Inside the room, Fang Hong tirelessly trained the Great Falling Monument Hand.
Great Falling Monument Hand: Second Layer (45/100)
Great Falling Monument Hand: Second Layer (80/100)
When his proficiency in the second layer of the Great Falling Monument Hand reached 99 points.
Though the secret medicine smeared on his hands had yet to lose its efficacy.
Fang Hong did not immediately begin his next round of training.
Instead, he gulped down a large jar of the All-Inclusive Great Tonic Soup the waiter had delivered afterward.
Only then did he resume his training.
When the training ended, that familiar sensation swept over him once more.
In a daze, he endlessly practiced the Great Falling Monument Hand within a pitch-black space.
A hundred times, a thousand times, ten thousand times—he did not know how long had passed.
Only after successfully breaking through to the third layer did he regain consciousness.
Great Falling Monument Hand: Third Layer (0/100)
Likewise, at the instant he advanced to the third layer.
More than half his vital energy and blood was drained away in an instant, turning his face pale at once.
Fortunately, before this training session, he had already drunk a large jar of All-Inclusive Great Tonic Soup.
So although more than half his vital energy and blood had been depleted, he did not feel quite so miserable.
The hunger rising in his heart was not nearly as intense either.
As his vital energy and blood steadily recovered, the muscles throughout his body also grew stronger.
Moreover, this time, it was not only his muscles that were strengthened.
The skin all over his body also began to undergo continuous reinforcement.
Under the effect of that invisible force, the skin and flesh membrane across Fang Hong's body became increasingly tough.
Skin Refinement!
This was the Skin Refinement realm!
When the Great Falling Monument Hand advanced to the third layer, Fang Hong's cultivation realm had finally broken through into the Skin Refinement realm!
His internal force grew stronger, while his skin membrane became tougher.
It was worth mentioning that reaching the Skin Refinement realm.
Did not mean training would no longer temper one's muscles.
The cultivation of the physical body could almost be said to have no end.
Thus, even though he had reached the Skin Refinement realm, training would still continue to temper his muscles.
The Skin Refinement realm merely meant that the primary part of the body tempered at this stage was the skin membrane all over the body.
And as the skin membrane across Fang Hong's body strengthened, the changes in his hands remained the same as before.
Only more intense.
The skin on Fang Hong's hands darkened, his normal complexion now mixed with streaks of gray.
They began to resemble tree bark somewhat.
After breaking through to the third layer, the muscles in his hands had also become thicker and more robust.
Especially the joints of his ten fingers, which bulged outward and became somewhat enlarged.
His pair of palms no longer looked like the palms of an ordinary person.
After a while, once the changes in his body had ended.
Fang Hong picked up his long saber and lightly chopped at his own palm.
A dull impact rang out.
This strike failed even to break the skin of Fang Hong's palm.
Fang Hong knew that after breaking through to the Skin Refinement level, his skin's defensive power would greatly increase.
But he had not expected the increase to be this great.
Although he had not used much strength, he had still put some force into it.
With the strength of his current physical body, even a fraction of his power was enough to match what ordinary people called "using force."
Yet a chop of this level could not even break the skin on his palm.
One could well imagine just how greatly the defensive power of his hands had increased.
Fang Hong then tried chopping at other parts of his body as well.
Before long, Fang Hong reached a conclusion.
Of his entire body, his hands were the strongest in both power and defensive ability.
Even if ordinary people held blades and chopped at him with all their might, he could easily catch them with nothing but his palms.
As for the other parts of his body, although their defensive power had also risen greatly.
They truly could not compare to his hands.
Even so, relying on that greatly increased defense.
Ordinary people no longer held any meaning before him.
Before his strength was exhausted.
No matter how numerous ordinary people were, it would be difficult for them to injure him again.
And this was only the Great Falling Monument Hand.
One had to know that although this portion of the Great Falling Monument Hand technique also involved some external hardening training.
Its external hardening content chiefly tempered both palms.
So that the practitioner could execute the fierce and powerful moves of the Great Falling Monument Hand.
It was not a purely external hardening technique.
Yet even so, it had increased his defensive power by so much.
He had not forgotten that he still possessed another technique—the Iron Leg Skill!
The Iron Leg Skill was a purely external hardening technique!
Once he cultivated the Iron Leg Skill to the perfected realm as well.
He did not dare imagine just how formidable his defensive power would become then.
"No rush. Once I cultivate the Great Falling Monument Hand to the perfected realm, I can train in the Iron Leg Skill."
"One step at a time."
Barely suppressing the surging emotions in his heart, Fang Hong immediately began another round of training.
He applied the secret medicine and drank the All-Inclusive Great Tonic Soup.
Training!
Great Falling Monument Hand: Third Layer (1/100)
Great Falling Monument Hand: Third Layer (50/100)
Great Falling Monument Hand: Fourth Layer (0/100)
His internal force, muscles, and skin membrane all strengthened together!
Fang Hong directly entered the Minor Mastery stage of Skin Refinement!
The muscles in his hands continuously twisted, the color of his skin deepened, his nails became extremely hard, his fingers grew thick and sturdy, and his knuckles bulged ever larger.
Fang Hong's palms looked less and less like human hands!
Great Falling Monument Hand: Fifth Layer (0/100)
Fang Hong entered Skin Refining Mastery!
Upon reaching this realm, Fang Hong naturally learned how to control the pores across his entire body.
One had to know that aside from the mouth and nose, through which people could breathe.
The pores all over the body were also channels through which the human body exchanged gases and substances with the outside world.
When people exercised, they expelled sweat and heat through their pores.
This was, in truth, a manifestation of vital energy and blood leaking away.
And being able to freely control the opening and closing of his pores.
Meant Fang Hong could prevent his vital energy and blood from leaking out and completely seal it within his body.
Not only would this grant him greater endurance in battle.
Once he sealed off the leakage of his vital energy and blood, it would become more concentrated, allowing his internal force and attacks to erupt with even greater power.
The guests at Xuan Yue Inn were all finding things exceedingly strange today.
Why did it feel as though Xuan Yue Inn was serving dishes so slowly today, and several waiters were missing as well?
To the point that whenever they wanted to order food, they had to wait quite a while.
As for getting all their dishes served, they had to wait far longer than usual.
And the cause of all this was naturally Fang Hong.
Several waiters were constantly running back and forth, delivering freshly brewed All-Inclusive Great Tonic Soup to Fang Hong.
Inside the kitchen, several stoves that had originally been used for stir-frying dishes were now brewing medicinal soup for Fang Hong.
There was no helping it. Fang Hong had paid a hefty price.
And with the support of this constantly delivered All-Inclusive Great Tonic Soup, Fang Hong's realm was breaking through at a frenzied pace.
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