No Need for Body Tempering

Under the intense collision, the roaring sounds continued without a pause.

Yan Nu did not know how much true qi had gathered on his arm, driving it into fierce force and forcing the air to accelerate and expand violently.

The lingering water vapor filled the air like clouds and mist.

The raised dust and shattered stones surged and overflowed like a wave, stirring up flying sand and stones at the scene.

Three large trees snapped. Before the fourth tree, Zhang Quan was completely paralyzed, leaning against the trunk with blood flowing from his seven orifices, twitching with difficulty.

In front of him stood Mr. Feng, who spread his arms with a huge hole blasted through the chest of his ghost body, billowing black smoke.

The Zhang family, I'll screw your mother... Mr. Feng could not help but curse. His injuries were extremely severe, and his ghost body flickered incessantly.

At the critical moment, he still blocked the front of Zhang Quan. No matter what, he could not let that bronze contract suffer any damage.

He risked his old life and finally neutralized the terrifying power of Yan Nu's strike.

Yet he himself had his foundation severely damaged. This kind of injury needed the incense and faith of relatives to heal.

As for his family, they had long been wiped out by the Zhang family.

"Your... supernatural ability?" Zhang Quan said with difficulty. As far as he knew, Mr. Feng had comprehended a supernatural ability.

"My supernatural ability only targets spells... Who knew a mortal was so strong..."

Mr. Feng wore a wailing face. He wanted the vitality restoration pill precisely to restore his full magical power so he could unleash that supernatural ability.

As long as the water woman cast a spell on him, he could counter-rebound it.

He never expected a mortal to directly smash him to pieces!

Yet precisely because he was defeated so quickly, he still had plenty of magical power inside the body, and the medicinal efficacy of the vitality restoration pill was still active.

"Rise!" Mr. Feng once again created an earth boat, carrying Zhang Quan as he wanted to leave.

Yet Zhang Quan was too heavily injured. The moment he was moved, he immediately let out a miserable scream: "Ugh ah! Don't move me!"

At the same time, Mr. Feng convulsed all over, as if struck by lightning: "Ah ah ah!"

He curled up into a ball in agony, taking a long time to calm down, and completely dared not move Zhang Quan ever again.

This was the restriction of the bronze contract. He must never harm the person whose vital blood was recorded on the bronze contract.

Even though he clearly meant well by wanting to carry Zhang Quan away to escape, just by affecting the injuries on Zhang Quan's body, his own soul would suffer immense torment.

"We can't escape..."

Both Zhang Quan and Mr. Feng realized this desperate situation.

"Quickly heal my injuries... If I can survive this time, there will definitely be a heavy reward..." Zhang Quan desperately begged Mr. Feng.

Mr. Feng gritted his teeth and ignored him, instead asking, "You can't move, right?"

"I'm about to die..." Zhang Quan said with difficulty.

"That's great."

"Huh?" Zhang Quan widened his eyes.

Mr. Feng coldly looked at him. Since Zhang Quan could not move, naturally he could not use the bronze contract to coerce him.

Running was out of the question now. Perhaps this was also an opportunity to break away from the Zhang family.

At the same time, Yan Nu walked out of the smoke and dust once more, stark naked.

After all, he only had that one pair of tattered trousers to his name. Following multiple intense battles and high-speed movements, coupled with such a fierce collision just now, they were finally completely torn to shreds.

Yet Yan Nu remained entirely unaware of this, staring intently at the two of them with focused eyes as he charged forward once more!

"Don't!" Looking at this calamity star, Mr. Feng's face turned green, and Zhang Quan's pupils even experienced an earthquake.

Fortunately, Shen Leling flew over to Yan Nu's side at top speed, grabbing hold of Yan Nu in one go.

Her expression was both embarrassed and anxious. Embarrassed because Yan Nu was completely bare, she hurriedly spat out a large mouthful of water, spraying it all over Yan Nu's body.

She also threw out a few beans, which turned into vines wrapping around Yan Nu's body to form armor.

Then she anxiously said, "Idol, are you out of your mind?"

"No, I'm not." Seeing her blocking him, Yan Nu frowned in puzzlement: "What's wrong?"

Shen Leling fell into a brief state of astonishment: "Uh... Eh? You haven't lost your sanity? Then why didn't you pay attention to me earlier?"

Yan Nu spoke rapidly: "When I was charging, the roaring in my ears was too loud. It seemed you said something, but I didn't hear it clearly. At the time, I was only focused on slaughtering them all."

*...* Shen Leling saw that Yan Nu's eyes were still crimson, but judging from his speech, he was merely angry and enraged rather than experiencing a qi deviation.

"Sister, I'm fine. Don't let them run away!" Yan Nu said indignantly.

