Flawless Body

Zhang Dingjun nodded slightly.

Then he sighed.

"Actually, reconnaissance infantry is work that should be done by Qi Refinement cultivators. There are just too few of them, and they can play a greater role on the main battlefield."

He projected footage of Hua Bing and the others' earlier battle onto a screen the size of a computer monitor, pointing at it as he spoke.

"Which places do you think would make suitable sniper positions for reconnaissance infantry?"

Jiang Ding shook his head. He had never studied this.

"There are several basic principles. First, you must remain outside the range of a cultivator's divine sense—more than 150 meters away from Qi Refinement cultivators, and more than 2,000 meters away from Foundation Establishment cultivators."

"Second, choose complex terrain: dense forests, underground, underwater. These places can effectively reduce the range and accuracy of a cultivator's divine-sense scans."

"The same principles apply when facing Immortal Sect cultivators."

Zhang Dingjun explained, "As you can see, when Immortal Sect cultivators use the tank-mounted first-tier infantry Spirit-Particle Radar for wide-area scans, its accuracy is only average. Accuracy improves significantly only when they focus the spell radar waves on a particular area."

"What you need to do is avoid making any unusual movements that might draw a cultivator's attention. Hide with everything you have, and wait for the chance to land a killing blow."

He then explained, one by one, how to choose specific sniper positions and how to use concealment and escape techniques such as Earth-Escape Talismans, Wood-Escape Talismans, and Water-Escape Talismans.

He talked until his mouth was dry, for more than twenty minutes.

"That's roughly it. Record it and take your time understanding it. Ask me if there's anything you don't understand."

"Remember, these are merely techniques. The most important things for reconnaissance infantry are cultivation and the mastery level of the Minor Breath-Concealing Technique."

Jiang Ding nodded silently.

He found a firing position and began charging his weapon while pondering the Minor Breath-Concealing Technique. The runes on the gun barrel flickered faintly.

More than thirty minutes later.

Boom!

Jiang Ding, silently maintaining the Vajra Seal, was blasted back a meter. Since he had been prepared, he was not injured, though his shoulder still ached fiercely. His accuracy and efficiency had not improved in the slightest.

Reconnaissance infantry was indeed far too difficult. It was not something someone at his realm should be learning.

Jiang Ding simply stopped worrying about it. He sat cross-legged, beginning with the Hand Taiyin Lung Meridian, the first regular meridian, then passing through the Hand Jueyin Pericardium Meridian and the Hand Shaoyin Heart Meridian. He continued nourishing the ten meridians of the Hand Shaoyin Heart Meridian, most of which had already been completed.

He was still three-quarters away from completing the "Minor Circulation," which would take about half a month.

He could nourish and break through ten meridians roughly every two days.

That would have been shocking in many martial arts worlds, but it was nothing remarkable in the Immortal Sect. Compared with martial arts geniuses, he still fell far short.

With sufficient Essence-Replenishing Qi-Boosting Pills, it was perfectly ordinary for them to nourish dozens of meridians in a day. Some were even born with many meridians already open, naturally able to withstand the influx of internal force.

Ring, ring!

The dismissal bell rang. Zhang Dingjun left first, but Jiang Ding and the others were not yet finished.

Under Hua Bing's command, every three tanks formed a tank squad. They advanced toward the school in triangular formations spaced a hundred meters apart, moving as they would on the march and in battle.

Sun Xiao and the others followed the tanks with their guns in hand, strictly keeping behind the tank armor. From time to time, they switched which tank they followed and changed formations according to the temporary commander's orders, receiving the opposing army formation's spell enhancements to offense, defense, and marching.

Zhang Dingjun had assigned Jiang Ding homework beforehand. Jiang Ding moved outside the army formation, traveling with the Minor Breath-Concealing Technique activated.

The colors of his Reconnaissance Camouflage shifted with the environment. From the outside, he was completely invisible.

"Old Jiang, where are you?"

Li Junhao asked quietly.

Jiang Ding shared his location through the team communications.

"That far away?!"

