*You diligently practiced the Pure Yang Art. After half a year, you finally perfected the Pure Yang Stance within it, successfully comprehending and mastering Qi and Blood Power! You broke through to the Early Skin Tempering Realm! Your lifespan increased by ten years!* *You continued diligently practicing for ten years. The Pure Yang Art reached Minor Accomplishment! Your realm advanced to the Mid Skin Tempering Realm!* *Another twelve years passed. During those ten years, you constantly practiced the Pure Yang Art, controlled your Qi and Blood, and ceaselessly tempered your body! The Pure Yang Art reached Great Accomplishment! Your realm advanced to the Late Skin Tempering Realm!* *You practiced the Pure Yang Art for another six months. The Qi and Blood within your body grew somewhat denser!*
In an instant, Su Xian felt the Qi and Blood Power within his body surge wildly, beginning to temper his flesh!
His entire body grew lighter, while his skin became tougher, as if it were thick cowhide! It could withstand slashes from blades!
After more than twenty years of tempering his flesh with Qi and Blood, Su Xian's physical strength soared!
Feeling the earth-shaking changes taking place within his body, Su Xian was delighted. He clenched his fist slightly, and the surging strength felt capable of killing a cow with ease!
Looking at the several-hundred-kilogram stone lock not far to his right,
Su Xian walked over, gripped it, and with only a little exertion, effortlessly lifted the stone lock.
"Is this what a martial artist is? Swinging a several-hundred-kilogram stone lock as though it were a goose feather!"
After merely getting used to his strength, Su Xian set the stone lock down.
Looking at the Demon Strategy, he saw that his original one year of lifespan had increased by another ten years.
Su Xian could not help revealing a faint smile. He had never expected that merely breaking through to the Skin Tempering Realm would increase his lifespan by ten years!
He wondered how many years the realms beyond this would add to his lifespan!
Su Xian could not help looking forward to it!
"Did I cultivate the Pure Yang Art to Great Accomplishment in only twenty-three years? Could it be that my martial talent isn't bad?"
Su Xian was puzzled. He had no idea whether this speed was fast or slow.
With a thought, he invested another ten years of lifespan into the Pure Yang Art.
The result this time left Su Xian somewhat disappointed. For a full ten years, he remained stuck at Great Accomplishment in the Pure Yang Art!
His cultivation also remained at the Great Accomplishment in Skin Tempering Realm!
"Could it be that my innate talent can only take me this far?"
Su Xian felt rather depressed. In the first twenty-three years, he had cultivated the Pure Yang Art to Great Accomplishment,
yet after another ten years, he still had not perfected it!
It seemed his talent really did end here!
"Fortunately, I still have a hundred years of Demon Lifespan!" Su Xian consoled himself.
*You continued cultivating the Pure Yang Art. After ten consecutive years of cultivation, your Qi and Blood grew increasingly dense, but you still could not touch that layer of bottleneck!* *You were not discouraged in the slightest and continued focusing on practicing the Pure Yang Art, day after day, year after year!* *Finally, another ten years passed! You sensed that layer of bottleneck! You unleashed all your Qi and Blood Power and struck at the bottleneck! You failed! The bottleneck seemed utterly unmoved!* *But you were not discouraged in the slightest. After resting for a month, you continued diligently practicing the Pure Yang Art and accumulating Qi and Blood!* *Another ten years passed! You launched another assault on that bottleneck!* *You succeeded! After practicing the Pure Yang Art for more than forty years without pause and accumulating a profound reserve of Qi and Blood, you finally shattered that bottleneck! With a single breakthrough, your realm reached Perfection in Skin Tempering Realm!*
Su Xian hurriedly stopped and could not help shaking his head.
He had never expected cultivating the Pure Yang Art to perfection to be so difficult. After reaching Great Accomplishment, it had consumed another full forty years of lifespan!
It seemed his cultivation talent was truly terrible!
Looking at the sixty years of lifespan remaining in the Demon Strategy, Su Xian pondered for a moment before deciding to practice the Blazing Sun Fist.
