The Might of Full-Body Stone Skin!

The next day.

Li Changsheng began cultivating the three Skin Polishing Martial Arts at home: Bear Back Skill, Iron Throat Skill, and Iron Abdomen Skill. Once the corresponding skin of these three martial arts transformed into Stone Skin, he would be able to achieve full-body Stone Skin.

He applied high-grade White Spirit Secret Medicine, sensed his qi and blood, and tempered his skin...

Li Changsheng slowly cultivated in bitter earnest. Before long, he sensed his qi and blood, then used it and the Secret Medicine to temper his skin. Portions of high-grade White Spirit Secret Medicine were steadily consumed.

Once he ran out of high-grade White Spirit Secret Medicine, he purchased spiritual herbs and Demon Blood to continue refining White Spirit Secret Medicine.

Before he knew it, Li Changsheng's back, abdomen, and neck had all gradually broken through, reaching the Stone Skin Realm.

At the very moment all the skin across his body turned to Stone Skin, the qi and blood throughout his body seemed to have been connected, twisting into one and causing his entire body to begin transforming.

About an hour passed before this full-body Stone Skin transformation was complete.

"Full-body Stone Skin, hard as a boulder!"

Li Changsheng could now easily mobilize the strength of his entire body. His power had increased by far too much compared to before. Moreover, he had only just entered the full-body Stone Skin stage, and the skin in certain places had yet to reach Stone Skin Perfection. If his entire body reached Stone Skin Perfection, his combat power would rise to an extraordinarily formidable level—perhaps even comparable to a Bronze Skin Realm Martial Artist!

For a Stone Skin Realm Martial Artist to possess the combat power of a Bronze Skin Realm Martial Artist was simply too outrageous!

Afterward, he continued tempering his skin, using portions of high-grade White Spirit Secret Medicine one after another.

Before he knew it, the skin on his back, abdomen, and neck had also been tempered to the realm of Stone Skin Perfection.

Now that his full-body Stone Skin had reached perfection, he could attempt to break through to the Iron Skin Realm!

However, he only knew that one could rely on Skin Polishing Martial Arts to challenge the Iron Skin Realm. As for exactly how to break through now, he was still unclear.

"Master's injuries should have recovered. I need to ask him!"

Li Changsheng arrived at Azure Steel Martial Hall and requested an audience with his master, Xu He.

Soon, he saw Xu He.

"Master!" Li Changsheng greeted him.

"Changsheng, what is it?"

Xu He asked.

Li Changsheng sought guidance. "This disciple wishes to challenge the Iron Skin Realm, but I do not know much about how to break through to the Iron Skin Realm. I have come specifically to seek Master's instruction."

"Very good. You have finally given up on full-body Stone Skin." Xu He assumed Li Changsheng was no longer thinking about full-body Stone Skin, never realizing that Li Changsheng had already achieved it with a great quantity of high-grade White Spirit Secret Medicine.

Naturally, Li Changsheng would not reveal this news.

"Changsheng, now that you have broken through to Stone Skin Perfection, if you wish to break through to the Iron Skin Realm, you must cultivate a mid-grade Skin Polishing Martial Art. Our Azure Steel Martial Hall also possesses a top-tier mid-grade Skin Polishing Martial Art, and I can now pass it on to you. But a top-tier mid-grade Skin Polishing Martial Art alone is still insufficient. To complete the breakthrough, you must undergo a second skin polishing. Only after cultivating through two rounds of skin polishing can Stone Skin transform once more and become Iron Skin."

"The reason ordinary Skin Polishing Martial Arts cannot allow Stone Skin Realm Martial Artists to break through into the Iron Skin Realm is that their skin-polishing effect on Stone Skin has reached its limit. No matter how one polishes the skin, it cannot achieve the effect of a second skin polishing."

Xu He explained the secret to breaking through to the Iron Skin Realm.

Li Changsheng suddenly asked, "Master, if one cultivates different Skin Polishing Martial Arts and repeatedly polishes the same area of skin, could one hope to complete the transformation and become Iron Skin or Bronze Skin?"

