After leaving the Demon Suppression Division, he returned home.
Li Changsheng continued refining Tiger Bone Secret Medicine. Only after he had used up all the tiger bones on him did he begin using Flawless Tiger Bone Secret Medicine to refine his bones.
Every day, he cultivated Vajra Leg at Azure Steel Martial Hall. All thirty-six bones involved in Vajra Leg had transformed into iron bones, boosting his strength considerably.
Afterward, he sought out his master, Xu He, to learn a third Bone Refining Martial Art.
"Changsheng, your master only knows three Bone Refining Martial Arts in total. Aside from Azure Steel Bone Refining Fist and Vajra Leg, there is only Tiger Cannon Fist left. However, twenty-one of the thirty-six bones this fist art involves overlap with Azure Steel Bone Refining Fist," Xu He explained.
"Master, this disciple still wishes to learn it!" Li Changsheng did not care whether Tiger Cannon Fist overlapped with Azure Steel Bone Refining Fist. As long as they did not overlap completely, he would cultivate it. At the very least, he could temper another fifteen bones!
Soon afterward, he easily learned the Bone Refining Martial Art Tiger Cannon Fist from Xu He.
Not long after, he had tempered all the bones involved in Tiger Cannon Fist, transforming them into iron bones.
By now, a total of eighty-seven bones throughout his body had transformed into iron bones. His strength was exceedingly formidable, but he was still far from the three hundred and sixty-five iron bones.
"Master has no more Bone Refining Martial Arts. I'll have to obtain them from the Demon Suppression Division, but they don't have any High-grade Bone Refining Martial Arts either."
Li Changsheng suddenly found himself missing the Evil Demon Society. The Evil Demon Society had truly been generous—High-grade Skin Polishing Martial Arts were handed out freely, and they also possessed many High-grade Bone Refining Martial Arts. A High-grade Bone Refining Martial Art like Tiger Skin Bone Refining Fist, for instance, could temper one hundred and eight bones. If he cultivated several more High-grade Bone Refining Martial Arts, he would have hope of tempering all three hundred and sixty-five bones in his body into iron bones, copper bones, and silver bones.
If he wished to achieve flood dragon bones or dragon bones in the future, he had to cultivate High-grade Bone Refining Martial Arts to have any hope of reaching such a realm. It would be even better if he could obtain an Ultimate Skill-level Bone Refining Martial Art, but Ultimate Skill-level Bone Refining Martial Arts were far too precious. Even the inner city likely had only a few, so he naturally had no chance of obtaining one.
Bone Refining Martial Arts in the Demon Suppression Division were rather precious. A top-tier mid-grade Skin Polishing Martial Art required only one hundred Merit Points, while a top-tier mid-grade Bone Refining Martial Art required five or six hundred Merit Points.
Thus, Li Changsheng could only continue forging Demon-Slaying Arrows for the Demon Suppression Division. After more than ten days, he successfully forged a large batch of Demon-Slaying Arrows and exchanged them for a top-tier mid-grade Bone Refining Martial Art—Tiger Stance Skill!
Tiger Stance Skill involved tempering thirty-six bones. Seventeen overlapped with bones he had already tempered, while the remaining nineteen had never been tempered before.
Afterward, he began diligently cultivating Tiger Stance Skill.
With Flawless Tiger Bone Secret Medicine, his cultivation efficiency was extremely high. Before long, he had tempered all the bones involved in Tiger Stance Skill into iron bones, bringing his total number of iron bones to one hundred and six.
Li Changsheng had wanted to purchase a High-grade Bone Refining Martial Art, but after asking Cao Jun, he learned that Cao Jun could not get one either. Mainly, Cao Jun's status was too low for him to come into contact with High-grade Bone Refining Martial Arts. Only mid-ranking Demon Suppression Envoys had a chance to exchange for them through the Demon Suppression Division.
High-ranking Demon Suppression Envoy Jiang Qingyun certainly had High-grade Bone Refining Martial Arts in her possession, but Li Changsheng was not close to her. Last time, he had received a High-grade Skin Polishing Martial Art as a reward because of his merits. This time, it definitely would not work.
"If I can't obtain High-grade Bone Refining Martial Arts anytime soon, then I'll first cultivate a large number of top-tier mid-grade Bone Refining Martial Arts!" Li Changsheng also planned to raise his Forging Dao Fruit. A Level 2 Forging Dao Fruit was far too low.
