Then They Can All Die

"Blergh!"

Inside the secluded cultivation room, Wang Sheng stared at the Bloody Dragon Pill pinched between his fingers and finally couldn't hold back a dry heave.

"Damn it, this thing reeks! It's even stinkier than fucking shit!"

Wang Sheng stared speechlessly at the crimson little pill, cursing under his breath, yet still swallowed it in one gulp.

Today was the first day of his closed-door cultivation.

And this Bloody Dragon Pill was the medicine Wang Sheng had specifically prepared for cultivating the Eight-Line Body Tempering Breathing Technique.

Although the ancient pill formula specially used to stimulate the body's potential while practicing the Eight-Line Body Tempering Breathing Technique had been lost, making it difficult for ordinary people even to get started with this method—

Wang Sheng possessed his own talent for effort: Heaven Rewards Diligence. During the past two days of studying the method, he had successfully opened another path and found a way to cultivate it quickly.

Heaven Rewards Diligence: Learning always bore fruit.

This talent allowed Wang Sheng to achieve success so long as he studied diligently.

The Eight-Line Body Tempering Breathing Technique was likewise affected by this talent. As long as Wang Sheng kept cultivating diligently, he would definitely succeed.

It was just that without ancient pills to stimulate his potential, the speed was far too slow.

Succeeding after ten years of cultivation was still success. But what use was that?

So Wang Sheng tried to find other pills capable of stimulating the body's potential to replace the ancient medicine.

For anyone else, using different body-stimulating pills to cultivate this method would most likely lead to deviation, twisted cultivation, or outright failure.

But Wang Sheng was different. He would never go wrong, and he would never fail in cultivation.

The difference between taking the ancient pill and taking a Bloody Dragon Pill was like making a car meant to burn gasoline run on coal or diesel. Under normal circumstances, it simply would not run in the end.

But with Heaven Rewards Diligence, so long as Wang Sheng worked hard, the car could run as long as it burned something.

Therefore, as long as Wang Sheng kept taking pills that stimulated his body's potential, he could accelerate his cultivation of this ancient body-tempering art.

Very soon,

On the third day after entering seclusion, Wang Sheng consumed large quantities of Bloody Dragon Pills and devoured meat like mad. His body had already been excellent to begin with, so he rapidly completed the Skin Tempering stage.

Wang Sheng's skin became taut and powerful, as though every inch had been clad in armor. His entire body had become impervious to blades and spears. Even if ordinary people hacked at him with knives, they could not injure him.

On the eighth day after entering seclusion, Wang Sheng completed Flesh Tempering.

This time, Wang Sheng's muscles bulged piece by piece, and his frame became even more massive. His back was as broad as a door plank, while his body directly shot up to two meters tall!

"This is the might of pure physical strength!"

After completing Flesh Tempering, Wang Sheng was deeply shocked. He could feel his strength soaring. The power of his body alone was equivalent to cultivating another three, perhaps even four, Forging Gold Techniques.

"Skin Tempering and Flesh Tempering should correspond to the current level of Bright Force."

"Although ancient body-tempering arts are a level stronger than modern body-tempering arts at the same stage, they should not be four times stronger than modern body-tempering arts!"

"The increase in strength from this ancient body-tempering art is far too outrageous. Even in ancient times, it must have been a renowned method, utterly beyond comparison with things like the Forging Gold Technique found in this city today."

Wang Sheng thought to himself.

The Great Tablet Shattering Hand was already considered an advanced method within Ershui City.

The White Dragon Sword Technique was considerably stronger than the Great Tablet Shattering Hand and could probably rank among the notable methods in a prefectural city.

The Eight-Line Body Tempering Breathing Technique was far more complex than the White Dragon Sword Technique. It likely could either reign supreme in a prefectural city or stand among the best methods in the entire nation!

No wonder the He family had treated it as an ancestral treasure and studied it generation after generation despite being unable to cultivate it. Only now, with no other options left, had they taken it out for experts to comprehend in exchange for payment. Yet without the ancient pill formula, no one had succeeded.

"Continue cultivating!"

"Even if the Force Transformation method of the Great Tablet Shattering Hand were laid out before me right now, I wouldn't want it."

After realizing just how important this ancient body-tempering art was, Wang Sheng became even more immersed in it and began cultivating the Tendon Tempering stage.

Tendon Tempering, Bone Tempering, and Blood Replacement roughly corresponded to the current level of Dark Force.

Once he reached the Tendon Tempering stage, the required progress increased.

