Li Yang walked out of the Longevity Merchant Association, followed by a dejected Wang Dabao.
"Fellow Daoist Li, you really don't need to worry about me." Wang Dabao sighed. "Someone like me is content to live a happy life. I wouldn't dare ask for more."
"Of course." Li Yang nodded. "Your father didn't say I had to find you a Dao companion."
"Uh..."
After obtaining the Nirvana Thousand-Forging Art, Li Yang immediately found an inn and checked in.
He placed the natural treasures he had exchanged for into a medicine cauldron.
This was the very cauldron Ning Xi had used specifically to temper his body back then, and it could greatly stimulate the medicinal potency of those natural treasures.
Without bothering with Wang Dabao, he climbed in to soak.
He circulated the Nirvana Thousand-Forging Art, and his body glowed, radiant and lustrous, flawless in every way.
After his nirvana, his flesh had also ground away the origins of the Qianyang Emperor Body and the Innate Sword Embryo, gaining an enormous boost.
His physical strength continued to rise. Even a single hair plucked from his head could cleave an entire mountain range apart.
"Mortal flesh is like iron, revealing its edge only after a thousand hammer blows; life is like a cocoon, finding its true self only after a hundred deaths-this really couldn't suit me better."
A day later, Li Yang stepped out of the dried-up medicine cauldron.
Had any female cultivators been present, menstrual blood would surely have gushed from their noses.
Body cultivators' physiques were simply too perfect.
Except for those who tempered their bodies excessively and turned into mountains of muscle.
Moderate body tempering attracted Kun cultivators; excessive body tempering attracted Qian cultivators.
*"Medicinal baths and body-refining grounds are secondary. The strongest aspect of this art is its