Inner Refinement Fourth Layer!

"A tomb, very fierce? Are there ghosts inside?"

Hearing this, Su Ti asked with a smile.

But Xu Lao and the other three didn't smile; their faces were more serious than the last.

"There might really be ghosts. Anyway, we haven't been inside, so we don't know yet."

"But even if there are no ghosts, that tomb is still very dangerous."

Hearing them say this, Su Ti also frowned.

Regarding the talk of ghosts and gods, he had scoffed at it in his previous life. However, in this life, there are such strange things as Cursed Antiques, and with the seriousness of professional people like Xu Lao, he would rather believe it than not.

"So you want to find me to explore this tomb together?"

"That's right."

Xu Lao nodded slightly.

"With your martial arts, I think it would be much safer for us to go together. If you are interested, we can split the profits from the tomb three-seven, you get three parts and we get seven."

Su Ti shook his head.

"Sorry, you should find someone else for this matter. I like Cursed Antiques very much, but I'm also very afraid of trouble."

"Since you said there are ghosts in this world, I think my martial arts are not very good at dealing with ghosts, so I won't go."

Seeing him refuse, Xu Lao wanted to persuade him again, but Su Ti directly refused.

"No need to say more, I won't go. But if you can bring back something good, I can buy it at a high price."

Seeing that they couldn't persuade him, Xu Lao and the others didn't force it.

After exchanging contact information with Su Ti and agreeing to trade again if they found Cursed Antiques, they said goodbye to each other.

On the way home by car, thinking about what he had seen and heard today, Su Ti felt it was quite interesting and eye-opening.

As for why he finally refused Xu Lao's request.

He felt that there was no need to take risks for things that could be bought with money, especially ghosts and monsters. Although he had never seen them, he still held a sense of awe towards them and couldn't rely on his few punches and kicks to challenge those mysterious things.

Professional work like tomb raiding should be left to professionals. This is like a person who likes to eat honey; they can earn money to buy it, but there is no need to pick it themselves and take the risk of being stung by bees in an unfamiliar field.

The car drove all the way home and soon arrived downstairs at the residential building.

Su Ti did not return to Long Yuanzheng's villa.

Now that his Copper Skin Skill had just started in the morning when he went out and was already perfected when he came back at noon, he really didn't know how to explain it to Long Yuanzheng.

It would be better to stay at home for a few days before going back. Besides, he hadn't been home for several days. He had been practicing martial arts at Long Yuanzheng's place for the past half month, only rushing home to report his safety and then leaving again. This time he could stay for a few more days.

"Mom, I'm back."

Today was Sunday again. As soon as Su Ti opened the door, he smelled the aroma of food. Looking down to change his shoes, he saw several more pairs of shoes on the floor.

"Really, this child didn't even say he was coming back. Zimo, you fry the dishes first, I'll go down and buy a few more cooked dishes."

Su's Mother's voice came from the kitchen, and soon the hurried Su's Mother came to the entrance.

"Your uncle came today, and he brought your cousins. Knowing you were busy during this time, I didn't call you. Hurry up and change your shoes and go in. I'll go downstairs and buy a few more cooked dishes."

Saying that, she hurried downstairs. Su Ti's appetite was big now, and the little bit steamed in the kitchen was definitely not enough to eat. She had to buy some more food.

Su Ti entered the door and saw that Su Qiaoqiao and Su Yuwei were indeed sitting in the living room. If he didn't see his cheap sister, it meant she had gone out for Kendo class. Su Zihao was talking to Su Zimo in the kitchen. After Su Ti went in and said hello, he also sat down in the living room.

"Hello, cousin."

Seeing Su Ti arrive, Su Qiaoqiao took the initiative to greet him.

"Hello, Qiaoqiao."

Su Ti looked at Su Qiaoqiao with some surprise. Compared to their last meeting, Su Qiaoqiao had changed a lot.

Her unruly blonde hair was dyed black again, the earrings on her ears were all removed, and her crop top and miniskirt were replaced with a puff-sleeved dress, which looked pure and lovely. She was also holding a math exercise book in her hand and looking at it.

Su Ti looked at her suspiciously. This change was too great, which made him wonder if she had also transmigrated like him? Had she fundamentally changed into a different person?

"Don't look at me like that."

Being stared at by Su Ti for a long time, Su Qiaoqiao also felt embarrassed.

