Zhang Shou's Super Evolution

In the end, everyone located their own rankings. Most participants found themselves ranked in the hundreds of millions or even tens of billions, but because Niman and the others had Yu Xian's assistance, they had all placed relatively high. [Rank 654,861: Niman, Contribution: 8.66] Her reward consisted of one Character Enhancement Stone, a massive amount of Fortune Gold Coins, and a five-level boost. [Rank 879,811: Zhang Shou, Contribution: 5.66] Zhang Shou received one Class Enhancement Stone, the mandatory sum of Fortune Gold Coins, and a three-level boost. The others claimed their rewards one after another. The prizes were largely similar, offering either Class Enhancement Stones or Skill Enhancement Stones. Holding the Class Enhancement Stone, Zhang Shou began muttering to himself before decisively using it. The moment he finished using the stone, he immediately checked his attributes. Unable to hold back a burst of laughter, he showed off to everyone, "Look! I feel like I'm about to take flight. From now on, anyone who touches me is a dead man!" Everyone turned their eyes toward his class interface. [Name: Zhang Shou] [Level: 33] [Class: Chiman Martial Artist] [Skills:] [Chiman Overlord Body: Physical defense is substantially increased, and Vitality is increased by 2,000%. When attacked, all incoming attacks are weakened by 50%, while 50% of the damage is reflected back at the attacker.] [Dragon Physique, Chi Meridians: Constitution is substantially increased, and grants the Power of the Chi Beast. Expending the Power of the Chi Beast can manifest a Chi Beast, which possesses the ability to autonomously attack and counterattack while protecting its host.] [Chi Beast Charge: Merges into one with the Chi Beast. While sprinting forward, reflects all incoming ranged attacks from the front. Movement speed increases over time, and upon crashing into a target, grants complete immunity to all damage.] [Heavens' Overlord Hand: Infuses the Chi Beast with a massive amount of Chi Beast power, causing its hand to swell and expand, striking downward from above to attack all enemies within a wide area.] …… …… Looking at Zhang Shou's stats, everyone had to admit that he truly had the right to brag. These attributes and skills were terrifyingly strong. Reflecting 50% of incoming damage was already impressive enough, but the Chi Beast also counterattacked automatically. That meant striking Zhang Shou once would cost the enemy two retaliatory hits. Yu Xian chuckled. "Right now, Old Zhang only lacks a self-healing skill. Once his health regeneration is maxed out, he'll be a complete nightmare for any enemy." With that, he took out two Character Enhancement Stones and two Class Enhancement Stones, handing them to Zhang Shou. "Try enhancing yourself further," he said with a smile. Zhang Shou nodded. "Alright!" He offered no pretentious pleasantries. After decades of friendship, everything went without saying. Next, he used the Character Enhancement Stones, applying two enhancements in succession. With each upgrade, he could clearly feel himself growing stronger. Moreover, his experience using Character Enhancement Stones was completely different from Yu Xian's. When Yu Xian used them, his physical appearance barely changed. But when Zhang Shou used them, his frame expanded directly, his muscles swelling into defined, armor-like plates across his entire body. "Holy crap, the effect of Character Enhancement Stones is downright freakish," Zhang Shou said, looking thoroughly stunned after consuming the two stones. Right now, he felt he could easily obliterate his past self with a single punch. Forget damage reflection or defense—none of it would hold up, because his attributes were six, perhaps even eight times what they were before. It was pure stat suppression. Next, he proceeded to use the Class Enhancement Stones. After two consecutive enhancements, a terrifying aura inexplicably coalesced around him. Though he remained the same person, he exuded the presence of a peerless primordial beast—standing like an impregnable rampart and a monster capable of reducing everything to rubble. "Hurry, let us see the stats!" Gong Qian urged curiously. Zhang Shou exhaled a breath of stale air and clenched his fists. If he had possessed this level of strength back then, how could he ever have been chased all over the place? He would have turned around