Absolute Choice 3

by Pear Lands In The Autumn Spring

  This was because they had already taken their proper positions. They had intended to suddenly strike with critical sneak attack, so now, they were confident that they could seal off all of Tu Dahei's routes of retreat. There was no reason for them to experience failure!

  A look of deep disappointment flashed across Shi Xiaobai's eyes. There was no other reason other than because the five rookies' attacks...were too slow!

  No, they were so slow that it made one cringe!

  From Shi Xiaobai's point of view, King of Leopard's saber slashing, GunfireInTheWorld's Tsunami Scatter Shot and DualBladesToTraverseTheWorld's Dual Blade Multi-slash were already extremely slow. They were many levels weaker than Thomas' Wraith Bullet or Princess Xiao Xiao's Crimson Netherworld.

  However, even comparing the spiciest chicken, King of Leopards, against Hua Pengju's five-men team, it was like a tractor placed in front of a ox cart. Immediately, the tractor would have the superior feeling of being a Rolls-Royce.

  Shi Xiaobai was extremely disappointed. Just a simple move would allow him to easily dodge the five people's attacks and he could effortlessly send them flying with a kick in their buttocks. It was easy to let them act out funny poses of a dog eating shit.

  But what was the point in doing that?

  Shi Xiaobai always found smurfing extremely boring. In the virtual competition, the noobs he encountered would choose to immediately escape.

  Shi Xiaobai decided to ignore the five spicy chickens and spare them. He went searching for Wang Lin and Xiang Wu. It was possible that they could give him a fun time.

  But at this moment, an abrupt idea that Shi Xiaobai could not resist overwhelmed his mind. It immediately lit up his eyes!

  Shi Xiaobai gently pulled back the tip of his foot that was about to take flight!

  At the same time, Hua Pengju's five-men team's attacks reached Shi Xiaobai. Five white Psionic Power surged over like fireworks exploding!

  Fist blows, palm strikes, finger piercing, claw swipes, foot kicks. Five different forms of attack attacked Shi Xiaobai from different angles. All of them were filled with a similar ruthlessness and brutality!

  Those rookies who chose to run around in the free-for-all battle or observe the situation, cast their gazes over. Immediately, their pupils shrunk.

  Along the edge of the field, Riko was nervously holding her breath, while the elder's eyebrows were gently wrinkled.

  Shi Xiaobai's situation was very dangerous!

  However, at that extremely critical point in time, Shi Xiaobai suddenly appeared like a retard. He stood motionlessly on the same spot. He did not release his Psionic Power, nor did he put up any Psionic Barrier. He did not even raise his hands!

  "Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!"

  Five explosions erupted simultaneously as the Psionic Power struck him. Hua Pengju's five-men team had all struck Shi Xiaobai's chest or back!

  The scene was like five steel hammers striking onto soft tofu!

  Although Shi Xiaobai did not crumble like tofu, the parts of his body that were struck sunk in. His face turned pale as his facial features scrunched up. With a gasp, he spat out boiling hot blood.

  "Ah!"

  Riko, who was outside the boundary, could not help but utter a scream.

  Little pervert, why aren't you dodging!?

  Yama Minamiya, who was already beside Riko, flashed a look of disappointment in his eyes.

  This was Shi Xiaobai? What was the use of a genius if he was a coward who did not have the courage to dodge?

  The five rookies were pleasantly surprised. They never expected that being the first to gang up would be so effective! Tu Dahei was not as strong as he seemed!

  Hua Pengju was extremely overjoyed as the leader of the five. It could be said that he hated and feared Tu Dahei. Ten days ago at the rookie training grounds, he had sneakily attacked and mocked Tu Dahei under orders by Song Xiao. This was actually something trivial to him, however, his boss, Song Xiao, was ruthlessly eliminated by Tu Dahei almost immediately after that!

  After Song Xiao was eliminated, Han Feng's faction completely crushed the remnant powers of Song Xiao's faction. Hua Pengju lost the ability to bully others by virtue of Song Xiao's influence. As he was usually arrogant and had rogue habits, Han Feng's faction directly rejected his allegiance.

