Iron Body

Iron Body Skill has broken through to perfection!

Mastered special physique: Iron Body

Special physique???

Li Yuan froze. This was the first time he had seen anything like this, so he hurriedly opened the relevant description of Iron Body and read through it.

Iron Body: Upon reaching perfection in Iron Body Skill, one gains Iron Body. Physical defense and recovery are doubled, strength is greatly increased, and resistance to evil and uncanny forces is greatly enhanced.

The muscles on Li Yuan's body bulged high. With only a slight movement of his arm, the lumps of muscle could be seen rolling about like balls, while the veins on his arms stood out, brimming with explosive power.

His skin, meanwhile, had taken on a faint lead-gray hue, its color carrying the weight and hardness of metal. Anyone could tell at a glance how terrifying the defensive power of Li Yuan's physical body had become.

External hard skills were notoriously difficult to train, but once mastered, they always brought enormous changes to the body.

Iron Body Skill at the perfected realm had not allowed him to grasp Martial Dao True Intent. Instead, it had given him a special physique: Iron Body.

Li Yuan's physical strength had already been exceptionally high to begin with. Early that morning, Dong Yuezhen had come to his door and spent the entire morning smashing him with a piece of wood, yet Li Yuan had been completely unharmed. That alone spoke volumes!

After Li Yuan's skill had reached mastery, his defense had become even more terrifying, making him impervious to blades and axes!

And now that he had reached perfection, his defense and recovery had doubled once more!

If he encountered another attack from a huge horde of zombies like he had during his trip to Changan, Li Yuan could probably lay out a bedroll right in the middle of the zombie swarm and sleep soundly without suffering a scratch.

With high defense, one could truly do whatever one pleased.

It had already become difficult for ordinary evil and uncanny creatures to break through Li Yuan's defenses.

Moreover, Li Yuan's strength had surged again. It had broken through four thousand jin and reached the threshold of nearly five thousand!

Li Yuan's earlier guess had been correct. Cultivating external hard skills could raise the upper limit of his physical strength once more.

It could allow him to condense even stronger Martial Arts True Qi!

His newly strengthened physique made Li Yuan feel a wave of hunger. Every cell in his body was emitting powerful signals of hunger, demanding a massive replenishment of nutrients.

Li Yuan walked into the kitchen, took out a jar of Eight Treasures Soup that had been kept warm on the stove, and began gulping it down.

A medicinal soup that could be pulled into strands was truly potent. The results were absolutely top-notch.

As the medicinal soup flowed into his stomach, its powerful nourishing effects were rapidly digested and absorbed by Li Yuan, transforming into abundant nutrients that supplied every inch of flesh and blood on his body.

The medicinal soup brewed by the medical hall was indeed reliable. A single jar had cost ten taels of silver—not cheap, but well worth it. Li Yuan felt the hunger in his body quickly subside, while his muscles, bones, skin, and membranes grew increasingly tough under the nourishment of the soup.

Before long, Li Yuan had finished two jars of Eight Treasures Soup and contentedly let out a full burp.

At this point, he had finished cultivating Iron Body Skill. Once his physical condition had completely stabilized, he could attempt Forcefully Breaking Through the Mystic Pass and enter the True Qi Realm.

After cultivating for the entire day, Li Yuan felt somewhat tired. He washed up, returned to his room, and fell into a deep sleep.

The next day, Dong Yuezhen arrived early in the morning.

After receiving some guidance from Li Yuan, she had returned home and practiced Cinnabar Palm for a while. She had made some progress, but had also discovered several new problems and needed Li Yuan to clear up her confusion.

After knocking open the courtyard gate, Dong Yuezhen first respectfully greeted Li Yuan. Then she seemed to notice some changes in him.

Senior Brother... had he gotten a little taller?

He seemed to have grown a bit taller.

And he also seemed to have become a little more robust.

"Could that just be my imagination?"

Dong Yuezhen felt somewhat puzzled. Then she noticed several suspicious objects placed in the corner of the courtyard.

A steel rod as thick as an arm!

An iron hammer whose head was larger than a human head!

A heavy greatsword as thick as an axe!

Every one of them was a great weapon capable of sweeping across all directions!

Ah... what was this?

Dong Yuezhen remembered clearly that these things had not been here yesterday.

Could these be what Senior Brother had used to practice Iron Body Skill?

Wasn't this approach far too wild!?

Interfering rashly with someone else's cultivation was very inappropriate and could easily violate a taboo, but Dong Yuezhen still could not help speaking up to advise him.

"Senior Brother, you must not be impatient in your martial arts practice."

"You need to advance step by step."

After all, Iron Body Skill was something she had given Li Yuan. She did not want him to encounter any problems because of it.

Li Yuan watched Dong Yuezhen with a smile on his face. He was in an excellent mood because it was precisely her coming to seek guidance that had allowed him to obtain Iron Body Skill and greatly increase his strength. Thus, he did not take offense at her well-meaning advice.

Besides, his Iron Body Skill had already reached perfection. Those training implements were no longer useful to him, so Dong Yuezhen's worries were entirely unnecessary.

"Alright, I'll be careful."

Li Yuan gave her a casual reply.

Dong Yuezhen nodded, then continued, "Senior Brother, I went back and practiced Cinnabar Palm, but ran into some more problems."

"Oh?"

"Show me."

As soon as he finished speaking, Dong Yuezhen set up her stance in the courtyard and began practicing Cinnabar Palm, move by move.

After she finished one complete set of palm techniques, Li Yuan nodded and pointed out each problem that had appeared in Dong Yuezhen's movements, explaining everything in detail. Dong Yuezhen immediately understood.

Several problems that had troubled her for a long time were easily resolved by Li Yuan. The Martial Dao wisdom he revealed unintentionally filled Dong Yuezhen with admiration.

With Divine Wisdom enhancing him, many problems became clear to Li Yuan at a single thought. He could even draw inferences from one case and make connections across different areas. Dong Yuezhen benefited from this as well, and before she knew it, her respect for Li Yuan had grown even deeper.

In the time that followed, Dong Yuezhen came every day to seek Li Yuan's guidance. Li Yuan also patiently instructed her in palm techniques without ever growing tired of it. The Iron Body Skill she had provided had helped him tremendously, and Li Yuan was genuinely grateful to her for it.

Under Li Yuan's patient guidance, Dong Yuezhen's progress was remarkably evident.

Moreover, Li Yuan was fundamentally a modern person, with lively thoughts and broad horizons far beyond those of ordinary martial artists in this world. Under his influence, Dong Yuezhen's way of thinking also changed greatly, and her Martial Dao advancement became astonishingly rapid.

Sometimes, Dong Yuezhen felt extremely fortunate that she had gone to Li Yuan's door that day to seek his guidance. It had been an incomparably correct decision.

After Iron Body Skill reached perfection, the strengthening of Li Yuan's body did not stop. Every day, his strength and physical toughness increased slightly, and he remained in a period of growth.

During these days, Li Yuan did not continue practicing martial arts. Instead, he paid even greater attention to his diet. Not only did he eat a large amount of meat every day, he would also occasionally make a trip to Hundred Herbs Hall to get another jar of Eight Treasures Soup.

Day after day passed, and Li Yuan's physical condition grew increasingly stable. The day he would break through into the True Qi Realm was drawing closer and closer...