Tempering the Body with a Domain

Black light flickered around Lin Yan's body as he immediately felt his body grow several degrees heavier. Even breathing normally took more effort.

"Sure enough, it works!"

Lin Yan was delighted. Training this way would definitely make it easier to reach his limits than training under normal conditions.

Only by straining the rope of his limits could the special nature of his physique reveal itself, allowing his physical strength to improve.

Afterward, Lin Yan cautiously increased the gravity he was bearing.

First twice normal gravity, then three times, four times, five times!

When it reached eight times gravity, Lin Yan finally felt unable to endure it. His face flushed red, and his body felt as if it were about to collapse. He immediately lowered the gravity imposed on himself back to twice normal.

"You can't get fat in one bite. I'll start with twice gravity!"

Lin Yan calculated silently, then assessed the consumption of his soul power.

The greater the area covered by the domain, the greater the soul power consumption.

Lin Yan only applied the domain's power to himself, and only at twice normal gravity, so the soul power consumption was not particularly high. With his level twenty-three soul power, supporting it for two hours would not be a problem.

Two hours might not sound long, but the training effect was greater than four hours of training without gravity.

When Lin Yuhuan arrived at the training ground and saw Lin Yan using the domain's power to temper his body, she was stunned. She could not find words to describe Lin Yan's discipline and diligence.

"Grandma!"

Dripping with sweat, Lin Yan hurriedly set down the stone lock in his hands and dispelled the Gravity Domain around himself.

Lin Yuhuan said strangely, "You brat, you're being far too reckless for the sake of cultivation. You're actually using the Titan Giant Ape's Gravity Domain to train your body. How did you come up with such an oddball method?"

Even if someone gave her a Titan Giant Ape's Gravity Domain, she would never have thought of doing this.

She could not help admiring her grandson's wild imagination.

Of course, Lin Yan would not tell her that Sun Wukong and Vegeta had inspired him. He said, "Grandma, the Titan Giant Ape's Spirit Ring and Spirit Bone greatly improved my physical strength. Ordinary training no longer has much effect on me. I only discovered that the Gravity Domain could be used this way while experimenting with it, and the results are especially good."

"Mm. Be careful yourself. Don't hurt yourself," Lin Yuhuan instructed earnestly.

She did not oppose Lin Yan's diligent body training.

After all, the Black Demon Mace martial soul was a power-type, assault-class martial soul. This was the path she herself had taken when she was young.

Moreover, Lin Yan's second soul skill, Titan's Fury, had a passive internal-force effect when used. The greater his strength, the higher the damage of his normal attacks. That made improving his physical strength even more necessary.

As for whether it would affect the growth of his cultivation, Lin Yuhuan was not worried in the slightest.

Lin Yan had been born with mental power far beyond ordinary people's, allowing him to spend more time meditating every day. Furthermore, he was focused by nature and did not like to play around, so his cultivation would never fall behind that of his peers.

Days passed one after another. Every day, Lin Yan strictly followed his own plan, either meditating or training.

Even Lin Yuhuan, a Titled Douluo, was greatly astonished by his diligence.

Unlike before, however, his training ground gained two regular visitors: Ning Tian and Wu Feng.

Worried that Lin Yan would train himself stupid, Lin Yuhuan called Ning Tian over, hoping she could take Lin Yan out to relax and have some fun. As Ning Tian's good friend, Wu Feng naturally came along as well.

In the end, not only did the two fail to take Lin Yan away from the training ground, they were persuaded by him to stay, and the three trained together.

"Brother Lin Yan, does this really work?" Wu Feng, now dressed in training clothes, looked at the heavy stone lock before her and asked innocently.

"Of course. Isn't looking at me the best proof?"

Lin Yan lifted a hundred-jin stone lock and raised it dozens of times without effort. "Sister Wu Feng, as an assault-class Soul Master, you absolutely cannot lack strength. A fist full of power hurts when it hits someone. Otherwise, you're just scratching their itch, understand?"

"I understand!" Wu Feng nodded seriously, then found a smaller stone lock and began training.

Beside her, Ning Tian blinked her innocent large eyes and asked, "Brother Lin Yan, I'm only a support-class Soul Master. Do I need to train too?"

Lin Yan said earnestly, "Of course. Sister Ning Tian, even though you're a support-class Soul Master, you can still use offensive soul tools in battle. To use those soul tools, your physique cannot be too frail either, understand?"

"Brother Lin Yan, I'll listen to you!" Ning Tian nodded seriously with her little face, then joined the body-tempering group as well.

On the second floor of a distant pavilion, Lin Yuhuan watched the three training together with a helpless smile. "This brat really is single-minded!"

Lin Yan had a special physique. Once his stamina neared its limit, he could replenish his energy through eating, recover quickly, and continue training.

Ning Tian and Wu Feng clearly could not do the same. Once they became tired, they paused their cultivation and rested nearby.

Days passed, and three months later, Wu Feng reached level ten soul power and obtained her first Spirit Ring.

In the training ground, Wu Feng, who had just returned after obtaining her Spirit Ring, demonstrated her soul skill before Lin Yan and Ning Tian.

A high-pitched dragon roar rang out across the training ground, followed by a wave of scorching heat. At the same time, Wu Feng's body suddenly changed.

Her eyes turned into red vertical pupils, her body grew half a foot taller, and a layer of dark-red dragon scales covered the surface of her exposed skin.

A bright yellow Spirit Ring slowly rose.

"My first soul skill is called Dragon's Fire!"

As she spoke, Wu Feng directly activated her first soul skill. The dragon scales on the surface of her body shone brilliantly, while the spreading red light enveloped her whole body.

This red light was not merely for show. It possessed an extremely high temperature; if an ordinary person came into contact with it, they could even be roasted alive.

"Sister Wu Feng, this soul skill of yours would be pretty good for grilling meat," Lin Yan teased.

Hearing this, Wu Feng immediately said indignantly, "Brother Lin Yan, this is my offensive soul skill! I'm not using it to grill meat for you!"

Another three months passed.

More than half a year had passed since Lin Yan obtained his second Spirit Ring. During that half-year, his physique improved considerably through training combined with the Gravity Domain.

At the same time, his soul power cultivation had progressed significantly, rising from level twenty-three after obtaining his Spirit Ring to level twenty-five. He was only five levels of soul power away from becoming a level-thirty Soul Elder.

At this rate, Lin Yan was confident that he could break through and become a Soul Elder by the age of ten!

That was a full two years earlier than his original goal of becoming a Soul Elder before the age of twelve when he had first awakened his martial soul!

This was not only because he possessed Innate Full Soul Power and excellent meditation results. It was also because his powerful mental strength allowed him to meditate for longer.

Besides that, there was another reason: his second Spirit Ring had been a thousand-year Spirit Ring from a Titan Giant Ape, and he had also obtained a Spirit Bone.

The two had directly given him an increase of three levels in soul power.

If it had been an ordinary seven-hundred-year second Spirit Ring, it would have increased his soul power by at most one level.

The difference in Spirit Rings had directly saved him half a year of hard work!