Minor Accomplishment

"Very good."

Chen Mu looked at the system panel, feeling at ease.

At this moment, the soreness and numbness in his body had not yet recovered, but he was not in a hurry to improve. Instead, he waited until his body had regained some strength before taking a bath to wash away the mud and sand. Only then did he return to his bedroom.

After he had adjusted his condition and his body had fully recovered, feeling the abundance of Qi and blood within him, he took a deep breath, summoned the system panel again, and with a thought, consumed experience points to improve the Gold Jade Mo Pi Fa.

Buzz!!!

This time, the feeling was different from improving his saber techniques in the past.

When improving his saber techniques, countless memories of springs, summers, autumns, and winters, and countless memories of fierce battles and martial arts, were added out of nowhere, as if he had personally experienced them. All of it was poured into his consciousness in an extremely short period of time.

But improving the Gold Jade Mo Pi Fa was like turning himself into a soup pot in an instant, with boiling blood and Qi inside. Then, a drop of hot oil fell in, and in an instant, thousands of blood mists steamed up.

"Hiss..."

Words could not describe the feeling at that moment.

It was as if the experience of Mo Pi over a month or even several months was all superimposed on this instant, causing Chen Mu's consciousness to directly stagnate. The word 'pain' could not even begin to describe this feeling.

This had completely exceeded the upper limit of what the human spirit and consciousness could withstand, causing Chen Mu's consciousness to faint immediately. But whether he fainted or not, the transformation of his body did not stop at all.

His skin underwent visible changes. Originally, his wheat-colored skin silently gained a jade-like luster, which lit up several times before slowly dissipating and returning to normal.

He didn't know how much time had passed.

Chen Mu slowly woke up.

Just a slight movement made him feel a burst of needle-like pain all over his skin, making him want to cry out, but he immediately gritted his teeth and endured it, freezing in place without moving.

"Improving this Mo Pi Fa is much more intense than saber techniques..."

Chen Mu endured the changes in his body, slowly adapting, while grinding his teeth and muttering to himself.

Although saber techniques also poured into his body all at once, they were, after all, just intangible memories and insights. But Mo Pi Fa was completely different. What suddenly emerged was real Medicinal Power. The system panel used some terrifying method to forcibly make his body absorb these Medicinal Power in an instant, and constantly transform in an extremely short period of time.

For ordinary people, bearing all the Medicinal Power needed from initial Mo Pi to Mo Pi Minor Accomplishment at once would probably cause their Qi and blood to flow backward, causing them to vomit three liters of blood and die on the spot. But the system panel was extremely overbearing. This Medicinal Power did not damage his flesh and internal organs at all, only acting on the skin, and seemed to accelerate it thousands of times in an instant, allowing his skin to change rapidly.

At this moment, although every inch of his skin was throbbing with needle-like pain, making him afraid to move, Chen Mu could clearly feel that his Qi and blood were significantly more vigorous than before.

This pain was not a side effect, but rather that the strength of his skin had transformed too much in a short period of time, making him a little unaccustomed.

As time passed.

The stinging sensation finally gradually subsided, and Chen Mu slowly sat up.

He carefully looked at his arms. There were no obvious changes in skin color or surface, but when he gently touched them with his fingers, he could clearly feel that the toughness of his skin had significantly improved compared to before.

"This is Mo Pi Minor Accomplishment."

Chen Mu slowly stood up, clenched his fists, and waved them in the air a few times.

Mo Pi, Lian Rou, Yi Jin, Duan Gu.

Each step is a process of tempering one's physique, step by step from the outside to the inside. The most crucial thing is one's own 'Qi and blood'. Those internal and external medicinal powders are, after all, external objects and cannot completely replace the human body's own Qi and blood. Otherwise, there would not be sayings such as 'the body cannot accept nourishment'.

After the age of thirty, martial artists progress slowly in cultivating body tempering techniques. The reason is that after the age of thirty, Qi and blood have reached their peak. Before the age of thirty, it is more about 'strengthening', strengthening Qi and blood in various ways and stimulating its improvement. After the age of thirty, it is more about 'nourishing', finding ways to nourish Qi and blood and prevent it from declining.

The Mo Pi step is the most basic and outermost step, but it also lays the foundation.

What Chen Mu could clearly feel at this moment was that the 'heat flow' within his body, which he could only faintly sense before, had become much clearer. This was the Qi and Blood generated from a strong physique.

"The strength of my fists and feet hasn't increased much, but my stamina has definitely improved. When wielding the saber with all my strength, I can probably last for an extra quarter of an hour compared to usual..."

Chen Mu roughly judged.

Don't underestimate this quarter of an hour. Many times, in life-and-death situations, having a bit more stamina and being able to swing the saber one more time can mean the difference between life and death. The explosive power between a Mo Pi martial artist and an ordinary strong man may not be that different, but in terms of stamina, the Qi and Blood refined by strengthening the physique through practicing the Mo Pi Fa is much stronger than that of ordinary people.

Another aspect is the strengthening of one's own skin membrane.

Chen Mu remembered the changes in Ren Yan before and after. His skin had obviously become rougher and more textured, which was undoubtedly due to practicing the Mo Pi Fa, but he himself was completely different.

The Gold Jade Mo Pi Fa, with the words 'Gold Jade' in its name, clearly indicates that it causes the least damage to the body. Naturally, it is completely different from ordinary Mo Pi Fa. Think about Chief Constable Xu Hongyu, whose muscles are like jade, crystal clear and translucent. There is no sense of rough Mo Pi at all, which is obviously a unique feature of this kind of Mo Pi Fa.

On the surface, there is no visible change, but the strength of the skin membrane has indeed improved.

Chen Mu walked outside, grabbed a handful of rough pebbles, and rubbed them against his arm.

If this were in the past, even if it didn't break the skin and cause bleeding, it would at least leave a large area of white marks and cause stinging pain. But now, he could only feel a slight rubbing sensation, without any stinging pain. Even the jagged and sharp edges of the rough pebbles hardly left any marks on his skin membrane.

"Endurance, resistance."

Chen Mu threw away the pebbles and muttered to himself.

This first step of body tempering, Mo Pi, obviously focuses on improving these two aspects. Now that he has Mo Pi Minor Accomplishment, his skin membrane has become tough. Although it can't block sharp blades, it can completely withstand ordinary wooden sticks and blunt weapons if the force is not strong enough.

Unlike in the past, when he had a fierce Saber Technique but was very weak himself, if he was besieged by many villains and carelessly hit a couple of times, he could be overturned on the spot. Now, the possibility of this happening has been greatly reduced.

"Technique and physique complement each other. With a stronger physique, one can be more unrestrained when fighting and can bring the Saber Intent technique into full play."

Chen Mu revealed a thoughtful expression.

Now that he thinks about it, he took too much advantage to kill Tang Quan that day. Not only was the other party pierced through the chest by Xu Hongyu's sword, suffering a near-fatal injury, but he was also blinded by his lime powder, unable to display his moves.

In addition, his Saber Technique had been trained to the realm of Saber Intent, so he was finally able to break through his skin membrane with one saber, cut his throat, and deliver the final fatal blow. Otherwise, even ten ordinary people with sharp blades would probably be killed by the seriously injured Tang Quan.

Mo Pi Minor Accomplishment is only the first step, but for Chen Mu, it is also a brand new step.

With the improvement efficiency of the system panel, the Mo Pi path that ordinary people need two or three years to complete can be greatly shortened for him!