A Fragmentary Azure Origin Body Tempering Art! Li Xian's Reminder, and the Troubled Qingliang Mountain!

"It's just a pity that although the Azure Origin Body Tempering Art is powerful, it can only be cultivated to the peak of the late Body Tempering Realm at most. If I want to break through to the Meridian Opening Realm, I'll have to find the continuation of the Azure Origin Body Tempering Art or switch to another body tempering technique."

Su Mo felt the power surging through his body. The Azure Origin Body Tempering Art was indeed strong, but the one thing he was dissatisfied with was that it could not be cultivated to the Meridian Opening Realm. At most, it could reach the peak of the late Body Tempering Realm, and then this body tempering technique came to an abrupt end.

That was because the Azure Origin Body Tempering Art was an incomplete body tempering technique. Senior Sister Lin Yutong had also mentioned this problem when she taught it to everyone.

However, the Azure Origin Body Tempering Art had extremely low requirements for one's natural constitution. It could even nearly negate the effects of age on cultivation. That was also why so many martial arts school disciples were willing to cultivate the Azure Origin Body Tempering Art.

Even though they knew full well that Entry Level was exceedingly difficult, once they mastered it, they could become Body Tempering Realm Martial Artists.

As for other body tempering techniques, their Entry Level difficulty might not be high, but their requirements for natural talent and constitution were extremely demanding. Many people either began practicing martial arts after the age of eighteen, or had atrociously poor natural constitutions.

Still, the Azure Origin Body Tempering Art was not without its flaws. Aside from being incomplete, there was also the fact that after cultivating the Azure Origin Body Tempering Art and breaking through to become a Martial Artist,

cultivation speed would drop sharply.

Even so, quite a few people still chose the Azure Origin Body Tempering Art.

Although the apprenticeship and tuition fees at Guande Martial Arts School were very high, many people in Qingshan Town still wanted to join Guande Martial Arts School precisely because the Azure Origin Body Tempering Art gave even those with poor natural constitutions a chance to become Martial Artists.

But without guidance and instruction from the martial arts school's senior brothers and sisters, it was impossible to master it easily in a short time.

That was also why, in the second month, the martial arts school dared to charge five taels of silver for lodging fees: they were certain that many disciples would be unable to cultivate the Azure Origin Body Tempering Art successfully.

Su Mo was quite open-minded about staying at the martial arts school. In truth, the school's meals were not as good as what he ate at home. In Shuanglin Village, Su Mo ate several pounds of Wild Boar Meat and Green Wolf Meat at every meal. Although the martial arts school served meat as well, it certainly could not compare with what he had in Shuanglin Village.

After obtaining the body tempering technique—the Azure Origin Body Tempering Art—Su Mo began wondering whether he should leave Guande Martial Arts School. He did not even want to stay for the free month.

He wanted to return to Shuanglin Village, enter the mountains to hunt and kill wild beasts and Fierce Beasts, and obtain their innate traits.

Previously, because he lacked a body tempering technique, his cultivation had been unable to break through for a long time, causing Su Mo to reduce the number of times he went hunting in the mountains. Of course, another reason was that he had not encountered any new wild beasts or Fierce Beasts in quite some time, so naturally he could not obtain any new innate traits.

More importantly, Qingliang Mountain was not peaceful. After Black Wind Stockade had been severely battered and cowed by Li Xian's senior brother Xiao Yingkai and senior sister An Yanbing, it had fallen silent as well, no longer daring to bully the surrounding villagers and commoners.

However, before Li Xian left, he told Su Mo to be careful when entering the mountains, because a wanted criminal from the evil Fire Worship Cult had fled all the way from Anyuan County Town to their Qingliang Mountain.

This wanted criminal of the Fire Worship Cult possessed the strength of the Meridian Opening Realm and was even versed in some kind of Mysterious Body Refining Technique. As a result, the authorities had been unable to completely subdue him, which was why he had managed to flee into Qingliang Mountain.

As a Fire Worship Cult heretic, this man was powerful and extremely dangerous.

When Li Xian left, he repeatedly urged Su Mo to be careful.

Su Mo had always been cautious, so he naturally took Li Xian's warning to heart.

Just as Su Mo was pondering whether he should return to Shuanglin Village, the free Body Strengthening Soup the martial arts school delivered on the second day slightly changed his mind...