"Rest assured, they can't run." Seeing that he was fine and full of bewilderment, Shen Leling waved her hand to erect a curtain of water, beginning to check Yan Nu's body.

Originally in her plan, Shen Leling had never counted on Yan Nu alone to sweep away the enemies.

It was just that Yan Nu was too formidable, actually developing the Sky-Rending Roaring Fist Technique and sweeping through with an irresistible force that exceeded her expectations.

Even more astonishingly, his qi deviation had instead greatly increased his combat power, beating the opponents half to death.

The whole process could be called horrifying, leaving even her dumbfounded.

However, she was still worried about potential flaws and dared not let him fight again, so she checked him, thinking to help him suppress the rampaging true qi.

As a result, this inspection revealed something extraordinary, and the whole person was stunned.

"What about your body tempering?!"

She horrifyingly discovered that Yan Nu had not undergone body tempering at all, which practically sounded like a ghost story.

Yan Nu asked rightously in return: "I'm done tempering! I used twelve hundred years of true qi in one breath and was completely fine. Does that mean I'm at the sixth level of the first essence?"

"What the hell sixth level! You you you... You haven't even done it once! Strengthened Bones and Plump Muscles will alter your bones and muscles into another substance! Although it's still flesh and blood, you will have the feeling of shedding your mortal body and exchanging your bones! Moreover, the quality of your true qi will also sublimate!" Shen Leling said in disbelief.

At the same time, she even more incredibly discovered that the true qi darting around wildly inside Yan Nu's body did not harm him in the slightest.

What counterflow of blood and qi, what meridian damage, what devastation to the brain—none of it existed. It was simply a pure 'deviation'.

Deviation without qi deviation! Deviation without harming the body!

Yan Nu frowned and said, "I haven't even done it once? I did as you said, and then not knowing whether it succeeded or not, I just added a bit of true qi to test it out and found it felt great."

"This..." Shen Leling was caught between laughter and tears. She finally understood why Yan Nu claimed he had 'succeeded on the first body tempering'.

It turned out that Yan Nu only had a half-baked understanding and didn't know what success meant. After completing the body tempering steps, it had actually failed, but when he tried increasing the output and found nothing wrong, naturally he assumed he had succeeded.

After the qi deviation, Yan Nu was actually extremely clear-headed, but because of being out of control, he always accidentally used a bit more, and then discovering he was fine, he thought he had broken through.

Hence he used more and more, to the point that energy gathered too excessively and his arms even glowed...

Yet even so, the true qi did not harm a single hair on Yan Nu! This was simply preposterous!

Shen Leling said with a hazy gaze: "Your true qi simply won't harm you... No matter how much you want to use, it's fine..."

Yan Nu happily said, "So it turns out I don't need body tempering?"

"I figured as much. I was just thinking why my true qi should have any reason to harm me? But Sister kept saying I must temper my body..."

Shen Leling slapped her palm over her face: "Sister was wrong..."

She secretly thought that Yan Nu indeed could not be judged by common sense, and the potential in this kid still had plenty of room to be excavated.

"Could it be that you possess a heaven-defying talent..." Mr. Feng suddenly chimed in.

Although the conversation between the two of them was quiet, Mr. Feng, being a ghost, could still hear it clearly.

Hearing this, Mr. Feng naturally reacted as well. Yan Nu was the legendary heaven-defying talent, that kind of existence that defied common norms and went against the way of heaven.

Just like a super heavenly material and earthly treasure, simply living was a 'crime of harboring a jade ring'.

"Heh, are these your last words?" Shen Leling said with a cold laugh.

Mr. Feng anxiously said, "Wait a minute! I'm just a poor ghost trapped inside a magical artifact, forced by circumstances with no choice. Let's talk things over nicely!"

"Water woman! We have ties; I even drank your water back in Laoshan!"

"Is that so? I'll treat you to a bellyful!" Ignoring him, Shen Leling brought her palms together, surrounded by water vapor.

Mr. Feng waved his hands repeatedly: "Don't use spells! If I don't want to die, I'll only have to use my supernatural ability on you. Let's have a good talk... Darn it!"

Shen Leling spurted a continuous stream of water from her mouth, winding through the air, growing larger and producing more and more, ultimately resembling a great river rushing through the sky!

This massive torrent of water flowed wildly and unceasingly, once again forming a flood.

This was precisely her self-created secret technique 'Hanging River Downpour', characterized by fast spell-casting, a large area, and sufficient power.

Facing this technique, Mr. Feng only had a single move to counter it.

"This is forcing my hand." Looking at the rolling flood, Mr. Feng was extremely helpless. He had long seen that the water woman's cultivation realm was only at two hundred and fifty.