"You can, but the cost-effectiveness is extremely low. Every Skin Polishing Martial Art has to be cultivated from the beginning, and that consumes far too much time. If you cultivate a mid-grade Skin Polishing Martial Art, it is much easier to break through to the Iron Skin Realm. The key point is that cultivating many ordinary Skin Polishing Martial Arts does not produce much strength! Azure Steel Fist, the top-tier mid-grade Skin Polishing Martial Art of our Azure Steel Martial Hall, is enough to unleash tremendous attacking power. If you cultivate several low-grade Skin Grinding Martial Arts, your attack power will certainly be inferior to Azure Steel Fist!"

"When attacking an enemy with three ordinary fist-type Skin Polishing Martial Arts, you cannot fuse all three fist arts together and strike with them at once, can you? Azure Steel Fist can easily crush those low-grade Skin Grinding Martial Arts!"

Xu He laid out the flaws of cultivating multiple Skin Polishing Martial Arts, but Li Changsheng did not refute him. He too understood their shortcomings.

For instance, he had cultivated many Skin Polishing Martial Arts, but they were all low-grade or mid-grade. If he encountered a genius at the full-body Stone Skin Realm who cultivated a high-grade Skin Grinding Martial Art, then once the other party unleashed that high-grade Skin Grinding Martial Art, they could easily beat him senseless.

Because he did not possess a high-grade Skin Grinding Martial Art, those low-grade and mid-grade Skin Polishing Martial Arts simply could not bring out his true strength!

His offensive methods were also too few. There was only Azure Steel Hand, and it was merely a low-grade Skin Grinding Martial Art, incapable of bringing out his strength.

Wind Shadow Leg was a mid-grade Skin Polishing Martial Art, but it was not an offensive one, so it naturally would not do either.

Fortunately, Azure Steel Martial Hall possessed the top-tier mid-grade Skin Polishing Martial Art Azure Steel Fist. Master Xu He soon passed it on to him without giving him any sort of test.

In the past, Xu He might not have passed it on so quickly. He might have made Li Changsheng consolidate his foundation and cultivate Azure Steel Hand for a while longer before teaching him Azure Steel Fist.

But now, Azure Steel Martial Hall had lost a batch of disciples, so it naturally did not have such high demands for Li Changsheng. Once he met the requirements, he was given the martial art.

Li Changsheng spent half an hour memorizing all the movements and the Breathing Technique of Azure Steel Fist before taking his leave.

Azure Steel Hand and Azure Steel Fist were Skin Polishing Martial Arts of the same lineage. Cultivating Azure Steel Fist posed no difficulty for him, and he would soon be able to get started. But it would not be easy to rely on Azure Steel Fist to break through to the Iron Skin Realm.

Li Changsheng decided to first use Wind Shadow Leg to break through to the Iron Skin Realm. That way, his speed would become much faster, and his ability to preserve his life would naturally be greatly strengthened.

After reaching Stone Skin Perfection, he could mobilize the qi and blood throughout his entire body. Using qi and blood to temper the Stone Skin on his legs would increase the effect by more than thirty percent.

Yet Li Changsheng discovered that the difficulty of performing a second skin polishing on Stone Skin was immense. Even with the assistance of high-grade White Spirit Secret Medicine, he could still keenly feel just how difficult this second polishing of Stone Skin was.

"Even with high-grade Secret Medicine assisting me, the second skin polishing is this difficult. It must be hard for others to break through to the Iron Skin Realm as well. Besides, other people only polish one part of their body, while I have to polish my entire body. The time, effort, and resources this will consume are beyond imagination!"

Li Changsheng finally understood why his master did not want him to pursue full-body skin polishing. This was not something that money alone could accomplish. Even with a large amount of high-grade White Spirit Secret Medicine, he now found it strenuous. When he went from full-body Iron Skin to the full-body Bronze Skin Realm, just how heaven-defying would the difficulty become?

By then, even high-grade Secret Medicine would not be able to let all the skin on his body break through in a short time. If he wasted many years in the Skin Grinding Realm, he would have no hope of breaking through to higher realms in the future!

It could be said that without exceptional aptitude, even abundant resources were not enough to walk the path of full-body skin polishing.

"If I did not have the Dao Fruit, I should give up now. But once this year passes, I can obtain the third Dao Fruit. Perhaps it will help with my full-body skin polishing cultivation." Li Changsheng looked forward to it.