Bronze Skin Realm!

In the small courtyard.

After Li Changsheng returned, he immediately began upgrading the Demon Slaying Dao Fruit.

In an instant, the Demon Slaying Dao Fruit began to upgrade, and he entered a special state, swiftly beginning to cultivate the Skin Polishing Martial Art known as Wind Shadow Leg.

Before long, he had cultivated Wind Shadow Leg to the Perfection Realm.

Afterward, he began cultivating Skin Polishing Martial Arts such as Iron Head Skill and Bear Back Skill. His comprehension of these martial arts rapidly improved, and he easily cultivated them to the Perfection Realm.

One ordinary mid-grade Skin Polishing Martial Art after another entered the Perfection Realm. This time, the insights he gained were at least several times greater than last time.

After the special state vanished, Li Changsheng's progress suddenly slowed by severalfold. He felt somewhat miserable, but after taking a deep breath, he gradually adapted.

"Six Skin Polishing Martial Arts have reached perfection. Though they are all ordinary mid-grade Skin Polishing Martial Arts and cannot compare to Azure Steel Fist, this progress is still acceptable!"

Li Changsheng tested the Level 2 Demon Slaying Dao Fruit's enhancement on himself again. As expected, his efficiency in cultivating other Skin Polishing Martial Arts had improved somewhat. With the martial arts enhancement effect of the Level 2 Demon Slaying Dao Fruit, he could easily cultivate a mid-grade Skin Polishing Martial Art to the entry level, but reaching the Perfection Realm would still take some time.

These six Skin Polishing Martial Arts covered the iron skin across his entire body, and with enough high-grade White Spirit Secret Medicine, he was confident that he could cultivate the Skin Grinding Realm to Iron Skin Perfection in a short time.

Once every inch of his body reached Iron Skin Perfection, his combat strength would rise to an astonishing level.

In the days that followed, he refined more White Spirit Secret Medicine. As he refined it more and more, the Medicine Refining Dao Fruit gradually neared an upgrade.

One day.

Li Changsheng gathered the last bit of experience needed, and the Medicine Refining Dao Fruit upgraded to Level 3!

[Host: Li Changsheng]

[Cultivation: Iron Skin Perfection]

[Dao Fruits: Forging Lv2 (26%) Medicine Refining Lv3 (0%) Demon Slaying Lv2 (5%)]

"The Forging Dao Fruit has barely progressed because I haven't been forging weapons, but there is no need to improve it for now. The Demon Slaying Dao Fruit gained an additional 5% experience from killing that Level 2 Minor Demon before, but upgrading it to Level 3 will be even harder. I'll need to kill a large number of demons to do that."

Li Changsheng focused his attention on the Level 3 Medicine Refining Dao Fruit. A vast amount of medicine-refining knowledge had now completely fused into his mind. With his current medicine-refining skills, he wanted to see whether he could refine Flawless Secret Medicine.

He immediately continued refining White Spirit Secret Medicine. This time, the refining speed was faster and the quality was better, but it was still merely high-grade White Spirit Secret Medicine.

He continued refining!

Finally, on the fifth attempt, he successfully refined a batch of Flawless Secret Medicine.

White Spirit Secret Medicine of flawless quality was extraordinarily remarkable. It had already surpassed the scope of ordinary secret medicine, even emitting wisps of flawless radiance that made it easy to identify.

Li Changsheng put away the flawless White Spirit Secret Medicine. There were ten portions in total. He first applied one portion of the flawless secret medicine over his body, then cultivated Skin Polishing Martial Arts.

Boom!!!

Terrifying energy surged into the skin of his body, helping him rapidly polish and temper it. The effect was incredible, far surpassing high-grade secret medicine.

"What astonishing Flawless Secret Medicine. With so much of it, I can definitely break through to the realm of full-body Iron Skin Perfection with ease!"

After that, he used portion after portion of Flawless Secret Medicine to temper the skin across his body. One area after another broke through to Iron Skin Perfection.