After several clashes, her magical power should have been exhausted by now, yet she could actually cast large-scale spells once again! She must have consumed miraculous pills beforehand.

For a moment, Mr. Feng felt a pang of sorrow. He had been trapped for fifty years without any resources. His three hundred sections of magical power before death remained three hundred sections of magical power now.

Even though he was proficient in the Dao of spells and had extremely low consumption, he still had to calculate everything meticulously.

Fortunately, he had also consumed a vitality restoration pill.

Rumble. Watching Zhang Quan get submerged by the torrent and struggle amidst the churning mud and sand along with the bronze contract.

At the most critical juncture, Mr. Feng lit up all over, plated with a touch of dark mysterious color.

He waved his hand and softly spat two words toward the surging waves: "Vanish!"

In a flash, the river water flowed backward, returning along its original path!

As if time were reversing, the swept-up mud and sand also detached from the water current, returning to their original positions.

Seeing this scene of spell retrocession, Shen Leling trembled delicately with shock.

"It's an earth fiend supernatural ability! Mm mm gu..."

The rolling tide surged backward in reverse, a myriad of streams returning to their source, and was slowly and forcefully shoved into Shen Leling's mouth.

"Gurgle..." Her eyes were about to burst, suffering extreme agony as she was almost blown apart by the water pillar.

Fortunately, she possessed the water spirit physique and desperately engaged in return to origin, thereby enduring the floodwaters rushing backward into her body.

Had an ordinary person cast a spell and suffered such a counter-rebound, they would have definitely exploded to death.

"Puff ugh..." Shen Leling collapsed to the ground in agony, trembling all over with water dripping from her seven orifices.

"Sister!" Yan Nu was greatly alarmed, hurriedly helping Shen Leling up.

"I'm fine, kill him quickly!" Shen Leling said with difficulty.

Mr. Feng was also very weak, looking miserable as he said, "You're fine only because I showed mercy! The one who wants to kill you is the Zhang family, and I am merely subjected to others."

Yet Yan Nu had already rushed over with the fierce blast from the sky, resembling a mad bull.

"Damn it!"

Mr. Feng hurriedly used rock thrust to block him, consecutively raising several giant boulders.

"This fellow is truly not afraid of rocks..."

When Yan Nu charged at high speed and collided with rocks he manipulated at the exact same speed, what difference did it make?

Yet he emerged completely unscathed!

Initially, he thought it was the body-protection divine effect of the Great Emperor White Jade Scripture, but now he knew that Yan Nu was simply immune.

"Bang bang bang!" Yan Nu's fists heavily smashed onto the rock thrust, stone powder scattering with a sizzling sound.

Mr. Feng had no other choice because Yan Nu was immune to the damage of gravel, and coupled with the powerful true qi infusion, he could split monuments and shatter rocks.

To the point that slapping a pair of flesh palms onto the rock was just like patting tofu!

Huge cracks spread all over the gravel, and with a forceful struggle, they burst apart with a loud crash.

Unable to run, Mr. Feng could only frantically raise rock walls to block him.

He attempted to infuse spells into the rocks, but all of them were neutralized by water talismans.

The only fortunate thing was that Yan Nu was running low on true qi, and this time he did not use that intensely glowing fist of ultra-high energy concentration!

In truth, if Yan Nu simply used twelve hundred years of true qi, Mr. Feng would have had a way to neutralize it, because solely from an energy perspective converted into magical power, it only equated to a hundred and twenty sections.

Yet the true marvelous aspect of that blazing fist lay in its extremely high energy pressure!

Only Three Essences Body Tempering allowed true qi to be projected externally, but Yan Nu cleverly utilized his own characteristic of being unable to project true qi externally... trapping the massive energy within his arm and crazily storing up power, which ultimately forged that glorious punch.

"Huh? The dog demon is here? Hey! The dog demon is here! I sense his demonic aura!" Mr. Feng suddenly shouted.

However, when Yan Nu engaged in the fierce blast from the sky, he simply couldn't hear other people talking...

He darted left and right, breaking through several layers of stone walls in succession, leaving Mr. Feng overwhelmed and unable to attend to everything at once.

Yan Nu grew closer and closer, and Mr. Feng, restricted by the bronze contract, had zero room to dodge.

Just when Mr. Feng desperately thought he was going to die, Yan Nu suddenly stopped.

"True qi exhausted... Huh, why did your cultivation disperse!"

Using true qi like Yan Nu did, even possessing a hundred times the true qi of others, would still result in running out.

It was just that Mr. Feng had not expected Yan Nu to expend even his natal true qi in order to finish him off.

"Are you out of your mind! The dog demon is really here..."

p.s: Sorry.