God-Demon Body Refining Art

"Although you're strong, pull-ups aren't all about strength."

Watching Ling Yun walk beneath the horizontal bar, Jiang Yingqing slightly raised her chin, a hint of provocation in her voice. "Even if you can't do a single one, I promise I won't laugh at you."

Ling Yun merely smiled at her without replying. He leaped lightly, gripping the bar firmly with both hands.

His starting form was textbook-perfect. His speed was neither fast nor slow, and every repetition brought his chin above the bar. His body remained as steady as a rock.

One, ten, twenty... He completed thirty ordinary pull-ups in a single breath, as easily as taking a stroll.

Immediately afterward, he switched to one hand!

His left hand gripped the bar as his entire body rose and lowered, relying solely on the strength of one arm.

The muscles in his arm bulged with power, yet his movements remained astonishingly steady and rhythmic. Another twenty!

But that still wasn't the end! Just as everyone thought this was his limit, Ling Yun released his left hand and hooked his pinky finger over the bar with only his right hand!

He drew a deep breath, and his core suddenly exerted force. Relying solely on the strength of one pinky, he slowly pulled his body up once more, then lowered it! One, two... a full ten!

Every pull seemed to challenge the laws of physics, making everyone's hearts pound with fear.

After finishing, Ling Yun landed lightly. His face wasn't flushed, and he wasn't even breathing hard. There wasn't so much as a bead of sweat on his forehead, as though he had merely stretched.

He clapped his hands, feeling that if he continued, he really would be bullying them.

The entire field fell deathly silent.

Everyone looked as if someone had pressed the pause button. Their mouths hung slightly open, their eyes were wide, and their minds were still struggling to process the inhuman spectacle they had just witnessed.

"Just as I expected." Zhou Da was the first to break the silence. He folded his arms, wearing an irritating expression that said, "I knew this would happen," and his booming voice overpowered the quiet. "The protagonist always makes a grand entrance! Basic operation, don't make a fuss!"

His shout was like pressing the play button. The crowd instantly erupted with a loud buzz!

"Holy crap! Holy crap! Holy crap!"

"One hand?! With his pinky?! Am I freaking dreaming?"

"Is this damn thing even human?!"

Most of the students were merely shocked beyond words, but they had only a shallow understanding of how terrifying it was.

However, Niu Li and Jiang Yingqing, who had trained before, looked completely different. Their faces were filled with horror born from knowing the hellish difficulty involved.

"Brother Yun... He did twenty with one hand?! I struggle to do ten with both hands!"

Niu Li's voice trembled as he looked at Ling Yun with awe.

Jiang Yingqing also took a deep breath. Pointing at the horizontal bar, she explained to the shocked students beside her, "Do you know what this means? Thirty ordinary pull-ups is the peak level for an ordinary person. Twenty one-handed pull-ups is the level of a monster! As for that last one with his pinky... That's no longer a matter of strength. It's an absolute domination of body control, core stability, and finger strength! No human being can do that!"

"Good lad!" Drill Instructor Cheng Yuanzhou finally recovered from the tremendous shock. He strode over to Ling Yun and slapped him hard on the shoulder, looking at him as if he were an alien. "You... How do you train normally? Even in the military, I've never seen a warrior king this fierce!"

Ling Yun gave an innocent-looking smile. "Reporting to you, Drill Instructor, I just exercise often. And besides... I might naturally be a little stronger? I kept training, and it just turned out this way."

He attributed everything to talent and hard work. It was perfectly reasonable and impossible to find fault with.

Cheng Yuanzhou was skeptical, but aside from "extraordinary talent," he truly couldn't find a more reasonable explanation. He could only shake his head in amazement.

Ling Yun turned toward Jiang Yingqing, who was still stunned. A mischievous smile curled up at the corner of his lips as he walked over. "Beauty Jiang, how was it? Were you completely overwhelmed by my heroic bearing and magnificent physique just now? Are you now filled with endless admiration for me?"

He deliberately leaned his face a little closer.

"Pah! Who admires you?" Jiang Yingqing snapped back to reality. Her cheeks flushed slightly as she glared at him angrily. "You're just a little stronger, with some freakish body control! What's so impressive about that? If you have the guts..."

Her eyes shifted as an idea struck her. "If you have the guts, compete with me in rock climbing! The military training ends right before the break, and I'm going home. I'm going to Qingmang Mountain to climb it bare-handed! Do you dare come?"

"Sure." Ling Yun agreed immediately without the slightest hesitation, his answer crisp and decisive.

He had been trying to figure out how to save Jiang Yingqing, and now he had the perfect excuse.

His candid answer instead left Jiang Yingqing stunned.

She had expected Ling Yun to make some excuse, but she hadn't expected him to agree so readily.

Still, she quickly attributed it to Ling Yun's overabundant confidence and snorted. "Fine! Then it's settled! On the morning of the first day of the break, I'll have my driver pick you up!"

"It's a deal."

After lunch, Ling Yun didn't take a nap. Following the memories of his previous life, he went to an abandoned classroom.

The midday sunlight streamed through the dust-covered windows in several shafts of light. Ling Yun found a seat against the wall and sat down, silently thinking, "Claim the system reward!"

His palm suddenly grew heavy. Four pitch-black pills, each the size of a longan and exuding a strange herbal fragrance, appeared out of thin air.

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At the same time, an immense torrent of information filled with an ancient, primordial aura surged into his mind—the Qi Cultivation Chapter of the God-Demon Body Refining Art!