Li Junhao was stunned. Jiang Ding was nearly a thousand meters away, and through the military drone, he could see that Jiang Ding had already wandered near Class Two's field training column.

Several Class Two students at the middle Qi Refinement stage or above frowned but said nothing.

The rest noticed nothing at all.

Jiang Ding felt somewhat relieved. Combined with the high-grade artifact Reconnaissance Camouflage, he could now block the divine sense of early Qi Refinement Immortal Sect cultivators, even divine sense enhanced by a tank-mounted first-tier Spirit-Particle Radar.

After entering the school, they stored all kinds of weapons under the class monitor's supervision. Jiang Ding and Li Junhao went to the cafeteria together for lunch and their midday break.

That afternoon, after two mathematics classes, Jiang Ding arrived at the cultivation room.

On the palm-like roots of the banyan tree in the center sat a pill glimmering with faint purple light. It was especially eye-catching, and text was marked beside it.

'Ranked 27th in the school on the midterm exams, entering the school's top thirty. Daily pill changed to the mortal-grade mid-grade Purple Jade Qi-Nourishing Pill. Its medicinal effect is three times that of the previous Ginseng Flower Qi-Regulating Pill, with comparable impurity content.'

Another classic pill from the Immortal Sect education system!

Its output was high, its refining technique complex, and its cost relatively low. It was not a cultivation-boosting pill that forcefully accelerated progress. Rather, it was based on "refining essence into qi," strengthening the body and thereby increasing the amount of internal qi produced.

In overall medicinal effect, it was comparable to the Hundred Essences Transform Qi Pill Jiang Ding had commissioned from old ginseng he had collected. Though it contained a small amount of pill toxin, it would not be difficult to eliminate by strictly following the pill instructions under the cultivation room's array spirit supervision.

If one had above-average martial arts aptitude, worked hard enough, and possessed sufficient comprehension, these daily pills alone would allow rapid growth and enable one to reach Qianling University's minimum admission score. No family background or lucky opportunities would be needed.

Jiang Ding swallowed the pill, which transformed into a warm current flowing into his abdomen.

He drew his sword. Sword light flickered, and internal force circulated with it as he nourished and tempered his meridians according to the guidance of the array spirit computer.

He also divided off a small amount of internal force to temper the muscles beneath his arms, his scalp, his stomach and intestines, and other muscle groups that were difficult to temper at the Body Tempering realm. The efficiency was extremely high.

After many days of training, it gradually reached completion.

Crack~

A faint, crisp sound rang out. Jiang Ding sheathed his sword, delight appearing on his face.

A sense of comfort and freedom instinctively rose from his body. When he closed his eyes and felt it, every muscle, tendon, bone, and patch of skin in his body had connected into an efficient, precise machine without a single flaw.

A qualitative transformation had occurred.

The textbooks called this phenomenon the Flawless Body!

Clenching his fist, Jiang Ding could feel the power contained within it. Without any internal force, the strength in his arms had doubled, reaching a massive 1,600 kilograms.

With that strength alone, he could fight an ordinary internal qi cultivator who did not practice the Young Eagle Takes Flight Formula head-on without being defeated.

This was also the unique aspect of the Young Eagle Takes Flight Formula. It developed the human body to its absolute limit, crushing all others at the foundation. Aside from its terrifying difficulty, it had no other drawbacks.

Driven by the Flawless Body, his internal force circulated, and the ten primary meridians of the Hand Shaoyin Heart Meridian, the third regular meridian, were slowly tempered and nourished to completion.

Jiang Ding calmed himself and carefully guided his internal force into the Hand Yangming Large Intestine Meridian, the fourth regular meridian, while continuing to expand and nourish its ten primary meridians.

The cultivation room fell silent.

On the bus,

Jiang Ding glanced at his phone, transferred the 100,000 yuan for the Purple Spirit Grass that Colorful Cloud Pharmaceuticals had deposited to Lin Wanqiu, kept 55,000 yuan for himself, and sent another red packet to Jiang Yuan.

Compared with another discovery, the Purple Spirit Grass was not worth mentioning.

Blueglow Butterfly, Blue Gold 2413!