and wiped them out long ago. "Stop zoning out!" Yu Xian slapped Zhang Shou's arm. Zhang Shou was now two and a half meters tall, putting his head out of Yu Xian's reach. Zhang Shou grinned. "I feel like I could kill a Great Dao True Beast with one punch right now." "That's definitely an illusion, guaranteed," Cheng Pi quipped. Zhang Shou shot him an annoyed look. "Can't you just let me enjoy the illusion for a bit?" "Hurry up and show the attributes. Stop dragging your feet," Yu Xian urged, half-amused. Zhang Shou grinned and promptly opened his attribute panel for everyone to 'revere.' [Name: Zhang Shou] [Enhancement: +2] [Level: 33] [Class: Chiman War God] [Skills:] [Chiman Divine Body: As long as battle intent does not perish, vitality never runs dry. Boundless vitality can form a towering beacon plume of vital energy that blocks and weakens all manner of attacks. Vitality can also be consumed to negate negative status effects. When subjected to attacks, each hit received substantially increases Constitution, while simultaneously reflecting the damage taken back at the attacker.] [Will of the War God: Combines vitality and battle intent to forge peerless war constructs as weapons or apostles. Each existing peerless war construct grants the War God damage reduction, up to a maximum of 80%. Additionally, the War God can absorb peerless war constructs to swiftly recover from any damage sustained.] [Shadowless Heavenly Martial Fist: Instantly creates countless afterimages, allowing teleportation between them. After each teleportation, allows an attack on the target once regardless of distance. If the target is struck, it unleashes three additional follow-up attacks regardless of distance. If all attacks land, the afterimages will materialize into physical forms, continuously attacking the target.] [War God Form: Upon activation, vitality merges into the physical body, entering the War God Form. All attributes are substantially increased, and the user becomes immune to all non-melee damage for 10 minutes.] …… …… Strong. And not just ordinary strong. Under normal circumstances, killing him would be extraordinarily difficult for class users of the same level. Without several hundred or even a thousand combatants, taking him down was virtually out of the question. "It's hard to imagine how terrifying it would be if everything were enhanced to +10," Jin Sheng marveled after reading through Zhang Shou's attributes. Right now, Zhang Shou only had Character Enhancement +2 and Class Enhancement +3, yet with his current attributes, hardly anyone present besides Yu Xian would be a match for him. One could only imagine the staggering scale of his growth. Yu Xian smiled. "No need to rush, everyone. I'll provide enhancement stones up to +5 for all of you. As for what comes after that, it'll depend on your own fortunes." "With +5 enhancements, if we still can't take off, we might as well admit we're useless," Gong Qian said with conviction. In truth, if her class didn't require drawing talismans, she believed she wouldn't be weak at all. What truly bottlenecked her performance was that activating skills consumed talismans, and those talismans had to be crafted by hand, which was far too tedious. "Alright, next up is Niman." Yu Xian turned to Niman, taking out Character Enhancement Stones and Class Enhancement Stones to hand to her. "Shouldn't you give them to Nora first?" Niman asked hesitantly. Nora offered a gentle smile. "Salty Fish and I talked it over last night. We're enhancing you and Zhang Shou first, because there's a matter that requires the two of you to make a trip to Torch Dragon City." Yu Xian nodded, elaborating on what he and Nora had discussed the previous night. In fact, starting yesterday, he had been searching for trade partners on the Class Information Exchange Board, hoping to exchange one Talent Trait Enhancement Stone for five Talent Trait Awakening Stones. Quite a few people had been willing to make the trade, but all of them were level 200-plus powerhouses. Yu Xian had arranged a meeting with one of those experts, agreeing to complete the exchange in Torch Dragon City. The problem was that Yu Xian was far too famous right now, making it inappropriate for him to show up in person. Thus, they needed people they could absolutely trust to handle the deal. And Zhang Shou and Niman were precisely the candidates Yu Xian and Nora deemed most suitable.