"Oh my god... you really reached Body Tempering Tenth Level?"
Qiao Meng rushed forward and asked excitedly.
Li Yun felt a little helpless.
It was difficult for outsiders to tell someone's level in the Body Tempering Realm at a glance. Unfortunately, after more than ten days of steady progress, he had broken through to Body Tempering Tenth Level just before Qiao Tai and His Daughter arrived.
The breakthrough was still fresh. His entire body had just undergone a transformation at its limits, and the aura left by it was too strong for him to conceal completely.
He could not deny it now even if he wanted to.
All he could do was nod. "I got lucky!"
"Hiss... you're unbelievable!"
"Body Tempering Tenth Level!"
"How many people dream of reaching that level?"
The foundation of the Martial Dao lay in the body, and Body Tempering forged that foundation. But it did far more than simply make the body stronger.
The entire process of Body Tempering was, in fact, a shedding of mortality.
By using spiritual energy to temper the body again and again, washing away its impurities and the dust accumulated after birth, an ordinary body could grow more attuned to spiritual energy. Only then would the hidden Innate Apertures within it emerge.
Ordinarily, Body Tempering Ninth Level could reveal no more than eighty-one Innate Apertures.
But that was not the true limit of the Innate Apertures hidden within.
Only by reaching Body Tempering Tenth Level could the more deeply hidden Innate Apertures emerge.
Once a cultivator reached the Aperture Refining Realm, having more Innate Apertures to refine naturally made him stronger.
That was easy enough to say.
Few people in the world could even make it through Body Tempering Ninth Level, let alone reach Body Tempering Tenth Level. Any level