Forging the Body Like Iron, Only Through a Thousand Hammers Does Steel Emerge!

"As long as Old Man Chen is satisfied, that proves my deduction wasn't wrong."

"You can keep serving as Sister Qiao's sparring partner."

"You can also receive guidance from Old Man Chen."

"That will be of great benefit to your martial cultivation."

The Little Medical Immortal said this with a smile, but there was a trace of reluctance and gloom in that smile.

Since Old Man Chen had acknowledged Jiang Wangzu, that meant he had accepted her treatment plan for Han Qiao.

Then did that also mean Jiang Wangzu would be with Han Qiao in the future?

Did that mean she and Jiang Wangzu would never have a chance again?

But it was not entirely impossible either.

Although she had studied abroad in the West, she was still a very traditional woman at heart.

She could be a concubine!

And with her relationship with Han Qiao, once she married over, Han Qiao absolutely would not target her.

"Pah, pah, pah!"

"Who can say clearly what will happen in the future?"

"Maybe Sister Han only wants to borrow Jiang Wangzu to treat her illness and has no intention of being with him at all."

"After all, the two of them are twelve years apart. Although Sister Han doesn't look old, the age gap is still too large."

"And besides, how could the mighty Yan Ruyu lower herself and become someone's lesser wife?"

"If Grandpa found out, wouldn't he break my legs!"

Yan Ruyu shook her head, flinging all those messy thoughts out of her mind, then focused on preparing medicine for Jiang Wangzu.

"But I still don't quite understand. Why exactly is this?"

"You want to act as a matchmaker for Sister Qiao and me."

"Old Master Chen wants me to be Sister Qiao's sparring partner."

"What you're all doing seems to revolve around Sister Qiao."

"But what role am I playing in all this?"

Jiang Wangzu was still completely baffled.

It felt as if he had not done anything at all, nor had he latched onto a rich woman.

Yet in the end, he had obtained a huge sum of money.

He also had guidance from a peerless expert.

And the chance to serve as a rich woman's sparring partner.

Oh right, he had also obtained an external hardening cultivation method.

But why exactly was all this happening?

"Because Sister Qiao is a fox spirit, and your yang energy is abundant."

"She can absorb the yang energy from your body to cultivate immortal arts!"

Seeing Jiang Wangzu's utterly bewildered expression, the Little Medical Immortal said with a laugh.

"Forget it!"

"You'd better just decoct the medicine for me!"

Jiang Wangzu could not figure it out, but it was not doing him any harm, so he decided to leave it at that.

He walked out of the place where the medicinal herbs were being dried, picked up the largest medicine-pounding mallet, and weighed it in his hand.

Then, under Yan Ruyu's stunned gaze, he directly gave himself a blow with it.

Confusion didn't hurt the brain, and the effect was just right!

"You... did something happen to shock you?"

Yan Ruyu looked at Jiang Wangzu in disbelief.

"I'm cultivating the external hardening method I just obtained, strengthening my physique through external tempering."

Jiang Wangzu spouted nonsense with a perfectly serious face.

"Huh?"

"Oh!"

Yan Ruyu nodded, half understanding and half not.

Although she was a medical cultivator, she had seen plenty of martial cultivators, and had also seen some external hardening martial artists.

But she had heard that the internal tempering and external tempering of external hardening martial artists were very different from Jiang Wangzu's method of cultivation.

So-called external tempering meant hammering and refining the fleshly body like forging iron; only after a thousand hammerings and a hundred refinings could steel be made!

Through external stimulation, using specific techniques to strike the acupoints all over the body, one strengthened the physical body, then paired it with medicinal baths, cycling the muscles, bones, skin, and membranes through constant destruction and reconstruction.

Break, then establish; establish, then break again. Destruction and creation intertwined, strengthening the self.

But then he looked at Jiang Wangzu taking a huge medicine-pounding pestle and smashing it all over himself at random.

This worked too?

Still, the pestle was made of wood, so there was no need to worry about him injuring his tendons or bones.