Moreover, Ninth Grade Demon-Slaying Arrows were not worth much. If he could forge Eighth-grade Demon-Slaying Arrows, he could earn a large number of Merit Points.
Forging weapons truly consumed a great deal of time, but there was no lack of ways to shorten the forging time. His Vajra Hammer Technique was quite ordinary now. If he cultivated a powerful forging hammer technique, he could forge weapons faster.
It was said that some Advanced Blacksmiths could effortlessly forge Eighth-grade Weapons quickly. He could do the same.
The Demon Suppression Division also had hammer techniques, which could be exchanged for as long as one had enough Merit Points.
Li Changsheng examined the Demon Suppression Division's hammer techniques. Every one of them was far more powerful than the hammer techniques of Li's Blacksmith Shop. The hammer techniques of Li's Blacksmith Shop could only be called low-grade hammer techniques. Becoming a Low-level Blacksmith was the limit with them. The only reason he had become an Intermediate Blacksmith was entirely due to the Forging Dao Fruit.
"Mid-grade hammer technique—Thousand Forge Hammer Technique!"
Li Changsheng spent some Merit Points to exchange for this hammer technique.
Then, using the Demon Suppression Division's Forging Room, he studied the Thousand Forge Hammer Technique. He easily cultivated it to the beginner stage, while the experience of his Forging Dao Fruit also rose rapidly.
With the help of the Thousand Forge Hammer Technique, Li Changsheng's forging speed increased greatly. Even forging Eighth-grade Weapons did not take long; he could finish one in two or three days.
As the Thousand Forge Hammer Technique improved, his forging time continued to shorten.
A month later, Li Changsheng had mastered the Thousand Forge Hammer Technique. He could forge an Eighth-grade Weapon in half a day. With his forging skills, he was already capable of rivaling an Advanced Blacksmith.
At the same time, Li Changsheng's Forging Dao Fruit finally advanced to Level 3. A vast amount of forging knowledge flooded into his mind, raising his forging skill considerably once again.
Immediately afterward, Li Changsheng began forging Eighth-grade Demon-Slaying Arrows. For each Eighth-grade Demon-Slaying Arrow he forged, he could earn fifty Merit Points. If it was a Ninth Grade Upper Tier Demon-Slaying Arrow, he could receive a reward of one hundred Merit Points.
In a short time, Li Changsheng earned a large number of Merit Points through Ninth Grade Upper Tier Demon-Slaying Arrows. One after another, he exchanged them for several top-tier mid-grade Bone Refining Martial Arts, and the number of iron bones in his body naturally increased rapidly.
One hundred and fifty iron bones!
One hundred and sixty iron bones!
One hundred and seventy iron bones!
With every additional iron bone, his strength rose considerably.
"My fifth Dao Fruit is about to be born. I wonder what kind of Dao Fruit it will be?"
Li Changsheng was greatly looking forward to his fifth Dao Fruit. The more Dao Fruits he possessed, the faster he would grow. He also hoped this Dao Fruit would aid his cultivation, allowing his growth to become even faster.
Several days later.
Brilliant light erupted within Li Changsheng's mind. His fifth Dao Fruit formed, then fused with his body. A vast amount of knowledge flooded into his mind, granting him an understanding of the fifth Dao Fruit.
[Healing Dao Fruit]
This was an auxiliary Dao Fruit. It could rapidly heal his injuries. The higher the level of the Healing Dao Fruit, the stronger its recovery ability. It was an exceptionally fine Dao Fruit.
When he obtained the Healing Dao Fruit, the hidden injuries in his body caused by previous cultivation were also repaired.
At this moment, he felt astonishingly well!
To raise the Healing Dao Fruit, he took out an Eighth-grade Demon-Slaying Arrow and forcefully jabbed himself with it for quite some time before finally making a small wound.
There was no helping it. With a dragon-hide body, the defensive power of his skin and flesh was simply too outrageous.
Once the wound appeared, his Healing Dao Fruit took effect. The wound healed very quickly, though it could not recover instantly. After all, the Healing Dao Fruit was only Level 0!
After the wound healed, Li Changsheng's Healing Dao Fruit gained one point of experience.
"I need to be injured again and again to gain Healing Dao Fruit experience and raise its level. It won't be easy to level up the Healing Dao Fruit!"
Li Changsheng frowned.
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