"Ugh!"
Inside the seclusion chamber, Wang Sheng looked at the Bloody Dragon Pill he was holding and couldn't help but gag.
"Damn it, this is too fishy! More fishy than that stuff!"
Wang Sheng looked speechlessly at the small, scarlet pill, cursing under his breath, but he still swallowed it in one gulp.
Today was his first day in seclusion.
And this Bloody Dragon Pill was a medicinal pill Wang Sheng had specifically prepared for cultivating the Eight-Line Body Tempering Breathing Technique.
Although the ancient pill formula specifically used to stimulate physical potential for the Eight-Line Body Tempering Breathing Technique had been lost, making it difficult for ordinary people to even begin practicing this method.
But Wang Sheng had his own talent for effort, Heaven Rewards Diligence. In the two days he had spent researching the technique, he had successfully found a new path and a way to quickly cultivate this method.
Heaven Rewards Diligence: Success is guaranteed through diligent study.
This talent allowed Wang Sheng to achieve success as long as he studied diligently.
The Eight-Line Body Tempering Breathing Technique also applied to this talent; as long as Wang Sheng continued to cultivate diligently, he would definitely succeed.
However, without the ancient pill to stimulate potential, the speed was too slow.
Achieving success in ten years was still success. But what was the point of that!
So Wang Sheng tried to find other pills that could stimulate physical potential to replace the ancient pill.
For others, taking different pills that stimulated physical potential to cultivate this method would most likely lead to qi deviation, resulting in a flawed or incorrect cultivation.
But Wang Sheng was different; he would not make mistakes or fail in his cultivation.
Taking the ancient pill versus taking the Bloody Dragon Pill was like a car that should run on gasoline burning coal or diesel. It would definitely not be able to run in the end.
But with Heaven Rewards Diligence, through Wang Sheng's efforts, the car could run as long as it was burning something.
Therefore, as long as Wang Sheng took pills that stimulated his physical potential, he could speed up the cultivation of ancient body-tempering techniques.
Soon, On the third day of his seclusion, Wang Sheng consumed a large amount of Bloody Dragon Pills and ate a lot of meat. Combined with his already excellent physique, he quickly completed the cultivation of the skin tempering stage.
Wang Sheng's skin became taut and strong, as if every inch was clad in armor, making his entire body impervious to blades and spears. Ordinary people couldn't even injure him with a knife.
On the eighth day of his seclusion, Wang Sheng completed the muscle tempering cultivation.
This time, Wang Sheng's muscles bulged, his physique became even more imposing, his back widened like a door, and his body directly grew to two meters tall!
"This is the power of pure physical strength!"
After completing muscle tempering, Wang Sheng was greatly shocked. He felt his strength surge; his body alone was equivalent to cultivating three or even four more levels of the Forging Gold Technique.
"The realm corresponding to skin tempering and muscle tempering should be the current Bright Energy level."
"Although ancient body-tempering techniques are superior to contemporary ones at the same level, they shouldn't be four times stronger!"
"The power increase from this ancient body-tempering technique is too exaggerated. It's likely that even in ancient times, it was a famous method, not something comparable to the Forging Gold Technique in this city."
Wang Sheng thought to himself.
The Great Tablet Shattering Hand was already a high-level technique in Ershui City.
The White Dragon Sword Technique was much stronger than the Great Tablet Shattering Hand and could likely rank among the techniques in a prefectural city.
The Eight-Line Body Tempering Breathing Technique was far more complex than the White Dragon Sword Technique, likely ranking among the best in a prefectural city, or even among the top techniques nationwide!
No wonder the He family, despite being unable to cultivate it, treated it as a treasured ancestral item and studied it for generations. Only when they had no other choice did they offer it for experienced practitioners to study for a fee, but without the ancient pill formula, no one had succeeded.
"Continue cultivating!"
"Now, even if you put the Transforming Energy method of the Great Tablet Shattering Hand in front of me, I wouldn't want it."
Realizing how important this ancient body-tempering technique was, Wang Sheng became even more engrossed in it and began the tendon tempering stage of cultivation.
Tendon tempering, bone quenching, and blood changing roughly corresponded to the current Dark Energy level.
