Mid-Grade Giant Ape True Fist

"Equip!"

The Cold Pool Refined Steel Saber in Mo Chen's hand vanished.

In its place, he equipped the ordinary iron axe.

The Cold Pool Refined Steel Saber replaced the ordinary iron axe.

Mo Chen's stacked strength surged directly to 390%, nearly a fourfold increase.

It was utterly terrifying!

With a thought, Mo Chen opened the system panel again to check his wealth.

[Wealth: 152 taels.]

[Exchangeable martial arts training progress: 12 years.]

Seeing that amount, Mo Chen hesitated. "Should I keep training the Giant Ape Long Fist?"

The low-grade Tyrant Tiger Heavenly Dipper Force could only be cultivated after reaching the great completion of the Body Tempering Realm. Otherwise, rashly condensing astra and circulating astral energy would inevitably damage one's meridians and internal organs.

Although he had now broken through to the Blood Tempering Realm, he was still one step away from the great completion of the Body Tempering Realm. His flesh, skin, sinews, bones, and blood had yet to achieve complete harmony as one.

Therefore, he definitely could not exchange for the Tyrant Tiger Heavenly Dipper Force yet.

"I can forget about the Firewood-Chopping Knife Technique. There's no need to waste money improving it. As for the White Snake Nine Transformations, I could raise it to great completion. It probably wouldn't take too much time."

Besides that.

It seemed the only thing left was the incomplete Incense Apotheosis Great Law.

"If I want to cultivate this incomplete supreme-grade martial art, I'll probably need incense offerings!"

There was no way he could obtain incense offerings.

After all, that required erecting statues, building temples, and developing believers.

Within Great Mystic, such things that fell outside official control were strictly forbidden by the imperial court.

The prefectural lords of the thirty-six prefectures had also strictly outlawed them, killing anyone they found, all to prevent infiltration by the Great Qi Dynasty.

"I'm still too poor..."

Mo Chen shook his head. He found that there were pitifully few techniques he could cultivate, and they were all the most basic martial arts.

If he wanted to become a martial arts master with only these basic techniques, it would likely be extremely difficult.

"That woman in black is from the Martial Suppression Academy. Could I find an opportunity through her?"

The path through the Lu family's Second Young Master had been completely cut off tonight.

If Mo Chen wanted to join the Martial Suppression Academy, he had to find a way himself.

His contract of sale was at the Lu Residence. The Lu family's Second Young Master had to die, or Lu Jianshen would surely use that contract to threaten him.

Besides, he still had to find a way to retrieve the official record of his contract of sale.

Thinking it over, his only option was to find a way to get in touch with that woman in black from the Martial Suppression Academy.

"If I establish ties with the Martial Suppression Academy, the problem with my contract of sale will naturally be resolved!"

Mo Chen recalled the Martial Suppression Academy's requirement that it recruited disciples regardless of background.

His gaze gradually became resolute.

However.

Before that, he had to raise his cultivation again to deal with any unnecessary trouble.

"Exchange for another five years of Giant Ape Long Fist!"

In the pitch-black night.

Mo Chen steadied his breathing and entered cultivation once more.

[Year 1: Although the Giant Ape Long Fist has already reached completion, you are not satisfied. You continue training painstakingly day after day.]

[Year 3: You feel that the Giant Ape Long Fist can still be improved, so you innovate further upon its eighteen forms, expanding them to twenty forms.]

[Year 5: You continue innovating, expanding the twenty forms to twenty-four. Low-grade Giant Ape Long Fist advances into mid-grade Giant Ape True Fist. At the same time, your cultivation becomes increasingly refined, and you faintly sense signs of a breakthrough.]

The cultivation ended.

Mo Chen was somewhat surprised. "Mid-grade Giant Ape True Fist?"

Instead of breaking through to the great completion of the Body Tempering Realm, he had innovated and advanced the Giant Ape Long Fist.

Mo Chen did not know whether to laugh or cry. He exchanged for another year of cultivation time.

"Break through for me!"

[Year 6: You continuously cultivate the Giant Ape True Fist, but fail to break through.]

