Infinite Professions-Chapter 40 - 36: Transformation

Time flies by swiftly, and in the blink of an eye, March arrives, marking the midpoint of the academic year.

Inside the dormitory, within the gravity chamber.

Under ten times the gravitational pressure, Shen Hex stands with his upper body bare, diligently practicing Fist Skill.

His feet deeply press into the ground, like a Hidden Dragon lurking in the abyssal sea, and in the next instant, he erupts like a tiger bursting forth, creating an inexplicable aura that captivates him, making him lose himself completely.

Each move flows like water, arising from his heart, coming forth naturally.

Within his body, the qi and blood surge rapidly alongside the operation of the fist technique, emerging from all over his body, limbs, and bones, converging and finally forming a mighty eastbound current, coursing through his entire being before rushing into the Dantian Qi Sea, directly impacting the Martial Arts Mysterious Gate.

"Boom!!"

Amidst this, in the quiet room, a roar akin to thunder explodes, vaguely accompanied by the cries of dragons and tigers.

Shen Hex steps firmly, instantly breaking through the Martial Arts Mysterious Gate. Within his Dantian Qi Sea, True Qi rolls like waves, forming a gathered and undispersed, unmatched Dragon-shaped Gang Stream, forcefully rushing out.

"Bang!!!"

After the roaring shock, all returns to tranquility.

Shen Hex stands alone, like an abyssal mountain, unmovable.

Shen Hex

Profession: Mad Hero (Tier Two Level One), Transmigrator (Tier One Level Two)

Professional Talent: Static Posture, Killing Life and Cutting Karma, Zhuang Zhou’s Dream of the Butterfly, Ten Thousand Dao Fruit.

Professional Skills: Xingyi Fist (Nourishing Form and Intent, Righteous and Majestic)

Professional Skills: Yuan-Devouring Skill (Devour a Bull a Day, Strengthen Body)

Professional Skills: Herbal Scripture (Doctor’s Benevolent Heart, Immune to All Poisons)

Professional Items: Ten Thousand Dao Fruit (Condensed by the Transmigrator profession)

General Skills: Omitted.

...

"Huff!"

Feeling the gains from his practice, Shen Hex exhales a breath of turbid qi, then turns off the gravity, moves to the resting area, mixes a vial of Intermediate Nutrient Liquid with a bag of Male Blood Strengthening Powder, quickly ingests them to replenish the qi and blood consumed from practice.

Indeed, he is taking medicine!

Generally speaking, Martial Arts Professionals at lower tiers should not take too many medications, as they bear three major drawbacks.

The first is affecting professional advancement; taking medicine greatly increases the chance of failure, even if successful by chance, you can’t expect one who levels up by doping to develop a high-strength profession.

The second is affecting the exertion of strength; although medication can greatly accelerate cultivation speed, the power gained this way is clearly unstable and easily loses control. A small mistake might lead to deviation, causing defects in the cultivation body and flaws all over, easy to break with one strike—the previous Zhang Hua is the best example.

The third is the accumulation of pill poison; long-term medication easily causes body resistance, affecting the effect of high-tier medications later, and even accumulating pill poison, harming the body.

Thus, Martial Arts Professionals are highly resistant to medication, at least in lower tiers, avoiding use whenever possible.

But Shen Hex is untroubled by this concern. Over the past three months, he mixed and consumed various nutrients and medications, with a dosage feared to be more than what ordinary martial artists take in three years.

The reason for this is simple: the three ill effects of medication do not exist in him.

Affecting professional advancement?

He has Zhuang Zhou’s Dream of the Butterfly, allowing him to traverse all heavens, generate countless professions, and transmit them back through Ten Thousand Dao Fruit. Not to mention the influence of medication, even doing nothing, he can obtain various high-tier professions through Zhuang Zhou’s Dream of the Butterfly.

Affecting strength exertion?

He has Zhuang Zhou’s Dream of the Butterfly, allowing him to grind himself across worlds for a year, a decade, a century, even millennia, to reach perfection, so the instability issue does not exist for him.

As for the accumulation of pill poison, indeed an unignorable drawback, but he has the Yuan-Devouring Skill, greatly enhancing digestive capability, able to digest the useful and expel the useless, leaving little residue, at least with low-tier medications like nutrient liquid and Strengthening Powder.

He’s already tested this in the Martial Dynasty World, using a century of time and his body to confirm the outcome.

Thus, as long as it’s not high-tier medication, he can consume it without worry.

This is also why his strength advances so rapidly.

Due to practicing Yuan-Devouring Skill, his physical condition is excellent, so earlier at the Yunlan Hotel, he cultivated Inner Strength in front of Zhong Qin.

And later, arriving at Tianbei Second Middle School, he utilized advanced dormitory equipment like the gravity chamber to aid cultivation, opening the Dantian and transforming Inner Strength into True Qi within a month.

Three months later, relying on his hard work and various expensive medications, he unexpectedly transformed True Qi into Gang Qi, fulfilling the experience of the Martial Artist profession, directly advancing along the path of Ten Thousand Dao Fruit, restoring the power of Mad Hero.

This speed of advancement might not be world-shattering, but it’s considered top-tier class at Tianbei High School.

Of course, provided others don’t know he’s doping, or else the perception and treatment might drop sharply.

...

Leaving the gravity chamber, entering the hall.

"Finished practicing?"

Shen Qingyue, having changed into regular attire, opens several meal boxes on the table: "I’ve brought some dishes from the staff canteen, let’s eat here today instead of going to the student cafeteria."