The tendon tempering stage required more progress.
Previously, skin tempering was completed with a progress of five hundred, and muscle tempering with a progress of one thousand.
Tendon tempering required two thousand progress.
The Bloody Dragon Pills and large amounts of meat provided about two hundred progress daily.
By the time Wang Sheng completed the tendon tempering progress, it was the eighteenth day of his seclusion.
At this time, the garrison of Ershui City had just been defeated by the Son of Heaven's Army, and Ershui City was gradually descending into chaos again.
Although chaotic, many ruthless and bold experts emerged, navigating the situation skillfully and seizing many treasures.
For a time, all martial arts experts who wanted to improve their strength became envious and joined the chaos, engaging in fights and skirmishes, causing the disorder to escalate.
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And Wang Sheng, no matter how chaotic the outside world was, resolutely stayed indoors, guarding his small corner of the world alone.
He was too eager to improve.
That night.
Crackling sounds...
Wang Sheng stood in his closed-door cultivation room, stretching his muscles and bones.
After completing the muscle refining stage, Wang Sheng had grown a bit taller. The most noticeable change this time was how much lighter and more agile his whole body felt, with a massive increase in speed.
With his meridians tempered, his body was like a common hard bow replaced by a modern alloy bow. Wang Sheng's speed was like an arrow shot from it, a world of difference.
"Time for the bone tempering stage of cultivation."
"I heard things are quite chaotic outside right now. I hope they don't disturb me."
"Once I've fully completed the cultivation of this body-tempering technique, perhaps I can let the experts of Ershui City who've reached Transforming Energy witness the iron fists of a true ancient behemoth muscleman!"
Wang Sheng muttered to himself, opening his status panel with a thought to check his progress.
[Heaven Rewards Diligence: Learning will yield results.]
[Cultivation: Dark Energy - Perfection]
[Eight-Line Body Tempering Breathing Technique: Bone Tempering (1/4000)]
[Great Tablet Shattering Hand: Grand Completion (1890/3000)]
[Forging Gold Technique: Grand Completion (2999/3000)]
[White Dragon Sword Technique: Grand Completion (521/3000)]
[Blood Stacking Technique: Third Layer]
[Stone Stance Technique: Minor Completion (999/1000)]
Although Wang Sheng had been focusing on the ancient body-tempering technique these past few days, it required eighteen hours of continuous cultivation daily, except for sleep.
Using the time he freed up, Wang Sheng first pushed the Forging Gold Technique to perfection in Dark Energy, reaching a dead end.
Afterward, he cultivated the Great Tablet Shattering Hand to the middle stage of Dark Energy.
The White Dragon Sword Technique successfully broke through from Bright Energy to the early stage of Dark Energy.
He mastered the third layer of the Blood Stacking Technique.
As for the Stone Stance Technique, it wasn't a breakthrough method or a secret art, just a basic stance technique that could no longer be improved.
Pitter-patter...
Just as Wang Sheng sat down again, taking out a Bloody Dragon Pill to consume, he suddenly heard movement on a rooftop dozens of meters away.
Someone was coming across the rooftops!
"Is someone looking for me? Yu Cheng?"
Wang Sheng sat quietly in his cultivation room.
However, After a while, The footsteps on the roof faded away.
It seemed they weren't looking for him; it was just some people passing by in black at night.
Just as Wang Sheng settled down and was about to continue cultivating, footsteps sounded on the roof again, making Wang Sheng frown.
"Again?"
Then, the footsteps faded away.
Following that, The sound of messy footsteps on the roof would ring out every so often.
There were shouts and curses, people trying to set fires, people begging for mercy, and so on.
In just a short moment, five or six groups of people had crossed the Wang family's rooftops.
And judging by the commotion, there were quite a few people on the surrounding rooftops!
It seemed the chaos had spread to the vicinity of Loach Street.
But how could he cultivate with so much noise!
Wang Sheng had initially intended to endure it; he wasn't a hot-tempered person. But when he realized the people on the roofs were ceaselessly passing by, his expression became blank, his eyes cold. His massive body, like a small mountain, began to move as he said indifferently, "If you're not sleeping at this late hour, then you can all die!"
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