Ling Huan was shaken to his core, his heart surging and swelling with emotion along with the silhouette he saw.
An unyielding pride began to climb quietly within him.
It felt as if he, too, possessed that unrivaled pride of supremacy!
But!
Ling Huan took a deep breath and, astonishingly, forcibly dispelled that pride which was about to take root in his heart!
He didn’t need it!
He didn’t need thoughts that belonged to others, nor pride that belonged to others!
All he wanted was others’ understanding, not their insights.
That did not belong to him.
He could feel the momentum within, but for Ling Huan, body tempering was just one of his trump cards.
Having more skills never weighs you down.
Not learning divine abilities or not using magic treasures would be the height of foolishness.
Aside from showing off, under normal circumstances, the more treasures and skills you have, the better.
As for what understanding he would gain from this “One Force to Subdue Ten Techniques,” he’d leave that to himself to comprehend.
Better to see how to cultivate first.
Ling Huan first looked over the cultivation system for the technique.
There were nine stages, and after the third stage, every breakthrough was a complete metamorphosis.
First Stage—Bronze Skin: The body becomes dense as bronze; ordinary iron cannot harm you, and your fists have the power of a thousand catties.
Second Stage—Iron Bone: Muscles and bones as tough as refined iron; can withstand tempered blades and swords, strength enough to lift a cauldron.
Third Stage—Golden Tendon: Tendons stretch like golden strings, explosive force is shocking, you can leap thirty feet in a bound, leaving pits where you land.
Fourth Stage—Jade Marrow: Vital energy flows like mercury, marrow glows, recovery increases greatly, broken bones heal in ten days.
Fifth Stage—Mountain Body: The body is like a mountain, heavy and unmoving; when standing firm, thousands of men cannot budge you.
By now, no mundane weapon can harm you in the slightest.
Sixth Stage—Mountain-Moving Body: Physical strength can uproot mountains and shoulder peaks; every movement contains the power to move mountains and fill seas.
Seventh Stage—Law-Breaking Body: Strength begins to touch upon laws; with one punch, spiritual energy shakes, dispersing low-level divine abilities and spells.
Eighth Stage—Immortal Body: Severed limbs regenerate, blood reignites; vitality is so tenacious it borders on immortality.
Ninth Stage—Unity Realm: The body itself is law, strength forms its own domain.
Within the domain, no law can invade; rules are set by oneself.
With a single punch, the void shatters, even the Great Dao must retreat.
It sounded formidable just to read about.
There were also techniques included.
[Beng Tian Jin]: Concentrates power to the utmost into a single point; upon impact, it advances layer by layer, instantly exploding through nine stages, specifically breaking through all kinds of protective qi and defensive treasures.
[Han Di Bu]: Step down with one foot, the earth resonates, ground cracks and mountains collapse. It’s the supreme method for clearing and controlling the field.
[Qin Long Shou]: With supreme power, tears through space, forming a momentary absolute imprisonment.
Can snatch objects or capture enemies from a hundred miles away.
[Sui Xing Quan]: The ultimate secret.
All power, will, and Dao charm are condensed into one punch; wherever the punch points, stars shatter and laws collapse.
Four kinds of attacks, but even for the first one, you must wait until the fourth stage to learn it.
Otherwise, forcing it will only make your body collapse, your vital energy flow backward, your spiritual power run wild and disrupt your meridians—ending in qi deviation and death.
Next came the thresholds for cultivation.
It had to be said, the one who created this jade slip was extremely meticulous, well-planned, with everything clearly divided.
Even the cultivation requirements were laid out plainly.
There were four main requirements:
Mental Requirement: Must possess great willpower and fearlessness, with pure faith in the belief that “Strength is everything.”
Resource Consumption: Truly massive. One must constantly devour all kinds of rare herbs, divine metals, and immortal ores, “feeding” the body in the most clumsy, direct way possible.
Torturous Pain: Every breakthrough is accompanied by agony like scraping bone and rebirthing from a shattered body.
Heaven’s Jealousy Tribulation: Every three stages, a terrifying tribulation descends; the body is tempered by lightning, with survival barely one in ten.
