Dragon Roar Iron Shirt! Frost Rock Village

Master Yi Jie hesitated slightly at that. "Won't this take up too much of your time, Benefactor Lin?"

"How could it? The art you brought me was a tremendous help. This is only a small favor." Lin Chen smiled calmly.

Seeing this, Master Yi Jie didn't refuse again. "All right, then. I'll have to trouble you, Benefactor Lin."

Master Yi Jie had witnessed Lin Chen's strength and methods. The Evil Demon discovered by his fellow monks seemed rather formidable, and bringing Lin Chen along might prove helpful.

After a brief moment of thought, Master Yi Jie agreed. Lin Chen told him to wait by the entrance while he went back to get his car.

While fetching the car, Lin Chen strengthened the Iron Shirt in his hands.

"Martial art available for recording: Dragon Roar Iron Shirt."

"Dragon Roar Iron Shirt: Tempers the body, strengthens its defenses, condenses a Blood Qi True Dragon, and suppresses and slays all evil spirits."

"Just as I thought!"

Seeing the Iron Shirt strengthened and upgraded, a smile appeared on Lin Chen's face. The Iron Shirt had been an ordinary Tempering Art, but after being strengthened, it had already surpassed the bounds of ordinary tempering techniques!

"Record!"

Without hesitation, Lin Chen chose to record it. In the next moment, the Dragon Roar Iron Shirt in his hands turned into a dragon-shaped phantom and sank into his body.

Ang~

A high-pitched dragon's roar rang out from Lin Chen's dantian, and a Blood Qi True Dragon took shape. As it condensed, Lin Chen could clearly feel his physical attributes rapidly improving and his body's defenses growing stronger.

In just a moment, the Blood Qi True Dragon had fully formed. Although it couldn't compare to the Blood Qi True Flame, which had been strengthened several times, the improvement it brought Lin Chen was still impossible to ignore.

"His strength has increased considerably. More importantly, his physical defenses are much stronger. Against Third Order cultivators, he could probably just stand there and they still wouldn't be able to break through his defenses!" Feeling the changes in his body, Lin Chen smiled.

With such powerful physical defenses, next time he faced an equally strong enemy, it would be difficult for them to inflict any real harm through both his Blood Qi True Flame and his body's defenses. That meant he wouldn't have to worry about the pain of getting injured!

"Source:"

"Martial arts available for strengthening: Phoenix Undying Body, First Level (5/9), Dragon Roar Iron Shirt, First Level (0/9)."

"Strengthen Dragon Roar Iron Shirt!"

Without hesitation, Lin Chen chose to strengthen the Dragon Roar Iron Shirt. Although he had obtained a Tempering Art, the unstrengthened Dragon Roar Iron Shirt still fell short of the Phoenix Undying Body.

Under the circumstances, Lin Chen's defenses clearly weren't keeping pace with his cultivation. That was why he chose to strengthen the Dragon Roar Iron Shirt without a second thought, so he could improve his defenses as soon as possible.

Hum~

In the next moment, Lin Chen felt his physical strength and defenses rise again. The Blood Qi True Dragon within him had also grown noticeably sturdier.

"Fantastic!"

Lin Chen laughed, though he could also tell that the Dragon Roar Iron Shirt would need to be strengthened several more times to keep pace with his cultivation.

Otherwise, relying on the Dragon Roar Iron Shirt alone to withstand cultivators of the same level would still be a struggle. But that wasn't a problem for Lin Chen. As long as he had enough source, he could raise the art in no time.

Lin Chen started the car and met Master Yi Jie at the school entrance. Then, guided by Master Yi Jie, he went to meet the other members of Vajra Temple.

After nearly two hours on the road, the two arrived at a small town at the foot of a mountain, where they met one of Master Yi Jie's fellow monks: a burly, middle-aged man.

"Senior Brother Huiming!" Master Yi Jie looked at the middle-aged man, then introduced him. "This is Benefactor Lin, the cultivator I told you about—the kind who can't stand injustice!"

"Benefactor Lin." Master Huiming nodded slightly.

Lin Chen nodded back, then looked at Master Huiming with some curiosity. "Didn't Master Yi Jie say there were several members of Vajra Temple? Why are you the only one here?"

At his question, Master Yi Jie turned to Master Huiming in confusion as well. He had no idea what was going on either; Master Huiming was the only one he'd found here.

"The situation in Frost Rock Village has changed. The other three senior and junior brothers went up the mountain ahead of us. They left me here to wait for you." Master Huiming explained.

So that was it!

After hearing this, Lin Chen and Master Yi Jie understood why Master Huiming was the only one here. The other monks from Vajra Temple had already gone.

"I've asked the restaurant to prepare some food. Let's eat first, and I'll tell you about what's happening in Frost Rock Village." Master Huiming looked at the two of them.

Lin Chen and Master Yi Jie nodded. It was already nearly noon, and if they went up the mountain now, they wouldn't have anywhere to eat. That was why the people from Vajra Temple had arranged to meet in town.

Cultivators had big appetites to begin with. When Master Yi Jie went to the Unfinished Building earlier, he'd eaten his fill first. In a high-intensity battle, it was hard to hold out on an empty stomach.

With a table full of meat and fish before them, Master Huiming and Master Yi Jie dug in enthusiastically. Lin Chen didn't hold back either. His appetite had grown considerably since he became a cultivator. It still couldn't compare to theirs, but it was much bigger than before.

As they ate, Master Huiming explained what was happening in Frost Rock Village. About ten days earlier, people in the village had begun dying mysteriously, and the number of deaths kept climbing. Most bizarre of all, the villagers couldn't leave.

Master Huiming, who had been traveling through the area, discovered the situation and went into the village to investigate. There, he encountered a strange beast and a ghostly entity. Unable to defeat them, he fled down the mountain and contacted fellow members of Vajra Temple nearby, and together they had come to exorcise the evil and eliminate the demons.

"A strange beast and a ghostly entity?" Master Yi Jie raised his brows slightly and said in a low voice, "Normally, naturally occurring strange beasts and ghostly entities wouldn't be able to live together."

Lin Chen nodded. Strange beasts had powerful blood qi, while ghostly entities preferred yin energy. Though the two kinds of creatures weren't exactly like fire and water, neither would feel at ease around the other.

So under normal circumstances, naturally mutated strange beasts and ghostly entities wouldn't live together. What was happening in Frost Rock Village was indeed highly unusual.

"An Evil Cultivator," Lin Chen said gravely.

If an Evil Cultivator was controlling both the ghostly entities and the strange beasts, then it wouldn't be strange for them to appear and live together.

However, beast taming and ghost raising were two different schools of cultivation. It was nearly impossible for one person to master both, which meant that if there really were Evil Cultivators in Frost Rock Village, there was likely more than one.

"That's very likely." Master Huiming nodded slightly, then said with a puzzled expression, "There's just one thing I don't understand. If there really were at least two Evil Cultivators, why didn't they keep me there when I went into the village?"