  As a result, he was shuddering in fear every day, afraid of the days of him being eliminated. Also, he had to constantly worry over Tu Dahei's sudden revenge on him one day.

  The past ten days of Hua Pengju could be said to be miserable!

  And all of this was all Tu Dahei's fault!

  Now, he could finally seek revenge!

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  Chapter116 This Turtle Is Hardest

  Hua Pengju had always been waiting for the opportunity to seek revenge.

  If not for Tu Dahei, the days of his and Song Xiao's tyranny in Team Red would not have departed with no sign of return. He would not have needed to desperately struggle on the edge of elimination!

  As such, after Yama Minamiya announced the rules of a free-for-all, Hua Pengju gathered the four remaining members in Song Xiao's faction. There were all in the same boat to begin with, and now, they were all comrades in arms with a common enemy named Tu Dahei!

  As such, their approach was direct and brutal. Just a simple phrase, fuck him!

  Their idea was similarly simple. Even if they could not take Tu Dahei down through their collective efforts, they could at least ruthlessly hold Tu Dahei back. Since there was no way for them to obtain the nomination, there was no need to care if their actions would expose themselves to everyone around them.

  If they could vent the anger in their hearts, so what if they harmed others and themselves?

  However, Hua Pengju never expected that Tu Dahei was so weak, even in his wildest dreams!

  After Hua Pengju slammed his palm into Shi Xiaobai's chest, he did not hesitate to send another palm strike. As a person who perennially mixed in hooligan circles, he had the ruthlessness common hooligans lacked. Even though Shi Xiaobai had already spat out a mouthful of fresh blood, it was still not enough to make his heart turn soft!

  Hua Pengju's intent was cold and brutal. Take advantage of his perilous situation!

  A struggle appeared in the other four teammates' eyes. Reason told them that Tu Dahei was already very likely severely injured by the five of them. If they continued their beatings, Tu Dahei would likely be crippled even though it was unlikely he would die.

  Was doing such a thing okay?

  The four people exchanged glances as their mouths spontaneously suffused a sneer. They immediately struck Shi Xiaobai again. Since they connived with Hua Pengju, what sort of conscience could they have left? Striking with lesser strength was the only remaining benevolence they had.

  As such, under everyone's watchful gaze in the middle of the field, a shocking scene that caused everyone to draw a gasp happened.

  Hua Pengju and the other four began hitting Shi Xiaobai as though they were ruthlessly hitting sandbags. Shi Xiaobai was like a tiny boat that was floating in the middle of a surging storm, suffering the relentless crashing of waves. He was letting the five hit him without resisting!

  This scene only happened for a few seconds, and by the time everyone managed to react, Hua Pengju and company had already struck Shi Xiaobai several times.

  When Ye Jiaquan saw this, his eyes appeared like they were about to crack. He shouted "get lost" to the Team Blue members who had been pestering him right from the beginning as he tried to charge over to help Shi Xiaobai. However, the few Team Blue members kept blocking his path with deadpan expressions.

  When Xiang Wu saw this scene, he grunted coldly and wanted to intervene, but when he turned around, he saw Wang Lin blocking his path. Wang Lin's eyes were cold as he slowly raised the dagger in his hand.

  When Riko saw this scene, her face was already pale. Without any hesitation, she wante
d to rush into the field and stop this unilateral abuse.

  Riko was blaming herself in her heart. Regardless of how much a genius Shi Xiaobai was, being able to cultivate to the fourth level of the Psionic Mortal Realm in twenty days was already a miracle. It was understandable that he had yet to grasp any combat skills. However, she had encouraged Shi Xiaobai to participate in this cruel selection free-for-all battle without completely understanding the situation. She had harmed Shi Xiaobai.

  "Hold on."

  A hand pulled Riko's arm back.

  "Father!?"

  Riko turned her head to look at Yama Minamiya, who had stopped her. Her eyes were filled with anxiety. Was her father prohibiting her from interrupting the selection battle?

  Riko clenched her teeth slightly. She seldom rebelled against her family, but this time, she could not relent. Even if she were to disappoint her father, she had to stop Hua Pengju.

