Tortoise Shell Technique, Golden Bell Shield, Indestructible Golden Body, Indestructible Diamond...
Over the following decades, backed by military influence, Luo Zhen continuously acquired various defensive techniques through different channels, frantically stacking armor upon armor.
After the war ended, he left the army and returned home, only to encounter a legendary cultivator in the mountains.
That cultivator was no good person. He was disposing of corpses, and the clothes worn by the people he had killed were identical to his own. They might have been fellow disciples or martial brothers.
Luo Zhen had stumbled into the murder scene by accident, immediately drawing the cultivator's killing intent.
The cultivator then struck him with a palm, lightning flashing from his hand. Yet it failed to even break his skin. Luo Zhen came to his senses and realized that the cultivator's cultivation was lacking, so he decisively charged forward and fought him to the death.
After killing the cultivator, he found quite a few things on his body and learned that this world truly had immortals.
Over the next three years, he searched for immortals and sought the Dao. From an independent cultivator, he traded the spirit stones taken from the slain cultivator for a technique.
The technique was called the "Spiritual Armor Technique." Not only could it allow him to cultivate a kind of true qi different from internal energy, but once mastered, it could form a fairly sturdy suit of spiritual armor over his body. It suited him perfectly.
For most of the rest of his life, he cultivated the "Spiritual Armor Technique."
Unfortunately, he was no cultivation genius. On the contrary, he was extraordinarily mediocre, and even in his seventies, he had failed to master the technique.
Just when he thought there was no hope of becoming an immortal in this