Girls are naturally precocious. After the last incident and her sister's guidance, she also figured it out and returned to the right path.

However, the change was too fast. Besides her sister who guided her, even her father Su Zihao was shocked. If Su Yuwei hadn't repeatedly stopped him, he would have booked a restaurant and held a big prodigal son's return banquet to celebrate Su Qiaoqiao.

And being looked at by Su Ti, who was the cause of the change, with the same eyes as if he were looking at an alien, no matter how precocious she was, she was still extremely shy, holding a book to cover her face.

"Su Ti, come here."

Seeing this, Su Yuwei smiled and pulled Su Ti's arm, went to the corner, and explained the whole story.

Su Ti suddenly understood.

"So that's how it is. This is a good thing. No matter what, it's her own effort that she can get back on the right track."

Su Yuwei covered her mouth and smiled.

"So don't look at her with strange eyes. Just treat the previous things as black history and don't mention them, as if they never happened."

"Alright."

Su Ti shrugged. He didn't have many relatives in his previous life and didn't know how to get along with them. Since Su Yuwei said so, he would just do as she said.

"You guys sit in the living room for a bit. I just came back from outside and I'm all sweaty, so I'm going to take a shower."

"Okay."

After Su Yuwei left, Su Ti walked through the corridor and into the bathroom.

He didn't go into the bathroom to take a shower, of course. After getting the energy from the Cursed Antique, he couldn't wait to upgrade his cultivation techniques.

He took off his clothes, revealing a body of solid muscle.

The young man in the mirror had black hair and fair, delicate skin, like someone who worked in an office and didn't do any physical labor.

"After achieving Great Accomplishment in Copper Skin Skill, I didn't expect my skin color to be even fairer than a normal person's."

Su Ti looked at his skin. This was actually a clever state of disguise. The effect of the Copper Skin Skill would only show when he was attacked.

Then Su Ti opened the martial arts panel and checked his martial arts.

Copper Skin Skill (Great Accomplishment) [Outer Refinement Fourth Layer]

Golden Snake Molting (Great Accomplishment) [Inner Refinement Second Layer]

Dragon Shape Comprehensive Fist (Great Accomplishment) [Integrated Strength]

Golden Python Four Forms (Minor Accomplishment 4%) +

Bodhisattva Practice (Beginner 10%) +

Energy: 660%

Su Ti now had quite a few martial arts, a total of five. Among them, three had reached the Great Accomplishment realm and could not advance further. Now that he had energy, he naturally wanted to add points immediately.

"What does this Outer Refinement Fourth Layer mean after Copper Skin Skill reached Great Accomplishment? Literally, it should be a level that strengthens defense, corresponding to the Inner Refinement level."

Su Ti had some guesses and planned to ask Long Yuanzheng later.

Then he looked at the two martial arts he hadn't fully cultivated yet, Golden Python Four Forms and Bodhisattva Practice.

One was a fighting technique, and the other was a cultivation method. Undoubtedly, these two were the martial arts he would focus on upgrading next.

Su Ti first added points to Bodhisattva Practice. After all, Inner Refinement was the core of a martial artist, capable of strengthening the body. Fighting techniques were just combat methods, and when the body was strong, combat power would also increase.

As his gaze focused on the plus sign, the progress of Bodhisattva Practice began to increase rapidly!

Beginner 20%

Beginner 60%

Beginner 90%

First Layer 1%!

As the progress of Bodhisattva Practice reached the First Layer, a line of subtitles instantly appeared before Su Ti's eyes.

Tip: The cultivation results of Golden Snake Molting and Bodhisattva Practice overlap and will automatically combine their advantages for fusion and coverage.

Tip: Fusion and coverage complete, consuming 50% energy.

After the fusion and coverage, the Inner Refinement of Golden Snake Molting completely disappeared, leaving only Bodhisattva Practice as a single technique.

At this time, Bodhisattva Practice also became:

Bodhisattva Practice (Third Layer 1%) [Inner Refinement Third Layer]

Boom!

Just as the subtitles finished, a hot current exploded from within Su Ti's body, surging throughout his entire body.

The familiar pain brought by the improvement of Inner Refinement came from all over his body. Su Ti clenched his fists, feeling the sublimation of every cell in his body.

And this time, the Inner Refinement improvement seemed different from before.

The hot current not only surged into his muscles in large quantities, more violently than the previous two times, making his muscles stronger, but also making their arrangement more reasonable.