Wow… Top-tier techniques are indeed powerful, but the price is equally enormous.
Every breakthrough at the third, sixth, and ninth stage means undergoing a lightning tribulation.
You must understand, lightning tribulation is every cultivator’s nightmare, the thing no cultivator in any novel wishes to encounter.
And he himself would face it three times.
For reference, even a Nascent Soul cultivator only endures it once.
And even that one time is enough to become a nightmare for many cultivators.
And that’s not even counting the lightning tribulation for breaking through to Nascent Soul!
Ling Huan swallowed hard, trying to calm himself, because this stuff truly was terrifying.
But at this point, could he say he wouldn’t cultivate?
Cultivation was always about going against the heavens.
Ling Huan had been prepared for this, but he hadn’t expected the cost to be so great.
Oh well, being afraid wouldn’t help. As long as he survived, the gains would be huge.
After tribulation, there was the matter of enduring pain.
Ling Huan wasn’t afraid of that.
As for resource consumption, he had the Devour-Toxin Primordial Spirit Body; for that, poison was as good as rare herbs.
Rare treasures are hard to find, but aren’t poisons everywhere?
As for mental requirements, Ling Huan was even more confident.
He trusted in his mind—no way he couldn’t endure this much.
He’d died once already.
Though he still feared death, at least he wasn’t so afraid as to do nothing at all—he could even dance on the edge of death.
Next, it was about how to cultivate.
The first stage was called: Mortal Body Forging.
This covered stages 1 through 3.
The method was quite traditional.
Striking and tempering: Early on, you strike wooden posts and stone walls with fists and feet until skin splits and flesh tears, then soak in a secret medicinal bath to recover, and repeat the process, again and again.
The middle phase was about training resistance to blows—standing under waterfalls to endure crushing water pressure, or enduring wind, rain, rolling stones, and falling wood battering the whole body.
If possible, sparring, dueling, and fighting to the death with others produced the best results.
In other words, a proper masochist’s training.
Then there was weighted body tempering.
Heavy shackles on hands and feet, worn at all times, whether walking, sitting, lying, or cultivating.
Only when the body completely adapted to the weight—when it felt no longer heavy—could one consider it a success.
There were also medicinal baths and dietary supplements.
First, the medicinal bath for stages 1-3: “Centennial Blood Ganoderma,” “Iron Bone Flower,” and “Golden Scale Grass” were boiled into a pitch-black medicinal soup.
Soak within it; the medicine would sting like ten thousand needles, penetrating to the marrow.
Dietary supplement: Food was also critical.
The best was to eat the flesh and blood of fierce beasts full of vital energy every day—best eaten raw, so as not to lose any vitality to cooking.
Proper wildman training methods.
There was a second stage after that, but Ling Huan only glanced at it quickly.
For now, better to focus on the first stage.
Ling Huan held his breath and composed himself.
Soon, everything around him returned to normal, and all of “One Force to Subdue Ten Techniques” was firmly remembered in his mind.
Still, Ling Huan wasn’t in a hurry to begin training—he needed to go out and buy supplies first.
He’d go to the Flowing Cloud Pavilion again.
That Miss Zhang Yun still left a deep impression on Ling Huan’s mind.
He might as well help her with her sales performance, and maybe raise her favorability a bit while he was at it.
With this in mind, Ling Huan walked out of the Ling residence with a light step.
Don’t say he’s fickle; he just loves widely.
He didn’t know who he was arguing with in his head, completely unaware that behind him, a little tail was staring at him intently.
Her name was Yin Luoling.
At this moment, her face veiled, she was planning to snatch away Ling Huan’s demon technique directly.
She couldn’t resist the mind-bewitching demon technique; if she couldn’t resist, the solution was simple.
Why not just join in?
Steal Ling Huan’s demon technique for herself!
She was certain that such a terrifying demon technique would surely require supplementary casting materials.
Now that Ling Huan was heading out, he must be going to buy those materials!
She had to keep a close watch on him!
She must not miss any detail!
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