In just twenty days, he had reached full-body Iron Skin Perfection.

To break through from Iron Skin Perfection to the Bronze Skin Realm, he needed to polish his skin for a third time. Only after completing three rounds of skin polishing could one be considered to have entered the Bronze Skin Realm.

He applied one portion of Flawless Secret Medicine to both hands, then cultivated with Azure Steel Fist at the Perfection Realm. The skin-polishing effect was exceptionally good. Several days later, he completed the third skin polishing of both hands, successfully turning the skin on his hands into bronze skin. His physique improved by another margin, his skin defense soared, and his vital energy and blood increased considerably.

"With my current strength, I should be able to smash a Silver Skin Perfection martial artist with ease. I'm absolutely invincible within the Skin Grinding Realm!" Li Changsheng declared confidently.

However, he now lacked martial arts. The martial arts he had cultivated before were relatively ordinary. Aside from Azure Steel Fist, his other Skin Polishing Martial Arts were merely ordinary mid-grade or low-grade Skin Grinding Martial Arts. They could not help him complete the third skin polishing unless he cultivated multiple Skin Polishing Martial Arts for the same area and forcibly tempered it further, but that would undoubtedly waste time.

Therefore, he needed to cultivate other top-tier mid-grade Skin Polishing Martial Arts.

To cultivate such top-tier mid-grade Skin Polishing Martial Arts, he still had to rely on the Demon Suppression Division. Only the Demon Suppression Division possessed so many top-tier mid-grade Skin Polishing Martial Arts; Azure Steel Martial Hall did not have that many martial arts.

Demon Suppression Division.

Li Changsheng came to exchange for Skin Polishing Martial Arts. Ordinary mid-grade Skin Polishing Martial Arts only cost twenty or thirty Merit Points, but top-tier mid-grade Skin Polishing Martial Arts required around a hundred Merit Points.

When he had hunted Demon Rats last time, he had earned around one hundred and fifty Merit Points. Buying a top-tier mid-grade Skin Polishing Martial Art now was no problem.

Before long, he set his eyes on a top-tier mid-grade Skin Polishing Martial Art—Mantis Leg!

This Skin Polishing Martial Art was not especially impressive in terms of speed, only slightly better than Wind Shadow Leg. However, its explosive force and attack power were excellent. It was a top-tier mid-grade Skin Polishing Martial Art that combined strong offensive power.

"I'll exchange for Mantis Leg!"

Li Changsheng immediately exchanged for this Skin Polishing Martial Art. He soon obtained it from the Demon Suppression Division and easily memorized it.

Afterward, he returned to cultivate Mantis Leg. He quickly cultivated Mantis Leg to the entry level, and with the assistance of Flawless Secret Medicine, the effects of the third skin polishing were quite good.

Ten days later, his legs completed their third skin polishing and entered the Bronze Skin Realm, raising his strength once again.

But he now faced a problem: he had no Merit Points left to buy top-tier mid-grade Skin Polishing Martial Arts. He had to continue forging weapons for the Demon Suppression Division to earn Merit Points.

Afterward, he went to the Demon Suppression Division and accepted another mission to forge Demon-Slaying Arrows. This mission was also the most worthwhile forging task and the fastest way to earn Merit Points.

With his current forging skill, he could earn around twenty Merit Points a day, or six hundred Merit Points a month. If he forged here for a month, he would earn enough to buy multiple top-tier mid-grade Skin Polishing Martial Arts.

Thus, he began crazily forging Demon-Slaying Arrows at the Demon Suppression Division.

Day after day passed. Li Changsheng gradually accumulated a large number of Merit Points and began purchasing top-tier mid-grade Skin Polishing Martial Arts.

One month later, he purchased six Skin Polishing Martial Arts, including Bronze Back Skill, which covered every part of his body.

Then, he began arduous cultivation. This time, he would cultivate all the skin on his body to the full-body Bronze Skin Realm. When that time came, his strength would surge dramatically.