Every rune seemed to carry the whispers of gods and demons, explaining the ultimate mysteries of physical strength.

[Body Tempering Pill: A sacred medicine for tempering the body. It can greatly alleviate the pain of body refinement and shorten the time required, with no side effects.]

[God-Demon Body Refining Art (Qi Cultivation Chapter): An supreme body-refining method originating from innate gods and demons. It grants an invincible body at the same level, and upon reaching mastery, allows one to achieve sainthood through the physical body and remain impervious to all tribulations!]

Looking at the system's introduction, Ling Yun swallowed one Body Tempering Pill without hesitation.

The pill melted upon entering his mouth, transforming into a vast yet gentle current of heat that instantly swept through his limbs and organs!

He immediately circulated the God-Demon Body Refining Art according to the incomparably profound route in his mind.

In an instant, he felt his muscles, bones, skin, membranes, and internal organs all cry out in joy!

Wherever the warm current passed, his cells crazily transformed and reorganized. Impurities were gently refined and expelled, while strength surged and condensed through his body like a flood released from its gates.

It was his first time circulating the art, and the route was somewhat unfamiliar. It took him nearly an entire hour to completely absorb all the energy from one Body Tempering Pill.

He could clearly feel that his physical strength had undergone a qualitative leap!

Every movement he made contained explosive power.

"Whew..." Ling Yun exhaled a breath of turbid air carrying a faint gray aura of impurities.

Unfortunately, time was tight, and he had no time to carefully experience this transformation akin to being reborn. He hurriedly tidied himself up, confirmed that nothing seemed abnormal, and quickly slipped back to his class.

"Brother Yun, where did you run off to? Your face looks a little pale. Didn't you take a nap?" Zhou Da asked curiously as Ling Yun approached. Quite a few of the students had also woken up.

Without changing expression, Ling Yun clutched his stomach and put on a pained look. "Don't ask. That cafeteria food at noon... It gave me diarrhea. I had to run to the bathroom several times."

"Ah!" Zhou Da and several other students who heard him immediately wore expressions of deep understanding. "The cafeteria food, huh? We all know how that goes! You're lucky it didn't put you flat on your back—your constitution must be pretty good!" Under the cafeteria's infamous reputation, this excuse was practically flawless.

The military training activity that afternoon was a lesson on folding quilts. Since commuting students had no bedding in the dormitories, Drill Instructor Cheng Yuanzhou led the resident students back to the dormitory building, leaving the commuting students on the field to do as they pleased.

Ling Yun's eyes lit up—this was a godsend! He slipped out of the crowd without drawing attention and once again made his way into the abandoned, empty classroom with practiced familiarity, locking the door behind him.

Having gained experience the first time, he was completely at ease now. He sat cross-legged and swallowed all three remaining Body Tempering Pills in one go without hesitation!

Boom—!

Three surging waves of medicinal power erupted simultaneously, charging and surging through his body like three enraged dragons! The circulation route of the God-Demon Body Refining Art was now incomparably clear. He sank his mind into it and guided the raging energy with all his strength, using it to strike every inch of his body.

His muscles and bones rang like metal clashing, his blood surged like great rivers, and countless tiny bolts of lightning seemed to travel beneath his skin. This time, the refining speed increased dramatically!

In less than two hours, the violent medicinal power had been completely subdued, absorbed, and fused into every cell of his body.

[Ding! Congratulations, Host. The Qi Cultivation Chapter of the God-Demon Body Refining Art has reached perfection!]

The system's notification carried a trace of barely perceptible admiration.

Ling Yun opened his eyes. A flash of brilliance flickered through them before quickly becoming restrained again.

He sensed the earth-shaking changes within his body, and his heart was filled with shock.

According to the memories inherited from the cultivation art, an ordinary person would need at least ten years of hard work to cultivate the Qi Cultivation Chapter to perfection, even with extraordinary talent!

Yet he had used only three pills and less than three hours!

"This cheat is..." Ling Yun silently grinned. This system was practically a divine artifact capable of defying heaven and changing fate!

"System, what are my current physical attributes specifically?" He needed to quantify this terrifying strength.

[Host's current physical attributes:]

[Single-arm explosive strength: approximately 2,000 kilograms]

[Maximum sprinting speed: approximately 100 meters per second]

"Gasp..." Even though Ling Yun had been mentally prepared, he still sucked in a breath at those figures. One hundred meters per second? Two tons of arm strength? This was no longer the peak of humanity. This was a bona fide humanoid tyrannosaurus!

That morning, he had still been at the limits of a mortal. Now, he had entered the realm of the inhuman!

He moved his hands and feet, feeling as light as though he had no weight, yet containing terrifying power capable of destroying heaven and earth. His control was perfect, with not the slightest trace of his aura leaking out.

When he returned to the field, the commuting students were chatting in small groups.

"Ling Yun! Where did you run off to again?" Jiang Yingqing spotted him at once and walked over, her eyes filled with suspicion.

Ling Yun's acting was on point. He immediately put on a frightened expression, clutched his stomach, and sighed. "Sigh, don't ask. I guess the cafeteria food from lunch hasn't finished working its way through me... I had to go again."

At his words, Jiang Yingqing's pretty face immediately scrunched up in disgust. She waved her hand dismissively. "Ew... I wanted to try the cafeteria food after hearing them talk about it, but now... I wouldn't go even if someone beat me to death!"

As the two were talking, a male student walked toward them.