Shen Hex nods, sits by the table, she hands the utensils over, clearly treating him as a young master, much like before at Shen Martial Arts Hall.

Seeing her demeanor, Shen Hex can only sigh, turning to say: "The staff canteen meals are decent."

"Certainly!"

Upon hearing this, Shen Qingyue starts chatting: "From now on, don’t go to the student cafeteria, I’ll bring meals from the staff canteen, not only eating better but saving quite a bit of money."

"Alright!"

Shen Hex nods without objection.

This makes Shen Qingyue happy, and she tentatively suggests: "Next year let’s return the advanced dormitory, I should be able to advance and become official, the assigned staff dormitory won’t be much worse, it has all the necessary equipment, move over and live with me."

"..."

Shen Hex looked up at her, but didn’t say anything.

This made Shen Qingyue a little nervous: "What’s wrong, you don’t like it?"

Shen Hex shook his head, did not answer the question, but instead asked, "Senior Sister, you don’t love me, do you?"

"..."

These words came unexpectedly and caught Shen Qingyue off guard, not knowing how to respond.

Shen Hex looked at her, not urging.

After a moment, Shen Qingyue recovered, hurriedly saying to him, "Little Hex, I kept my distance from you before because you were still young, and Master and Mistress were afraid you’d get lost in such matters and harm your Primordial Qi, it’s not..."

"I don’t mean that."

Seeing her rushed explanation, Shen Hex shook his head and said softly, "I mean, you only have familial affection for me, not romantic love, right?"

"..."

Upon hearing this, Shen Qingyue fell silent again, unsure of how to respond.

Shen Hex smiled, not minding, and instead stood up, placing a hand on her shoulder: "As children, we shouldn’t speak ill of our parents, but my parents have indeed been somewhat unfair to you before."

"Little Hex..."

Shen Qingyue gazed at him, then hurriedly explained again, "No, it’s not like that."

"No need to say anything, I know it all."

Shen Hex shook his head, suppressing her words: "I hope that from now on, you can be yourself, you’re not obligated to bear the responsibilities of the Martial Arts Hall and my parents don’t need you to repay them in any way. You are an independent person, not anyone’s appendage."

These words left Shen Qingyue stunned once again.

Shen Hex said no more, sat back down, and started eating again.

Shen Qingyue, the second senior sister of the Shen Martial Arts Hall, and also considered the young wife of this Young Hall Master.

This is the understanding of everyone in the Shen Martial Arts Hall, including herself.

Years ago, after an attack by Evil God Cultists, her parents died, leaving her with no support, and it was Shen Hex’s parents who took her in and raised her.

However, as parents, Shen Hex’s parents had a bit of a personal agenda, considering her as Shen Hex’s young wife from an early age and continuously instilling this idea in her, which had the flavor of demanding repayment with kindness, almost akin to brainwashing and manipulation.

Thus, she’s borne a heavy burden all these years, especially when Shen Hex’s parents went missing and the Martial Arts Hall fell into decline, she had to take care of Shen Hex, her little husband, and shoulder the heavy responsibilities of the Martial Arts Hall, fending off internal and external threats.

Honestly, the Shen family owes her in this regard.

There were even rumors in the Martial Arts Hall that she could have gone to university, but because of Father Shen and Mother Shen’s selfishness, fearing she would not come back, they forced her to stay in the hall, ruining her bright future.

Although Shen Hex wasn’t sure if these rumors were true, it didn’t stop him from giving Shen Qingyue her freedom.

Shen Hex wasn’t a person without feelings, although in the Martial Dynasty’s dream, he remained alone with the world at his feet, yet no lovely person by his side or offspring left behind, it wasn’t because he was cold and heartless or indifferent towards women, it was just that he didn’t want to leave regrets behind.

After all, Zhuang Zhou’s Dream of the Butterfly, is ultimately Zhuang Zhou’s dream of the butterfly.

He had extremely high expectations for emotions, wanting them to be perfect and without regrets.

So, in the Martial Dynasty’s dream, he chose to remain alone, and in the real world, he didn’t want Shen Qingyue to give herself up out of gratitude.

So...

The two of them remained silent, eating quietly.

After a while, Shen Hex finished the meal, got up to clean up the dishes, and prepared to leave.

"Little Hex!"

At that moment, a voice called out to him from behind.

Shen Hex stopped, turned his gaze back with a gentle smile to look at her.

"You’ve grown up!"

Shen Qingyue looked at him, her expression complex.

Shen Hex smiled: "People eventually grow."

"But you’ve grown too fast."

Shen Qingyue shook her head, her gaze even more complex: "It seems like the past few months for you were like decades, or even centuries."

Having said that, she stood up straight and looked at him: "Are you still the same Little Hex?"

This question had a sense of eeriness.

But Shen Hex’s expression remained unchanged: "What do you think?"

"..."

Shen Qingyue lowered her gaze, silent for a moment, only raising her head after a long time: "You are!"

Shen Hex chuckled: "Why?"

"If you weren’t Little Hex, you would only hide, not openly talk to me about this, revealing your abnormalities."

Shen Qingyue watched him, finally smiling as if relieved: "This kindness shows you are still the Little Hex I know, just grown up, more mature."

"Ha!"

Shen Hex laughed, about to say something.

But didn’t expect Shen Qingyue to suddenly step forward, embrace him tightly, and whisper word by word against his ear: "But remember, no matter what you become, you are my Little Hex, forever and always!"

Shen Hex: "..."