During the three rest days, aside from going to the market to buy food and daily necessities, Chen Cheng stayed home and focused wholeheartedly on cultivating the Iron Garment Art.
Just as he had guessed, the heavier the load, the faster the Iron Garment Art progressed. After increasing the weight to seventy jin, its cultivation progress became much faster than before.
With no distractions, he cultivated for three days. The Iron Garment Art's progress rose by a full 36 points, reaching 888 points. By his calculations, he would only need a little over ten days to advance it to the great mastery level.
Not only that, cultivating the internal energy art known as the Iron Garment Art was also greatly beneficial to the Black Bear Skin-Tempering Art.
In just three days, more than half the medicinal potency left in his body from the medicinal baths and ingested medicine had been digested and absorbed.
The damage to Chen Cheng's skin membrane from cultivating the Black Bear Skin-Tempering Art had also completely healed under the medicine's effects. The Black Bear Skin-Tempering Art's progress had risen to 63 points, and it would soon reach the minor mastery level.
With the Iron Garment Art nearing great mastery and the Black Bear Skin-Tempering Art nearing minor mastery, the combined enhancement made Chen Cheng's skin membrane far tougher than cowhide. It seemed to be much stronger even than that of a Skin-Tempering Realm martial artist at great mastery who cultivated only a body-tempering art.
As for the growth of his blood and vitality, the Iron Garment Art alone, nearing great mastery, already far surpassed martial artists at great mastery in body-tempering arts.
Added to that was the boost to his blood and vitality from the Black Bear Skin-Tempering Art nearing minor mastery. Chen Cheng felt that