And so, Little Medical Immortal Yan Ruyu refined the Black Tiger Powder secret medicine for Jiang Wangzu, while Jiang Wangzu stood in the corner of the little courtyard, constantly hammering himself from top to bottom.

As he circulated the Iron Garment Skill, he struck his body, and with every blow, a faint warm current flowed through his whole body, strengthening his muscles, bones, skin, and flesh.

Before Little Medical Immortal had even finished refining the Black Tiger Powder secret medicine for him, a line of golden-red text popped up before his eyes:

[Cultivation Method: Iron Garment Skill (Beginner)]

[Quick-Completion Method: Get beaten and you'll grow stronger!]

His Iron Garment Skill had reached the beginner level.

The reason he could reach the beginner level so quickly...

One was because the quick-completion method was powerful.

The other reason was that his current physical strength could no longer be considered too weak.

On top of that, he had also ground the Iron Crotch Technique to full completion, giving him a foundation in hard body cultivation.

That was why he could quickly reach the beginner level in Iron Garment Skill, this Third-Rate Hard Body Cultivation Method.

He believed it would not take many days before he could grind it to minor completion.

Once he ground Iron Garment Skill to major completion, his defense would likely surpass major completion in Strength Training, and his strength would also far exceed major completion in Strength Training.

By that time, his overall combat power would probably surpass Chen Tai's.

Once upon a time, he had still treated Chen Tai as the goal he was chasing, but now he had already caught up to Chen Tai, and was even gradually surpassing him.

Before long, Little Medical Immortal's Black Tiger Powder secret medicine was also ready.

After it cooled, Jiang Wangzu drank it all in one gulp, performed Black Tiger Fist ten times, and completely digested the medicinal effect of the Black Tiger Powder secret medicine.

This Innate Drug-Consuming Saint Body of his made Yan Ruyu click her tongue in wonder too.

She had heard that some martial artists had especially high absorption efficiency and especially high compatibility with secret medicines.

But she had never heard of anyone whose compatibility was as high as Jiang Wangzu's.

After escorting Little Medical Immortal Yan Ruyu home, Jiang Wangzu began walking toward the Lower District.

On the road he had to take to get home, he ran into a dozen or so people blocking the way.

The leader wore a coarse linen long gown, had a shiny bald head, and a huge scar on his face. His triangular eyes fixed on Jiang Wangzu, flickering with a venomous-snake-like gaze.

The number one thug under Gao Shengqiang of Blue Society's Xinglong Street, Scarface, known as Brother Blade. As for what his real name was, Jiang Wangzu truly did not know.

From the looks of it, this group had scouted the place ahead of time and come here specifically to block him.

However, since he could kill Chen Xing, the Double Flower Red Pole under Chen Tai, he naturally was not afraid of Scarface under Gao Shengqiang!

"I've long heard Boss Chen has a dog-headed military adviser under him."

"Not only is he a first-rate hand at doing accounts, he's also especially good at making plans."

"Seeing you today, I didn't expect you to be a pretty boy whose hair hasn't even grown in yet."

"You're the brat who gave Chen Tai advice and had him use Chen Xing's death to make trouble, dumping the chamber pot of blame on the head of our Xinglong Street?"

"Don't worry. Since we only just 'killed' Chen Xing, we won't kill you, but you won't be escaping today's beating!"

"Brothers, beat him half to death for me—but don't actually beat him dead!"

At Scarface's command, the dozen-odd ruffians under him each grabbed wooden clubs and charged at Jiang Wangzu.

"Dog-headed military adviser?"

"Me?"

Jiang Wangzu was baffled when he heard this.

I fucking only did some accounting for Chen Tai.

When did I ever make plans for him?

And what the fuck, using Chen Xing's death to make trouble? That was clearly something he thought of himself!

Jiang Wangzu truly felt even more wronged than Dou E!

The other side had brought so many people, blocking both front and back. Running was impossible.

He could beat them if he fought, but the moment Jiang Wangzu made a move, he would completely expose his own strength.

"Got it!"

Jiang Wangzu's eyes lit up, and a plan formed in his mind.