*You began cultivating the Blazing Sun Fist! Since your cultivation had already reached the peak of the Skin Tempering Realm, you cultivated the Blazing Sun Fist to Minor Accomplishment within a year!* *Three years later, you cultivated the Blazing Sun Fist to Great Accomplishment! With a single punch, the air seemed to be scorched!* *Another three years passed. You cultivated the Blazing Sun Fist to Perfection! But you were still unsatisfied and continued practicing!* *Finally! Three years later! You innovated upon the Blazing Sun Fist! You fused part of the profound principles of the Tiger Subduing Demon Saber Technique into it! Your Blazing Sun Fist evolved into the Second-grade Blazing Sun Tiger Subduing Fist!*
In the next instant, Su Xian abruptly opened his eyes. His Qi and Blood thundered, and a phantom blood-colored tiger seemed to appear behind him!
"In ten years, I cultivated this Blazing Sun Fist to perfection and transformed it into a Second-grade Martial Skill?"
"Could it be that my talent for practicing martial skills is excellent!"
Su Xian's eyes lit up!
Although his talent for physical cultivation was poor, he seemed to be quite fast at practicing martial skills!
"There are actually still fifty years of lifespan left!"
Looking at the remaining lifespan on the Demon Strategy, Su Xian felt rather delighted.
He had originally thought that cultivating the Blazing Sun Fist would also consume a great deal of lifespan, but he had never expected that in only ten years,
he would cultivate the Blazing Sun Fist to perfection and transform it into a Second-grade Martial Skill!
"Next, I need to find a Second-grade Cultivation Method!"
Su Xian thought to himself. Now that he had cultivated to Perfection in Skin Tempering Realm,
he naturally had to seek out a Second-grade Cultivation Method and strive to break through to the Muscle Forging Realm of a Second-grade martial artist!
"I can't neglect my Demon Lifespan either! It took more than sixty years to break through from Outer Strength Perfection to Perfection in Skin Tempering Realm!"
"These remaining fifty years of lifespan definitely won't be enough to go very far in the Muscle Forging Realm!"
"I have to find a way to obtain more Demon Lifespan!"
After settling on his plans for what to do next, Su Xian glanced at the room where the hall master was staying.
He still felt that he would have to obtain the cultivation method from the hall master.
Su Xian familiarized himself with his strength in a corner of the courtyard. Now that his realm had reached Perfection in Skin Tempering Realm, blades and swords could hardly injure him anywhere on his body!
Su Xian went to the weapon rack in the courtyard, casually drew a saber, and dragged it across his arm, leaving behind only a faint white mark.
As Su Xian circulated his Qi and Blood, the white mark soon disappeared.
"A true martial artist really lives up to the name! If ordinary people's blades and swords struck me now, I'm afraid they would have practically no effect!"
Looking at the vanished white mark on his arm, Su Xian could not help sighing.
This was what a true martial artist was! The moment one broke through, one became qualitatively different from an ordinary person!
At that moment, Cui Hao walked over. Seeing Su Xian idling in the corner, he assumed Su Xian was facing some difficulty and immediately asked:
"Junior Brother Su Xian, have you run into some difficulty?"
Upon hearing this, Su Xian shook his head and asked:
"Senior Brother Cui Hao, what realm are you currently in? How many years have you cultivated? What realm is your Blazing Sun Fist at? And what level does your talent belong to?"
Su Xian wanted to use him as a reference and find out whether his own talent was any good!
"Oh, that!" Cui Hao was taken aback, then scratched his head and said:
"I'm currently at Perfection in Skin Tempering Realm! I've practiced the Pure Yang Art for twenty years!"
"As for the Blazing Sun Fist, I've also practiced it diligently for twenty years! At present, I've reached Great Accomplishment in the Blazing Sun Fist!"
"As for talent..."
Cui Hao shook his head. "My talent is only slightly below average. The reason I'm the senior disciple is simply that I joined earlier."
Cui Hao looked toward Su Xian.
"Junior Brother, why are you asking about all this?"
"Nothing. I just wanted to know what level my talent is at."
Su Xian gently shook his head and spoke calmly.
Judging from what Cui Hao had said,
Su Xian's cultivation talent was truly terrible—an absolutely inferior aptitude.
However, he seemed to possess extraordinary talent when it came to cultivating martial skills!
Cui Hao had diligently practiced the Blazing Sun Fist for twenty years and had only reached Great Accomplishment, whereas Su Xian had cultivated it to perfection in ten years and transformed it into a Second-grade Martial Skill!
This was enough to prove Su Xian's talent for cultivating martial skills!
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