a cab back."
The young man immediately hailed a taxi, leaving the area somewhat panic-stricken.
At 8 o’clock in the evening, Bai Xiao, well-fed and satisfied, returned to his room from the cafeteria. Dressed in a set of loose practice clothes, he sat on the sofa with a vacant look in his eyes.
In front of him, the four-dimensional attribute panel appeared.
[Strength: 93.7→98.7]
[Physique: 100.0→104.2]
[Willpower: 67.0→69.4]
Strength +5.0, Speed +3.1, Physique +4.2, Will +2.4!
This was the improvement brought by the Giant Statue Technique, mainly focusing on strength and physique. Especially strength, Bai Xiao’s strength attribute was close to breaking through a hundred points. At a glance, the weakest link was still the willpower attribute.
However, he now had a solution.
Returning to the Ghost Face Organization, Ghost Snake Xie Yang was just one move in the game.
Of course, the immediate progress that can be directly seen, still depends on the Demon Bird Secret Book. With a thought, Bai Xiao instantly absorbed the Fear Qi accumulated by the Demon Mantis. That was the benefit of defeating Crack Water Fist Lei Yu and Ghost Snake Xie Yang.
[Willpower: 69.4→71.5]
Not bad, a gain of more than two points in the psychic willpower attribute.
As he digested his newfound comprehension, Bai Xiao faintly felt a familiar throbbing, which seemed to be from a fear nightmare.
With a thought, he looked down at the back of his hand.
The Skull Mark that hadn’t been paid attention to for a long time, faintly flickered.
"Ever since I reached the Martial Artist Realm, the special fragmented world where the fear nightmare resides seems to have undergone some strange fusion with the personal world of a Martial Artist. If I want to absorb Void Energy like other Martial Artists, and strengthen myself, I must kill the monsters in the combat city..."
"But correspondingly, my path to leveling up is more dangerous, yet my progression speed is faster. As long as I find a sufficiently strong individual and kill them by any means, the massive Void Energy of the opponent might just allow me to leap over the first phase of the Martial Artist Realm in an instant, and infuse ’essence’ to overflowing state..."
Bai Xiao muttered to himself, as if he had gained some insight.
The Fusion of fear nightmare and personal world is indeed more dangerous, because once he dies, he might be targeted by fear, just like the eldest senior brother.
His thoughts churning, Bai Xiao slowly lay down on the bed.