  Riko used her strength in order to free herself from Yama Minamiya's grip.

  Yama Minamiya suddenly said with a solemn expression, "Look carefully at the child's expression."

  Only then did Riko realize that her usually taciturn father had a smiling look of interest in his eyes.

  Riko immediately turned her head to look at Shi Xiaobai. As she focused her eyes, she saw how Shi Xiaobai's body was shaking in a manner that could not be clearly seen while Hua Pengju and company were beating him.

  That face should have been pale, but...

  Riko's pupils abruptly constricted.

  "He is smiling!?" Riko exclaimed in horror. At that moment in time, Shi Xiaobai had an undisguised smile suffusing from his lips. While experiencing the five-men gang beating, he was still able to smile?

  At the same time, Riko realized another shocking matter!

  Shi Xiaobai never issued out a tragic scream from the beginning to the end. No, not only that, on closer inspection, the skin that was exposed by Shi Xiaobai did not have any bruises after experiencing Psionic Ability attacks!

  What...was going on!?

  ...

  ...

  Shi Xiaobai wanted to laugh out loud. If not for this sudden Absolute Choice that caused him to be somewhat worried for Chen Lingcun's safety, he would have brazenly laughed out loud.

  Shi Xiaobai wanted to moan comfortably while enduring Hua Pengju and company's beatings. Every muscle on his body was trembling in bliss, giving him the satisfaction of having his heart filled to the brim with joy.

  Oh, don't misunderstand. Shi Xiaobai is not into masochism, He just could not extricate himself from the indulgence of becoming stronger.

  Eh? You are asking why he becomes stronger while being beaten?

  Hehe, you are really out of it!

  Speaking of this matter, there is a need to mention that when Shi Xiaobai cultivated his Crab Steps to the "Dominating Refinement" realm, the Absolute Choice had given him a B-Class reward—Filthy Turtle Divine Technique!

  And Filthy Turtle Divine Technique was truly a divine technique!

  This divine technique consisted of three parts. The first was a body tempering cultivation technique—"This Turtle Is Hardest".

  "This Turtle Is Hardest" was similar to traditional body tempering techniques. The final goal was to similarly increase a cultivator's physical defense through cultivation. It meant improving the four major defenses—skin, flesh, bones and mental defenses.

  Every Psionite would supposedly choose a body tempering cultivation technique that was most suited for them to increase their physical defense.

  This Turtle Is Hardest was one of the most ordinary and common body tempering cultivation techniques.

  However, the cultivation method of "This Turtle Is Hardest" was extremely special. It was completely different from other fancy schlocks.

  Common body tempering cultivation techniques would use a specific motion or training method to constantly push the body to its limits in order to improve the body's constitution.

  Some body tempering cultivation techniques would send their Psionic Power gushing through their bodies and use the passing of time to transform their bodies.

  There were other insane body tempering cultivation techniques that used the power of nature to temper their bodies.

  For example, using fire to temper their bodies while rising from the ashes, or using lightning tribulations to construct a lightning tempered body. There were also water, wind, ice-snow tempered bodies, etc. Through these natural forces, they could temper their bodies' physical properties and through that improve their body's defenses and resistances.

  The aforementioned were the most commonly seen body tempering cultivation techniques, but "This Turtle Is Hardest" did not belong to any of this.

  This Turtle Is Hardest's body tempering cultivation technique had a complicated theory, but to sum it up in three words, it was—getting a beating!

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  Chapter117 Imbalanced Broken Character in the World

  You didn't read wrong. Constantly taking a beating was the enthralling cultivation method to the body tempering technique, "This Turtle Is Hardest".

  From a beating, the body's cells would constantly die and the newly produced cells would become stronger. As for skin, muscles, blood, bones and mental will, they would all also become stronger after receiving a beating.

  So, do you want to master a divine technique? Then get beaten up!

  Do you want to become a true filthy turtle? Then get beaten up!

  Do you want you and your little partner down there to become harder and harder, till it became the "hardest"?

  You have to want that!

  Then why aren't you fucking getting beaten up as soon as possible!?

