Skin Refining Complete

"Ah!" "Ah!" "Oh no!"

"He's a martial artist! This kid has to be a martial artist! Brothers, run!" The bald man standing beside the bearded man had watched Luo Yi's attack from start to finish. He shouted loudly at the people behind him.

The few thugs who usually only dared bully ordinary county townsfolk had never seen such a scene. Terrified by the decisiveness and brutality of Luo Yi's attack, yellow liquid unconsciously began flowing from the crotches of all four men.

Aside from the bald man, who still had the strength to crawl away, the other three stood rooted to the spot in terror, their legs trembling nonstop. They could not move at all.

Seeing the few men scared witless, Luo Yi pushed off with both legs and caught up with the fleeing bald man in just a few strides.

"Crack."

"With one slash, he split the bald man in two from head to toe."

The three men standing there and trembling saw yet another brother cleaved in half with a single slash. Aside from the yellow liquid remaining on their trousers, a strange, foul stench began spreading from where the three men stood.

"Such pathetic strength! Such tiny guts! You still dared to imitate others and come out robbing people." Luo Yi could not help grumbling inwardly.

Having witnessed the man before them kill the bearded man and the bald man with a single slash, the three men struggled to kneel and beg for mercy.

"Big Brother, don't kill us! We're from the Green Wolf Gang. Don't..."

"The Green Wolf Gang? I hadn't gone looking for you, yet you came looking for trouble with me." A vicious glint flashed through Luo Yi's eyes as he swung the Dao in his hand.

"Crack," "crack," "crack." The three men's heads rolled toward the depths of the alley.

He casually found a corpse and wiped the blood remaining on the Dao clean.

Luo Yi searched through the corpses again. In the end, all their belongings combined amounted to only a few thousand copper coins. They did not even have a single tael of silver.

"A bunch of paupers. If you're going out to rob people, you should at least bring more silver." After cursing them, Luo Yi walked to the end of the alley, picked up the food he had placed there, and headed home.

"Knock, knock, knock."

"Who is it?" Hearing the knocking outside, Luo Xi rushed into the kitchen, grabbed a cleaver, and cautiously walked over to the courtyard gate.

"It's me! Xiao Xi."

Hearing her brother's voice outside, Luo Xi let out a sigh of relief and hurriedly opened the courtyard gate.

Luo Yi entered the courtyard, locked the gate from the inside, then looked at his sister holding the cleaver. He rubbed the little girl's head and praised her.

"Well done, Xiao Xi. When your brother isn't home, don't open the door for any strangers."

Praised by her brother, Luo Xi's smile nearly stretched to her ears as she looked at Luo Yi, who was carrying large and small bundles in his hands.

"Brother, what did you buy today? Why is there so much?"

"Xiao Xi, the county town may be somewhat unsafe in the near future. I bought some extra food to prepare for emergencies."

After explaining the reason to his sister, Luo Yi put the food in the kitchen, returned to the courtyard, and began practicing the "Fierce Tiger Skin Refining Technique."

"Brother, it's time to eat!"

After practicing continuously for roughly three shichen, noon arrived. Hearing his sister's voice, Luo Yi stopped practicing, and the two of them had a simple lunch.

Luo Yi sat on the stone bench beneath the large banyan tree. Silently thinking of opening the Panel, he looked at the "Fierce Tiger Skin Refining Technique," which needed only 80 more points to level up, and thought:

The Green Wolf Gang had been scared off by the constables that morning, but they would return sooner or later. On top of that, refugees had recently flooded into the county town. It seemed the Rebel Army in Qingzhou would not be far from Yunlu County either.

Strength, strength—he had to raise his strength as quickly as possible. He had originally planned to improve the "Fierce Tiger Skin Refining Technique" through diligent practice, but now Luo Yi changed his mind.

He directly used 8 Energy Points to fill the progress of the "Fierce Tiger Skin Refining Technique."

"Crack."

He felt some sort of shackle within his body break. An excruciating pain spread across the surface of his body.

The originally "red-copper-colored" skin on his body peeled off completely like a snake shedding its skin, revealing the vivid-red flesh underneath.

As all the "red-copper-colored" skin fell away, new skin began growing over the exposed flesh.

The newly grown skin on the surface of his body emitted a faint glow and looked crystalline.

As the new skin completely covered his entire body, the breakthrough ended.

The pained expression on Luo Yi's face gradually eased.

"Refreshing." Feeling the enormous power surging through his body, this sensation of being filled with strength was truly intoxicating!

Luo Yi sat on the stone bench and carefully savored the gains from his breakthrough. He slowly opened his eyes and looked at his crystalline skin, which radiated a jade-like luster.

So this was the realm of "Skin Refining Complete"? I wonder how much it has increased my strength.

He stood up and looked at the stone table beside him. He crawled beneath the table and suddenly exerted his strength.

"Up!" With a loud battle cry, the stone table weighing a thousand jin was actually lifted by Luo Yi.

Feeling that he still had strength to spare, Luo Yi placed the four stone benches on top.

"Up!" Using all his strength, he barely managed to lift the stone table with the benches on it.

After determining his limit of strength, Luo Yi returned the stone table and benches to their original positions.

The stone table weighed around a thousand jin, while each stone bench weighed roughly one hundred and fifty jin. In other words, Luo Yi's current strength was at least close to one thousand five hundred jin.

In the room, Luo Xi heard her brother's voice in the courtyard and had just walked out of the room.

She saw Luo Yi lifting the stone table and benches, and her heart filled with shock. Was this really her frail Tongsheng brother?

Although puzzled, Luo Xi still could not help exclaiming:

"Brother! How are you so strong?"

Hearing his sister's exclamation, Luo Yi turned his head and looked at her, her little mouth opened into a perfect round. He said with a smile:

"It came from practicing martial arts! Your brother is an unparalleled martial arts genius!"

Hearing her brother boast wildly, Luo Xi could not help laughing.

After chatting idly with his sister for a few moments, Luo Yi began testing his speed and defensive abilities.

He assumed a stance, pushed off with both legs, and took a single stride, arriving six or seven meters away. Compared with the five meters covered in one stride at the Major Achievement stage, the increase in speed at the Complete stage was not nearly as great as the increase in strength.

Next, he would test exactly how strong the defenses of this crystalline skin were.

He drew the Dao hanging at his waist. His current strength was too great, and Luo Yi was uncertain about his skin's defenses, so he used only one-tenth of his strength for the first slash.

"Zzz." The blade scraped across his arm, producing tiny sparks. Only a faint white mark appeared on the surface of his skin.

"So strong!" His skin's defenses far exceeded Luo Yi's expectations.

"Again!"

This time, Luo Yi used thirty percent of his strength.

"Zzz." A great many sparks flew from the spot where the Dao's blade rubbed against his skin.

The white mark on the skin's surface deepened, and a tiny wound appeared in the middle, with traces of blood seeping from it.

What kind of defense was this? Looking at the wound on his hand, Luo Yi could not help sighing.

Thirty percent of his current strength amounted to at least four or five hundred jin. An ordinary martial artist at the Major Achievement stage of Skin Refining had only around five or six hundred jin of strength.

With such formidable defensive power, aside from martial artists at the Major Achievement stage of Skin Refining, only those wielding weapons could injure him in the future.

Even if ordinary people stood still and let themselves attack him, they still would not be able to break through Luo Yi's defenses.