"Exchange another year!" Mo Chen was at a loss for words.

[Year 7: Giant Ape True Fist reaches major accomplishment.]

"What the hell?" Mo Chen gritted his teeth. "Is breaking through to the great completion of the Body Tempering Realm really this hard?"

"I refuse to believe it!"

[Year 8: Giant Ape True Fist reaches great completion!]

[Year 9: Your accumulated foundation finally erupts. You break through the barrier, integrating your entire body's skin, flesh, sinews, bones, and blood, reaching the great completion of the Body Tempering Realm!]

"Whew!"

Mo Chen opened his eyes and let out a breath. The skin, flesh, sinews, and bones throughout his body seemed far lighter.

Blood flowed slowly through him, like powerful, surging rivers.

It was a sense of ease he had never experienced before. Even every hair on his body seemed able to open and close with ease.

"Whew!"

"Inhale!"

Mo Chen rose to his feet, stepped forward, and threw a punch, unleashing "Giant Ape Swinging Arm."

Boom!

His strength was as fierce as a tiger, and the burst of air roared like thunder.

The evolved Giant Ape True Fist seemed to have opened up a whole new world, giving Mo Chen an exquisite sense that his body moved exactly as his mind willed.

If Liu Yuan were still standing before him now.

Mo Chen felt that with a mere thought, his fist would immediately appear on Liu Yuan's head.

"This feeling is like shortening my reflex arc!"

With the advancement of the Giant Ape Long Fist and his breakthrough to the great completion of the Body Tempering Realm, Mo Chen's combat strength rose another level.

"Now, I can condense that strand of astral energy..."

As the thought arose, a strand of domineering energy immediately condensed within him. It then traveled along his meridians, reaching the tip of his index finger in an instant.

Mo Chen looked at that tiny, invisible strand of energy with great curiosity.

It felt as though there were a ball of cotton at his fingertip, wrapping around his finger.

"I should have directly entered the initial stage of the Condensing Astra Realm, right?"

According to the Martial World Heroes Ranking.

The Condensing Astra Realm was divided into four levels: initial stage, middle stage, late stage, and great completion.

The initial stage was the first condensation of astral energy.

At this time, astral energy could not yet be used freely. It would continuously accumulate within the dantian and strengthen it.

The middle stage was when astral energy overflowed, also known as external astra.

At this stage, astral energy could wrap around fists, palms, legs, and feet like armor, allowing it to be used for oneself with tremendous power!

At the late stage, astral energy gathered in vast abundance and could envelop the whole body, forming armor! At this point, ordinary blades and swords could not get close, and even the skin membrane was difficult to touch.

Upon reaching the great completion of the Condensing Astra Realm.

It was also called internal astra. Astral energy could travel through the meridians to the outer regions of the five viscera and six bowels, protecting them.

At that point, one would also begin preparing to break through to the Five Elements Realm.

Mo Chen's current state was rather strange.

While still in the Body Tempering Realm, he had comprehended the Tyrant Tiger Heavenly Dipper Force by chance, thus cultivating a strand of astral energy.

But to him at the time.

That strand of astral energy was not a good thing. Instead, it was like an uncontrollable wild beast!

So, unable to suppress that strand of astral energy.

Mo Chen had directly chosen to disperse it.

Yet now, he could condense this strand of astral energy whenever he pleased, bringing it forth with a single thought.

It was completely different from the initial stage of the Condensing Astra Realm described in the Martial World Heroes Ranking.

"My strand of astral energy is extremely nimble. It doesn't remain motionless within the dantian..."

Mo Chen could not figure out what was going on, so he simply stopped dwelling on it.

He opened the system panel.

[Wealth: 44 taels]

Looking at the forty-four taels of silver in the wealth column, Mo Chen developed another headache.

"Where can I get another huge sum of money?"

He thought for a while but could not come up with any good solution.

Fortunately, he still had over three years of training progress left to exchange.

Mo Chen directly spent twenty-four taels to exchange for two years of Tyrant Tiger Heavenly Dipper Force cultivation, stabilizing himself at the initial stage of the Condensing Astra Realm.