bang!
A muffled sound suddenly rang out from Li Qing's cave abode.
From the outside, the entire Barren Cloud Peak seemed to tremble faintly, as though something had shaken it.
Li Qing slowly rose from his cross-legged posture. His upper body was bare, and a thick layer of dead skin covered the surface of his body.
The next moment, his entire body gave a slight tremor, and the layer of old skin fell away with soft rustling sounds, revealing his lean and powerful physique beneath.
"A physique at the peak of the mid second tier is already infinitely close to that of a Foundation Establishment Late Stage Body Cultivator."
"In only nine months, this body-refining secret art, the True Body of the Brahma King, is truly somewhat unbelievable."
That was right. After sitting in seclusion within the cave abode and tempering his physique for nine months, his body had now advanced to an unimaginable extent!
"It is just that the price paid is rather terrifying. Without spiritual medicines to replenish my vitality afterward, I actually lost nearly seventy years of my lifespan out of thin air."
To others, these nine months may have been merely nine months, but Li Qing had truly lost seventy years of his lifespan.
During this period, after consuming all the spiritual medicines he had exchanged from the sect, he still persisted in tempering his physical body.
There were times when his blood and qi nearly dried up and his vitality suffered severe damage, yet his body continued to grow stronger.
To this end, he could only squeeze the potential from every cell in his body and forcibly cultivate this body art, which was tyrannical to the extreme.
Squeezing out his potential meant losing the source of his life force, and his lifespan was rapidly draining