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  At the moment Shi Xiaobai was being surrounded by Hua Pengju and company's attacks, he suddenly recalled of his Filthy Turtle Divine Technique and its "This Turtle Is Hardest". This gave him the idea of letting himself take a beating.

  According to the cultivation rules of "This Turtle Is Hardest", the more badly he was beaten up, the greater the improvement to his body. As such, Shi Xiaobai directly gave up resisting and did not dodge at all.

  However, Shi Xiaobai immediately regretted after being hit by the first five Psionic Ability attacks, because his physical defense was like tofu crap!

  He had yet to undergo any body tempering cultivation so his physical defense was only at the standard of a normal human. Receiving the direct Psionic Ability attacks by Hua Pengju and company was a bit too much for him.

  Shi Xiaobai immediately felt his organs twist and he even spat out a mouthful of blood!

  But!

  But a miraculous thing happened. After suffering the first strikes and spitting out fresh blood, Shi Xiaobai actually felt comfortable all over. It was as if he was engaging in a ice water bucket battle in a hot summer day, and had ice water drench his entire body.

  Shi Xiaobai immediately realized that this was the effect of his endurance technique, the second part of Filthy Turtle Divine Technique—"Unleaking Turtle Aura".

  "Unleaking Turtle Aura" was an endurance technique that inhibited sensory stimuli to obtain an endurance effect.

  For example, if you were to use "Unleaking Turtle Aura" when you are out of breath while running, then the sensory stimuli from the difficulty in breathing, the body fatigue and muscle soreness would be completely inhibited. Since you can't feel them, your body would not make a stress response, allowing you to carry on exercising.

  Of course, this was somewhat forcefully extending one's endurance, and it was easy to harm oneself by doing so.

  However, the endurance ability of "Unleaking Turtle Aura" was truly formidable. It could inhibit the painful stimuli in seconds, causing the pain to be dispersed across the entire body.

  Well, in short, all Shi Xiaobai felt was a sense of soreness and immediately felt a strange feeling that resembled leveling up. Just like how his current body constitutio
n was originally 1, now it had changed to 2.

  This feeling was very clear and realistic. It even felt like those numbers could be specifically discerned.

  Shi Xiaobai knew this was not an illusion. This was the body tempering effects of "This Turtle Is Hardest"!

  Hua Pengju and company's fists and feet were constantly striking his body. After he deliberately avoided his vital body parts, his body began to continuously cultivate as it suffered injury.

  Due to "Unleaking Turtle Aura", Shi Xiaobai did not experience too much pain while being beaten, instead, he felt comfortable all over.

  Due to "This Turtle Is Hardest", Shi Xiaobai's physical defenses were constantly rising while he was being beaten. His skin, flesh, bones were becoming harder and harder.

  With the two combined, it was simply perfect!

  Of course, the main reason why he was able to accomplish these two points was because Hua Pengju and company's damage numbers did not exceed Shi Xiaobai's threshold. Furthermore, with Shi Xiaobai deliberately avoiding his vital parts from being hit, it reached the most suitable balance.

  There was a way to describe how Hua Pengju and company's beating of Shi Xiaobai was like—It was actually giving Shi Xiaobai a fucking happy ending!

  In summary, the feeling of his physical defense rise from 1 to 10 quickly made Shi Xiaobai feel joy both physically and spiritually. An undisguised smile began to suffuse on his lips.

  Finally at a particular moment and with a particular punch, Shi Xiaobai's body suddenly emitted a "boom" sound and quivered. A strange force began to flow throughout his entire body.

  Shi Xiaobai's physical defense had reached the second level while being beaten!

  "Wahaha!"

  Shi Xiaobai was already bursting with joy.

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  Initially, Hua Pengju and company's brutal gang beating of Shi Xiaobai helped the other rookies vent their anger, but they still felt some pity. However, as the beatings continued, everyone noticed something strange.

  That's not right.

  This Tu Dahei did not even scream out once. Why did the occasional moan or two sound like he was having a full-body massage? Other than spitting out a mouthful of blood at the beginning, he did not appear as though he was being brutally beaten up.