At the same time, his joints, ligaments, and nerves were also greatly strengthened, becoming more flexible and explosive, and his sensory transmission was faster!

And a part of the hot current also surged into his brain.

Su Ti could feel his brain becoming clearer and clearer under the effect of the hot current, and his eyes became brighter.

Before long, this improvement also ended.

And just then, Su Ti suddenly felt something was wrong.

His chest felt stuffy and uncomfortable.

And this discomfort was getting stronger and stronger.

Pfft!

A mouthful of foul-smelling, black blood was suddenly vomited out by Su Ti, spitting it into the sink in front of him.

After spitting out a mouthful of blood, Su Ti not only didn't feel any discomfort, but instead felt refreshed all over, as if an old illness had been removed. Even the air he breathed was full of freshness.

He rinsed his mouth, wiped his lips, and looked at the black, foul-smelling blood in the sink. Su Ti understood.

"This is the detoxification method of Bodhisattva Practice, which is similar to the snake molting method of Golden Snake Molting. Both expel the dirt and impurities after inner refinement."

At this time, Su Ti's attributes also changed.

[Strength: 1.6, Constitution: 1.5, Agility: 1.6, Intelligence: 1.5]

Strength increased by 0.2, and Constitution increased by 0.2, which is not much.

Intelligence increased by a full 0.3! Agility increased by a full 0.4!

His attributes, which were originally somewhat unbalanced, are now incredibly balanced!

Su Ti glanced at his remaining energy, which was 370%.

In other words, it cost 240% energy to upgrade to the Inner Refinement Third Layer once, which was 40% more than the last time, and this was on the basis of having 10% progress.

However, Su Ti was not surprised. During this time, he had been diligently cultivating under Long Yuanzheng, gaining many secrets of martial arts, which greatly filled his knowledge gap.

The Inner Refinement layers are inherently about refining the internal organs and strengthening the body again and again, so it naturally gets harder each time.

The first Inner Refinement takes half a year, the second may take a year, and the third takes a year and a half. This is very normal.

Moreover, each Inner Refinement also has its limitations and bottlenecks.

Some people even get stuck at the breakthrough point and are unable to break through for a long time, just a little bit short, and it's common for them to be stuck for several months or even a year.

Otherwise, senior brothers and sisters like Wang Gengyuan and Yao Juan, who started early, wouldn't still be only at the Inner Refinement Second or Third Layer after being in the sect for so long.

For the Golden Snake Molting Inner Refinement method, bone structure determines the upper limit, while comprehension determines the cultivation speed. Therefore, although this Inner Refinement method is superior, it is particularly demanding on talent.

Those with good talent cultivate quickly and have a high upper limit.

Yao Juan and others have above-average bone structure, but their comprehension is very ordinary, so their cultivation is slow.

Bodhisattva Practice is different. This Inner Refinement method, which Long Yuanzheng kept as his trump card, only requires one kind of talent: super strong willpower! Even a perverted level of willpower!

If your willpower is not enough, you can't even get started!

Not only that, all of its masochistic cultivation is for the purpose of strengthening willpower!

Therefore, this Inner Refinement method is mostly seen among extreme ascetics in Mi Country. It cannot be cultivated by those without great enlightenment and great perseverance!

Moreover, these people are those with fanatical beliefs. With the blessing of their beliefs, their willpower is naturally extraordinary.

And cultivating this Inner Refinement also requires good luck, because many people who train their willpower excessively end up dying directly.

According to Long Yuanzheng, out of a hundred people who practice Bodhisattva Practice, ninety are ascetics with beliefs, and the remaining ten are those who consider themselves to have strong willpower.

The final result is that about twenty people quit before getting started, thirty can cultivate to the first layer, twenty to the second layer, ten to the third layer, and among the remaining ten, the vast majority will die at the fourth layer, with only a very small number being able to break through to the fifth layer.

Because the willpower requirement for Bodhisattva Practice is higher layer by layer, the training method at the fourth layer is already using drowning to train willpower, not just basking in the sun and sleeping on a needle bed. The death rate is very high.

Without the modifier, Su Ti didn't think he could cultivate Bodhisattva Practice to a very high level.

But with the modifier, it's simple.

Su Ti's eyes moved, and his energy plummeted to 60%.

Boom!

Bodhisattva Practice (Fourth Layer 1%) [Inner Refinement Fourth Layer]!