Previously, Skin Tempering was completed at five hundred progress, while Flesh Tempering was completed at one thousand.

Tendon Tempering, however, required two thousand progress.

Bloody Dragon Pills and large amounts of meat could provide roughly two hundred progress each day.

By the time Wang Sheng completed the Tendon Tempering progress, it was the eighteenth day after he entered seclusion.

At this time, Ershui City's garrison had only recently been defeated by the Son of Heaven's Army, and disorder gradually descended upon Ershui City once more.

Though it was chaotic, quite a few ruthless and bold experts rose to prominence, playing both sides and seizing many treasures.

For a time, every martial arts expert seeking to increase his strength grew red-eyed. One after another, they joined the chaos, fighting, brawling, and killing without end, causing the unrest to escalate continuously.

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As for Wang Sheng, no matter how chaotic it became outside, he resolutely stayed indoors, alone guarding this small patch of heaven and earth that was his home.

He wanted to improve too badly.

That night.

Crack, crack, crack...

Wang Sheng stood in the secluded cultivation room, loosening the muscles and joints throughout his body.

After completing Tendon Tempering, Wang Sheng had grown a little taller again. This time, what he felt most clearly was that his entire body had become far more relaxed and agile, and his speed had skyrocketed.

After the sinews throughout his body were tempered, it was as though an ordinary hard bow had been replaced with a modern alloy bow. Wang Sheng's speed was like an arrow loosed from the string—an earth-shaking transformation.

"It's time to cultivate the Bone Tempering stage."

"I hear things are quite chaotic outside right now. I hope they don't disturb me."

"Once I truly complete every stage of this body-tempering art, perhaps I can let Ershui City's Force Transformation experts witness the iron fists of a genuine ancient behemoth of a muscle man!"

Wang Sheng muttered to himself. With a thought, he opened the panel and checked his progress.

[Heaven Rewards Diligence: Learning always bore fruit.]

[Cultivation: Dark Force Perfection]

[Eight-Line Body Tempering Breathing Technique: Bone Tempering (1/4000)]

[Great Tablet Shattering Hand: Major Accomplishment (1890/3000)]

[Forging Gold Technique: Major Accomplishment (2999/3000)]

[White Dragon Sword Technique: Major Accomplishment (521/3000)]

[Blood Stacking Technique: Third Layer]

[Stone Stance Technique: Minor Accomplishment (999/1000)]

Although Wang Sheng had mainly cultivated the ancient body-tempering art these past days, it did not require eighteen uninterrupted hours of cultivation each day, aside from sleep.

Using his spare time, Wang Sheng first pushed the Forging Gold Technique to Dark Force Perfection, where it could advance no further.

Afterward, Wang Sheng cultivated the Great Tablet Shattering Hand to the middle stage of Dark Force.

The White Dragon Sword Technique successfully broke through from Bright Force to the initial stage of Dark Force.

He mastered the third layer of the Blood Stacking Technique.

As for the Stone Stance Technique, it was neither a breakthrough method nor a secret art, merely a foundational stance technique. It had long since become impossible to advance further.

Tap, tap, tap...

Just as Wang Sheng sat down cross-legged again, took out a Bloody Dragon Pill, and prepared to swallow it, he suddenly heard movement on a rooftop dozens of meters away.

Someone was crossing the rooftops!

"Has someone come looking for me? Yu Cheng?"

Wang Sheng sat quietly within the secluded cultivation room.

However,

After a while,

The footsteps on the roof receded into the distance.

Apparently, they were not looking for him. It was nighttime, and the black-clad person who had appeared had merely happened to pass by.

Just as Wang Sheng relaxed and was about to continue cultivating, another burst of footsteps sounded overhead, making him frown.

"Again?"

Then the footsteps faded away.

After that,

Every so often, chaotic footsteps sounded on the roof.

There were also people shouting and cursing, people trying to set fires, people begging for mercy, and more.

In only a short while, five or six groups had crossed over the Wang family's roof.

And judging by the noise, there were quite a few people on the surrounding rooftops as well!

It seemed the chaos had spread to the vicinity of Loach Street.

But how was he supposed to cultivate with all this noise!

Wang Sheng had originally intended to endure it for a while. He was not a hot-tempered man, but when he realized that the people on the roofs were passing by without end, his expression turned blank and his gaze grew cold. His enormous body rose like a small mountain, and he said indifferently,

"If none of you are going to sleep in the middle of the night, then you can all die!"

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