After breakfast, Yang Heng left Qingyang Town and headed for the training grounds he had used in the wilderness before. His fist manual, Movement Technique Manual, and most of his money were all buried there.
Although he now had a fixed residence, Yang Heng still had no intention of bringing those treasures home. He was often away; if they were stolen, he would cry himself to death.
Hidden in the barren wilderness where no one could find them, they were exceedingly safe.
Before long, Yang Heng reached his destination. After carefully inspecting the surroundings, he found no traces of outsiders having come by. The place was still safe.
That made sense. The wilderness was vast and boundless. Who could happen to come here and discover the buried treasure? The odds were so low they could be ignored.
Lower even than the odds of winning a lottery's full jackpot.
Seeing that everything was normal, Yang Heng began training in the Levitation Technique.
The Levitation Technique was a Beginner Martial Art. It could play a major role in the Blood Strengthening Realm and the Energy Refining Realm, but once one reached the Iron Bone Realm, its usefulness would diminish greatly.
At that point, he would have to find another Intermediate Martial Art or Advanced Martial Art movement technique to cultivate.
Of course, if one day he could train the Levitation Technique to perfection, he would not need to change movement techniques throughout the entire Body Tempering Realm. The Levitation Technique alone would be enough for him.
As a Beginner Martial Art, the Levitation Technique did not record any killing move like the Vajra Pestle Strike.
Killing moves only appeared in intermediate and advanced martial arts.
Beginner Martial Arts had no killing moves.
Of course, if a martial artist trained the martial art he cultivated to an extremely profound level, then every strike he threw would be a killing move.
Any move capable of killing an enemy was called a killing move.
If it could not kill the enemy, then no matter how lofty or badass its name sounded, it was useless.
For example, Yang Heng's Lightness Skill had now reached Minor Accomplishment. As long as martial artists of the same realm had inferior Lightness Skills, they could do nothing to him even if they had mastered a killing move recorded in an Advanced Martial Art.
The killing moves recorded in manuals were life-or-death trump cards. They could unleash the energy contained within the body in an instant, and their power was terrifying. Their conditions for use were also extremely harsh, and the expenditure of stamina and blood energy could not be underestimated.
With Yang Heng's current blood energy and stamina, he could only unleash a killing move like the Vajra Pestle Strike a little over ten times.
If it were a Blood Brave Disciple at the same realm as him, they could use it at most three to five times.
Only after cultivating an Intermediate Martial Art or higher to Minor Accomplishment could one comprehend the killing move contained within it. This process was exceedingly long.
Had Yang Heng not experienced two epiphanies, he would not have trained the Vajra Fist to Minor Accomplishment in just over two months.
Generally speaking, training a martial art to Minor Accomplishment—especially an Intermediate Martial Art, which was exceptionally difficult to cultivate—required around five years, and the practitioner had to possess at least above-average talent.
Progress at the Minor Accomplishment level was the preserve of martial artists in the late Blood Strengthening Realm or above.
For martial artists below that level, training an Intermediate Martial Art to Minor Accomplishment was difficult unless they had been stuck at a realm for a long time and spent years studying martial arts.
Otherwise, normal martial artists in the early and middle stages of the Blood Strengthening Realm found it hard to cultivate an Intermediate Martial Art to Minor Accomplishment.
Generally, they preferred to spend their cultivation time improving their realm.
Cultivation was the foundation.
The higher one's cultivation, the stronger one's strength naturally became.
Yang Heng's current cultivation improvement had already reached its limit. Restricted by his Mental Energy, he could only spend two to three hours a day improving his cultivation.
Moreover, he preferred advancing side by side. He did not like one side being high while the other was low.
Training in the Levitation Technique was very simple. Hang one hundred kilograms of weight from both hands and run along rugged mountain paths. When one could no longer feel the weight on one's body, one had reached Major Accomplishment.
This process mainly trained a martial artist's endurance, arm strength, and leg strength.
When every organ and part of the body coordinated as one, when force could be directed to one place and strength unleashed from one point, twisted together into a single rope, Major Accomplishment would naturally arrive.
To completely stop feeling the weight on one's body, one also had to understand the method of redirecting force.
The Levitation Technique at Minor Accomplishment mainly trained this method of redirecting force. While running, one had to cleverly use blood energy to shift that force beneath one's feet, then channel it into the ground.
That way, one would naturally no longer feel the weight on one's body.
The process was exceedingly difficult. Yang Heng had tried dozens of times without succeeding once.
At present, he could shift at most thirty kilograms of force at a time. Anything more was impossible.
Yang Heng lifted a massive boulder weighing one hundred kilograms and ran up the mountain. Every step he took left a deep footprint in the ground, clear and highly conspicuous.
Before long, the mountain path was covered in dense footprints. The marks were so deep that it seemed as though a large beast had just passed through.
After half an hour, Yang Heng was drenched in sweat. Every piece of clothing on his body had been soaked through, leaving him dripping wet like a drowned rat.
Gradually, Yang Heng felt his muscles begin to ache. Heat steamed from his entire body, as though he had entered a boiler room and taken a sauna.
Sweat trickled down before his eyes, obstructing his vision as his gaze gradually blurred.
Yang Heng understood that his body was nearing its limit. He had to stop and rest, or he would very likely damage himself.
Boom!
Holding the massive boulder aloft with both hands, Yang Heng slowly bent down, tilted his arms forward, and carefully lowered the boulder onto the level ground before him.
However, he could not completely control his own strength. When the boulder hit the ground, it still erupted with a tremendous crash, sending dirt and stones flying everywhere.
In an instant, dust billowed through the area.
Yang Heng stood up and loosened his tendons and bones, walking slowly. At the same time, he mobilized blood energy toward the aching parts of his body. Under the powerful effects of the blood energy, his muscles gradually ceased aching, and his body slowly returned to normal.
The blood energy expenditure during this process was enormous. The chopstick-thick "red rope" was soon consumed completely. Yang Heng immediately took out the beef jerky he carried with him, stuffed it into his mouth, and began chewing.
After five jin of beef jerky went down, his blood energy immediately recovered and even grew slightly stronger.
During his break, Yang Heng checked on the Marrow Cleansing Pearl.
Over this period, he had continuously gnawed on beef jerky. Not only had his own blood energy increased greatly, but the Marrow Cleansing Pearl had also accumulated a great deal of energy.
At that moment, several large white characters abruptly appeared in his mind: Marrow Cleansing Pearl (55%). They glittered brilliantly, dazzling the eye.
Yang Heng was not surprised by this.
Only he himself knew how much beef jerky he had eaten these past days. By rough estimate, it had been at least fifty to sixty jin.
One jin of beef jerky could provide the Marrow Cleansing Pearl with 0.5% energy. Calculated based on fifty jin, that amounted to 25% energy.
The last time he checked, the Marrow Cleansing Pearl had displayed 30%. Looking at it this way, everything was normal.
If he could consume around thirty jin of beef jerky a day, then barring any surprises, the Marrow Cleansing Pearl would be fully charged in another two days!
At that thought, Yang Heng was stunned. His pupils widened enormously!
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