Feeling the hot currents coursing through both arms and the flow of blood, Ning Zheng felt incomparably refreshed.
"Both hands are complete!"
The bloody mist glowing around his arms gradually dimmed, returning them to the appearance of ordinary flesh and blood.
This was blood concealment.
Every qualified cultivator had to learn to hide their aura.
After all, the Five Bodies could be cultivated in no particular order.
Some people cultivated their legs first, allowing them to run faster and attack with their legs.
Some cultivated their hands first, giving them greater combat power and allowing them to attack with weapons.
They concealed their blood and qi in daily life, then erupted with it during battle, testing which bodies their opponent had cultivated.
Information was crucial!
Combat was an extremely intricate art of probing.
Once one cultivated their head, they could chant spells and cast techniques, using their Sea of Consciousness to perform minor divine abilities.
But with such a low cultivation realm, how much lethality could their spells really have?
After firing off a few spells, they would squeeze their brain dry.
Surely no one would take a head with an empty mana bar and ram it into someone, right?
Therefore, apart from the head, every additional body represented an enormous difference. Unless one was an extraordinary monster, fighting above one's level was exceedingly difficult.
This became clear with just a little thought.
You had two bodies, while your opponent had three.
You had one hand, while your opponent had two. How could a one-armed hero defend against both?
The same applied to the fourth and fifth bodies.
With one or two extra legs, their movement speed would be astonishingly fast. If you had cultivated only your hands and stood there taking blows, your ordinary legs simply could not outrun