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Early the next morning, Xu Tianming was awakened by a rich, strange fragrance.

Rubbing his sleepy eyes, Xu Tianming washed up before following the scent to its source.

"Elder Mu, what are you doing?"

Upon reaching the rear garden of the City Lord's Mansion, Xu Tianming saw Mu Ye sitting in the gazebo, stirring something inside a jar.

The fragrance was coming from that very jar.

"I'm preparing something His Highness will need for cultivation."

Mu Ye replied without even raising his head.

Curious, Xu Tianming walked closer and craned his neck to look inside.

Within the jar was a somewhat viscous black liquid, and that peculiar fragrance was coming from the pitch-black substance.

"Does Your Highness know how those of us with Body Martial Souls cultivate?"

After a while, Mu Ye set the jar aside and asked Xu Tianming.

"I've heard a little. It seems Body Martial Souls require one to constantly temper the body and develop its potential, thereby achieving a second awakening of the Body Martial Soul."

After thinking it over, Xu Tianming explained his understanding of Body Martial Soul cultivation.

"Your Highness is right, but not entirely."

Mu Ye first nodded, then shook his head.

"The strongest secret art of our Body Sect is the Innate Secret Technique."

"It pursues the ultimate limits of the body, forging a true Flawless Golden Body!"

With that, Mu Ye rose directly to his feet. Without waiting for Xu Tianming to say anything, he began feeling around his body, surprise gradually appearing in his eyes.

"Elder Mu, are you examining my physical strength?"

Xu Tianming did not resist, though his face still reddened involuntarily.

"Correct."

Mu Ye nodded slightly, unable to conceal the delight on his face.

"Your Highness's physical strength is the strongest I've ever seen among Spirit Masters of the same rank. And there seems to be a force inside you constantly strengthening your body!"

Mu Ye truly deserved to be the Sect Master of the Body Sect ten thousand years in the future.

Not even the tiniest details of Xu Tianming's body escaped his notice.

"With Your Highness's physique, you will surely be able to forge our Body Sect's Flawless Golden Body!"

Xu Tianming frowned slightly. He had never heard of the Body Sect's Flawless Golden Body before, so he could not help asking curiously,

"Elder Mu, what is a Flawless Golden Body?"

"A Flawless Golden Body is forged by tempering the body to a level nearly equal to godhood through extremely harsh and dangerous trials of life and death, supplemented by top-tier medicine!"

Mu Ye's expression and tone both turned solemn.

"Once this Golden Body realm is attained, one will first become immune to all negative conditions. Any support-type soul skill that inflicts negative conditions will be completely useless, and one can cleanse oneself, becoming immune to all poisons."

"All control-type soul skills that are energy-based will be entirely ineffective. In the terms of our Body Sect: born of heaven and nurtured by earth, a Flawless Golden Body!"

Xu Tianming's eyes lit up.

The Body Sect really had some impressive methods. This Flawless Golden Body was practically an unlimited state of invulnerability.

It could even allow a human body to reach the level of a godly physique.

"Elder Mu, have you cultivated this Flawless Golden Body?"

Xu Tianming asked curiously.

"Heh, back then, I put all my energy into upgrading Mecha, so..."

Mu Ye coughed twice, embarrassment flashing across his face.

"However, my eldest disciple, A Ruheng, did cultivate a Flawless Golden Body!"

At that point, Mu Ye's expression became solemn again.

"Cultivating the Flawless Golden Body is extremely painful. Failure may even be fatal."

After a pause, Mu Ye looked toward Xu Tianming.

"Your Highness, do you wish to learn the Flawless Golden Body?"

"Yes!"

"Why wouldn't I?"

Xu Tianming's gaze sharpened, and he answered with almost no hesitation.

"If I were afraid of death, I might as well not be human!"

The improvements the system gave him were external. Internal improvement still required his own efforts.

His enemies were not merely the Three Douluo Kingdoms or Shrek.

His true enemy was the God King surnamed Tang, who treated the Douluo Plane as his own backyard!

Even setting aside the God King surnamed Tang, the Douluo Plane still had the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape he had arranged.

There were also Tang Hao and Ah Yin, who were currently seizing the Plane's core.

Before he knew what else the system might give him in the future, doing everything possible to improve his own strength was the only right path.

"Good! You have ambition!"

Mu Ye gave Xu Tianming a thumbs-up, then said with a chuckle,

"Cultivation begins today... First, take off all your clothes."

"Huh?"

Xu Tianming's expression immediately turned strange as he pointed at the gazebo beneath his feet.

"Here?"

"Yes, here!"

Mu Ye nodded.

How should he put it? Although his body belonged to a child who had only just turned six, Xu Tianming's mental age was that of an office worker in his twenties or thirties.

He still had some sense of shame and dignity.

"My medicine has a limited effective period. If Your Highness keeps hemming and hawing, then there's no need to cultivate the Flawless Golden Body at all."

Seeing Xu Tianming hesitate, Mu Ye spoke faintly from the side.

"Fine!"

Gritting his teeth, Xu Tianming finally took off his clothes.

"What next?"

Xu Tianming asked, his face flushed red.

"Next, we apply the medicine."

Once Xu Tianming had removed his clothes, Mu Ye immediately took the jar beside him and smeared the viscous black liquid over Xu Tianming's body.

An indescribable chill instantly seeped from Xu Tianming's skin into his body, making him shudder involuntarily.

As his entire body became covered in the black, viscous fluid, Xu Tianming felt the chill throughout him grow stronger and stronger.

It even gave him the faint sensation that his blood was about to freeze.

"This was concocted from a black pearl I took last night from a ten-thousand-year Black Mother Shell in the Far North Sea, along with many precious heavenly and earthly treasures."

Seeing Xu Tianming shivering nonstop, Mu Ye reached out and lightly slapped his chest.

"So we need to use external force to drive the medicinal effects into your body!"

Xu Tianming felt the scenery before his eyes wildly recede. Mu Ye had actually sent him flying into the sky with a single slap.

The next moment, Mu Ye struck him with one slap after another, keeping Xu Tianming suspended in midair.

"Damn it!"

Xu Tianming cursed from the sky, but immediately clamped his mouth shut.

Every slap from Mu Ye was perfectly measured, inflicting minor injuries inside his body. Then, during his descent, the medicinal liquid covering him repaired those injuries.

The shame, pain, and tingling itch as his injuries healed made Xu Tianming almost unable to speak.

Because he had no idea what strange sounds he might make if he opened his mouth.

"The Body Sect's cultivation methods really are... really are different."

Watching his son seem to perform aerial acrobatics, Xu Xiang, who had only just arrived in the rear garden, could not help swallowing.

"Compared with them, the cultivation of us Soul Engineers is much easier."