After entering the Dragon-Tiger Camp, Lu Chen practiced the Heavenly Silkworm Tendon-Transmutation Art every day.
Unlike ordinary Meridian-Opening methods, the Heavenly Silkworm Tendon-Transmutation Art did not merely expand the meridians. Through repeated tempering, it made them undergo constant transformation.
Every practice session brought pain like his meridians were being torn apart.
But Lu Chen had long since grown accustomed to it.
After all, he had experience practicing the Gold-Thread Jade Vestment Technique. To him, pain of this degree was merely another whetstone on the martial path.
Besides practicing the Heavenly Silkworm Tendon-Transmutation Art, Lu Chen had not neglected to refine his own martial repertoire.
The Dragon-Tiger Camp's armory housed martial manuals accumulated over many years by the Great Zhou Martial Temple.
Among them were numerous first-rate martial arts.
In a local county town, these techniques would have been enough to serve as a martial hall's crowning secret art.
In the Dragon-Tiger Camp, however, they could be exchanged for merit points and silver.
After entering the armory, Lu Chen chose carefully.
In the end, he selected two martial arts.
"Coldwater Force."
"Ninefold Returning-Heaven Blade."
Coldwater Force was not simply an offensive force, but a special force geared toward control.
Once cultivated, it imbued the force of one's blood and qi with a chill.
Upon contact with an enemy, the cold force would invade through the point of contact and disrupt the circulation of their blood and qi.
In milder cases, it slowed their movements.
In more severe cases, it stiffened their muscles and bones.
For Lu Chen, this martial art's greatest use was in combination with the Iron Thread Grappling Hand.
The Iron Thread Grappling Hand was already a close-range control technique.
Once he caught an enemy, he could use Coldwater Force to seal their blood and qi, making escape difficult.