"What's the difference between these two?"
Su Ti asked first.
Long Yuanzheng picked up the two manuals and smiled.
"Once the Iron Bone Skill is mastered, it can greatly increase the absolute hardness and toughness of the bones throughout your body."
"You have to understand, aside from providing support, the human skeleton's greater function is defense. Once you master the Iron Bone Skill, even if you're hit head-on by a car going sixty kilometers per hour, not a single bone in your body will break. Of course, it'll still hurt. Your skin might split and bleed, and you could even suffer bruises or internal injuries. After all, this external art only strengthens your bones' defenses, not your skin and flesh."
"Its greatest difference from the Copper Skin Skill is that the Iron Bone Skill doesn't just provide defense—it also offers a degree of offensive power."
"The harder and more rigid your bones are, the greater the damage you can deal. It's like hitting someone with cotton versus hitting them with an iron block using the same amount of force—the damage is completely different. Once you master the Iron Bone Skill, even barehanded, your entire body becomes a weapon!"
"And then there's the Steel Tendon Skill. It's also a very special technique. What it strengthens is neither the defense of the skin nor that of the bones, but the defense of the flesh."
"Once mastered, the muscles all over your body become tangled together like steel wires. Even when struck by clubs or staffs, it will feel like hitting a high-density tire, drastically reducing the force and impact. There was once someone who had mastered the Steel Tendon Skill and took a pistol bullet head-on. The bullet penetrated only three centimeters into his muscle layer before being stopped. Firearms could injure