Strengthen "Indestructible Divine Skill"!

By the time Lu Siye returned to Tongjiang Residential Complex, it was already past two in the afternoon.

Back home, Lu Siye saw two small porcelain bottles on the living-room table, with a note lying beneath them.

He pulled out the note. It contained a short message, written in Fang Lanyue's handwriting.

"The people from the Town Demon Suppression Division asked me to pass these on to you. I didn't peek at what was inside!"

Lu Siye smiled and shook his head. He put the note back on the table and picked up one of the porcelain bottles.

He opened it and, sure enough, found the Blood Replenishment Pills he had redeemed afterward. Each bottle held ten pills, so two bottles made twenty in total.

After putting away the pills, Lu Siye went to the bedroom and looked at the Spirit Nether Jade Disc resting quietly on the bed. He found the briefcase from earlier, put the disc inside, and stored it in his system space.

Oh my, it's so dark! Fear Points +66!

Hearing the notification by his ear, Lu Siye's lips curled slightly.

After making sure the surroundings were safe, Lu Siye placed the "Indestructible Divine Skill" he had bought on the table.

As far as Lu Siye knew, the "Indestructible Divine Skill" was one of the Shaolin Temple's Seventy-Two Arts. It was also among the ten most difficult skills to master, and was the supreme divine skill of the Shaolin school.

Its defining qualities were that it was indestructible and impervious to evil.

That was the most important reason Lu Siye had chosen this technique.

As usual, before strengthening it, Lu Siye took a look at the system panel.

Host: Lu Siye

Fear Points:

Cultivation Power: 318 years (External Cultivation: 275 years; Internal Cultivation: 43 years)

Martial Arts Techniques: "Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill," Fourth Layer; "Body Tempering Art"; "Five Tiger Soul Severing Blade Technique," Proficient; "Northern Darkness Divine Art," Beginner; "Lingbo Microstep," Beginner

Special Items: Evil-Exorcising Fruit Knife; Blazing Blood Blade +1 (P.S.: Martial arts manuals will no longer be listed repeatedly from now on.)

He had spent the whole night in constant danger, but his gains had been tremendous. He'd raked in over eight thousand Fear Points alone, and his savings had broken five digits for the first time. Black Abyss had contributed the lion's share.

Unfortunately, if the Web had not arrived to rescue him so quickly at the end, Lu Siye could have squeezed out several thousand more Fear Points.

The thought made his heart ache so much he could barely breathe.

He closed the system panel and looked at the fake manual before him, silently choosing to strengthen it.

"Would the host like to spend 1,600 Fear Points to strengthen 'Indestructible Divine Skill'?"

Hiss!

It was asking him to fork over more than a tenth of his savings right off the bat. It hurt.

Even so, he had no choice but to strengthen it. Only by becoming stronger could he squeeze more Fear Points out of the Ghosts.

After getting a taste of the three-digit Fear Points Black Abyss had provided, he was no longer satisfied with the two-digit returns from Evil Ghosts.

Every point invested early on was meant to bring better returns later.

So, he was doing it!

"Strengthen!" Lu Siye declared inwardly, his resolve unwavering.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

The fake manual moved of its own accord, though there was no wind. A golden, divine radiance blossomed, and countless characters leaped from the pages like swimming fish before settling back down. At last, everything fell still.

"Ding! Congratulations, host. You have obtained the 'Indestructible Divine Skill—Beginner Chapter'!"

Beginner!? Well, I'll be!

Lu Siye picked up the strengthened manual and flipped through it.

After being strengthened, the "Indestructible Divine Skill" had four realms: Beginner, Proficient, Great Accomplishment, and Divine Mastery. Its stages were quite similar to those of other manuals.

Upon reaching the Beginner Realm, the practitioner's whole body would seem to be coated in molten gold while the skill was in use, greatly increasing their defensive power. As long as their golden body remained unbroken, they would be impervious to evil and able to repel all outside energies.

At the Proficient level, the practitioner could unite the force of their entire body, allowing every punch and kick to draw on their full strength. Any damage they took could be dispersed throughout their body, greatly strengthening both their defense and offense.

At the Great Accomplishment level, the practitioner could make their physical strength and inner force as one, forming a perfectly rounded whole. They would be as indestructible as a golden Arhat, have complete control over their body, and counter all wicked, yin forces.

The final realm, Divine Mastery, was truly formidable. Once activated, it could manifest a golden Arhat outside the body. The Arhat's size could be adjusted at will, and its strength depended on the practitioner's True Qi.

The more he read about this final realm, the more it reminded him of the Daoist art of creating an avatar outside the body. It was safe to say it had already gone halfway beyond the realm of martial arts fiction.

Moreover, the "Indestructible Divine Skill" wasn't simply an external martial art. It was a technique that trained both the internal and external aspects, though it focused mainly on defense and treated inner force as secondary.

After reading the description, Lu Siye couldn't help exclaiming that spending 1,600 Fear Points had been worth it.

Lu Siye didn't waste any more time. He began practicing according to the method recorded in the manual.

The "Indestructible Divine Skill" still consumed quite a lot of blood and vitality, but with the abundant reserves he had as a Night Wanderer Envoy First Realm, Lu Siye could easily handle the cost of reaching its Beginner Realm.

As the technique's breathing method circulated, his abundant blood and vitality began to flow into the surface of his body, continually strengthening his skin.

At the same time, some of his blood and vitality began circulating around his meridians, gradually transforming into the most yang and rigid Indestructible Inner Force, which coursed along his meridians and flowed into his Dantian.

When the Northern Darkness Inner Force in his Dantian came into contact with the Indestructible Inner Force, its rotation suddenly sped up. A force of suction burst forth, centered on the Northern Darkness Origin True Qi.

The newly formed Indestructible Inner Force was like a little kid being dragged along by his dad. No matter how much it struggled, it was all in vain.

After devouring the Indestructible Inner Force, the Northern Darkness Origin True Qi changed its aura, taking on the exact same quality as the Indestructible Inner Force. But the transformation lasted only a moment before it returned to its previous state.

Afterward, the excess Indestructible Inner Force began to be steadily converted into Northern Darkness Inner Force.

The saying that the Northern Darkness Divine Art was based on yin and yang and could accommodate all the martial arts under heaven wasn't just hot air. The Origin True Qi had already recorded every characteristic of the Indestructible Inner Force.

Only after the evening glow appeared on the horizon and then faded away did Lu Siye open his eyes.

Sitting cross-legged on the floor, he activated the "Indestructible Divine Skill." The Northern Darkness Inner Force in his Dantian transformed into Indestructible Inner Force and surged outward. In just a few breaths, his skin turned pale gold, making him look like a shoddy little golden statue covered in fake gold.

Lu Siye took out the Blazing Blood Blade, whose blade still bore half of a faint palm print. He turned its edge toward his arm and drew it across.

A slight sting came from his arm. When he pulled away the Blazing Blood Blade, the spot it had cut was merely red, without a drop of blood.

Satisfied with the result, Lu Siye nodded, then stopped circulating the technique and returned to normal.

This defensive divine skill could just about be considered Beginner. Next, he only needed to keep strengthening his skin with his blood and vitality until it could turn pure gold without the help of inner force. Only then would he have reached the end of the Beginner Realm.