Strive!
Fight!!
Give it everything!!!
In the woods, a figure danced tirelessly!
Just as he had set out to do!
Over the next few days, he passed the dormitory three times without going in!
After stocking up on enough food, he spent every waking and sleeping moment in the woods.
At the first hint of dawn, he would leap to his feet. Under the scorching sun, he would sweat buckets, and even when night fell and the stars and moon hung overhead, he kept training tirelessly!
When he woke, he trained; when he was hungry, he ate; when he was tired, he slept.
Just like in the early days of his last life's startup, he threw himself entirely into martial arts, undisturbed by anything else!
The patch of open ground in the woods had been trampled so often that the grass was nearly gone, and the earth had been churned up everywhere.
Realm: Ordinary Person (514/860)...571/855...628/851...685/847...
With one Body Tempering Pill a day, his cultivation speed visibly increased. Each day, he could feel a clear change in his strength!
Time trickled by, and Ye Li remained immersed in martial arts, heedless of the passing days.
He only remembered the sky above growing light, then dark, then light again, cycling six times.
Over these past few days, his strength, blood, bones, and stamina had all grown steadily stronger!
When his experience reached 700, he could faintly feel warm currents passing through every part of his body!
As time went on, these currents gathered in greater numbers, strands converging into threads!
According to Feng Yue, these warm currents were qi sensations!
Entering a realm meant controlling the qi generated within the body and merging it with the skin, weaving a seamless net of qi and blood across the body's surface!
In theory, once the warm currents gathered into a mass the size of a thumb, he could attempt to enter the realm!
But Ye Li noticed that even after his entire body had become seamless, the values shown on the panel hadn't reached their maximum. The experience bar still needed another 10% to fill completely.
So he suppressed the urge to break through and chose to trust his trait! He kept his head down and worked hard!
Realm: Ordinary Person (799/840)...799/837...
Seven days after Ye Li had shut himself away, the panel now showed:
Realm: "Ordinary Person (835/835)"?
Technique: "Azure Dragon Force (1846/100)"
With pills and arduous training working hand in hand, he had cut a month's work down to a week!
And in the realm section—
As his experience bar filled, the currents within him had grown to more than a hundred strands!
A golden question mark appeared beside his realm!
"After one month and seven days of hard training, have I finally made it to the deep blue upgrade screen?"
Ye Li couldn't hide his excitement as he looked at the panel!
By the time his experience reached 700, he had already been capable of breaking through into the realm.
He only needed to follow Feng Yue's earlier instructions step by step to enter the Body Tempering Realm!
But human effort had its limits. When ordinary people wove their net of qi and blood, they inevitably left gaps, creating weak points of varying sizes.
So how could a person's hard work compare with the solid foundation granted by an upgrade?
You couldn't refuse to use a cheat just because you wanted to work hard!
If he could break through perfectly, he'd gladly take a luxury car and a villa in exchange!
At the thought, a flicker of excitement passed through Ye Li. He focused on the golden question mark and chose to press it!
Boom—
A silent thunderclap exploded deep within his soul!
In an instant, the hundreds of dormant qi sensations inside Ye Li surged spontaneously out of his dantian, racing toward the surface of his entire body!
Countless fine threads formed from Ye Li's qi and blood wound around one another, intertwining and converging into a dense net of qi.
Starting from his dantian, these nets merged completely with his skin and flesh.
Ye Li felt an indescribable heat first rise in the skin of his abdomen!
Then the scorching sensation spread like a wildfire, sweeping across his whole body!
His torso, limbs, head—even the tips of his hair!
In the blink of an eye, Ye Li felt his skin enveloped in a remarkably resilient net, seamless and flawless!
How could he describe the sensation of breaking through a realm?
If other martial artists entering a realm were like men painstakingly courting a goddess before finally winning her favor—
Then Ye Li's breakthrough through upgrading was...
Body Tempering Realm: Heh heh heh heh, ohhh ohhh ohhh!!!??? No, no, nooo!
Body Tempering Realm: Even the weakest parts of the realm have been covered by qi sensations. I can clearly feel them weaving together over every part of the muscles and bones!!!???
Body Tempering Realm: It shouldn't be like this. This isn't how you break through into the Body Tempering Realm!
Body Tempering Realm: I should be working hard and carefully weaving qi sensations into my flesh, but [World-Shocking Wisdom] has already taken control and adjusted everything into the perfect form for Lord Ye Li!
Body Tempering Realm: Heh heh heh heh, ohhh ohhh ohhh!!!??? I'm going to become Lord Ye Li's slave!
Body Tempering Realm: There's no going back now. I've become the very shape of Lord Ye Li's flesh and blood???!!!
Well, that's more or less what happened once the Body Tempering Realm was personified (pondering)!
Like Andy Lau, every Spring Festival, the Body Tempering Realm went "Yeah-yi, yeah-yi" → "Heh-oh" → "Oh-oh" → "Oh~!"
Anyway, throughout the entire process, Ye Li didn't have to make any effort. He could feel the qi sensations weaving wildly through his body.
In front of [World-Shocking Wisdom], there were no bottlenecks. The realm could be adjusted however it wanted!
He could clearly feel every inch of his skin merging with the qi force, and the coverage was even spreading... inward?
"That's..." Surprise flashed in Ye Li's eyes.
He could even clearly sense that the resilient net of qi and blood was spreading inward through natural openings such as his mouth, nasal passages, and ear canals!
This was something he had never experienced before!
According to martial arts knowledge, the Nine Vital Apertures of the Human Body were weak points that Body Tempering martial artists found difficult to cover completely.
Such as the mouth, eyes, ears, and horse...
These nine apertures were weak points for most Body Tempering martial artists, easily breached.
Yet now, under the unreasonable weaving and fusion of World-Shocking Wisdom, this network of qi and blood began to connect the inside and outside, reaching the perfect, "seamless" state!
The temperature of his skin soared. His blood surged like a roaring river, and his bones gave off a faint, dense hum.
Ye Li felt as though he were inside the enormous furnace of heaven and earth, undergoing a burning tempering.
A surging sense of power, along with an unprecedentedly fierce will to defend himself, was growing wildly within him!
But such precise and intense work came at the cost of an enormous energy deficit.
It was like knitting a sweater: while everyone else worked in a small handmade workshop, Ye Li had industrial precision machinery. It was faster, but the energy it consumed in an instant was terrifying.
An extreme hunger rose from Ye Li's abdomen, making him turn his head and stare at the four Body Tempering Pills left in the corner!
Half an hour later, Ye Li let out a sigh.
His hair hung loose, and his upper body was bare. He felt the powerful vitality brimming in his flesh and blood!
"It took thirty-seven days and thirteen Body Tempering Pills, but I finally broke through into the Body Tempering Realm!"
Looking at his fair fist, Ye Li could feel the world of difference between before and after entering the realm!
"My strength has doubled. I haven't tested my speed yet, but the most outrageous change is probably my defense..."
Ye Li looked at the panel:
Name: Ye Li
Realm: Early Body Tempering (1/1835)
Techniques:
"Azure Dragon Force (1846/100)"
"Nine Chapters Fist Manual (3/500)"
Trait: [Iridescent · World-Shocking Wisdom]