The booklet has no cover, and the opening chapter is a verse,
The general meaning is "hitting the bones with stones and tempering the skin with iron". The training method is extremely rough and belongs to the horizontal Kung Fu of hard bridge and hard horse.
But turning back further, Jiang Fa frowned.
When this technique is practiced to a deep level, it is necessary to soak the body with several precious medicinal materials, otherwise it is very easy for Qi and blood to flow backwards and the meridians to be severed.
Among the several medicinal materials mentioned in the brochure, Jiang Fa has seen the cheapest ones at the Precious Ganoderma Hall, costing more than a hundred taels of silver each.
This is simply a skill made with money.
"How much money?" he asked casually.
"Six thousand taels." The stall owner said lazily.
Jiang Fa's eyes twitched and he put the book back to its original place.
Just as he was about to turn around and leave, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a thick booklet on the stall next door.
The booklet was well preserved, with five words "Great Strength Vajra Art" written on the cover.
Jiang Fa's heart moved slightly, and his feet moved over unconsciously.
That stall was much smaller than the one just now. The stall owner was a skinny old man, with a slightly stooped back and a half-mask on his face, revealing only a pair of cloudy old eyes.
There were not many secret books on the stall, only seven or eight in total, but each one was wrapped in thick oilcloth, which made the black cloth spread below look particularly neat.
"Little brother, what are you looking at?" Sensing Jiang Fa's gaze, the old man asked.
"What level is this body training book?" Jiang Fa pointed at the book "Great Strength Vajra Art".
"Mystic Rank Lower Grade."
The old man picked up the secret book and casually opened a few pages in front of Jiang Fa.
""Great Strength Vajra Art" is a pure body training method without any Internal Force mental methods. It emphasizes polishing with external force, step by step, and tempering the body. People who cannot endure hardship cannot practice it."
He paused, as if to endorse something, and continued:
"This technique has five levels, the first level is Skin Tempering, the second level is Bone Forging, and the third level is Viscera Refinement. After practicing the first level, the skin is like cowhide, and Peak Ming Jin is difficult to hurt.
After training to the second level, bones are like fine steel, An Jin warriors are difficult to break.
If the third level can be completed, the internal organs will be like iron and cannot be shaken under Transforming Force.
As for what happens after the fourth level, it is not introduced above.
But I have to say something ugly beforehand. I only have the complete cultivation methods for the first three levels of this exercise, but I don't have the cultivation methods for the fourth and fifth levels."
"Only the first three floors?" Jiang Fa frowned.
"Yeah."
The old man looked at Jiang Fa with his cloudy eyes, and put the book in front of him. "If it's the whole book, let alone three thousand taels, there are people rushing to get it even if it's ten thousand taels. It's because it's only the first three floors that it's sold cheaply."
"How much?"
"Three thousand taels of silver?"
Jiang Fa's eyelids twitched.
Three thousand taels?
The price turned him upside down and he couldn't even get it together even if he shook his head three times.
"Too expensive."
Jiang Fa had to take his eyes back from "Great Strength Vajra Art".
The old man chuckled twice, with a sly and cunning tone in his tone. "Little brother, this is one of the best body-training techniques in the black market. Do you know that body-training techniques are rare? Someone got this "Great Strength Vajra Art" from Fucheng years ago. If the last two floors were not missing, how could a small place like ours Qingshan County get it?"
"The last two floors are missing. I spent more than two thousand taels on this junk thing. If I can't find a follow-up in the future, wouldn't it be in vain?" Jiang Fa curled his lips and said.
"That's not right." The old man waved his hand, shook his head like a storyteller and said, "The road to martial arts is not something that can be achieved overnight. If you buy the first level today and practice it tomorrow, the opportunity for the next two levels may come. Besides, even if you can't find the next article, just practicing these few levels will be enough for you to walk sideways under Transforming Force."
Jiang Fa sneered in his heart.
This old guy is very sharp with his tongue. He can turn black into white and dead.
If the physical training method was really so easy to practice, it wouldn't be in decline.
"Three hundred taels." Jiang Fa offered the price directly.
The old man's eyes widened, as if he was shocked. "Three hundred taels? Why don't you go and grab it?"
"Three hundred and fifty taels! No more."
The old man grinned and refused to answer his question at all, "Although this stall is small, it never sells junk goods. If you want cheap body-training methods, go to the stalls in front and buy a lot of Yellow Rank Upper Grade's horizontal training skills. You can get a copy for a few hundred taels. However, I can't guarantee whether you can practice it successfully or live until the day you complete it."
Jiang Fa said nothing.
He knew what the old man said was true.
He flipped through the previous books on Yellow Rank Upper Grade's body-building exercises.
Most of them follow the same path as the "hitting bones with stones" book. The training methods are extremely rough, hitting the body with heavy objects at every turn, and soaking the body with highly toxic liquid. If there is a slight deviation, the result will be severed muscles and broken organs.
It can be called a perfect match for masochists.
Even if you don't practice that kind of exercise, you will feel chills on your back just by repeating it.
With such a comparison, Seven-Colored Glazed Glass Art suddenly becomes more beautiful and more skillful...
As for this book "Great Strength Vajra Art", just by looking at the first few pages, Jiang Fa can feel that the method in it is infinitely more advanced than those of the Wild Fox Zen.
Step by step, from the outside in, if it were not for the missing two subsequent levels, the complete version of this exercise in Qingshan County would be enough to surpass any other exercise in martial arts.
But the problem is... he can't afford it.
While he was silent, another person suddenly came behind him.
Jiang Fa subconsciously turned sideways and glanced away.
The person who came was tall and tall, wearing a brocade robe with a black background and gold thread, and a gilt mask on his face. The mask was particularly eye-catching among the crude masks on the black market, and it was obvious at first glance that it was not ordinary.
This man exuded a vague and rich aura. Jiang Fa was slightly focused, but he couldn't see through his depth.
He seems to be a master.
""Great Strength Vajra Art"?"
The man spoke, his voice deep and deep, like a bell ringing in his chest.
"You have good eyesight." The old man raised his head, a glimmer of light flashed in his dim old eyes. "Is this man interested too?"
"How much?" The man didn't mean anything.
"Three thousand taels of silver."
"I want it."
Jiang Fa was shocked.
The man in the gilt mask didn't even pay back the price. He took out a stack of banknotes from his sleeve and counted them one by one under the lantern.
The stack of banknotes were all government notes with a denomination of one hundred taels, printed with a vermilion seal of Qingyang Prefecture Tongbao Money House, and were as thick as a brick.
The old man took the banknotes and checked a few for authenticity.
Then he smiled and wrapped the copy of "Great Strength Vajra Art" into a piece of black cloth and handed it to the man in the gold mask.
The man took the secret book, turned around and left, without saying a word of unnecessary nonsense from beginning to end.
Jiang Fa stood in front of the stall, feeling indescribably complicated.
Three thousand taels of silver is enough for ordinary martial arts disciples to eat and drink for more than ten years.
The man in the gilt mask didn't even blink when he took it out, as if he was taking out a few copper coins to buy sesame cakes.